Okay, so here is what Frontier said at the Frontier Expo today that impacts us explorers:
Some of it is great, some of it is promising, but a lot of it was rather vague. They spoke about exploration last at the Expo like it was an afterthought, and they really didn't have much detail for us, so it sounds like most of the stuff for us will be late in the year, most likely the huge Q4 update in 2018. Q1 will see the beige plague cured though, so that is a very good thing!
Other things not exploration related are coming too like wing missions, squadrons (multiplayer thing), squadron controlled carrier mega ships, a bunch of new ships (mostly combat though?), better trading data, mining improvements, and engineering improvements.
Here is a preview of the cure for the beigefication:
Thoughts? Anything I missed? Frontier, anything you'd like to expound upon?
Hopefully we get more details soon, it would be nice to have more to look forward to especially seeing how long we've waited for any kind of development. At least there is promise even if details are vague.
- Q1 2018 - The beige planets get cured and color returns to the galaxy in force! (see pic below)
- Planet surfaces will see improved features, fog, and terrain (no ETA but for 2018).
- GalNet will get an audio feature where you can listen to GalNet articles spoken out loud while you fly.
- Exploration will get a Codex feature which catalogs things you find (no ETA but for 2018).
- Exploration will get more things to find and search for, sometime in 2018.
- Exploration will get improved tools, but no details on how or what will be improved. Sometime 2018.
- Exploration missions were mentioned, no details or ETA.
- New lighting model for the game for both planet surfaces and outer space, might support multiple light sources.
Some of it is great, some of it is promising, but a lot of it was rather vague. They spoke about exploration last at the Expo like it was an afterthought, and they really didn't have much detail for us, so it sounds like most of the stuff for us will be late in the year, most likely the huge Q4 update in 2018. Q1 will see the beige plague cured though, so that is a very good thing!
Other things not exploration related are coming too like wing missions, squadrons (multiplayer thing), squadron controlled carrier mega ships, a bunch of new ships (mostly combat though?), better trading data, mining improvements, and engineering improvements.
Here is a preview of the cure for the beigefication:
Thoughts? Anything I missed? Frontier, anything you'd like to expound upon?
Hopefully we get more details soon, it would be nice to have more to look forward to especially seeing how long we've waited for any kind of development. At least there is promise even if details are vague.