I like that kind of joke. Pre-ordering would make people request something... naaah. That would be too measurable. Too transparent, not foggy enough.
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To be clear, I'm all for half decent discussions.
I'm really not sure what kind of definition you're looking for there though - I mean it works acceptably on my PC right now but for exactly that reason, I can't really quantify how much lower than this it could afford to go and still be what I'd deem acceptable to then transfer that into a set of console requirements.
On the subject of orders, I really think pre-orders are a no-no. I mean I can't believe there would be a stampede anyway given what happened with the PC release, surely nobody in their right mind is going to shell out for the game on a last generation console ahead of release, on the basis that 'it will probably be OK.' I certainly wouldn't.
Wrong. It creates pressure. And everytime this topic is among the top5 hottest community debates in the management meeting it turns the managements spotlight to this topic - until they can't withstand the community pressure anymore and give more information OR assign more devs to the ED project, to speed things up. If only two coders do the job, it's a whole different story if it were ten, who work together to work down the pile of tasks.
As a console player I can say I wouldn't be up for giving Frontier 30 quid for a pre-order.
Ask the VR community how their "pressure" worked out for them.
I would but the campaign leader is banned, which is kind of its own answer
That's the question
What is the level of optimisation for fdev to start work on consoles ?
No dates no road map .
I definitely wouldn't pay for EDO if it was pre order.
Even if it was free
What is the level of optimisation for fdev to start work on consoles ?
No dates no road map .
I definitely wouldn't pay for EDO if it was pre order.
Even if it was free
I would but the campaign leader is banned, which is kind of its own answer
True enough. I'm sure someone from team MacOS is still around to see how their campaign went.
Don't forget to mention 'Team ADS' - another great victory for pester power. Not.
I'm the sole survivor of team ditch the immersion ship transfer timer.
My campaign failed
to be fair, macOS (especially at the time) was a good generation behind the not even cutting edge graphics api that elite really needed for compute shading and such.
apple removes a lot of the freedom developers have in supporting what they want and that would have likely lead to a widening fork of the codebase fdev wasn't willing to make.
apple removes a lot of the freedom developers have in supporting what they want and that would have likely lead to a widening fork of the codebase fdev wasn't willing to make.
LOL I was very much on team ADS and I'd given up on it a couple of weeks after the update dropped. See that's my point really; I'm still unhappy about it today, but I stopped posting about it literally years ago because it was pointless. Nobody is trying to tell people what to think about something, or at least I certainly aren't. We can however moderate what we do.
Am I wrong in thinking that Elite could run in BootCamp?
the bizarre thing about 'we need to pester fdev into doing EDO on consoles' is ... fdev have already said multiple times they plan to do it and want to do it. The only thing pestering does in those situations is make people think .... do I really want customers like these?
(but they probably do .. #Capitalism)
(but they probably do .. #Capitalism)
at the time, i dont think so. there were lots of attempts to continue running elite on mac's back then but i dont recall if bootcamp supported handing over full control of gpu hardware to a guest os ...and the host drivers didn't support what would be necessary
Cool thanks I was unsure about that as I got conflicting information from the last time I googled it.
it certainly might be possible now.
we couldn't run the game in linux at first ...but it's been running fine in it for years now
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Unusually for pre-orders, Odyssey is a known quantity for anyone with a passing interest in the game at this stage (unfortunately...!)
I've said it before... I would certainly pre-order, if...
They confirm cross play - a shared galaxy.
They unlock 4K resolution on PS5.
They offer a native current-gen version with texture and display enhancements for PS5, XBox S/X.
They offer a realistic timescale by when the product will be delivered on consoles
Offer a commitment to ongoing console development (i.e. issues that impact the console version of the game get equal weighting)
At this stage that seems like a fairly high bar, but it's nothing too unreasonable to expect. I won't mention pricing. Every man has his price.
That would be nice!! There appears to be a growing fear that it could go the way of the Apple version at least for the old gen consoles.
I'm glad you added that because I would agree with you.
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