No more patch updates before Fleet Carriers?

[rootsrat]

Stephen just said in the live stream that the next update for Elite will be Fleet Carriers. However in the Community Update (22/10) they've said (emphasis mine):

• From now and into next year (2020), the updates will focus almost exclusively on addressing recent and longstanding issues, including those reported in the Issue Tracker, ultimately making the game better.
• We are expecting to have a series of these updates, which will be rolled out (approximately) every three to four months.
• Each update will also include a public beta that will run prior to the update's release, with a dedicated time to address major issues that appear.
• The first of these updates will have its public beta in December, with an expectation that the launch will be early in 2020.

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

 

[zimms]

The second one would have been focused on Galnet bugs.

Frontier has been quite vague with the number of bug updates so I already suspected there won't be time for a second one. I guess the FC update will fix some bugs too.

The more interesting question is now, will that be June 30th or some time earlier in Q2.

 

[Old Duck]

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.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Yeah, the .02 fixed quite a few things - but we're long overdue for a .03 to continue.

By now my assessment already was that this .02 would be all we'd get for the time being.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

I was wondering the same thing. Guess we're going to be needing another open letter

 

[CMDR Zentrierer]

Did someone say fleet carrier?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdmOVejUlI

 

[iFred]

They did not fix too much with their last update - so they still have to deliver, if they want to explain the delay with "bugfixing".

 

[rootsrat]

They did not fix too much with their last update - so they still have to deliver, if they want to explain the delay with "bugfixing".

I disagree. A lot of the bugs were fixed. That part I can't really complain about - they did say, they would fix long- and short-term bugs and they did just that, and a lot of them!

 

[Viajero]

Why not both? I mean, I haven’t watched today’s stream but is there any particular reason why we think the FC update will not have bug fixes with it?

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

ED standstill

*Hey, that would be a nice title for the 'next era'

 

[rootsrat]

Why not both? I mean, I haven’t watched today’s stream but is there any particular reason why we think the FC update will not have bug fixes with it?

The post made an impression there would be more than 1 purely patch-focused bugfixed and THEN we'd get the FC patch.

I'm sure it will have a lot of bugfixes in it, as all main patches, which is great. But that's not the point.

 

[Viajero]

The post made an impression there would be more than 1 purely patch-focused bugfixed and THEN we'd get the FC patch.

I'm sure it will have a lot of bugfixes in it, as all main patches, which is great. But that's not the point.

Wasn’t the point of those patches bug fixing? Because if so my comment is still relevant.

 

[CMDR Carbo]

We're so busy with fixing bugs we have to delay FC for 6 months. - FDEV

 

[Old Duck]

We're so busy with fixing bugs we have to delay FC for 6 months. - FDEV

And we're so busy finishing Fleet Carriers that we have to delay IIs and CGs for 6 months.

 

[Lightspeed]

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.

Where does this come from?

 

[Martind Forlon]

There are for sure ongoing some fixes server side, it is clearly visible on BGS. However everything else is reduced or disabled and practically nothing is commented more in detail. Even last newsleter had barely 1/2 of usual content. In issues-tracker is huge amount of reports marked as "Expired" ... surprisingly numerous of these issues are still "valid" but not enought attractive/painfull to be confirmed. But we got discounts on paintjobs/kits except these stygian

 

[Lightspeed]

Stephen just said in the live stream that the next update for Elite will be Fleet Carriers. However in the Community Update (22/10) they've said (emphasis mine):



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

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

 

[zimms]

Would a FC update that includes bug fixes still get a beta or was that deal exclusively for focused bug fig update(s)?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

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

They never gave a number.

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.

There is no evidence to back this up in any shape or form.

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.

What high turnover of Devs? Any link for this fact.

 

[Kira Mikamy]

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