She does an amazing job. Would like to echo your sentiments.
Development Update 1 - June
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Then it is irrelevant to the topic and in no need of mention. Thx.
The dev stream was planned for the regular Thursday time slot. Today is definitely not a Thursday.
ok fair enough - you didn't say it in the context of ED at all.
Now you know.
Good freaking grief
Ian Phillips
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Get on with your life - Just like Dr Kay is doing!
Actually what he said was “not at launch”.
Since this is going so well, have you considered locking the comments?
But she isn't talking about elite dangerous so it doesn't negate what I said, she has disappeared from streams about elite dangerous since Odyssey launched.
I get the impression that it is worth many hundreds of millions of $US for the first to get a 'full' game out of the door.
If UE5 can deliver this with minimum effort (as implied) then studios would be cutting their throats to grab the $$$ from SC, NMS & ED, surely?
You are spot-on accurate, it is a niche market with very little value (in comparison to the 'massive' AAA titles) so big studios are unwilling to risk their capital. Even SC has managed to keep their alpha going for 10 years, and produce a roadmap for the next 3 that doesn't include a 'launch', but no doubt will continue to sell promises of cake tomorrow.
Odyssey, and the absolutely empty information vessel (sorry Arf!) put on the table today, sounds as if it is in an even worse state than I believed (and I haven't been over kind) and still nothing is being said with any value - except that "all our great ideas" (none of which are cited as example!) would take too long to incorporate into the game, and that there is so much fixing of Odyssey content that it is likely to exceed the 'budgeted' time to get it on console.
Being utterly negative, perhaps Odyssey should be dropped, and ED run down over the next year - then see if some other studio wants to create a UE5 version.
Its weird, I'm reading through this thread and and at the same time in the background, I've got QA's latest video playing on the TV.
It's for Star Citizen:
Source: https://youtu.be/oc0X0RI4UmU
Right from the off he's like "Star Citizen has some amazing looking planets...."
Later on he actually walks out of his ship and onto the planet surface.
Meanwhile, the copy-and-paste for EDO planets is still work in progress, weeks after initial release.
Elite may have the flight model right, but for everything else other space games are leaving it for dead.
It's for Star Citizen:
Right from the off he's like "Star Citizen has some amazing looking planets...."
Later on he actually walks out of his ship and onto the planet surface.
Meanwhile, the copy-and-paste for EDO planets is still work in progress, weeks after initial release.
Elite may have the flight model right, but for everything else other space games are leaving it for dead.
It's like teaching a donkey to juggle. You'll never manage it but it's not really a reflection on you as a teacher.
It seems to me that the unwinding of the topic around the LGBTK is a deliberate action in order to bring the topic to obscenity, which will cause the comments to be closed in a branch that is inconvenient for FDev. A very simple and convenient way to solve your PR problems.
Ian Phillips
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Because it was reply to "hiding Devs"
Seriously, I think it was a mistake cause I fear the nutjobs hijacking the stream with "what about EDO fps" comments,
like in the old times when every stream was hijacked by the "what about combat logging crowd"
They will get VERY short shrift from the Moderators on the stream if they do.
So what you are saying is she has move on with her life without addressing or fixing the problems with Elite Dangerous Odyssey, perhaps we should all just move on from Elite Dangerous.
I don't think we doubt that there is an amazing team behind developing this game. but it surely has to be acknowledged that there has been some very questionable use of their time.
These 5 patches seem to be correcting the areas that were effectively stepping the game backwards from what was already available in Horizons. Surely there has to be questions about how an upgrade to a game can come with so many downgrades, that required the entire dev team to down tools and begin firefighting and correcting (undoing) them.
what did I pay £30 for? I got legs and leg missions and leg fighting. which is great, but the rest of the game got markedly worse to a point where I don't really want to play it any more. so for £30 what i really got was minus £120 odd.
These 5 patches seem to be correcting the areas that were effectively stepping the game backwards from what was already available in Horizons. Surely there has to be questions about how an upgrade to a game can come with so many downgrades, that required the entire dev team to down tools and begin firefighting and correcting (undoing) them.
what did I pay £30 for? I got legs and leg missions and leg fighting. which is great, but the rest of the game got markedly worse to a point where I don't really want to play it any more. so for £30 what i really got was minus £120 odd.
Thanks for sharing.