Uber Weekly Update - July 21, 2014

Id appreciate it if you didn't use "we." Because that implies that all of the backers/community gets riled up, and that's a very uncomfortable generalization. I don't want to be in that group. I was fine with the Able Commander.

Because as we all know, the balance forum means SO MUCH to the devs.

If you are completely honest with your community you shouldn't have this issue. Being completely honest is a very difficult thing, because it means you have to be completely and utterly devoted to the idea that what your team created is truly amazing and the community can help make it better.

From my perspective as an active member of the community, Uber isn't there yet. I'm sure ya'll think differently, Brad, but that's how it is from the ground.

OK, a couple ground rules for this thread since we're starting to use this as our complaint / snark depository:

• Stay on topic. Discuss what's in the update (example: the changes we're using in the 1.0 build that you're seeing in PTE right now, our engineering efforts in making the game, Toy Rush, spawning anywhere, etc.,)
• No unrelated topics.
• No trolling.

I'll be deleting posts that don't do these things from here on out! Fair warning.

Fair warning is Fair.

Engineering efforts: is there a goal for RAM usage per planet? It's rather high right now, was wondering if ya'll were planning to knock it down with some C++ wizadry.

What big-name features can we expect not to make it in for 1.0? The unit cannon excluded, obviously.

And can we expect multi-monitor support for 1.0?

Points brad to: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/the-state-of-bots.62105/

No offence, but aside from both being made by Uber, Toy Rush is unrelated to PA. That doesn't mean it's bad, I just think it has it's own forum and news about that should stay there.

If you're going to quote a post/thread, you might want to embrace the intent of said post/thread. The one you reference:

• Clearly called out the provocative nature of the title.
• Clearly called out "There's a reason many companies DON'T do this" with an inferred "even though we still do it anyway, here's some understanding of why it can be so frustrating to try and hold a public discussion, and perhaps make easier and more focused the discussions about balance".

Cherry picking to prove a point is bad. So Brad's suggestion was in earnest. We read, and react, to feedback, including balance. But just because we don't react to every single little change that's suggested doesn't mean things don't evolve. See: PTE.

Edited a few words in my post, because apparently some people were incredibly offended by me suggesting that it was possibly reading comprehension issue, rather than a blatant trolling attempt.

Matchmaking pls D:
My first two PA autostats matches were against Kisel and I never used it again.

All these convenient "lies" you guys keep telling us so you don't have to answer our questions really starts to annoy allot of people these days. If you are so close to 1.0 atleast the project manager "mavor" most likely knows what is going to be in 1.0 or not. You can't keep avoiding us like you guys are doing now, it's starting to look like you guys work in compleet f*cking chaos and nobody knows what the person next to him is doing or how much progress he made. You can not deny you guys don't know whats being worked on and what features are going to be in 1.0 that's impossible!

I feel like spawning wherever would be awkward, what if there is a huge metal cluster and everyone spawns there at once? That would be a very short game.

My quoting of that was still used correctly.
It's clear that whether or not the balance forum is read through, nothing is really considered.

The choices made on bots have been criticized time and time again and yet they still remain completely useless after the first 3 minutes of a game.

What ever happened to them being an infantry-type unit?

Nothing. They changed them without giving us a real reason besides *we want them to be raiders.*

Except they already were good raiders. Just not amazing at it. Most roles in PA can be used interchangeably between units - it what makes the game unique. You can harass with bombers, ants, infernos, dox, bomb bots, grenadiers....etc MOAR OPTIONS ARE BETTER

I don't mind all units being good at everything, but if that's gonna be how this game will be played, bots need a HUGE buff (except for the boom, that thing's perfect as it is.)
Even something as minor as making them like they were in beta would work wonders.

There is some form of Uber matchmaking in the code (in stable, maybe earlier versions too) and it does actually match two people up. Might need to make a mod that exposes the function so it can be tested. Would be interesting to see if matching is random first-come-first serve, or if the server tries to match intelligently.

An actual tutorial would much be appreciated since so many people are waiting for the game to actually release. I think this was discussed in a thread somewhere, but i cant remember

Guys I know you want to complain and stuff, and I understand, but they literally asked you not to in this thread. Isn't it a bit rude to post about random other stuff here? :S

Agreed, now i really think the focus fire card is going to be awesome, and i might aswell test the block totem tower aswell. The healing sounds really good man! Also these new challenges sound very promising.

What lies are these?

Just because we aren't transparent to your level of satisfaction doesn't make us liars. I'd like an apology.