Alright.... The beta begins in mid-May. Excellent.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey PC Launch Date
they'll probably run alpha pahse 4 till release to see if there are any last minute issues to be addressed after release. We already knew that phase 4 is actually a replica of release anyway.
Ship interiors would give a very small.amount of gameplay for s lot of work. I'm glad they concentrated on where most of the gameplay will be, now they can branch out to other parts of the game, like the space installations and ship interiors.
The mini-game is going, due to the feedback.
I think the suits are getting crunched (on top of devs) by the investors
That would be fun if it happened!
Did you deduce that by the inclusion of our 'live' snapshot, or is there confirmation of this elsewhere?
I ask solely as I may have missed it being mentioned as I've been having too much fun and not watching the variety of places where it may be said.
well... there is a rumor... (but i actually think they'll hold that for a future content update)What about new ships....?
There seems to be a major wake up call for the industry every year or so, but they never learn because they really don't want to learn. Gamers are also part of the problem for pre-ordering games, sometimes years in advance, despite all these disastrous launches.
No one said release is supposed to be bug free, I guess they'll fix the most glaring/game breaking bugs for release and fix the rest with post-release patches.
Erm... May 19th seems ridiculously optimistic given the state of the alpha. Unless, of course, FDev will be classing the release as either a beta or early access? I also hope that the development team will not be forced to crunch in order to meet that deadline.
Not an Alpha CONFIRMED. No "Alpha" rolls into a launch, hell not even a good Beta rolls into a Launch -- Only Stress Tests roll into Launches, so here is to all you forum hounds who went around saying "But it's an Alpha, but it's an Alpha, but it's an Alpha, etc etc." No. This was never an Alpha Test. They just bloody Confirmed it. They are opting for the "Release broken now, fix later" approach.
Pfffttt.... Time to get my refund.
Pfffttt.... Time to get my refund.
They'll need it
No seriously, this doesn't seem right.
Look at the issue tracker. There are sooo many unfixed issues. And you think 19 days after the end of Alpha to release is enough?
Good luck.
Coming from the man who made it to SagA* in a Sidewinder...Sometimes, when you gotta go, you gotta boldly go.
Regarding the apparent lack of a Beta.....seems to me that Phase 4 of the Alpha will be Beta-y enough to do the things that need doing.
I'm disappointed it's May 19th.
I'm fine with it being the 19th May though.
Well, providing my graphics card can play it!
Edit: I didnt ever feel it was really an Alpha in the true sense of the word. They could have called it Beta and no one would have really questioned it. I suspect the version we're playing is a branch of the version that's being worked on as the majority of fixes/changes were quite small. Im sure there will still be bugs, but that's par for the course.
We'll see in about 4 weeks time though...No point in getting knickers in a twist, it's happening.
I'm fine with it being the 19th May though.
Well, providing my graphics card can play it!
Edit: I didnt ever feel it was really an Alpha in the true sense of the word. They could have called it Beta and no one would have really questioned it. I suspect the version we're playing is a branch of the version that's being worked on as the majority of fixes/changes were quite small. Im sure there will still be bugs, but that's par for the course.
We'll see in about 4 weeks time though...No point in getting knickers in a twist, it's happening.
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They'll need it
No seriously, this doesn't seem right.
Look at the issue tracker. There are sooo many unfixed issues. And you think 19 days after the end of Alpha to release is enough?
Good luck.
So Odyssey has been announced in active development since 2018; they'll launch it in 2021, May 19th. With so many issues (someone was posting in a thread around 4,000 unconfirmed issues and around 150-ish confirmed) in the tracker, can they make it in time?
I know the parallel isn't probably the best here, but Cyberpunk 2077, a single player game, has been in development for roughly 9 years? And it came out the way it did? These people do need a lot of luck and ingenuity to pull this one off.
Spoken like the community
They had the option to delay a further 12 days and still come in 'on time' for the end of their fiscal year and chose not to.
Either we have been 'testing' a very old build just to stress the net-code etc. or they have a great deal of confidence in the ability of their team.
Sure. There is no third option