News Sneak Peek - Illegal racing in an installation

[Aewarin Jameson]

Hi everyone, here’s another unedited sneak peek dev video. On it two of our team are racing around an installation on a desert world. Some things are still not final, as before. Though there are no specific racing mechanics in the game, I'm sure CMDRs will still race!

https://youtu.be/e6DEbuVGtUw

Awesome - Thanks David - Can't wait

 

[Jynessa Loraeyn]

O______________O

 

[mossfoot]

Just thinking about how to organize an actual competitive race... I assume an observer in a ship will have to be overhead making sure everyone sticks to the assigned route (or hits all the waypoints)?

 

[AlphaWolf01]

This is awesome! Looking at all this, I really have to ask... Will you make some kind of surface CQC?

 

[AH_ImADot]

So if the guy in front won't let you pass, can you thrust up and over him?

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

ok, does anyone else think the HUD really needs auto-color adjustments depending on the background? (not that its already anoying to have an orange hud against orange stars, or bright white ice-rings)

 

[Seonid]

So if the guy in front won't let you pass, can you thrust up and over him?

"Ooops! I accidentally mixed up my accelerator and fire binds..."

 

[Mack]

Cool, I'm sure peeps will race.
I implemented the racetracks in SWGEmu, and yup, peeps raced!!

 

[Monk]

That ship flyover on the second lap was a nice touch. Was that NPC or human?

Either way, looks great. Can't wait to try it myself.

 

[orfeboy]

Looks great! Only problem I see so far is those skimmers don't seem to pose any threat at all. Looks like you can just ignore them...

 

[Sterlino]

BATTLE FOR ARRAKIS !!!

fantastic peek !


this is not a simpe expansion, this is another game in the game.
amazing

 

[Retrograde]

Fantastic!

And sorry to be nitpicky, but I prefer the triangle in the middle of the sensor. Seeing the SRV schematic there brings about some sort of dissonance between that and everything else which is still triangles and squares. And we see our own SRV schematic anyway on the right, so there is no need to show it twice.

 

[Kris]

Post on reddit made me realise this (didn't notice this at first) - under the altimeter, there's a coordinate readout:

 

[Seonid]

Looks great! Only problem I see so far is those skimmers don't seem to pose any threat at all. Looks like you can just ignore them...

Read up to the last comment by DBOBE.

 

[Patrick_68000]

This is awesome! Looking at all this, I really have to ask... Will you make some kind of surface CQC?

The opposite would be surprising. Especially for the gamers of the XB1

 

[Sterlino]

but...


..hey.... wait a minute....

a desert planet....

...A DESERT PLANET ??? o_o

could this mean it has an ATMOSPHERE ?? :O

 

[Whiteball]

This is going to be so good. So many possibilities for planets, bases and SRVs.

Might just have to order that 980ti sooner rather than later now...

Question: Are the bases and star ports modular and built procedurally so we get some real variance in styles ans size ?

 

[Robert Maynard]

Though there are no specific racing mechanics in the game, I'm sure CMDRs will still race!

Really liking the idea of buggy SRV racing, even if it is unofficial....!

Thanks again for another insight into Horizons - next week can't come soon™ enough!!

 

[Patrick_68000]

Looks great! Only problem I see so far is those skimmers don't seem to pose any threat at all. Looks like you can just ignore them...

Invulnerability is probably reserved for the developers ...

 

[Hydrino]

ok, does anyone else think the HUD really needs auto-color adjustments depending on the background? (not that its already anoying to have an orange hud against orange stars, or bright white ice-rings)

Yes.
+1 to this.