Elite Dangerous devs abandon console versions
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It's really sad what has happened to Elite Dangerous over the last few years. It had so much potential, but Frontier has squandered it at every turn. The game has so many abandoned features, tons of unused content, and what does exist offers infamously "mile wide, inch deep" gameplay.
Odyssey was really the final nail in the coffin. Half-baked FPS gameplay, horrific performance, tons of bugs, and it broke the few good existing features and game loops people enjoyed. Even today, Frontier still hasn't fixed everything they broke, not even including the console mess. They deserve to fail at this point, although that still doesn't make the flop this game has become hurt any less for longtime fans of the series.
Yep, there's a long litany of things that FDev could have done better, but this takes the cake. Frustrating as hell, especially as the group I'm involved with, a flight school, now have no idea for how long we're even going to have new pilots to help...
I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE FLIGHT SCHOOLS
I just learned the hard way and screamed: "PUT YOUR PHYSICS KNOWLEDGE TO WORK GIZ!"
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Can I join your flight school?
Of course you can.
https://discord.gg/NEWP
Did you make use of this yet, by the way?
I didn't see anybody that was obviously you in the welcome channel...
No, I haven't joined yet. I'm actually a bit busy this week, and I need to make a discord account to even join.
How is Star Citizen looking?
Optimistically they get to beta within 3 years, but too many unknowns that need to be tested and solved.
Current state? Not much of a mmo, 50 max server instances, rudimentary gameplay loops and poor fps on even high end systems with servers that cannot handle users and AI atm (leading to AI rubberbanding at worst).
putin should make a policy of his standown that those faggots finish their game soon