What ship will you be most intrigued to finally walk around?
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This in no way rebuts my comment, Horizons was entirely in line with my posited incremental steps model. It started very bear-bones and has gradually increased in complexity and feature density.
Also, point of order, Elite is not all about the ships. It's a rather arcady space game that currently only has ships as a method for interacting with the game. From my understanding Fdev had always wanted, if not promised, that the possible mediums for interaction would expand. Space legs, at least, are a concrete Kickstarter promise, and that will need to interact with existing game mechanics to satisfying.
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Cmnd Fulsom
Yep, I mean c'mon the totally immersive VR room will be something to behold.
Yeh, of course I still have hope that there will be great content somehow, but when you look at the mistakes of the past...
I certainly don't think I've thought of everything, and there is every hope that what's delivered will be spectacular. It'll need to be to get me out of my ships first of all let alone pay for the privilege. I cannot imagine not buying an Elite expansion, I proudly support them because I genuinely want the game to evolve (I'm not disappointed at progress so far, either), buy the stuff in the shop too, but I would like to know more aboutwhat direction that will take. Of course it might not yet be decided.
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Why the Sidewinder of course.
Not that there's anywhere to go, nor likely even any room to walk around, but that's what will make it interesting.
Not that there's anywhere to go, nor likely even any room to walk around, but that's what will make it interesting.
I thought you said it would come in stages, referring to ships as a jumping point. My misunderstanding. I simply meant the content will come all at once in an expansion. As for Elite not being about the spaceships, it has been since 1984. I just worry that the coding effort might be better invested elsewhere.
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It's your right, I agree. But what elsewhere? I've read someone point out he wanted more ships. fair enough. More cockpits it is, with more flying with different characteristics, with more internal diversity to do... the exacts same thing. Fghting, mining, trading, fuel scooping.
Based on the relative simple aspects of the "game sim" part of Elite, there's not much left to do in a sci-fi universe directly from our ships. More planet types just to... fly in them? Scavenging structures maybe? Deploying things in space? that's about it, the whole sci fi from space genre is alsmost covered...
Hear me out, I love flying in this game. It's what keeps me. But from the basis they got on, I don't see many ways to add more fun to that. Just a background.
There are more ideas beyond our ships, however. Personal planetary settelements (you could walk in them). Station interiors and NPCs. Fixing ships from the inside. from the outside. Some would say it would be walking in star citizen territory. Maybe they would be right. But once again, the 2 games were not so different in their perspectives, it's just that one of it focused on ships from the get go, and the other on walking...
Obviously, my opinion.
Hmm... the Type-9 or maybe that "observation deck" under the nose of an Anaconda. I guess it must be a great view from there
I can see myself putting my office chair on blocks of wood and screwing it the floor to make sure the chair is in EXACTLY The right position, that I don't even have to reach out for it, I can just walk around in front of it and sit down with confidence (don't try this at home kids, always check the position of your chair with your hand when in VR, death or serious embarrassment may occur).
thargoid ship. otherwise i dont really see the point of it. unless it adds gameplay why? yes it will be interesting to go into my mining asp hold and see how the refinery works - if you can. once. then ok seen it. getting out of the srv and making dirtballs or faking ancient ruins on a planet as a hoax for a mission or something... but its more fun in an srv than walking around your ship with your oxygen depleting.
if the idea is to be able to do first person shooting and be able to disable and board enemy ships and try to kill the crew to take them over - free anaconda anyone? - its just going to be a see it once then forget it gimmick.
short version.... i think legs will be seen as overrated.
if the idea is to be able to do first person shooting and be able to disable and board enemy ships and try to kill the crew to take them over - free anaconda anyone? - its just going to be a see it once then forget it gimmick.
short version.... i think legs will be seen as overrated.
Why would it pale. They have experience designing these games, and there is know reason why they can't hire people who have more experience. As I said, look at hellion as an example.
Also I don't want it to be COD or MGS5 I space, I want it to be Elite dangerous, it doesn't have to be exactly the same as those games.
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I do think it will come in stages. Look at what we actually got in horizons. We got the easiest part of planetary landings to present in an acceptabl polished form (lifeless, no atmosphere), tangentially related content (srvs), and a bundle of mostly unrelated content, engineers; gaurdians; commanders; ???.
Expect X.X do the moon walk to be similar. We might get walking in our ships and on stations, but more likely it will be the easiest to provide a sufficiently polished experience (ship cabins), tangential content (interaction with ship rely, possible multi-crew improvements), and a lot of things focused on other parts of the game. With the possibility of a promise for stations without additional charge down the line.
As for Elitr 1984, I never played the original Elite games. So I feel like I'm coming from a neutral point of view when I say, Elite 1984 is a successful game, that is separate from E: D. Present day Elite has its own vision and goals which has always included allowing players to step out of their cockpits.
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Cmnd Fulsom
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We are flying, even in the larger ships, fighters, Patrol Boats at most; sit in your chair and fly. The entire dynamic is wrong for anything else. After all, ships, as opposed to small craft, are designed to project force over long periods of time.
That means that they have watch standers to keep the ship operable over an entire day, life support and fuel to care for the crew for weeks, etc. Unless you postulate that our systems take up almost no space so that you can allocate that volume to cabins, mess spaces, etc, the ships we are flying are not big enough to have the kind of facilities you lot want AND the systems needed to represent the equipment already in the game.
As an example, 1 tonne of Hydrogen uses 11,976 cubic meters (rounded to the nearest whole number) of volume at one atmosphere of pressure. A stock AspX has a 32 tonne tank, meaning it uses 383,225 cubic meters of volume just to store fuel. Even at 10,000 PSI of compression, this is still 18,249 cubic meters of volume used and that is only for fuel. (Please note, this is less that 24 hours of operational time using the current operational techniques)
Of course, given that I have actually been in the Navy, my views of this aspect of the game are probably skewed by reality.
The Orca and the Anaconda would be my first choices to walk around inside them given the number of windows and doors.
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