OK FDEV time for atmo landings

DRaven4135 · Mar 15, 2018

I bought ED 3yrs ago then upgraded to Horizons 2 years ago upon release. It was told to us that ATMO landings would be in the future. If Star Citizen (CRAP) can do it. Then so can u guys. I do understand that you are working on the new 3.0 to fix the bugs. Which is appreciated.

GroundxZERO · Mar 15, 2018

We were told a lot of things.

Quester91 · Mar 15, 2018

That's a splendid idea! Can't wait to wander for hours shooting at rng rocks or scooping up random canisters of tea and biowaste, but this time with a better more colorful skybox.

IndigoWyrd · Mar 15, 2018

The absence of expansion is not the expansion of absence.

Kzak · Mar 15, 2018

Atmospheric landings are coming, but not this year. Hopefully by 2020 we'll be able to land on barren atmospheric planets. Simulating a planet full of plants and animals, weather systems etc. realistically is going to take quite some programming.

Shadowdancer · Mar 15, 2018

I TOO CAN TYPE IN ALL-CAPS!

dognosh · Mar 15, 2018

Off line, Orrery, Atmo landings....I wasn't too bummed about the first 2(they died a violent death),but I too have been waiting for the last one for ages

Obsidian Ant · Mar 15, 2018

Kzak said:
Atmospheric landings are coming, but not this year. Hopefully by 2020 we'll be able to land on barren atmospheric planets. Simulating a planet full of plants and animals, weather systems etc. realistically is going to take quite some programming.

Atmospheric planets are likely to start with planets like Mars and Venus; rocky, lifeless worlds with complex atmospheric conditions and weather. I expect that to arrive a lot sooner than 2020.

Worlds with animals, liquid and plants are certain to be a lot later down the line.

Janichsan · Mar 15, 2018

Obsidian Ant said:
Atmospheric planets are likely to start with planets like Mars and Venus; rocky, lifeless worlds with complex atmospheric conditions and weather.

Mars is a terraformed Earth-like world in ED.

Cocalarix · Mar 15, 2018

DRaven4135 said:
It was told to us that ATMO landings would be in the future.

Sounds like they never mentioned that 2018 will be the year for them.

DRaven4135 said:
If Star Citizen (CRAP) can do it.

They haven't done them either. What's there is a very early and barely playable alpha.

I'll agree with one thing though, Frontier hasn't released paid content for a long time now. They need to start doing that again, and hopefully it's something big this year. I'd like them to not worry about money when they start tackling the big features we keep asking for.

Patrick_68000 · Mar 15, 2018

Kzak said:
Simulating a planet full of plants and animals, weather systems etc. realistically is going to take quite some programming.

I agree with you

However, with Zoo Tycoon, Planet Coaster and Jurassik World, the fauna and flora aspect already brings a great experience for Frontier

If the planetary landings with atmosphere, fauna and flora come for 2020-2022, I will be happy

Renown · Mar 15, 2018

I thought with the groaning sounds we hear the planetary buildings make and the skimmer noises that must be carried across some kind of atmosphere plus the sudden aero drag of dropping the landing gear when landing all planetary landings were already atmospheric.

Safepuppy · Mar 15, 2018

I won't get my hopes up, happy with the game and don't like disappointment.......but I did notice the mist swirls at the guardian sites. Well, not swirls but mist blowing. It's a good start.
Slow burn game.

IndigoWyrd · Mar 15, 2018

Shadowdancer said:
I TOO CAN TYPE IN ALL-CAPS!

Make a .reg file containing:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Merge that .reg file and reboot and you won't have that problem any longer.

I love disabling CapsLock. It's the second most worthless key on a keyboard, second only to Scroll Lock - which had a purpose back in the days of DOS-based Spreadsheets.

Hexcaliber · Mar 15, 2018

Landing on atmo planets is, or was the last time I spoke to a dev being worked on, but my guess is, that it is as and when other projects do not need attention from x, y or z dev's assigned to it. It is a huge undertaking as OA suggested, and the Frontier team working on ED is not exactly large.

It did not help that Frontier fell into the trap of chasing forum whine, instead of just getting on with their original vision and wasted developer resources trying to address every "issue" folks felt the need to complain about. 3.0.X appears to be their attempt to put to bed many of the existing complaints about current content so they can focus on the future of the game.

Franc Kaos · Mar 15, 2018

+1 for atmospheric planetary landings for this year please. Gas giants spring of 2019 and I'll wait till 2020 for shooting dino's, lava and water worlds. Cheers.

Iskariot · Mar 15, 2018

Patrick_68000 said:
I agree with you

However, with Zoo Tycoon, Planet Coaster and Jurassik World, the fauna and flora aspect already brings a great experience for Frontier

I agree, but procedurally generating flora and fauna for an entire universe is incredible difficult.
It could turn out very bad. Just look at No Man's Sky. Most creatures look like jokes and behave totally unrealistic.

Patrick_68000 · Mar 15, 2018

Iskariot said:
I agree, but procedurally generating flora and fauna for an entire universe is incredible difficult.
It could turn out very bad. Just look at No Man's Sky. Most creatures look like jokes and behave totally unrealistic.

In any case, a huge work here

Enderby · Mar 15, 2018

If they add new stuff to do on/with them I'm all for it.

If it's just gonna be eye-candy with a wobbling space-plane I'll take something else please.

dayrth · Mar 15, 2018

DRaven4135 said:
I bought ED 3yrs ago then upgraded to Horizons 2 years ago upon release. It was told to us that ATMO landings would be in the future. If Star Citizen (CRAP) can do it. Then so can u guys. I do understand that you are working on the new 3.0 to fix the bugs. Which is appreciated.

Did you pay the $5?