Yeah ! A roadmap is essential to satisfy our curiosity
Yeah ! A roadmap is essential to satisfy our curiosity
I have to disagree, I had a great time.
I won't disagree that there were problems at FX17 but none of the problems I experienced were down to FDev staff. In fact I'd like to thank them, every member of FDev I met was not just polite and courteous, they treated me as a fellow enthusiast and a member of a shared community, it was genuinely welcoming experiance. Also: the invited speakers were excellent. Thank you FDev, I'll be back next year.
The venue staff, on the other hand, acted like they just didn't care.
I don't want go into the problems I saw because they were pretty trivial compared to the good time I had at the talks and with the demos but I think we really could have done with a better refreshment and rest area than the one provided.
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Slow progress ia better than no progress ...
That's my 2 cents of the show today
That's my 2 cents of the show today
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I agree was a good Expo with regards some updated info, New ships that are more than 3 alliance based, mining getting a boost, Exploring ok not great amount mentioned but we all know something is coming if the forums are anything to go by everyone wants better easier exploring, beige planets will be history next year, engineers RNG will be better all round, Squadrons ok not for me but will be a welcome for some, and was nice to see behind the scenes as if you look closely may have to pause video you do see some seeking peeks. ok, its all for 2018 but at least something to look forward to it all comes to those who wait, But I do understand the impatience in the same at times. 
Off the top of my very tired and very drunk head ...
- Krait
- new fleet (can't rememeber the right word) mechanics for groups ... get their own megaships
- cure for beige
- personal codex for accumulating exploration data
- a really cool Alliance ship (forgotten its name)
- improved surface rock stuff on planets (stunning ice world concept art for what they're aiming for)
- improved fog and volumetric lighting effects on planets
- whole new array of mining equipment and challenges ... mining to become a fully fledged career path
- new galactic phenomena to discover (no specifics mentioned tho)
- text to speach for galnet
- new guardian related equipment
.. and it's all for free
P.S. I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a couple
- Krait
- new fleet (can't rememeber the right word) mechanics for groups ... get their own megaships
- cure for beige
- personal codex for accumulating exploration data
- a really cool Alliance ship (forgotten its name)
- improved surface rock stuff on planets (stunning ice world concept art for what they're aiming for)
- improved fog and volumetric lighting effects on planets
- whole new array of mining equipment and challenges ... mining to become a fully fledged career path
- new galactic phenomena to discover (no specifics mentioned tho)
- text to speach for galnet
- new guardian related equipment
.. and it's all for free
P.S. I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a couple
Interestingly, there's a lot of stuff they didn't mention in FX17......but which they've been strongly hinting at for months-if not years. Stuff like the overhaul of the Military Career Path (which has been "promised" since late 2015), Material & Data Brokerage (strongly hinted at, by Sandro, since about the time 2.3 dropped (the UI is already largely there, in the form of the Science & Research Contact)), 'Mining' of Shipwrecks (strongly hinted at, by Sandro, during the 2.4 Beta) & enhancing Power Play by connecting it more explicitly to the BGS & Factions (again, strongly hinted at-by Sandro-back in late 2016).
I really hope all of the above is on their agenda for 2018......but just not mentioned amongst all the other huge announcements!
Pretty sure they said "free for Horizons owners", so not sure where that leaves MacOS (OSX) players...
Here's pics of the "Frontier Expo" paint jobs too: https://imgur.com/a/MIs6M
Much better write-up than mine ...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/382939-Elite-Dangerous-Roadmap-Summary
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/382939-Elite-Dangerous-Roadmap-Summary
I like the idea of Galnet Audio. Hope they make a full radio station out of it, with music and (fictitious) commercials
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Excellent fun! Well done!
I think it's fair to say, the FDev staff were great. Eg. I think the only time that Sandro wasn't talking with Fans the whole day was when he was on stage.
Love John “Jack” Horner presentation. I think I could sat through a few hours of him talking about his work and taking a hammer to things.
On the way home I did start to wonder if they could take the proteins which survive more intact than DNA and then come up with the genetic makeup that would produce those proteins?
I thought the Youtube presentation was a bit lacking and wasn't very inspiring at all. I honestly expect better from google.
As to Frontier presentations, well they did offer up a developer roadmap
The video Thargoids of blowing up the cobra and the thargoids turning around to face the audience and the use of in room light effects for the scanning beam was awesome.
Love the fact they have found a solution to the beige planet problem, Those new planets look fantastic, shame we have to wait until April next . I bet we wil still get threads about it every now an again through.
Not to clean on squadrons idea and introduction of what I'm guessing will be the equivalent of mega ships, way to much like other MMOs. I'm wondering if Canonn will get theirs taken a way an we will have to buy one like everyone else?
Love the new ships we are getting next year the Krait and Chieftain, they look awesome.
Didn't catch all of the other stuff, as my sister started texting me about a bomb scare in Euston station and something happening at the natural history.
Jurassic park evolution sound like it got potential and look like at least some of John "Jack" Horner discoveries will sneak their way passed Universal Pictures, if I'm not mistaken at least one had it face covered in Beta-keratin. Although in one of the other sessions one of the developer mention universal being rather protective over the look of their dinosaurs. All the dinosaurs look fantastic by the way. Hopefully Frontier can sneak one or two brightly coloured, feather dinosaurs passed universal.
I'm wondering how all of different parts of that game will interact together. From hints I don't think we will get as much freedom as well do in Planet coaster. No announcements of us being about able share our parks and our creations.
Having played planet coaster for a little bit at the expo I will be buying it at one stage or the other.
Any chance of the the scenario creator in planet coaster can brought over to Elite dangerous some point, probably a lot harder but player created missions hold a lot of potential.
As to the after party,
Sadly I don't think I drunk enough to get Ed wobbly knees dance out of my memory! Bo and some of the frontier certainly know some dance move. Bo is a lot shorter than I thought she was from the streams. I'm not entirely one or two of them didn't have their drinks spiked with something.
The band was fantastic
The DJ was bit hit an missed.
Next year I think it needs to go one for an hour longer.
Like the fact they didn't charge for using the cloakroom or for storing bags, so many other venues do.
The whole thing was well run, well staff and all the presentations I attended ran on time.
Some minor complaints, all about the catering
£5:30 for a Bucks, not even Wembley stadium charges that much, an I still remember the colosseum in Coventry circular 2006-09 when Bucks were just 50p a bottle on a Monday.
An for £5 for the meanest amount of Vodka in Coke I think I have ever had in the capital or out side it for that matter, I have paid more vodka and coke but at least those places gave you a decent amount of vodka.
Those hotdogs, at £5:50 a pop were just vial, and mine was served up cold as well.
Hope Floss found the right premier inn in the end.
On the way home I did start to wonder if they could take the proteins which survive more intact than DNA and then come up with the genetic makeup that would produce those proteins?
I thought the Youtube presentation was a bit lacking and wasn't very inspiring at all. I honestly expect better from google.
As to Frontier presentations, well they did offer up a developer roadmap
The video Thargoids of blowing up the cobra and the thargoids turning around to face the audience and the use of in room light effects for the scanning beam was awesome.
Love the fact they have found a solution to the beige planet problem, Those new planets look fantastic, shame we have to wait until April next . I bet we wil still get threads about it every now an again through.
Not to clean on squadrons idea and introduction of what I'm guessing will be the equivalent of mega ships, way to much like other MMOs. I'm wondering if Canonn will get theirs taken a way an we will have to buy one like everyone else?
Love the new ships we are getting next year the Krait and Chieftain, they look awesome.
Didn't catch all of the other stuff, as my sister started texting me about a bomb scare in Euston station and something happening at the natural history.
Jurassic park evolution sound like it got potential and look like at least some of John "Jack" Horner discoveries will sneak their way passed Universal Pictures, if I'm not mistaken at least one had it face covered in Beta-keratin. Although in one of the other sessions one of the developer mention universal being rather protective over the look of their dinosaurs. All the dinosaurs look fantastic by the way. Hopefully Frontier can sneak one or two brightly coloured, feather dinosaurs passed universal.
I'm wondering how all of different parts of that game will interact together. From hints I don't think we will get as much freedom as well do in Planet coaster. No announcements of us being about able share our parks and our creations.
Having played planet coaster for a little bit at the expo I will be buying it at one stage or the other.
Any chance of the the scenario creator in planet coaster can brought over to Elite dangerous some point, probably a lot harder but player created missions hold a lot of potential.
As to the after party,
Sadly I don't think I drunk enough to get Ed wobbly knees dance out of my memory! Bo and some of the frontier certainly know some dance move. Bo is a lot shorter than I thought she was from the streams. I'm not entirely one or two of them didn't have their drinks spiked with something.
The band was fantastic
The DJ was bit hit an missed.
Next year I think it needs to go one for an hour longer.
Like the fact they didn't charge for using the cloakroom or for storing bags, so many other venues do.
The whole thing was well run, well staff and all the presentations I attended ran on time.
Some minor complaints, all about the catering
£5:30 for a Bucks, not even Wembley stadium charges that much, an I still remember the colosseum in Coventry circular 2006-09 when Bucks were just 50p a bottle on a Monday.
An for £5 for the meanest amount of Vodka in Coke I think I have ever had in the capital or out side it for that matter, I have paid more vodka and coke but at least those places gave you a decent amount of vodka.
Those hotdogs, at £5:50 a pop were just vial, and mine was served up cold as well.
Hope Floss found the right premier inn in the end.
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I might be completely wrong but I suspect this overhaul of the military career path will be part of them creating a more personal narrative players.
To me that one of the area where it easiest to create a personal narrative for players to follow, they could add in procedural medals for being on the winning side of one of the many wars out there which could show up in the player codex.