Kelot: "Repeating texture doesn't happen"
Reality disagrees.
Here DtEA highlight the issue very clearly. I've even timestamped the video to make it easy for you to find. 
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Kelot: "Repeating texture doesn't happen"
Reality disagrees.
Here DtEA highlight the issue very clearly. I've even timestamped the video to make it easy for you to find. 
In my view that's not a development update at all. Just like the 5 Odyssey "updates" (read: bugfixes), it just reads like damage control and procrastination.
If you look at it from a business perspective, ED has to be economically viable. If not, there will be no investments in the future. Even David Braben cannot continue this project as a hobby. I cannot judge how profitable ED is for FD right now. I can only imagine that it is not worth keeping the servers running for a few hardcore fans. The more players, the more economical, because the development costs have to be recovered.
A lot ? No. The same few white knights who keep saying that the game's buggy state is not a problem to play and that their low-level expectation allow them to have a blast with the gameplay on foot and that should be the case for everybody.
DB is not treating this project as a hobby since years now.... I wish he would instead but it's clear that he lost passion for this game many years ago....
When NMS had an unacceptable release they set down to correct it. Same here. I could have yelled at HG about how terrible they are, but I didn't. Because what would be the point? Same here.
Remember what happened next time FD tries to sell you something, and let the Devs meanwhile try to fix it.
Lol, nice 'no hyperbole' stance mate.
Just for the record, CIG was supposed to deliver a modern Freelancer in 2014, instead they have been selling ships for hundreds or even thousands, with many of them not even nominally in the game years after selling them. Release date? Completely unknown. Not even release year or decade. Very transparant. Not the biggest bait&switch at all. No sir!
Get out of here with your false equivalence. EgoSoft messed up with X4. HG messed up with NMS. FD messed up with EDO.
None of them are the garbage craphole that is CIG, or even close.
I'm not yelling at FDev, I'm asking for them to hold up their end of the deal that they themselves offered, and actually communicate with us.
I'm not talking about NMS, or Cyberpunk, or any other game, so not relevant here.
I do not believe that. David Braben is the inventor of space simulations at a time when it seemed almost impossible. This pioneering spirit doesn't just go away.
Yes it does. You know when a multi-millionaire is lying when he talks about his dream project? When he wants other people to pay for it while he profits from it.
People should stop believing their childhood rockstar devs are these mythical people.
What do you want them to say? They don't know how long it will take, they are figuring it out. Sucks, but do you want them to make up a fake roadmap ala Star Citizen?
Not knowing how long it will take, and not giving a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer to the question "are you planning any further performance updates between now and console release?" is not the same thing.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but if you have to lie for it, then that is wrong.
Some things just get too big in this world and that increases the risk of forgetting humanity.
Yes please
only don't make it fake, just say, 'due to the unexpected issues in Odyssey these are our future plans for the game but obviously we can't give a timeline as our immediate priority is getting Odyssey to an acceptable level'.Simples!
Sure, nothing wrong with making money, but then don't pretend it's your Magnus opus dream project. He could have easily invested his own money in the game and vastly improve quality. He chooses not to, which is fine. But then it's a job, a commercial product. Can't have it both ways.
The headlights are certainly not stupidly dim... (having used mine to light up a large swathe of the ground installation in darkenss)
All down to interptetation, I suppose...
But, great news! Lunar Hunter is emissive in darkness
What if the answer is something complicated though? Like 'maybe'?
But what if they truly do not know? What if the next six months determine what is and isn't possible, what they can and cannot fix? What they can and cannot add? What if they realise ELWs would require 10x more resources, and the board won't allocate that?Yes please
Simples!
Arthur says they don't know, they are figuring it out, and will let us know afterwards. The only alternative is saying stuff before having figured it out, which is pointless. I wish they knew and told us, but they dont so they can't.