A different kind of Odyssey thread

[Andro]

In light of all the opinions and impressions flying right now, good and bad, I just wanted to say thanks. Even though the trailer was stitched together in a few places...

I appreciate that it wasn't this.

Or this.

As long as you agree that

https://imgur.com/l7rUjmv

this IS a symptom of pre-alpha...

 

[Muzz UK]

I'd imagine the footage we got wasn't actually recorded on the day or build that went live. Unbelievable the number of forum and FB threads picking fault with 8 minutes of game from a massive expansion that's still a month or two away from release.

 

[Rubbernuke]

It was exactly as I imagined it to be, in the constraints of the game- what will make or break it is how it plugs into the BGS, and if it brings a more human perspective to the game (think meeting Han Solo / Cantina type level, rather than reading about it and clicking 'haggle').

I was not keen (but understood why) on the VO RP and that detracted from the video- I get it was there to illustrate what was going on since its for people coming in 'cold'.

 

[Shaele]

I'd imagine the footage we got wasn't actually recorded on the day or build that went live. Unbelievable the number of forum and FB threads picking fault with 8 minutes of game from a massive expansion that's still a month or two away from release.

And yet, they went and released it thinking it was a good idea and representative of what was to come

 

[Winterwalker]

rather than reading about it and clicking 'haggle').

Haha .. +1 to "click haggle" .. if only we could!

 

[Winterwalker]

And yet, they went and released it thinking it was a good idea and representative of what was to come

"Representative" of what's to come but I doubt many missions will be quite this well rehearsed and by the end there were a ton of soldiers shooting at the team. Them shouting in the distance sounded fantastic (as usual) but while it's fine by me if AI gets tweaked up and down at a later date, being able to shut the base down stealthy from control room OR shoot your way in and out OR anything in between, works for me.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Does a comparison with Anthem really tell us anything? I mean look at it now. That's before you consider this is an add on to a game with very different gameplay not built from the ground up as FPS.

I do have concerns- to say the AI looked dumb is an understatement, they just stood there and let themselves get shot! Some of the animation was a bit rough as well.

This was just one mission by the looks of it though and it may be that the stuff I didn't like the look of gets tightened up. Having slept on it I think what they showed us was some simple and representative of a mission and (critically) works without any issues, because let's face it, we're going to see some before release. You don't want that stuff in one of your reveal trailers.

 

[Taimaru]

And yet, they went and released it thinking it was a good idea and representative of what was to come

Maybe they thought we were intelligent enough to understand that Pre-Alpha means it's still a work in progress and a lot of work still needs being done to it before release (and I don't mean alpha release) but we would appreciate a snapshot of their progress so far as we're always asking for Dev Diaries.

Obviously they got that assumption wrong based on the comments in this forum...