Wasteland Wasteland 2 Pre-Release Discussion Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

So am I. I was referring to the smaller team of external beta testers.

One of the advantages of not working with a publisher means they don't have a non-negotiable date where they have to go gold. So no need for "we need the beta out on this date." October's an estimate.

Anyone remember the glory days of December 2009 when VD promised everyone a combat demo before December was out and rushed out a broken mess? Who would want to repeat that?

 

Yes. As I wrote:

But it is bad PR.

 

No one but the backers who paid enough money for the beta care and I'm reasonably confident most of them are understanding.

 

So who Hacked Roguey Account? As a backer I say take all your time you need even till Thursday and don't release bugged piece of scrapcode. Its is not like they work on Cure for Cancer and Impotence. We've waited for proper sequel of Fallout since 1998 we can wait another 3 months.

 

Something like what? You'd rather we rush it out? You know where we side on the "rush it out" vs "take your time" dichotomy. We're never going to rush it out, critics and trolls be damned.

Communication should improve. I'll do my best.

 

Something like announcing a release date if there is a considerable risk that it will not be met. Is there some point to it that I fail to see, or was it just a gamble that did not work out?

No, I'd rather you did not

But setting Yourself a release date and failing to meet does not help anyone. If I want BS I will start following marketing from EA or Activision.

 

This is videogame production. There is always a significant risk your will not meet any release date estimate you set, unless the product is "basically done". So it's either give your best estimate or give no estimate at all. I don't think the latter was necessarily a good idea either.

 

Brother None, is the the beta's file size under NDA? Because that would be absurd. And I'm positive it's not going to increase/decrease by gigabytes in the remaining week(s).

 

No, but what I play from are full game file syncs (which for raw game files is like 25GB+) or just rough builds. I don't know what beta file size will be.

 

To clarify, I don't know what it compresses to as a download. The beta game size installed is about 8GB on my disc and it'll probably be something like that too, but it'll compress down significantly for the download, most likely, to as little as half that. Dunno if it's the download or the disc space you care about. But yeah, no exact number yet, especially not on the download.

 

Huh, that's bigger than I expected. Really packing in those art assets.

Looks like I'll be waiting for the finished product. No beta-criticism from me.

 

There's more art assets, higher quality textures now than a lot of what you've seen so far (most recent screenshots are pretty representative). Some limited VA. But mostly it's big because it just covers a lot of maps and areas, just like you'd expect an RPG like this to do really. The beta really is quite sizable IMO, I've played full RPGs in the past few years smaller than the beta segment.

 

So.. BluRay only release?

 

Nope. 12 CDs.

 

Fuck yeah. Old-school!

 

Popamole shit, should be released on 256K floppy disks, just like the original game. 31.250 of them, to be precise.

 

If I can't get Wasteland 2 on cassette tapes, I don't want it.

 

It's very easy for me to do nothing, especially when doing something requires downloading 4 gigs of an unfinished game. I'll watch a LP.

 

Fucking casual scum. I'm waiting for the punch-card edition.

 

Do you have a metered connection? How is there more or less work involved with the size of the download?

 

No, it's strictly the principle.

 

Add $20 to that. I wanted a box and both novellas.