ESFF is dead or they are stalling.

[Damaera]

I'm going to have to contradict Grega and close this because this going south pretty fast.

As a closing statement, what you've seen in videos so far is footage that likely took a while to make to avoid showing any bugs. Just because the gameplay looks bug-free and complete in a video doesn't mean that it actually is. You have to realize that there's so much more to the game than what has been shown in the videos, but that also means that there are also a bunch of unfinished features as well as potential multiple gamebreaking bugs.

Yes, you're right, the team could release a beta update of the next version but they won't and there really is no reason to do so. If you were there for the Open Beta, the same exact thing would happen where people are going to be unhappy with the product and just complain about things that the team has already stated would be fixed.

Also, your comparison of the team having regular lives with other developers doesn't really make much sense. For starters, a big part of it has to do with other developers being paid, the ESF team isn't receiving any income at all and are doing this on their own time. And even if other development teams are working on free games faster than the ESF team, it still doesn't mater and is a pointless comparison because it's not like every single game developer is busy with the same exact thing in their lives. Some people have more important things to worry about than developing the game at a super fast pace and others don't. It all varies.

If you're truly unhappy with the pace of the development process, feel free to pick up a talent and join the team to help the game come out faster. Nobody is stopping you.

 

[Grega]

perfect and final? LOL whats funny about that is the game is fully operational , we've seen combo , movement , maps , fps , its all there.... Release it for beta testing or delete it... 5 years is enough to make a game of this caliber.... some what good graphics , barely any mechs to add , some characters , and then make it so u can use the esf character creator for it so we can make the characters we want to use.

If the game was fully poerational it would have been released. Yes melee is more or less all there, but its not fully finished. There are still things missing mostly linked to the bonus and stamina systems, maps still have bugs that need to be ironed out and as it stands the maps have 1 spawn point each ATM. So that also needs to be done along with a proper lighting, texture and shading setup that needs to be done on a per map base.

Actually you do. They always give a release date a month or a few months before release.... its either not coming at all or coming very late 2016.

Correct we will specify a release date when we are sure we can keep the date. It could be a weak in advance or a month, but it probably will not be more than that.

To try and get some answers from the devs on why they are letting down their community. Esf's player base as sunk to like 20 players.

Games are made, are played and they fade away. A new version gets released and people start playing that again untill that dies off to. Nothing unusual. Heck many AAA titles have been released and died in less time thats taking 1.2.3 and thats kind of a win when you think about it. Also this project is first and foremost an experience for us. We are doing this because we wanted to do it, and we are sticking to it untill we get a version out that we are happy with.

2/3 years... Lol.. what a joke Fallout 4 was in dev for 3 years and its already being released... this shit is ridiculous.. there's barely anything in the game , its not too hard for devs of this quality to do in the amount of time they have put out...

Fallout 4 is a AAA title. And if they dont add an option to skip the credits, you will sit there watching the credits for over 15 minutes with only a handfull of names actually appearing twice if even that, while you can pretty much count the people who actively worked on ESF using your fingers and toes.

They do have reguler lives... but still So does every other game developer in the world yet their games have been released even faster than this one has.. in about 1/3 , 1/2 the time.. The new jason game coming out was in dev from 2013-2015.... Its coming out this month... that game has so much more than what ESFF brings.. it's quite sad on how slow the development is going..

Yes the devs at Bethesda have regular lives, friends and so on. But you are missing one part. They are not making Fallout 4 in their spare time. Its their job, and they get payed for it, while ESF is a hobby project. We are not looking to make money with this either, its just something we are doing because we wanted to do it. You are just along for the ride if you so desire.


Now with that out of the way. @everyone in this thread. Stop it with the name calling. Be civil mkay.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd it would seem that Dam ninja'd me so NVM ^^;