2.4 content? Not just aliens!

IamMe · Jan 26, 2017

Majority of players guess it will be aliens, maybe it will but 2.4 is exclusive season paid content and aliens will be free update for everybody, both owners of just base game and horizons.
I think it will be more about game mehanics only available for season2 owners. Fact they keep it as a secret i think it will be something significant and bigger than guardians or multicrew.
What are your thoughts on this:S?

satrycus · Jan 26, 2017

Ah but it could be aliens on a planet's surface, or aliens in a part of space only accessible with a module/upgrade sold from a planet side base, such as Palin Research Centre.

Sterling MH · Jan 26, 2017

Said it before: C&P. Two new factions to add on top of any other: Lawful/Criminal. Combat is "mostly done" and before anyone can take advantage of gameplay for explorer, trader, bounty hunter or miner, C&P needs to make optimising for those roles at the expense of combat ability something less than suicide. So C&P. It'll make it safer to be a miner with a heavy load of mining limpets and only mining lasers just about fed by the power supply, because many pirates will be chased off by the local law.

And so on for the others.

C&P, or the other gameplay mechanics will be underperforming or done solely on solo and possibly PvE private groups where optimising that gameplay isn't signing a death warrant.

CMDR CPT. Boris · Jan 26, 2017

I wish it will be a BIG surprise update, something no one expect and blow everyone minds

IamMe · Jan 26, 2017

satrycus said:
Ah but it could be aliens on a planet's surface, or aliens in a part of space only accessible with a module/upgrade sold from a planet side base, such as Palin Research Centre.

i don't think it will be aliens on planet surface since it would be useless without space legs, about that second part you said; maybe!

Andovar · Jan 26, 2017

Sterling MH said:
Said it before: C&P.

I pray you are correct.

sensai25 · Jan 26, 2017

Cities.

As David Braben told us that they are planned for season 2 (late stage).

dannysquid · Jan 26, 2017

I suspect there'd be a whole load of BGS style stuff added alongside a proper alien reveal, with humans and aliens fighting over territory. It wouldn't just be random encounters in space.

TERMINATRIXXX · Jan 26, 2017

I hope we get a better crime bonus, player ships should drop very rare materials and there should be a significant reward for killing hostile player ships which dont belong to my superpower.
That being said, the punishment for the destroyed commander should be increased, double the price for rebuy as they have failed to defend themself and bring shame to the pilots federation.
So yea, bring the crime and punishment update!

IamMe · Jan 26, 2017

CMDR CPT Boris said:
I wish it will be a BIG surprise update, something no one expect and blow everyone minds

could be! there must be a reason they keep it a secret and for season end.
Lets look it from marketing perspective; save it for season end and make it big suprise so it overwhelms Internet,youtube and game portals or forums. Big marketing advertisement for Season3

Mystweaver · Jan 26, 2017

Could be only players with Horizons can be Hyberdicted?

kpmop · Jan 26, 2017

The horizons blurb says "2.4 – TBA A secret revealed in Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ final expansion."

It turns out it was all a simulation.

andrak · Jan 26, 2017

Maybe it will be:

A diverse contract and mission system that doesn't look like 8 billion people's worth of work consists of less items than the to do list on my fridge.

Wing missions, the feature to split payment across the wing. Missions with exceptional difficulty levels and high pay.

Conflicts around stations with objectives for both sides of to achieve to win the war.

Features that don't fundamentally break the game similar to instant ship transfer.

Heavily defended pirate bases.

A much larger difference between low rank and high rank npcs skill level.

A much larger difference between anarchy and high security systems.

A crime and punishment system.

Keep dreaming...

It'll be the addition of some new mechanic that I'll be bored of in 30 minutes flat and a few extra non interactive cutscenes with aliens.

Barking_Mad · Jan 26, 2017

sensai25 said:
Cities.

As David Braben told us that they are planned for season 2 (late stage).

David did say that in a fairly recent stream, also commented way back when...

Cloud cities (Like Empire Strikes Back)
Sandy: Yes – something like this (mining outposts in Jovian atmospheres) will be possible. This may not be a release 1 feature though.

Histarium · Jan 26, 2017

2.4 will NOT be paid content. If they made 2.4 paid content, then the community would have an outcry. Unless you mean Aliens are 1.4 and the rest is 2.4 being Horizons Only content. Then, I can somewhat understand that logic. Who doesnt actually own Horizons at this point anyways?

Rakkun · Jan 26, 2017

If you want to meet alien life, I must break it to you... there is life on landable planets already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...found_this_while_exploring_for_guardian_ruin/

IamMe · Jan 26, 2017

sensai25 said:
Cities.

As David Braben told us that they are planned for season 2 (late stage).

that would be cool!

dannysquid said:
I suspect there'd be a whole load of BGS style stuff added alongside a proper alien reveal, with humans and aliens fighting over territory. It wouldn't just be random encounters in space.

but that would be update for all not just saeson owners!

TERMINATRIXXX said:
I hope we get a better crime bonus, player ships should drop very rare materials and there should be a significant reward for killing hostile player ships which dont belong to my superpower.
That being said, the punishment for the destroyed commander should be increased, double the price for rebuy as they have failed to defend themself and bring shame to the pilots federation.
So yea, bring the crime and punishment update!

i imagine it this way: if you kill cmdr that is not wanted(innocent, unarmed miner/trader/Explorer) you get labeled as "cmdr killer" for good and only way to remove that label is reset profile and start from sidey, along with higher rebuy! It would start new kind of gameplay; bounty hunting on "cmdr killers"

shadragon · Jan 26, 2017

CMDR CPT Boris said:
I wish it will be a BIG surprise update, something no one expect and blow everyone minds

Legs maybe?

IamMe · Jan 26, 2017

andrak said:
Maybe it will be:

A diverse contract and mission system that doesn't look like 8 billion people's worth of work consists of less items than the to do list on my fridge.

Wing missions, the feature to split payment across the wing. Missions with exceptional difficulty levels and high pay.

Conflicts around stations with objectives for both sides of to achieve to win the war.

Features that don't fundamentally break the game similar to instant ship transfer.

Heavily defended pirate bases.

A much larger difference between low rank and high rank npcs skill level.

A much larger difference between anarchy and high security systems.

A crime and punishment system.

Keep dreaming...

It'll be the addition of some new mechanic that I'll be bored of in 30 minutes flat and a few extra non interactive cutscenes with aliens.

i understand devs that they First want to add all mehanics ingame and later that mehanics can help make missions more complex and with more depth.

Sterling MH · Jan 26, 2017

Histarium said:
2.4 will NOT be paid content. If they made 2.4 paid content, then the community would have an outcry. Unless you mean Aliens are 1.4 and the rest is 2.4 being Horizons Only content. Then, I can somewhat understand that logic. Who doesnt actually own Horizons at this point anyways?

I think the point was that 2.4 will be paid content when you bought Horizons.

PS not got it. Graphics card currently 550ti. Barely enough for the base game and, by 3DMark, well below spec.