Update on Alpha 3.0

Sir.Tj

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Michael has just posted the following,

Thought it might be of interest. :D

Michael Brookes said:
The next Alpha release will be 3.0, and will include docking, launching and outfitting. We’ll release a dev diary in the next couple of week to reflect on the alpha process so far and look at the next release stage in more detail, and our plan to beta. We’re aiming to release 3.0 in mid-March.

Michael
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deusx_ophc

deusx_ophc
ty T.j - thanks for posting on general ;)

pretty much as expected - looking forward to pew pew until then :D
 
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Beachlight7

Beachlight7
From Elite release in March 2014, to expecting Alpha 3.0 in March 2014, that is a bit of a delay, but not uncommon I suppose in the industry.
 

psykokow

psykokow
I think the timing is extremely smart for Alpha 3.0 given its shortly after Alpha 2.0 and before Alpha 4.0

Congratulations Frontier... Excellent scheduling..


ps. Any left over sarcasm will be donated to countless charity call centres everwhere..

:D

I CAN NOT WAIT!!!! Docking or as I call it... crashing.
 

Tony Spaniels

Tony Spaniels
Beachlight7 said:
From Elite release in March 2014, to expecting Alpha 3.0 in March 2014, that is a bit of a delay, but not uncommon I suppose in the industry.
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Did anyone really think it would be finished by then though? I dont work in the industry myself but it still made me raise an eyebrow when I read that estimate.

From the first Alpha release in December (the distruption of the holidays more or less wiping out that month's production) to final release 3 months later for a game of this scope seemed ambitious to say the least.
 

Styggron

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All latest updates can be found on the link at the bottom of my sig. It is maintained with all the latest info as we know it. :)
 

Styggron

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psykokow said:
I think the timing is extremely smart for Alpha 3.0 given its shortly after Alpha 2.0 and before Alpha 4.0

Congratulations Frontier... Excellent scheduling..


ps. Any left over sarcasm will be donated to countless charity call centres everwhere..

:D

I CAN NOT WAIT!!!! Docking or as I call it... crashing.
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and the Bruce Campbell voice ? :eek:
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
noodle said:
I find that slightly strange. There's a lot that needs fixing. I guess they maybe want to iron it all out in the beta?
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I think that means that for those crashes they know what's problem, and they don't need to verify that, but for some of bigger problems they need to rewrite some network code. Rewrite usually means some time required.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
noodle said:
I find that slightly strange. There's a lot that needs fixing. I guess they maybe want to iron it all out in the beta?
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I don't think no more alpha 2.0 releases necessarily mean that work will be dropped on that part of the game

Some of the bugs in alpha 2.0 will probably be relevant to alpha 3

also I doubt the entire team will be working on the net code, so it possibly makes sense to let the net code bod carry on working, and integrate any fixes into alpha 3.0 at the same time as everything else.

...........................maybe! :)
 
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