Having the Faction representatives, the tech broker and the engineers slightly move and say a word or two when you interact with them would make a huge difference.
New Trailer - and one important question...
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That's CMDR Thrust from Bradford, to you.
Oh, and he already has them and has been using them for weeks.
And been playing the Q4 update since last year.
[video=youtube;ZFLBnqxuATg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLBnqxuATg[/video]
Like this.... why isn't this popping up in our ships in game? Rather than dumped on Youtube??
Come on! Seriously!
Like this.... why isn't this popping up in our ships in game? Rather than dumped on Youtube??
Come on! Seriously!
The Ram-Tah missions made available previously (scanning items at Guardian locations) were actually available to all players regardless of having Ram Tah unlocked
The CG's that Ram Tah raised to release new things, were also available to all players.
Hopefully the new Galnet audio will make you aware of news and events in the galaxy.
It may not though. I got the mission from Ram Tah for the guardian mission without unlocking him (I have him unlocked now though). I also suspect the stuff you get will be via a tech broker too.
I'm very new to the game (loving it) and didn't think much of the story side of things until I had my bearings. Had I seen that video in the game I would've done what I could immediately.
It was great! It provided story, a call to action and urgency.
Players would have loved that in game.
I guess the standard response from FDev will be UI problems etc etc - well make the UI work or give us multiple interfaces by getting us out of our seats and playing with new screens and computers. The automatic voice Galnet thing is a weak crutch.
BINGO!
Ram Tah was instrumental in far more than his engineering offerings. No other engineer character in the game has had as much player engagement to date.
Blowing all that off is a player's choice. Failing to deduce the fact that engaging with this character goes far beyond the modules he can upgrade for you is an oversight by that particular player.
Nothing FDEV can do about that. The hand holding can only go so far.
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How can I know of this mission ? I am supposed to receive a message telling me to go somewhere ? It's a genuine question.
IRL I know you have to go to the Meene system because I read it on the forums, but how does my ingame character get this info ?
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Yea it's such a shame that "Story mode" is essentially the training missions. I would like to see more of that in game,and I'm sure it'll come.
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The thing is...
If we were playing ELITE : Dangerous on our Pentium II's or Athlons and the year was 1999 or 2000, I'd say everything was completely normal.
Get pre-rendered Videos to narrate (albeit in-game of course) via Cutscenes while keeping the technically limited Game Engine to deliver its part while playing.
But... we're in 2018. Stuff like that is supposed to be viewable in realtime and being rendered in-game using the existing 3D Engine. Industry Standard. Since a long, long time I might add.
Now not all Games or Genres need it that way obviously, but ELITE sure does IMHO.
Voice Audio and SFX to go along could still be delivered on-demand off the Servers, giving the flexibility they need on the SFX part of the content delivery.
T2S addition to the Text-Only GALnet is one thing (better than nothing), but even that tech is over 20 years old.
In essence it's still small Text snippets. All of these should have fully (3D cinematic) enacted Cutscenes using in-game Graphics. Every single one. Sound & Video sell news and gets attention.
(arguably... GALnetNET having often missed the most critical details in its reports, such as precise Locations and Coordinates of events inviting Players to investigate didn't help either)
Small Text blocks? Hardly. That's 1990's Game style from the 8/16bit era. "Full Retro" has some merits, it just doesn't seem to fit ELITE very well, since it doesn't try to deliver that in other aspects and has no reason to.
If we were playing ELITE : Dangerous on our Pentium II's or Athlons and the year was 1999 or 2000, I'd say everything was completely normal.
Get pre-rendered Videos to narrate (albeit in-game of course) via Cutscenes while keeping the technically limited Game Engine to deliver its part while playing.
But... we're in 2018. Stuff like that is supposed to be viewable in realtime and being rendered in-game using the existing 3D Engine. Industry Standard. Since a long, long time I might add.
Now not all Games or Genres need it that way obviously, but ELITE sure does IMHO.
Voice Audio and SFX to go along could still be delivered on-demand off the Servers, giving the flexibility they need on the SFX part of the content delivery.
T2S addition to the Text-Only GALnet is one thing (better than nothing), but even that tech is over 20 years old.
In essence it's still small Text snippets. All of these should have fully (3D cinematic) enacted Cutscenes using in-game Graphics. Every single one. Sound & Video sell news and gets attention.
(arguably... GALnetNET having often missed the most critical details in its reports, such as precise Locations and Coordinates of events inviting Players to investigate didn't help either)
Small Text blocks? Hardly. That's 1990's Game style from the 8/16bit era. "Full Retro" has some merits, it just doesn't seem to fit ELITE very well, since it doesn't try to deliver that in other aspects and has no reason to.
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Absolutely.
so, everyone use cinematic video to promote their games, but if frontier do so, that's no good.
ok
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Oh, and did FD just use an alternative HUD colour scheme? A feature not available in-game. Or is it part of the Beyond update?
Galnet is your friend. Read it to keep up to date with what is going on. Galnet will also be easier to get to in the new update. Hopefully in the future there will be galaxy map links in the galnet stories too.
You know thats the exact same thought I had..
Would be great to get some of this in-game. Especially the emergency broadcast one.
I do love the Commander Chronicles.
