joe128 wrote:
i also think that this "in the next version" is annoying . The announcements always denominated differently. It was then also promised that the 2.1 storys will be taken over. also it was promised that you can easily create your own stories. I think as a story player the game went quickly boring. currently it does not deserve the name Xstory player . it should have said "only one story player". I hope you do your things right and we can play an "Perfect" game Xmas 2016...
I don't recall anyone Promising that the 2.1 stories would be moved to the 3 engine. It was said that they would try, but it just isn't time well spent. I'd rather they spent all of their time developing the next step rather then going backwards. To succeed in this industry you have to keep moving forward. It was a tactical choice and personally i think it was a good one. 2.1 works fine in 2.1, we would gain barely anything from the port over and it cost them many man hours to do.
"also it was promised that you can easily create your own stories...." You can.. kinda lol. I think the disconnect here is it takes more knowledge of coding and all that jazz to do this in the current version. I have a bias here because i could care less about stories I love the physics sandbox dungeon aspects of the game. Many games offer stories, What makes Xstoryplayer stand out is the physics sandbox aspects. If you want stories as the focus, play any other adult game in history. And Xstoryplayer is the games name, not it's description. They could call it Xplayer, but that isn't a branding name that would work, it's already been launched as Xstoryplayer. Too late cha cha.
As far as i'm aware that is a 4.0 or later feature they are trying to make.
People are reading the Xstoryplayer 9.9 offbeater page and expecting these features in every release. They're not, this is a step by step process. the next version may not even have stories. I'd be fine with that, but some who want stories may opt to wait for V5. 4.0 is going to be the engine rewrite and character normalizing stage, "1 mesh to rule them all!" ... I hope XD. Also the AI is going to be overhauls. The Characters and stability in the new engine will be the focus this time around. They may make stories they may not. Either way it's going to be a step forward, and I'm looking forward to it.
If you want stories, and think you can do better, write some and submit them on the forum. Who know's maybe they'll use yours. =)
@tomahawk308 and @loki
I agree updates with tiny features would be awesome, but this isn't an early access game on steam my friends. If they were keeping the current engine that would be a possibility but since they are rewriting it, I wouldn't get my hopes up. What they are working on now isn't applicable to the current game. We got at least a years wait gentlemen, Sad but true.
And on a side note, I don't think XPadmin is Peter Molenuex-ing us lol. Remember 9.9 is the end game, and when he comes here pooling for feedback and ideas, he isn't promising anything, he is saying "thats a cool idea, i'm going to TRY it." or "Really that part of the game was tedious and not enjoyable? I probably wont spend 4 months coding that part for the next one" Planned features don't always make it in the game, This is why big DEVs don't give much info on the devblog and don't talk about the game with fans. Were lucky we get to be part of the process here. Keep misinterpreting it and Xmoon is gonna go all EA on us and give us nothing lol.