Hey Star Citizen has play able content and is really not that bad at the current state, if it was worth the money and time is another discussion, but it‘s not so bad how ppl often make it out to be.
Wait as far as I know, it wouldn’t really matter, cause DC is only making art now, he doesn’t code etc. and on steam you could see he already done some (all?) Rhonda content. Tagging j4yj4m he is watching the streams, right?
The 16:9 is really meant to be for those who play on mobile, which by now, as far as I recall, seem to be the majority of "official players" who download the game from DC's sources. Else it's certainly true that everybody will benefit from the additional space for interactions, the bigger map, a possible new UI, etc.
Given that, as far as I know, the background stuff kinda was his old job before he started working on SS, he probably enjoys them quite a bit and doesn't want to compromise. Then again, they are a significant upside compared to many, many other games who don't care about such things/details at all. I'm pretty sure that the game would just be "less good" if he'd rush his backgrounds like so many others do.
While the lack of scenes is a major downside, it's not like that's anything new. The game has always been "weak" on the NSFW stuff compared to many others and one could even argue that the tech update actually helped here, given that we got/will get ~18 scenes which we likely wouldn't haven gotten (now or at all) without it. I'd like to have more scenes, too, but it's not like I'm surprised that there are comparatively few...
While he's working on Ronda's stuff, I'd guess it's still far from being done. I haven't followed that many streams in the last weeks/months, though.
Bad project management has plagued this game. But I also remember when the groupthink was "art is the bottleneck" and those of us pointing out out wasn't, it was project management, were shot down. This tech update has been a farce.
The tech update is indeed the first update were art wasn't the bottleneck. They simply missjudged the effort/time that was needed to recode and repose the game big time (or they did change their plans in the process, who knows?). But just because something is true now, doesn't mean it was true in the past. Art has been the bottleneck for years, which is why until now everybody but DC actually worked part time on the game. There was just no way that DC drawing assets could fully utilize a writer, coder and poser. That changed for now.
Yes, though I have no idea to which degree that's actually the case, but it does look like the changes will be quite significant. DC actually wanted to change the whole UI, too, but it seems that has been postponed for now.
The bigger part of the update aside the 16:9 background was always recoding the entire game from the ground up (or close enough). That's what was needed and what DC polled the 1st time. We also wouldn't have got any lewds in-between, he just made them so that people would get something to do while they recoded. I'm not mad at you, at least you managed post stuff without going the fulltard way like the rest of the thread
What a Legend is made by a couple, they can't really half-ass themselves when the other dev is your spouse (or whatever if they're not married). Maybe they split the tasks more evenly than 1 for art and 1 for everything else.
As far as I'm aware chestnut draws and magicnuts indeed does basically everything else. They actually tried to hire a sketch artist some time ago, but it looks like that didn't help them as much as they may have hoped.
Nope, it's been there pretty much from day 1 and nothing is known about it. Probably DC thought he'd be done with SS years ago and moved on to other stuff, but then people started to throw massive $ at him and he went "welp, might as well keep going" and didn't bother changing the Patreon thingy
Aside the extreme Engrish, we got ~12 scenes in 10 months, more than many "real" updates, so whining we get nothing is pretty fail. The tech update was needed since before Erik's route when you had to pray RNGesus liked you enough to not fuck your save game every new build. They did kinda fix that along the years but the code was and still is hot garbage. You'll have to deal with it : either they do a massive overhaul now or the game fucks itself every update cause the base is wonky at best. What they did wrong is presume they'd be done within months and hype up the release last year, but that's nothing new
Thing is : you can actually see what they're doing with SS. You can get a giantass tracker with everything listed in details when you Patron DC (10$+ might be a bit harsh though) and the Discord has the devs talking about it almost daily. Every1 in here crying without doing much doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things (aka people that support and actually get stuff in exchange)
All OP links download .apk files. You don't extract those, you install the .apk directly
DC could have outsourced the background art and code improvement could be done concurrently/independently with updates to the girls. This tech update was a massive waste of time that could have been put into advancing characters.
Well no but no. DC's never gonna outsource art/backgrounds and what do you think the coder's been doing the last ~10 months ? Pro tip : it's not twiddling his ass
