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  • RedrakeRedrake Member Posts: 426
    Personally, I'd prefer they remove the kits completely...

  • RedrakeRedrake Member Posts: 426
    Dev6 said:

    You don't have to use the kits if you don't like them @Redrake.

    I know. I was responding to the previous posts about the need and desire of more kits...
  • zenblackzenblack Member Posts: 108
    Soon can mean up to a year with Beamdog. Don't expect much with them working on 2 projects, this is why the EE's have labored under a horrid patch cycle. Release, 1 patch, 2 years, maybe another patch.
  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235
    zenblack said:

    Soon can mean up to a year with Beamdog. Don't expect much with them working on 2 projects, this is why the EE's have labored under a horrid patch cycle. Release, 1 patch, 2 years, maybe another patch.

    3 projects, actually.
  • RaduzielRaduziel Member Posts: 4,714
    ThacoBell said:

    zenblack said:

    Soon can mean up to a year with Beamdog. Don't expect much with them working on 2 projects, this is why the EE's have labored under a horrid patch cycle. Release, 1 patch, 2 years, maybe another patch.

    3 projects, actually.
    2.5 patch

    NWNEE

    What's the third one?
  • DoubledimasDoubledimas Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 1,286
    Raduziel said:

    ThacoBell said:

    zenblack said:

    Soon can mean up to a year with Beamdog. Don't expect much with them working on 2 projects, this is why the EE's have labored under a horrid patch cycle. Release, 1 patch, 2 years, maybe another patch.

    3 projects, actually.
    2.5 patch

    NWNEE

    What's the third one?
    Supposedly the new Gaider-written game.
  • fetito666fetito666 Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 204
    All I want is 2.5, well, and maybe Neverwinter <3
  • BelleSorciereBelleSorciere Member Posts: 2,108
    Apparently the 2.5 beta will be going up on Steam in the near future.

    This is per Phil Daigle on the NWN livestream today.
  • dreamtravelerdreamtraveler Member Posts: 377
    thats pretty vague
  • BelleSorciereBelleSorciere Member Posts: 2,108
    I know.

    He also said the 2.5 patch would be out soon.
  • dreamtravelerdreamtraveler Member Posts: 377
    also vague
  • fetito666fetito666 Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 204
    Once 2.5 is live, I'll pre-order Neverwinter.
  • WesboiWesboi Member Posts: 403
    fetito666 said:

    Once 2.5 is live, I'll pre-order Neverwinter.

    Neverwinter will probably be released and patched way before 2.5 comes.
  • BelleSorciereBelleSorciere Member Posts: 2,108

    also vague

    This is a step up from not talking about it at all, which is where we've been for quite some time.
  • Wagner235Wagner235 Member Posts: 11
    So, any news regarding 2.5 patch?
    Or is it some kind of Beamdog's Meme? You know, like Half Life 3.
  • MusaabMusaab Member Posts: 94
    Beamdog does a nice job, but they take forever and ever on everything.
  • BelleSorciereBelleSorciere Member Posts: 2,108
    Wagner235 said:

    So, any news regarding 2.5 patch?
    Or is it some kind of Beamdog's Meme? You know, like Half Life 3.

    The latest news is what I posted above - beta on Steam soon, patch a bit less soon.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
  • WesboiWesboi Member Posts: 403
    lefreut said:

    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
    Some platforms haven't been updated for 2 and a half years. I got a bet on with a friend it reaches 3 years before it's updated and I'll win £50. So here's to beamdogs incompetence to making me money hopefully.
  • Dev6Dev6 Member Posts: 721
    Wesboi said:

    lefreut said:

    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
    Some platforms haven't been updated for 2 and a half years. I got a bet on with a friend it reaches 3 years before it's updated and I'll win £50. So here's to beamdogs incompetence to making me money hopefully.
    Beamdog is a small company, it's been five years since BG:EE was released and they're still improving it and making patches. Name a single AAA game that gets that kind of treatment. Oh wait, you can't. The only incompetence I see is in your arguments.
    lefreut said:

    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
    Ah yes, they should totally release a bunch of monthly patches that barely change anything instead of taking a year to release a big patch that actually improves the game. Makes total sense.
  • DoubledimasDoubledimas Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 1,286
    Dev6 said:

    Wesboi said:

    lefreut said:

    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
    Some platforms haven't been updated for 2 and a half years. I got a bet on with a friend it reaches 3 years before it's updated and I'll win £50. So here's to beamdogs incompetence to making me money hopefully.
    Beamdog is a small company, it's been five years since BG:EE was released and they're still improving it and making patches. Name a single AAA game that gets that kind of treatment. Oh wait, you can't. The only incompetence I see is in your arguments.
    lefreut said:

    tbone1 said:

    Those are related. There is an old saw in programming, heck in any engineering-related activity. "There is good, there is quick, there is cheap. Pick two, maybe." The games are pretty affordable and they are high quality, so ...

    More than a year to release a patch is still pretty bad. They really should release more often smaller patches.
    Ah yes, they should totally release a bunch of monthly patches that barely change anything instead of taking a year to release a big patch that actually improves the game. Makes total sense.
    To be fair, Trent himself said (somewhere, I think an interview or a forum post) that with all the platforms and projects they were running and trying to update/maintain they were spreading themselves a little thin.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    Dev6 said:

    Beamdog is a small company, it's been five years since BG:EE was released and they're still improving it and making patches. Name a single AAA game that gets that kind of treatment. Oh wait, you can't. The only incompetence I see is in your arguments.

    Codename Entertainment releases patches for Idle Champions every week and I think they are smaller than Beamdog. Just because other companies are bad at patching their games does not mean you have to do the same. Being a small company means that you can often be more agile than big company.
    lefreut said:

    Ah yes, they should totally release a bunch of monthly patches that barely change anything instead of taking a year to release a big patch that actually improves the game. Makes total sense.

    Small patch allows them to quickly fix regression and in the end it actually improves the game the same way a big patch would. But you don't have to wait a very long time to get anything.
  • RedrakeRedrake Member Posts: 426
    lefreut said:



    Small patch allows them to quickly fix regression and in the end it actually improves the game the same way a big patch would. But you don't have to wait a very long time to get anything.

    I agree. After all Beamdog released their client program. That can easily be used to turn small patches out for games, not unlike Steam client program does.
  • WesboiWesboi Member Posts: 403
    @dev6 if I can mod the fixes for there games in a few hours why can't they patch there games in the space of a few years it is there job after all until they officially declare they no longer support the games.
  • RedrakeRedrake Member Posts: 426

    The next patch is really close.

    Tune in the livestream with Beamdog at 11:30 AM PST, December 1, we'll have more to share about patch 2.5.

    http://blog.beamdog.com/2017/11/beamdog-live-tune-in-dec-1-2017-at.html

    More news about the patch? How about the actual patch, for a change?
  • ThacoBellThacoBell Member Posts: 12,235
    @lefreut Idle champions has also been out for what, a few months and still in beta? BGEE has had a full release, is stable and yet they keep supporting it. They are fully supporting 5 different games on a bare minimum of 3 different platforms per game. Is that more than they can easily handle? Yeah I think thats obvious, and they probably should have rolled out platforms over time. But still support them we have a patch that is immienent that will bring all platforms up to parity for IWD:EE. THey have abandoned none of them, even though it would be much easier.
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