Suggestion: Update the Trello board
PaddyMaxson
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I've been playing other stuff for a while, and the 1.79 patch notes are cool and interesting, but wow the Trello appears to be totally abandoned.
Is there a list of what's coming soon anywhere now? Because that's how I was following this, it doesn't even mention recent stuff at all.
Obviously there was a lot of time put into the console ports, but now those are out it'd be nice to know what's happening next.
Is there a list of what's coming soon anywhere now? Because that's how I was following this, it doesn't even mention recent stuff at all.
Obviously there was a lot of time put into the console ports, but now those are out it'd be nice to know what's happening next.
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Trello does look abandoned actually - is it dead?
Hi I am a customer. I like a lot of other customers work hard for our money. Then we have things such as bills, food, and with some that which is left over we spend on games. Some have larger budgets than others and can only choose a few games.
It is really awesome for when we do spend money it is for a great community where the staff hires others to keep us engaged and interact saying what we want. It makes us feel good that we are listened to (and helps you sell more product).
Here is the thing, if it was not an issue people wouldn't be talking about it. You know that and I know that. It is dismissive to answer with I'm aware. If it was being actively dealt with and frequent updates there would not be conversation about it. Many people have posted the we will do it when we feel like it and found that is when their customers choose a different company to spend their money on. I still remember Bioware's community rep saying, "Patches are a privilege."
What will the new renderer mean exactly on the PC? Have planned features like full party control been taken off the table? What comes next?
Would be nice to just read this stuff from Trello since it exists.
AFAIK it was never on the table. On the other hand what is/was is improved ai.
TR
It would definitely go a long way if they kept the Trello Board up to date and responded to Ask Beamdog monthly. It's unwise to set expectations and not follow through.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/71679/the-full-control-of-ai-party-summons-henchman-companions-and-familiars-card-discussion/p1
TR
Probably Trello card came later and Trent can extend his vision a bit if players want something really badly.
But this is exactly the reason why we are asking for news and Trello updates. Because we don't know.
To break it down imagine you add a new variant elf race. Scripts do not detect it as an elf, ranger's favored enemy doesn't know what it is but it's not an elf, targeted effects (slaying weapons) do not work, vs race (elf) bonuses do not apply, item race restrictions do not recognize it as an elf. Likewise if you implement ogres or hill giants as a playable race NWN will not recognize them as giants. Now you need to rip out the games combat systems and rewrite it yourself, great.
I use this as the example because it's such a basic thing that it's almost impossible to get it wrong and anyone that cared about implementing it properly would have done so.
So no they are not listening. They are completely out of touch and they are not paying attention to even basic issues that people are testing and pointing out for them. Instead they are working on pet projects with obscure use cases and apparently have no quality assurance. It would be different if they come clean and say they're underfunded and paying staff in "work experience" because the other option is that they're completely out of touch.
It's a new year though so please feel free to surprise us all with a change for the better.
Edit: Absolutely don't want to slag the devs off. The original stated scope was NWN1 but it works on a modern PC with a couple of small improvements, but those of us here for NWN nostalgia sort of imagined what might have been and lots of blog posts suggested that maybe it was going that way and an android port in place of say customisable UI feels like a kick in the bawbag (I mean, some of the android port changes haven't even been backported to PC)
TR
I was looking at it for something else. Most of the topics were somewhat vaguely titled, intentionally, many of them being mine, but those that were inarguably already implemented I dragged and dropped over to the end category I made several years ago, for features rolled out in patches unrelated to the main Trello.
No ceremony.