Failure Developments at it again

[Alshain]

I thought that had never been fixed from being broken in a previous patch.

Eh, I suppose. It was improved since the 3.3 disaster, but it still has some pretty massive problems, like certain impossible or near impossible states (Famine, Retreat)

But it's at least somewhat playable in its current state.

 

[EUS]

The outrage will only grow the more and the longer it's par for the course. My main outrage isn't the state of the release in itself, it's that FDEV seemingly learned nothing in 5 years and keep running headfirst into these situations again and again and again.

My point is; how, after 5 years, can you not be desensitized?
I stopped having expectations after wings.

 

[GJ51]

I find it a bit hilarious that an update that focuses on Tutorials and the Store manages to inflict so many bugs on the game.

Those two areas should be independent of the game.

Poor design

Poor execution

No excuse

Totally embarrassing

 

[WinterKing2112]

As embarrassing as this update is, I don't I understand all this "I'm quitting the game forever" and "I'm not coming back until 2020" responses. Wouldn't it be easier to just quit the game for a week or two until the update is patched?

Yes, that's how a normal, well-adjusted, mentally resilient person would behave....

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Yes, that's how a normal, well-adjusted, mentally resilient person would behave....

But not gamers.

 

[Enderby]

Perhaps FD will send us a pizza.

 

[Lateralus]

They didn't break everything. For the first patch since I've been playing this game they don't appear to have broken the BGS.

Guess again: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/september-update-bugs-master-list.522131/post-8013071

 

[Gully Foyle]

I've been playing this game for years now but have only been active on the forums (lurking and then registering) for a couple of months. I have to say that some of the criticisms on here following the update have been fine (it would be disingenuous to pretend things haven't gone wrong) but others have gone way over the top.

These things will get sorted. There's a team of dedicated developers working their backsides off so we can spend a few hours escaping from reality for our own entertainment and a team of dedicated community managers having to deal with the criticisms. Let's not lose sight of the fact that these are people trying their hardest to do their jobs.

ps I do realise I sound proper sanctimonious in this post

Not at all.
Hyperbole is humourous to us veterans of forum. They are all Jon Snow.

In the end, it's a management fail.

Thinking the same. Lots of new horses, weak rein hands.

 

[kaokao]

There are two terms you need to learn now:

"FDeved up" or just "FDuped".

 

[GJ51]

Who ever thought we would miss Sandro... ???

 

[Pyrodemic]

I'm a Software Engineer, I have been for 24 years. There exists this thing, it's quite useful, some people call it "Regression Testing". Worth a google search for those that don't know, FDev !?

 

[nafeasonto]

Have you never been through an up-date/patch with an online game before? This is how it goes. Just as bugs were expected, so were these bitter threads expected.

Everybody doing their parts I guess.

Don't defend this dude, this is beyond bad. The amount of stuff that is broken, is insane. The game has been out for years, not months. And for the people who say "you try to do it better", that is an extremely weak argument. If I go to a 3 star Michelin restaurant, I except to have good food, not crap. I am not going to a restaurant to cook for them, I am going to a restaurant to be cooked FOR. There is no excuse at this point this late in the game especially on lack of content and updates at this point.

 

[GJ51]

I'm a Software Engineer, I have been for 24 years. There exists this thing, it's quite useful, some people call it "Regression Testing". Worth a google search for those that don't know, FDev !?

Does it mean that updates should actually improve things?

 

[Pyrodemic]

Does it mean that updates should actually improve things?

It means that things shouldn't be broken that get broken during updates, regardless of whether the update is supposed to improve things or not.

 

[Mohrgan]

Don't defend this dude, this is beyond bad. The amount of stuff that is broken, is insane. The game has been out for years, not months.

Hardly. I've been through way worse, in other established games. But, I do understand the internet used to be for pron, but it has now become for outrage. Enjoy.

 

[theriverlethe]

Hardly. I've been through way worse, in other established games. But, I do understand the internet used to be for pron, but it has now become for outrage. Enjoy.

Can you give an example of a game in the last decade that introduced a patch with a minor new feature irrelevant to most users in a non-working state, while breaking major completely unrelated features in the process?

 

[m0rl0ck]

Maybe i have just been lucky, but its the worst patch disaster i have seen in about 30 years of pc gaming.

 

[Enderby]

Maybe i have just been lucky, but its the worst patch disaster i have seen in about 30 years of pc gaming.

For real?

 

[Kzak]

Maybe i have just been lucky, but its the worst patch disaster i have seen in about 30 years of pc gaming.

Clearly you haven't heard of AnarchyOnline.

 

[VR Morgan Grimes]

Can you give an example of a game in the last decade that introduced a patch with a minor new feature irrelevant to most users in a non-working state, while breaking major completely unrelated features in the process?

Eve-Online released a patch that wiped the boot sector on the c drive, I'd classify that as breaking major unrelated features