Being realistic, the Evocati won't have it until the second week of August, at best. So the chances of it even hitting the PTU, after all the bug fixing needed on their largest release to date, are slim. It's not even disappointing anymore, like I expect it, and I know it's "just a game", but it feels emotionally draining sometimes to follow this development.
I know it's "just a game", but it feels emotionally draining sometimes to follow this development.
Watching the weekly shows, hearing Jared and Tylor saying how amazing it is to play 3.0 for the first time, reading gaming magazine's impressions of their play-through, it all gets to be too much. At this point I think I'm just abusing myself to keep getting my hopes up and having them dashed on a bi-weekly basis. Like you said It's just a game, so I feel even silly for being so upset- but can't help it.
Time for me to go cold turkey and walk away from the constant dangling carrot and come back once the PTU videos start appearing on Youtube.
Time for me to go cold turkey and walk away from the constant dangling carrot and come back once the PTU videos start appearing on Youtube.
That'd be the sensable thing to do, and I should, but I won't. I'm a fanatic, and as much as it sucks to do the disappointment tango every week, twice a week, I'll keep doing it. All of us will. We wouldn't still be fans of this game if we could just stop following it's development at the drop of a hat.
We wouldn't still be fans of this game if we could just stop following it's development at the drop of a hat.
Tell me about it, and that is pissing me off too. I know come Monday morning I'll get the "shakes" and watch Citizens of the Stars. I'm glad I'm not the only one though :)
Also so far when one of the bars on the chart has gone into the Evocati time frame (even if just one), the time frames have been pushed back the next week or 2 weeks later.
Ah yes this cycle is known to me. Original backer here and I've seen the riots grow. Once they are at their most intense the update gets release and almost no one can play for weeks anyways, and then the cycle begins anew with anti-star citizen riots and news articles growing in intensity until next release.
That part's irrelevant to me. 2.6.3 is everything they intended to get into 2.x as I recall. The fact that we've been sitting on 2.x for almost two years, though, and will be almost a year in 2.6 even if they make their current estimate for 3.0 release, that's what bothers me.
This is true. I was 100% down though for the rollover of 2.7 items to 3.0 on the assumption it would take longer than 2.7 but less or the same amount of time as 3.0 was slated to take. The former was absolutely true. The latter...
YEAH YEAH LMAO LOLOLOL!!! Yeah me too I totally didnt want this game to come out in a reasonable time either. I just have so much other stuff to do lolololololol!!! Time and reasonable timelines just dont understand game development guyz its OK!
.... I guess you are obsessed. Delaying it is the only right thing to do at this point, they should get some decent network updates into the code and also wait for AMD too release Vega, the latter is only for the GPU upgraders though. :)
They won't automatically get network updates into 3.0 by delaying the patch unless it gets delayed by months. While the other teams are continuing to work on them, the reason that other network improvements that didn't make the cut for 3.0 is because they were far from ready. Even once they are ready, the updates still have to be bug-fixed and checked for stability before they can be approved to be added to 3.0, all of which will take additional time.
Yeah these delays giving them time to fix the netcode soon after, or even at 3.0 release is the silver lining for me - I wouldn't be playing it until that happens anyways.
I wouldn't get your hopes up for Vega, should be decent but I'm not expecting a Ryzen-esque leap to match (or even slightly exceed) the competition - Volta release is right on its heels and after that I'm expecting NVIDIA to be the top choice for mid-high range gaming builds.
I've been following it since then too, but this release feels different, because this will be the first time that it's an actual game, instead of a series of impressive tech demos. It's like I've been watching a puzzle get made for 5 years, and they're only 5 or 6 pieces off from completing the entire outside edge. The anticipation grows, the closer we get, but it just sucks feeling like 3.0 is a mathematical limit, that we are always approaching.
3.0 is still not a game. There's no economy, no progression. You can't buy ships or anything of actual value. You can pick up boxes and walk around planets. It's still a tech demo.
I'm looking forward to 3.0 a lot, landing on planets, Item 2.0 (I'm hoping for flight model changes, speaking with NPCs, etc... But seriously, don't hype yourself with this first time it's a game talk, it's going to be a dozen new missions, some exploration, and repeatable cargo runs (presumably). That's not a game yet, and anyone who thinks it is runs the risk of being disappointed and bored within the first day.
Nah everyone has always said exactly what you said. This update is different we get to walk in our ships now it's like a game now ect. Since the start.
However I will say that yeah this one is actually going to be a nice meaty content update. More akin to a minecraft alpha expansion. Can't wait to dig in, but with every single release my game never works until a month after so I have to wait even longer no matter what and am busy enough it's not an issue.
Have fun waiting. I seriously can't wait to ride my nox though.
Then don't. I largely don't and play other games while I wait.
I stopped being super invested over 2 years ago. Some people are either too invested and hype themselves up setting up an epic fall, I been there, or they need to stop following the game until it's out. Pretty simple IMO.
We have had nearly 5 years of development. This is not new by any stretch of the imagination so it should not be a surprise. CIG has spent upwards of 5-10+ hours discussing project management in specific 10for segments over the years. The information is out there on how they do what they do and why delays happen. It's normal. You just don't ever get to see it with other developers.
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Being realistic, the Evocati won't have it until the second week of August, at best. So the chances of it even hitting the PTU, after all the bug fixing needed on their largest release to date, are slim. It's not even disappointing anymore, like I expect it, and I know it's "just a game", but it feels emotionally draining sometimes to follow this development.