[JimmyGaming]

This is my favorite game ever, I will never quit!

[brunocasado]

its alpha man. There is a lot of fun in this game. Take more patient.

[Foorun]

Can you give me a hand up on to the bandwagon?

[Trans_LFE]

Peace out..considering the game is already purchased, See you in the future.

[JimmyGaming]

I knew the game was alpha when I bought it.. but just saying "alpha" doesn't excuse the terrible communication skills this company has with its backers.

[elixwhitetail]

JimmyGaming posted:

I knew the game was alpha when I bought it.. but just saying "alpha" doesn't excuse the terrible communication skills this company has with its backers.

You knew what you were getting, and then you're complaining that it wasn't conducted in exactly the pace and manner you expected.

Sounds like you didn't know what you were getting after all.

[sehvi]

You'll be back. :)

Best thing i can say to everyone who's being frustrated by the 'lack' of updates is: go play something else for a while. Then come back when there's new stuff.

I get that it's frustrating. I love the hell out of this game and i would love for it to be more in depth. But they are currently working on a lot of core issues i guess. Planning to redo the whole terrain generation and maybe adding a voxel based engine to the game is a big big change to the core. It might not add a lot of new content to the game right away, but it does however make up for tons of new possibilities in the future.

All i can say is take a break of a month or two and i guess you'll be more than happy to play again.

[JimmyGaming]

elixwhitetail posted:

You knew what you were getting, and then you're complaining that it wasn't conducted in exactly the pace and manner you expected.

Sounds like you didn't know what you were getting after all.

Well when you look at previous update blogs and there is a consistency, at least weekly, you then buy the game... thinking cool we are all in the loop at least every week.

Then there goes almost month with no blog update, to me it seems facepunch is on hiatus drinking $1000 bottles of wine with our cash, id laugh at us too

[mclmrtn]

JimmyGaming posted:

I have 500+ hours up, also own my own server.. love the game... But the total lack of updates is just getting beyond a joke.

For the last month I have been telling myself, just another week and there will be something of substance. But no, there is absolutely nothing...

I know the game is in alpha, but you are still buying something that is being developed. In my opinion the ball has been dropped and a shoddily scrambled list of apparent bug fixes will not suffice this time as an "update".

This big update they promised all of us when they removed zombies...was made about 2 months ago. And still nothing.

The game is seeming to be getting worse.. foundation glitches, airdrops (still not working)... its getting so stale..

Bai

No one but your friends who you play Rust with care if or why you're leaving.

[sehvi]

I get that it's frustrating. But if you follow the Trello you see that they are working on a lot of things right now. I think they're also planning for a lot of those things to release in one big update. You never know though.

Like i said: just take a break. Getting frustrated over this is simply not worth the time.

[utilitron]

How long do you think it takes to write a farming system? Or add controller support? Or rewrite the terrain engine. Or rewrite the ui. Or rewrite the resource generation engine. Or add the code to make a bear trap work?

So many people with unreasonable expectations.

[mclmrtn]

JimmyGaming posted:

Well when you look at previous update blogs and there is a consistency, at least weekly, you then buy the game... thinking cool we are all in the loop at least every week.

Then there goes almost month with no blog update, to me it seems facepunch is on hiatus drinking $1000 bottles of wine with our cash, id laugh at us too

They've had conferences and things to attend as well. It's important for these guys to stay on top of the technology that is coming down the pike so that they can design their software with the future in mind. Garry is also looking into acquiring a voxel engine that will allow us to dig. There's more going on behind the scenes than just developing. If you read all of the different sources of information you'd see the communication between Devs and community is just fine.

[JimmyGaming]

utilitron posted:

How long do you think it takes to write a farming system? Or add controller support? Or rewrite the terrain engine. Or rewrite the ui. Or rewrite the resource generation engine. Or add the code to make a bear trap work?

So many people with unreasonable expectations.

Because farming is exactly what we need right now... lol

[mclmrtn]

JimmyGaming posted:

Because farming is exactly what we need right now... lol

It will be if most of the meat we can eat happens to be irradiated. You don't know what other items are being worked up and planned for implementation. You need to start acting like an adult, assuming you are one, and be patient. If you want content rich software, stop investing in Early Access/Alphas

[utilitron]

JimmyGaming posted:

I knew the game was alpha when I bought it.. but just saying "alpha" doesn't excuse the terrible communication skills this company has with its backers.

They update the trello site regularly.
Also, no where does it say they have to communicate jack to us. They do it as a courtesy.

[Sievers808]

No one cares, they already have your money.

[JimmyGaming]

utilitron posted:

They update the trello site regularly.
Also, no where does it say they have to communicate jack to us. They do it as a courtesy.

So many people are happy to get greedily teabagged. Its disgusting

[utilitron]

JimmyGaming posted:

Because farming is exactly what we need right now... lol

Who cares what you need. It is a huge piece of the core code that needs to be written.

Bug fixes at this point should only keep the game playable. Let them concentrate on adding content and feature systems.

[elixwhitetail]

JimmyGaming posted:

Well when you look at previous update blogs and there is a consistency, at least weekly, you then buy the game... thinking cool we are all in the loop at least every week.

Then there goes almost month with no blog update, to me it seems facepunch is on hiatus drinking $1000 bottles of wine with our cash, id laugh at us too

Let's actually look at those blog posts.

http://playrust.com/updateless-week/

Sorry guys, no real updates this week. There was a lot of moaning last week about the lack of ‘new stuff’ in that update. So we’re looking at ways to bring you ‘new stuff’ faster. Getting the foundations for this is going to take longer than a week.

(emphasis mine)

Helk has started working on Farming. It’s what it sounds like. We need to explore a bunch of performance issues we may or may not have with the system – so this is taking longer than expected too.

Also, new GUI and the item editor.


http://playrust.com/25th-febuary-update/

The biggest most obvious change in this update is the new sky. We’re still tweaking to get it looking how we want it to look.

So why bother? There’s hundreds of other things you want – why bother changing the stupid sky? Well I’m glad you asked. The old sky was a slow horrible FPS killer. It rendered using two cameras.. which induces a bug in Unity that meant we couldn’t (without a bit of hacking around) have refraction effects in game. Everyone should see a nice framerate boost thanks to the sky being replaced. And it renders in a single camera – which means we’re free to use the refraction effects again (so expect to see pixelated penises again).

As a happy consequence of the sky being replaced, we were able to bring you much better looking water. We expect water to play a bigger role in the game as we push forward (instead of the death plane that it currently is). So having it not look terrible anymore is a big win for us.

We hired the new sky’s creator, André Straubmeier last week and as well as improving the sky for Rust, he’s been making Linux and OSX work properly. So Linux and OSX users should now see the grass being rendered properly and be able to join the game with high graphics settings (which is apparently caused by compiling for 64bit, we’re going to investigate that further).

http://playrust.com/status-report-002/

We are blown away by the popularity of Rust so far. It doesn’t even seem real yet. Our original plan was to release on Steam Early Access, without making a big deal of it, and slowly build up a bigger fan base by releasing regular updates, until we reached a point where we felt the game was ready for a bigger audience – and then start advertising it and bringing more people in. The unjustifiable popularity is both a blessing and a curse.

It’s a blessing because we’ve sold 750,000 copies in a month and a half, and this is an amount we never even imagined selling over the game’s lifetime. We’ve been the number one best seller for two weeks, we never imagined ever being listed. Rust has already made us 2/3rds the amount of money that Garry’s Mod has made in 8 years – and we never imagined reaching GMod’s popularity ever again. We’ve been the fourth most played game on Steam at points, reaching 50,000 online players – this is more than we could have ever dreamed of.

But it’s also a curse because the amount of people playing has kind of given us a sensory overload. We see all these amazing things happening, voices from all directions, ideas, bugs, cheaters.. and we’re scrambling to catch up with everything. So please don’t be offended if we’re not doing what you want us to, if we don’t respond to emails or tweets, if we’re not administrating the servers properly. We are still adjusting our trajectory, there’s still a lot we want to do.

If you look, the changes they have been making are major, sweeping, foundational changes. These are changes that take time and don't add a lot to immediate gameplay, but what they do is allow the entire process to run smoother on the long run. You are here to watch the concrete being poured for the foundations. It won't be a livable house with paint on the sides for a while yet. You need to learn patience.

[Bobylein]

How old are you? Just be patient and wait, don't except that you get new toys every week.
If you can't wait play another game in the meantime, there is no problem with that.
It's pathetic how people demand continuous updates at least every few days.

[utilitron]

JimmyGaming posted:

So many people are happy to get greedily teabagged. Its disgusting

What level of communication would you be comfortable with? If regular updates on trello and weekly updates, communication through twitter, and Facebook, garry and other devs posting on this forum...

Do you need a sleepover at Garry's house so you can spoon him and talk about your concerns?

[JimmyGaming]

Bobylein posted:

It's pathetic how people demand continuous updates at least every few months.

Edited:

utilitron posted:

Do you need a sleepover at Garry's house so you can spoon him and talk about your concerns?

If it means a decent update.... I would take one for the team I guess..

Does that make me a prostitute?

[utilitron]

New FPS counter

[Prov3rbial]

So... Who is supposed to care that you're leaving? These threads are temper tantrums by ignorant little children who aren't getting their way. It's probably better that you leave.

bai

[JimmyGaming]

utilitron posted:

New FPS counter

Holy crap!

[garychencool]

bye

[RBMK1000]

@JimmyGaming:

You obviously know shit about developing a game. There's no fucking point in adding a shitload of new content when they are still busy with coding and adding basic stuff that will be the framework for everything else.

So sick of all these spoiled brats already.