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Any updates on VO for iPhone??? Since I've been playing this game I have had dreams of playing on my iPhone. Well, many thanks.
It has taken waay longer than expected. But we've had a lot of changes and improvements happen in the meantime.
iOS is rough for us, because we can only occasionally push releases, on lengthy notice/approval, and it requires everyone to re-download 400MB of stuff. This is totally contrary to our development and release model on almost every other platform (where we update frequently, and the updates only require a few megs of updates for that data which has actually changed).
All of this causes us to only want to update iOS when we're really, really sure that everything is going to be "cool" for awhile. For instance, our current year-old iPad version could be considered pretty "out of date" compared to Android, but it's quite stable and has not had any of the periodic bugs and fixes that happened on Android releases in the meantime.
So, anyway, we are still actively working on it. We hope to have it in wide-area testing on Testflight before long. We'll ask for player help during testing, so if you'd like to be involved in that, keep an eye out for the related announcement.
iOS is rough for us, because we can only occasionally push releases, on lengthy notice/approval, and it requires everyone to re-download 400MB of stuff. This is totally contrary to our development and release model on almost every other platform (where we update frequently, and the updates only require a few megs of updates for that data which has actually changed).
All of this causes us to only want to update iOS when we're really, really sure that everything is going to be "cool" for awhile. For instance, our current year-old iPad version could be considered pretty "out of date" compared to Android, but it's quite stable and has not had any of the periodic bugs and fixes that happened on Android releases in the meantime.
So, anyway, we are still actively working on it. We hope to have it in wide-area testing on Testflight before long. We'll ask for player help during testing, so if you'd like to be involved in that, keep an eye out for the related announcement.
Will do. I am looking forward to it.
Yeah, that's great to hear. It still isn't as efficient as our own differential patching, but it'll be a huge improvement over the old system. We probably need to update our app (we supported pre-ios-6), but that'll be a major benefit to rapid updates.
"Rapid updates"
YAY
YAY
this needs to be made for the iPhone and not just the iPad.
I too look forward to a iPhone version. I used to play on iPad mini and got rid of it when I got my iPhone 6 plus. The screen is not that much smaller than a mini. If you test it Id like to be a tester too.
Same here ... I'm eagerly awaiting the next TestFlight build.
Hello can we get an update to this issue? As far as I can tell the most recent info was over a year ago in Nov 2014.
The iOS updates have been pushed a few times, due to unplanned problems coming up elsewhere (a major unforeseen server-migration soaked up almost 6 months of last year), or Apple making some changes to update requirements that require us to re-work some things.
The last testflight update, for instance, ended up not going into production due to some Apple requirement changes that we didn't see coming. We're extra paranoid about the iOS version, because alone of all other platforms, we cannot patch in binary fixes, we have to wait for Apple to let us issue an update.
We are still working on this, including adding integrated Voice Chat support on iOS for the first time. I don't have a solid ETA, but I'd like to see it happen within the next couple of months if at all possible (the fact that we just rolled out the updated Voice Chat this weekend, on all other platforms, is a solid step in the right direction).
The last testflight update, for instance, ended up not going into production due to some Apple requirement changes that we didn't see coming. We're extra paranoid about the iOS version, because alone of all other platforms, we cannot patch in binary fixes, we have to wait for Apple to let us issue an update.
We are still working on this, including adding integrated Voice Chat support on iOS for the first time. I don't have a solid ETA, but I'd like to see it happen within the next couple of months if at all possible (the fact that we just rolled out the updated Voice Chat this weekend, on all other platforms, is a solid step in the right direction).
Thanks for the update. I have Testflight installed if you want more Beta testers :)
I too have TestFlight and would love to help.
I have TestFlight and would absolutely love testing this game for IPod!
My email is buddywrs84@hotmail.com and I've recently suscribed, getting a code would be great!
My email is buddywrs84@hotmail.com and I've recently suscribed, getting a code would be great!
I've been waiting so long for this game to come out on IPhone!! Ugh!! Hurry up!! I'd pay $20 for this game easily!! I already signed up for beta testing jus never got any emails at all. Still waiting
I need a new TestFlight invite as I need the updated version to play now, some things that botheres me was just the sensitivity which i could not customize,it was very hard for me to aim at ships and dock as I would end up over-dhooting.
iPhone version is out now. I don’t know why it wasn’t announced here or whatnot but it’s out now. Thanks guys!!