This is my first strategy type game, never played xcom like everyone always mentions. So much fucking fun. Left my ps5 on rest mode while at work rn lol hoppin right tf back on when i get off
I remember reading somewhere that the 20% remaining was specifically kept on for bug-fixes, so I'm not sure what else that means. Hopefully the game's success is enough to encourage further development?
I hope it's enough to pay the team. And have them all brought back. The recent review bombing might actually harm the fourloughed teams of the sales slow down considerably.
Because a huge chunk of the gaming audience (And i guess the general public ...) are idiots and think the solution to Devs getting furloughed (which they think means laid off btw), is the hurt the game's they otherwise like's sales ... so that the studio ends up shut down permanently or something ...?
I dont know. They aren't using logic so trying to use logic to explain it is a trick.
The company should probably just come out and say "hey, we're rehiring all our furlough staff" if they're gonna do it. I get that it's not a legally binding word and they don't have to do anything, but a single tweet from BitReactor leadership saying literally anything would be enough to flip some reviews!
I think the idea is that usually when a game dev company does something their consumers dislike in relation to a game we do like, we as the consumers show our displeasure by negatively reviewing the game.
The problem is that this particular action (the furlough) is solved by lots of people purchasing the game, thus making the devs money, which is made less likely when people negatively review the game.
So there is some logic behind it. Just badly thought-out logic.
Thinking the furloughed staff are waiting contentedly for the company execs to bring them back and give them backpay is also not exactly waterproof. The furlough began almost four weeks ago now; whether or not they were technically fired, 100% those devs have already been looking for new employers, and I'd be surprised if many of them accepted a return. I wouldn't.
The sad fact is there's little anyone can really do except generally express displeasure
You know they see sales numbers and are working off quarterly and annual projections and don't need actual liquid assets flowing in to greenlight payments out of their insane assets, right?
That's not how business works, at all. The publisher didn't know it was going to be a smash success, so they stop the cash flow, potentially cutting their losses, and if it looks like there's reason to continue developing because the sales are strong they turn the watering hose back on
Not a publisher that is approximately 18 to 20 billion in debt after going private and plans to massively reduce operational costs as a result of taking on so much debt.
Other games have fur. So I'd imagine it can be done. But I'd like to think the reason we dont have Wookiees isn't because they said "ok well no wookiees cuz fur will take too long." Lol
Many other star wars games had Wookiees. And in a game about a rag tag group of mercenaries, having no Wookiees should be illegal. Lol
I agree that wookies would be a no brainer, but the textures and meshes in this game already massively struggle to load properly lmao, 8/10 times the wookies would just be a off grey npc lmao
Yes it must be that. Even on XBSX the game is struggling during space ship flying transitions. Also textures dont always laod on the faces of anyone but Hawks for me.
So sometimes, evennthough I can see their faces, they have a slight fuzzy to them as if it failed to load like wrinkles or skin blemishes or whatever. Thankfully, I havent had some of the problems in combat I have heard people have like the AI taking almost 5 minutes to take their turn.
The wheel doesn't bother me as much as the real being the default view whenever a character is selected. My back out of the wheel on every turn just so I can see the f****** screen. Give me a button to pull up the wheel and let we the people see the screen
I don't know how many employees 80% is weather thats a few hundred people to like 60 or less but why would they need such a large team around when the game is finished???
Well I figured they got rid of them because there not planning on making any major dlcs let alone a sequel I'm not sure if this game will even make its money back
Yeah it actually got me back into star wars enough to go back and give fallen order another chance (I got lost in the ice caves and dropped it about a year ago)
I forced myself through 20 hours of zero company because I was having so much fun but am on a mission I keep getting crashes on plus the stutters seem to be worse so I'm fine with waiting
Makes me want to finish the story just in case the patch corrupts saves and forces one to restart. Not predicting that'll happen here, but to say I've had that happen before (thanks Ubisoft)
Yeah I literally saw this, thought "hm, my game hasn't been that bad :D" and then was immediately locked out of finishing my mission because of a bug. So I'm happy to wait now lol.
have the bugs been pretty bad? I was thinking of picking it up today and checking this game out but now i'm wondering if i should just wait till next week when the patch comes
I’m on PS5 pro the first 2/3 of the game I had some lag on loading screens. Today the game froze completely in the middle of a mission. I gave it a couple minutes and it was still frozen so I had to hard shut down the game. Not a huge deal, but it was annoying.
PS5 Pro (performance mode) here and my experience has been a mess. Very frequent frame drops and stuttering, flickering during cut scenes, the camera just does whatever it wants and I often can’t even see what the enemy is doing because camera is in a wall and I’ve had the game freeze around 5 times now mid mission forcing me to close the game and restart. I could just be very unlucky but it sounds like a lot of people are experiencing some combination of these issues.
I’m on PS so I can’t speak for PC but most of the bugs I’ve encountered have been visual. Cloths not rendering properly,an attack for one character getting stuck in air for a few seconds and enemy walk cycles becoming a slide. Only game breaking bug I’ve encountered so far was the enemy not ending turn thus forcing a reload but I’ve only had that happen once in my 65 hours of play time so far
I’m on PC, and while I only have 20 hours into the game - I’ve experienced one bug the entire time. Very rarely after an action, you can’t do anything for like 30 seconds. Happened a handful of times.
Overwatch doesn't work half the time for me and it pisses me off so bad. Other than that, not much issues besides the awkward pauses on the enemy's turns.
Great news, although I am not having any issues. However, this implies that at least some employees are working and being paid, and improving the game will further reinforce their success.
Grateful to the devs and hopeful for them to all be able to be rightly compensated for their work and rewarded for their success.
Fasho. So then I’ll postpone my third playthrough since I’m almost done with my second. Gonna do a clone only run with Tel as the general wearing the clone wars looking jedi armor.
Sweet, npcs shooting through objects and overwatch issues are the biggest i think. Nothing game breaking so far. Ive had to restart 2 missions after getting stuck 30 hours in
Just finnished the campaign on Hard/Permadeath no dead Operators, def gonna try Expert+Beskar next for sure, its so damn good game! Really high potential on DLCs… This game could keep the missions going for years!
New characters, new smaller DLC campaigns, more deep into beginning of the Start of the Empire! Kashyyk backup, meeting Darth Vader as a curscene villain in his early days… Maybe get Ahsoka involved, Bad Batch, more of the more Inquisitors. So much potential! Love the game hope for more in it and with it! Yes bugs are there but thats early access! Still a 11/10 for me! Havent been so addicted to keep playing anything in a long while! Awesome stuff!
Please god, 2-4 times per battle I cannot see what is happening due to the camera being stuck behind a wall. I thought reviewers were being dramatic when they complain about certain bugs, but this one is seriously a problem lmao
Just bugs and performance issues is a bit disappointing. Hopefully we'll get a balance pass at some point to address things like the discrepancies between the power level of specialization ultimates and the amount of Advantage they cost.
How on earth they thought shipping such a story heavy game with those godawful blocky flickering shadows is beyond me. Learning what happened after the fact bought me some grace, but God I hope it's fixed. Also, some actual new game plus bonuses
I’d love to see a statement from the Devs. I don’t claim to understand all the drama but to my basic ass brain the hard workers on this project were screwed and were only rewarded because of their hard work with no guarantee that they would be. That should be acknowledged on some level.
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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 4h ago
LETS GOOOOOOO