MS is buying pretty much everyone right now, and 'Brexit Britiain' is ripe for our American cousins to plunder? I'd prefer MS over Tencent in truth, but that is just because MS has a slightly stronger games history that does not involve seeing gaming as JUST a cashcow, they do know about other stuff relating to games.
Bring on the DOOM!
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I saw both videos by Buur and OA and personaly I'm a bit devided by whatever outcome.
A take over by Microsoft or Sony could turn out good or bad regarding the games Frontier published.
On the other hand Frontier could do with some proper company management, there's a reason their shares plummeted so deep.
I can't say "things" are going so well the last year or two regarding any game Frontier has come up with, not only Odyssey was a disappointment.
Both MS and Sony are capable to publish good games while letting the original creators do what they do best, create games and not manage a company.
I'm not very excited to see Tencent take over business though.
Just my two cents, not that it matters.
A take over by Microsoft or Sony could turn out good or bad regarding the games Frontier published.
On the other hand Frontier could do with some proper company management, there's a reason their shares plummeted so deep.
I can't say "things" are going so well the last year or two regarding any game Frontier has come up with, not only Odyssey was a disappointment.
Both MS and Sony are capable to publish good games while letting the original creators do what they do best, create games and not manage a company.
I'm not very excited to see Tencent take over business though.
Just my two cents, not that it matters.
Nooooooo......
Yeah, X4 has a terrible flight model, but the DEVs are great and they listen to the player base.
I think Tides of Avarice will be a lot of fun. I can't wait to start making money by capturing ships to feed to my chopshop.
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If you look at the manifesto of the "A Call For Frontier To Put VR Legs On The Upcoming Road Map" thread, it was stated that "We would ask FDev to roadmap or otherwise clarify the plans for VR’s future. If roadmapped we would of course expect a later waypoint on the route, to ensure that Frontier can focus on fixing Odyssey's more pressing issues, for everyone's benefit." - So much for "I want it now"
All we are asking for is a pledge from the company to do a very small tweak to the game that ties up elements that we have already proven are within the games capability, and that they do so AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE.
I spoke with Jay and the reason he said "a later waypoint" rather than specify what would be coming before VR was he wasn't sure if the company would want to put VR into PC version before console port so they could port it to PS with support for PSVR2 on PS5 when they launched on console, or if they'd just want to get the console launch done then come back to VR.
And as for the hate, yeah, there's been a lot of that thrown in our direction, summer 2020 seen us getting called all sorts like "entitled boxhead whiners", even yet, in this very thread even we are getting told to go play other games, such community spirit.
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I hated those stupid flashing avatars.
They did nothing bar annoy forum users. Didn't have any benefit to the cause against FD.
Glad they were binned as it just sowed bad feeling between players here. So let's not dig up the embarrassing past eh.
They did nothing bar annoy forum users. Didn't have any benefit to the cause against FD.
Glad they were binned as it just sowed bad feeling between players here. So let's not dig up the embarrassing past eh.
I think it's kind of obvious that FDev would want to fix the EDO lighting and fps drops, integrating the EDO planet generation engine into EDH, and possibly get those disparate PC players into the same universe before they tackle consoles and VR..
Not that I'm condoning or condemning FDev's silence and lack of a roadmap, but it seems par for the course for this company.. It's nothing new at all, there have been many periods like that in the past. Which kind of leaves us hanging, with but the dramatic forum game to play (apart from what we already have in the actual game)..!
Edit: What I mean in the first paragraph, to unify the EDH/EDO clients and letting them play in a single universe. Something I think I remember they said, but hard to remember after reading so many posts and so much speculation..
Not that I'm condoning or condemning FDev's silence and lack of a roadmap, but it seems par for the course for this company.. It's nothing new at all, there have been many periods like that in the past. Which kind of leaves us hanging, with but the dramatic forum game to play (apart from what we already have in the actual game)..!
Edit: What I mean in the first paragraph, to unify the EDH/EDO clients and letting them play in a single universe. Something I think I remember they said, but hard to remember after reading so many posts and so much speculation..
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Question; would a buyout be good for Elite ?
Fdev worked for almost 3 years on Odyssey and turned out a total buggy mess that even powerful computers couldn’t run.
I am not sure what is worse that Fdev new Odyssey wasn’t ready or they though it was fine when they released Odyssey.
Every update release by Fdev has many large bugs some that breaks the game till Fdev has to scramble to fix.
We have a pattern of new Elite features being introduced into the game that are not fully functional or just left alone.
I am thinking it might be good for Elite to have someone that will require a higher standard of game excellence and performance and not be happy with mediocre programming.
Fdev worked for almost 3 years on Odyssey and turned out a total buggy mess that even powerful computers couldn’t run.
I am not sure what is worse that Fdev new Odyssey wasn’t ready or they though it was fine when they released Odyssey.
Every update release by Fdev has many large bugs some that breaks the game till Fdev has to scramble to fix.
We have a pattern of new Elite features being introduced into the game that are not fully functional or just left alone.
I am thinking it might be good for Elite to have someone that will require a higher standard of game excellence and performance and not be happy with mediocre programming.
Yeah, I said that, following this wonderful, contented comment:
And that is the most polite part...
And your VR thread members insisted that you were "really nice guys" when I posted a comment from a game developer who didn't add VR to a game because the diehards were quite so salty - why even your forum name is an insult to Frontier... Precious, or what?
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Just want you to know a bunch of us just got bingo.
All this and we haven't got to the Cobra mk4 yet.
I did wait for 12 pages... glad I could help! ;p
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Returning to Starfield and Braben feels it’s important that Bethesda recognizes the challenges that exist in the modern digital world and learn from the recent releases – including No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 – which have become targets of social media vilification because of missed deadlines or lackluster content.
“It is a risk,” he explains. “Some games can very much become all things to all people. We have this with Elite Odyssey as well, where people expect every ship interior to be different. Let’s see how Bethesda does. I don’t want to be criticizing them. I think they’re a very good company but I do think they’ve gone live so early that they’ve got their work cut out. That’s the truth of it.”
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I think Dave is ready to cash in.
Returning to Starfield and Braben feels it’s important that Bethesda recognizes the challenges that exist in the modern digital world and learn from the recent releases – including No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 – which have become targets of social media vilification because of missed deadlines or lackluster content.
“It is a risk,” he explains. “Some games can very much become all things to all people. We have this with Elite Odyssey as well, where people expect every ship interior to be different. Let’s see how Bethesda does. I don’t want to be criticizing them. I think they’re a very good company but I do think they’ve gone live so early that they’ve got their work cut out. That’s the truth of it.”
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Close encounters: Elite creator surveys the gaming galaxy and talks Starfield
Interview: 'All I would ask is for people to be ambitious'
I think Dave is ready to cash in.
Well, the title DOES imply "Bring on the Doom!" so, we all have to do our part.
As I mentioned a dozen posts back, Starfield is scheduled for release around 11/11/2022 (gee, just like Skyrim, huh?). As with a number of their games, I assume mods will be allowed (and all over the place). Fine with me as long as it's a single player game. I expect the first mod I'll get is a coffee cup holder on my ship's command chair.
Just as an observer, it seemed to me that they realized how bad the optimization was on EDO once it was released and needed to fix that for Console release. As an observer, it also seemed to me that they tried fixing things, caused 20 more bugs each time they did, adding 20 new things and basically going in 15 different directions at the same time while not fixing the actual issue that stops them from releasing on console. I could be wrong, so please don't no one take my observations as gospel.
If a change in management of the entire operation means that someone sets a goal and says "I want this done yesterday" it'll mean that the thing gets fixed, the roadblock to console release is smashed out of the way, and things can get going on their own mad way. We'll get Thargoids on foot, maybe get COL 70 Sector opened to continue the Thargoid narrative, and the console users will get to have their brains eaten by aliens along with us PC players. No one wants to die alone.
I kept the original Kickstarter page bookmarked all this time as i occasionally just love to go and watch all those old video's.
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I like to think everyone at Frontier Dev occasionally dips into all those 'Updates' video's to keep their eye on the goal as Sir David saw it.
Elite: Dangerous
Take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally - trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy.
I like to think everyone at Frontier Dev occasionally dips into all those 'Updates' video's to keep their eye on the goal as Sir David saw it.
Of all people I think Bethesda are well aware of what releasing suboptimal software and public backlash is like already.
Lol! But I'm still looking forwards to trying it!
Am I insane or did Braben tell Bathesda that his audience expects the ship interiors to all be different for his game Elite. He seemed to be saying that there will be ship interiors… or that there already are…. But they are quite similar to one another so he wants to see what Bathesda does with there ship interiors…."
Returning to Starfield and Braben feels it’s important that Bethesda recognizes the challenges that exist in the modern digital world and learn from the recent releases – including No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 – which have become targets of social media vilification because of missed deadlines or lackluster content.
“It is a risk,” he explains. “Some games can very much become all things to all people. We have this with Elite Odyssey as well, where people expect every ship interior to be different. Let’s see how Bethesda does. I don’t want to be criticizing them. I think they’re a very good company but I do think they’ve gone live so early that they’ve got their work cut out. That’s the truth of it.”
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Close encounters: Elite creator surveys the gaming galaxy and talks Starfield
Interview: 'All I would ask is for people to be ambitious'
I think Dave is ready to cash in.
No, I don't think so. He's just giving an example of a challenge they (FD) face with customer expectations and see how Bethesda does facing similar challenges, not specifically ship interiors.
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