Newsletter 116 Sneek Peek

[GraXXoR]

I was a little bit surprised when I saw Towers concept art for Engineers in last week's newsletter.

Considering that Engineers is delayed by 6 weeks, I should blooming well hope that they have real and not concept art to show us.
Anyone seen any more final artwork for Engineers?

 

[Ian Skippy]

Yeah, its kinda odd. Someone suggested it may be due to the delay in that they have six more weeks to fill. Or in other words, they're basically just feding us scraps so they have enough left for the hype-machine to start in two or three weeks.

 

[Weps]

I don't think it's that out of the ordinary to show us concept art, when they have it. Better to show us the concept art and have us wondering how the actual game assets will look than just show us a screenshot and throw away the concept art.

 

[Marshall...]

Does that mean i get my digital concept artbook......

I jest, but i'm sure some of you would like an update (like me)!

 

[InMemoriamSirocco]

Who says that the "concept art" isn't the final look?

They told us time and again that (at least initially,) npc portraits are not going to be animated. So all we are going to see when interacting with npc mission givers and engineers on planetary ports are just portrait pictures. Most of them will be procedurally generated, but engineers are unique, so what makes you think their portraits are not hand drawn?

 

[Privata]

Does that mean i get my digital concept artbook......

I jest, but i'm sure some of you would like an update (like me)!

One day... Maybe... I still check my account from time to time but nothing...

 

[InMemoriamSirocco]

One day... Maybe... I still check my account from time to time but nothing...

Frontier are the Dothraki of the gaming development world. They deliver on their promises when they decide the time is right. Not when you want them to.

 

[ZeeWolf]

We always get concept art right up until the last moment.

Remember all those Horizons SRV & ground base shots in the weeks before the Horizons beta?

I would imagine this is because they want to reveal final gameplay when it's good and ready (the processes they have described involve textures being the very last part of the dev process)

 

[Sapient6]

Frontier are the Dothraki of the gaming development world. They deliver on their promises when they decide the time is right. Not when you want them to.

Also, it's probably best not to be demanding a golden crown.

 

[lysan]

Yeah, its kinda odd. Someone suggested it may be due to the delay in that they have six more weeks to fill. Or in other words, they're basically just feding us scraps so they have enough left for the hype-machine to start in two or three weeks.

All aboard the hype Train.

Spoiler

 

[Patrick_68000]

I like the images of concept art. They enrich my collection

 

[Winterwalker]

I don't think 2.1 will be a massive graphical update. (I understand there will be changes to lighting, which will vary from machine to machine, but I don't really mean that). The biggest change will be adding engineers .. sure these guys live on a surface base but we already have surface bases in the game. Yes they'll also have a face but we've already seen concept for that, too. Biggest change I think will be in the UI. Not only does that not make for a very interesting screengrab, it's a spoiler AND we also know there's been a delay. Seems unlikely to me that UI will have been completely finalised. My bet is FD would rather people find it for the first time in Beta, which people have paid extra for.