It's been fun and educational to be a Second Chance Backer. I've gotten to make some cool characters. Ever since 2015 I've anticipated this game, but I always tried to maintain realistic expectations when it came to how long development would take. I have to say, Missing World's Media hasn't disappointed me yet, and I'm thankful for getting a small bite out of what to expect.
The Avatar Builder no doubt has much left to improve, but compared to other character creators I've experienced in other games this could easily become one of the best. My biggest concern was how slow it ran on my computer. Everything felt like a 1.5 sec delay in the AB and the Island. I was pretty sure I remember a post awhile back with one of the devs saying that the game will be able to run well even on less expensive computers. Other then that I thank the devs for your work so far and I anticipate the day I can Answer the Call and Enter Titan City.

Brutum wrote:

Still hoping for some new rewards or something. Then I'd donate.

Working on it - they'd probably come as our first set of 'Stand-Alones' - can't call them Add-Ons anymore. We're going to add more downloadable stuff in time, and the mousepad is getting brand new art right now.

The thing is, we don't want to keep selling you starships. I mean, it works for other games, but we're just not set up that way. I mean that in a literal sense - what would we sell you, individual spandex patterns? That'd be nickle and diming. We'd rather be meaningful.
We want to get this game up and sustaining itself. So 'new things to sell' have not been a huge priority for us.
I hope you can understand.

warcabbit wrote:

Hyperbolt - what's your specs?

Dell Inspiron 5559 Signature Edition
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU

Congratulations on all the success from Second Chance so far! I'm sure that as improvements are made and shown off, you'll capture the attention of more and more people. I can't wait to see what you have coming next for us.

Thank you for the update and the transparency. Much obliged, as always.

Curious about that first 10,000 level of this second chance run

How were you planning on paying for all that stuff if no one else had bothered contributing?

Another way to phrase it is 'we need at least 10k before we feel safe enough to go hire someone' because, well, we're doing this for all of you (and us) and money is one way we can measure people's continuing interest. If we did this huge thing and we didn't make even 10k out of it, we'd really have to rethink our plans.

I want to thank you all for that show of interest. It's been a HUGE boost to internal morale.

Cleric, you've been an honest critic of us for a while. How are you feeling about all this?

Also, did you like the comic?

Cyclops wrote:

Yes, we need an artist to work on faces as well. More than just costumes.

Faces need work but we’re not missing noses or ears. Costumes have entire categories that are empty.

Cyclops wrote:

Atama wrote:

Cyclops wrote:

Yes, we need an artist to work on faces as well. More than just costumes.

Faces need work but we’re not missing noses or ears. Costumes have entire categories that are empty.

Just so long as we get around to faces before we go live.

What’s the worst that can happen? Do you think it really matters?

Mass Effect: Andromeda's Facial Animations Are Flat Out Terrible (Forbes)

Mass Effect: Andromeda's super-odd faces explained by a former BioWare animator (Digital Spy)

Mass Effect Andromeda’s Facial Animations Were Reportedly Outsourced (Geek.com)

People Are Trashing Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Animation (Kotaku)

The internet is brutally mocking Mass Effect: Andromeda's animations (PC Gamer)

Nobody will notice or care.

Not to be a downer, but I am concerned about the long-term viability of the project. The Avatar Builder is obviously far from finished, but the project has been maintained on a volunteer basis up to this point, as I understand it. Presumably it will continue to be maintained on a volunteer basis until and unless enough funding can be secured to develop the game full-time. The original Kickstarter was 6 years ago, correct? But total funding hasn't even broken $1 million yet. It seems like the level of funding necessary to even begin full-time production on the game is just not there, and the amount of work done so far is not enough to attract that kind of investment now.

Captain Citadel wrote:

Not to be a downer, but I am concerned about the long-term viability of the project. The Avatar Builder is obviously far from finished, but the project has been maintained on a volunteer basis up to this point, as I understand it. Presumably it will continue to be maintained on a volunteer basis until and unless enough funding can be secured to develop the game full-time. The original Kickstarter was 6 years ago, correct? But total funding hasn't even broken $1 million yet. It seems like the level of funding necessary to even begin full-time production on the game is just not there, and the amount of work done so far is not enough to attract that kind of investment now.

Up until now the only funding they have had is the original KS, whatever they get from Patreon, and then selling stuff in the shop like t-shirts and coffee cups. You shouldn’t expect their funding to increase when they aren’t selling anything.

Second Chance just started, so they are finally getting some income again. It’s way too early to be worried about money.

warcabbit wrote:

Cleric, you've been an honest critic of us for a while. How are you feeling about all this?

Also, did you like the comic?

To be frank..I am more optimistic than I was a month ago. Despite the complaints about lack of options, so many people have shown exceptional flexibility in creating 'work-arounds' to things they want. Some look terrible, but more look great. I've been convinced to donate when I was planning on waiting longer to see how more of the project unfolds but I feel better about the project overall.

While I understand the Dynamic Duo level only provides access to Issue 0 is there any progress on arranging keys for second Dynamic Duo access to the character builder?

Any chance we'll have customizable weapon options that we can see in the AB? Also, what power animations with be customizable?