Is there a new story driven campaign with 2.4?
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No.
There's no single play campaign/story mode.
There's no single play campaign/story mode.
That .... is a secret to be revealed.
I personally don't see the Thargoid return as being a campaign as such, more like bits of story being dropped in Galnet and the forums, In fact I am expecting everything Thargoid related dropped in 2.4 will be all over the forum within days.
Hope not, but that's what I see happening.
Hope not, but that's what I see happening.
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Per the announcement...
The Return will play out differently to previous releases in Elite Dangerous: Horizons, with content and story beats affecting all Commanders releasing in the months following its initial release.
As a story-centric update, showing too much ahead of time would spoil the surprise and make for a lesser experience for the community. We want The Return to surprise and shock you as much as possible, but that said, you can expect for further reveals and information about the future of Elite at various community and gaming events throughout the year, such as the upcoming Lavecon.
So I'm hoping the game brings some story to us, in-game. I don't see how FD could do it any other way - with 2M+ copies sold, there must be over a million CMDRs out there wondering just what the hell this game is supposed to be about.
The Return will play out differently to previous releases in Elite Dangerous: Horizons, with content and story beats affecting all Commanders releasing in the months following its initial release.
As a story-centric update, showing too much ahead of time would spoil the surprise and make for a lesser experience for the community. We want The Return to surprise and shock you as much as possible, but that said, you can expect for further reveals and information about the future of Elite at various community and gaming events throughout the year, such as the upcoming Lavecon.
So I'm hoping the game brings some story to us, in-game. I don't see how FD could do it any other way - with 2M+ copies sold, there must be over a million CMDRs out there wondering just what the hell this game is supposed to be about.
They have no delivery method of putting a campaign in or probably to more accurate they don't want to.
So far it has been dribbles of information via Galnet and groups of people (offline) figuring out puzzles. Actually having some sort of scripted missions may be a lot more to peoples enjoyment so they can have a personal experience of the content.
Unfortunately you'll probably not get the RNG roll to see if your getting a game experience (how many Commanders are floating around Maia still trying to get the original encounter?).
It's a poor system, time consuming and ultimately unrewarding.
So far it has been dribbles of information via Galnet and groups of people (offline) figuring out puzzles. Actually having some sort of scripted missions may be a lot more to peoples enjoyment so they can have a personal experience of the content.
Unfortunately you'll probably not get the RNG roll to see if your getting a game experience (how many Commanders are floating around Maia still trying to get the original encounter?).
It's a poor system, time consuming and ultimately unrewarding.
This. I shall be avoiding the forums so as to avoid having to read "I was the first to harvest Thargoid Poo"
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Don't get me wrong, I've criticized it, myself.
However my assumption is that none of this has been delivered to the player directly thus far because they have been working on better future content.
I mean, look at the thargoid base(s)? Until we actually saw those, I'm sure many of us didn't think FD had it in them.
The plan is to have a dedicated forum section for this so it hopefully won't be all over. The mods, Brett, and myself will be working to keep the spoiler content to a very specific section so that it's not in everyone's faces who want to experience the new content for themselves.
As for the way it's going to be delivered, this will be through the game as it currently stands - not an additional part of the game. It'll still be within the same galaxy driven by the same data. It also won't be all in one go, since some aspects will be happening later. It'll be an ongoing endeavour.
I hope it's not RNG cut scenes. Lol
I still haven't seen a Thargoid ship. Lol
I still haven't seen a Thargoid ship. Lol
It's ok. There are a lot of frustrated Thargoids on their forum complaining they haven't seen a human yet.
So i won't see any 2.4 content in next half year? I have never seen Thargoid ship or any of the random alien stuff. I have been in Maia many times, i have gone to barnacles, to settlements etc. Never had any of the Thargoid ships or event happen to me. This is bad way to tell story or have events in game. I want to take part on stuff and experience stuff, this content in game and find it myself, but its impossible because of heavy rng. Please let us play the story instead of reading about it on gaming media, see in youtube, or read on forums/reddit. You could just write and put fake screenshots of alien stuff to forum under fake account and not put anything to the game as it would be same to most of your customers.
Ed calls out across the office : "Dave, they're onto us"
Dave replies: "Start the Jag - time to leg it".
Had a good laugh on that one!
I wonder if there are as many Thargoids that clearly hate the game who still hang around complaining as here?
So what do people reckon' about where to go when 2.4 drops in order to try and pick up the new story content?
Personally I guess I'll be hanging around the new Pleiades bases and megaships (Ceres Tarn planetary base on HR 1185 A 4, Indra in HR 1185, Blackmount Orbital in HIP 17692 A4 and the new Sirius bases, wherever they are), picking up missions, reading all the local news and generally waiting for something to happen. I'd really like to try and have something just happen to me rather than reading about it on the forum and chasing after someone else's experiences. Can I bare the thought of shutting myself off from social media for a while? ... probably not. Oh well.
Personally I guess I'll be hanging around the new Pleiades bases and megaships (Ceres Tarn planetary base on HR 1185 A 4, Indra in HR 1185, Blackmount Orbital in HIP 17692 A4 and the new Sirius bases, wherever they are), picking up missions, reading all the local news and generally waiting for something to happen. I'd really like to try and have something just happen to me rather than reading about it on the forum and chasing after someone else's experiences. Can I bare the thought of shutting myself off from social media for a while? ... probably not. Oh well.
Sad but true - I know players that don't read the forums and don't watch the various youtube vids on all the alien stuff and guardian ruins etc - they just go to the combat CG's and pew-pew. I think a fairly high percentage of players have never seen in-game a Thargoid ship or even the static surface things like the crashes ships or ruins or alien structures.
Personally I make a point of trying to see everything in-game myself - including the triggering the alien map inside the structures and completing the ruins mystery and visiting every generation ship etc
This game does have content - the challenge is finding it
The reason they haven't attacked yet is they're having big issues with griefer and ganker thargoids, so they're all playing in solo
Thanks Dale
Appreciate that you recognise the content being possible spoilers and in advance for taking the time to segregate the 2.4-dependant forum posts from this more generic forum, so as to avoid spoilers to the new gameplay and stories. Cheers,The Hat
