Uber Weekly Update - July 21, 2014

Legally? No.

You can be sued for anything, but I believe you're thinking of rewards which are required to be delivered on as part of the Kickstarter TOS.

On the flip side, the community has a bunch of very loyal, interested, and skilled people who are very willing to help do their jobs.

We have had some very valid concerns, and some of our uproars have been completely correct. Easy example, when Uber was going to triple the econ income. We predicted what was going to happen, and we were right. And this has happened several times now.

As a general rule we get riled up when we're blindsided about something that we had no clue was coming, like the Able Commander.

You know who I think does an excellent job of releasing information and updates is space engineers. Not saying they are perfect by any means but when they release an update and they do so every Thursday there are a good number of new features included and they have a video explaining them and showing them off. http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/news.html

Another is star bound, http://playstarbound.com/.

I am really disappointed that matchmaking and the ladder won't come in1.0. PA Stats is great but the automatchmaking is like gambling. I don't want to go against the worlds best players and I don't want to go against new players. This really makes me think about joining multiplayer matches and right now I totally lost my interest in 1v1 due to that.

And I have a feeling that some players that played with PA Stats already dropped 1v1 too because you don't know who you will be up against. However this is not PA Stats fault. They don't have the responsibility to match players correctly and get players excited about joining Multiplayer. Uber should do this. PA Stats already has stats and some sort of auto matchmaking and I guess if everybody would use it you could have a good automatchmaking, so it is possible. Why isn't it possible for the 1.0 release? Why do particle effects get a higher focus? Sorry I can't understand.

The blame for that is not solely on the community thought, the root cause is the method these changes is communicated to the community, or rather, how they aren't at all and the community stumbles onto them by chance more often than not.

Mike

if you get curb stomped you analyze and try and understand why, if you get totatly wrecked you can gain more experience from it then almost any other match. I don't understand why people who play 1v1's dislike getting crushed.

People don't like losing and competing is stressful.

That line of thinking works fine if the player's intention is specifically to get better in a competitive context, it's not how things tend to go with more casual players, they're not invested into a "Goal"(Like playing on some competitive level) and they are more likely to take the "path of least resistance" and if they the casuals and competitive players keep mixing the "path of least resistance" for causals tends to be something along the lines of "Stop wasting time on PA and play a game you already know you can have fun with or try a different new game instead".

Mike

That was not my point. I'm not saying you can't learn from analyzing bad games, you just put that in my mouth. I'm saying that games need to be interesting to keep you playing. What is the point when I don't know how good my opponent will be? How can I know how good I am when I have 40% matches where I just lose badly, 40% where I just win without effort, and 20% close matches. There is also a skill cap, I think I won't be able to win against the top players ever. I don't train enough and I don't have enough talent. Still I want to play interesting games against people like me. Why did you make this into: "I don't understand why people who play 1v1's dislike getting crushed."

Your post has no valid point against good matchmaking and rankings.

The only way I know how to deal with this is to join a clan and meet people and then you will find people of same or equal skill. BUT I agree match making is a VERY important feature.

just be sure you are ready to release it...dont set a hard date and get screwd over like the Stronghold 3 guys. as 1.0 EVERYONE is ready to devour and Review the crap out of this game.

Wauw you made a big post there Brad, and it contained only 2 pieces of information, no ladders and a content update for toy rush, really is that the best we can do? I'm being negative again and saying nothing is good enough, but uuhhmmm isn't there not more information you could give???? It gets kinda annoying with all the lack of information we people got to deal with.

In my humble opinion, 1.0 isn't 1.0 unless we have some more planetary invasion options.

Just for reference, our answers about why we don't post a lists and why we just simply can't reveal everything: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/gazing-into-my-crystal-ball.61959/page-2#post-960750

First off - Thanks for answering my question earlier rather indirectly. I see you guys have been discussing this rather extensively. Awesome.

On another note, I really think ya'll should look into getting a ladder system up and running before launch. That's a mistake some other, vaguely similar games have made and it didn't end well. *hint hint*

Thirdly - No notes about how unbalanced the game is right now? Okay. Let's ignore the elephant in the room. That's cool.

There's a balance forum if you'd like to write up some thoughts and point it towards a dev!

Let me guess, it will be in the form of DLC? -.-

For those interested, I strongly recommend reading the entire thread start to finish, here is a link.

Mike

You know me. I've been doing that for quite a while now. My thoughts are strewn across this forum quite extensively.

Seems a strange excuse to appeal when you're constantly trying to "hype" this game to high heaven.