heres 2 posts I made on another thread http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/launch-post-launch-list.55502/ I've joined them together as a single post the old founders who survived Miguel and the coming of Nathan (crusher of dreams) already had our share of disillusionment and were taking everything we were told with large grains of salt until we saw how things played out, for instance when I joined back in 2013 I was sceptical and doubtfull, EC was promising to be a lot, a huge game changer ... then after a couple of months of having the devs explain how it would work and how it was going to work I started to believe and I joined the choir, accepting that some things would have to be the way they were going to be to allow for truely massive battles ... like simple mechanics, less detailed graphics and maps etc etc ... and the mantra was "K.I.S.S" (keep it simple stupid) then pikkotech self immolated and it all went out the window ... everything was up for grabs again as we had our horizons reefed back in, but in the mean time the game went out into Early Access and a whole raft of new people from steam climbed onboard and myself and many others were forced to recite the mantra of "its only alpha, its a WiP" to answer the hundreds of questions that raised their heads again ... and eventually they too started to join the choir singing the "alpha, WiP", the "road to the open world" was no different .... the old founders read it and saw what might be and what might not be, but plenty of others read it and believed every word as law, we all sat back and watched with diminishing hope as feature after feature got slowly cut from launch and fell into the post launch bucket, but like all bucket systems it can only hold so much before you start to wonder why the post launch bucket was growing so large, the other part of the problem is the way this news is getting revealed... bE always made a big deal about transperancy ... "we work for you", and it was like that up until nathan arrived and we had radio silence for months before the info started to flow again, but this time more censored ... more restrained, less dev theorising and more "we dont know yet, we cant say yet", but it seems that every now and then the dam breaks and a flood of "delayed until post launch/thats the way we mean it to be" spills out and usually through a third party source .. by which I mean not on the forums or on "our" twitchs, but by interviews, and every time the same thing happens ... people felt lied to because they wernt told up front, because they had to find out via other people posting links to the "new info" on the forum, TL/DR we get told one thing here on the forums ... and some people misread it, or interpret it and get the wrong idea, it works its way through the forum like chinese whispers where only the way they see it or like it being emphasised each time ... until enough people have the wrong idea, meanwhile we get no new info, no dev deconfirmation or clarification on the forum so it all seems kosher, then from out of the blue new info appears from outside and we are all like "WTF thats not what we were told it was going to be like"
Eventually we find out things about this continually dumbed-down Official Release, and it's often from third parties. It's like pulling teeth finding out how exactly bE can confidently make such stupendous claims like "One Mega Server", "single-universe-open-world-Skyrim-RPG-with-1000-player-battles", "10 years of support", "Fully Funded Game", etc. The Camera Switch function should have been implemented into this game a long time ago, as it's a very common feature in Third Person Shooters this day and age, so it's no surprise that people are still "crying why it's not there".
legally they already are, they don't are the boss, they don't are layer and they have multiple bosses. in addition to the fact that they are not an hive mind.
Ask and you shall receive. For real though what the literal fuck, I originally thought the devs were posting some dank memes but holy shit this has gone full retard.
And the general conclusion which we could make after this post is quite simple.Old founders (especially those, who came in 2013 and supported devs long ago,created hype-wave to help the project) and a group of new founders does not BElieve the BEhaviour anymore.
So. I'm curious to know if the Garrison will serve as an in game hang out spot or will people have to sit in a lobby waiting for a game like they do now? Even if the stategic layer is implemented in the absolute bare bones fashion that it's going to be, having a place other than the UI lobby to be would be loads better to give the game some persistence and MMO feel to it.
I heard they plan for this. Everything they have in the current HUB will be available in the Garrison eventually. When this happens, no idea. I would like a TK arena while waiting in queue instead of staring at tiny boxes in the top right of my screen.
