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You all need to understand what procedurally-generated actually is... It's not like the game engine creates those creatures from scratch every time. It has in its library some building stones (like Lego parts) with which it builds those creatures.
Right, and I think there is some kind of Uncanny Valley effect that happens in the human brain. We are pattern matchers par excellence, so we only need to see half a dozen examples of these randomized Mr. Potato Heads before we suss out that they are really all the same.
That's the Nobel Prize problem to crack. How do you either co-opt or subvert that pattern matching function of the brain? So that it thinks that what it's seeing is totally different, even when it's not really, at some fundamental, cost-effectively programmable level.
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Blair Brown @thefiddzz Constant tight deliverables followed by two weeks of producer related travel. The road to release has begun.
Huh...?
Release doesn't take this long...?
i really like pathfinder's setting but i REALLY don't like how focused on min/maxing the rules are. it's designed from the ground up by and for min/maxer's and autists. the rest of us normies have to play on crayon eater difficulty just to hit a target. j00t Fires Of Heaven www.firesofheaven.org/
From what I know it does. Console certification and so on....
Yah, but he said release. He didn't say console verification. Besides, console verification is usually done in stages.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that we might be expecting ME:A by the holidays of 2016, just like they said. All of this other stuff, this delay, etc, was merely a ruse. If you take a look at all the tweets, you'll see a definite rise in work load (if they are all being honest).
i really like pathfinder's setting but i REALLY don't like how focused on min/maxing the rules are. it's designed from the ground up by and for min/maxer's and autists. the rest of us normies have to play on crayon eater difficulty just to hit a target. j00t Fires Of Heaven www.firesofheaven.org/
From what I know it does. Console certification and so on....
Yah, but he said release. He didn't say console verification. Besides, console verification is usually done in stages.
He said the road 'to' release. As in the processes of meetings and shit that mark the tail end of development blah blah. It's probably a lot more then just Cert. Producers have a lot of hand shacking to do as it where. Making sure everythings in order, making sure the higher ups understand where they're at and all that.
I mean there's basically 5-ish months at most before it has to be gold. Has to be certified prior to that and each test takes at least a week. And that's only taking into account certification not all the other crap he probably has to deal with near the end of the project - which they very much are at.
From what I know it does. Console certification and so on....
Yah, but he said release. He didn't say console verification. Besides, console verification is usually done in stages.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that we might be expecting ME:A by the holidays of 2016, just like they said. All of this other stuff, this delay, etc, was merely a ruse.
He likely can't say 'console verification' or anything that specific, because then people could estimate the release date :/ Either way it seems that major work on game is done and they're now preparing for final touches and advert offensive.
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I dunno. I mean, there are only two consoles at this point, three if you include the Xbox Slim (and I'm not actually sure of the hardware in that). Companies get charged a boatload of cash before each certification, so... They had better make sure it's right the first time, or have extremely deep pockets. I dunno. I'm gonna stick to my guns and say holidays 2016. I'm thinking they're gonna pull a reverse NMS on us and release it before their stated release date. Or rather, what we're all thinking the release date might be.
i really like pathfinder's setting but i REALLY don't like how focused on min/maxing the rules are. it's designed from the ground up by and for min/maxer's and autists. the rest of us normies have to play on crayon eater difficulty just to hit a target. j00t Fires Of Heaven www.firesofheaven.org/
They don't get charged an absurd amount for each certification. Your thinking of patchs back during the 360 era. 'First patch was free, all other certs/releases costed a fee'. That was dropped nearly a year prior to XB1 launch. Cert for game launch isn't gonna cost them massive fees in cert, that wouldn't make much sense. Especially when it's a requirement to release and MS/Sony both make money off each sale - disc or otherwise.
It's still more likely they release early next year. Perhaps March, but I personally am hoping for sooner then march. If they where to release THIS year? They would flop hard into obscurity. We wont be getting any information or advertisement for it until Nov.7th, November is the last month for game releases. You don't release in December, you release before or after.
They need time to actually show the game off and build hype publicly before a big marketting push. They can't do that if they don't start till 2nd week of November and then release same month.
So no, we're looking at NEXT year, all be it could be earlier then march, though I'm thinking early march. Unless that whole 21st thing ends up being true which it very well might.
edit: As far as certification they're under heavy NDA not to talk about that, which is why you never hear much about it. They might say 'send final build off to cert' or something but that's as far as your gonna get. Some dev did a write up long time last year or something going into more detail while still remaining semi-vague due to having too. Was a good read though, wish I had a source to link.
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Huh? That's ridiculous. If they say "early 2017", it's going to be early 2017 at the earliest. These massive corporations don't do "ruses".
Surprise game releases don't just happen, especially when EA is a publicly listed company and has to tell investors about major changes in its earnings forecasts.