State of Open Apoc? (also note to Ankor)

Hi guys. I've been here for awhile but not since the forum was updated. On Discord my name is PunishedYehudah.
How close is this to 1:1 completion? I mean not additional features, but being able to play the game in the better engine, fully playable without anything cut out.

Also Ankor, check Discord.

 

Extremely helpful Makus. Now I'm going to ask the forbidden 64 million dollar question. Do you have an idea of how long that it will take to get to 1.0? A year, 6 months, etc?

 

A long time, with few testers to provide feedback, researches that can't be finished due to missing Apocalypse stuffs, but the Devs are busy, but they will need more help to finish it soonish

 

I think in 3 years time

 

Although Yataka has just reset the clock by saying that

The problem with these sort of questions is no-one can say how long it will take. You cannot account for unexpected development issues.

Effectively "How long is a piece of string?" - All answers are both wrong and correct.

A few weeks ago we all assumed that the Digital Distribution releases of the game were the same as the CD-ROM. Now we know they are not for example; this creates a problem as most of the Devs are on Digital Dist so it gets hard to compare versions. We can't just rip a CD as the data files appear the same for both versions, the issue seems to be relating to a CD-Check (If disc present do this, if disc not present, or a mounted ISO then nerf the AI)

Yataka has now got a CD version too and is surprised how different it plays

This is just one example of a problem currently confusing just one aspect of research that impacts on development.

Additionally, look at the bug tracker; new issues are reported and commented on each day.

We don't know how many issues are to be found or how long each issue will take to repair or correct... So saying when 1.0 will arrive is impossible.

All i can say is, after 20-years, lots of work is being done by a few very clever people.
For that, i'm grateful for their efforts

 

>(If disc present do this, if disc not present, or a mounted ISO then nerf the AI)

Was this supposed to be a kind of DRM? No CD, then make the game dumber?

 

Any chance you guys can commit to an eventual 1.1? I know the 1.0 will be a bit rushed, since everyone wants it so bad. Then years down the road we'll look back and wonder why it's so primitive. I don't know enough about the behind the scenes stuff to understand what it's like on your end, but I'm hoping we eventually get a not-rushed long-term version that can really stand the test of time, or perhaps just an æonic release, a new stable version every time the last one starts to get dated. It's probably a lot more work than I realize to convert a nightly release into a stable version, but I'm guessing that if you have the idea initially to release new stable versions, it might influence some forward thinking to make the process easier down the road.