With no more updates for bugfixes seemingly in the pipeline after the 'final' patch, I gotta say coming back to the game having pre-purchased Dark Matter and to catch up on updates and content has been an absolute disaster -- is this the impression Amplitude want to leave many players who may pick up the game now and in the future?

Stuck turns are horrendous right now, ending a save file that is dozens of hours in. No mods, or any extreme settings, just a very average galaxy setup for a quick start. I personally don't have enough time to go around to put up with these game ending issues, when I could be playing other games that don't render the time invested pointless. I get that 4x games will never be technical perfection when it comes to bugs and other flaws and I accept that, it comes with the territory. The underlying game is great, and a lot of love has clearly gone into it. However, there has to be a line drawn when you look through the community posts both here and on steam and realise this game is a technical mess of the game ending kind right now, when it shouldn't be after a 'final' patch before Humankind.

I supported the game in EA on Amplitude's reputation, but I'm about ready to uninstall and put my time elseware at this point. Absolutely flabbergasted that, after all this time, stuck turns are still a common enough issue that it's constantly brought up throughout the community and my games are being ended by them.

CaptainCobbs wrote:

TheFunMachine wrote:
With no more updates for bugfixes seemingly in the pipeline after the 'final' patch,

The "final" patch was misnamed, it was just the last of the summer patches. I get the impression that there may be things in the works, but I definitely agree it's incredibly terrible. I can't play vanilla anymore, it's so bad. I'm disappointed that Humankind has seemingly made Amplitude abandon ES2, but I hope they pick it up again one day because it has so much potential. 

Well fingers crossed they have some more bugfixing on the way. I draw a line over stuck turns, they are complete show-stoppers. The devs for galciv3 went a long way to squashing those whenever there was a squeak of it happening. Minor bugs and quirks here or there, I don't really care. But stuck turns are completely beyond the pale for a game in this stage of maturity, that has had a solid fanbase (like me) buy every piece of DLC because of what now feels like completely misplaced faith in the company to maintain software that the end user can use start to finish.

I really do my best not to go to the forums to be a whiny fan and armchair dev, but I flipped out when I went to the forums after having my latest save file borked only to see dozens of other posts about it on various threads mere weeks old. Frankly, I regret recommending this game to anyone.

Groo wrote:

Not sure if you know about the common fix for the endless pending turn bug (fix)  introduced with latest patch: dismiss the battle reports listed to the right side of screen before you hit end turn button.

Nope. Pending turn regardless of whether I dismiss all notifications, etc, or not.

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Also, other devs that leave games that break like this (a la Stardrive 2) cop a lot of shit for it among the community. Amplitude should not get a free pass on this, either.