ANNOUNCEMENT Odyssey Update 2021
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Clearly you have never been in the industry. You are badly misinformed
The engineers broke down. Attempting to modify something results in ...
BTW - I was in a position to hire and fire programmers, you would never make it in any company I worked at. You would not get beyond the interview...
Clearly.... I have been in the industry, and I don't tolerate labor exploitation of the sort you are referring to.
Ive been a senior IT manager, net/sysadmin for decades, and I, too, tend to be in hiring positions, and it seems we are diametric opposites in that regard, arent we friend. We dont hire developers or 'scrum managers' who act like you. We avoid them like the plague.
sorry ... i messed'up with quotes function....I quote myselfbut I have to say that contrary to what I said above, in the last two hours I seem to have seen a marked improvement in framerate (1 stettlement raid and 2 power restore missions) and almost always I have been at 60 fps (capped with vsynch) in outposts and above 40 in leg fights. I haven't tried combat zones that were the most sacrificed yet, but I'm going to do more tests over the weekend. If that is the way to go, I would say remain optimistic.
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Just taking my first actual footsteps in Odyssey. I've been very critical about in-ship bugs and the user interface but aside from problems I'm experiencing in the area of exploration, I do believe I'm quite impressed with how walking is implimented around the station shops. Also glad that I don't have to remove my VR headset. I'm beginning to think the game has lots of potential but I still cannot abide the new 'darkness of space' which now looks almost pitch black. Frontier definitely have a lot of optimising to do, especially with regard to ship movement in stations and the associated frame judder but hopefully a fix will be found much sooner than later. I'm now thinking Odyssey could just turn out good in time if Frontier listen to the needs of players. Even the new UI is beginning to grow on me (just a little bit). Of course there is still lots of teething troubles ahead but I've developed a sense of excitement that things may just turn out right in the end. It's really important that we keep reporting issues and certainly keep up a degree of polite pressure with forum posts to ensure that all our worries will be fixed in a timely manner.
Good.
I personally I don't see why anyone would want to work at a company that can't plan and resource allocate properly to then mandate that I am denied time off or attempt to suspend labour laws because they botched or forced through an MVP.
It's a game. Go play something else if it bothers you that much.
The developers will fix it when they fix it. Screaming that they should have no time off and work till they drop accomplishes nothing and will probably introduce more regressions.
A good manager would know this
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You want them to keep deceiving the public about the state of their product and charging people for broken turds that they know full well are broken turds? You want them to continue using their paying customers as their QA department because it's cheaper than actually hiring a QA department?
Oooookay... Whatever floats your boat.
One of the things I really like about it - space looks more like space now. Never could stand games that shoved colourful clouds all over it (unless they were aiming for a deliberately sytlised look); ED isn't as bad as some but it's still a bit cringey, it would be like scattering colours all over the snow in the snowy bits of Skyrim to make it look "prettier."
Pity we can't all be accommodated with an option for a realistic or a stylised, take your pick choice though. Can't see it having any gameplay impact or being technically problematic.
You are aware that this thing you like is a bug caused by double application of gamma settings in the graphics driver because someone screwed up the render pipeline in the engine, right?
it's going to go back to how horizons looked once it's fixed.
The VR experience in Odyssey is absolutely horrendous. We already knew the idiotic pancake approach to on-foot in VR was going to be what they gave us, but none of the VR experience is worth it. NONE. Horizons is infinitely better in every way.
I'm sure you were, really.
Noop - me 2.. many many attempts different systems planets etc.
I may seem rude, but I think this is done on purpose to reduce the load on the servers
Possibly, I jsut got home .. got ANOTHER? update? (Was there another patch\hotfix post the big 1st patch? ) and now CZs are fine for me .. just finished one.
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He may well be; such companies do exist. Generally how it works is in such companies they'll exploit the developers and generally burn them out. Of course few will be over thirty, because by then you'll have the experience to avoid such jobs and such companies won't hire you because you'll be too expensive - cheaper two junior developers, who've been hired in from abroad before they had a chance to figure out what the local market rate was, than one senior developer who's gotten over the imposters syndrome that is commonplace amongst programmers, is the logic.
I believe the games industry is notorious for this, but I work more in the business-fintech field, so wouldn't know.
I understand, some people such as you have no idea how the industry works. You might want to remain silent when discussing topics you do not understand, also you have no ability to influence how I spend my time or what I do with it. I am completely entitled to comment (negative or positive) about products I purchase.