No more patch updates before Fleet Carriers?

[Martind Forlon]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/frontiers-march-streaming-schedule.538431/ ... there must be missing something ...

 

[Northpin]

There is still time for an April Bug FIx Patch before Carriers in June, including a one week beta at the begining of April and Patch roll out at the end of April

 

[Winterwalker]

Is a (content) update the same thing as a (bug fixing) patch? I didn't think we were expecting update updates as such, and what Stephen calls an update, Will might call a patch .. so who knows.

Still, it's a good excuse ...

Spoiler

 

[space voyager]

I hope there's more fixing on the way. Some bugs are really irritating, like NSPs not being generated etc..

 

[zimms]

There is still time for an April Bug FIx Patch before Carriers in June, including a one week beta at the begining of April and Patch roll out at the end of April

Sure, but apparently Stephen said the next update is the FC update.

I want to add that I'm basing this merely on the OP, I haven't seen the stream myself.

 

[Lightspeed]

Paige told us to expect an announcement about announcements of FCs after the end of Feb. Looks like she was right

 

[willisit]

I'm assuming they mean the next stream/update is about the FCs, not the actual-code-that-ED-uses-a-an-update, will be FCs...

 

[Northpin]

Sure, but apparently Stephen said the next update is the FC update.

I want to add that I'm basing this merely on the OP, I haven't seen the stream myself.

An update might be different from a patch - but we're just picking on semantics here

 

[Jenner]

So are there or are there not going to be any more patch updates before Fleet Carriers?

Situation normal.

 

[Vedmo]

Maybe they want to get FCs out before the next couple bug fixing patches because, well... they will probably be a buggy mess.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

this game is death.
only a miracle can save it.

People have been saying that since before the game even launched (after the whole no offline mode controversy) and yet five years later ED is still here and going strong. I guess day one the doomsayers will get it right

 

[[VR] wi03016]

I was wondering the same. Originally I thought we were getting MULTIPLE bug fixes BEFORE Fleet Carriers. So much for that...

I find it very hard to accept that Frontier was anywhere near ready to launch FCs back in December. I think they fell way behind in production and just used a certain "open letter" as an excuse to cover over their own internal issues. Considering the high turnover in developers, it's no wonder they are so far behind schedule. What we are seeing is Brooks's Law in action, I believe, though worse since senior developers are leaving in droves.

If some senior developers left the project we've to expect the worst case.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

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So are there or are there not going to be any more patch updates before Fleet Carriers?

I read the exact opposite of it. There's a "series" of bug fixes.

 

[PiggyPiggyPig]

I thought fleet carriers were already with us. Like weeks ago. Not sure why I thought that.

 

[rootsrat]

There are for sure ongoing some fixes server side, it is clearly visible on BGS. (...) Even last newsleter had barely 1/2 of usual content.

If that's the case then it would be great to have some official comment - or some info in the Newsletter. If only to show the playerbase the fixing is still ongoing and the focus, as announced previously.

So this the promised "announcement of an announcement after Feb?"

No

They never gave a number.

Not precisely, but they did say they are expecting "a series" of bugfixing patches. I sure hope they didn't mean "patches for patches for patches"

There is still time for an April Bug FIx Patch before Carriers in June, including a one week beta at the begining of April and Patch roll out at the end of April

Tru dat, but Stephen did say the next update is the Fleet Carriers one, rather than the one focusing on bug fixes.

Did you seriously think that 2020 was going to be some massive bug fixing year with the carriers as the cherry on top?

I was hoping for at least 2 bugfixing updates before the FC update, as per the announcement back in October. l

They only came out with that end of year waffle about delaying the carrier to fix bugs because the carrier wasnt ready for a 2019 release.

That's your opinion

 

[Redden Alt-Mer]

You forgot to highlight the most important piece of info from the OP:

We are expecting to have a series of these updates, which will be rolled out (approximately) every three to four months.

So I interpreted Steve's message as good, because it means that next one will be FCs and it will most likely be in April/May. Otherwise, we would've had a new bugfixing one in April/May and then FCs in September. It would make no sense to have a new bugfixes release in April/May and another one with FCs near the end of Q2, because making releases has a cost (both in terms of work and in terms of actual money), especially if they have to setup a beta for it. So, it makes sense to piggy-back the fixes on top of a content release, as they always did.

tl;dr; The open letter didn't change FDev release schedule, it just changed (very limitedly) what we get in each release.

 

[thistle]

Considering the high turnover in developers, it's no wonder they are so far behind schedule. What we are seeing is Brooks's Law in action, I believe, though worse since senior developers are leaving in droves.

I'm not aware of this high turnover of which you speak? How many is a drove?

 

[Winterwalker]

You forgot to highlight the most important piece of info from the OP:


So I interpreted Steve's message as good, because it means that next one will be FCs and it will most likely be in April/May. Otherwise, we would've had a new bugfixing one in April/May and then FCs in September. It would make no sense to have a new bugfixes release in April/May and another one with FCs near the end of Q2, because making releases has a cost (both in terms of work and in terms of actual money), especially if they have to setup a beta for it. So, it makes sense to piggy-back the fixes on top of a content release, as they always did.

tl;dr; The open letter didn't change FDev release schedule, it just changed (very limitedly) what we get in each release.

Yeah I think that's right isn't it .. FC's and the new era are two different things. (New era expected late this year, FC's before that).

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I read the exact opposite of it. There's a "series" of bug fixes.

or perhaps in ED parlance should that be a Season of updates........... (and we all know the length of a season is ......... flexible )

 

[Viajero]

People have been saying that since before the game even launched (after the whole no offline mode controversy) and yet five years later ED is still here and going strong. I guess day one the doomsayers will get it right

"What is dead may never die"