ALPHA ROLLOUT STATUS

So the short answer is: Most of the work the past 9 months has been on backend coding such as the Engine?

No, it was 9 months of drinking coffee. Of course it was engine work, concepts and infrastructure -.-

Mavor said that he was already working on the engine before they even started officially developing the game...

You know, this is a basic release right now, checking, testing, not all features are implemented. Not implemented does not mean, they have not been working on them, they are simply not needed now for first testing, or are not finished completely for the alpha.

For example, multiple planets, did they work in it? Yes. Is it implemented? No.
All units in game? No. Did they work on more? Yes.

I think we could continue that for a while.

I was in the Supreme Commander "BETA", you know how much they changed every day?
This is ALPHA...

You need to understand that PA is game with other model of development with long support. Release date in this model it's just reason to say "game is stable and polished enough", but it's not reason to drop development like it's usually happen with traditional publishing model when most of sales planned for short period of time.

hahahahahahahahaha

did you even see chrono cam?

I was implying Art wise. You can have lots and lots of code math-wise, but in the output, all you'll see is a Green Ball.

Exactly this. Add on top that the community will have to tools to essentially develop for the game as well.

why would you paint your house before you built it?

You can have lots and lots of expensive 3d modes, tons of animations, super-realistic VFX and tons of post processing, but in the output, all you'll get is boring and unbalanced game.

It's because RTS gameplay based on it's engine/scripts/rules/limitations, not on artwork. So I happy to see awesome visuals, but it's won't help game is bad.

PS: I play Spring RTS based games and completely don't care that SupCom art is looks better. Why? Because SupCom networking are bad, because it's just can't handle big games.

streamin twitch.tv/knickles

Oh god, did you live cast our game? (BTW, I'm currently checking a build that fixes the crash that wrecked our game)

no, just started streamin. Haven't played played a full game yet

anyone else still streaming?

yays

Two streams:
http://www.twitch.tv/anarky_veleiro

and

http://www.twitch.tv/knickles

My god, stationary turrets are over really over powered.

i guess ill get my key when it hits steam, thats life for us non kickstarter peasants :/

I hope the 150$ level keys go out tomorrow!

You and me both. I didn't get the alpha today and I couldn't even watch the streams due to NetBox Blue.

I hope someone will be streaming In Australia otherwise I'm gonna have to wait until 24 hours from now.

If anybody is interested: http://www.twitch.tv/amesiascupra
Doing a bit of very test-ish gameplay.