#10 Tau Ceti Part 4

[Razor2278]

That's some wishful thinking if I've ever seen any
With how little we have been shown so far I would say it is not yet finished, let alone stable enough for a release.
I don't see it coming any time sooner than a few months into 2022. That is, if we are not getting a new planet full of recycled content with different colors.

it's written on the live strima that work is in progress as for me they can do it for 5 months I prefer to have everything more polished than added in a flash and 10 updates improving in a week

 

[Vesperion]

My estimate is mid to late Q1 when we may see TC4. Maybe in early Q1 we will see a teaser of the new planet along with the new units that have been mentioned. At least i assume that SSG will not drop TC4 in mid of any event or shortly before it. Considering that now Christmas is announced already you can expect to not see anything about TC4 until this event has ended.

And after this event has ended the window is relative small cus in theory then the 1st RDX of 2022 would happen shortly after Christmas (February/March) OR they make it like this year to skip the RDX event again in favor of the TC4 update cus who remembers this year the 1st RDX was skiped in favor of the CQ update so that we only had the 2nd RDX Event with the Lava.

 

[Vesperion]

take into consideration the fact that we were shown a planet orbit, but not the surface itself

Well that is not fully true considering that Highway did land on the planet and then did show a part of the planets surface without moving at the planet a all and it was a lot of red on this planet with the factor of Hives flying above the planet.

absurd amount of blue blueprints required for all of the tau ceti ships and then cram it all on a single planet

Technicaly they have done this already with Calon if you want to see it from that perspective as Calon has all BPs for all ships that are available right now and considering that we may now return to a "full Mantis planet" you can assume that they have to think about the factor what Mantis unit has what items + the Rares in the mix and in terms of rares i assume that the formula will try to stay the same as droping the damage BPs only on the new planet. For the 2 Rare ships i´m not sure as in theory they could drop at Calon already or SSG decides to make them exclusive to the TC4 planet. The rest of the rare BPs will surely be available on all planets as most of the time supportive and buffing items are more available. So i can assume that the TC AB can be found on all TC planets while the new TC tech may only be available at the planets where that tech shows up for the first time like QL starting at EiU - TC4.

I just pray for highway and those in charge to take pity on us and to not make a single enemy drop 3 blue bps and 2+ golden bps... Draconis was a nightmare cause of that, a repeated bp nightmare with 1 or 2 enemies at most per spot.

This is the part that really can be anoying if you have a unit that is can only be found a few times on the planet (Minelayers, DS Commanders, Menders, etc.) in combination with the factor that they have the same amount of Golds needed like from normal units that are available in a bunch most of the time.

Best approach here would eventually be to make it so that from those units only half or even just 1/4 of the BPs/Golds is needed in compare to the other BPs from units that mostly fly in a bulk of 6-8 on a spot.

tau ceti 4 will be a nightmare to be in. Much like the hive in draconis, but worse.

For me Hive was more an "know where the safe spots are and when you should use your AB" then a nightmare and considering that i was a Sniper main during Drac times and the Metha Sniper was a paper armored ship i should know what i´m talking about .

In the end TC4 will be like any other planet ala explore and learning by trial and error until you know how to traverse it best or fly in a group to minimalize the chances of geting poded. As long as the new planet will not have something like "hive strikes" that gives EiU OS situations i can totaly live with the challenge to learn traversing a new planet.
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[KingSub]

Well that is not fully true considering that Highway did land on the planet and then did show a part of the planets surface without moving at the planet a all and it was a lot of red on this planet with the factor of Hives flying above the planet.


Technicaly they have done this already with Calon if you want to see it from that perspective as Calon has all BPs for all ships that are available right now and considering that we may now return to a "full Mantis planet" you can assume that they have to think about the factor what Mantis unit has what items + the Rares in the mix and in terms of rares i assume that the formula will try to stay the same as droping the damage BPs only on the new planet. For the 2 Rare ships i´m not sure as in theory they could drop at Calon already or SSG decides to make them exclusive to the TC4 planet. The rest of the rare BPs will surely be available on all planets as most of the time supportive and buffing items are more available. So i can assume that the TC AB can be found on all TC planets while the new TC tech may only be available at the planets where that tech shows up for the first time like QL starting at EiU - TC4.


This is the part that really can be anoying if you have a unit that is can only be found a few times on the planet (Minelayers, DS Commanders, Menders, etc.) in combination with the factor that they have the same amount of Golds needed like from normal units that are available in a bunch most of the time.

Best approach here would eventually be to make it so that from those units only half or even just 1/4 of the BPs/Golds is needed in compare to the other BPs from units that mostly fly in a bulk of 6-8 on a spot.


For me Hive was more an "know where the safe spots are and when you should use your AB" then a nightmare and considering that i was a Sniper main during Drac times and the Metha Sniper was a paper armored ship i should know what i´m talking about .

In the end TC4 will be like any other planet ala explore and learning by trial and error until you know how to traverse it best or fly in a group to minimalize the chances of geting poded. As long as the new planet will not have something like "hive strikes" that gives EiU OS situations i can totaly live with the challenge to learn traversing a new planet.
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@Vesperion i always love it when your response to everything and give so really good answer to it pov: i agree of course

 

[AG-Systems]

Nice Can't wait for that gonna do a full psy-trance party when its release ^^

 

[Vesperion]

@Vesperion i always love it when your response to everything and give so really good answer to it pov: i agree of course

Well you (and many others in the forum) should now my "sometimes" longer and more detailed explenations to certain things... and this even during another break from the game sicne a while again now lol

 

[-BoH-]

I know is a bit early to ask but y'all have a decent date release of update or teaser. March maybe or slightly later?

 

[Iron Black]

I know is a bit early to ask but y'all have a decent date release of update or teaser. March maybe or slightly later?

It is not soon, it is more said that in 2021 it would come out, but it was delayed

 

[KingSub]

I know is a bit early to ask but y'all have a decent date release of update or teaser. March maybe or slightly later?

i think the releaae will be the same as part 3 but i hope it will happen sooner because he is gonna marriage in april (me)

 

[-BoH-]

i think the releaae will be the same as part 3 but i hope it will happen sooner because he is gonna marriage in april (me)

Not sure on that, if we're very lucky it could be released in March (they said they plan to release it in early 2022) but I most likely see it getting released somewhere between April and June.

 

[KingSub]

Not sure on that, if we're very lucky it could be released in March (they said they plan to release it in early 2022) but I most likely see it getting released somewhere between April and June.

nooooo, early - early - earlier

 

[-BoH-]

nooooo, early - early - earlier

Gotta allow them to take their time

 

[KingSub]

Gotta allow them to take their time

eh, how old is tc? exactly it's time to bring this ship into the shore.. by the way, its a good song actually

 

[Vesperion]

eh, how old is tc? exactly it's time to bring this ship into the shore.. by the way, its a good song actually

Wwweeelll if we include the "offical launch" of TC then it is around since march 20, 2013 if you want to have the exact date and based on the announcments i could find on the offical website.

So you can technically say that TC is the currently "longest system with it´s story" after the catastrophic first try and the new re-release that was planed for June 12, 2018 but due of a required delay did happen one week later on June 19, 2018.

So you can say it took TC 5 years and 2 months to be released for real and since then then they have brought at least 1 part every year so 2022 seems to be fitting in the end for TC4.

If we want to go really crazy (and consider Sirius not as a "real system due the lack of storymissions" it gets even more cus Sirius was released the first time on November 04, 2011 what means already 1 year and 4 months between Siris and TC that could have been completed wwwaaayyy sooner if the planed "Episodes driven by the players voting" would have gone more smoothly and we may even be 2 or even 3 system further then currently .

But the time of nearly 5 years is the only reason why we still sit in TC

 

[-BoH-]

Wwweeelll if we include the "offical launch" of TC then it is around since march 20, 2013 if you want to have the exact date and based on the announcments i could find on the offical website.

So you can technically say that TC is the currently "longest system with it´s story" after the catastrophic first try and the new re-release that was planed for June 12, 2018 but due of a required delay did happen one week later on June 19, 2018.

So you can say it took TC 5 years and 2 months to be released for real and since then then they have brought at least 1 part every year so 2022 seems to be fitting in the end for TC4.

If we want to go really crazy (and consider Sirius not as a "real system due the lack of storymissions" it gets even more cus Sirius was released the first time on November 04, 2011 what means already 1 year and 4 months between Siris and TC that could have been completed wwwaaayyy sooner if the planed "Episodes driven by the players voting" would have gone more smoothly and we may even be 2 or even 3 system further then currently .

But the time of nearly 5 years is the only reason why we still sit in TC

Yep technically, but everyone including myself was hyped for lagrange singularity after tc and is a bit disappointing that they make tc the end of the game. I reckon they should continue the story but there's still a part of me thinking that new system in part 4 could secretly be lagrange since highway said there will be a couple of things everyone will be really surprised when it comes live and on top of that, we don't know the other planets in this new star system so we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Baconxxx]

It's sad the Game is finally going to die. Only if did somethings different. Old-time player, I don't get on forums really much at all. been done with part 3 for A while one first to it complete it on Solaria server. still, in search of a good space-related game SS I guess has nothing new coming out god, please nothing like dino and steel Junk.

or is SS going out of the gaming business?

 

[Vesperion]

is a bit disappointing that they make tc the end of the game

It's sad the Game is finally going to die

I would not consider that the game really "ends". I see it more so that the story arc about the Mantis is going to finally be concluded cus remember the Mantis invasion did go so far that it even reached the "outested frontier of humanity" aka Vega.

All we currently will see is that we have pushed against this invasion until the point of the Homeworld of the Mantis where they prep their Hives for the Invasion of other systems/races/whatever. I mean we have only seen the Hive in Drac but no where else another Hive was ever mentioned.

Aside from that always remember also that a shift in power or the downfall of a species can lead to new option for others. So what i more see here is that SSG currently has not the idea how they can continue the game or who could be the next thread to humanity once the Mentis have been taken care of.

 

[KingSub]

It's sad the Game is finally going to die. Only if did somethings different. Old-time player, I don't get on forums really much at all. been done with part 3 for A while one first to it complete it on Solaria server. still, in search of a good space-related game SS I guess has nothing new coming out god, please nothing like dino and steel Junk.

or is SS going out of the gaming business?

no one ever said that the game will die pls do not say something like this because it isnt true. if the game was going to die they newer put so much effort into the cq reboot. ok? i think the devs need a break to focus on other things. its announced that we will get new rdx events in the future (2022) , player based invasion, new cortex, cq fine adjustment, and some optimization here and there. you should have watch the stream before you say something like that. and again highway said that there isnt plannet a new pve content yet. do you know how many drafts the devs could use? from draconis up to tau ceti or from the lower starsystems

 

[-BoH-]

no one ever said that the game will die pls do not say something like this because it isnt true. if the game was going to die they newer put so much effort into the cq reboot. ok? i think the devs need a break to focus on other things. its announced that we will get new rdx events in the future (2022) , player based invasion, new cortex, cq fine adjustment, and some optimization here and there. you should have watch the stream before you say something like that. and again highway said that there isnt plannet a new pve content yet. do you know how many drafts the devs could use? from draconis up to tau ceti or from the lower starsystems

Exactly, but I believe of the devs plan to put a holt on pve content, I think it's sensible for us to send them some ideas on completely new type of events they could come in the future. I already have 2 ideas in mind to show them

 

[KingSub]

Exactly, but I believe of the devs plan to put a holt on pve content, I think it's sensible for us to send them some ideas on completely new type of events they could come in the future. I already have 2 ideas in mind to show them

its hard to create something from a scratch, especially when something tends to fail. to counteract the mistakes it is important for the future content that the mistakes from the past will not repeat himself. its a good way that this will not happen in the final tau ceti part.

and than here we are, you and me and many other who haves ideas for the future and creating units, bosses, ships, techs, storylines, designs, descriptions to keep the motivation up and give the devs decent ideas what we want to see in the future