Thats how I read it, which to be honest is cack, unless it has reached the 'acceptable performance at 1080, as expected. I personally want to play in VR, it nearly is, but need a few more FPS
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
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Are we really surprised it's an MVR? Minimum Viable Roadmap?
This is no roadmap..................
So if it wasn't obvious before, it's clear as day now. We were sold a Beta, at AAA Expansion price. We are an instrument of their QA team at this point. With all the Telemetry they're now installing with each update.
So if we are to be treated like QA, here's a modest proposal that will never see the light of day: Remove the Weekly ARX limit in Odyssey until the Console launch. If you want us to test your game for you, you should at least pay us, even if it's with your FD Funny Money.
So if we are to be treated like QA, here's a modest proposal that will never see the light of day: Remove the Weekly ARX limit in Odyssey until the Console launch. If you want us to test your game for you, you should at least pay us, even if it's with your FD Funny Money.
I don't know if I'm expressing the position of at least part of the community, but at least I'm expressing my own.
Please, without malicious irony or sarcasm, tell the person who made this that roadmaps usually look different, as an example, please show my post on page 10 or 11.
Thank you very much!
Mr Swainey
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So, did you sell a beta to pc customers while claiming it was a finished release or have I got the wrong end of the stick here?
when can i expect above 15 fps shooting inside a settlement ?
BGS? Anything?
I really think they forgot they were supposed to release one today until they saw people asking about it on the forums.
That's all you guys/gals were promised, and it's been delivered.
I have been called all of the usual insults over the last couple of years: White Knight, Apologist, Fanboi... Water off a duck's back as the ones doing the calling have their own problems and have to vent their ire somewhere.
The next few weeks will be interesting, I'll wait and see, but for now - I have an invite from one of my squadron to play a couple of disruptive surface missions, in Odyssey, of course, that I am going to have fun with
So basically its going to take a month to improve the UI?
You can play with bad UI but you cant play at 7fps. fix performance first.
Just totally unacceptable. FDev needs to offer refunds for Odyssey.
You can play with bad UI but you cant play at 7fps. fix performance first.
Just totally unacceptable. FDev needs to offer refunds for Odyssey.
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While I appreciate the update; this roadmap is barely sufficient, at least it tells us your going to spend some time working on it it, but some of the big issues affecting the community don't even get a mention. Do you really think 3 weeks is going to be enough to resolve everything? I was expecting a 3 month roadmap, not one for the month of June.
And your suggestion of monthly community updates: Great in principle, though we'll have to see what the content is and how open you actually are about what work is going on (I don't know if they still are, but Warframe used to be a gold standard for this). But you do realise that your entire roadmap doesn't even last for the interval between community updates? That's not a roadmap, that's a "here's what we hope to do before the next time we talk". A roadmap should have some real details (at least in terms of major content changes) for the next 6 months.
As for the release itself:
How on earth did you release something in this bad a state. You had to know the game was in this state, this can't be a surprise to you. Which makes the decision to release incredibly dishonest; you basically lied to your customers when you said "Here, have a full working expansion for the game".
I can accept that Elite isn't likely a major money spinner and thus doesn't have a large development team, but if that's the case you could have been honest and just de-scoped the expansion.
I mean, all you really had to do was release it as early access and then give us a real roadmap (not this piddling 3 week thing) leading up to the main release timed with the console release. A lot of people would still have bought it, giving you that cash infusion which I assume was your only actual real concern, but at least we'd have expected it to be a bare bones, partial implementation full of holes and bugs (which is of course what it is) not release quality software (which it's not).
While I appreciate the update; this roadmap is barely sufficient, at least it tells us your going to spend some time working on it it, but some of the big issues affecting the community don't even get a mention. Do you really think 3 weeks is going to be enough to resolve everything? I was expecting a 3 month roadmap, not one for the month of June.
And your suggestion of monthly community updates: Great in principle, though we'll have to see what the content is and how open you actually are about what work is going on (I don't know if they still are, but Warframe used to be a gold standard for this). But you do realise that your entire roadmap doesn't even last for the interval between community updates? That's not a roadmap, that's a "here's what we hope to do before the next time we talk". A roadmap should have some real details (at least in terms of major content changes) for the next 6 months.
As for the release itself:
How on earth did you release something in this bad a state. You had to know the game was in this state, this can't be a surprise to you. Which makes the decision to release incredibly dishonest; you basically lied to your customers when you said "Here, have a full working expansion for the game".
I can accept that Elite isn't likely a major money spinner and thus doesn't have a large development team, but if that's the case you could have been honest and just de-scoped the expansion.
I mean, all you really had to do was release it as early access and then give us a real roadmap (not this piddling 3 week thing) leading up to the main release timed with the console release. A lot of people would still have bought it, giving you that cash infusion which I assume was your only actual real concern, but at least we'd have expected it to be a bare bones, partial implementation full of holes and bugs (which is of course what it is) not release quality software (which it's not).
Do you guys even know what an actual roadmap is? This is not a roadmap. This is a list of what you hope you might be able to do in the next few weeks. There are no specifics, no actual information, and it proves even more that you do not give a damn about the player base.
This "Road Map" is gonna need a Patch... 
^^ This
An absolute minimum effort 'roadmap' to pacify the community...speaks volumes on how they view the player base.
But Yay...week one update...a fix for ARX...well why didn't you say, all is forgiven
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