The daily targets and the boss battle mode don’t come till later on in the season. Probably April or May.
From what I last heard they eventually plan on a real fix for rage quitting. The stuff they’re doing now is just temporary. They haven’t said anything about premiums in store, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be there. MadCatz said they are adding a bit of extra support but not true driver patch yet.
They kinda have been working on matchmaking since launch. Works pretty good for me (usually only one to 2 minute waits in ranked with someone of similar rank/league). There are other people out there that still have problems (especially those not in US or heavy populated countries) so just have to wait on possible patch there.
Modern games take 4 to 10 times the resources to produce, and yet they dont cost a lot more. you do the math. Yeah, people still work 20 hour days far too often
source: Me working in games industry for far too long
Ugh. You know these are human beings working on all of this, right? It’s like disowning your parent because they ran out of money to buy peanut butter to make your favorite sandwich. They’ll have the money next week to buy more, so you can have your lunch just the way you like it, but that doesn’t matter.
Getting this all right is damn hard amidst deadlines, manpower/project priorites, and of course, the time and money it takes to make it all happen. Software development isn’t a magic wand, real people have to code, test, test, and test some more.
I’m not happy that SF5 was released in the state that it was, but it sounds like they had a HARD deadline to get what they could working as well as possible…with what resources we’re available. Hard choices are always made in that situation, and I’m at least glad Capcom prioritized game engine and character balance over all these other features. It could have been so much worse if they tried to get EVERYTHING in by launch, broken or not.
It’s a business transaction, they aren’t your parents.
It’s not the job of the consumer to give the benefit of the doubt to the company that sold them a dysfunctional product. Part of the point of a free market is that businesses like Capcom fail after making decisions like the ones they made.
I’ll tell that to the people getting sick at Chipotle. Don’t know what specific kitchen grime led to your hospital stay? Then shutup.
No doubt, it’s your right as a consumer to complain about a product, buy it, not buy it, or return it.
I’m saying the launch was botched, and I’d be more upset if I didn’t understand WHY, and much more upset if we weren’t made aware far beforehand about it missing many of these features at launch. The connection and netcode issues are the exception, that stuff needed to work much better than it did on day one.
The hand is dealt though, for better or worse. We can complain endlessly about stuff we have no control over, throw the game in the trash, or be patient and see if Capcom can improve all this in short order. Choose, don’t choose, go back to SF4, take it to the BBB, whatever satisfies you. This game will succeed or fail based on where it goes from here.
The launch scheduling doesn’t excuse the incompetency of their UI, the lunacy of survival mode, the cheapness of their art, the full price, the fact that the game didn’t work if you had two monitors and a million other things.
When you are going to release a game in that state you push back the due date. By not doing so they earned peoples ire. By complaining about it it suppresses sales and in the future they won’t fuck it up like this again. Or they’ll die out and another company will fill the space. Nothing is accomplished by suffering in silence in a market economy.
Awww man you guys really have to throw the sales spiel in here too? Lets just keep this to basic q and a about the game. Will have to ask mods otherwise. Thank you
What’s incompetent about their UI? I just don’t like the character art being generic red/blue, cheapness of their art? What does that mean? The game has worked excellently for me with my 2 monitor setup since the first PC beta and continues to have the best functionality of any exclusive fullscreen game I have ever played.
Targets and Extra Battle challenges will be available soon after launch, with Battle Tips and Trials coming in March.
Targets are your daily challenges like in MOBAs where any day you sign on to play you are given a specific task for that day to perform. Completing it gets you fight money. Extra Battle is basically a boss battle mode of sorts where you take on souped up bad guys and other characters and get special rewards for winning.
More info on Daily Targets
By soon after launch they meant sometime (a specific monthly patch) after March.** Expect it by April or May basically.**
I’ve done game design before, and this game has a lot that’s pretty worst in class, but these days I do UI/UX development and to be honest I’m almost 100% sure that this is a UI that they were using as an early alpha UI that they just never remade for release. Thing like having to scan through screen resolutions (forcing one to render every in-between) and having the audio options silence important notifications like “new challenger” when you turn off the home screen music (which most will do when alt tabbed out of the game while they wait for an opponent) is just straight up amateur. I could probably outline dozens of things that bother me about it, but I think that the UI was just another thing they sacrificed to reach their ship date.
can you guys take the armchair business school to gamefaqs, thanks
came here looking for a source article on the daily targets thing and instead there’s the same capcom complaining you can find on a thousand other places on the internet. shoryuken used to be about fighting games
Yeah sorry, some mod got high and moved the entire patch thread to the Alex subforum for no reason. It’s still there in that dead place with no one looking at it.