Any news on when we will be able to land on those? They are part of Horizons right?
Volcanic worlds
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I second that. I would love some official statement regarding what's to come for the planetary side in 2.2 and beyond.
I'm happy by what they brought in 2.1: prettier yet more optimised planet and terrain rendering, starport, settlement and POI variations, tire tracks, etc. But I'd love to fly-by and drive around more planets with more activity.
I'm happy by what they brought in 2.1: prettier yet more optimised planet and terrain rendering, starport, settlement and POI variations, tire tracks, etc. But I'd love to fly-by and drive around more planets with more activity.
As I remember from exploring, these do exist to land on, but you will not see any active volcanoes.
Oh? Didn't think you could land on planets with volcanism nor atmospheres. Still would like to see liquid whatever and such.
Volcanism was, IIRC, promised to be added during S2, so unless they say otherwise I'll just go ahead and assume it'll come later this year. Looking very much forward to it, more dynamic environments would be a blessing to explorers. Volcanism, gas clouds, comets etc. Volcanism would be an excellent start!
multicrew would be great IF npc crew was a thing. Portraits i hope are the first step towards some form of first person getting out of ship thing. But yeah, i agree that additional planetary environment is kinda top of list for me too. if ONLY i could believe that season 3 would be planets with atmospheres but that seems way to huge a step right now. Still, it'll have to be something sorta big...if its not that or first person elements i dont know what it could be. Thargoids maybe but it would have to also mean a lot of new content. just thargoids alone won't cut it. Maybe proper military type missions and battles against thargoids. I hope FD lets us know soonish. Like within the next two months.
Season 3 is planet with atmosphere not habitable.
Season 4 is planet with atmosphere habitable.
Season 5 should be first person view
I don't think FD ever 100% confirmed them for S2, they only stated on several occasions that they'd very much like to.
I think that the amazing optimization and rendering work they've done within Engineers are them laying the ground for more dynamic surfaces and eventually volcanism.
So I remain optimistic, though as far as my expectations go for 2.2 and 2.3 go, I only wish the passenger missions wouldn't suck and SLFs would be actually useful for more than shenanigans.
I think that the amazing optimization and rendering work they've done within Engineers are them laying the ground for more dynamic surfaces and eventually volcanism.
So I remain optimistic, though as far as my expectations go for 2.2 and 2.3 go, I only wish the passenger missions wouldn't suck and SLFs would be actually useful for more than shenanigans.
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Thanks. They still only say "later after the initial release of Horizons", so that's why I think it needn't to be within the Horizons season, necessarily. (Though it seems most likely)
Next step being Volcanism doesn`t mean it will be a seasonal major update like season 3.
Just like improvements on planet graphics, it can well be a feature added during 2.2 2.3 2.4
My guess is with 2.4 -being a big surprise- we will get either thargoids or some degree of atmospheric implementation - at least visually- so that they can work on landing, etc. during season 3.
Also in the latest interview with one of the game designers they made it clear that "until this time mankind was dominantly spreading, developing throughout the galaxy, this will start to change cuz well we have aliens". Not exact words but you get the picture.
I agree, the clip suggests it will come at some point, but its rather vague beyond that.
They have said somewhere it was part of season 2
I will try to find it later if work allows me to
The whole stream was specifically about Horizons. This wasn't Ed Lewis asking about a hypothetical feature and Eddie answering "later on". That was Eddie explicitely bringing up active and ice volcanism on his own, clearly in the context of an update to Horizons at a later date.
Well I hope they come up with something at least as powerful as planetary landings at season 3. I am not going to simply accept liquid mechanics or walking or smtg like that as a main feature. I just realized that even though most features in 2.x are small stuff, i realized they are mostly related with the 2.0 main feature
lanets. engineer base(planets) for ex.
So I assume volcanism, etc has to be released in 2.x because it is directly related with its main feature.
Season 3 probably will consist of whatever main feature it will present.
lanets. engineer base(planets) for ex.So I assume volcanism, etc has to be released in 2.x because it is directly related with its main feature.
Season 3 probably will consist of whatever main feature it will present.
Well I hope they come up with something at least as powerful as planetary landings at season 3. I am not going to simply accept liquid mechanics or walking or smtg like that as a main feature. I just realized that even though most features in 2.x are small stuff, i realized they are mostly related with the 2.0 main feature
So I assume volcanism, etc has to be released in 2.x because it is directly related with its main feature.
Season 3 probably will consist of whatever main feature it will present.
Unfortunately I'm afraid S3 will consists mainly of walking around.
First our ships, then maybe stations and planets in the end.
I don't think it will be atmospheric planets, and frankly I can't think of anything else big enough to justify a Season.
(Except maybe building bookshelves in every black hole)
I still think it will be lots of things. In fact I expect the Season 3 to consist more of a "lots of smaller things" rather than one big "feature".
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We are getting volcanism in 2.2 but will I be able to land on this planet (looks like it has an atmosphere but I know there are planets like this without one) or will we just drive around and bump into the occasional geyser of liquid nitrogen.
Btw if you flip that pic it looks great as a background on your phone.
Btw if you flip that pic it looks great as a background on your phone.
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