Ok, we finally agree. Good one, and this is to me the beauty of any game development, nothing
Why every patch brings more bugs than fixes?
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So you are in favour of exploits being left in the game. Stranger and stranger ...
Doesn't have to be a zero sum game. Why not fix both exploits & bugs immediately?
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This is precisely the kind of attitude that enables Frontier to get away with how they manage their software. Shoot from the hip and fix stuff only once someone complains (in the form of the issue tracker). Not great.
I don't expect developers to read these forums (in fact I'd strongly advise them to ignore them for their own sanity). CM's on the other hand. It's part of their job to monitor what's going on given this is part of their official social mehdia channels, and I would expect them to filter relevant information to the devs even if no issue tracker ticket exists. And it seems more recently this is already happening thanks to Sally.
You may not have heard of these things called 'limited resources' and 'prioritization'. In the real world they get used a lot
You finally dropped the bomb ...You may not have heard of these things called 'limited resources' and 'prioritization'. In the real world they get used a lot
That's on FDev.You may not have heard of these things called 'limited resources' and 'prioritization'. In the real world they get used a lot
Yes, so leave them to handle things. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Apparently people can still say on the forums if they are not satisfied with how FDev handles things.
And that's what is happening in these threads. That's all.
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FDev don't seem to be particularly aware of what's going on within their very own game so yeah, not sure how things would pan out if we just left them to it. Even from an artistic viewpoint - I remember they initially didn't suggest that they felt there was anything wrong with the look of the game (lighting, gamma, brightness, oh and my personal favourite, paintjobs etc.).
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Well, I can play for a start, which was not the case back in Jan. 2015, due to constant disconnects, fundamental features not working (wake dropping...), instancing being unusable etc..
My experience of EDO is mostly painless right now. I wish they would fix head tracking, and I'll have to take into account the fact right now attacks on your ship don't register as hostile actions, but on the whole I feel much better about the game now than I did before Odyssey.
What now?o7 Commando and thanks for playing
Nice arxe covering there btw.
I hate to tell you this but game development is hard. There's a reason that Elite Dangerous, NMS and SC take so long to develop / change. These are very complex systems they're pulling together and sometimes you make a change at one point, then it can have unintended consequences further down the line. The problem with these complex systems is that doing a full regression test is now such huge task that I suspect they're not doing a complete job to get the release out. Who would have guess that putting a new Battle Buggy out would thrown out the plant scanning!
I will take issue with one of the things you said. I would say performance has improved from unplayable on "release" (12 fps) to acceptable with update 8 (38-40 fps) on a 1050 ti. The updated art on the planets has improved the repeating terrain issue not made it worse. I have seen the repeated terrain issue (prime example was in Leesti). However, I'm still enjoying my trip to colonia, stopping at every planet with more than 2 biologicals, and out of all the planets I've seen, I haven't seen any repeated terrain patterns and there's been only one issue with terrain on desert like planets.
I still maintain that Update 8 is where the basic release should have been but you can't deny that things have improved since launch.
Its been 7 years. A bit hard to keep giving a damn about these things. As I said, if youre going get worked up about it, you're going to get worked up about it year on year. If FD were going to change, they would have done it years ago.
Doesn't matter whether we "shouldn't" be used to it, its not changed in 7 years of people complaining about it. I'm old, i only can give a damn about these things for so long.
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Its been 7 years. People have been complaining for 7 whole years. If you want to keep complaining for another 7 years, be my guest.
I understand. But anyone who is still trying to change something should not be actively discouraged.
Who knows, maybe one day it will make a difference.
The irony of all of this is that if Odyssey does succeed, we're good for 7 more years of complaints.
LOL, you are new here.
Sorry for sounding discouraging, but its like living in England and saying "Perhaps tomorrow it won't rain"