I’m sorry to tell you but EVERYTHING a game developer puts out before the game goes live 1.0 is effectively a tech demo. However, seeing what is contained in said demo is a good indicator of where the game should end up. Call it a “tech demo” is some what dismissive and a little immature though. David Braben himself…

It’s sad you’ve got to hate. E:D is an awesome game. SC is going to be an awesome game. NMS is going to be an awesome game, Infinity Battlescape is going to be an awesome game. There’s no need to push, everyone is going to get a chance to be heard. This is just an article about a piece of tech even the backers of the…

right now optimization is the biggest issue and that won’t really be done until the game is much closer to being complete. I have an AMD FX8320 @ 3.5GHz with a GTX970 SSC and 16GB of RAM and it works terrific on Very High settings. Most of the issues are server-side right now, not client side

I’m sorry this “fad” as you put it is annoying. You know what else is annoying, listening to someone who’s not an environmental asset designer talk about something like its the simplest thing in the world. Creating all of those planets and plants, and animals and environmental effects used to take 100’s of artists,…