No Real News From E3???

Huggy · Jun 20, 2015

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of any exciting news in relation to Elite Dangerous PC! Especially as we were told that there was going to be announcements in relation to the PC version! If CQC (as said by Frontier was to excite console gamers) was the big announcement, I'm very disappointed! I thought they would have revealed something big for the PC version, at least a preview/WIP video of one of the expansions, even a short roadmap for the rest of the year, but NOTHING, poor show Frontier, pardon the pun!

Spanksh · Jun 20, 2015

Well they did announce a whole different game, which is...weird considering they are still working on a load of features for ED. But ah well..

Seroto · Jun 20, 2015

I hear they're doing an offline version of Coaster World: can't wait!

Luniticisi · Jun 20, 2015

There was a Big announcement for ED on the PC ... and that was that we have to wait at least 5 months to play what was given to the X-box crowd ... (not that I want that addition myself)

ZeeWolf · Jun 20, 2015

I don't remember any specific mention that there would be announcements regarding the PC version?

We were only told that there would be some Elite news.

Regarding the PC version it has said there would be announcements in the "coming months".

Alien · Jun 20, 2015

ZeeWolf said:
I don't remember any specific mention that there would be announcements regarding the PC version?

We were only told that there would be some Elite news.

Regarding the PC version it has said there would be announcements in the "coming months".

Yeah, could someone please link to the pre-E3 comment about an announcement? I would like to see the exact wording for myself

(please link to the comment and not quote it here)

Kerrash · Jun 20, 2015

CQC will be available on PC 'Later this year'
That is all I can say

Huggy · Jun 20, 2015

Kerrash said:
CQC will be available on PC 'Later this year'
That is all I can say

Would you say more if we brought out the hot coals

lol???

MSeven · Jun 20, 2015

Huggy said:
Would you say more if we brought out the hot Koalas lol???

Please don't heat up Koala's....

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE · Jun 20, 2015

Seroto said:
I hear they're doing an offline version of Coaster World: can't wait!

Yeah but they could still cancel the offline mode one month before the release date.

Alien · Jun 20, 2015

MAIN SEQUENCE said:
Yeah but they could still cancel the offline mode one month before the release date.

At least when people moan and whine about Planet Coaster like 5 year olds throwing a hissy fit ... they could actually be 5 year olds throwing a hissy fit.

Steve50 · Jun 20, 2015

Tbh I wasn't expecting any news at E3 at all, until Frontier and certain well known ED streamers started getting excited about some announcement.

Which turned out to be non-existant. Winding us up for a laugh

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE · Jun 20, 2015

I'm not disappointed in the lack of news specific to ED on the PC, because that was not promised. What I am disappointed about is the lack of information and news in general, because newsletter 79 and the twitch that Edward Lewis did with BadNewsBaron pre-E3 suggested there would be a lot more content.

Here's what newsletter 79 promised:

We'll be updating you throughout the show at the new community blog. We'll even show you our banner art among our other announcements.

Banner art?

but we'll be updating the new Community site from Monday and posting coverage throughout the week to our blog, Twitter andFacebook.

Just 3 blog entries. Nothing of any note on Twitter. I don't bother with the FB page now as most things are announced on Twitter.

Keep a close eye on all our channels and we'll let you know where to find us online. We'll be streaming on Twitch and a number of other places we can't reveal just yet, and we'll have some live appearances we can't announce until the show begins. Stay tuned.

We'll have masses of coverage for you

3 blog entries, a trailer on YouTube and a couple of (ED-specific) streams featuring David counts as masses of coverage? And when we did get news of a stream on Twitter, it was, in most cases, after the stream had started!

Spanksh said:
Well they did announce a whole different game, which is...weird considering they are still working on a load of features for ED. But ah well..

Why is that weird? They are a small studio sure, but are they only supposed to develop one game at a time? Most likely they will have different teams working on different games (but remember all the games will use their Cobra engine).