Man, Minecraft PE updates used to excite me like no other game update, but now, it's more like "it's about time Mojang." What the heck are they doing?! They need to get their stuff in order. I'm not going to lie though, this update does look cool.
No, still no caves, and still tiny TINY worlds. The performance was increased so that now the draw distance is improved. The problem with that, is it brings home just how tiny these worlds are. You can load up a new world in creative, at maximum draw distance settings, and if you fly straight up you can literally see all four edges of the world at once. At least the new full-time dev is getting stuff done faster, but it's still pretty terrible overall. I don't have a dog in this fight any more now I know a Vita version is coming, but this still isn't worth the asking price yet. Getting closer to being useful, but not there yet.
World size has pretty much always been my main issue. Especially once they started adding more hostile mobs. Survivalcraft is going to remain my go-to mobile minecraft like game. Riding horses, exploring caves, fighting werewolves, farming, electric device building for traps and stuff... all the other stuff... with an infinite world . Still, I have high hopes one day MCE will get to what MC 1.25 was. That would be pretty awesome. Maybe once everything is implemented they'll start to expand the world.
And that's while I like the idea of Minecraft on IOS, Survivalcraft is still the superior game IMO. I went to try the new update, but once I hit the edge of the world, I had to go back to Survivalcraft. Minecraft PE does what it does well, but when one game has caves and infinite worlds, and the other doesn't...
Disapointed ! I was so eager to play this with the kiddo ( I had refused to play with him at least until carts came in).. carts come.. multiplayer.. Kid goes 'this doesn't work, I cant sit in the cart'. Let me try.. lets see.. I can't even place carts (only the host ipad can).. I try place some tracks.. that works.. I try place some blocks.. uh oh, it keeps placing tracks. I cannot place anything but tracks... I dont bother trying resetting and starting over and bughunt, thats not my job Log off. Tell kid 'sorry, have to wait for a fix'
I'm looking forward to that greatly. It took 6 months between 0.7 and 0.8. Heck it took about 6 months between 0.6 and 0.7. Hopefully by June we'll have 0.9... but if it waits till 1.0, it may be a year from now. EDIT: Oddly, just noticed the lite version of MCE is gone. Strange. I know it wasn't up to par, but it was kind of fun just having zombies to fight against. I'm pretty sure I have this backed up anyway.
Really? That's awesome! That's all I want, then survival mode will actually be fun. Oh, and full mod support.
Mojang really are the worst for releasing broken updates. 16 million copies of this thing sold, and they can't even do a QA test on the main new feature. God that's pathetic. I'm only bitter because I love Minecraft. Just bought it a second time on PS3 even. Seeing Pocket Edition still be so bad after such a long time is saddening.
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It's sad really. Mojang doesn't really seem to be putting much effort into this. Seriously guys. Take a step back and really look at it. They haven't been trying, it's been out how long? Is it because they've still sold millions of copies of it even being half assed? That would be sad if they aren't bothering because it's making them money already. Look at the guy doing survival craft. One guy. Just as many if not more updates. Better game. Just no multiplayer. I have no friends so I don't even bother with Mincraft PooEater Sad....Notch you were my hero baby but your letting PE coast. :/. Don't even try to say they are having a rough time. They coulda rewritten it by scratch in COBOL by now.
The new update with limitless worlds etc sounds like a step in the right direction finally! Anyone got an idea when it's being released though?
