Are you hyped for 2.4 Beta?

Cosmo

Cosmo
I hope they won't add another grind-fest to get special weapons against Thargoids. Because Grind = Not Fun! There's already way too much grind.

Add features to deepen the sandbox, improve multiplayer and more emergent gameplay.

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Cosmo

Cosmo
CmdrZaratan said:
Or to rephrase that, success comes to those who put in the hard work :p
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Repetitive grind, game sold over 2 million copies...only a few thousand play per day. What do the brilliant game designers do? Add more grind, that'll bring players back, right lead designers? ;)

Nevermind deep sandbox features, emergent gameplay, better multiplayer, base building, guild features. Those are silly things, right? :p

What this game needs is more grinding and more time-consuming, monotonous and slow activities. Right? That's probably what the Loach advised cause it worked so well the last two years with not retaining the player base. :rolleyes:

CmdrZaratan said:
To be fair though, the amount of effort you put into complaining about the game already makes you an extremely hard worker. Grinding away in the forums day in, day out to eke out a couple of extra features is real nose to the grindstone stuff. Keep up the good work :)
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I praise the game and also criticize bad game design.

Game has amazing graphics, sound, educational value, immersion, feel and potential. But the game design isn't so great...

Multicrew has much potential, but they added the minimum with only combat oriented roles. It seems that it'll take half a year or more for them to improve it (slow development). Star Trek: Bridge Crew is significantly better than multicrew. That is what it should be like.

Make Elite Great Again.. hire sandbox game designers. Learn from Star Wars Galaxies, Terraria, Conan Exiles, Eve Online for a proper sandbox game.
 
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Cmdr Eran Mintor

Cmdr Eran Mintor
CmdrZaratan said:
Or to rephrase that, success comes to those who put in the hard work :p

To be fair though, the amount of effort you put into complaining about the game already makes you an extremely hard worker. Grinding away in the forums day in, day out to eke out a couple of extra features is real nose to the grindstone stuff. Keep up the good work :)
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Takes 30 seconds to make a forum post, takes a couple weeka to rank grind. Sorry what were you saying?
 

Cmdr Eran Mintor

Cmdr Eran Mintor
JosiahD said:
I wouldn't say they've stopped communicating entirely, they're just not providing the detail about upcoming content quite they way they used to in the days of Dev Updates and DDF. I think they're a lot more guarded these days as many of us, myself included, have at times been critical of new content before it actually releases - Powerplay, CQC, multicrew for example. I also think they get a bit of a kick out of having surprises, like they sprung with the updated camera suite for example. I'd love to see a return of the Dev Updates, but perhaps not with the current community state - it probably only works in an environment of hope and wonder, not one of cynicism. As this community has grown and become more diverse, and that's not a bad thing, I think it's also made it harder for Frontier to take risks in communicating their plans too soon.
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Theyre guarded because, plain and simple, theyre afraid their content may be over hyped and flawed upon release. Theyd rather give as few expectations as possible so as not to offend. Its pretty sad though, cant promise anything due to being unsure about their game engine and their ability to release quality content (powerplay, engineers, multicrew, thargoids (?)). My expectations at this point arent that theyd do something awesome but just release another half baked concept. It literally has been their M.O. for the past year, even horizons is eh.

With all that said its still a decent game and one I spend plenty of time in, but the excitement level has waned to a point every new release is not something I look forward to. More bugs, little content.
 

Franc Kaos

Franc Kaos
Mengy said:
That's certainly possible. The slowing pace of development would seem to indicate that, but I still have hope that much of the dev team is just working ahead on stuff behind the scenes that we have absolutely no idea about. I'm probably just being stupid though. Time will tell, and all we can do is wait for Frontier to possibly enlighten us someday.
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Just imagine, Christmas 2017, Fdev advertise 3.0 for £40: Atmospherics, gas giant skimming and landable comets - I'd reinstall the game for that in a heartbeat! (Include an orrery and I'd probably get a chub on).

JosiahD said:
I wouldn't say they've stopped communicating entirely, they're just not providing the detail about upcoming content quite they way they used to in the days of Dev Updates and DDF. I think they're a lot more guarded these days as many of us, myself included, have at times been critical of new content before it actually releases - Powerplay, CQC, multicrew for example. I also think they get a bit of a kick out of having surprises, like they sprung with the updated camera suite for example. I'd love to see a return of the Dev Updates, but perhaps not with the current community state - it probably only works in an environment of hope and wonder, not one of cynicism. As this community has grown and become more diverse, and that's not a bad thing, I think it's also made it harder for Frontier to take risks in communicating their plans too soon.
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Funny how the three things you mentioned were unqualified disasters (excuse the hyperbole), and basically on life support now, maybe they need to listen and take on board what their community is telling them and respond in a sort of two way dialogue.

StarLightPL said:
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Beta what? Oh you must mean the alien combat zones and more engineer grind. No, no, god forbid no. Overwatch Summer Games in full swing, X: Rebirth VR edition is a sight to behold and flies amazingly fun with the Vive motion controllers, and last but not least list of shame also known as steam backlog is full of wonderful games, and in October I will be hyped for Fallout 4 VR. So, no, gradually de-hyped since 2.1.
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Cool, didn't know Fallout4 was due so soon and yea, X Rebirth is filling the void ED left in me :)
 

krylite

krylite
Last time I said I was hyped for 2.3. And the majority mood always seemed dour and unimpressed as it is again it seems. Looks like I was not far off in my first post in the forums where I conjectured that there may have to be a choice between equipping regular engr'd modules vs. new ones required to survive thargoid death rays and insta-powerdrain.
Well, I'll just go ahead and say yes, I'm still hyped for the new things that'll come with 2.4. I was happy with what we got with 2.3 and could have wished for more with MC, but realized it was a good entry framework and what had been done with season2 were overall great additions considering the immense scope of the game. And I'm willing to conjecture the 200+ staff working on ED are busy on new features and gameplay that may not even be ready by 2.4 and may likely will take longer to be ready such as in 4.4 or 5.4 however long it takes!
 
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Spacemarkl

Spacemarkl
What grind?

I'm moderately hyped. But more for the QoL features and gameplay improvements, like in 2.3. Didn't care about Multicrew at all.
 

RaymontP

RaymontP
I am not hyped, nor disapointed, I don't know how I could since we basically have 0 information on the Beta.

I thought they were supposed to make little annoncement by little annoncement since E3, where are they ?

It MIGHT end up for good (let's hope) but I never experienced a major patch note where all the features and/or bug fix where a mystery,
In all honesty, I really don't know what to think...
 

ALien8ed

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I'm hyped but have rather low expectations.

I didn't find the stuff mentioned at Lavecon all that exciting. Hopefully we get some nice features which have yet to be revealed.
 
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askavir

askavir
There has to be something new that we don't know yet because:

1 - The 'ghoids are gonna be for everyone AFAIK.
2 - The QoL tweaks which were disclosed so far will be for everyone.
3 - 2.4 Is part of a paid expansion, so...

There has to be something in there for the ones who paid for horizons, that we don't know about yet.
 

Ghosty

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I think the average E:D player doesnt get 'hyped'. Rather, and this is because of the type of game Elite is, I think we're all curious to find out about its new content.
 
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