FWIW, there are tons of fixes and improvements in each release that never make the patch notes.
are ship interiors never coming?
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It always was. Business as usual - the game continues to develop, and they don't have to share anything with you (but sometimes will, in the Dev interviews), you've already bought the game.
Of course we'll get them, along with the Panther Clipper, general availability of the Cobra mark IV, full VR support, atmospheric planets and the release of a native "next gen" version of the game for consoles including Odyssey and "live" mode...
Is that David Braben with Scarlett Johansson?
Apologies for being late to the thread.
While there are about 38 different ships, there would only be about 22 different interiors (I made a list in a post somewhere, I'll try to find it).
My opinion? I'd love ship interiors, and even if that meant buying a new expansion even as a Founder (who is supposed to get all the expansions), I'd do it. I've had my money's worth by this point, but I feel the reality is Frontier are winding down Elite Dangerous for end of life. I'll be happy to be proved wrong though.
EDIT: Here's the list
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Really? I'm not sure what gives you that impression. If at any time it would've been a couple of years ago when we had the ending of all GalNet articles and Community Goals stopped, as did all communication from the CMs. Turns out that was when activity was at its peak developing Odyssey and the new planet tech engine, etc. Now we have a major innovation with the Thargoid invasion AI.
YES!
Now, was that yes, they are coming or yes, they are not? To be or not to be...
Now, was that yes, they are coming or yes, they are not? To be or not to be...
Well killing off the console versions, with zero effort to release a "next gen" version of the game, not supporting VR and putting all their eggs in Odyssey's questionable basket for a start - even for the "chosen few" that can play Odyssey, it's very combat based, with pretty much nothing for those not only after it
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Well killing off the console versions, with zero effort to release a "next gen" version of the game, not supporting VR and putting all their eggs in Odyssey's questionable basket for a start - even for the "chosen few" that can play Odyssey, it's very combat based, with pretty much nothing for those not only after it
Just cuz the stuff they've added isn't what you personally want to play, doesn't mean the game's dying or development is winding down - if anything it's the exact opposite.
I've heard many people say that Odyssey and 4.0's performance in general isn't what they want, so even many people who CAN play Odyssey and "live" mode are choosing not to and playing in "legacy" mode, but it would be nice to have a choice and have SOME say in the direction of the game!!
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They explicitly said they were taking effort off console to ensure the PC version of the game got development, so that's the opposite of end of life. Oh, and VR was a side project of a single developer who left FDev years ago, so it's not surprising they're not implementing further VR - it wasn't part of the original roadmap anyway. Just a nice-to-have, that they were lucky to have an expert on who worked on it for no extra cost.
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Yes - but that's probably worked out better for them than being more talkative would have.
If they'd revealed back in ~April that U14 would be "full scale Thargoid War" then by the time it was released in November players would have had so long to talk about it, suggest ways it could work which turned out not to resemble how it did, etc. that by the time it actually showed up everyone would be complaining it wasn't the Thargoid War they'd imagined.
As it is, they've released it as more or less a surprise, without critical bugs and with no more than the normal amount of major bugs, and it seems to have been the best release since at least Fleet Carriers or Beyond 3.3 for getting player interest up after release day and getting positive conversations going on the forums about its content. Regardless, even the people who haven't been impressed with the Thargoid War, or just don't feel it's their sort of content, aren't criticisng it on the grounds that we weren't told it was coming sooner.
If it's good they don't need to hype it up in advance and if it's bad it doesn't help when they do, so they might as well keep quiet.
Yep - the console support and Legacy in general being left behind only makes sense to bother with if there's an intent to keep doing some sort of development for the next few years. If not, just never quite admit (even to themselves) that console Odyssey isn't going to happen, and avoid the hassle of the Live/Legacy split too.
Which is not the same as there being "another Odyssey-sized piece of development as a major expansion" on their plans, of course.
It's "cutting off your nose to spite your face" and it leaves most of us with no new content, but I guess it's a first World problem at the end of the day and we CAN go play other games, but it's not very nice and we'll miss what Elite could have been - I would have loved to have NPCs flying any of my ships that I'm not using like in the X series, but oh well!
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Given the ludicrous speculation about Odyssey (and indeed about any patch) I wouldn't blame them for never talking about future plans ever again, even in vague terms. This fandom does tend to take the sparsest of hints and spin it into "boarding actions against walking Thargoids" type nonsense then build themselves up to the point where anything would be disappointing. I keep hearing that the Elite playerbase are greybeards, but they act more like entitled 3 year olds sometimes.
Shows only how clueless they really are, as the base game is a prime VR poster child.
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I wonder .... perhaps this is technically not possible , or perhaps there are legal reasons but hypthetically speaking, coming from this as an old man gamer who used to love the modding community back in the day with quake or doom or unreal fan made maps.
I wonder if FD could not spend some pretty serious devtime creating a sandbox ship designer.....
each ship would have an empty internal space split into the different internal compartment sizes.l supplied by FD
then every other month month they could have a competition with players tasked with designing internal compartments for 1 ship ..... covering all the possible options for each ship. at the end of the competition FD could vote on each compartment size and module and the best ones make it into the game with the winners getting their name inserted somewhere into the design.
performance wise again am sure once designed the software could run some tests on it to work out memory usage etc and if it falls outside of certain limits it fails .
yes this would be work..... but surely such tools would be useful for their engine anyway?
just random spitballing. I imagine it would generate huge interest from players as well as lots of coverage in pcgamer etc
before you shoot me down for being silly take a look at the fan made sidewinder and viper ship interior done in unreal engine
IF this worked it could be later expanded to base internals etc
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I wish I had some say in your use and abuse of obnoxious emoji, LOL.but it would be nice to have a choice and have SOME say in the direction of the game!!
You can't force staff to stay who want to leave...