You mean like the Steam launch?
E3 2015 speculations for Elite
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You mean like the Steam launch?
I think the tricky part is going to be the people and the traffic. Roads and buildings can be done although they will get "samey" faster than you might think, people are very good at spotting patterns in the way things are laid out, but roads and buildings don't move. To give life to a city you need vehicles and crowds, and they all have to be moving (the problem gets harder when the road layouts the cars have to navigate are themselves automatically generated).
It's already an issue in space stations; apart from the ships themselves and the yellow trucks endlessly circling around they are like ghost towns.
Exactly my thoughts, although ED has non-mainstream audience. They'd be slightly insane to release it right now anyway. The game needs MUCH more work and balancing before it could survive on consoles. I don't think ED is exactly unpolished, but it's almost unheard of for console games to be released in mid-development. Imagine if someone buys it in Game/CEX and finds they have 10 new ships to buy in 4 months time, and there's a new galaxy map with different stuff to the original game. ED needs to be less beta/more game to get a foothold on the XboxOne.
There has been no announcement or any mention of an "announcement".
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Kerrash just said there's more ED stuff than XBO port. So let's just wait.....
Yeah. He did seem rather over-excited about something on twitter a few days ago, but that just might be Kerrash
He is going to Los Angeles with the Frontier crew after all.
Yes FD confirmed that a while back.
I'd say it's far too early to say that.
I'll still be excited until E3 is done.
And I am trying very hard to be not at all excited, and to expect a meh announcement.
Wise, but I prefer the excitement whilst it lasts than the disappointment when it comes.
I think it's going to be an Anaconda paint job. But it will be be branded with Microsoft Xbox One all over it.
Oh and it will be the xbox one port demo with news that the first exclusive release for the Xbox (not avail to pc / mac for a month) are officially licensed Star wars paint jobs for all the ships. Yes Rebel and Empire versions.
Oh and it will be the xbox one port demo with news that the first exclusive release for the Xbox (not avail to pc / mac for a month) are officially licensed Star wars paint jobs for all the ships. Yes Rebel and Empire versions.
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Excellent!
I asked someone who knows about converting games from one platform to another (not employed by Frontier but very well qualified to answer the question) and they said they'd probably need between 6 and 24 people to do the Xbox conversion, depending on stuff he couldn't know.
They don't need to convert from one platform to another. The underlying Cobra engine is, and always has been, multi-platform. And the XBox is essentially a PC anyway.
No, I demand answers now!
The MS conference will likely be xbox-centric, but I hope Frontier can spill the beans on any other news (if any) sooner rather than later.
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I am no dev, but given an XB1 is essentially an AMD APU powered PC running a cut down windows 8, and given they they have already ported the game to a mac, shoudl it not be fairly trival?
And the Xbone port demo will actually be playing on PC's.
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