Of course they keep adding features, there's thousands of people with ideas, therefore allowing them to keep pushing back the release date, it's self-perpetuating and useful to CIG.
No. it gives us what the majority of us want, a space sim with no corner cuts. ITs not just the ships and how they fly, its the shis interiors. how it handles combat, landing, physics in space(or shall i say lack of), physics in diferent atmosphere in planets.
Then lets talk about your character physics, way your character moves in low gravity, in specific planets, amount of oxygen. temperature of character, food, water etc etc.
Planets: atmosphere, air dense, gravity, weather?, altitude, temperature, Day and night cycle, cities? caves. mountaints, wind, etc etc.
Now thats just a tiny sample of stuff SC is considering/ already is in game and RD2 doesnt have even a fraction of that
Look at the roadmaps from the past. Throw in some new ships to buy, some new shinies and some fluff and keep the masses happy.
Have you actually looked at the roadmap? Nope u have not. If you have, You would see them releasing new features, be it a major feature like object container stream, to being able to drag a dead body(coming in the next update) they are always adding, not removing stuff. Things get pushed back all the time. i work in the world of software engineer and things get pushed back. You assume its **** easy to develop stuff in code. There is a reason why us developers get paid what we do because its not simple!
How is it a tiny game compared to SC? SC isn't even a game.
READ MY FIRST REPLY STATING MANY STUFF THIS CAME HAS VS RD2
Again what's so ambitious about it? It's space but there's nothing in it. It's empty.
AGAIN, you clearly have not played this AT ALL. there is a lot to do in this game already. There are TONS AND TONS of missions you can do and different types, from doing simple deliveries to infantrating a bunker on foot, fps style to unting down actual player bounties and dog fighting them and even smuggig drugs and selling them off without being spotted and chased by the po po.
I diddnt even mention all the other trading stuff you can do, weapons, armour, tools and even miming at all....
They added a new engine, and that new engine and servers can't handle the "game" as it is now, as a shallow barebones buggy mess, so any "ambition" left to fulfil isn't going to come to fruition.
Umm the new engine is basically a blank piece of paper, they put what was done before into that piece of paper, now its time to connect it all up together(server meshing) and watch this game truelly take off(no pun).
I can go hours playing ths without a crash, IT is far far stable and less buggy then the 4 year old game i played when i first backed this game.
YEA i been trying this out since 2015 and the game was definetly barebones back then, i never droped a single penny after buying the game until i saw enough content and enough progress to justify it and now i do and CIG cannot turn back and ditch this project anymore as there too far deep into it now
8 years in and $250M spent and they still haven't got a game, but they do have an ongoing games as a service business, which provides a living for probably close to a 800 people if not more overall, that's what backers are funding, an enterprise that is no different from any other, except with other business you do actually get a finished product for your money and you just pay once for it.
When are you expecting SQ42 and SC to release exactly? SQ42 is six years late, with 600 devs working for CIG, and they prioritised dev of SQ42 for years...[
SQ42 had to be ported into the new engine too and various tech you see in SC, had to be done on SC first and then onto SQ42,
SQ42 will be ready before SC
