Estimated Time for Next Fleet Operations Release

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:04 pm

I also don't have to remind you of games like Command & Conquer 4

No you don't, because I have never played anything under that title or any previous titles.  Not even the demos.

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:04 pm

legacy is also an example of a game that needed more time in the studio.

Hear hear. Although they were, if I recall, intentionally aiming for some aniversary, Trek's 25th I think.

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:08 pm

Hear hear. Although they were, if I recall, intentionally aiming for some aniversary, Trek's 25th I think.

2th was in 1992, someone made a game for that back then.

the 40th was legacy's aim, but they missed it by a few months. even though it would have been nice to have it on time, i'd much much much rather have the game finished than on time. i would have accepted a delay of a year to get a game that is passable, as then i would get the years after of fun, but releasing it shitty early means i got far less fun, just earlier. and then they never really attempted to patch it to a standard.

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:54 pm

No you don't, because I have never played anything under that title or any previous titles.  Not even the demos.

  But you should know something about them if you're interested in RTS games.  C&C is on par with the Blizzard games in terms of shaping up what we see as balance in multiplayer RTS's today .

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:57 pm

Yea I still play RA3 and its old and buggy but still fun as hell

posted on March 31st, 2011, 8:58 pm

i only played 1 c&c, tiberian sun, i thought it was crap.

maybe the others were better :shrugs:

posted on March 31st, 2011, 9:00 pm

They had lots of personality and were instrumental in showing where balance has the hardest time dealing with unique races that are not mirrors of one another (Warcraft 2 for example).

  C & C 2: Red Alert was a great example of races that were unique and had their own balancing issues as a result.

posted on March 31st, 2011, 9:01 pm

No you don't, because I have never played anything under that title or any previous titles.  Not even the demos.

You're missing out. Red Alert and Tiberian Sun, despite the less than stellar graphics, had excellent gameplay and decent (excellent in the case of TS) stories. The franchise went to shit after EA took over, but that's to be expected. Red Alert 2, especially with the hard to find CannisRules mod, is still on par with just about anything out today in terms of creativity and fun. Just don't touch Tiberian Twilight, Generals, or Red Alert 3 and you'll be fine.



As for this patch, I'll be quite blunt in that I have no idea how an issue as catastrophic and unbalancing as the passive doubling was missed (I'll preempt Boggz by blaming Dom), but I'm fully aware and minful of the fact that the devs have lives to lead that prevent them from having the time to release a new patch every few weeks whilst also arguing about Miley frakking Cyrus. I'm hoping to see a fix and new release soon, but I'm also certain that it will be well worth the wait.

By the way, you guys really need to do some work on the Feds before you do ANYTHING else with the patch. Poor race is still so underpowered.

posted on March 31st, 2011, 9:13 pm

As for this patch, I'll be quite blunt in that I have no idea how an issue as catastrophic and unbalancing as the passive doubling was missed (I'll preempt Boggz by blaming Dom), but I'm fully aware and minful of the fact that the devs have lives to lead that prevent them from having the time to release a new patch every few weeks whilst also arguing about Miley frakking Cyrus.

I'll just say for the same reason that nobody on this online community noticed for more than a month, and yet people were praising it in the meantime for being so balanced 

posted on March 31st, 2011, 9:27 pm

(I'll preempt Boggz by blaming Dom)

  I only blame Dom for my new grey hairs .

  None of us noticed that the passives were bugged for a really long time.  I think the fact that so many (myself included) praised 3.1.5 as the most balanced patch to date even BEFORE we realized it was bugged.  There should be no blame nor hard feelings to go around at all

posted on April 1st, 2011, 12:55 am

Actually i knew it was unbalanced a year ago..... so thats just a little bit before you.... so......

posted on April 1st, 2011, 1:20 am

Even with the passive bugs this patch is still so balanced and its still lots of fun to play with 

[Arash8472]

posted on April 1st, 2011, 1:36 am

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   I only blame Dom for my new grey hairs .

you have gray hair because were not in the same bed every night. 

posted on April 1st, 2011, 2:01 am

As for this patch, I'll be quite blunt in that I have no idea how an issue as catastrophic and unbalancing as the passive doubling was missed

My guess is a hurried release causing it to be missed in testing.