Nope, no plans to remove it from the actual game. In fact, people who buy Arena will then get a discount on Elite Dangerous (and Deluxe pack).
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Nope, no plans to remove it from the actual game. In fact, people who buy Arena will then get a discount on Elite Dangerous (and Deluxe pack).
That's a relief!Nope, no plans to remove it from the actual game. In fact, people who buy Arena will then get a discount on Elite Dangerous (and Deluxe pack).
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Ian Phillips
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Zac,
do you have any information about Arena for Xbox ?
do you have any information about Arena for Xbox ?
I'm still not interested until I can access CQC or Arena from within the main game. Be it from the station menu or by flying to a system which hosts such sport. Private matches wouldn't be a bad idea either....
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It's a nice idea. You can earn "Safe" credits in the sense that you don’t loose anything for dying. But we would certainly look at one off tournaments to win big prizes.
No it doesn't give huge game credits and nor should it. It gives you a small amount of credits and until they sort out the afk farming then it certainly shouldn't give you any more.
*Edit* just re-read that you meant just the championship and not the normal game. Championship, yes, Normal, no
@Zac Actually thinking about it, now it's being released as a standalone version this really needs to be sorted out more than it did before. Could you not just implement something along the lines of 'if there are no inputs detected for 1 whole game, then kick the user to the main menu'?
There is on going development into CQC so we will see a number of features and fixes coming. I agree this is one area that could be looked into.
We do want to increase the platforms for Arena for sure. Right now, we've launched on store and Steam specifically but more versions could be available in the future. However, we don't have anything to confirm right now.
AI is something we have heard requested before. However, that's quiet a complicated addition as the Arena is much different to standard game AI so it's not a small job.
However, the game is pretty much risk free. You can jump in without any risk, if you die, you just respawn and you always get XP and credits anyway.
Philip Coutts
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Smart move. I'd actually like to see CQC altered to bring in different classes of ships. By this I mean lightweight fighters (Up to the Eagle), then medium weight (Vipers, Cobra etc) and then Heavyweight (Clippers, Pythons, FDL's). I think that would make an interesting mix.
Yes but getting offed frequently by much better arena pvp-ers will not improve my skill.
I will become very skilled in exploding of course
.But I will have to bite the bullet perhaps and just try it out.
I did like Unreal Tournament and Quake Arena back in the days.
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I love that idea.
Or perhaps some Python only (FDL only etc.) slaughter fest.
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this is great news with no downside really.
Means more players, more money for FD and hopefully means the chances of getting more content has just increased considerably.
5 quid as well.. barely more than the price of a pint of beer.
Means more players, more money for FD and hopefully means the chances of getting more content has just increased considerably.
5 quid as well.. barely more than the price of a pint of beer.
Another good idea.
But it should also stay accessible separately for those lonely explorers out there.
Any chance you will be making the UIs for Arena more VR-compatible? Gameplay is great fun, but staring at a non-VR lobby system and ship management UI breaks immersion between rounds. It would be nice to hear about it if you are reworking the UIs (and in the main game) to make them more VR-specific, and would be a good demonstration that FD are out in front of VR AAA game development.
Looking at the Steam entry for Arena, I think it would be good to clarify to potential purchasers that they will be able to play alongside those that are accessing Arena via the full ED game mode. Also highlight the fact the if a purchaser goes on to buy the full game, they will recieve a discount that matches the purchase price of Arena.
I much prefer this idea to "light", "medium" and "heavyweight" classes, since this would require all ships in those classes to be balanced very good against each other - since in contrast to the main game CQC is a pure competitive game mode. And I am strongly against balancing differently prices ships like the Python, Clipper FdL etc. since history tells us too much balancing kills variety and individualism (just look at WoW, where - compared to Vanilla times - the classes nowadays all play very similarly and interesting unique class specific features have been removed for the sake of "balancing" over time. Man, I really don't like when game design has "balancing" as a high priority.)
Just catching up ...
So that Arena players can mix it up with both Elite CQC players and other Arena players?
So that Arena players can mix it up with both Elite CQC players and other Arena players?