Altina McAlterson
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Posted - 2012.10.27 10:11:00 -
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Sir Kakmonstret wrote:
I hope there is a real beta going on behind the curtains somewhere because if this is it I see a very rocky road ahead.
This is a real beta. Technically it might be more of an alpha, actually. There's a lot of stuff that isn't in the game yet, so it's not really feature complete. CCP has no experience with FPS or console games and I guess this one is too high profile to just wing it. Unfortunately we're still in the annoying, bug-ridden stage that is mostly only experienced by people employed by the company.
They're still developing the game as we go, not just ironing out the kinks. It's a long road ahead, but aside from the crippling technical issues each build seems to be getting better. I think at this point CCP just wants to get the game working, and make the minor tweaks later. Remains to be seen if that will work on a console or not. |
Altina McAlterson
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Posted - 2012.10.27 11:13:00 -
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@Sir Kak
I'm not gonna sit here and say the game is good to go. I was merely pointing out that there isn't a "real beta" hiding somewhere, this is a real beta. Kind of misunderstood your meaning, there's been a lot of stupid people on here who think a "beta" is whatever PR stunt companies put out 2 weeks before release and usually only features the first few minutes of the game. Back in olden times when I was young (AKA the mid 90's) that was called shareware. Now it's a "beta", but same thing really.
Now i see where you're coming from and yea. I'm a bit concerned myself, honestly. I know they've got a lot more stuff developed and I'd wager the lack of more maps has to do with limited servers up, memory leaks and all manner of nasty crap. Only thing I'll say is there's probably not going to be any resource gathering, that'll be left up to the eggers. We're only mercs, it's their planet. And no, there isn't a transaction log or journal yet.
My biggest fear is that they have nerfed the game in to being completely unbalanced and nothing short of a complete overhaul is going to fix it. But that remains to be seen. |