Far Cry 4 - Day-One PC Updates Revealed
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southamptonfc
The game had a planned Christmas release date, everything works back from there. Unless a game is REALLY REALLY screwed, a release candidate must be produced x weeks before then to allow testing etc.
As long as there are no 'stop ship' issues, the release candidate will become the first GA version and the game will be released on the planned date. Fixing 'minor' issues can then commence.
This is a fact of life with software development, especially games nowadays.
kinggavin
stevevnicks
nhlkoho
MrMean3r
Ok, so the developers are all keen to release the game, in all it buggy glory, and it ends up coming out with a 10TB day one update that is mandatory before playing the game. I can understand that it's a competitive industry and that updates are difficult to work in and blah blah blah.
What I wonder is how difficult it would be to release an updated version of the game a month or so later?
Or maybe just another disc that only contains the updates to be sold with the game so that retailers don't have to worry about old stock. I would totally wait a month just to get a version of the game that I can play without having to string out my slow South African internet connection for a month.
sw1000xg
Redemption80
Every game is buggy on release though..
If people stop buying all PC games they will have nothing to play and all the fear mongering "PC gaming is dying" will start again.
ScoobyDooby
s31sm1c
sw1000xg
sw1000xg
Loobyluggs
darkshadow5k5
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Please stop it with your baseless bashing garbage posts please:).
You think being on UE or CT makes you safe from optimisation and platform discrepancies? Also those engines have a ****ton of middleware built into them you might not even want, plus you become dependant on support from those companies.
Larger companies want their own tech, because it's better to manage and can be built specifically for what they need.
Take off those rose tinted glasses.
..What?
Xendance
Aura89
So, i'm confused with all these people complaining about day one patches. Sure, would we all LOVE to have bug free games? obviously. But Have most of you tried to build a game? no? and if so, is a bug free game possible? No. Trying to make sure the bugs are to a minimum is what as a developer you want to do. And if your publisher is saying, release these game by this time, that's what you must do.
As to the annoyance of day 1 patches, would you rather they stop working on the game once it has gone "gold" and not continue to try and iron out any bugs they either knew about, or have found since going "gold"? You have two options, get a buggy game, as all games with the complexity that games are these days will always have bugs, and not have developers work on it until after the game has release, or, hope that the developers continue to work on the game and give a day 1 patch....
darkshadow5k5
scrapser
Reading the changelog reveals what are in fact the show-stoppers for me...and those are, "takedown" and "crafting". This strongly suggests FC4 will function just like FC3 with a dumbed-down user interface and Simon Says controls complete with screen prompts and heavily scripted missions. Most likely it will include boss levels that play like a coin-op arcade (i.e., Dragon's Lair) and a plethora of extra-curricular, carnival like side-show activities as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the player is tasked with finding and killing a golden-haired Yeti and skinning it to craft the largest wallet in the game.
I'm sure many will revel in the perceived all so important graphics to the exclusion of everything else. But to be sure, there are many people who enjoy a cleverly thought out game that includes story depth, game interaction, control and in-game features that do not go overboard to the point of destroying the suspension of disbelief. This is the current reality of the Far Cry franchise.
Loobyluggs
CPC_RedDawn