Hmm ya since they say 'Ships' will in some way prepare the game for Horizons, I could see maybe carrying passengers and troops as part of 'Ships'. I wonder what else could need preparing...
Am I reading this right? 1.5 will bring the number of ships to over 30? There are only 20 ships in game, and only 8 in speculation (9 including cobra mk4)
So what else could they be making? And is there any hope the "ships" update will let me take a walk around my DBx?![]()
From the site:
The CQC game update will be available in September, followed this Holiday by another major content update for all Elite Dangerous players. ‘Ships’ will bring the total number of spacecraft to over 30, and will prepare the game for Elite Dangerous: Horizons.
Maybe the extra ships will be more planetary land capable ships, or mining ships.
They do say 1.5, 30 ships to "prepare for Horizons" so i think the clue is in that statement.
Hence my post above. I think we will see some ships designed for landing on planets and exploring/mining. Also timing wise we may get 1.5 say in October. It is only two short months before EDH lands. So plenty of time to fly new ships and find all the bugs.I personally like the journey we are on.
Maybe the extra ships will be more planetary land capable ships, or mining ships.
They do say 1.5,will bring over 30 ships, and will prepare the game for Elite Dangerous: Horizons.
I think the clue is in that statement.
No idea about the rest of the ship but the bridges are definitely done as anyone with an oculus can tell you. I have been able to walk around the bridge of my python with the aid of a usb extention for the rift, and the bridge of the Type 9 is a shock the first time you see it through a rift.
I'm looking forward to the first videos popping up of pilots struggling to fly across a moon surface with a type 9 and crash landing. It will be glorious.
They said every ship can use the Scarab, so most likely a C1 slot. It folds up and what not. The larger surface vehicles though will only fit in some of the larger ships.
I am reading salvage ship![]()
Maybe more variety in NPC ships/stations too?
I'm thinking of the type of stuff that you'd never fly in Elite - like Bulk Traders, pure military assets (carriers, anyone?), flying mini-stations, planetary shuttles, portable modules which are parked near the stations we visit now...
Not everything needs to be playable (and it's an easy way to introduce more variety into the environment - e.g. minor faction in a boom state, you see a series of bulk carriers / additional storage units parked near one or more of their stations).
And better rebalance the existing ships so that smaller vessels aren't just a stepping stone to get to the more useful ones.Hopefully an update called "Ships" will also bring us ship naming and transfer.![]()