Fair enough. I wasn't sure, so thank you for clearing that up
Could Patch 2.4 Be Atmo Planet Landing?
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Fair enough. I wasn't sure, so thank you for clearing that up
I'm sorry but this is not an efficient model. It would be a nightmare to sell as a product. You would have to have as many different universe as there are version of the game. One with engineers but without deployable fighters, One with fighters but without Engineers...
They do need to give away Season 2 to Vanilla players just after 3.0 release though... To reward players, keep some balance in the long run...
As I have said before why give season 2 away for free when they can bundle it up with season 3 and still charge for it?
Not necesarily. We already have the same universe already with non-horizons and with horizons. All you would need is to put a kind of permit system in the way so that the only way you can get these items is if you had that permit.
Most of the DLC stuff would be able to plug and play with the main game. The universe would still be the same for everyone, just some won't have access to SLF and some won't have excess to Engineers. We already have that.
As soon as you buy that DLC, you get access to the permit and you can go and get your SLF. I really can't see the issues.
I mean how do you think they do the ship skins and stuff. It is already on your machine, it just gets activated. It would be the same for DLC's.
It would be pretty easy to do.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but it will never happen. It was cryptic enough back when 2.0 got released and there were questions on this forum for months asking who got what...
Correct, atmospheric landings isn’t possible for 2.4. At best 2.4 might include volcanic planet landings, but even that is unlikely.
The most probably feature for 2.4 is Alien Invasion, bringing combat with alien ships to the galaxy. The prospect of getting hyperdicted and attacked by aliens all throughout the bubble and galaxy isn’t anything I’m really excited about, the game’s development is already too combat focused IMHO, but that’s the most likely direction that 2.4 is going to be. All of the major new features of S2 have been to improve combat getting Galactic War ready: Engineers, SLF’s, Multicrew, to be followed by New Content to use it all on.
Once again I say that I cannot see 2.4 being anything to do with Aliens as a main feature (well it could be a locked part of space gets opened up for horizons players to visit. Aliens will not be Horizons only .. and the main feature of 2.4 (whatever it is going to be) will be Horizons only.
1.9 : alien ships.
2.4 : aliens bases in permit locked regions. Mysteries to solve, quests over the surface.
Do keep in mind that most of aliens recent content is horizons only : barnacles, crashed ships, aliens guardians ruins.
No it wasn't cryptic at all. It was obvious what was included in Season 2. They have said that seasons may not be a thing in the future so we will have to wait and see. Precisely why I said we may have smaller DLC's for like £5-£10 each and bigger expansions like EVA and space walkies as seperate entities.
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Yeah, like i said in my post
which is similar to what you posted .. that is the only way I can see it being Aliens for 2.4
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From my point of view it is possible yes.
The point is that people is awaiting alien stuff.
It could be that, it will surely be that with the teasing about winter is coming. Or it could be an other we don't know.
FD also said in the past, that Horizons would include large domed cities. May be 2.4 could be cities above the surface, with procedural shaping, content mission, docking pad, IA traffic over surface flight and ground, even adding some alive humans under the domes using planet coaster crowd system.
It could even unlock the moon as a giant whole "moon city".
With aliens over 1.8 and 1.9 as free content limited to ships.
The point is that people is awaiting alien stuff.
It could be that, it will surely be that with the teasing about winter is coming. Or it could be an other we don't know.
FD also said in the past, that Horizons would include large domed cities. May be 2.4 could be cities above the surface, with procedural shaping, content mission, docking pad, IA traffic over surface flight and ground, even adding some alive humans under the domes using planet coaster crowd system.
It could even unlock the moon as a giant whole "moon city".
With aliens over 1.8 and 1.9 as free content limited to ships.
i don't see any strong point in any of your statements for thinking this is going to happen soon.
and if Frontier add this at any point.. it will be part of a new season/expansion for sure... they are not going to loose that money train... no way, it's the only and logical way to go.
IMHO there is a good probability that the extended Season 2 was not technical but due to business reasons. Planet Coaster was released end of the year and rather than 2 major releases occurring in the same financial quarter, Frontier made a business decision to try to better balance cash flow over an entire year and delay ED Season 3 until summer 2017. The benefit as I see it is maybe we'll get more upfront content at the start of Season 3 and possibly smaller or less patches throughout the rest of the Season. I could see Frontier keeping this cadence for a while, with PC DLC releases at the end of the year and ED Seasons at mid-year.
You're optimistic! I hope you're right, I'm expecting atmospheric landings in V4.x. I think First/Third Person will be V3.x and I think we'll not see earth like worlds until V5.x or even V6.x
back in the 1xxx days - no one thpught we'd get planetary landings this early. atmo landings is defnitely 3.x. earth like world no later than 4.x
You might be right, however the eco-system simulation that an earth-like world will require makes me skeptical that it will happen at 4.x, I really think it may be delayed a bit. I actually think they'll let us start building planet side bases in 5.x.
I think the surprise in 2.4 is going to be Story arch mission play, complete with voice-acted cut scenes and plot lines. Mr. Braben hinted as much, somewhere in the video streams.
That'll be nice, and probably very popular, but I'm not expecting too much from it.
As I said in a previous post that got buried...
David Braben answered this question in the 24 Hour Charity Live Stream Video on YouTube. (In first hour of the video)
When asked about Planetary Landings on Earth-Like worlds with an atmosphere, he stressed the difficulty involved and that they would want to do this RIGHT. In terms of WHEN we might see this in the game? His answer more or less inferred that it wasn't something we would be seeing any time soon. I took that to mean at least a year away, and very likely longer than that.
If anyone really wants to know the answer to this question, rather than speculating erroneously here, I suggest heading over to the ED channel on YouTube and listening to Braben answer this question himself.
Based on his answer, I won't be expecting to see this feature until the end of 2018 or possibly even later than that.
David Braben answered this question in the 24 Hour Charity Live Stream Video on YouTube. (In first hour of the video)
When asked about Planetary Landings on Earth-Like worlds with an atmosphere, he stressed the difficulty involved and that they would want to do this RIGHT. In terms of WHEN we might see this in the game? His answer more or less inferred that it wasn't something we would be seeing any time soon. I took that to mean at least a year away, and very likely longer than that.
If anyone really wants to know the answer to this question, rather than speculating erroneously here, I suggest heading over to the ED channel on YouTube and listening to Braben answer this question himself.
Based on his answer, I won't be expecting to see this feature until the end of 2018 or possibly even later than that.
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I suspect you are correct regarding earthlike planets. I would say another 2 years away even. But atmpspheric planets without life could certainly be coming sooner then that. Mars of today type of planets. I certainly see these as a possibility in the soonish future, but I doubt 2.4.
To be honest, i really can't think what 2.4 will be. Maybe personal asteroid homes or something like that.
Aliens will be for both the main game and horizons i would think.
EVA/space walkies will be later, possibly at the end of this year.