The Vision of Elite Dangerous Game Development

[shadragon]

Found this video is a random search and was amazed how well the vision has been maintained through the last few years. The nay-sayers, negative nellies and Eeyores will disagree, of course. However, unlike some other projects I won't mention, the overall development path has changed little and we are well along the journey.

[video=youtube_share;EM0Gcl7iUM8]https://youtu.be/EM0Gcl7iUM8[/video]

 

[CMDR-Bullsey]

we are well along the journey and still going strong with lot's to look forward to in the future
i can only applaud FD for keeping to there promises of the games development and look
forward as they do future installments

 

[Iskariot]

In the beginning when these dev vids were published I must have watched this dozens of times.
Yes I agree in general FD is doing an admirable job.
It is scary to think of all the stuff FD still has to do.

As Braben says "This game has to be made!"
For me this is the most important spacesim project ever.
There's nothing like it.

 

[tarragon]

In the beginning when these dev vids were published I must have watched this dozens of times.
Yes I agree in general FD is doing an admirable job.
It is scary to think of all the stuff FD still has to do.

As Braben says "This game has to be made!"
For me this is the most important spacesim project ever.
There's nothing like it.

"We want to do it well."

Well, you did not do it well. You did barely did the bare-bones, buggy and shallow. The paradise, as always, remains in the future.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

"We want to do it well."
Well, you did not do it well. You did barely did the bare-bones, buggy and shallow. The paradise, as always, remains in the future.

I disagree. What is there is generally pretty good and "done well" (with a few exceptions). Bugs are being fixed but it's part and parcel of programming, something about Assassins Creed Unity springs to mind...

Not trying to be a fanboy but the graphics are solid, the compatibility with VR, TrackIR, Voice command, controllers and hardware is second to none on the current gaming market. Immersion, headlook etc is pretty perfect. CQC is functional and good. All the ships are pretty well sorted as are weapons, the meta needs a bit of a kick again but that happens in all games. Community goals are a tad bugged from time to time I'll accept that one. Wings and instancing issues work but the failures there are a product of the networking design and can't be improved without a complete overhaul and lots of cash so being realistic it's probably about as good as it can be with a few optimisations coming along the line with future updates.
Planet landings are pretty good, no complaints there, expecting great things from atmo, gas giant, underwater landings etc. Sound design is right up there with Skyrim and other epic games etc etc etc

There are problems, powerplay is one, and there are many others. Each update so far has been another step in the right direction.

So overall I'd say the stuff in the game has been done well. What isn't there is the problem that you are eluding to and this can only be solved in time because of CBE (can't be everywhere).

 

[[VR] Deggial]

No, no, no!
All this should have been in rigth from the beginning! Two years of development are more than enough to implement all this! C'mon, you all know it! And the rest of their ten years development plan, they could focus on creating paintjobs and labels!

 

[cheesenbiscuits]

I like the look of that ship at the beginning,what is it?
This games coming along nicely,great to hear the ship internals are designed with the future in mind.
Don't like the sound of someone being able to steal my ship though! Could be a griefers paradise.
Watched an interesting dev vid showing cloud formations for gas giants.

 

[Brimstone]

I'm proud of what the dev's have achieved so far, even though I'm salty about the 2.1 delay. All in good time, right?

 

[lysan]

I'm also pleased with what FD has done so far, sure there are room for improvements however the framework is solid. It's a huge amount of work,
just to get the galaxy right is not something you do by snapping your fingers.

Lots of place holders yes, many things that is not working as intended for sure. Again, the only way to improve is by pointing out the flaws, and give good constructive suggestions to how it should be.

 

[NMS]

Good times.

When this video was made, the promise of the offline game mode had not been broken(Yet), and despite that, the game still have no deep content.

 

[Privata]

Good times.

When this video was made, the promise of the offline game mode had not been broken(Yet), and despite that, the game still have no deep content.

The game was in early stages at that time they did not yet see that solo would not work with the BGS... its a bit of a shame but its not the worst thing that happened... for me the worst thing was when the graphics got downgraded a bit during gamma to 1.3... but they say 2.1 will fix that so I cross my fingers

 

[Ignition]

At 2:12

"We don't want a dull experience, where you just go down and get essentially the same experience whenever you land"

Well, I think people see things from different perspectives. I thought this game was going to be so awesome!

 

[NMS]

The game was in early stages at that time they did not yet see that solo would not work with the BGS... its a bit of a shame but its not the worst thing that happened... for me the worst thing was when the graphics got downgraded a bit during gamma to 1.3... but they say 2.1 will fix that so I cross my fingers

[h=1]"Help Me, update 2.1. You're My Only Hope"[/h]
Joke aside, I look forward to the 2.1, and I have faith, especially by the delay, to better improve the quality of content, but if the FD disappoint me again, it will be the end of line in ED(IMO), at least for me

 

[Privata]

"Help Me, update 2.1. You're My Only Hope"


Joke aside, I look forward to the 2.1, and I have faith, especially by the delay, to better improve the quality of content, but if the FD disappoint me again, it will be the end of line in ED(IMO), at least for me

Thats fine , I think it will fix alot.
For me it will fix my bigest 2 issues with the game :
The braindead AI and the Astroid lod that I have been hoping for a fix sins the early beta

 

[lysan]

[h=1]"Help Me, update 2.1. You're My Only Hope"[/h]
Joke aside, I look forward to the 2.1, and I have faith, especially by the delay, to better improve the quality of content, but if the FD disappoint me again, it will be the end of line in ED(IMO), at least for me

I think the line will be long this time

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Thats fine , I think it will fix alot.
For me it will fix my bigest 2 issues with the game :
The braindead AI and the Astroid lod that I have been hoping for a fix sins the early beta

Yeah, for me the Graphics and the brain dead NPCS are high on the list, I also hope we will get NPC wingmen and Crewmen, however I know this is not promised so some lobby work are needed.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

I'm still honestly shocked how naive some people are when it comes to game design, you folks all realise that 2.0 was being created back in May last year, a full 7 months before release right?

Even if 2.1 is a colossal failure they'll still have all the content up to 3.0 already in development and will probably finish them even if the playerbase all collectively disappears (which it won't). All I'm saying here is that Elite won't ever screech to a halt suddenly, if it happens it'll be a gradual drop foreshadowed by redundancy, reduction in staff and probably mass sales and production of Paintjobs and other micro-payment options to try and inject a last bit of life into the game. Not expecting that to happen but throwing some realism in there.
Also what NMS (presumably a No Mans Sky fan) may not realise is that the forum base is less than 5% of the Elite playerbase, there's probably a ton of people quite happily flying around, yes it may end your interest in Elite but I hardly think it will be the end of the line. Perhaps I'm blinded but I don't see anything to disprove my thoughts right now apart from a handful of people on the forums and we've had goodbye and doom threads pretty much every week since before 1.0 launched! And hey, still here, still hiring new staff, still producing masses of content and updates...


God this post was negative. On a positive thread too, going to negative rep myself. Sorry guys, get positive again - I can't wait to see more moving bits about like loading cargo etc.

 

[NMS]

...... I also hope we will get NPC wingmen and Crewmen, however I know this is not promised so some lobby work are needed.

This should be at the top of the priority list, it would change a lot the game, to better.

I just say NPC crewmen

.......
Also what NMS (presumably a No Mans Sky fan) may not realise is that the forum base is less than 5% of the Elite playerbase, there's probably a ton of people quite happily flying around, yes it may end your interest in Elite but I hardly think it will be the end of the line. Perhaps I'm blinded but I don't see anything to disprove my thoughts right now apart from a handful of people on the forums and we've had goodbye and doom threads pretty much every week since before 1.0 launched! And hey, still here, still hiring new staff, still producing masses of content and updates...

I´m beta premium and i have a life time pass, so probaly not a "end line" But for be honest, i don´t play ED since january, just waiting for 2.1 beta.

 

[PiLhEaD]

I'd seen that before, but it was nice to see it again.

I'm looking forward to 2.1, and whatever's in it, and I'll pick up ED again. By the time NMS drops my interest will likely be waining again, so I'll hop into that game for a while. And then I'll start wondering what's coming in 2.2 and climb back aboard the hedonic treadmill... and so onto 3.0.... and in the mean time I'll also play other games as and when I can.

The biggest issue I've noticed with the delay to 2.1 is that some people are building it up in their minds as some genre defining rubicon moment, some ultimate do or die event. It's not. It's just another step release, and it needs to be seen and accepted as such.

 

[lysan]

I found this, look like station destruction concept art.

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New type of Chair?

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? cities

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Oh boy I just love the Currier but can I have this cockpit please.

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Capital ships concept? I see the two current models here.

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[Agony_Aunt]

Oh boy I just love the Currier

Is that a Madras or a Tikka Masala?