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SimCity: Maxis releases video of improved traffic system, talks about mod support
- Thread starter Shawsie64
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A peak at the traffic changes coming in a patch: http://t.co/ZWiXjRwJML
FYI: The dev: https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume often asks people to send him their Origin ID if they have a really good example of a bug in their city, especially if it's a tricky one to reproduce. If you some craziness going on in your game send it their way.
FYI: The dev: https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume often asks people to send him their Origin ID if they have a really good example of a bug in their city, especially if it's a tricky one to reproduce. If you some craziness going on in your game send it their way.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Great news!
Maxis can go fuck itself. Maybe that's why the game is a total cluster fuck, they have no competent in house QA.
The Maxis Devs seem gung ho on modding which I'm so happy to hear. How fun would it be to make your own agent types?
https://twitter.com/moskow23/status/312272085894455296
https://twitter.com/vertexnormal/status/312275013380210689
https://twitter.com/moskow23/status/312272085894455296
https://twitter.com/vertexnormal/status/312275013380210689
Sooooo much better. Good to see that Maxis are reacting quickly to the bugs and pathfinding issues.
That's great, but the fact this was not in the game in the first place is incomprehensible..
For reals. They're not an indy developer who can't afford QA. They're a part of EA.
StreetsAhead
Member
The game should never have been designed to work the way it does in the first place.
The idea behind SimCity is a solid one with an interesting new way to interact with others.
It sounds like the game itself, they didn't pull it off great, but you can't really be mad at the game just because they didn't make the game you wanted. If it's not what you wanted then simply don't buy it.
polyh3dron
Banned
lololololol
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
Oh so the beta test is almost over then?
dukeoflegs
Member
Or QA caught it but the dev's said "Will not fix, not a priority at this time. Beta testers didn't notice it," I've seen plenty of games ship with very visible bugs.
I hope so too. I need a new and good Sim City game. I've played far too much SC4 and there is a lot of potential for this one with some fixes done here and there.
Btw. What would be the chances of mods being able to increase the size of the city?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
You mean EA right. Chill out.
StreetsAhead
Member
Are you serious?
There's a difference between not making the game I (or others) want and making one that is broken by design. Or lying about features.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
So Maxis / EA are going to give modders access to the super servers where all the computation is being done then yeah?
How progressive and open of them! *snark*
How progressive and open of them! *snark*
Sounds about right. >_>
Works for Bethesda.
Would Maxis really be the ones in charge of the QA process? Wouldn't that just go through EA rather than Maxis having their own in-house QA team; seems like it would be a waste for EA not to just have a general QA team who handle most of their titles. But then I have no idea how they are set up.
Most dev houses have their own internal QA teams.
Maxis made the game, tired of people giving them a pass for rank incompetence. I'll chill out when the game isn't broken.
JakkuFurosu
Member
You too can play with awesome modders space houses.
for only 39.99$ plus tax.....wether applicable or not!
I LOVE the idea of modders but know how this will end
for only 39.99$ plus tax.....wether applicable or not!
I LOVE the idea of modders but know how this will end
Because there was no way to know beforehand that it would be the case? And given that the reviews didn't mention it at all either, there was no way to know after launch either, until very recently? Are you sure calling the customers suckers in this case is the right approach there, chief?
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
pretty great to have full mod support wish ea let dice have the same luxury
Except they patched out modding in the latest patch. So their actions don't match their words.
I like that the game's improved and all, but still it's baffling that the kind of behavior in the video had to be delivered in a post-launch patch.
StreetsAhead
Member
Yeah, it would have been impossible to test how the traffic system worked before launch.
Yeah how does something so vital to the game and so fucking obvious not get picked up b QA before being shipped.
Ace Harding
Member
Cool. I'd buy the game if they fixed all this shit and enabled offline play.
JakkuFurosu
Member
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Next you'll be telling me they should have been able to see that all of your fire trucks heading to the same fire until it's extinguished is broken behaviour before release too.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
Don't fool yourself like the Blizzard fans did. Maxis and EA are one and the same, a singular entity.
eh what?
Traffic should not be completely broken? They had beta's and internal testing, it never should have shipped in this state.
This "sucker" has had about 20 hours of enjoyment, although being in a different time zone I missed a lot of the server issues at night.
I'll give the game a miss for a while now and come back to it when some issues have been resolved or some cool mods have been made. Mind you, I expected a lot of issues, so it's not like I was going in blind - I can understand someone who thought everything was going to be perfect might be upset. This doesn't make me a sucker - it makes me someone who is curious, likes sim-city and has some discretionary funding to indulge that curiosity at launch.
I'm also someone who bought Minecraft back in the day before it was much at all.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Unless I'm missing a joke here, QA should typically be completed before a product is released.
Tesseract
Banned
that ship has sailed. let it go.