no update since early september... unhappy customer.

i've skipped over reading the rest of the posts in this thread, but i've seen you post a lot of "this is fixed in the upcoming update!" recently, even as far as closing down a topic that is irrelevant until the update comes out.

now, i notice that my game seems to have quite a few little updates every week or so (at least, according to the box saying "there are updates available. would you like to update now?") why are some updates, such as the new Bolide, held back for a 'large' update? of course updates can't always be pushed out immediately as some updates depend on others, but is there a specific reason that the small fixes, new vehicles/handling setups, and new track can't be released as they are finished rather than waiting for one large content patch?

i would argue that your little updates and fixes are some of the most valuable for short-term happiness within the community, and releasing them more liberally might not be a bad thing.

i understand that you're not the one in charge of actually releasing things, but any insight would be appreciated.

additionally, it would be appreciated if you could mention the name of some of your dev branches... i've got a feeling that the functionality for updating to them is already in the patcher. subtlety is key, of course.

 

I think 2 years from now this game will be much farther developed into a mass game with servers full of people playing multiplayer. Thousands of quality car mods etc. That's just my guess.

 

When you get beta access to anything, I'm talking about the pre-public releases, I had it with a space combat game that never took off. The content withheld from you is probably not at all fun to use, you likely have 100% of the fun stuff. Its been polished and freed from most major bugs already and simply needs tweaking here and there.

Think of the flying Bolide mod, you cannot land in water with it. if a thruster touches water the game crashes. Think of massive flaws like that, game-play ruining flaws, on everything. then understand why they might not want to update just yet till things are actually ready for the public. They're not keeping anything from you, what you want does not yet exist and they're in the process of creating it. so this race update is half finished, they can't release it just yet. As tdev says, nothing works.

 

Doubt it. Probably sent as zips.

 

arma 3 also has way more money then you guys do.....

 

thanks devs for all the information!
cleared a lot of things up im sure.

the dev branch was only an idea, i mean 4 people can test the build or hundreds can
i mean you can leave the testing up to us while you work on with the other bits and more important tasks.

obviously the dev branch could be an OPT IN option so the players would know the risks when opting into it.
it could work out, it might not. just a suggestion to take the workload of yourselves really...

 

not using http://www.awesomium.com/ ?

 

i was under the impression that awesomium doesn't support 64 bit because it's built on top of chromium - which doesn't support 64 bit.

 

Everything in your post just explains the truth behind this little jingle:

"99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs in the code
Take one down, patch it around
117 little bugs in the code"

 

might i suggest something for when switching branches comes (this is imagining one of those branches will be buggy beta testing stuff), probably have a message, that when someone selects the buggy beta branch, a popup message shows up (with the message in bold, underlined, and in RED) saying that this is a beta build, and there are going to be some major bugs, or something like that (if this is already planned, then wow, you guys are ALWAYS, one step ahead of the suggestions people have )

but yeah, people who ask "OMGZ, zats so cools, can i haz links" or "when dats updates comez out" and questiosn like that are annoying

 

ok makes sense now i suppose.
i guess we will see in due course.

 

Not sure that is a good comparison. The games are completely different. Different size, different engine, different goals for production. It would be nearly impossible for four people to make a GTA game

 

No update? No problem! I'd rather wait a year for a properly polished update than to have a hurried update every month with little content and rough bug fixes.

Keep up the good work. I can wait all year. There's plenty of other great games to play while I wait.

 

wait 3 people made this game???!
fuck sake i feel bad now

Profanity, please...

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Good point.