Summary of tonight's ED On the Horizion/Engineers Beta Part 1 stream

[Thetele]

Sounds good! Roll on beta I'd say.

Still hoping that they find a way to make the system states something that you actually see while travelling.

When you enter a place that is in civil war or has starvation IRL it's immediately clear that something is going on.
In ED at the moment you have to actually dock and look at the news to see what's happening.
Most of the civil war and starvation will probably be taking place inside the stations and on planets, but still it'd be good to actually have some visual clues of the states.

You don't see those npc refuges messaging to you? Or those who ask you to join the fight? 90% time i get to know that there is war or civil war in system because those npc sending messages.

 

[TheSisko]

[video=youtube_share;GBe8UEI_Lew]https://youtu.be/GBe8UEI_Lew?t=27s[/video]

[video=youtube_share;4mQCv6x3mkI]https://youtu.be/4mQCv6x3mkI?t=18s[/video]

[yesnod]

 

[Thetele]

Cant say I am a fan of the recoiling beam laser.

Other than that, it looks awesome and I like the quad mount Firing in sequence, but Recoil on a Laser?
Especially when the recoil is out of sequence with the firing

Why complain about something you will never see? We fly in first person so you won't see that animation.

 

[Nyres]

That's been previously confirmed. I don't have a link though.

Hope that's right because that would be awesome, hopefully a couple of the other AI quirks where they could ignore certin limitations players have due to the poor AI have been removed to balance out the improved combat AI.

 

[Starender]

Huge weapons looks reliable, i'm waiting for them. Now all i need is to see how much we can push modules/weapons with engineers and what will be the costs/sacrifices to do that.

 

[Vasious]

Why complain about something you will never see? We fly in first person so you won't see that animation.

Because you can see it on other Ships?

 

[Steve50]

Lots of great stuff coming for combat pilots and explorers, very good.

Not complaining but can us lowly miners have some love please?

 

[Vasious]

Maybe it's a dynamic gas laser.

Recoil still is out of sequence with the firing, so even if one was to go Laser recoiling for some reason, it still doesn't look right as the whole block recoils back on the initial firing but has snapped back as the last unit is firing.

Aesthetically either no recoil or each individual unit of the quad mount recoils independently

 

[bitstorm]

That huge beam's gonna use some power.

 

[Privata]

I'm hoping this might mean that the gilde effect we have when approaching planets will now also be used when approaching rings so we can get around that jarring "snapping into position" feeling. MB did say that they also put effort into making them look better from a distance which would make sense if you want a smooth transition in towards them.

*crossing fingers*

I crossed my fingers so hard they broke

 

[bitstorm]

Recoil still is out of sequence with the firing, so even if one was to go Laser recoiling for some reason, it still doesn't look right as the whole block recoils back on the initial firing but has snapped back as the last unit is firing.

Aesthetically either no recoil or each individual unit of the quad mount recoils independently

No yeah.

I'm guessing it's unfinished. Recoil is feasible I think, I mean like Babylon 5's lasers used to recoil, but out of sync is just odd.

Maybe it's just a repurposed huge cannon model at this point. Either way I love that it's a gatling laser type thing.

 

[Saool]

They are giving the Mahon PP weapon to everyone. Only this one does something. Why do I think ED are just trolling the Alliance now?

 

[Belthize]

The lasers recoil because it turns out they have all this inertia stored up.

The recoil is the ship pumping the energy back into the EM Drive.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...-anomaly-and-the-impossible-emdrive-thruster/

That or, you know, 'graphics'.

 

[fruitbat]

That huge beam's gonna use some power.

I agree, but was pleased to see it on a FDL in the vid, and it even managed to fire for a few seconds, hope that wasn't the distributor emptied!

 

[Sugarat]

I'm most intrigued by the upcoming "news on Shinrarta Dezhra" that MB mentioned.. (?)

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

My suspect that new huge thing they hinted is landing on lava planets. I might be wrong, but I suspect that test run was done near it for reason, as FD is known for being teases.

 

[dubsdj]

I am slightly concerned that upon my return from the center of the galaxy I will be harvested by ultra supped up NPC's.. will probably lose all my data

 

[Hydrino]

I wonder if the unannounced feature is volcanic planets. The background in the planet looked amazing which was a volcanic planet. Could be too early though.

Good guess, the Stellar Forge team and environment team have surely been still working, yes?!

I will guess that it will be a peek or hint of other POI coming in like monuments, artifacts from The Lost, similar.

I think FD should somehow emphasize the story for the season and quarters more boldly. It does seem that they are rather gently doing stories by GalNet drip and drop. Not sure what could be done differently but MB has mentioned The Lost several times but I'm a bit lost on it other than vaguely knowing the lost colonists/ colonies idea.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Hooves crossed on upgrades useful to a commercial Cobra Mk IV pilot!

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Anyone else see the HUD clock top right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjONp-Hv5yE&list=PL7glm5rbPHKxHnWINN3xWhPv-TuPiuV7L&index=3