Heh heh, some of us play on a console that has enough grunt to handle ED! I call my 1X "the bug zapper"!!
🕷!!Bethesda owes a lot to the mod makers out there. They fixed many bugs that Beth would not.The funny thing is that the Elder Scrolls games are also buggy as all hell, but the fans don't give a biowaste. Elder Scrolls fans just accept that bugs are inevitable in a game where you can be pretty much anyone you want to be, and do almost anything you want too. Some ED players however.....
Not to mention, how many things mods added to the gameplay. But then ES games are single player games.
EDIT: Except for ESO. Not single player.
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So there were no bugs in Skyrim? OMG, someone must have put LSD in my food/drink almost every time I played that game!
I invested over a year of absolutely bliss playing Skyrim on my PS3. I bought it after the framerate bug was fixed, and the only two bugs I remember are mammoths occasionally falling out of the sky and companions standing in doorways (solved by sprinting past them). Most games release with bugs and get better over time. Elite Dangerous released on PS4 as a good-looking, stable game, but it has since become more and more buggy, not less. It definitely is buggier than Skyrim (or any other game I own) on either my PS3 or PS4.
But I'm not trying to convince you lot - you've already drunk the LSD-laced kool-aid. I'm just sticking up for the rest of us (like the OP) who suffer from the bugs you deny and / or make excuses for.
I haven't made any such claim or excuses, and I'll thank you not to imply that I have. Yes, the game has bugs (plenty of them) and no, I don't know why they aren't fixed faster than they are. And neither do you.
Which should be a helluva lot easier to fix than a massively complex undertaking like ED..... and they (Bethesda) didn't bother. And the ES fans still didn't moan nearly as much as some of our lot do!
I blame forum armchair desiigners.
So there were no bugs in Skyrim? OMG, someone must have put LSD in my food/drink almost every time I played that game!
There are bugs in every game. Don't be faceious. The problem with Elite is everything is bugged. The mission system, the BGS, the combat.
And to add up to the amateur half hour that is Frontier, they now want the playerbase to vote on the bugs they would like the company to fix. And what's even funnier, is that the white-knights go all into protection of Fdev mode when anyone highlights the scam.
Well in fairness, I think the graphic designers in FDev are amazing... The rest... not so much.
I won't hear a word said against the audio team.
What about the weapons that just hung there in midair, you get those on the PS3?
I do... because they're not allocating enough personnel to bug fixing?
Why? I don't know, but I suspect 1. They know the current players will allow them to ignore bug fixing, and 2. because of 1, they can continue to do other stuff that does or will, make money.
EDIT: I should also point out that, because of 1... A lot of players will not buy the new dlc upon release, preferring to see how good/bad it is before comitting personal funds..
I'm talking about player here. And sound design was pretty good too. Too bad they forgot to hire experienced loot designers.
I confess to being tempted by the XB1X.... ESPECIALLY now that Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to your platform! That said, my PS4 runs Red Dead Redemption 2 just fine (along with my other games), and it is way more demanding of a game than Elite Dangerous.Heh heh, some of us play on a console that has enough grunt to handle ED! I call my 1X "the bug zapper"!!
Speaking of, I did a test awhile back - Elite Dangerous draws noticeably less power on my PS4 than most other games, proving it does not fully utilize the hardware. I think part of the problem is that ED is a poor port to PS4, which uses a radically different OS than XBox. If screenshots and videos are to be trusted, I think ED looks better on vanilla XBox than it does PS4, despite the PS4 being more powerful.
So yeah, the XB1X is a fine machine. I'd grab one today if not for the soon arrival of the new consoles. But the only bug it would zap in ED is EBL. A lot of bugs are cross-platform. I don't even know what platform OP is using..
In all fairness, there was plenty of moaning at their forum. I was a member and remember it was like a war going on in there.
But then came the mods, and things calmed down. Some bugs still remain though.
Engineering a forum armchair to G5 gives just the right amount of recline.
From an outside perspective, you can't know for sure, where the root cause for most issues is.
I am wondering if the bugs are a hardware issue. I'm playing on a 1X and the only bug I have seen recently is my SRV is sorta "jumpy" sometimes when I'm in it. Hardly game breaking tho. Oh, and the npc's can be really bloody thick. But they're like that in all the video games I have ever played! More fodder for my axe/beam laser/BFG!
Has to be said, I'd be quite happy if they took three months off designing new stuff and spent the time bug fixing instead.
I waited 'til about 2 weeks ago to buy Horizons!