Update 8?

[Stealthie]

Bit of a strawman though, yeah? Performance issues are hardly the gaming equivalent of a natural disaster. But that does frame how you view the gravity of the situation a bit better I guess.

I'm not really sure why it's inaccurate to make use of the analogy.

There's not much worse, for a video game, than an expansion rendering it unplayable for many people with modest hardware, or introducing bugs that make numerous activities within the game impossible to complete.

 

[Stealthie]

Come on man. It's quite clearly a reference to the o7 salute that the community and devs have been doing since the beginning of the game. Every stream begins and ends with "o7 Commanders." Your far-right fear is creeping into places it doesn't belong. There's a clear origin for the salute in the game and any suggestion to a malevolent origins or otherwise is intentional defamation. Salute =/= Hitler. Every military salutes to this day, including the ones that fought against and beat Hitler because they found him just as evil as your average reasonable person.


That would be the logical assumption, yes, but don't forget they also clearly outlined other things coming beyond update 8 as well. There's much more in the pipeline; there's no reason to believe Elite Dangerous/Odyssey is slowing down anytime in the near future.

To borrow your own syntax, salute =/= sticky-outy arm salute.

Regardless, though, the main point was simply that a means of communicating with other players was something that was glaringly absent from the launch of EDO and now we have this?
Would it not have been better to come up with, say, a dialogue-wheel that could be accessed by a hotkey and then allows the player to issue a bunch of useful communications?

The whole "gesture" thing just seems, as I said, rather trite.
You really don't think it is?

 

[Ian Skippy]

Bit of a strawman though, yeah? Performance issues are hardly the gaming equivalent of a natural disaster. But that does frame how you view the gravity of the situation a bit better I guess.

And besides, even if there is a giant tsunami there will still also be updates on football. OP really seems to struggle with concept of 'multiple things getting attention'. Besides, he seems to have pivoted from the "FD are ignoring performance and sweeping things under the rug but I am on to them!" position to the "I think emotes are trite."

Okay, noted. Thanks for sharing, I suppose. Maybe next time OP could start a topic saying "I noticed one part of one update of a dlc of a computer game will add the ability to wave to others, and I plan not to use that feature.". Guess it isn't dramatic enough though.

 

[CMDR Brae]

To borrow your own syntax, salute =/= sticky-outy arm salute.

Throwing your arm forward and down after it's been held parallel to your brow =/= extending your arms outward and flat at an upwards angle above eye level

Regardless, though, the main point was simply that a means of communicating with other players was something that was glaringly absent from the launch of EDO and now we have this?
Would it not have been better to come up with, say, a dialogue-wheel that could be accessed by a hotkey and then allows the player to issue a bunch of useful communications?

You are aware there is an entire on-foot chat system and has been since release, right? You have quick chat that can be brought up by hitting the Enter key and allows you to press TAB to switch through channels, or the entire chat system (Local, System, Wing, Squadron, etc.) that can be brought up from the Q radial menu. This has always been in Odyssey.

The whole "gesture" thing just seems, as I said, rather trite.
You really don't think it is?

If you mean the dictionary definition of trite, then, sure? Emotes are pretty common, but I don't think that devalues them. Immersion is a plenty-fair reason behind a gameplay addition, as well as increasing player interactivity (sure would be nice to get a wave instead of a crouch spam when I see someone in a station) and believability, and the Point emote even serves a gameplay function because it tags things for people in your team.

 

[CMDR Brae]

And besides, even if there is a giant tsunami there will still also be updates on football. OP really seems to struggle with concept of 'multiple things getting attention'. Besides, he seems to have pivoted from the "FD are ignoring performance and sweeping things under the rug but I am on to them!" position to the "I think emotes are trite."

Okay, noted. Thanks for sharing, I suppose. Maybe next time OP could start a topic saying "I noticed one part of one update of a dlc of a computer game will add the ability to wave to others, and I plan not to use that feature.". Guess it isn't dramatic enough though.

Yeah I'm at the point where I think the goalpost moving is just a sign of the pretty clear fact that it's all just a way to mask overall disappointment that they can't play Odyssey. Which, as you said, doesn't make for a good headline lol.

 

[Red Anders]

Can you people please show some consideration and make ridiculous drama threads when I'm not busy with hospital appointments? Thanks in advance.

does sticky-out arm salute

 

[CMDR Brae]

Can you people please show some consideration and make ridiculous drama threads when I'm not busy with hospital appointments? Thanks in advance.

does sticky-out arm salute

Listen here, Nightbreed, we do what we want.

also does sticky-out arm salute

 

[H_Augustus]

im 99% sure that the features they announced were planned a long time before EDO's release and they had an internal roadmap already for that , aslo these were long time requested features , true the game needs a lot of fixes and performance improvements , but it doesnt mean they should simply halt adding new content , especially if these features were already in the work.

 

[EUS]

 

[Rat Catcher]

I like that gestures were added.

They are certainly useful for players who engage with others. Will be much nicer to throw a friendly wave rather than a squat or 2

 

[robbyp]

My burning question about all of this thread, where is Stalin in this all? Does one of the emotes look like the salute Stalin used to use?

 

[NETbreed]

What's bizarre is a determination to deny factual information.

The video I watched made no mention, at all, of bug-fixes or optimisations inbound.
To suggest otherwise is simply a lie.

You might want to look again at the title of the video that so enraged you - Update 8 Incoming Features - to understand why it seemed to only contain information about new features and not bug fixes or optimisations.

 

[tolm]

I wonder what the FPS impact will be from rendering the extra seats, including all the springs and motors you can’t see …

 

[Danieros]

To claim that Frontier is not fixing the game and simply working on new features... Have you not seen the dozens of fixes being done at every patch? They're doing both things.

 

[Ian Skippy]

My burning question about all of this thread, where is Stalin in this all? Does one of the emotes look like the salute Stalin used to use?

Isnt that a bit like a double-teabag + dab?

 

[Ian Skippy]

"They said nothing about fixing bugs!"
"They did."
"Oh, errr, well that doesnt have to mean anything! I dont trust them! Open your eyes man!"

Look at those goalposts go!

 

[Stealthie]

"They said nothing about fixing bugs!"
"They did."
"Oh, errr, well that doesnt have to mean anything! I dont trust them! Open your eyes man!"

Look at those goalposts go!

Yes dear.

You've written the same thing before and it's just as untrue now as it was previously.

When faced with a lack of facts to refute an opinion one disagrees with, ranting is always a viable option though.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Yes dear.

You've written the same thing before and it's just as untrue now as it was previously.

When faced with a lack of facts to refute an opinion one disagrees with, ranting is always a viable option though.

You can't disagree with an opinion that changes every five minutes. Plenty of people here politely tried to point out you were wrong and just jump to another opinion, so I just point and laugh.

 

[Stealthie]

You might want to look again at the title of the video that so enraged you - Update 8 Incoming Features - to understand why it seemed to only contain information about new features and not bug fixes or optimisations.

I see no reason to look again at the title of a video I understood fully the first time I read it.

The point, however, is that FDev have seen fit to publicise such a trivial set of features rather than focusing on issues that are likely to have a significant effect on the experience of existing players and the likelihood of attracting new players.

 

[Ian Skippy]

I see no reason to look again at the title of a video I understood fully the first time I read it.

The point, however, is that FDev have seen fit to publicise such a trivial set of features rather than focusing on issues that are likely to have a significant effect on the experience of existing players and the likelihood of attracting new players.

Ah, I see you are back to pretending somebody else wrote OP. Sorry, it was you. You complained FD was sweeping performance under the rug when they factually didn't, and you claimed that because a video titled FEATURES talked about features. As he rightly points out.

Feel free to shift the goalpost again. Or just buy a pack and scatter them around.