elsalvadon wrote:

Herman's hermits doesn't seem to be known among the community so well ?

Guess I am old 

I'm old enough to remember Herman's Hermits, but I'd forgotten "No Milk Today". Nice one.

Please help us :( 

Any dev still around? Any update at all?

We Stadia users don't need to expect to get more info. For Amplitude we are probably just ballast (maybe they hope that the Stadia users will soon fall silent). Anyway, that was my last Amplitude game.

I stopped playing the game some weeks ago hoping for an update.

Now I just checked in to see if there is at least a "old" update available for Stadia now. And as I already feared there is still nothing.

Being treated like a second class citizen feels really bad, especially when I just don't get it why delivering Updates for the Stadia version should be so difficult.

When the update is done for the PC it should just easy to adapt it to Stadia, at least the balance changes are just reworked numbers.

I doubt that the game is a totally different code then the PC version.

Zahn wrote:

I stopped playing the game some weeks ago hoping for an update.

Now I just checked in to see if there is at least a "old" update available for Stadia now. And as I already feared there is still nothing.

Being treated like a second class citizen feels really bad, especially when I just don't get it why delivering Updates for the Stadia version should be so difficult.

When the update is done for the PC it should just easy to adapt it to Stadia, at least the balance changes are just reworked numbers.

I doubt that the game is a totally different code then the PC version.

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Really hope for some news here soon, have tons of hours in this game and wanting to play more, but it's a bit depressing watching videos on YouTube about the game with tips when they're a whole universe ahead of you in content for the game.

I even thought that others Amplitude games could be ported to Stadia, but I was wrong. The devs are not capable of manage one single game...

Such a waste too. This version has some sweet potential.

Melliores wrote:
Just to add that usually the Publisher decides who to hire and in what capacity when they port a game. Which shows unfortunately that for different reasons there are issues between Amplitude and the chosen company.

And yes, it is not a simple port, for once the controls are completely different on Stadia as you play on a touchscreen for most of the time. It is not as simple as changing a few lines.

Firstly: I'll grant you that for some folks, playing on touchscreen might be their preferred method of control interface with the game. Others might play with their stadia controller (or emulated controller on iPad.) I would venture to say that the majority of people on Stadia are playing it with mouse and keyboard as they would if they had it on another PC platform. Furthermore, you're correct that there would have to be more code to bridge the touch interface with player actions, However, assuming that the game was coded for multiple types of input (which I would assume is the case for most games that have a multi-platform release) the core code would require minimal to no alterations. Studio doing the port would have to add the shim of Stadia inputs and map that onto the game's already existing command structure.

Direct Touch is not really responsible for the fact that Stadia users still haven't received a patch. Direct Touch is an interface that Stadia provides with an API, that might be a bit more work, but no Rocketscience. In my eyes direct touch was only a selling point for Stadia, Humankind itself is not optimized for touch. So it's no fun on an iPhone 12 Pro Max, I'd rather play with a virtual controller. Or just with mouse and keyboard. Maybe Humankind is fun with Direct Touch from 12" displays, but since Direct Touch is not possible on the iPad, I can't say anything about it.

The fact remains that Amplitude has not yet made sure that Stadia users have received a patch. Whether there are two of the three other studios in between, is not the problem of the consumer. It is also a fact that Amplitude is mainly silent. There was a single statement and every attempt to address the issue again is ignored by the official side. Either one is clueless or it is simply ignorant.

*bump*

So when is the patch day
And what have you done
Another week over
And a new one just begun
And so when is patch day
I hope we'll have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very Merry Patch day
And a Happy New Game
Let's hope it's a good one
Without losing to fame

And so when is patch day
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The game's too easily won
And so happy patch day
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's patch it alright

Still no updates from launch? Can I get a refund or transfer my game to Steam?

elsalvadon wrote:

So when is the patch day
And what have you done
Another week over
And a new one just begun
And so when is patch day
I hope we'll have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very Merry Patch day
And a Happy New Game
Let's hope it's a good one
Without losing to fame

And so when is patch day
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The game's too easily won
And so happy patch day
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's patch it alright

Singing out loud in my mind right now

October update: No update plan yet :(

Anotherbug
Anotherbug
Anotherbug
Anotherbug

You put the boom-boom into my heart
You sent my soul sky-high
When your game screen starts
Put another bug into my face
Goes a bang-bang-bang
'Til my head does the same

So much's bugging me
So much ain't right
Feedback form asks me
How did you do tonight
I am crashing to bed
I was crying
But it should've been patched instead

Patch me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Patch me up before you go-go
I don't wanna miss it when you hit that high
Patch me up before you go-go
'Cause I'm not planning on going solo
Patch me up before you go-go
Take me playing tonight
I wanna hit that high, yeah yeah

You take the grey fog outta my way
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
If you tuned it from neo to fame
Clicks per minute surely would never be the same'

Cause I'm playing stadia
I'm your fool
It makes me crazy when you act so cruel
Come on baby
Let's not fight
We'll go playing
Say it will be patched alright