Finally that SQ42 update you've all been waiting for:
"Specifically for SQ42, the team continued to work on vendor behaviors and functionalities. They extended some of the vendor functionalities to use ‘scooching’ animations to drive specific actor performances into the systemic vendor behavior. They also continued to develop the chow-line sequence mentioned last month that enable NPCs to collect cutlery, plates, and warm-up food. "
No more dirty tables and plates - Wahoo!
And buried in the middle of dreams;
"This means a lot of these issues will become irrelevant due to the systems being used in a slightly different way. "
A complete rewrite and 8 years 'work' being irrelevant. Costly but irrelevant. Due to not planning it in the first place, again. Which means working on the wrong thing at the wrong time and then having to undo everything on the wrong thing as it doesnt work with the thing that should have been built first. Again. This is where the money is going, on a never ending roundabout of progression, binning it and starting again but with more added and still more being done elsewhere that will have to be binned in 2 years or more.
Come on LA, look at whats actually being delivered and achieved, not what they say they are 'working on' or 'near-ready' or 'close to release' or whatever. Its just bad management, Da Vinci was the same, took years to finish anything, had to be chased down and threatened to finish what hed promised. Artists....geniuses....dreamers, whatever they are they need a manager if they arent self-motivated enough to finish what they start before starting a 100 other things. They need deadlines imposed, do ABC by XYZ, dream as much as you want as long as its a minimum ABC by XYZ. Then we move onto the next dream and do the same. Otherwise theyre doing ABCDEFGHIJKLM..... by 'soon'.