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Odyssey Progress
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angerous on two configurations i7-4790k+32Gb+2060\6Gb\2560x1440 and i7-4771+32Gb+1050Ti\4Gb\1920x1080 all graphics settings at Ultra. The graphics cards are clearly not the best, but of the problems Orange Sidewinder and Black Adder...
Thankyou David, and the team. Sincerely, thanks. Keep up the efforts to rectify the issues. I completely agree with your statements during the launch livestream with respect to the challenges associated with what the team is doing here. I don't envy the team at all, and while there are issues, I don't think much of the vitriol from some is fair or deserved.
I'm sure the apology by David Braben will be welcomed by many. Yet as CEO he was responsible for the premature release despite copious prior warnings about its parlous state. It's now all about following the damage limitation playbook following a botched launch.
Had it been labelled correctly as a beta release, there'd be no reason to complain. But a full release at rrp comes with quality expectations, and FDev are being quite rightly chastised.
As ever, don't pre-order and continue to reinforce this anti-consumer business model.
Cheers,
Drew.
Had it been labelled correctly as a beta release, there'd be no reason to complain. But a full release at rrp comes with quality expectations, and FDev are being quite rightly chastised.
As ever, don't pre-order and continue to reinforce this anti-consumer business model.
Cheers,
Drew.
This. The apology is kind of hollow because you know that the devs knew it was a broken product, and Braben still signed off on launching it anyway.
He probably had his apology written out before the game even launched
Exactly right. He's following the "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" mantra, and he must have known all along that the game was unfit for release... even if people hadn't been telling him this for weeks.
The fact that it's at full price, and not marked as early access or beta is what really sticks in my craw. The complete absence of self-awareness and honesty with your customer base.
As CEO, the buck stops with him, and I genuinely hope he is not forcing his developers to work this weekend to try and paper over what is, ultimately, his mess.
You're nine years too late, mate!
It's also important to point out that the blame lies solely with management (perhaps with marketing too) for this fiasco. The actual developers (i.e. those writing the code) were just doing their jobs and I can guarantee you there will have been many dissenting (and now quite demoralised) voices in both that team and the QA folks as to the reception to all their hard work.
The CMs will also have to take the flak for this decision (though I guess they are paid to do so), which won't be much fun either.
Cheers,
Drew.
The CMs will also have to take the flak for this decision (though I guess they are paid to do so), which won't be much fun either.
Cheers,
Drew.
That's true but Odyssey was delayed from last year already and - regardless of what we might prefer - there is such thing as the bottom line. Publish and be damned is another motto but for all we know Frontier might have teams or artists who can't move on to their next task until Odyssey is off their desk. Paying people to twiddle their thumbs is also a loss.
I think we should crowdfund a run of these and have them sent to the developers, QA and CMs.
Please go back to the alpha planetary technology. The terrain geometry and the "new" rock scattering of the release version is a joke, it looks so simple and unrealistic....
In the alpha I enjoyed every planet I landed on, every corner of the planet felt real, the terrain geometry was really realistic, and the rock scattering made it even more alive and real. You felt that each of those alien mountains and landscapes had been there for millions of years without anyone seeing them. It was so good technology that it seemed almost handmade.
In the release version the only thing you feel is that the planets are procedurally created, absolutely downgraded in geometry and rocks just to gain performance and kill immersion. Go back to the right path marked in the alpha. It is as if you have made the reverse journey. Launch-alpha-prealpha...
Things take as long as they take.
That's one of the most important things about software development - or art creation - or indeed any creative endeavour. Not being able to move onto the next thing until you've finished the thing you're on is kind of obvious, and shouldn't be an issue - that's how rush jobs happen and corners cut.The company's reputation is deservedly taking a hit for this, and it could all have been avoided so easily with a bit of self awareness and planning. The company is hardly in financial trouble - at least if their annual reports are anything to go by.
As Drew implies, it's the devs, QA and CMs I feel genuinely sorry for at this point - they've been hung out to dry, and the devs' professional pride and reputation has been scunnered by all this. I stopped putting David Braben on any kind of pedestal (used to worship the guy) long, long ago after he did the dirty on the Kickstarter backers. So none of this is surprising, sadly.
It does, however, remain disappointing that they (he) haven't learned any lessons at all from the past.
I'm a real person Mogen and yes I like the game and this update
I'm also a real person, and for the brief time that I participated in missions, I liked what I saw. And I've been around since Vanilla Gamma.
But I'd personally prefer a 99% guarantee that the game won't fall over when I try to use my SRV, or exit Orbital Cruise, or any one of maybe a dozen ordinary situations that seemed to make the game flop over and boot me back to desktop.
And for those wondering about my Specs, I'm rocking a Ryzen 5 3600, 8 Gigs RAM, and an RX 570 with 4 Gigs.
But I'd personally prefer a 99% guarantee that the game won't fall over when I try to use my SRV, or exit Orbital Cruise, or any one of maybe a dozen ordinary situations that seemed to make the game flop over and boot me back to desktop.
And for those wondering about my Specs, I'm rocking a Ryzen 5 3600, 8 Gigs RAM, and an RX 570 with 4 Gigs.
And yet you joined at 05:12am today and have posted a grand total of two messages including the above. Game has been out since November 2014.
Mmm hmmm.