Will we ever get an official apology for this disaster of a launch?

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S3B4ST13N

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Cmdr. Numa said:
I'm with the OP. I play another game where already two hours of problems would result in a boatload of compensation items from the ingame shop. That other game will have a new content patch today. I'm going to play that. With yesterday's desaster I have had enough of ED for a while again.
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Luckily, Frontier doesn't treat it's customers like spoiled, entitled children that need a sweety because they didn't get to play when they wanted to. I'm grateful for that really.
 

lokvette

lokvette
I was wondering the OP owns either Fallout 76, BF5 and is he/she waiting for any sort of an apology from EA or Bethesda.
 

Phazon Xenomorph

Phazon Xenomorph
sollisb said:
While I sympathise with the OP, if any apology is due, it is due to the hard working peeps that made the changes, worked late hours, to bring this to us, only to be let down my someone who didn't have the foresight to see that if any day was to bring in large amounts of eager players, launch day was absolutely going to be the day.

We're 12 hours later and still the client is showing 'Issues Detected'...

Of more concern is the new lighting which for me at least, in VR, is a disaster. I had a headache after 30 minutes playing. The new scan screen looks pretty but completely breaks any VR immersion and indeed is completely wrong! One minutes I'm on the bridge of a ship, the next I'm sitting on nothing, in a vast space with a screen in front of me.

The new Phantom is nice though, first impressions is that it in no way an FDL killer and is merely a 'racer'.

The new iconics look nice, but... why? Everyone and his cat knew the layout, now it's all changed. Why?

The new keyboard/hotas/input is a complete disaster. This was thought out by someone who has never attended an Human Input Ergonomics training day. Yes it is a thing, a very important thing. Here's an example; I had no idea what the screen did or how it operated. So, I left changing/assigning keys until I could actually you know, see the screen. Big mistake. How to exit the that screen if you hadn't previously made any assignments? There is no way!! You have to kill the game from task manager!! That's just idiotic. If anything, if it were me... I'd have used by default the Galaxy keys and at a very minimum used 'ESC' to allow exit.

As it is, I still have no idea what the screen does. Not a huge issue, I don't envisage ever using it.

As for the launch day shenanigans, was it to be expected? No it was not. Anyone with half a brain-sell between their ears should have expected a huge influx of players on launch day.

Not having the server capacity to meet that need, displays a willful ignorance of expectations, or a complete disregard for the playerbase, and indeed, their co-workers who laboured to develop it.
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That too. Pretty much this. I think everyone is too blinded by the shiny new stuff that they want to White Knight like any fan in any community does, without having the mindset to also step back and critically analyze the things that are wrong. Setting aside the issues I have with the garbage new exploration mechanic, there's also a lot broken with this patch such as common sense keyboard inputs. When stuff breaks in 2018 like keybindings or simple features like hitting escape to back out are gone, there's a problem. And yeah wow a new layout iconic menus and such, but now gone is the muscle memory for something that quite frankly was un-needed and development funds for whatever was spent on that could have been allocated elsewhere. Lighting of course is another issue and while I don't use VR, the new lighting is trash.

But hey at least other game devs listen.... new Smash is great outside of King K Rool being broken OP for a super heavyweight (thank you Sakurai), Capcoms MonHun division is showering its players with rewards and content, Path of Exile is showing Blizzard how a proper Diablo-esque game should be, Spyro remaster shows how a game should be revitalized, etc etc. Plus eventually new space games will come out, even the joke No Mans Sky finally got it's act together and is now arguably doing great (which is something I NEVER expected to say).

Elite needs to take a note and hammer out some of the major issues they have before releasing a patch, especially when people on Beta are pointing things out.

Lastly, wasn't it the Mamba which was supposed to be the FDL killer? I thought the Krait Phantom was meant as an explorer ship (rip exploration).
 

777Driver

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Mangal Oemie said:
is this your first major patch?
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Probably is his first major update. I was surprised how smooth it went for me here in the UK (Leeds) 1 hour download, took about 30mins to get in, played the Elite Excursion for a few rounds. ED's now been logged in for 8 hours without a disconnection (left it running overnight)

Previously I wouldn't even bother trying for a day or two. Lighting looks great in VR on my rig, same as Beta.
 
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C64Fan

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Well I had a lot of problem at launch. I couldn’t connect at all the first half hour, and after that it was just for minutes - and my PS4 even rebooted twice, which is very unusual. After a long time I could play a bit, and I scanned a planet in Colonia, but before I could sell the data the game crashed, and when I got online again somebody else had claimed that first mapping. It didn’t go smoothly. Crash efter crash.

All this happened and much more, and it was irritating to say to say the least - but I never became upset, angry or filed a handful of bug reports.....

Why?

Because I am 42 now, and I have been an avid gamer since I was 8 - so that’s 34 years of gaming... and I have NEVER seen a launch go smoothly!! Never! And I never expect it to go smoothly, mind you!

Don’t ever expect a launch to go smoothly in gaming! Please! If you do you are in for disappointment after disappointment.
 
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mojonaut

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Mohrgan said:
It's simply a patch day for an online game. This is exactly what is expected, if not enjoyed. Overreaction is a thing, it seems.
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If it was expected why would FD go to the trouble of collating lists and schedules promoting video streamers on launch day? streamers who couldn't stream, hell the one I watched was playing X4 because Elite was unplayable.

It was a complete shambles and FD did what they're good at go into hiding as soon as the poo hits the fan, as of now 7:40am last Dev post on here 7:57pm gmt yesterday.
 

lokvette

lokvette
I know I should stay away from this thread but hey, I was wondering if and I know they wont at least not personally apologize to the OP, and if I've read things right someone from FD has already said sorry for things going a bit tiits up, if the OP ever got his would it make them feel any better about anything. Becuase if this is all it takes for the dummy to come flying out of the pram, my mind boggles.

So you couldn't play the game for a few hours on the day when they release a update which again if I've read things right its the biggiest the game has got for some time thus with that things might go not as planned.

Back in the day I can just see myself standing outside my favorite arcade demanding the owner was wrong to make me leave because he had to shut and a wife and kids to go home to, but no i want to spend the last of my pocket money on Tempest, my pockets are full of 10ps which are a lot heavier than the 1 pound notes I just changed. What has the world come to when people are offended by well pretty much anything and go around making outlandish demands like the one in the OP. :rolleyes:
 
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GunnerBill

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Just for the record instead of playing Elite last night I watched a movie, did some ironing and spent some quality time with the wife.

So a big thanks to FD as I had a pretty relaxing evening. Also slept a lot better as I wasn't so pumped after any PvP nonsense/frustrations.
 
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babelfisch

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mojonaut said:
If it was expected why would FD go to the trouble of collating lists and schedules promoting video streamers on launch day? streamers who couldn't stream, hell the one I watched was playing X4 because Elite was unplayable.

It was a complete shambles and FD did what they're good at go into hiding as soon as the poo hits the fan, as of now 7:40am last Dev post on here 7:57pm gmt yesterday.
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How dare they to stop posting after working for 12-14 hours!
 
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