Important BETA RELEASE DISCUSSION - DECEMBER 4TH (*ALL* beta discussion goes here. Other threads deleted)

Beta's not coming out this month.

 

Can a man dream? Can we all dream for something wonderful?

 

With the amount of people that pre-ordered I can almost assure that somebody will. Still, it's unreasonable to expect a level of optimization that would make such a setup possible.

 

There are no dreams here... Just shattered hopes, and regret...

Oh, and this game called Starbound.

 

Okay, just to be clear, I haven't seen that many streams due to never paying attention for them and such.

That said, the only time I'd seen any kind of performance issue at all was when Tiy edited one of the grappling hook items to make him go ridiculously fast, such that the game couldn't keep up with him(and thus forcibly stopping him when he tried to move outside the area that was loaded). When that happened, I believe he mentioned being on a crappy laptop as the cause and that even then it wouldn't have been a problem if he wasn't streaming.

Now, I don't know if that was the worst case example or not, but if it is, I'd say it's already optimized pretty decently

 

Well, the game isn't here yet, but it will be here soon.

But until then, help yourself to some shattered hopes and regret, theres plenty for everybody.

 

I stand in the rubble, the ruins of the monument I once knew as "my life." On my knees. Hands to the air. Tears in my eyes. I look to the smog that covers the once blue sky. "STARBOUND!," I roar.

Falling into the dirt, I crawl over to what remains of my computer. As I flick the touchpad my computer springs to life. "Estimated Release Date: 2013," reads the screen. I rack my brain. How many hours had passed since I last saw this screen. How much more blood must be spilled in my incessant wait? Am I doomed to forever stay at the edge of my proverbial seat?

Rolling over, sweat soaked from the anxiety the beta release has weighed upon my psyche, I stare into the murky abyss. When, dear Lord, will my day come? Where... I ask myself... is beta?

 

Wait guys, I get it.

This IS Starbound.

Think about it: A system that brought together a community that logs countless hours 'playing' by fighting (pvp) in a controlled arena (the thread).

This is genius, guys I'm actually doing well in an MMO environment!

I wonder what end-game is...

 

Death. As is the end-game for us all.

 

And now I'm sad.

 

Um, I thought the reason for this thread was to keep from having numerous similar discussions all over the place on the topic of 'beta'. Pretty sure I heard that as the rationalisation for it, and I remember thinking that it was a pretty sound one. Topics usually get merged or locked when there is more than one active one on the same subject. Since the beta is a hot topic, this thread and the instruction in the title is an attempt to prevent those other threads from occurring in the first place.

As for the issues, what makes you think that they haven't been heard, or that CF is in denial about them?

 

Pet peeve: so far as I know, "lag" refers to latency problems. High ping, dropped packets, so on. It could be that hosting a listen server across an ocean (Leth being American and Bartwe being Dutch) would generate some latency problems!

"Lag," in my opinion, does not and should not refer to performance problems. Call them performance issues, bad framerate, stuttering, whatever, but don't call 'em lag. If Leth was referring to lag, he could have easily been talking about latency, since they were hosting a listen server across a goddamn ocean.

 

what you don't realize is were already dead and this is limbo . join the party we have Hawaiian t-shirts and drinks with umbrellas.

 

Development Purgatory.

 

Is silence not taken as an admission of guilt?

 

Not really. That logic is horribly flawed

 

no i'm afraid your logic is

in a court of law, yes it is. in this forum like everything it's debatable .

 

If this entire webspace was instead devoted to two monkeys, we would argue over our opinions about the monkeys.

 

How so?
Seems to have worked for at least 25 years.