Uber Weekly Update - July 21, 2014

Not counting Galactic War, which doesn't generate replays.

Erm...
I hate being "that guy".... but the Kickstarter trailer still looks better.




EDIT: also those dust particles but I doubt those were *really* planned.

If I understand correct, no New big rocks from now until 1.0? Only polish.

Will Gas Planets and Astriod belts be in 1.0? Personally I would rather 1.0 get pushed out to get more features in than have 1.0 released and then add them in.

It's fair to assume that at the very least asteroid belts will be in 1.0.
I wouldn't hold your breath on gas giants though.

really hope the asteroid belt will be in, tired of the late game stalemate.

Idk if I agree, what are you basing this on? Pictures and videos are one thing, lots of interpretation. But when you have stretch goals on kickstarter don't you need to fulfill those?

*Cough* Toyush For Android *Cough*

Think of all the sad puppies

But until @BradNicholson you guys can use this app, Is Toyrush Out Yet?

I highly recommend this app. I use it daily and is the best thing ever to grace my device.

You do need to fulfill those (if you never do you can be sued) but nothing outright states that you need to fulfill them before 1.0
Honestly I think gas giants being delayed is good. As the game is now, orbital is very meh and gas giants would be boring.

Gas giants should really only be included once orbital is a little more fun.

To be honest. That news article didn't telly anything new or important and Toy Rush is a bit unrelated to PA. If this is indeed a picture of PA's future, it's a bit underwhelming.

I wouldn't call it underwhelming, just... vague.
The entire update was pretty much just "HEY! 1.0's coming out! There's gonna be STUFF AND THINGS in 1.0! WE'RE NOT GONNA TELL YOU WHAT STUFF AND THINGS, BUT THERE'S GONNA BE STUFF AND THINGS!!!"

This still means that we don't know what's going on and what to expect. I didn't need to read that article to know that there will be stuff and things. I feel like I'm watching another publisher financed game. I'll stop here now, but suffice it to say I've become extremely disappointed with Uber.

Wow, now im excited about all the new stuff and things coming to the game. Thanks for that

#buildinghype

But why? There's no point to build hype, especially here.

Most of this forum consists of people who've been with the game since at least beta.
You don't need to build hype for people who bought the game before it was finished.

Overall this update was poorly thought out. We don't want to know 1.0 is coming we want to know what new features are coming.

No 1.0 without unit cannon.
No 1.0 without ranking.
No 1.0 without bacon biome (and Biomes 2.0).

Uber, don't be so damn keen on 1.0, work out all the remaining stuff before releasing, otherwise I don't see much of a good/successful release. We've seen that kinda disappointing release on Minecraft 1.0 for instance.

That's kinda been the spirit of the PA Community lately.

As development has drug on, Uber has been giving us fewer and fewer information, and the answers have become more and more vague.

I understand development is a moving target and things change. But at the same time, they do need to come up with some plans and stick to them.

Other games under development do a lot better job of keeping the community informed and involved. LimitTheory is an excellent example. The developer has daily dev logs with information about what he's done and plans on doing.

I would love to know more about what Uber is working on and what we can expect.

Uber seems to blame it on the fact that the community uproars when plans change (which to be fair, it kinda does.)

Honestly though it'd be nice if they could just ignore the uproar and actually take a few more risks with sharing info.

Like with gas giants, we don't even have a conceptualization of those yet. Same with the unit cannon, apart from the Kickstarter trailer, we still don't know what it's going to do, what tier it'll be, how many units it will fire, its ammo capacity, NOTHING.

I'm very much a people person. I'd just love to know a bit more about some of the Uber guys we don't really hear much from. I know a lot of them don't really like coming to the forums (and on some days, I can't say I blame them!) but it would be cool just to hear "Oh and @theuberblue (who? ) was working on x this week".