News ANNOUNCING ELITE DANGEROUS: HORIZONS

[dreamer1986]

Not strictly true, a starter ship and the full game (when launched) costs only £35.
True there are more expensive options for those with less sense than wealth.

Exactly. I pre-ordered the full SC with 20 euros.

 

[Spookyy]

Funny how the trailer show nada about the actual space -> planet landing and what you can do when landed. Need a better trailer!

http://empyriongame.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saK35xRzzuQ

 

[Brimstone]

I've just made a massive mess in my pants.

 

[Ozric]

Yeah, nah. There is no guarantee they'll do that. It's a big risk investment.

8 years of that plan is sipping cocktails on the beach in the Caribbean

There's no guarantee of anything in life and things can change at a moments notice. Also by Caribbean I think you meant Cambridge, and there's no beaches in Cambridge

 

[Leo Sagan]

AAAAH FD ! I never doubted you, I always told them to keep faith in you !

ish ...

Often ...

Weell OK OK OK, I have to say it , I'm delighted and I should never have doubted you before. Thanks for this AWESOME news , can't wait, can't wait, can't wait !!!!

 

[Frop]

Oh wow, can't wait for this full-priced expansion which doesn't even have complete list of features yet. I was particularly impressed by the last two pre-rendered snippets of the massive trailer.

(...) DBOBE has said many times that he wants at least as much content in each expansion as in the core game (...)

But there's already such a content overload in the main game, how will they ever be able to live up to these expectations?

 

[stephen_usher]

Yes - anyone with a lifetime expansion pass gets this.

Michael

Do we have to "pre-order" or will it just turn up?

Oh, and do Alpha Backers get to "test" it earlier, just to make sure that it works you understand?

 

[Alien]

Well, until I see gameplay footage and read more detail information, I'm keeping my expectations low...


If we look at the game mechanics in the existing core game we have lots of simplistic mini-games. What's to suggest Horizons will not be more of the same? We have Powerplay which IMHO is not only a mis-concieved design, it's a worryingly simplistic design with no attempt to deepen peoples gaming exerience, but simply re-offer the same limited mini-games. What's to suggest Horizons will not be more of the same?

So until I see or find out more of new mechanics offered in Horizons, I'll assume they are more mini-games bolted onto the side of more mini-games. Until I see otherwise, I will not expect a single sniff of anything deep enough to offer any emergent/deep gameplay mechanics.


I know this sounds a little cynical, but since the games release I've seen little if no sand added to the sandbox to improve core gameplay, which remains frustratingly simple IMHO. If the core game is like this, apples don't often fall far from the tree...

Fingers crossed I'm wrong, and we get wonderful new deep/broad gameplay and visuals... But I'm limiting my expectations based on current/previous experience at the moment.

It was a condition of the request for planetary landings all the way back in November 2012 (feel free to try going back through the Kickstarter comments), that planetary landings be SEAMLESS, as we had them in FE2/FFE. For a long time, the expansion was called Seamless Planetary Landings, or SPL for short.

This is why I expect nothing less than dropping out of supercruise near a planet and flying down to the surface in one seamless action.

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

I'm loving the return of positivity to the forum!

for about 30 minutes ^^

... and in other news, the Frontier Developments share price declined further today ...

 

[dead_rock]

Would've sunken my money into it already but the store won't let me check out...

 

[Mephane]

Funny how the trailer show nada about the actual space -> planet landing and what you can do when landed. Need a better trailer!

http://empyriongame.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saK35xRzzuQ

That's why it is called a teaser. They always only show a few scenes to build up hype, and contain little actual information or representation of the gameplay.

 

[Cmdr Roma]

So new customers pay £40, we pay another £29.99 after having already paid paid £39.99 for the original game? No thanks, think I'm out. Fallout 4 is coming anyway , love Elite and have really enjoyed the game but I am not paying a full game price for an expansion. Just not doing it

 

[CMDR Brock Samson]

This is more like it.At least is new content
On a related note:

[video=youtube;-HnR9QtXf44]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HnR9QtXf44[/video]

 

[cpbtrading]

Its a great announcement. Do we get a character or is it a Evochron Merc type thing i.e. straight form the ship into a planet buggy ?
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If that is the case and we don't get a character, then its not as exciting as I would see other games being or becoming, whereby you get to walk, or will get to walk, on the planet surface and explore on foot (with a character). Plus build, mine etc.
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But its something in the right direction and I look forward to how it will be implemented.

 

[Michael Brookes]

OK, that does make sense ... but that then means November 2012 to December 2014 didn't happen.

If you own a copy of Elite: Dangerous and a copy of Elite Dangerous: Horizons then you get access to the Cobra MkIV.

Michael

 

[SJT]

Also by Caribbean I think you meant Cambridge, and there's no beaches in Cambridge

Why not? Milton Keynes has one.

 

[Airwolfr]

Yeh Baby, can't wait....Any idea when the beta for this will go live?

 

[Krunchie]

Mixed feelings about the expansion

Planetary landings, at last. Happy about it, of course.

Unfortunately, only rocky planets without atmosphere are possible.
No landings on your ELWs, no sunsets or sunrises in the strange atmosphere of the foreign world...
Sad about it.

 

[Michael Brookes]

So new customers pay £40, we pay another £29.99 after having already paid paid £39.99 for the original game? No thanks, think I'm out. Fallout 4 is coming anyway , love Elite and have really enjoyed the game but I am not paying a full game price for an expansion. Just not doing it

The price is for a full season of expansion rather than just a single expansion.

MIchael

 

[EddyRockSteady]

So I just installed the Horizons Beta Launcher, and it doesn't look any different from the normal. I thought there may be a Beta launch button. Am I being thick or are we having to wait for a server side update?

You're missing two steps:

1 - Wait six months

2 - Now hit the Launch button

Sorted.