Why are balance changes being left out of the notes?
spaceturtle
Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154714Members
Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154714Members
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UWE seem to have a habit of forgetting. Not sure how their internal documenting of changes works, but somehow changes they even talk about on forums don't seem to appear in notes. Patch notes usually get fixed eventually though.
<!--quoteo(post=2024247:date=Nov 15 2012, 08:14 AM:name=Squeal_Like_A_Pig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Squeal_Like_A_Pig @ Nov 15 2012, 08:14 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2024247"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We apologize for the factual inaccuracies in the patchnotes. We would like to pull them down, and put up a new complete and better version, but we have a strict policy of not changing the patchnotes once they have been posted. It protects the writers of the patchnotes from being pressured to add additional gameplay and balance information by the community, and we stand by this policy.
Thank you.
--Cory<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--quoteo(post=2024719:date=Nov 15 2012, 06:09 PM:name=Flayra)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Flayra @ Nov 15 2012, 06:09 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2024719"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I've been busy with my other responsibilities this week and didn't have time to make any balance changes. That won't be the situation for long though.
Another thing - VAC is now fully enabled. If anyone finds a link to download a speed hack or other cheat, please send it to tech-support@unknownworlds.com and it will be added to VAC.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So the first post is basically a joke from Cory. The second post is more humble, but I'm not sure if Flayra is talking about actual balance changes or writing the balance changes into the patch notes. He is a busy man, perhaps much busier now that 1.0 is out.
Your concern is legitimate.
-Why are there no notes of balancing in the patch notes?
-Will we ever get the balance notes?
-Do we deserve the balance notes, or is it a good idea to post the balance notes at this time?
-How are we as players, impacted without the notes? I think I can answer this one: So far the response has been overwhelming to favor the side of the Aliens. This is not a good thing. If anything can alleviate this, it's balance notes.
people are now wasting time complaining about the lack of balance patch notes, instead of complaining about the balance patch notes without giving it a fair amount of playtime.
Ahahah thats a good joke, but people seriously need to understand that by the time the patch is out they are no longer working on it and are focused on next patch.
Seriously these guys have a massive list of things they are working on, as in the beta sometime they simply forget that somethings gone in with a patch.
Also by the time we get the patch they are already working on the next one.
I dont mind that we have active community members who provide notification of any balance changes...after all they are minor in comparison to some of the errors, crashes and other general improvements that we would all like to see (transparency...would enable water (used to love hiding in water with regen)).
--Cory
love the new (old) camo btw
finally it is useful