EB v0.8.6.7.5.3.0.9 Release Date

[fallen851]

Ever the eternal optimist.

Me or Zorba?

[Kull]

Hi I'm new here, I signed up to cast a vote for an earlier release.

Welcome! Always good to see new folks!

[HighLord z0b]

I would vote for an earlier release because I have RTW Gold Edition and I can't play EB at all at this stage. Although I understand that it is better to have a stable game than CTD just when it is getting interesting.

[Cataclysm]

I voted for the earlier release as well. I will echo what many of the others have said, in that the constructive feedback you get from the community as a whole should help stamp out the bugs in the build and hopefully expidite development of the mod.

It's no secret everyone has eagerly anticipated 0.8, including myself. We are all excited over the new features and I think this will outweigh the negatives of the beta.

Thanks again for all your work!

[Olaf The Great]

Do it sooner, or I will blame Dayve.

Remember guys, this is a "beta"
A "beta" is released "sooner"

I must admit, your team is better then RTR's
They haven't released a preview since June.
And those previews weren't very informative.

I don't like it when you people hold things away from us...

Remember "BETA" and "SOONER"

[MSB]

Do it sooner, or I will blame Dayve.

[Subedei]

O.K., I did not have toooo many CTDs in 0.74, so what does "more CTDs" mean? More than 0.74 or just every now and then? Everybody knows it ain´t 1.0....

Besides I think we, the users, can help you guys out with CTD detection...right?

Plus: I wanna play the Saka Rauka please...I am close to the end of my Sarmate campaign on RTR. Nomads need to roam you know....

[khelvan]

Yes, and so, apparently, do nomad historians.

[fallen851]

If we do (release sooner), we have a greater potential for bugs, the campaign and battle balance may be somewhat off, and there will likely be gaps in translation, text editing, and things such as unit cards. Our scripting may not be where we want it to be.

As you know the releases after 0.7.2 came hot and heavy, and we would expect the same to happen when we release 0.8.

Will these "hot and heavy" releases for 0.8 (assuming its released sooner) fill in things such the as gaps in translation, text editing, scripting and unit cards, or just fix bugs?

I'm particularly interested in the unit cards, will they be filled in before 0.9?

[Excel]

well, it's apparent that the masses want 0.8 fairly soon

[The Spartan (Returns)]

well i just hope those bugs arent major.

[Cnaeus "The Victor" Cato]

Hey all. Yea first post for me. I just would like to say Ive played R:TW for countless hours, RTR for more countless hours and EB .74 for even MORE countless hours (in that order) and I am so impressed with your work. I would love to get my hands on .8, even if its mainly for stomping on bugs.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Will these "hot and heavy" releases for 0.8 (assuming its released sooner) fill in things such the as gaps in translation, text editing, scripting and unit cards, or just fix bugs?

All parts of the mod will be taken care of in the patches.

I'm particularly interested in the unit cards, will they be filled in before 0.9?

Yes.

[Dayve]

Do it sooner, or I will blame Dayve.

Remember guys, this is a "beta"
A "beta" is released "sooner"

I must admit, your team is better then RTR's
They haven't released a preview since June.
And those previews weren't very informative.

I don't like it when you people hold things away from us...

Remember "BETA" and "SOONER"

You have been sucked in by false propaganda. Clearly it is the fault of Teleklos if it is not released soon, i am innocent!

[Olaf The Great]

You have been sucked in by false propaganda. Clearly it is the fault of Teleklos if it is not released soon, i am innocent!

...Lol...

I blame Teleklos for making me blame you.

[CountArach]

lol @ title.. EB 0.8.6.7.5.3.0.9

[Dayve]

...Lol...

I blame Teleklos for making me blame you.

So. This is war.

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

Too bad I snapped all the disks into pieces after playing unscripted custom battle in M2 demo. With better AI and graphics I see no reason to pretend play RTW mods since the AI is so poor. EB missed the train just like the chivalry mod

[Teleklos Archelaou]

did you really break your discs? Sorry, but what a dummy...

[Wardo]

Release next month or die trying.

[Reverend Joe]

0.8.wha?!

Anyway, what I meant was, in fact, CTD's (thanks, Fallen.) Minor wierd bugs can be ignored, as well as usually being easy to fix.

CTD's, on the other hand, SUCK. They are real and true game-ruiners.

If you want to be beta testers rather than beta players, there is no problem whatsoever with that; but you should be aware that it is not nearly as fun, especially if you want to be an effective Beta tester. It's a lot more like work.

[Obelics]

men, if you are sure this will for real continued in the next months with the same efforts, i say publish it just now, or sooner you can.

I answer with a sentence of an italian writer:

"when you become to worry about the expectations of your reader (fans in the case of EB), well, you are just finished."

so i say you are worrying too much abaut these expectations, just publish it cause it is a patch after all, is not a finished version, and then you can let coming out as much hotfix patch as you want. You are not going to loose somethink or to win some prize if some people will get bored of the bugs or CTD.
It's your work, that's is.

who love me, will follow me...
just pursue your way

greetings

[Dayve]

0.8.wha?!

Anyway, what I meant was, in fact, CTD's (thanks, Fallen.) Minor wierd bugs can be ignored, as well as usually being easy to fix.

CTD's, on the other hand, SUCK. They are real and true game-ruiners.

If you want to be beta testers rather than beta players, there is no problem whatsoever with that; but you should be aware that it is not nearly as fun, especially if you want to be an effective Beta tester. It's a lot more like work.

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

[Reverend Joe]

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

When did I ask for volunteers?

[Foot]

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

We said in the thread that if you didn't receive a PM we had not chosen you as a beta-tester. We didn't ignore any application, but we had many and we thought that it would be simpler to send out a PM to everyone who had been accepted, and let those know who hadn't been accepted that if they didn't receive a PM then they had not been accepted.

There are many reasons for choosing a beta-tester, you didn't pass all of them and so we decided not to choose you. Its quite simple, really. I'm sorry that you feel aggreived somehow, but you shouldn't do.

Foot

[AntiochusIII]

Release sooner and see what happens.

Seriously. EB has enough completely devoted fans to ensure a great amount of defensive barriers against the usual Pessimistic Internet Complainers that will come up at all the bugs that might still be there. A backlash of any kind is utterly unexpected, considering the consistent quality displayed so far of this very much comprehensive mod.

Moreover, it's good to keep people interested. I think there are a lot of people here who'd like to feel as if they are "unofficially in-the-project" in helping with all the bughunts. Just to make sure it's all about bughunts (and let those who dare risk rough terrain appreciate the awesomeness so far), you might as well post a short and cohesive "guidelines for reporting bugs" with all the giddy-diddy about Save-Every-Turn (in different names) and Try-Reproducing-It! that is the stable of the bughunting tasks right after the download link.

That, and most people would rather play the mod in a 1.5 RTW base than a 1.2 base, which is fundamentally far more...complete.

Just my opinion.

[Redigo]

Just in case some of you haven't noticed Foot's comment in another thread:

We had already decided that we wanted to push ahead with an early release of 0.8 before we put out the public poll, we put out the public poll so that we could gauge what people's reactions would be.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Just in case some of you haven't noticed Foot's comment in another thread:

Yeah, we wanted to, but we seriously felt we needed to see what the reaction was first. If it had been negative and people wanted to wait, we wouldn't have ignored it.

[khelvan]

I would not call that statement entirely accurate. We do not make polls simply for making polls. We have been gauging our own ability and desire to release the next version earlier than intended both internally and publically. Calling it a "decision" is not accurate.

[APX]

Realease it now I say! Just get it done with. CTDs are not that bad, it can still be a fun game. Look at Blue Lotus!