Yes yes i know what you think, another grand moron going to complain about the game, but it's not complaning, i'm going to adress big things that i and i think allot of other people are concerned about. First of all my compliments to the team, what you done in a year is incredible no doubt about that, the new technology that is in the game is awesome. But there are several things i have serious doubts about. #1 UI: i know it has been adressed several times now and i'm going to do it again, the UI is still first pass! why, what are you guys waiting for? Why is it still this first pass thing that makes the game look and feel horrible. Why hasn't there been any incremental implementation of the new UI in the game since beta? If you're going to wait with implementing it till release in December, it's going to be to late, seriously if just one bit sucks they will hunt you down and there is no stopping the negative publicity if this is your plan! Please give some information, what is the status? When will it be implemented? Anything? #2 Responsiveness: The responsiveness ingame is wierd to me, there seems to be a lag with almost everything, selecting units, clicking to build stuff in the UI, placing it on the ground ect ect. Every time you do an action there seems to be a slight lag, the responsiveness is off. I play allot of RTS games and if you look for example to Supreme Commander or StarCraft 2 these respond so quick so fast, but PA does not, and everytime i play PA it feels cluncky, heavy and less responsive. Maybe it's because everything is still rendered and because of that the game is heavy and thats what this responsive issue creates, but thats a wild guess. #3 Factions, factions, factions, factions yes 4 times because there are going to be 4 ingame. The first thing that shot into my mind was: Why the F do you think we want factions now! Ok fine, ill do some water with the wine. The minimap discussion, you said no minimap! People demanded minimap! Then you said ok will try to implement some kind of minimap, great! These guys are not as stubborn as i thought XD. So now my thoughts about the factions: What use does it have to implement factions when the only things that is going to be different is it's name, logo & commander? I would love to have some more information, other then: It's a great thing to build the future of the game on! What future? Will factions have different looking buildings & units, UI ect ect? Please some information again, and i know, you know! #4 Release date: With the game in current shape and no information what so ever about several things, the render engine, the UI, Factions. So with the game in current state, and brad said in the podcast the release date is going to be in December i'm seriously doubting this is going to be a succes unless you are going to delay it's release. Please Uber some information might be in order, because the closer December comes and the less things are inplemented the bigger the shitstorm is going to get when this product is released.
Factions were always only going to be lore based. Doing any other kind of faction leads to way more work in balance and in particular art assets. There have been countless threads on this already. Mike
I understand Mike, but then it feels even more useless. Factions why? No single player, no differences, whats the use of Lore when it's not being used in anyway?
Do you know the story of the Monkey's Paw? People wanted factions, they got "factions". But while there isn't a single player campaign in the usual sense, there is still Galactic War where the lore will be used I imagine. Mike
Re: UI I'd like info too. But they'll get to it when they get to it. There's no point in making demands at this stage. Uber has their own dev process and schedule. This is not their first rodeo. The best we can do is to ensure that us backers and fans have a unified voice. Thread here: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/unofficial-official-gui-discussion-thread.52055/ List here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ef3DmBUsW3faaoqqmhZFgZsyO5JUXSETY5JmXLFIPlQ/edit?usp=sharing I'm worried too. That's why I've spent all the work putting it together.
