Odyssey Progress
- Thread starter David Braben
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Maybe a little bit of spit the dummy out here?
You have obviously enjoyed the game to have that many hours on file. They will no doubt fix it in time and then you will no doubt be back. YES, they should have had a beta but they would still be finding faults with the thousands of different chipsets, graphics cards and other peripheral's to contend with. I am amazed that some of these games work at all with the mass of hardware and software running on the millions of rigs out there. At least give them a chance to fix it!
I thought that when you bought a game, you can enjoy it for endless hours ... or now are the games paid per hour played?
this nonsense can only be read in this forum to excuse poor development.
If your community managers drop another livestream where they spend the majority of the time playing games and acting as if nothing is wrong, then you really are truly tone-deaf. Your army of CMs need to be doing some serious damage control by owning your company's failure and keeping us in the loop regarding exactly what you are doing to make things right.
To be clear, I obviously don't blame the CMs for Odyssey's failures, but they do need to "manage the community", because the community is on fire right now and rapidly evaporating away.
To be clear, I obviously don't blame the CMs for Odyssey's failures, but they do need to "manage the community", because the community is on fire right now and rapidly evaporating away.
lol m8 hacking games how old are you 12? I mean if you really crack the game you are more of a problem than a solution to the current development methods. You basically just steal.all the games in the world once you have bought/hacked them ?
This makes absolutly no sense. Especially not in the context of the answerI thought that when you bought a game, you can enjoy it for endless hours ... or now are the games paid per hour played?
this nonsense can only be read in this forum to excuse poor development.
The blasé manner with which the exploration 'update' was imposed and destroyed the game for many people told everything you need to know about FDev's attitude and the fact that none of the designers actually play or know how to play their own game. I don't know why so many people are surprised at the latest debacle.
DB needs to have a clear out and get people onboard who not only love the game and are invested in it, but also know how to play it.
DB needs to have a clear out and get people onboard who not only love the game and are invested in it, but also know how to play it.
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Hi David, as a huge fan of your procedurally generated galaxy, I was hoping you could give your thoughts regarding an issue that's just come to light. Please see this thread:
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
UPDATE: Planetary terrain prefabs are now also being discovered to be reused between planets: UPDATE: Looking at the high number of reported planets. I have gone ahead and created an issue tracker for this one. I urge everybody to go ahead and tick "can replicate" with as many examples as...
Can you give us your thoughts regarding this change in your procedural generation of the galaxy?
Are you comfortable with this?
Does it sit right with you?
I'm interested in what you mean by destroyed the game with the exploration update? I wasn't happy with it too at first but now I'm OK with it and I think I save so much time with the new scan thing, is that what your meaning?
I'm not getting into arguments. They know exactly what they did.
I installed the alpha, logged in, saw what an absolute kludge they made of the maps and UI's and logged out again. So much for tempting LEP'ers and lapsed players back.
ye whatever reported for promoting piracy have a nice day
Not really. Most games don't offer a lot of replay value. Getting 5000 hours of play out of a £100 investment is amazing value. I've paid £60 for games - more than once - that I've only played for a few hours before losing interest.I thought that when you bought a game, you can enjoy it for endless hours ... or now are the games paid per hour played?
this nonsense can only be read in this forum to excuse poor development.
Note this isn't supposed to be a defence of Odyssey, it's merely pointing out that the investment so far has paid off very well for this player.
I have a Dell Inspiron PC with a 2 Gb AMD Radeon R7 360 Intel Core i7-6700. Not a gaming rig by any standard yet it runs Horizons on Ultra without any issues. In Odyssey I have the LOD graphics issue that many have but despite certain things looking low poly the game is perfectly playable and I am loving the on foot addition and the new atmospheric planets look incredible. Was it ready for release? No. The argument about why is moot for now, the priority has to be fixing what is broken.
The game is incredibly beautiful and pretty comes at a price, bad timing with hardware supply as it is with Covid but when I can, I am prepared to pay that price to enjoy this game at its best. I know the FDev team are very busy, working over the weekend to release fixes while also coping with a frankly horrible level of nastiness across social media. I appreciate their hard work and dedication under such pressure. I know that a release like this is the last thing they would have wanted and that they will fix it as soon as they can. I have almost 40 years of history with this game and I see it's potential.....I can wait
The game is incredibly beautiful and pretty comes at a price, bad timing with hardware supply as it is with Covid but when I can, I am prepared to pay that price to enjoy this game at its best. I know the FDev team are very busy, working over the weekend to release fixes while also coping with a frankly horrible level of nastiness across social media. I appreciate their hard work and dedication under such pressure. I know that a release like this is the last thing they would have wanted and that they will fix it as soon as they can. I have almost 40 years of history with this game and I see it's potential.....I can wait
Yes, apparently their CMs themselves have been held hostage to the situation as much as the community.
The real culprits are really the ones who are to blame. 1 - who made the decision to keep the community in information starvation instead of giving details about the development, all successes and failures, as well as the timely (i.e. not 3 weeks before the launch) launch of tests of certain developments.
2 - The community is also responsible for the poor launch, at least that part of the community called "white knights" who have been screaming, "no need to share any information about odyssey development", "I don't want to know anything about odyssey development".
and there were people who warned about that, me included.
has anything changed since the launch of odyssey? no. i don't think so. fdev will continue to starve the community of information, and the "white knights" will continue to shout "we don't want to know anything about the development of /DLC-Name!", which means that odyssey is far from the last problematic release in the history of E.D.
correction, for those who really want to be offended by the words "guilty", I'm not trying to insult anyone or anything, the words "guilty" in this case mean "responsible" for the bad launch.
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When I buy a game / invest in it, I hope I can play it for as long as I want, be it many or few, the rest I do not care the least.
I think the apology is in order and some ARX as restitution would help as well. David is well aware they stepped in it with this half-baked release.
With all of that said, I still love Elite Dangerous and with caution will move forward hoping they fix my beloved game.
With all of that said, I still love Elite Dangerous and with caution will move forward hoping they fix my beloved game.
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This wasn't a mistake. They deliberately chose to release Odyssey in mid-May regardless of outstanding bugs, because the share price is way more important than a few weeks of salt in the forums.
you know, David, I think now is a good time to share the roadmap for the next odyssey updates,
and start sharing more details about what you're doing and what you're planning. judging by the fact that odyssey's steam rating has dropped another 3 percent since your appeal, people have little interest in your apologies and promises to fix things.
But a detailed story on the next updates might calm people down.