I don't see this as confirmation. Quite the opposite. He said they are evaluating 1.6.1. What would they show in a diary? A change log full of bug fixes?
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Yes, it is very important for community (after 1.6 disaster) to know, that they are working on bug fixes as 1.6.1 fixed just small % of them.
Now community may decide (as I did) that they are just going on vacation while game is in very unstable state.
They never said that they would not work on the game for two weeks, they just said that we would not have any dev diary or a stream
I have enough faith in this community to believe it's not that stupid. Also, 1 (maybe 2) days isn't exactly a vacation.
But they never said anything, even 1 sentence about 1.6.2 instead of usual DD. It was so difficult to provide an update?
So your assumption is that if they don't explicitly state that they're going to do their job then they wont?
No, his assumption is that instead of continuing to focus on 1.6.*, they've moved on to working on 1.7.0 and the changes to MP, if I understand correctly.
Shouldn't be that difficult to squash these asumptions by just verifying that they are indeed working on a patch to the patch to the patch, by just telling us they do.
The thing is, 1.6 should've been bufixing only but instead brought the game to a disastrous state. 1.6.1 was able to get it from disastrous to "playable, but so many aspects of gameplay suffer and misfunction, I'd play it for bugfixing and experimentation, but not to relax and enjoy some deep space stragegy". 1.6.1 came out fast, so good job on that. But still i rather play other games then Stellaris until i can somewhat trust my game to not goof around as it does now.
The circumstance of an ongoing multiplayer-tech-test - while the main gameplay that affects multiplayer and singleplayer alike is still that bugged - this just sounds weird. I guess they just had this multiplayer stuff ready so now they are testing it, but i don't know if this is something as with graphic guys that can't do bugfixing instead of drawing portraits. The fact that this multiplayer test is a reason to not put out DDs does feed the impression of pdx doing multiplayer tests instead of direly needed bugfixes for the bugfix-patch. Hopefully this asumption also is wrong, but the 1.6. patch has done it's share to make me wary.
The thing is, 1.6 should've been bufixing only but instead brought the game to a disastrous state. 1.6.1 was able to get it from disastrous to "playable, but so many aspects of gameplay suffer and misfunction, I'd play it for bugfixing and experimentation, but not to relax and enjoy some deep space stragegy". 1.6.1 came out fast, so good job on that. But still i rather play other games then Stellaris until i can somewhat trust my game to not goof around as it does now.
The circumstance of an ongoing multiplayer-tech-test - while the main gameplay that affects multiplayer and singleplayer alike is still that bugged - this just sounds weird. I guess they just had this multiplayer stuff ready so now they are testing it, but i don't know if this is something as with graphic guys that can't do bugfixing instead of drawing portraits. The fact that this multiplayer test is a reason to not put out DDs does feed the impression of pdx doing multiplayer tests instead of direly needed bugfixes for the bugfix-patch. Hopefully this asumption also is wrong, but the 1.6. patch has done it's share to make me wary.
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Meanwhile, the game is still basically unplayable. The AIs do so many stupid things, like terraforming, bad planet developing and the like, it feels like slapping a handicapped child. Wrong on SO many levels.
I would really like to be able to play Stellaris. I hope this dev diares pause is the sign you are seriously working on bugs.
I would really like to be able to play Stellaris. I hope this dev diares pause is the sign you are seriously working on bugs.
There are tons of bugs, some of them still make Stellaris only partially playable - and we still don't have any news about 1.6.2
No news at all. Absolute silence.
Ok, call it 'another unjustified assumption'
What still really bothers me is the state of the Bug Report section. It is filled with tons of reports and next to none official comments. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect them to go into lengthy conversations or big statements. But what is needed is a short and informative statement concerning the report. It can even be a textblock for all that matters.
"Listed in Bug Tracker"
"Already fixed in Dev version"
Something like this would also help us as users so we know the problem is noted and they will be/have been working on it.
At the moment all we can do is post the same report again and again in every new version if the problem persists and can just hope someone will finally notice it.
What we also need is a publicly accessable (means read-only) Bug-Tracker so we can see if our problem is already listed and does not need to be posted again.
Of course this would not prevent every case of double posting but it could potentially reduce it a lot.
"Listed in Bug Tracker"
"Already fixed in Dev version"
Something like this would also help us as users so we know the problem is noted and they will be/have been working on it.
At the moment all we can do is post the same report again and again in every new version if the problem persists and can just hope someone will finally notice it.
What we also need is a publicly accessable (means read-only) Bug-Tracker so we can see if our problem is already listed and does not need to be posted again.
Of course this would not prevent every case of double posting but it could potentially reduce it a lot.
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In agreement with the above posts. Some sort of status on bug fixes really should have been provided to us. The potential that bug fixes have been put on the back burner so that multiplayer can be further developed is a little unnerving.
There's no guarantee Paradox will fix these bugs in a reasonable timeframe, they've already proven they're entirely willing to leave major (in my opinion, gamebreaking) bugs in the game for months on end.
These bugs in particular (AI terraforming and Ethic Attraction) have been present since at least 1.5, which is one and a half months already.
Going dark now without commenting on their current plan is not exactly inspiring any confidence. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we end up waiting months (*more* months, I mean) for the game to reach a decent state.
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Where exactly have I made any statement about what paradox will or wont do?
OK.
If you don't think you were saying anything about Paradox, that's fine, I'm really not interested in arguing the point.
I'll just remove it from the post.
I think the only thing I've said about Paradox is that they're not taking a 2 week vacation and are still working on Stellaris. Anything beyond that and you're reading things into my statements that aren't there.