I think a lot of people missed the reason behind the Early Access. They need access to the Steamworks dev kit, and the only way to get that is to either do launch the game or do an Early Access. Let's hope that means we get better (worldwide) servers too.
Absolutely, but like majority of posters said, the biggest part of the problem is the wider audience who will not care that much about what was the cause of a decision like this, and some of them will probably develop an opinion of their own which they will write down in the comments part which might turn out to be detrimental when some of the future customers get down on deciding whether to buy the game or not. And it's not like EC is overly hyped game outside this community. I haven't worked much with steamworks SDK and although I heard it's quite easy to implement down the development line, I guess that's their decision and it'll hopefully be a good one. As for better servers, I'm with you on hoping that was the part of the deal made as well.
but the alternative is to be stuck in an eternal closed alpha that eventually will fade out and be forgotten by all the players and nobody will care when the game will be released on early access or on complete release. the game is already "late" the release date was supposed to be end of 2015 when announced, if they wait too much the game will fade out from the radars.
That is, assuming it ever was on any radars outside of various 40k communities. And even if there is some hype for this game from the wider audience, it can(and most likely will) turn into disappointment or even outright hatred when the game is released in this stage. Not to mention that it's better to attract people who never heard about the game(i.e the majority of Steam users) with a good and playable Early Access game than to release a very raw game for those few that remember that this game exist but don't care enough to buy a Founder Pack(as well as repulse that majority which cares only about the game being good right here and right now). Lets not get delusional. People who were hyped about this game are already playing it. The rest either don't care or don't know. There is also a certain amount of people who are hyped but don't want to buy into the game right now because of its current state, but releasing it into EA won't change their opinion. And last but not least. People will care about the game once it's released, provided it's actually good enough. Because the end goal of this game is something that wasn't explored very much. In fact, it will probably work better if the wider audience doesn't know about the game until it's more polished. Because then they will have a good game that suddenly appeared on Steam. Instead, they will get a broken game and will become gradualy disillusioned in it when it takes too long to become what it strives to be.
I dont know whats wrong with other peoples set ups but ive been able to run 60 fps ultra since around the 2nd or 3rd patch, nvidia geforce 770
It's entirely random. Most people, even with better cards than yours have terrible frame rates. In fact, you can even see that devs can't maintain stable 60 on Pegasus on their PCs.
Im running 2500k @4.2ghz. With a gtx980ti watercooled. The darn thing is at 1550mhz overclock and matches. Gtx970sli performance. Does it matter to Ec? Lets just say im rocking mad 20 fps.
https://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/developmenttools.php TLDR: It's for Devs so the game works with Steam. Edit: Or I'm completely wrong and @Oveur was talking about a "Dev Kit" from http://steamworks.com/
