A8

[Cimanyd]

whats going to be in the next update anyways?

In the changelog (link, thread) you can see what Tynan's doing to the game. Right now, everything Sept 25 and later is what is not in A7 but will be part of A8.

So far, we can see there will be an improved armor system, completion of the new different-rocks system, craftable melee weapons made of stuff, wind turbines, and various other interesting and uninteresting things. And, most importantly, a temperature system (which is a whole week of the changelog already).

OK, forget my little summary. Here's Tynan's. (the last paragraph)

[REMworlder]

Is there anything the community can do to help?

I'm personally really excited to find out how temperature/seasons/deciduousness can affect things.

[StorymasterQ]

In light of Tynan's post, do you think you can handle 60-days (or more) alpha cycle? Man, my knee-jerk reaction says no, but I'll be damned if I say I won't be salivating even more at the new features in the changelog.

[skullywag]

One good thing that comes out of longer dev cycles for me is mods get more stable and youre likely to get larger more stable mods and less modders leaving due to "having to update". Not a major point but a nice plus in my eyes.

[Haplo]

I'm not so sure about the modders won't leave part.
As Tynan has more time to integrate new stuff and as the game gets bigger and bigger, it probably will also increase the needed work you have to do, to update your mods to the newest alpha.
The last one was already hard. If that will happen every time.. But we'll see. Maybe the next alpha is only a few small changes and it's ready to work again

[skullywag]

I didnt find the update all that bad hell i even went round and updated a fair few A6 mods that werent mine. I probably just didnt come across anything as complex as the stuff you wrote lol.

[Matthiasagreen]

In light of Tynan's post, do you think you can handle 60-days (or more) alpha cycle? Man, my knee-jerk reaction says no, but I'll be damned if I say I won't be salivating even more at the new features in the changelog.

If I understood correctly, it will probably be longer. The two parts that stood out to me are:

"The first public releases wrapped up their testing cycles in about a week. Alpha 7 took about three weeks."

"I want to expand that period of the release cycle proportional to the testing period, to maintain a good ratio."

So if the alphas are taking a month, then this leads me to believe he expects about 3 months between updates.

[StorymasterQ]

In light of Tynan's post, do you think you can handle 60-days (or more) alpha cycle? Man, my knee-jerk reaction says no, but I'll be damned if I say I won't be salivating even more at the new features in the changelog.

If I understood correctly, it will probably be longer. The two parts that stood out to me are:

"The first public releases wrapped up their testing cycles in about a week. Alpha 7 took about three weeks."

"I want to expand that period of the release cycle proportional to the testing period, to maintain a good ratio."

So if the alphas are taking a month, then this leads me to believe he expects about 3 months between updates.

THREE MONTHS! I'd like to have the game come out of alpha before my 2-months-old finishes high school, please!

[magicbush]

In light of Tynan's post, do you think you can handle 60-days (or more) alpha cycle? Man, my knee-jerk reaction says no, but I'll be damned if I say I won't be salivating even more at the new features in the changelog.

If I understood correctly, it will probably be longer. The two parts that stood out to me are:

"The first public releases wrapped up their testing cycles in about a week. Alpha 7 took about three weeks."

"I want to expand that period of the release cycle proportional to the testing period, to maintain a good ratio."

So if the alphas are taking a month, then this leads me to believe he expects about 3 months between updates.

THREE MONTHS! I'd like to have the game come out of alpha before my 2-months-old finishes high school, please!

He will be adding more content in each update as well, so it will be completed in the same length of time as with the shorter cycles lol.

[Jaxxa]

In light of Tynan's post, do you think you can handle 60-days (or more) alpha cycle? Man, my knee-jerk reaction says no, but I'll be damned if I say I won't be salivating even more at the new features in the changelog.

If I understood correctly, it will probably be longer. The two parts that stood out to me are:

"The first public releases wrapped up their testing cycles in about a week. Alpha 7 took about three weeks."

"I want to expand that period of the release cycle proportional to the testing period, to maintain a good ratio."

So if the alphas are taking a month, then this leads me to believe he expects about 3 months between updates.

THREE MONTHS! I'd like to have the game come out of alpha before my 2-months-old finishes high school, please!

He will be adding more content in each update as well, so it will be completed in the same length of time as with the shorter cycles lol.

I think it will be even completed sooner because less time is spent on creating releases and testing, more time is spent on actual development of new features.