Considering how many bugs that were in the beta are still in the live build? considering how many bugs that are from as far back as pre season are still unaddressed?
i think it would be safe to assume No, No they don't.
Considering how many bugs that were in the beta are still in the live build? considering how many bugs that are from as far back as pre season are still unaddressed?
i think it would be safe to assume No, No they don't.
What QA? Seriously if there was any QA at all the basic stuff like instancing and missions would be functional.
Spoken without any malice, just from prior experience of working as a consultant for a software company for many years: the developers know zilch about actually using their product. They are specialists. You have someone who is very good at building combustions engines; they can tell you all the specs and at which RPM it produces the highest torque. You have someone who is extremely skilled at building transmissions, they will exactly know when's the best time to shift into the next gear. You have the best chassis designer in the world, peoples' eyes will glaze over whenever that car is parked somewhere. And guess what: none of them will win a car race. It's simply not their job.
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That's up to some testers and the public. But: someone's responsible for making all the specialists provide a race car with a chance of winning. And this person isn't doing his work.
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Also: bear in mind that testing seems to be hardly done at FD nowadays. After all, that's what Alpha testing is about: run internal tests of the software before releasing it to public testers in Beta. Alpha is done in public already, here - which insinuates that nobody is doing it at FD. There is no letter in front of Alpha.
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Heh, I saw one here equally as entertaining.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=261963&p=4044086&viewfull=1#post4044086
From the OP
"SRV Rock Hunting
Mining
Wake Scanning
Ship Scanning
Hunting Transport Ships
Refreshing the mission board hoping someone would offer me a useful material"
Same here op. In fact i have been doing all of those things and more, i never really did them before, never felt the need, well it was only for credits, and i had enough of them. So now this engineers stuff, 2.1 ect. I am now finding out i have to do all this, and fly around the galaxy, evading smart npc's, investigating uss's, i never did much combat before, now i have to, only trading before really, now i have to mine rocks too, and i never saw a use for my SRV, now i have the need to go down on planets.
I also find i am having to use all of my fleet, due to some being upgraded for specific roles, only use my Conda before, woh is me, woh is me. :x i'll shut up now.
I get your point
I really do, and I must admit even I feel like I am using ships I haven't done earlier (Python is getting a lot of use!), and doing things I haven't done earlier. I even like the new NPC AI unlike a lot of players. I'm not enjoying all of it (SRV Rock Hunting being the prime source of hatred), but I am enjoying some of it That doesn't prevent me from loathing the looting system though. Even if I enjoyed every single thing we do to gain loot, it would annoy me endlessly that I may or may not succeed at my goals depending on my luck with the RNG rolls. That is my main complaint, and as much as it is compounded by not enjoying some of the mechanics (seriously, does anyone enjoy scanning wakes just for the sake of it?), it would be just as valid even if the separate mechanics where enjoyable. As it stands though most of them are pretty dull, and due to the RNG nature of the loot drops you have to repeat them ad nauseam if you wish to achieve your goals of getting an upgrade. Not a recipe for happy players...
Well, I'm sure you've been here long enough to know that knowing a bug is there doesn't mean it will be patched immediately. They work on a priority system. If it's working "good enough" it gets pushed back. Anyhow, I'm not getting into this debate because I'm not trying to white knight, just arguing the premise that they haven't played their own game.
@ OP. Have you watched the live streams? Clearly they don't.
Laugh out loud, not often I do. [hehe]
Not a Pollonium is a problem. I can grind it few hours (however it is so boring to drive straight few hours to get few polonium's), but a problem is RNG at the final stage. You have that polonium, you have that chemical manipulators, and... voila, RNG generate some almost useless crap. And again, and four times. And now a player is frustrated, because he wasted few days.
To be clear - i like Engineers and RNG could add some uniqueness to modules.
The main problem is wide threshold of primary factor what is randomizes through the Engineer.
In my case was FSD range grade 5 and optimal mass. This main factor should have very narrow threshold (5-8%, not 40%), to get always good number (player want to feel rewarded for few days grind), and to make modules unique RNG should randomize as RNG is doning the cons factor like mass, power draw etc.
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Exactly! Spot on! Thanks for sharing.
I'm not saying they do play the game, just stating they have no QA as the current instancing and missions don't work "good enough".
This is an interesting comment - although it might be true for the "FD guys" as you put it, it's also equally true to a large portion of the Elite players. Some people have 40hrs+ to play the game. Others have 2 hrs. Engineers caters to the 40hrs group, and basically totally excludes the 2hrs club (obviously some extremes here but that's the point).
I too have questioned, after playing 2.1 in live, whether they have actually played the game, getting a tier 3 engineer to rank 5 to mod weapons, or even getting a nice rank 5 FSD mod, using the actual game rules, on an account without cheats.
It's easy to look at a spreadsheet of numbers and think "yeah this is about right", but in reality it doesn't work. You need reasonably large random chances for things to even out over a reasonable time. Since Elite lacks any kind of player marketplace, you can't even out bad drop chances across the player base. This is the main way MMO's usually handles rare drops - people with a lot of time and/or luck finding them and selling them for profit. Others with less time will buy them.
For example, when I level something like jewelcrafting in WoW or GW2, I don't farm for the materials. It's too time consuming. I just buy them using money I got from playing the game.
TLDR: Elite totally lacks the ability for its player base to make low drop rate items available in a reasonable fashion, through player trading.
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hahaha
No Man's Sky is looking rather good right now. Will be interesting to see how it and ED stack up against each other in the gameplay and mechanics stakes. Also, you should probably stop comments like the above. It's starting to look uncomfortably like stalking behaviour, which is prohibited under the TOS. Just a thought.
Exactly how it seems to me, the developers seem very talented. Their direction however...
done about 20 mods thus far.some great (about 6) and some OK (about 6) and some really bad (about 8)...id love a balance roll system to the 25-100 range.