Valagost

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It's strange to me to see how DC used to do almost all the work alone and updates came out very often, and now with the expanded staff, not only is development not going faster, it's rolling back, lmao

Reminds me of the AAA-industry, where development has gone up along with the price of games, but quality still can't get up to the games from 20 years ago.

Where the patreon money goes isn't very clear either. Literally a simulation of the activity when your boss walks past your desk and you frantically press the alt tab from solitaire to word document.
I'm reminded of the Mythical Man-Month.
 
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thedoomerjo

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Any idea on what's currently being worked on for Code? It looks like a relatively small group of tasks judging from the progress bar for it, but it's been stuck at 69% since early December.
 
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Cube78

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As far as I understand the problem in coding tasks is that they often have to put "all the other stuff" together: art, posing and text. So they are blocked if the remaining stuff is not complete.

It seems that the critical category of tasks is 'posing' (even if I still don't understand what posing actually is: does it require code changes or some specific tools?)
 

Username7

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Any idea on what's currently being worked on for Code? It looks like a relatively small group of tasks judging from the progress bar for it, but it's been stuck at 69% since early December.
Not really. The "In progress" task are rewiring the remaining teachers. However the past few monthly updates and most of what I usually see in the past 24 hour changes are all over the place. A lot of on the fly bug fixes and whatever internally seems to be the biggest priority at the moment.
 

manneychin

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I wonder what the chances are we get the Debbie art update along with the tech update. It seems there has been a lot of Debbie modifications happening and probably even more behind the scenes.
The Tech Update was sold by DC to paying patreons as something that'll take "(3 to 4 months) to complete" (quote by none other than DC, from the Dec-2020 poll he used to fool paying patreons into approving the Tech Update).

Now, if we indulgently consider TU dev to have started in Apr-2021 (even though DC claimed it already started in Feb-2021) we are 34 months into those "3 to 4 months" PLUS there is no release date in sight and no believable status update.

Considering the above + the fact that I'm an imbecile, I too think it's likely DC will deliver with the TU all kinds of other things or else I may have to face reality as some point.

Rhonda update included after 34 months? Yep.
Annie update? You bet.
Judith? 100%.
HL3 on your in-game PC? Whooooo!

As long as people pay this scammer, reality doesn't need to be faced and all kinds of wonderful futures are possible and worth talking about.
 
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