So then we can have an indoor tennis court on the conda, cutter, and vette, right?
Speculation about Elite Feet / Space Legs
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I suspect that there is probably a team working on it already. As said, i don't expect it to be on the scale of GTAV. But there is no reason why the depth can't be there. Also I would expect it to be expanded upon as we go along, like we all expect planetary landings to be.
^this. Elite is a spaceship-first game, and personally I don't care much about walking in stations or on planet surfaces (perhaps more down the line). But walking inside your ship, well, that's a different thing. Imagine being able to go and see your cargo racks filled with canisters. To be able to look out of an observation window while exploring. Even, as Dusty says, to have to get up from your chair and walk to the SRV or SLF.
This approach has 3 advantages:
1) It would make you "live" your ship much more, without dropping the spaceship-first general feel of Elite;
2) would offer some possible in-ship gameplay mechanics: (your drives are failing, go fix them; the UA is corroding your cargo, go patch it);
3) it seems to me that it would not be an immense amount of work to realize. The cockpit interiors are done, and rumor has it that most assets for the rest of the ship interiors are in place too. Considering that when playing in VR you can already "walk around", it really does not seem to me that to implement something like this would take ages. Surely significantly less than having to design immense station interiors.
I reccon that ED is actually closer to having space legs than folk think. I can't prove anything ofc, but... i get that feeling
I dunno. On one of the live streams one of the devs said something like 'putting in elite feet would be like putting in a whole other game to the game' in a way that strongly implied to me it wasn't something they were in the process of doing.
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Still, if we are voting I reckon they should invest in making an animation system that can generate walking and running gaits that vary with gravity:-
https://youtu.be/5MraTpKa7a8
Can't have commanders walking on 0.1g moons the same way they would walk on Earth.
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Their lead designer says otherwise...I reccon that ED is actually closer to having space legs than folk think. I can't prove anything ofc, but... i get that feeling
[video=youtube;PhsH5U7tz4A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsH5U7tz4A&t=68m04s[/video]
Doesn't mean much. They said the same about planetary landings, and then it was released 6 months later. But I suspect it will be a few more years before we see it though and even then it may be limited.
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Here is a link you may have all missed I think what they are saying is if you are waiting for game updates and expansion's do not hold your breath, and when they do start to add new expansion's or if the do it will cost more.
https://elitedangerous2016.wordpress.com/tag/asteroid-stations/
https://elitedangerous2016.wordpress.com/tag/asteroid-stations/
I really don't understand why it would be so difficult. You can already float around your cockpit in VR and just with the camera. If all they want to do is allow people to walk around the ship, there are only two things they must do:
1. Design all ship interiors. This is the hardest part IMO, but not complicated at all. It simply requires time to build the 3D models, textures, sounds and spaces with collision detection (probably already in the game engine). Again, not complicated to do, just time intensive (but, honestly, we're talking a few months, not years).
2. Ground the camera to the floor with a head bob camera animation. This is one of the easiest things to do in game development. There are Unity tutorials on doing this sort of thing within just a couple hours of newbie programming.
That's it. Am I missing something?
Now, that doesn't really include any mechanics, missions, or game-play behind it, but when did that ever stop FD from releasing a feature? Planetary landings is even more complex than walking around a ship and that is still very basic in itself.
I think most of us know that space legs isn't coming anytime soon. As to game updates, we are getting one hopefully by the end of september (2.4). As to paid for updates/expansions, we don't know. There may well be a paid for expansion at xmas time. There may not be. We shall have to wait for the special event that is coming soonish. The fact that there is a special event to show stuff off actually makes me think that it will be a little bit more then core updates, but we shall see, and won't be disapointed if it isn't.
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I CAN imagine doing it.
I just can't imagine doing it TWICE.
Sure, having that functionality available as PART of an actual gameplay mechanic would be great, but just for the sake of it? No thanks. Do it properly, or don't waste time on it.
Happily, FDev seem to have realized that the majority of players aren't satisfied with bare-bones, placeholder stuff - hence 3.0's focus on core gameplay and the change to the 'Season' model
Ministry of Silly Walks DLC pack?
Surely getting out of your ship to explore the inside of alien ruins or cave systems or derelict ships is part of exploring.
Ahhh, what a great sketch that was.
They could offer gait packs which would could allow your avatar to walk in different ways;
- March
- Hop
- Skip
- Mince
- Silly Walk
- Hipster
- Power Walk
Agree 100%.
Current gameplay: Find a shipwreck. "Oh, there's a shipwreck". Take a screenshot. Leave.
Elite feet gameplay: Find a shipwreck. Drive around it to find a hatch or hull breach you can use for ingress. Get out, and scan for life-signs. Enter the ship and explore, taking care to avoid environmental hazards (electrical short-circuits, radiation, bio-hazards, flammable/combustible materials). Alter your suit operating parameters accordingly. Find lots of useful engineering materials in the cargo hold. Detect motion behind you. Make a choice of run or fight.
Or maybe you can pull the discovery module out, and salvage the ship's scanned data. Maybe you can even repair some ships and claim them as your own. etc..etc..etc..
Exactly what I am hoping it will be like.
So... has anyone done any fan art or whatever of Elite style small arms etc?
Given the way ship guns unfurl out of the hardpoints I kinda think people guns should deploy from a folded storage mode the same way.
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Maybe they could just add a little optional non-interactive cutscene you could trigger in which your commander walks towards your ship in slow motion:-
https://youtu.be/I6peGu2yG6o
Given the way ship guns unfurl out of the hardpoints I kinda think people guns should deploy from a folded storage mode the same way.
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Maybe they could just add a little optional non-interactive cutscene you could trigger in which your commander walks towards your ship in slow motion:-
https://youtu.be/I6peGu2yG6o
The way I see stealing ships work in Elite is,
If you are in a stolen or salvaged ship, you simply cant rebuy it.. if you loose it its gone...
so say you use your Cobra to steal a conda, while flying that conda, you will get bounty hunter type NPC's trying to reclaim that ship pestering you.... when you finally die you are sit with a "return to ship" rebuy screen.... and you're back in your Cobra