f37e97 No.16699328
"As you know by now, if you're still playing PE, our lobby server had an issue where all the code base got deleted from its server. After trying to fix it for the last month, we've arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that it's a lost cause unless we completely rewrite the code from scratch. We used a software called U-link for PE, and that software is now defunct. Even if we had the original U-link code, we still don't have the configurations and additional code we wrote back in 2013. Under the circumstances, we just don't have the resources to rewrite the multiplayer code for PE. We're truly sorry for this.
Without the multiplayer, Planet Explorers will not be the complete package that we originally envisioned. Thus, starting next week, we'll make the game free. We'll also try to make the game code available online (we're still looking into the how part).
Going forward, we will be making a PE2. It will be much better than the original, as we've matured as a studio. We'll probably start on that project next year. We'll put that game's alpha on a branch of Planet Explorers for free for you to play when the time comes.
Thank you all for supporting us all this time.
Planet Explorers Team"
d3cf7d No.16699331
548d45 No.16699335
I don't know what this is but how the fuck do you nuke your entire DB and backups?
d3cf7d No.16699340
>>16699335
a physical level fire is the only thing I can think of, if all your shit is stored in the same place
a7af23 No.16699343
>>16699335
By being Chinese, apparently.
d3cf7d No.16699348
>>16699340
*physical level disaster, a fire is just one possibility, floods, EQs, etc could also be responsible. Of course it would still be their fault for not having a net-based backup.
f37e97 No.16699350
>>16699335
Not unthinkable. The company I work with can't update one of our softwares, since a fuckup with another piece of software we used in making it.
A lot of things can go wrong.
623c11 No.16699355
>>16699335
Toy Story 2 was rm*'d and would have been lost completely if one of the animators didn't have an illegal backup at home for their children to watch.
b42b62 No.16699363
>>16699355
Food Fight and sonic chronicles comes to mind as well.
393704 No.16699375
>>16699363
>Food Fight
What shame it didn't.
e56022 No.16699377
>>16699363
>food fight
>sonic chronicles
GOD WAS TRYING TO ERASE THESE THINGS ON PURPOSE
23a088 No.16699385
>Our entire code repo is gone. Guess we can't develop the game anymore guys!
Fucking staggering. This is why you should always use distributed version control. That way everyone who ever contributed code to the project has a copy of all of that code on their machine. You don't need to do this with assets. npm is cancer on the opposite side of the spectrum though, I don't need recursive copies of all fucking dependencies back to the invention of the vacuum tube
e94547 No.16699391
>>16699377
>>16699363
>>16699375
>GOD WAS TRYING TO ERASE THESE THINGS ON PURPOSE
It's not really fair to say that about those two. Both would have been much better products if they had not been remade in such a rush, Food Fight especially. I doubt either would have been good per se, but most likely forgettably average at least.
f4d19b No.16699394
>>16699385
>posting that gay fucking anime image
it's a shame to hear that some programmers haven't built the habit of using version control
dc5e7b No.16699398
>>16699363
I think in the case of Food Fight, they lost everything except the voice acting, so they had to hastily create new models and animations.
e94547 No.16699408
This shit happens all the time, now that I think about it. The backgrounds to Final Fantasy IX were lost, as well as the entire source code to Final Fantasy VIII. The source code for Silent Hill 2 and 3 were lost, so the team had to work off of beta builds, hencewhy the HD collection versions were so shit.
23a088 No.16699414
>>16699394
>posting that gay fucking anime image
That's racist. My dad was an anime once.
I have the same keyboard at home.
f37e97 No.16699429
>>16699385
The game is finshed though
23a088 No.16699433
>>16699429
>Without the multiplayer, Planet Explorers will not be the complete package that we originally envisioned
Not according to the devs.
a7af23 No.16699438
>>16699433
Try reading the first sentence again.
16f373 No.16699439
How shit does this run? It looks like it runs like shit, I remember half keeping an eye on this through early access.
b42b62 No.16699444
>>16699391
Yeah, now its forever scarred upon my memory instead.
23a088 No.16699445
>>16699438
>As you know by now, if you're still playing PE, our lobby server had an issue where all the code base got deleted from its server.
Are you saying a game is done simply because it's playable? Not sure where you're going with this. I'm fairly certain the devs own explicit assessment of their projects completion overrides any inference you can draw.
f37e97 No.16699456
>>16699445
I mean the game was complete and finished. It's not early access of alpha, it's been out for a long while.
>>16699439
Runs normally on my machine, which isn't anything impressive.
23a088 No.16699463
>>16699456
It's a shame that they released a game that they apparently thought was unfinished, then. That or they need to get their heads on straight and stop speaking nonsense – but what should I expect from the team that thinks version control is too much effort?
f37e97 No.16699475
>>16699463
>It's a shame that they released a game that they apparently thought was unfinished, then.
What?
16f373 No.16699489
I get a bit of joy out of looking at the comments on their update and seeing all the ass harm, pleases me when these frothing faggots that demand multiplayer everything get shit right on.
>>16699456
>had a 1.0 release in 2016
I really lost track of this one then.
163f76 No.16699492
Didn't no mans sky had something like that?
Like, after 2 years of developing the studio got flooded and they lost the code and had to begin from scratch.
I always had suspicious that was a pertinent happening for the shit (rushed?) game they made.
16f373 No.16699505
>>16699492
There was also Project Zomboid, where supposedly the dev's sole copy of the game was on a laptop that got nigged from his apartment.
062fb0 No.16699624
>we destroyed the entire multiplayer version of our game
>we will be making PE2 soon
Well, it's good they were planning on a sequel. Hopefully it's release in EA so we can all get back to playing the game together real soon.
0f29ed No.16699706
>>16699335
>have all servers in one area
>fire/flood damages all your servers
>data dies
like that, though you would think they have more backups so probably autism.
d76f71 No.16699716
>>16699377
Sonic Chronicles wasn't THAT bad.
79f3b3 No.16700451
So that lobby server was necessary to play multiplayer and now that it's wiped you can't play multiplayer?
f55389 No.16700457
>>16699463
Do you have fucking brain damage you fucking niggger? Get some reading comprehension and go back to reddit or whatever other shithole you came for.
Holy shit, why can noone tell this drooling retard to fuck off?
7e9d1e No.16700469
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Planet Explorers SP.
The soundtrack is great and the planet can be beautiful.
The vehicle/weapon creation is also very powerful, tough vehicles are limited in size (100 meters IIRC)
The game can be very, very comfy (building a boat and sailing down the river with your followers)
I'd share some of my comfy screenshots, but at my laptop I don't have them, so instead have the Heavy Support Craft Whale
1a15f5 No.16700510
Looks like people are a tad pissy about this.
7e9d1e No.16700548
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>>16700510
Throwing hissy fits and review bombing almost 3 years after the game came out.
Sometimes the term "man-children" is really fitting.
1a15f5 No.16700555
>>16700548
I'll give them that it's a bit shit to have a game you bought suddenly go free, especially when you lose a main functionality. But, this is definitely autistic.
3daf18 No.16700558
anyway, how is the game? seems like a shittier version of starbound in 3d, didn't think i would ever see something like that.
7e9d1e No.16700569
>>16700555
>>16700558
I wouldn't call it main functionality, since the game is about Single Player.
You can do shit in multi as wel - like build Mario Kart levels and race around - but SP atmosphere and cozy factor is great.
If you want to try it out, I suggest getting some prefabs from Nexus, at the very least for base building (walls, structures, monorail posts, etc..)
1a15f5 No.16700622
>>16700558
So far, it's feeling rather janky. About the same as most the other early access games in the style.
I've not really got far. But, it seems to be mainly in third person, I guess.
Overall, looks like it'll be interesting, but, I doubt I'll stick with it any more than most the others of the same style.
3daf18 No.16700647
>>16700622
I installed and oh boy what a piece of garbage
>armor (even the simplest piece of leather clothing) is gender locked, so i finally dropped some armor but can't use because it's not for my sex
>bow does pittance damage and eats through durability
>have to wait around because it's one these games the make you wait a second or two to craft anything, even 4 arrows
>try to kill monster, uses 50 arrows on it
>have to wait another 10 seconds if want another 50 arrows to be crafted
>all this waiting on game that has a hunger bar
this shit was free and i feel ripped off.
d6f832 No.16700653
obviously the creators of this game are retarded and their game sucks
af7785 No.16700659
3 2 1 is the golden rule when doing backups.
Three backups, on at least two different types of storage media, with at least one of them in a separate and secure location.
It sucks that they have fucked the pooch this badly by losing their code, but at least they're not being complete cunts about it. What's still available is available for free and they're going to make another version/sequel which will be free for current users of PE when it's ready.
1a15f5 No.16700670
>>16700647
Maybe it's just the early-game gears, but, yeah. Things take forever to kill. Also, it's rather dizzying, for whatever reason. I don't know what it is, I don't normally have this problem with games, but if I try to play at all in first person, it ends up messing me up.
6ff37c No.16700771
>>16700647
Complaining about gender-locked armor?
Are you retarded?
You are going to have followers and colonists in your colony that you can equip with the stuff that doesn't fit you.
Once you get better weapons, things pick up. You really shouldn't expect much from wooden arrows, especially not against giant, armored enemies.
You can close the replicator window and so stuff, the things will build in the background. Later, when you build a base and recruit colonists, you will be able to assign them to mine, build, farm, doctor, etc…and the colony will run itself. This also includes industrial replicators.
f1e239 No.16700776
>>16699335
This. I don't know, it may be only the fact that I'm a cynical bastard but if I had to guess I'd say they got tired of trying to implement MP and are just making up stuff so they can stop working on the game. In the long term its better for them to make a show of goodwill by giving away this first version so that people look more favorably on a second (more expensive) game than continuing to trying to sell open world indie RPG #3525623, especially with reviews like >>16700510
3daf18 No.16700957
>>16700771
>defending gender-locked armor
No anon, you're the retard here. Are you seriously telling me that you think men can't use the same goddamn helmet a woman can?
>Oh look! a standard issue combat boot, ah too bad, it has the female icon on it's side, guess i will keep using these sandals!
That's how retarded you sound.
This game is a mix of all the worst mechanics of Starbound, Ark and Edge of Space. I can't believe people paid money for this garbage.
856e61 No.16701133
>>16700647
>durability
I hate this, simply because it's always done for "realism" in a way that's totally unrealistic. Like, you've got a sword that breaks after 30 swings, but you're expected to use it to fight off an infinite horde of wolves that clamber over wolf corpses to charge at you.
9dbd09 No.16701366
>>16699505
project zomboid is STILL in development too. I believe this is the ninth year now.
6ff37c No.16701457
>>16700957
I depends on equipment, idiot.
Something like a helmet could be universal.
ac2da0 No.16701556
>>16701133
Not just for realism, but it reinforces the crafting elements of the game. Things break and you have to make more, where if they didn't make it feel like everything was made out of tin and balsa, those resources would become wastes of time the second you had a decent gear set. It's still a shitty way to go about it, though.
856e61 No.16701725
>>16701556
>it reinforces the crafting elements of the game
Is that the actual thought process behind it? That whole massive painful nuisance is just a counter-inflationary measure? They could've put in shops, or repeatable minor upgrades with exponentially increasing costs, or just let players be Minecraft autists and have such a surplus of materials that they can build working Gameboy emulators or whatever.
Are these devs so detached from everyday life that they don't understand that repeatedly forcing someone to stop and do something makes it a chore no matter how much fun it'd be otherwise?
371e05 No.16701754
>oops we accidentally the centralized multiplayer server we require you to use for multiplayer and we accidentally all the game source code
>no refunds
buyfags btfo for the infinite + 1 time
ac2da0 No.16701774
>>16701725
I don't know if that's an official thought process in these games but it's my take on it at least. If you're not building 100 story tall buildings or working emulators, why would you need to look for x item if your gear never degrades? You just move on to the next tier.
371e05 No.16701784
>>16701725
it builds a feeling of progression, there must be pain to progress or it feels worthless.
if there was no pain it's the same as the feeling you get when you cheat in a game and give yourself max stats and gear, you quickly test the limits of the engine, realize it's an engine, and loose all sense of immersion in the game, ultimately quitting 10 minutes later out of boredom.
bcda0d No.16702009
Nothing of value was lost
856e61 No.16702130
>>16701784
In what way does every piece of your equipment breaking after minimal use give any kind of sense of progress? If anything it does the opposite; it makes you feel like you can't accomplish anything because whatever you create will fall apart right away.
7e9d1e No.16703272
>>16701725
The degradation (especially on good weapons) is so slow and the resources so abdundant once you make your base, that it really doesn't matter except in early game. It makes sene that a brozne weapon will dent nad break easily, but a good still one will last a lot.
You also have repair machines that can repair every item to 100% every time you return to your base/colony.
It's a bloody survival game - maintainance of equipment SHOULD be a thing.
It is such a non-issue that I'm scratching my head why you make such a fuss over it.
But hey, autism. And also spoiled faggots that despise any inconvenience, regardless of the purpose.
7e9d1e No.16703289
>>16703272
still = steel. Damn typos.
1a15f5 No.16703337
>>16701784
Tools breaking doesn't give you any kind of feeling of progress. It feels like an arbitrary restriction.
Besides. You want players to feel like they're making progress? Make it so they need to actually work less. Make automation a possibility. Don't break their shit after a few uses.
7e9d1e No.16703407
>>16703337
>Besides. You want players to feel like they're making progress? Make it so they need to actually work less. Make automation a possibility. Don't break their shit after a few uses.
This IS what happens, retard.
Tools become more durable and resource gathering can be automated (as in, your colonists do the mining and farming)
7e9d1e No.16703408
>>16703407
Also, higer level tools bring in more resources and faster
1a15f5 No.16703421
>>16703407
So why bother having tools break? It's a trash system that just adds tedium. Plus, from what little I've played so far, it doesn't seem like it takes much time to get colonists, either.
aa502d No.16703496
>>16703407
Are the colonists your slaves? Can I rape the young females?
a1c1b5 No.16703541
>>16699328
>we don't have the resources to fix our first game
>but we DO have the resources to make a whole new one
16b4a9 No.16704797
>>16700548
except the game was more or less shit since forever, it's not like it completely switch from positive to negative.
>>16700558
>>16700622
I played it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when it just came out (in EA I think) - it had potential if the kept at it with a steady pace. but they didn't and years later it was still only "interesting concept that could be fun if", but if never happened.
was surprised it was still running
7e9d1e No.16706079
>>16703421
Why having HP at all if it increases with level?
Please anon, try using your brain and thinking a bit before posting concetrated stupid.
1a15f5 No.16706386
>>16706079
But HP that increases with levels is stupid.
7e9d1e No.16706505
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>>16706386
Perhaps. I'd say in most cases it is, but depend on the rest of hte system.
062fb0 No.16706859
>>16703541
What a coincidence this is!
68c020 No.16706873
>>16703541
rev up that kickstarter!
db9b4d No.16706925
1a9b3c No.16712039
>>16699328
It got some aspects of what they were going for down well, being in a massive unknown land, exploring, building destitute-tier, then later slightly better tools and vehicles that allow you to traverse the vast world and then finding out it's not that vast, the whole basebuilding, again going from a shitshack to a nice colony with lots of NPCs working for you, a semi-interesting storyline, those were good. Performance issues, some gameplay issues, content never ever getting finished, game getting shitcanned, those were not so good. Saying that they cannot possibly fix PE up, but they will make PE2 with blackjack and hookers, is just insult to injury, I don't know who will buy their early access shit for the second time.
537232 No.16712204
>>16703541
>If we're going to start from scratch, might as well not be a tacked-on multiplayer we struggled with for years on a piece of shit outdated technology but an altogether new project instead
Doesn't seem far fetched to me.
6cce59 No.16712330
I've owned this game from early access.
The short version of the story is that the developers were overly ambitious and tried to make a 3D version of spore (the creator editor shit) with story heavy RPG and tower/base defense elements and procedural generation, AND multiplayer AND a fucking strange dwarf fortress adventure mode which sucks ass.
The game was mostly complete before multiplayer broke, the game is kind of janky anyway but it's worth playing for sure. Kind of sucks for the people that bought it, now that it's free but I think /v/ will probably enjoy the parts of it that are interesting.
If you aren't playing sandbox then you have to follow the story quests to unlock the designer elements, all you can design at first is swords, later you can make land vehicles, buildings, air vehicles, guns etc.
The creators are powerful but pretty complex to use. It's fun but janky.
6cce59 No.16712332
Oh I forgot to mention that a grapple gun and deployable glider are in the game, kind of fun to try and glide through caverns and tunnels.
6cce59 No.16712338
>>16703541
They could fix the game, but would that keep their business afloat or increase sales?
6cce59 No.16712339
>>16712039
I built my end-game base out of dirt. Was I doing it wrong?
The enemy destroyed my dirt fortress but I took revenge in the worst way.
6cce59 No.16712342
>>16700647
so your complaints about this game are
- you can't crossdress
- bow and arrow isn't as good as a gun
- crafting takes seconds of time you are wasting anyway
- killing a higher level monster with crappy low-tier weapons takes forever
- you have to craft ammo for ranged weapons
- you have to eat every 15 mins in a survival game
437601 No.16712347
>we'll make the game free
>We'll also try to make the game code available online
How could you have one without the other?
371e05 No.16713121
>>16712347
they lost the source code they only have pieces, they can make the binaries free
d6b7dc No.16713745
>>16703541
That's always my reaction when I get tasked to fix Pajeet's code.
