This is the weirdest game in which I found myself in has a beta tester. The distance between the betas gamers, and the entire staff of PA , we are quite far , and it seems worse ! I dont now wy they are quiet all the time ! Isnt some one employee to take care off ( New Community Manager : iff he talk to us 3 or 4 times was lucky? ) Seems to me that we are alone in this, if not we sincerely are watch this process ,actually taking a completely different direction from the Beta testers and Uber . After all, what are we doing here? Uber arent tell us almost nothing of the final product ,even iff they dont now yet,something they must now. And what is happening week after week, in the development of the game, we showld now something ,at least to we,not talk for nothing in things we think we have clear idea,and probably we are rong. We all give ower thoughts and sugestions , and we know what we know , but this whole process of game development, we seems to be apart off it,and Uber team dont seems tell us nothing . Uber just give us just a few crumbs ,time to times ,here and there . We must all work together, this standby, not let us know the game data, for the forum (PA Beta Discussion) not going well,or iff is Uber interesting be quiet ,welll thats bad thought. Nobody follows us in our doubts . Nobody makes us see why we're wrong . Nobody excites us with new data . Nobody gives us knowledge of the whole team and what each one does . Nobody speaks of the engine. Nobody talks about the different game components ex: 1 - How is it run development ,off land units . 2 - All the applied naval battle in the game, are they be balanced and which units are thought . 3 - The map editor , how will it be the final version , and what tools will we have to totally modifier the terrain, 4 - The Battle aerea , UI Features, what is on the work now ? 4.1 - The economy will suffer some alteration over the game ? 5 - How will the servers work ? 6 - The performance fps is being corrected in what way? 7 - We will have the same visual gameplay, that we saw on lunch Trayler? 8 - What are the ideas think, for the knowledge and visualization of the entire battlefield, to facilitate the production and combat Simultaneous shape , without constantly turning the planet, without losing fluidity in the game . 9 - How will we be qualified by the victories or defeats in ranking. 10 - Will we have special avatars ,for important victories ? 11 - How will it be the global chat view,friend list,host games ,vault,download mods..so one so one. And moore things that i really think, now that we are arrive to the and we need to now. Uber join more ourselves, or someone to take care of this position and to be more present . Sry but i normaly say ,what most think but not say! And sry about all bad words,still try to fight and try learn english. And again i say plz tell me wy im rong.
Now, i'm not a native english speaker myself, and I do feel kind of bad to not directly address your topic with my response. That being said, i'd really like to explain to you specifically, why the placement of the comma in your thread title is hilarious and self ironic in the context of your post... But it would ruin the joke....
I'm probably not fully understand all your post, but get your idea. I'm think all devs quite busy most of time. You can notice that answer to many topics on forum and neutrino was really active too. But as I see devs just don't want to comment on incomplete features because then people will blame them if they're not implemented or just not implemented soon enough. Also as I guess devs just don't have exact answers on many topics you listed here (e.g performance, UI, visuals, ranking). It's was stated many times that Uber don't have strict roadmap and and they work on things which is most important at moment. In this situation what exactly you waiting from them?
we are here because we gave our money to uber to help make this game possible, and as a gift we get to play this game as its being made. they are here and listening to us, not everything will be put into the game that we want. and what if they answer some of your concerns?, you will find more things to *itch about. give it a rest already.
I might be wrong but I think you get far more interaction and information from the devs than you would in other games.
Uber and Riot game forums are the only gaming forums where the people in the company have talked to me....
Oh and RSI (because I messaged one of the devs to point out a typo) But yep. That's it. Especially compared to bf4 beta.
Beta testers traditionally pointed out bugs and crashes to developers to help polish a game up before release. With the release of some high profile games and people just assuming a beta is a demo, peoples expectations of what a beta is has shifted. (Halo 3/ battlefield whatever) I played in a "world in conflict" game beta that for the most part had incomplete features but very playable and super enjoyable. Everyone knew it was beta and didnt bash the game when the devs didn't respond in a timely fashion but rather changed the game after reading forum comments. Now all they did was read forum comments and never actually respond. No outrage from anyone. That game however was about 70-80% done when beta started compared to PA which is 50-60% done in terms of available units and features. For some reason, outrage sets in when people don't hear from the devs every 3 days regarding topics someone has an issue with. Its beta for a reason and it isn't for forum users to dictate what needs to get done at a moments notice. Patience is a virtue in beta testing and its usually better for devs to act on their improvements then just say something to quell the fires. The issues you bring up can easily be pmed to garet or neutrino or even brad if he knows enough about it.
I really enjoyed the patch put out today. The ability to deselect units from a group is working for me now. The AI continues to improve. Not sure what the orbital grid is for. If there is no obvious use, players can already turn it off in the menu.
I have been here since the start of Alpha and never have I seen Devs interact so much with the community during development. Have you watched any of the livestreams...? Have you read through other forum posts, where the devs have taken advice from the player base and implemented it into the game EG see AMEX be placeable on top of BMEX..? Its all there if you look for it. See KNights post on how to search the forum.
I like it because you post jokes ^_^ I may not be able to answer the OP's original questions as I am not necessarily a Dev myself, but I know many of the answers you seek are within other Forum posts. The Devs review many of the posts on here, but may or may not respond. But I know they definitely take into consideration all of the suggestions and comments posted.