Elite Dangerous Update 7 Progress
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Regression testing is sorely lacking.
After the now infamous EDO launch, I will never complain about FDev delaying a release of anything. Since that day I have been waiting, what seems like a long time, to get a patch where frame rates are such that I can actually participate in settlement based missions on foot. For me Odyssey is reduced to missions where I legally pick up stuff. With frame rates at 0 - 20 I have still been killed twice even trying to do those basic collection missions because the guard's "I'm going to scan you" warning did not render before I found my self dead. That means I mainly do exploration. Even when exploring the planetary tech renders before my eyes most of the time. Whatever it takes, please, please, please up the frame rendering performance. Thanks!
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I'm sorry, but update 7? We are in mid sep, release of Odyssey was months ago. And what is FD doing? Only fixing broken stuff which should never been released in its state.
Where is the new stuff? New ships, new SRVs f.e?
No applause from me
Where is the new stuff? New ships, new SRVs f.e?
No applause from me
Delay it for an additional fix, the most illogical thing. Instead of pushing one fix when it's ready we gona wait for more fixes..
Do you have any C\C++ programming experience? I know Frontier has positions open, get in there and show them how it is done.
Customer in a TV shop.. "Hey My TV is broken and not as advertised"
Helpful assistant.. "Are you a technician, go to the factory and fix it yourself"
No thanks, I paid the money for them to do that for me.
Helpful assistant.. "Are you a technician, go to the factory and fix it yourself"
No thanks, I paid the money for them to do that for me.
All you've done is quote the fix. Read why they are putting it in with update 7 (and delaying update 7) instead of having it as a separate patch. It's all in this thread. Just click on Dev post to get to the next Dev post in the thread and you will come across it.
Depends on the fix and if it's vital to have that fix in for a specific time. Waiting another month to add that fix in would be illogical then delaying the update to come out by a small amount of days.
What you think they should do, is a very inefficient way to do stuff, which is precisely why they aren't doing it.
Given that you are having this under your belt, and given that the issue tracker still lists it as confirming.... would it be possible to change the process to mark items under your belt in the issues tracker somehow? Maybe to "acknowledged" or "confirmed", so that the reporter has feedback that someone is looking at this instead of letting it move into "expired" (as there are not enough players looking in the issue tracker in a way that sensible issues reach the "confirmed" state).
What? Inefficient? CD/CI is inefficient now? Really?
Btw separating 2 fixes is not inefficient Infact it's hight efficient. The faster you fix smth the less annoyed your customer is from this bug. Therefor your goal is to fix any bug asap. With weekly updates you would minimize the downtime while still maintaining high fix density and that is very preferable over 2 month of no patching and annoyed customers.
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We already know the results of relatively fast updates, and we know they can't do it without breaking a lot of things every update, so it's better they properly cook the updates than getting them out too fast (in addition i belive they have a very complex structure and they can't deploy a single fix without moving a lot of parts).
PS: Maybe the update was just not ready, in any case this discussion is pointless.
PPS: I don't really think applying CI/CD would be a good idea for a game development environment, especially for a game of this magnitude
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We really don't know their DevOps practices to comment whether CI/CD would be efficient for the ED codebase.
We really don't know the state of ED codebase to say how complex the fix is.
We really don't know the QA processes to determine how straightforward a regression test is.
An awful lot of assumptions are being made by people with scant information on how Frontier operate and a little too much experience in their own environment.
I was so excited about update 7 this week but now one more week to go 
it is what it is.
I'll have to wait some more. That's all I wanted to say about this.
Have a good week all of you!
it is what it is. I'll have to wait some more. That's all I wanted to say about this.
Have a good week all of you!
They've never asked me how I amEverybody asking how much devs working on elite
But nobody asking how are devs((
Keep up the good work, team!
Was it Mike Evans who'd smash his fist through the screen at you in heated forum PvP?They've never asked me how I am
Early forum days were interesting
When I first stopped by the Frontier forum, it was pretty dull as ED wasn't announced and the tumbleweed rolled from thread to threadWas it Mike Evans who'd smash his fist through the screen at you in heated forum PvP?
Early forum days were interesting
Back when FD was not the corporate juggernaut it is now and ED was a scrappy contender the dev / audience interplay was great.When I first stopped by the Frontier forum, it was pretty dull as ED wasn't announced and the tumbleweed rolled from thread to thread