Could we get some communication going?

(n-x) #1

It seems that the communication from SD completely stopped in the last weeks /months. Shoe is just posting announcements and that’s it. His last comment is over 2 weeks old (march 24th). What is going on?

They let us believe for months that something would happen to special edition gen 1 cards, just to casually say on reddit, after someone pushed for an answer, that they never had plans to do something.

People were speculating over Turtle just to hear after ages, that they currently not working on him at all.

XP in ranked is bugged (will we get the XP on which we missed out during the bug or not). When will it be fixed?

What happened to the revamped crafting system that was promised after the last “improvement” to the crafting system?

Lot of people report freezes and the general performance of the game seems to diminish.

Could you please at least try to stay on top of stuff like this and communicate it better? Wasnt there some promise to be more transparent. And please dont let the game get into the state again that you need another 3 summer squashes.

(TheStrangerous) #2

There used to be streams, whatever happened to those?

(pumpkinmeerkat) #3

Phased out in favor of weekly video updates where we learn what steam users are complaining about :’(

Brutal honesty aside, I’m sure they’re still working on filling all the positions that came with the split from Nexon while also prepping for the release of a big piece of new content (#dockyardhype). I believe Shoe said there would be streams when big changes or additions to the game were made so fingers crossed for a dev stream next month.

(Sawbonez) #4

I thought streams are gone because Nexon left? Didn’t RazielWarmonic run all the streams?

(Szakalot) #5

tbh:

stuff i dont care about

stuff i dont care about

turtle

stuff i dont care about

stuff i dont care about

performance was always a rollercoaster between patches, nothing new here (some people get improvements, some people start complaining)

(Mc1412013) #6

[quote=“n-x;d-36179”]It seems that the communication from SD completely stopped in the last weeks /months. Shoe is just posting announcements and that’s it. His last comment is over 2 weeks old (march 24th). What is going on?

They let us believe for months that something would happen to special edition gen 1 cards, just to casually say on reddit, after someone pushed for an answer, that they never had plans to do something.

People were speculating over Turtle just to hear after ages, that they currently not working on him at all.

XP in ranked is bugged (will we get the XP on which we missed out during the bug or not). When will it be fixed?

What happened to the revamped crafting system that was promised after the last “improvement” to the crafting system?

Lot of people report freezes and the general performance of the game seems to diminish.

Could you please at least try to stay [quote=“TheStrangerous;c-225224”]There used to be streams, whatever happened to those?[/quote]

Sd didnt want to do them ad raz was doing them. No nexon no raz. towards the end raz was becoming burnt out doing the streams. Which she talked about in her farewell db twitch stream id post the link but uper mgnt aparently was upset i posted about the stream and deleted the whole 2-3 pg thread

(Xenithos) #7

CEO of Splash Damage did say that a lot of their promises WERE still in the works when Sagan on Roids left. INCLUDING your mention of special edition gen 1 cards being able to be swapped to 2nd gen or some equivalent change to the loadouts system.

“People were speculating over Turtle just to hear after ages, that they currently not working on him at all.” Exactly. Speculation. Nothing more.

As for revamped crafting system, that’s going to take a lot of time, and it IS further back on their burner. Right now, people are far more interested in content than another system to confuse or piss people off. And honestly? It’s far cheaper to make a cobalt than it used to be, so for me personally, I’m good.

Finally, your whole “reports of freezes and general perfomance issues?” SD has announced several things RECENTLY that they will be putting people on later. Specifically, a deployables and ability use overhaul to make all uses of abilities and deployables much smoother and less clunkier. They admitted this needed work not even three weeks ago with the Fletcher issues in their initial release of fire in the skies I believe.

A lot of their performances in maps and etc. has been VASTLY improved since the MOFO update. There are occasional weird patches, but not as unstable as some were before the MOFO update.

I’m not sure what post you’re referring to where he said they weren’t looking to offer some middle ground between first and second edition of loadout cards. I DO know they’re not currently working on a third edition of loadout cards.

(n-x) #8

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dirtybomb/comments/5y96z2/to_devs_any_plans_to_add_more_progression_into/deoe678/

and there was a huge thread about the possible update of gen 1 SE card to gen 2. Nobody posted in there to clarify that it wont happen. Oh yeah, and that week in shoes video lack of controller support was one of the 3 hot issues.

My point is that there was an unnecessary hype building up. They could have managed this month ago. and not let people get their hopes up.

I am sure it takes a lot of time, but they announced the revamp ages ago. It is not like they announced it yesterday. And if they are working on new content, what could it be, that takes away the resources from the crafting revamp? Btw. I dont care much about the crafting system either. my point is the lack of communication in this matter. announcing something and then go silent.

I guess this is a misunderstanding. I didnt say anything about this.

(bushyg) #9

We’re suppose to be ecstatic that we’re getting a new map after waiting for 2 years.

(Melinder) #10

Can’t appreciate a new map when your screen is grey :slight_smile:

(K1X455) #11

Bug fixes… bug fixes… :confused:

We we’re on the verge of implementing a firmware fix on uber glorious 0.26fps but casualties ran high.

(Cletus_VanDamme) #12

lol

@stayfreshshoe

  1. What happened to the crafting fix you were working on 7 months ago?
  2. What happened to the upgrading of Gen 1 SE loadouts that our past community manager mentioned?
(TheStrangerous) #13

I’d wait 1 month for an hour long stream, revealing useful info, instead of Shoe’s video per week.

(LifeupOmega) #14

Streams were entirely set up by Raz, shoe. has his own personal stream.

(NightfIy) #15

Streams were entirely set up by Raz, shoe. has his own personal stream.[/quote]

We used to have streams before Raz and also had streams that were hosted only by SD without Nexon where we could ask questions directly to the different folks in charge of different departments/roles. I think we had up to 3 streams per week at one point

(Nail) #16

[quote=“K1X455;c-225255”]Bug fixes… bug fixes… :confused:

We we’re on the verge of implementing a firmware fix on uber glorious 0.26fps but casualties ran high. [/quote]

as you’re the only one reporting this .26 fps, I’d say it’s on your end, what would you like, someone from SD to come to your basement and fix your computer for you ?

(bgyoshi) #17

Why in god’s name would you ever try and kill hype for your product? Hype, true or not, makes sales happen. Any press is good press if people start noticing your products. The band Ohio Players were intentionally vague when people speculated they accidentally recorded someone being murdered on set for their song Love Rollercoaster. Obviously a false and serious accusation, but it sold records. If people are speculating about a class on their own, why shut them down and dash their hopes?

And then people screeched about bugs, and screeched about Ranked, and screeched about balance, and then SD left Nexon and lost employees. Give them a break lol

(BazBling) #18

Streams were entirely set up by Raz, shoe. has his own personal stream.[/quote]

We used to have streams before Raz and also had streams that were hosted only by SD without Nexon where we could ask questions directly to the different folks in charge of different departments/roles. I think we had up to 3 streams per week at one point[/quote]

Yeah… RIP the days of Miss Murder and Jordie Gamergirl :unamused:

(Xenithos) #19

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dirtybomb/comments/5y96z2/to_devs_any_plans_to_add_more_progression_into/deoe678/

and there was a huge thread about the possible update of gen 1 SE card to gen 2. Nobody posted in there to clarify that it wont happen. Oh yeah, and that week in shoes video lack of controller support was one of the 3 hot issues.

I guess this is a misunderstanding. I didnt say anything about this.[/quote]
[b]Reply to what you said @n-x :[b]
[spoiler]And he clearly told people they weren’t going to be adding controller support because people on PC will blow you away. 0.o As for the the final comment I said, it was a misunderstanding because I wasn’t fully sure if you were meaning the change between first edition to second edition cards, or if you meant for third edition cards, which people on the forums JOKED about, but nothing was ever said this way or that.[/spoiler]

As for the other two messages, I am VERY surprised since that directly/indirectly conflicts with what was mentioned by the CEO of SD:

[spoiler]PaulWedgwoodSplash Damage CEO 42 points 4 months ago
Hi Sagan! I’m Locki (Richard’s co-founder and CEO of SD.) I’m sometimes active on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram talking about current plans for DB, but not on Reddit before (hello everyone!)
It’s quite frustrating to read your list of issues, know what we have planned, but not be able to immediately satisfy you because of confidentiality… However! What I can say is it’s not quite true that’s it’s our game and we can do what we want right now, but we have something big to announce very shortly that will change all that.
What I can tel you is that every feature in your list (except melle 2.0 - i don’t know what that is) and referees commands (is that OSP style?) are in a plan we’re writing right now. We’ve been waiting till we’re able to do DB properly, and it feels like we’re days away.
Oh and friendly fire off on publics? How will they learn?!?!?! :slight_smile:
By the way I loved your videos. I’m not letting you leave DB. Let’s have a call! Shoe or Richard roll give you my number.
Heller everyone else! Pretty scared of Reddit so go easy on me!
Paul/Locki CEO @ Splash Damage[/spoiler]
[spoiler]This was part of Sagan’s message

So… if they never make gen 1 stuff viable, at least we have future customizations that are ACTUALLY customizations available and coming soon™[/spoiler]

You have all of ^^^that^^^ to look forward to when SD gets enough people in and the production really starts rolling. Until the CEO says otherwise, as he has already mentioned that customization of cards and weapons and attachments etc IS ON THEIR PLANS.
Things are going to take time.
If it took 4 months just to separate from Nexon, which those of us who could read in-between the lines realized, then it’s going to take longer for them to really get going. Okay?

Also, not sure of the actual amount, but i read quite a bit of that chicken trade article that was floating around on the forums, and it seems SD has gotten well over 200mil euros to continue producing DB and their other games. So please, don’t get discouraged.

(n-x) #20

Why in god’s name would you ever try and kill hype for your product? Hype, true or not, makes sales happen. Any press is good press if people start noticing your products. The band Ohio Players were intentionally vague when people speculated they accidentally recorded someone being murdered on set for their song Love Rollercoaster. Obviously a false and serious accusation, but it sold records. If people are speculating about a class on their own, why shut them down and dash their hopes?

And then people screeched about bugs, and screeched about Ranked, and screeched about balance, and then SD left Nexon and lost employees. Give them a break lol

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The thing with the band and whats going on with Turtle is not comparable. And in the end they shut everybody down by admitting they are not even working on him. A hype is good if there is something at the end.

And I dont ask for a new crafting system tomorrow. But after 7 months (is it 7 months now?) it would be time for some information or did the new crafting system went the same road as the new bug reporting they wanted to introduce after jordi left?

@Xenithos Yeah, I remember he answered the controller question. But if you checked steam and the forum nobody cared about controller support. people had other issues. one were the Gen 1 SE to Gen 2.

And, my point is not development speed. I am aware they are a small studio. My problem is the absolute lack of communication. That they let the community in the dark and also run into the wrong direction for months.