Posted by: eldrone
« on: Today at 10:59:43 »pretty sure they (NDS employees) are not allowed to talk about release dates.
so I'll put it this way - the KEX build needs to be able to carry all the mods and fan missions with some 98% accuracy (as mentioned before, if the hardware heat disks won't work, sure, whatever, but the rest of the gears need to mesh properly). that is not an easy task, no matter what source code they might have available (we still don't know).
but at a certain moment, the KEX build will have to be mature enough for some serious testing to begin - I would assume that's when NDS will ask us to share wip mods and other non-yet-public resources, possibly even letting us test the entire package early.
once that happens, I'd say a release in 6 months would not be impossible, if things go well. *Dark laughs villainously in the background*
you do the math.
Yeah, release dates, what's that?
But yes, full compatibility is the basis for everything to work, has to be a 100%, and yeah, it's a ton of work involved.
But a bunch of it also has to do with extended functionality and getting that into the community hands.