of course it does... if a white knight says so, it must be true
A graphic engineer found the cause of low FPS: rendering/culling
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Go do some original material reward missions, let us know how that turns out for you.
Obvious troll is obvious
If some of the comments in that Reddit thread are to be believed ("Press X to doubt"), that might actually be the case:
Being a sucker for drama I also checked Frontier's Glassdoor reviews to see if there's anything going on there. Keep in mind GD reviews are more likely to be from people who are salty when they leave:
TBF these people claimed they were artists. So maybe the art departments are just bad.
To get even further into our paranoid theories we could check the job openings at FD, but there's no way to tell if those are for Elite or not.
Don't know.. I blame the management for overpromising both the players and the investors that the game would be released in H1 2021. Technically a success and a promise kept. The stock price will be affected if not for the delay, then the number of refunds and lack of future sales.
I'm curious to see if tomorrow they will say something about those rendering problems
Literally from ex (outside; out from) and grex (flock). It has the same root as the adjective "gregarious," meaning "likes to be in a group."I think the word you're looking for is "egregious" - which means outstanding, in one way or another.
The most common collocations for "egregious" are great, and really capture how many in the community feel about this release:
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Did they? My recollection was that it was acknowledged and implied that it would be fixed - "we know we have a lot of optimisation left to do" - but my recollection of FD's actual statements is that they have been very careful not to state outright that something is "going to be fixed by date X." In the same way, many interpreted David Braben's post about the specs of the machine he plays on at home as stating that it worked as expected on his machine, but that's not what he wrote - he just told us the machine he plays it on, not whether it plays acceptably.
They said it was a 5 week old build.
The Facebook groups are full of people saying that anyone reporting problems is being entitled. I've been called a Karen multiple times over the last few days for pointing out that releasing the update in this state is beyond the pale.
Gamer culture is really, really weird. Like what other products do people treat like this? Movies maybe? Like people really invested in a particular series (say Star Wars) will make themselves believe that every release is good regardless of quality. (It was amusing to see that finally collapse with Rise of SkyWalker.... LOL).
Like if you bought a TV that randomly turned off 5 times a day... would you go on Samsung's forums and urge people to "give them a break" because "making TVs is hard"?
Nope, no we didn't. In fact, we weren't even consulted. Never mind the fact that the majority of the 'investors' are Braben and other senior FDev staff.
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Maybe that's why I'm ending up with the 1% only?
Not on PC... no way.
Unfortunately we have hundreds, likely thousands, of years of history that proves the very opposite. Whilst I agree with your sentiment it’s a sad fact that humans have an exceptional ability to deny science and scientific method in favour of blind faith, rumour and conspiracy theory (and of course good old fashioned Dogma.) The fight doesn’t even need to be won, only fought.
I give you COVID deniers, Flat Earthers and Creationism as some of the more recent examples.
....but I’m heading away from Odyssey now....
I would like to say it will be interesting to see if FDev do make any kind of comment regarding this, or indeed any of the bigger issues affecting the DLC in the coming weeks after taking quite a hammering, at least from many reviews I’ve read. I doubt it though and expect them to opt for a ‘heads down’ approach with patches and hot fixes - which I hope doesn’t further degrade what appears to me to be the worst period in relations between FDev and a very large section of the player base.
Well, David Braben mentioned it on the recent live stream, and went on to make a post on the forum apologising for the situation.
I did catch the stream but haven't seen the post. Thanks for the info - I'll try and track that down.
Not really. I could play Cyberpunk 2077 from Day 1 and the issues weren't game breaking, at least for me. This...I can't even login to play and I'm afraid to switch back to Horizons as I've no idea what data of mine (e.g. some of my First Footfall entries and Materials I've picked up) it'll revert. When I was able to login and play this game, I'd still get disconnected somewhat frequently, especially when I tried to interact with something or shortly after I'd completed/obtained Material that I wanted to keep.
It's remarkably tribal, and the language surrounding gaming has a couple of immediately noticeable features that practically beg for a critical discourse analysis.
For instance, a common choice of words when describing something simple like "I stopped playing game X" is "I left the game," which implies, arguably, a perception of the game as a community, rather than just as a product one uses. On the extreme end, it might even be profitably compared to other collocations such as leaving a cult (I'm looking at you, Star Citizen.)
In that respect, if we view gaming discourse (forums included) as an exercise in enacting an in/out-group identity, then the attitude to product you mentioned starts to make a lot of sense - it's not something that might fall under a more widely-analysed example from classical economics, such as deciding what car to buy or attitudes to product faults. If I went, say, to Germany and started criticising Germany for the things that happened in WW2, I'm pretty sure I'd be told dann verpiss dich back to Scotland, Arschloch in short order by the residents. For adherents of a game, I suspect that there is a sense of identity with and due to the game that is similar to our attitudes to our local and national communities, and a lot stronger than common-or-garden fandom: gamers spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours playing the same game together in often tight-knit communities on platforms that allow them to share text, voice and video communication. That simply must have an effect on how we identify in relation to the game, including people interpreting (in this case totally justified) criticism of a (disastrous) release as a personal attack.
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