really am not interested in pvp, normally full of squeekers anyway, but i dont think its fair giving it to an inferior games machine first, especially seeing as it was us, the consumer, that bought this game into existence with crowd funding in the first place. but hey ho, im not holding my breath for it......fly by Oz nothing to see here.
PVP arena mode confirmed - xBox Trailer
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Not to mention that, even if you don't pvp, this affects you. They're taking away manpower to develop exclusively for the xbox. But don't worry, we'll get it on <undetermined date>
It's not as if Frontier is going to run off with the profits of the timed exclusive - they go back into the game. I can understand it to a degree, but if the end result is a better game, who really cares?
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I can't see XBone server reaching the 500.000 players in the next 4 months. I do hope so, though.
CQC might be the only place to hang out on Xbox for a while, like Lave was back in December.
in a way YES and NO
Yes as it ads in revenue for FD with new platform sales helping them stay in business... (mute argument there)
NO cos effectively what this will be on xb1 is an arena based focus primarily with the option to play the rest of the game wich lets face it most wiill jump on xblive and pvp with friends alot in the arena (initially i'll grant, their will be players exploring and enjoying the rest of the game).
But in a nutshell its being promoted as totally different style of game primarily as a space combat game with arenas for console. Yet a immersive spacee ecperience with optional pvp consentual arenas on its main platforms.. either way your audioence is seperated and FD have had to alas accomodate. i blame Microsoft for this not FD though i am still of the mindset that FD should have stuck to their guns and kept the game exactly on par with the PC/Mac versions.
the real sad part is MS themselves announced cross platform play between xbox and windows10 throughout their keynote yet this game still falls under their old meathod of seperation between other versions. thats the nugget of info that is bugging me
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Yes there is. Hardware, for a starter. I'm personaly getting more and more annoyed (to say the very least) to see that games I'd like to enjoy with a good PC setup won't really shine as they could since they are also built for what are no more than cash registers, both in terms of purpose and capacities.
Has anyone else guessed why the xbox players will get the arena mode first....
Its simple... can you imagine the carnage when a xbox harmless player whos just managed to fly out of his first station tries taking on the likes of an Asp like me, beams 'til his shields
go, then a couple of rounds from the cannons ... repeat *10000...
gawds knows when mr xbox'er meets an anaconda..... <bump> 'conda pilot "what was that bump?.. oh just a hit a small fly"
In short, I suspect the thinking at FD is "lets give them a chance to get some combat practise in before the raverning hordes of veteran E : D players get at them"
Bill
Its simple... can you imagine the carnage when a xbox harmless player whos just managed to fly out of his first station tries taking on the likes of an Asp like me, beams 'til his shields
go, then a couple of rounds from the cannons ... repeat *10000...
gawds knows when mr xbox'er meets an anaconda..... <bump> 'conda pilot "what was that bump?.. oh just a hit a small fly"
In short, I suspect the thinking at FD is "lets give them a chance to get some combat practise in before the raverning hordes of veteran E : D players get at them"
Bill
It's a Beta, it's a beta, it's a beta, it's a beta.
You are aware that none of us play on a server right?
All the FDev servers do is match make and send numeric data concerning markets, etc. to our Peer to Peer client?
This is basically a game that match makes various players to play between their own client...so it would be 'possible' for everyone to play together. The Xbone players will be playing right next to the Open players who are also playing right next to the Solo players...except they won't be matched to each other in a given instance.
The reason this game has to keep the Xbone players playing separately is because they will constantly have to fork and reduce the clients between everyone and XBone because of Microsoft's Quality Control requirements.
To reiterate, this game runs on peer to peer technology...no player is playing on a server. Servers are only used for matchmaking and pure data exchange..prices, etc.
This is a lost fight, the best games are about gameplay and not graphics.
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Has anyone else guessed why the xbox players will get the arena mode first....
Its simple... can you imagine the carnage when a xbox harmless player whos just managed to fly out of his first station tries taking on the likes of an Asp like me, beams 'til his shields
go, then a couple of rounds from the cannons ... repeat *10000...
gawds knows when mr xbox'er meets an anaconda..... <bump> 'conda pilot "what was that bump?.. oh just a hit a small fly"
In short, I suspect the thinking at FD is "lets give them a chance to get some combat practise in before the raverning hordes of veteran E : D players get at them"
Bill
I see controller sales increasing exponentially after the release of Elite.
So...
I'm going to preface this by saying that I have no issues with this CQC thing in principle. Heck, it looks like it could be fun if the trailer footage is at all like the game play will be when it drops for PC.
However, my big question is this: is that it?
Is the XBone release and CQC the extent of the E3 announcements for ED?
If so I can't help but feel... disappointed. This doesn't feel like the 'big news' the newsletter and Dev updates hinted at.
I'm going to preface this by saying that I have no issues with this CQC thing in principle. Heck, it looks like it could be fun if the trailer footage is at all like the game play will be when it drops for PC.
However, my big question is this: is that it?
Is the XBone release and CQC the extent of the E3 announcements for ED?
If so I can't help but feel... disappointed. This doesn't feel like the 'big news' the newsletter and Dev updates hinted at.
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No, more to come apparently ..
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soory to dissapoint but that was confirmed (though that may change over time, we are yet to know, would be nice though i agree)
I actually think the trailer is pretty cool, I was taken by that new looking station right away and an arena mode will certainly bring in console oriented players and $. It seems like sound business, even if it'll be perceived by many as a diversion from the real meat of the game.