Just wondering if there is any word at all on any future patches. Will be a shame if they leave it at 1.12 till the supposed addon comes out.
you will probably have some communication - in a month or so maybe releasing a small patch of sorts repairing nothing and then some more addon blah blahI haven't seen / heard anything either ... even if it *is* going to take another few months some communication would be nice.
that is what i thought at first corwin but this info is old and now there is the 1GB patch thing ahead - which leads us to the inevitable addon another 20 euro and then we will probably have another unfinished product because the large scope of the game - id rather have a semi breakthrough product that would play just nice - not like Oblivion and not like NWN2 (both do not count as RPGs by my standards)Thanks for the link Mo. It's a very interesting read. The fact that they admit the game is still unfinsihed and needs work was revealing, as was their admission that they failed to achieve some of their key goals!! At least they are trying to move the genre forward, instead of playing it safe!!
i have also heard a 1GB patch rumor ... which by all means is either nonsense or the game code is less than thrash
acleacius - no code is written in a way that you would have to apply a large 1gb patch that is bullshit
Well, as you may (or may not it seems ) remember from the time before Gothic III was released, one major problem that PB were facing and that was causing them, JoWood and the Romanian QA folks much frustration, was that PB needed to compile the entire code base from scratch every time they made enough fixes to warrant the compilation of a new build of the game. They said that the compilation process took 12 hours+ every time so there was always a long wait between builds and before the testers would submit feedback on the latest build.
Now why they have to do that (compile the entire thing) every time, I don't know, of course, but I would guess that it might have to do with the underlying database that the game is using and with data integrity checks.
In essence, this means that a major patch (which would in fact be a new build) would probably include new versions of pretty much everything but the art assets. And it will most likely be a gig or more. We'll see...