Its possible that the QA guys found the bug but management pushed the build through the door anyway. This kind of situation is almost always management rather than the individual staff who always end up with the blame regardless
News Temporary removal of Guardian FSD Booster
Its possible that the QA guys found the bug but management pushed the build through the door anyway. This kind of situation is almost always management rather than the individual staff who always end up with the blame regardless
Except.. There is no point to add these modules this day. No point. We did not even found any new ruins. It was just.. stupid. Lazy. So, this excuse is not working here. No one pushed them. At all.
I swear Frontier is just running a long social experiment to see how many f!** ups it takes for people to leave the game.
What's the point of QA if they can't dig their heals in and say 'no this isn't good enough, I'm not approving it for release'? A very expensive rubber stamp exercise?
Could we also get rid of the OVERLY EXCESSIVE grind necessary grind of the ever-same guardian site? It adds nothing at all to the game and is hellishly boring, annoying and just rage-inducing. Two blueprints required per module/weapon are enough. Why do you want to make players hate your game fdev? Never heard someone say that SRV comabt and low-g driving is fun (EDIT: of course someone had to make that remark 
). Then doing one obnoxious task in this very mode around 70 times to unlock every module is totally over the top. At least make multiple players able to scan the data core in one activation to make it faster in a wing instead of punishing players for playing together.
It was fun the first three times, but the other 27 I did for weapons alone were hell.
Please rethink your idea of content acquisition. One run is around 7-15 minutes, that's one hour alone for ONE module/gun. You'll have made us hate guardian sites before the more interesting modules are out actually.
). Then doing one obnoxious task in this very mode around 70 times to unlock every module is totally over the top. At least make multiple players able to scan the data core in one activation to make it faster in a wing instead of punishing players for playing together.It was fun the first three times, but the other 27 I did for weapons alone were hell.
Please rethink your idea of content acquisition. One run is around 7-15 minutes, that's one hour alone for ONE module/gun. You'll have made us hate guardian sites before the more interesting modules are out actually.
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I for one absolutely love SRV combat and low-g driving ��
But yeah, the blueprint thing... I'm just glad I had enough already
Before sending us out to guardian sites and give us more skimmer kill missions they should have honestly introduced proper SRV-engineering or better SRV-types. I for one find switching to 2-0-4 and shooting that dumb guardian sentinel pretty dumb and not engaging, especially if you have to do it 5-8 times per site.
Most developers have a mechanism for testing upgrades, I think it is called a . . . beta test. That's the correct term, isn't it? Didn't FDev already have a major "beta test" of this upgrade, open to the entire Elite Dangerous gaming community lasting several weeks, supposedly to iron out bugs just like this before the update's release to the player community? Didn't they? Huh? Huh?
Oh yeah, that's right . . . they didn't actually allow any players to test any of these major upgrade features because someone might let slip that there were upgrades to be had. Solid development strategy, I mean really . . . solid.
Amazing. This comment is spot on!!
Especially since someone decided it to be a good idea to mix Dinosaur Jurassic forums with SciFi Elite forums for some reason, as demonstrated by the "New Discussions" stream.
But on topic, that was at least a pretty fast reaction with taking off the booster. Looking forward to see it reintroduced again ... but please with less grind as well.
Nothing against a steep wall to climb, but that repetitive?
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It's the reason I think that betas should be put behind an NDA with all content available to test, even if only a small group of players.
And then Ed let it slip in a forum post anyway.
I’d imagine fixing these bad boys has become a priority. Kind of ruined the surprise.
Sadly, at this point I'd be more surprised if they had gone live working and free of bugs. And I hate to say that.
