Yes. Totally agree that would be a great addition and bring a lot to the table. My friends stopped playing odyssey a while back and due to time constraints so did I. Part of it is that a session in elite is like a 1-3 hrs thing. Vs what we are playing lately is Deep Rock and it’s just so much easier to play either 1 or 5 missions depending how much time you had. I want to come back to odyssey though. Especially by whatever comes in the fall.
On-foot exploration gameplay needed
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Kinda easy to do too. Well... "EASY". I don't actually know how hard it would be to make this stuff but. Caves. Procedurally generate them. Add some fancy stuff you can find there.
Derelict ships, maybe goid ships.
Surface pois like goid stuff and guardian stuff.
There are easy ways to do this but Elite's team is like 30 people atm so we won't see anything like that.
Derelict ships, maybe goid ships.
Surface pois like goid stuff and guardian stuff.
There are easy ways to do this but Elite's team is like 30 people atm so we won't see anything like that.
Where does Frontier publish the size of active teams?
PMs to elect individuals.
Nah I'm obviously picking that number out of nowhere. But they had 100 people for the expansion and the development has been so slow considering time vs content added that I am 100% sure the team has shrunk significantly. 30 to 50 I'd sat.
Out in the black.....
Space hulks
EVA to repair your ship
Wrecks on planet surfaces with lots of Mats and danger, namely on foot pirates or a ship nearby..even a couple of enemy scorpion srvs.
Deep space pirate colonys. Planetside and orbiting pirate outposts....hostile on approach.
Caves
Subnautica oceanic content hehe.
Lethal black holes and nebula that affects sensors etc.
Neutron stars much harder to negotiate a boosted jump.
Same with white dwarfs.
High G glides planetside, way more lethal IF glide angle too steep.
Living species on foot, like goids, guardians, bugs, flesh eating plants hehe.
Weather phenomenon on planetside. That affects flight.
More alien
phenomena
I could go on for hours...bet there's far better stuff to be suggested.
Plugging grappling hook!
o7
Space hulks
EVA to repair your ship
Wrecks on planet surfaces with lots of Mats and danger, namely on foot pirates or a ship nearby..even a couple of enemy scorpion srvs.
Deep space pirate colonys. Planetside and orbiting pirate outposts....hostile on approach.
Caves
Subnautica oceanic content hehe.
Lethal black holes and nebula that affects sensors etc.
Neutron stars much harder to negotiate a boosted jump.
Same with white dwarfs.
High G glides planetside, way more lethal IF glide angle too steep.
Living species on foot, like goids, guardians, bugs, flesh eating plants hehe.
Weather phenomenon on planetside. That affects flight.
More alien
phenomena I could go on for hours...bet there's far better stuff to be suggested.
Plugging grappling hook!
o7
I though half a dozen...
Procedural caves require voxel terrain. NMS has it, ED uses height maps instead.
LIke baker's dozen or normal? ;D
Most of Earth's caves are the result of water action. We don't have liquid surfaces.Maybe now, but that doesn't mean it has to stay that way.
It's their own GD proprietary engine for God's sake. Can't be done? Sure it can, there just has to be a need to do so. Caverns and caves non-existent on a planet?
That leaves lava tubes and possibly ice caves assuming we have glaciers. Though even that might require melting.
Well... they COULD make it a Fade2Black transition, like when exiting the ship (That Armstrong moment). Approach cave, Fade to Black and Armstrong-moment into a cave.Maybe now, but that doesn't mean it has to stay that way.
It's their own GD proprietary engine for God's sake. Can't be done? Sure it can, there just has to be a need to do so. Caverns and caves non-existent on a planet?
I just want biological scans to actually involve some level of skill/puzzle solving....rather than a mere point & click fest. I'd also like if some plant life posed a sort of situational hazard (direct or indirect) for the would be explorer. Also, geological exploration-particularly around volcanic sites-would pose an extra level of difficulty/danger.
SRV Gurdians contetnt, there is no point in walking through the ruins of the guardians, except trying to entertain yourself. The game mechanics for on foot were not delivered to the ruins.
It's not even funny about the Targoids.
90% of my Odyssey on foot gameplay is running from the ship to the lifter and viceversa.
This aged so well, especially now with underwhelming update 14.. Loads of great ideas here.
Luckily you're running under your ship, not through your ship.
Agreed. The money boost is a low hanging fruit to boost engagement. I'd prefer something more than "waving your space torch at a plant to embarrass it into giving you information", to paraphrase Frontier's own words.
This is the closest thing i found (nope not caves, but still very weird)
The highest forms were like 1km tall or more, some of the holes were really deep, in some i could fit my DBX with room to spare, some had large rocks or geo features on their bottom (fumaroles etc)
What process is used to go inside a thargoid ground base? There's a fade out as you go in the door in your SRV, I'm assuming that's changing you to an inside instance. Am I reading that incorrectly? Couldn't the same process be used for a cave?