One cut feature/platform/bug fixing per week sir, wait for your turn like everyone else.
There is a system named after you?
On topic:
Would be nice to get more details what FD is currently working on, now that they have freed up resources previously used for consoles and tiling fixes.
Yea, i dont think it's possible to merge the new planetary tech in the 3.8 horizons client.
Best choice would be a combination
- keep it as a legacy client v3.8 for as long the consoles still run the same client
and
- offer Horizons mode in the v4.0 client so people with the base game can play the space game along the Odyssey players. Pretty much like it happened with base and horizons players before EDO.
Honestly I do not even care anymore. Someday we will probably have a new Elite Dangerous game. This current one seems rotten to the core at this point.
What makes you think there were Any resources allocated to Console port and resolving the Tilling issue?
Console port was on Hold since July or so
Tilling was it even worked on? Nope. (Bruce just said it in this very thread. They analyzed the issue and came to the conclusion it will require too many resources.)
Dammit, I've just taken delivery of a large quantity of red marker pens. What am I going to circle with them now?
Not from Frontier, I'd guess...
More resources for VR development! Yeah...
Oh boy, you're going to love the next cut feature they'll announce !
They needed 2 years to do the whole expansion. So the creation of the planet tech necessarily required less. And should require even less for changes.
I definitely don’t, but, well, we shall see. Anyway, at the moment I’d like FDEV to concentrate on improving the damn performance of Odyssey, especially on non-AMD hardware.
Euh... already abandonned. VR was the first feature they cancelled after the launch of Odyssey ^^'
In the defence of FD, I think they set out to create a codebase that was easier to work with going forward - looking at all the non announced changes from Horizons to skybox, lighting etc. But it would seem they fell in the the old "i can make this better in half the time it took to get there" trap.
One could fear that they ended up where they started. Looking very much forward to how the story is going to move on, as per Brabens post.
They actually tried to cancel it BEFORE the launch of ODY - but community outcry landed us where we are today. In-ship VR with on-foot burka implementation.
Seriously ?
They broke the planet tech that made ED unique and different by moving to a worse and simpler way to generate planets.
Did it give us better looking planets ? - for the majority, No.
Did it give us better performance ? - definitely not!!
Did it make it easier for FDev to cut-n-paste their boring and dull settlements on to planets ? - definitely - it's the reason they changed the system.
The terrible performance in Odyssey was one reason I stopped playing, until I got a new PC last month that problem wasn't solved, the 2nd reason was the downgrade to planets making exploration dull and pointless.
Much as this would be better getting an explanation from FD, I would say it’s fairly obvious. To have the Horizons ones stay as-is would mean that there would need to be two different planet generations systems running at the same time. And both would have to be maintained.
Besides there was discovery history lost in Horizons when the beige plague was cured in 3.0. So it’s not like what’s in Horizons currently is somehow sacrosanct.
Look, they need to move the 100-man team to other projects. There is no dedicated dev-team to Elite. FD are a project driven business. Not a product driven one.
You know, after they dropped the ball gameplay-wise many years ago (with a terrible Powerplay and a half-baked BGS concerning game balancement) I did not expect they could do the same with the planets as they are apparently doing right now. They are investing a lot in the central narrative, being community goal driven as it's always been, but that's simply grinding the very same simplicistic action over and over again. It's infuriating considering the possibilities, but it's crystal clear there's no intention for the foreseeable future to make the game fair and challenging. Forum-dads won the battle, the game is slowly dying. Coincidence? I do not think so, but it was very easy to anticipate.