Some of the tech used in Planet zoo like realtime aging of the animals is pretty amazing stuff and don't think I have ever seen it done before. I am seriously looking forward to see how that game works.
Frontier's Annual Results have been published (June 2018 to May 2019), showing a record year and Elite passing 3 million basegame sales
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We know DB loves a bit of science and a theory exists that life may well evolve independently into forms we would recognise. As proof of this we have species on earth that have evolved separately but still turned into the same blueprint. The vulture is one example.
So they could be planning to do the same for life on distant planets in ED.
I suspect there will be life very much like the life we have here on earth, but it won't be the same and it will still need to procedurally generated to create those differences. Also planets with different air composition, gravities, temperatures and pressures will surely make a difference in how the animals have evolved and looked.
Oh! Sorry it was revealed in Oct and first pass released in November. Fact is it was a mess. And not only that, it then had to be rewritten!!
Revised not rewitten I believe the correct word is. But I wouldn't call it a mess either. It seemed to work okay, it's just that some people didn't like it, but some did.
Gamescom is in August; Horizons was revealed on 5th August 2015.
The beta servers of Horizons "Planetary Landings" 2.0 became accessible on 30th November 2015, fifteen days before the launch on 15th December.
The 100+ devteam working on Elite Dangerous does not include Marketing, QA, Customer Support, nor "the guy who writes the newsletters" (Marketing).
If that were actually the case, then never so many took so long to do so little.
Don’t forget flora, I would love flying in a filled jungle canyon
The year is 2045 and Frontier turn off the servers running their longtime, award winning, Elite Dangerous franchise. All around the world retirement homes echo to the cry of “I told you the game was doooooomed”
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... that you were wrong when you said:
You are wrong actually in both counts. Horizons was never stated to be released over 4 quarters, and it took less than 2 years.
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“But they called it a “season”, so that means it has be four quarters, because Papa Smurf always says....”
They had to call him “Brainy” because they couldn’t call him F-ing Annoying Smurf on a Saturday morning kid’s show.
But there is a popular theme around here - a certain love for precision semantics - right down to the ever-popular “It’s called ‘Elite: Dangerous’, not Elite: Freindly.” or whatever other bit of nonsense gets affixed to that end of the sentence.
You can count on this as being the exact reason for the Official Position of “we’re moving away from the ‘season’ model” - kicking Brainy out of the village just isn’t as fun as it use to be.
FDev called it a Season - and Elite: Dangerous Horizons' original schedule set 2.1 in the Spring 2016, 2.2 - Guardians for Summer 2016, and 2.3 - The Commanders for Autumn 2016.
The unnamed (at the time) 2.4 did not have a release window.
Funny how folk could’ve expected 2.4 to be a Winter 2016 thing, especially after Mr B’s “Winter is coming” remark :/
The unnamed (at the time) 2.4 did not have a release window.
Funny how folk could’ve expected 2.4 to be a Winter 2016 thing, especially after Mr B’s “Winter is coming” remark :/
Hah! You win the most funny comment of the week reward!
I mean, i have a bit of a background in testing. Not game test. (I also was in some betas and stuff, but that was private fun and doesn't count in this regard. Also, most game companies beta testing doesn't even meet the bare minimum standard of any real testing. This games betas included. )
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So yea, i just can't agree to your assessment that ED would have exceedingly low quality. I am ready to rant and be angry about a number of design decissions, most of all PP and engineers, but on the technical side the game is not doing that bad. (And for the record: I consider the P2P architecture to be a design decission in the scope of this statement. )
What's funny is that if you go to ANY software company's forum and read for a while this complaint, in any of hundreds of different wordings, is repeated in all of them. THIS software is the worst. THIS software is a bug-ridden mess. THIS software is garbage. THIS software is rushed out the door. The IDE for an embeded MCU I use in projects is cursed as if it were Satan. This is a major silicon production company here too. A place you might think has the money to do better testing. Some high-viability bugs persist through several major dot releases.
All software, all of it, every bit, has bugs. No testing processes completely catches all possible failure conditions or even most. Bugs increase exponentially as complexity and possible courses of interaction increase. The program has bugs, the OS has innumerable bugs, the firmware it runs on top of has bugs, the hardware has bugs.
The bug that angers you is ALWAYS the worst bug of all and the one that obviously should have been squashed long ago and ought to be top priority for patching right now.
I have to agree, I've experienced very few serious, play-limiting bugs really but I'm stepping on the ride at 2.3 so obviously much has been addressed since day one. Still, for a game that includes as much going on with so many possible conditions and interactions I don't think it's overly bug-ridden. I've seen a few that range from annoyance to crash to menu but they have been most all weighted to the annoying but not play-stopping so I think that's pretty decent.
I was playing X4 prior to picking up Elite and by comparison, X4 has a LOT more problems with play-interrupting bugs. This is by no means an uncommon condition and I think it's one that haunts these 'open world' games more than others. I certainly remember a number of very frustrating bugs in early Skyrim and Witcher games as well. I just have not felt that level of frustration in elite yet at all.
More likely the cry would be... "told you we'd never get atmo, legs and the Panther Clipper"
And let's not forget the clown who posted that FD announced the introduction of Fleet Carriers to generate more revenue, then cancelled the introduction of Fleet Carriers to make more revenue, or some such nonsense. It was the funniest thread ever, unintentionally. I love these idiots, they give the rest of us endless amusement!
Heh heh, wonder who the Russians will give them next year!
I play on XBox so I got ED thru the XBox Store. Don't even know what Steam is.....