Thank you FD, next year will be great!
News Frontier Expo 2017 Recap
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This is all fantastic news and very encouraging. Much love to the devs for their continued dedication and passion. 
Did they 100% confirm no atmospherics? I watched the reveals on You Tube, & they don't make any specific mention of it.
Exactly what I was about to post.... I can imagine the poor Frontier guy coming up with the timeline and going
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Excited for all of the new content, but where is eva/space legs ? I mean all of these great ships but when are we going to get to walk around them or better yet get out of our buggy's & walk around the alien ruins or explore the interiors of derelict ships ? Would love just to get an idea of if as opposed to when at this point as we have not heard anything for a while about this.
I was not expecting elite feet ( or space legs as some people call them) or atmospheric landings because both Sandro and DB-OBE dropped hints that they were still a long way off. What I wanted to know was if frontier was still committed to Eliteangerous and the presentation reassured me a lot.
Personally, I'm not that bothered about space legs. When 'the other game' moved from being less about being a space game and more of a FPS with spaceships, I kind of lost interest ( And felt a little ripped off to be honest). Just because the other games (including NMS) have Walking around, doesn't mean Elite : Dangerous should rush it out. I want elite dangerous to be about space ships and we're getting a lot more of them over the next year.
angerous and the presentation reassured me a lot. Personally, I'm not that bothered about space legs. When 'the other game' moved from being less about being a space game and more of a FPS with spaceships, I kind of lost interest ( And felt a little ripped off to be honest). Just because the other games (including NMS) have Walking around, doesn't mean Elite : Dangerous should rush it out. I want elite dangerous to be about space ships and we're getting a lot more of them over the next year.
While i totally agree that they shouldn't rush "space legs", and i'm very optimist about this new roadmap, ED's vision since Kickstarter was a lot more than "about spaceships"
"Space legs" are mentioned not "because other games", but because they will (in due time) be integral part of ED's "space opera".
Of course that's a lot in the future, and there a lot to do before them, so i agree, don't rush them.
No atmosphere stuff in 2018, but it is hinted that lot of graphics engine preparation for that.
I expect atmospheric planets to be announced at next year's Frontier Expo. Disclaimer - it is my pure speculation.
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Final scoreboard for the FX17 Buckyball race is now up for those that took part and want to know where they came.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...tar-system!)?p=6014577&viewfull=1#post6014577
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...tar-system!)?p=6014577&viewfull=1#post6014577
Thrilled with the update. To be honest there's more new content than I expected (new ships, carriers, the codex) and given that I was surprised it's free to Horizons players. Having a lifetime pass it doesn't affect me, but it's nice to see all the same.
Obviously it's still a bit vague at this point, but fingers crossed. Hopefully missions will get some love, I don't recall them mentioning community goals but I'd have thought they could be greatly improved too.
Obviously it's still a bit vague at this point, but fingers crossed. Hopefully missions will get some love, I don't recall them mentioning community goals but I'd have thought they could be greatly improved too.
Wing Missions is a good step towards that. I've had quite a few extra chained missions in 2.4 so far, they're quite nice at the moment.
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Thanks so much for a fantastic event Frontier. It was so good to catch up with all the familiar faces and meet many new ones. Chat to loads of the developers, even Sandro was very patient with me after I was really disappointed, and quite cross at the time, about having to wait for Q4 for any of the exploration improvements. And any chance to chat to Steve is a chance that has to be taken, a lovely man as always! It was really nice to mix with the Planet Coaster crowd and get to have a good chat to the devs who are, unsurprisingly enough, just as enthusiastic and generous with their time as the Elite devs.
I am really hoping that the talks that were in the second stage were also recorded, could you let us know if they were please? I know there are a lot of people who would want to see Ant's talk.
I am really hoping that the talks that were in the second stage were also recorded, could you let us know if they were please? I know there are a lot of people who would want to see Ant's talk.
Very nice I hope the squadron carrier has a nice jump range with players ships inside, to make sense to play all ships you want
Ans would be nice if i can store some goods there
I hope the squadron carrier has a nice jump range with players ships inside, to make sense to play all ships you want Ans would be nice if i can store some goods there
Thanks!
