Elite Dangerous: Horizons - How to Make a Real World Livestream on our official YouTube Channel 7PM BST 14th Oct

SentineI

SentineI
Time is running out...

After watching the great livestream, my only worry is that they've only got 2 months until "Holiday 2015" (aka Xmas). They'll surely run out of time to add all of the surface details they & us would like.

With ED v1.0, planets looked a bit ropey, but they were massively improved over 6 months or so after release. My worry is that Horizons (v2.0) MIGHT not be able to do that, because of the presence of players on the surface of planets? Or will FD do it regardless of the short-term confusion/upset it might cause to some of the player base?
 
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Barking_Mad

Barking_Mad
Patrick_68000 said:
Well the livestream has convinced you !

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Now you can purr. Great Frontier !

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I'd have bought it earlier to be fair but cash has been a bit tight the last month or two. But yes, very excited. I couldn't wait for the full release so happy to pay for the Beta :)
 
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NeilF

NeilF
They went into some detail about them going to lengths to create "good lighting/shadows," but they didn't mention if one planet/moon can cast a shadow on another. ie: Could you sit ontop of a mountain and see the shadow of another planet/moon rushing across the surface towards you?
 
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Barking_Mad

Barking_Mad
ChrisH said:
After watching the great livestream, my only worry is that they've only got 2 months until "Holiday 2015" (aka Xmas). They'll surely run out of time to add all of the surface details they & us would like.

With ED v1.0, planets looked a bit ropey, but they were massively improved over 6 months or so after release. My worry is that Horizons (v2.0) MIGHT not be able to do that, because of the presence of players on the surface of planets? Or will FD do it regardless of the short-term confusion/upset it might cause to some of the player base?
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I'd not worry. :) Whilst I'm sure they will continue to work on planetary surfaces after release the 'final spit and polish' work can often be done at a greater pace than the rest of the groundwork. In fact they said in the video that things have improved quite a bit in the last few weeks alone.
 

Neo-ST

Neo-ST
NeilF said:
They went into some detail about them going to lengths to create "good lighting/shadows," but they didn't mention if one planet/moon can cast a shadow on another. ie: Could you sit ontop of a mountain and see the shadow of another planet/moon rushing across the surface towards you?
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Actually that was one of the questions from a stream viewer, the answer is definitely yes :)
 

NeilF

NeilF
Neo-ST said:
Actually that was one of the questions from a stream viewer, the answer is definitely yes :)
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Are you sure? :eek:

Anyone able to link to that comment in the video? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Et5Ivi_yIg



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Wasn't there mention of a 'nebula sunrise'?
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Yes... ie: So show the fact that the planet/moon you're on is in motion; orbiting and rotating, so eveything around you will be in flux. It's a bit of a shame you can only view it real time :) In Frontier you could fast forward of course :)
 
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Javert

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Javert
By the way, I wondered a couple of times whether they will introduce a new explorer tag with Horizons like "First Explored by" or something like that so that we can see who was the first person to land on a planet rather than just the first to scan it from far away?
 

Angus

Angus
I was very impressed with the presentation, and not bothered about the technical hiccup on the stuttering - but a question: At 29 minutes or so we go to another video and feldspar and limestone are mentioned. I have to point out, I don't know what I'm talking about, but isn't limestone strongly associated with ancient marine life - or is that not necessarily so? Just, as they say, asking. :)

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Morgan Grimes said:
Simply stunning, utterly stunning :D
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stunningly stunning and amazingly amazing. :)
 

NeilF

NeilF
Javert said:
By the way, I wondered a couple of times whether they will introduce a new explorer tag with Horizons like "First Explored by" or something like that so that we can see who was the first person to land on a planet rather than just the first to scan it from far away?
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Your suggestion would seem a logical... or something along those lines!

Personally I want to see a flag with "CMDR Fawcett" on the planets/moons I land on first :)
 

horizone

horizone
two quintillion, two hundred thirty-seven quadrillion, nine hundred fifty-two trillion, three hundred billion, seven hundred seventy-three million, two hundred sixty-four thousand, one hundred square kilometers to explore. Nice!
 

RosaMaus

RosaMaus
Angus said:
At 29 minutes or so we go to another video and feldspar and limestone are mentioned. I have to point out, I don't know what I'm talking about, but isn't limestone strongly associated with ancient marine life - or is that not necessarily so?
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Indeed, my thoughts exactly. It would be interesting to hear how the Forge actually handles life, I assume it's currently based on zones of liquid water/ammonia/methane, but it would be nice if planetary evolution plays a part, so planets that might have had liquids in the past, (like Mars), show appropriate geology, whereas one's that never had flowing "stuff" look different.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Javert said:
By the way, I wondered a couple of times whether they will introduce a new explorer tag with Horizons like "First Explored by" or something like that so that we can see who was the first person to land on a planet rather than just the first to scan it from far away?
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They confirmed a while back that a 'first landed on' tag will be added. Watched the stream, absolutely stunning, well done FD!
 
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