Quick update

I've been scarce in here this week because we are all 100% focused on getting stuff ready for Beta. I've been doing a bit more coding than usual.

Planet smashing is a lot of work! Lots of and lots of things under development for this beta push.

Sorry I haven't spent more time in here lately!

Can't wait to see the results of all that work.

Still, kind of brave to actually stick your head out of the trenches. You know this thread is going to flood with questions, and you also know you won't be able to resist to read through them... Better lock while you still can

Give us a pic of this "planet smashing" and all is forgiven =P

Please just one tiny little pic...

we know, have at it we supported you guys because you're this passionate

It's okay, you promised you'd crunch for a solid year, so we won't hold it against you

Tweet from Garat this morning:



https://twitter.com/garatnw/status/380359875542253568

There's no time for a quick update! Get back to work! Where's that whip cracking smiley ....

I actually wanted to take some time and write up a bit of a description of how the planet smashing stuff is coming together design wise. Hopefully I can spare a moment in the next couple of days. A lot of it embodies orbital simulation stuff that we didn't do with the orbital units and boy howdy is it complicated

That's more teasing than a screenshot. Evil.

This is killing me, need info,need pics,need game play video.

I'M GOING NUTS HERE

i signed up for beta as well the alpha is pretty much TA or SC on a planet not really that "new".
but oh boy beta is closing in, and this anticipation is killing me.

how does it look?
what few new units where added?
how does the simulation work?
what kind of UI or interface is there for the planet, asteroid orbits and moving planetoids around?

so many questions, so little do i know, this hunger can't be quenched.

over and out.

Can't wait to see it working. Thanks for the update!

Pssh, as an investor, I'm not paying you guys to be taking breaks, socializing. Get back to work!

In fact, these forums seem to be a major distraction. I vote we remove all devs interaction with fans, until the game is complete.

Sometimes I think us fans are worse than picky publishers.

Oh we definitely are

Sometimes I imagine the current environment of Uber as an enclosed oar powered longboat, with Neutrino pounding on drums shouting "HEAAAAVVVEEE" with the team wide reply "HO!!!!"

Sounds epic =)

The hiss of rapid keystrokes....like the sea washing into the cabin.

I'm want to ask experienced players join our bugtracking cleaning process:
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/bugtracker-cleaning.51296/
I'm just finished everything for "New" issues and now we have only one thing left: go over "Unconfirmed", "Confirmed" and "Feature incomplete" bugs and re-check them on current build. There just lot of bugs which I can't check because I'm not playing large games as much as many of other community members.

This will be extremely useful if we'll have bugtracker clean of fixed/outdated issues before beta starts.

Lol, on the fans being worse than the publishers.

You guys have a diversity of views, which can be challenging. However, the power dynamic means that we can have these conversations and then I just try to make the best decision I can for the game following the design principles I believe in. There are no illusions on my end that I will be able to please everyone. If the game is fun and has some original stuff in it I'll be happy.

When dealing with a publisher it's a lot more about numbers and more numbers. They use whatever data they can find however tenuous to justify their crazy decisions. From their perspective it makes sense but it means that it's difficult to maintain a cohesive vision. And since they control your paycheck you might not want to argue too much or too often...

Thanks, Neutrino! Always nice to get an update, no matter how small. Any idea when you guys might post a summary of features/fixes that you will be adding for the Beta release?