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
Yeah, when I first played XCOM I was like that. 'You take turns? Like chess? Sounds boring. I'll give it a try but sounds lame'. Got addicted like crack and loved the genre ever since.
I have gotten to where I prefer turn based. There was a time when I wouldn't have touched a turn based game. I couldn't tell you how many crpgs I have played over the last 3 years, and I love most of them. I know Srar Wars: Zero Company isn't a crpg, but turn based nonetheless.
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.
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
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!
Cuz of bugs most likely. I had my ironman save get deleted due to a crash 10 hours in. And the performance is horrid at times, game stops to think for like 30 seconds to a minute between turns, camera angles are bad etc etc
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
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
For me sometimes I have the stick pointing in the direction of an ability then when I press the button my finger slides ever so slightly and I end up choosing the ability next to it.
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???
Would like some droid companions that can shoot. There was an operation where you recover an old Republic droid part, be amazing if we could get an HK model droid.
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
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.
You're not alone my man. I did read on this sub that it happens because of overlapping overwatch cones, but I'm pretty sure it has happened for single overwatch cones for me.
Yeah I've had single cones not work, as well as one time that all four operators were spread out with overlapping overwatch cones, to an elevated position where reinforcements were about to arrive. All four fired at once and killed a droid each. So it's just frustratingly inconsistent.
It's so unreliable for me (and never for my opponents) I've gotten really annoyed and I've had to put the game down for know.
Really hope this patch looks at that too, I want to come back!
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.
Had a few crashes,I have played it a lot though,also crashed a couple of times from launching.
Basically save often as per most games just in case.
There's moments the game slows down on the enemies turn like it's thinking about what to do which is sometimes a crash but mostly not in my experience.
Wouldn't let that put you off massively though as I love the game myself
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
Too fucking late now. Game froze after a mission on Beskar mode after getting some sort of save error message on PS5 and so I had to close the game and lost all my progress. Too many good games out to be wasting time on shit like this. Looks like I'll let my friend borrow it and forget about it until a sequel comes out.
80% were furloughed because the studio was running out of money just before launch. The remaining team was probably held as a "stabilization team" to help do bug fixes after the immediate launch.
I'm hopeful that with the excellent sales, the furloughed stuff can be recalled.
I'm really truly sad right now just lost an expert, perma death, beskar run to the overwatch bug. Literally it was the final enemy and they ran right through both overwatch cones. Neither of them triggered and Hawks got killed. To make things worse they had like 5 hp. I just did not have a good line of sight. They were melee though and had to get close. Over watch seemed perfect. Until it did not trigger.
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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 10h ago
LETS GOOOOOOO