News ANNOUNCING ELITE DANGEROUS: HORIZONS

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OMG OMG OMG. Lifetime pass purchased. Cobra Mk IV OMG. Finally back on track I think. This is going to be good news for the casual player.
 
ENFIN !!!!!!

Yes, it is coming !
So glad, I can't help it, I am smiling even if I knew planetary landing was coming anyway (FD said many times in the past that it would be the first paid expansion to be released).

In the mean time, I hope this expansion will be the opportunity for them to improve the current core game mechanics.

Curious about the Cobra MKIV and the SVR.

Does that mean we will be able get out the our ship in order to walk on the ground and to get in the SRV ??????

Plus I would love to be able to be dropped from a ship and land on the surface with a jetpack or something similar.
The Federal dropship would be very useful. ;)

:D
 
take my money damn you.

i know there will be a few moaners but
many veterans have been given little bits at a time

try to imagine what this game will be like for someone who has never played it......

i'm someone who to this day is astonished by the galaxy map!
all those places to go to......


its a massive achievement.

certainly enough to put erm... games of a similar genre on the back foot.


nice one Frontier.
 
Meh..

it'll end up like everything else with ED - the first few weeks it'll be ooohshiny syndrome but then when you actually spend some time with it you'll realise that there's not much substance in it at all.

I hope I'm proved wrong but even now, the old mile wide, inch deep still applies.

FD seriously need to add some meaningful content to fill their universe.
There won't be much difference in the experience in exploring the same tired procedurally generated surface v procedurally generated different coloured ball floating in space.

Cheer up man.
 
I don't think I'll buy Horizons (just yet)

Considering that we only have a short trailer of the Horizons Expansion, the price of 30 pounds is kinda hard to pay for me.. :rolleyes:

As much as I enjoy playing E : D and wishing having heard of it before public release, this.. doesn't excite me..
It just seems like the people who held off until PL was announced are the winners here.. correct me if I'm wrong. :D


Also the mention of "Seasons" makes me wonder... does that mean there's no more updates, without that purchase?

I'll wait until full release, i guess. :p
 
Not that big of a surprise, really. Their recent forum activity basically confirmed it. Also, technically, planetary landings were previously announced in interviews. This is more of a confirmation and foreseeable release time frame.

I'm actually more excited by this:



Craftable stuff, yeah!

Did not expect base raiding/defense, or the buggy, or the Cobra Mk IV.

THat's a very vague term... "Crafting"... What do you read into it? Will it only be within Horizons, or for all players?
 
Of course I am not forced, but also I am not able. I already paid 50 for the base game a couple of months ago, and now 50 again? Too much, especially considering the fact that they didn't update the base game as much as they promised. Maybe they will do that for another 50 euro expansion. This company is disappointing me more and more :( .

It was always stated that Planetary landings were a paid for expansion.
 
I'm sorry, but this is too annoying. I paid 50 euro's for an incomplete game at release, which is still incomplete, by most standards. And now, you ask us to pay another 50 euros, for the benefit of getting future updates of the second season? No! I knew there was something suspicions when at every update you put emphasis on the "free" update, like we should be thankful that we got fixes. This simply looks like pure greed. Every year, another 50 euros please, is that what awaits us?

This is very disappointing :(
 
Im stuck taking this decision: Just buy the Beta or go all in with lifetime?

The only reason I dont have the lifetime pass/alpha acces etc is simply not learning of the game and purchasing before the betas in september 2014.
 
So the question is...

Seemless sandbox... or lots of min-games?

Can you fly down/around a whole planet? My spider senses say no, but then it does mention dog fighting in canyons? Fingers crossed!

Can we fly down seemlessly to the planet, or is it done via a new "jump mechanic" so we lock onto a planetary location, and then press a jump button and are taken down there (automatically)?

Will the things you can do on a planet simply be (more) self contained mini-games (again)? ie: Find a rock to mine, mine it, onto the next? Fight for the base, and then what? Next time you log on someone else is in there? Or are we going to get the broader mechanics? Find a location, and be able to "build" upon it/utilise it in someway?

Mother nature? With all these worlds be completely dead? Not even ice geysers or volcanic activity?


Guess we'll find out how deep the sand is in this sandbox over the coming months...

This. I know it's early days announcement-wise, but I'd press everyone to think about and find out what exactly this adds gameplay-wise. Land on a rock, great. Drive around it, discover what will presumably be more procedurally-generated fractal niceness. Maybe mine ore with the same intentions as mining asteroids. There HAS to be more than just that; I hope Frontier have a lot more bundled in with this than just what amounts to the removal of the "boundary" to the ground, and more graphics, and a vehicle model to razz around in.

I'm really keen to also understand what the gameplay ramifications are for this. Maybe this afternoon we will find out. At the moment, watching the trailer, it looks like it'll grab me for the first one or two trips and then it will be the same old same old again... but I guess I'm being a bit pessimistic, sorry.
 
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And here is the reason to dive again in Elite with the rift ! Now if Oculus could sort the windows 10 problem and Frontier upgrade to the latest runtime... :p

Also want more info on the beta access ! When is it ? I see the expansion is supposed to be out in december or smthing, so I guess the beta should start in a few weeks if we take the original beta as reference ? (september 2014)
 
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