These guys disagree. If you can't fight lasers with swords & clubs then you aren't a "real" warrior. Arrrggggh!
Absense of melee weapons in game
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These guys disagree. If you can't fight lasers with swords & clubs then you aren't a "real" warrior. Arrrggggh!
That movie is due for a remake.
There are so many suggestions made, not to ruin the game but to improve it in the mind of the suggester, or to make it simpler for new players to have G5 everything 2 hours into the game...
The playerbase is fortunate that the majority of these suggestions fail to inspire FD to implement them - but, at least being able to make a suggestion is permitted.
At least, while FD is rebuilding internally, anything more than a minor tweak is unlikely to happen to the game (PP 2.0 excluded, that has probably been a project for quite some time) and it would be curious to have FD implement something that would only please a small minority (PP 2.0 excluded)!
I blame the trend for genre mish mash in general. Stuff like... Fortnite? Is it Fortnite? Sorry, I'm not so fluent in what the kids play these days - just steal from every genre and put it in a "funny" fantasy environment - genre continuity not required. "Cyberpunk" today practically exclusively means japanese anime with ninjas and tech weapons. Starfield couldn't resist to push magic into a space themed game. These days, anything goes. WWII weapons in a Fantasy game? Why not. Medieval knights in SciFi? Hell yeah. Just mash it all together.
There you go. Here's today's old man yelling at clouds for you.
Ugh, ships giving other ships paintjobs, shooting loads of goo on each other in CZ-s is not a mental image I was prepared for or wanted...
Actually I was thinking in terms of double barreled spray guns armed with superglue from one barrel and hardner from the other
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I'd speculate that the thargoid war related graffiti was actually developed for the upcoming PP2 visual changes. If so, PP2 has been under development for quite awhile.
If it remains goopy, when the shields fail the ship will fly straight into the goopy mess.
Well the princess to the front right does look like Leia while the one center back does look like a twi'lek - so Star Wars costume party confirmed
What Elite needs is interesting on foot combat. Being Jango Fett was cool for about an hour, but the NPCs behave like someone beat them over the head with a shovel for about an hour before coming to the CZs, even the High ones. They are incredibly clueless and will just stand their while you gib their friends with a rocket launcher. Some of them seem to understand the premise of the affair, and will shoot at you, but a certain portion of them seem to be there doing a kind of treasure hunt or geo caching adventure.
I suspect I'll finish getting Merc Elite for Inara's rankings and then simply forget about it for quite awhile. It's not as bad as exobiology, though.
I suspect I'll finish getting Merc Elite for Inara's rankings and then simply forget about it for quite awhile. It's not as bad as exobiology, though.
Try posing, smiling and saying Cheese to an Enforcer in a High CZ - then let me know if your next reaction is "I can see my house from heeeereeee"
I only do Highs, the others are a complete waste of time. I read a guide that said the goal was roughly 16M bonds per CZ and they were using G5 gear on a little tech settlement where getting to enemies is much easier. I am using G3 L6 and G3 whatever that SMG is because it's what I have, and my last CZ was 15M on a large tourist one where travel times are longer. I have had lower payouts before I got better at the Jango Fett Gank methods, but the NPCs are just goobers.
I don't see anything wrong with a sharpened piece of metal as a sidearm or last resort weapon. Anything that provides more mechanical advantage and concentrates force into a smaller, harder, area than an unarmed limb has advantages over being completely unarmed. The lack of moving parts, no need for ammunition, and the multifunctionality intrinsic to such tools are also utility that will justify carrying a blade large enough to be called a weapon as long as people have appendages capable of wielding them.
That said, I think there are far more pressing concerns with ED's combat and general gameplay mechanisms than the weapon selection.
That said, I think there are far more pressing concerns with ED's combat and general gameplay mechanisms than the weapon selection.
Yep. If I was a rl warrior (which I'm not), when the bullets ran out, I'd prefer a sword (assuming I have enough training to not hurt myself) over a knife and a knife over a fist. But ED is a game where my suit somehow stores 12 explosive rockets along with dozens of reloads for various weapons and ammo is literally just lying around in boxes all over the place. It's probably a OSHA issue. Explains why I never see any kids around I guess.
Until you try to use them. IMO bladed weapons harm the immersion when the character body model doesn't allow to be cut and stabbed. It's bad enough with explosive weaponry but I can play with that.
Curiously, one of the trailers for EDO, before release, had a NPC in a power building being shot on the stairs, and a spurt of blood was briefly visible - never made it into the expansion proper.