So... the major feature rework that was coming this year is now off the cards and whatever your plans are now will only be discussed near the end of this year??? Frontier never fails to disappoint their player base. Congratulations. You could at least share your plans now, but no, make everyone wait nearly another year before even finding out what the plans are. Genius, guys, genius.
Can someone at least confirm what the feature that is going to be reworked is? I am under the assumption that it is going to be 'Engineering and Material Collection' seeing as that was the last major feature that you requested 'Focussed Feedback' for in this thread, almost 18 months ago. You have had masses of feedback, including a huge list provided by myself and others in The Fatherhood, which we have been patiently waiting for you to implement. It would be nice to know for certain if that is the feature that is being reworked or not.
Still undecided apparently
Not exactly sure if i should be sad or happy... the jury is still out on that
Where did you get that information from?
Update 15 pushed out til May. No new ships on the horizon. Rework of key feature still uncertain and pushed out til the end of the year(?)
I am not sure how to feel right now.
I am not sure how to feel right now.
I won't lie, I had to read that part twice about the key feature overhaul being delayed for so long. For me, i sadly predict a ED drought where i disappear from it for a few months and come back if i've a sci fi itch or some new update makes me come back.
I thought update 15 was essentially the key feature overhaul rolled into some narrative update, it appears i was mistaken. So now i'm wondering if update 15 involves some type of narrative specific update involving mabye a Thargoid Megaship reveal with some space combat missions around taking them down, and in essence adds little to the every day play ability or richness of the games setting that doesn't involve anti xeno gameplay.
I appreciate that tons of people love the anti xeno stuff and are happy, its nobodies fault, but for me its starting to feel like everything is going into the anti-xeno narrative and other elements of the game, which i play much more, are taking a back seat. Again, thats just going off what I enjoy, look forward to and play the game for, but i do feel really disappointed.
Maybe update 15 is more comprehensive than i thought and does give me a reason to keep playing, but it's doubtful. Fingers crossed.
I thought update 15 was essentially the key feature overhaul rolled into some narrative update, it appears i was mistaken. So now i'm wondering if update 15 involves some type of narrative specific update involving mabye a Thargoid Megaship reveal with some space combat missions around taking them down, and in essence adds little to the every day play ability or richness of the games setting that doesn't involve anti xeno gameplay.
I appreciate that tons of people love the anti xeno stuff and are happy, its nobodies fault, but for me its starting to feel like everything is going into the anti-xeno narrative and other elements of the game, which i play much more, are taking a back seat. Again, thats just going off what I enjoy, look forward to and play the game for, but i do feel really disappointed.
Maybe update 15 is more comprehensive than i thought and does give me a reason to keep playing, but it's doubtful. Fingers crossed.
I can't say I'm excited by the news. Or surprised.
Also, any chance of dealing with long standing bugs in p15?
However, I'd like some clarification on the above, please, if possible. Emphasis mine.
Also, any chance of dealing with long standing bugs in p15?
I thought they had a plan... turns out... they've been baiting us with false promises - keep up saying "We're very excited about Update 15" where none of us are, Derrin, when asked about Update 15, gave a more or less accurate response. "Meh".
Wait, the closure to player made factions is permanent, or no?
That is the understatement of the year. Especially as someone with relatively little interest in the Thargoid War, 'Remember that major rework that we told you was coming last year (but didn't tell you what it was) - well it's not coming this year either and we aren't even going to tell you what it is until the end of this year' is about as far from what I wanted to hear as it's possible to get.
Yep. A less generous man than me would start to think the whole thing is smoke and mirrors at this point and the most generous interpretation I can put on it is yet again, a failure to plan and allocate adequate resources to simultaneously develop new content whilst fixing existing stuff. Not that we've ever mentioned how infuriating that is of course.
Correction, the major feature rework has not been pushed to the end of the year. Near the end of the year they are going to discuss what their plans are for it. Their plans could be that they are not going to do it for another 3 years, we just won't find out what their plans are until near the end of the year. At least that is what they are telling us but going off previous experience that will probably get pushed back too.
I can for sure say that I feel far more attached to my genuine PMF which was built from the ground up, than I ever would to something that has just been declared to be "us".
Sure it is functionally the same, but having one's own name on it makes all the difference.
Also what would happen when two or more squadrons were to adopt the same NPC faction?
Sorry, I might have been confusing. I "joined" a brand new PMF right after I started playing ED. My goals were to start a PMF of my own with different playing styles from my earlier PMF. For eg. the PMF I joined was independent and non AX, whereas I wanted to start a Mahon aligned PMF with side focus in AX (depending on Aliiance politics of course).
You sir, have masterfully both corrected me and dashed my enthusiasm in four sentences. Well done.
Well never say never, but I would think it kind of has to be, at least unless they introduce a way to cull abandoned factions. There's essentially nowhere left to place new ones.
Nah.
Can you imagine 7+ month of debates and doom and hype threads over that feature being reworked - only for FDev to reconsider it by the end of the year?
