It will never be in beta. If it somehow achieves that I'll buy minimum pledge, and take back my words publicly.
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People clearly don't understand blood diagnostics development
If the project is going down then I'd imagine we'd be seeing a lot of rats fleeing the sinking ship. Given how SC is the most high profile game in development there is no way we would miss that.
Given how SC didn't even have NPCs walking around planets and the NPCs are bugged out, I'm guessing that there are fundamental problems with SC that prevented them from even getting the singleplayer game to work right. Also probably scope creep got in the way because CR dreams big which means another development reboot. Ofcourse it would look bad if CR admitted and everyone is under NDA so nothing was said.
They're also paying themselves handsome directors salaries for all the shell companies under CIG's banner, if the UK shell company is any indication. It's a sweat deal all around, given that they also own most of the "shares" in the company. It's like being paid three times to do the same job: once for being executives in the company, again for being on the board of directors of the company, and now a third time by deciding that the company was profitable enough to issue dividends to the "shareholders."
I disagree - I think it'll be moved to beta* sometime in the next few years but missing the vast majority of planned features, complexity, depth and content.
* = according to Chris Roberts, beta means "feature complete, content incomplete"
From pre-alpha? Or whatever they call it nowadays.
Tier 0.
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Actually that is his definition of alpha. Beta according to him would be both content and functionality complete but you just are ironing our bugs.
So according to CR at the moment we would not even be in alpha. Now the development of SC has been so crappy and slow that I would not be surprised if what he called alpha becomes beta instead at some point still with plenty of sold content missing.
Wasn't this spaghetti bug tied to lack of 64bits support? Why is this making a comeback?
The problem with that common response from fans is that "right" isn't a fixed target. That's how you end up with those pesky, evil publishers releasing newer, shinier games that raise the bar and introduce, and normalise, new features that Roberts hadn't thought of (because we know he doesn't really invent things, he just takes ideas from other games and then promises to deliver a better version, and then fails to.)
So each time a Starfield or similar comes along it ends up meaning S42 needs another reboot. And now they've painted themselves into a corner where they can't justify releasing something that isn't cutting edge after all the time and money they've thrown at it, but the cutting edge is getting further and further away from them.
I think it’s the animation rigging- they’re trying to do inverse kinematics with the hands fixed and someone doesn’t know how to multiply matrices; tbf, matrix calculations are a pain! IMO anyway
I think I’ve seen a few of these animation issues.. they really haven’t errr nailed it yet.
Welp...seems like purchasing a paint job for my redeemer has helped the idiot Roberts pay for his new roofI feel like a proper meany now. Sorry everyone....
The advantages in investing full on into accomplishing the ambition of making your game the best it can be instead of taking shortcuts to please shareholders and then being doomed to settle for mediocrity.
Sigh.
Found some minerals to prospect though.
Nice to see you stuck a Roc in the back of that Asp ScoutNo surprises there all things considered. Add the Twitch metrics (thanks Gologt & Co) and the disparity is even bigger.
The advantages in investing full on into accomplishing the ambition of making your game the best it can be instead of taking shortcuts to please shareholders and then being doomed to settle for mediocrity.
Sigh.
Found some minerals to prospect though.
But what does Supergiant Games have to do with CI and SC?
Spending vast sums donated by whales accomplishing a broken tech demo with trains.