ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
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Yeah planetary tech.. look at the terrain in VR and it feels like walking on wallpaper with stone effect. It's flat and smooth as glass.
I wasn't personally expecting any specifics. I'm no game dev, but some common sense can tell me that its just not possible to tell in advance exactly what kind of performances we are going to get at a precise point in time.
That said, this is awfully starting to look indeed like a paid Beta.
I don't really mind it being a paid beta, but a lot of people can rightly feel cheated after for many weeks you, and by you I mean FD in general, called and presented it as a final product.
I was personally starting to have doubts after you announced the release date.
There was simply no way in hell that you could have a final master version of the game for release a few weeks after an alpha.
My guess is that the Covid pandemic grind all development to a halt. And it started to hurt FD's financials quite a lot.
They needed fresh cash and they needed NOW!
Had they presented the release as a paid Beta test, I'm certain that the sales would have been way lower.
The community would have understood in its majority, but shareholders are not that forgiving.
To conclude, my take on this is that FD decided against all common sense to release an unfinished game in order to cash in some seriously needed money.
There is no way to tell whether they did it out of pure greed, or because they whey pinned against a wall. I personally want to believe is the former.
Moreover, had FD postponed the release of Odyssey once again, pretty sure some parts of the community would have been frustrated and angry no matter what.
In the end, I hope that FD weighted the cost of this PR disaster, and I hope that the future will prove it was the right call to make.
But for that, you better start crunching like never before FD. God knows I HATE developers exploitation, but right now it looks like the only remaining option to release the game for consoles as a finnished product in time.
You allready released multiple fixes, great work. Keep em coming. And maybe, just maybe, this release will be nothing but a bad memory in a few months.
That said, this is awfully starting to look indeed like a paid Beta.
I don't really mind it being a paid beta, but a lot of people can rightly feel cheated after for many weeks you, and by you I mean FD in general, called and presented it as a final product.
I was personally starting to have doubts after you announced the release date.
There was simply no way in hell that you could have a final master version of the game for release a few weeks after an alpha.
My guess is that the Covid pandemic grind all development to a halt. And it started to hurt FD's financials quite a lot.
They needed fresh cash and they needed NOW!
Had they presented the release as a paid Beta test, I'm certain that the sales would have been way lower.
The community would have understood in its majority, but shareholders are not that forgiving.
To conclude, my take on this is that FD decided against all common sense to release an unfinished game in order to cash in some seriously needed money.
There is no way to tell whether they did it out of pure greed, or because they whey pinned against a wall. I personally want to believe is the former.
Moreover, had FD postponed the release of Odyssey once again, pretty sure some parts of the community would have been frustrated and angry no matter what.
In the end, I hope that FD weighted the cost of this PR disaster, and I hope that the future will prove it was the right call to make.
But for that, you better start crunching like never before FD. God knows I HATE developers exploitation, but right now it looks like the only remaining option to release the game for consoles as a finnished product in time.
You allready released multiple fixes, great work. Keep em coming. And maybe, just maybe, this release will be nothing but a bad memory in a few months.
I'll say it in another way: they are trying to fix holes in the sinking ship. They can't plan a trip (or confirm a previous planned trip) right now until it floats again.
That's all they could say, because that's all they know
Doesn't that include the words "never gonna let you dooowwn"?
woohoo! thanks!
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Just to be clear, are our Paintjobs going to be broken indefinitely then?
I'm shocked this isn't even mentioned in the OP.
I'm shocked this isn't even mentioned in the OP.
Apart from the feedback threads obviously .. and the direct reference to them in the OP, obviously.
Odyssey - Optimisation/Performance and UI (Galaxy & System Map) Feedback
Greetings Commanders, First of all, we’d like to thank all of you for supporting us throughout Odyssey’s development and at launch. For those of you who have access to the expansion and are able to play without issues, we hope you’re enjoying yourselves! That said, we are aware of some...
Focused Feedback Thread - Outfitting UI in Odyssey
Greetings Commanders, Last week we posted a forum thread discussing optimisation and map UI in Odyssey. We'd like to thank you all for your comments and feedback which were gratefully received by the development team. A series of changes to UI based on that feedback can be expected in an...
("Listening" to a thread like this one we're in would fraz your brain I think and frazzed brains + software = not a good combo)
Well, just change the name from Arf to actually anyone in the FDEV management.
Arf is simply passing the information that he receives.
FDEV should put their face in this announcement.
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Sounds like just the necessary fixing and tweaking they have to do for the console release. At least I know for sure that I can't expect anything substantial content wise till at least somewhere around 2022.
This sounds a bit clueless to me. Investigations? Are these bugs or not?
Nice post i'm about to make, would be a shame if something happened to it, again, again agian again...
This isn't a roadmap, it's a slap in the face to the playerbase.
This isn't a roadmap, it's a slap in the face to the playerbase.
I do not know what to say. I see a part about improving certain performance issues, but to be honest, it doesn't look like a Road Map. Rather, an attempt to stick an airplane wing with tape. I hope I'm just tired and misunderstood something.
Forums: DangerousThanks for the update - the forum was running a bit hot
Hey it's called Elite: Dangerous for a reason, ya know
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