What a strange post. If their technology (=engine) would currently be able to have atmospheric worlds and walking around, we would currently be able to land on atmospheric planets and walk around. You do realise that this stuff needs to be programmed and implemented?
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What a strange post. If their technology (=engine) would currently be able to have atmospheric worlds and walking around, we would currently be able to land on atmospheric planets and walk around. You do realise that this stuff needs to be programmed and implemented?
Thing is, some people are constantly claiming that the game is dying and that FDEV abandoned it in this very thread. In other words, you are wrong.
No. I base my opinion on the game on what the game is. I base my expectation about what the game is going to be on what the dev says it's going to be. Specially on a topic about the game's future...
Here is what they said they want to put in the game ( not what I want it to be) :
Landing/ driving / prospecting on airless rocky planets, moons & asteroids
Walking around interiors and combative boarding of other ships
Combat and other interactions with other players and AIs in the internal areas of star ports
Accessing richly detailed planetary surfaces
Availability of giant ‘executive control’ ships to players
That's what I base my expectations on...
So as I said it's hard to have precise expectations about games future when we don't know about : Premium content for 2018, 2019 content...
Yeah, there's that thing where customers get stuck between marketing and reality.
"Realistically", what would the Kickstarter description have looked like? "We're going to build a game where you fly a spaceship and do stuff. And then, time and money permitting, we'll go more or less wild, here's some concept art and David talking, try not to get hypnotised. Risks: may go terribly wrong in every way, and there's every chance we'll fold before the thing gets out the door."
Would you have bought into it?
That's actually pretty much what they said. The newsletter with the LEP announcement was posted earlier in this thread and they made it pretty clear that future development will depend on the success of the game. It's just something that people ignored because they don't want to hear it.
Awesome
Although I wouldn't be surprised it will be also day when Exploration FF finally drops.Thanks Brett!
Thanks for your kind reply.
No problem about the data: I understand it.
If I may I would you ask you a favor.
Please, could you be so kind to "turn" my question to those who can answer and tell me (us) what Fd is doing about Lep content and when they think to deliver it? Honestly it has passed a lot of times since the last update and I would gladly appreciate some news about it.
About newsletter, yes it was that what I was talking about: thanks again for the answer even if - but I am not going to discuss here - it troubles me a bit and confirm my fears
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Exactly "They want" that's not a certainty, and it doesn't come with a timescale. Wait and see.
Thanks for letting us all know.
They also keep saying the game has a lot of success...
It does.
I know, that's why I don't think it's unrealistic to wait for the Kickstarter (or after) promises to materialise.
It does. That's why FD decided to do Beyond before rolling out any additional premium DLCs - because they can afford it. Game is doing that well.
I think lot of people mix up two things. Presumingly slow development - which is highly subjective because there's nothing really to compare against. There are no projects at scope of ED. No measurement we can match against. And FD plans for ED. Yes, FD have plans for ED. They still keep developing it.
If you don't believe it, fine. If you don't believe direction they take with game, also fine. But that doesn't mean FD is lying.
Read my previous message...
Sure. We all are waiting, and heck I will give FD hell if they don't give us plan forward this autumn. Just for release dates and schedules usual rules of being patient applies.
I did, with delay though. Also last sentence wasn't meant for you really, it was about whole setup of discussion.
And they keep saying they want to add space legs and atmospheric planets and already announced executive control over large ships for the end of the year which happens to be one of the Kickstarter promises they allegedly don't deliver.
I'm always wary of the argument of scope with ED. Especially considering most of the actual gameplay is concentrated in a handful of systems. The rest is pretty uniform mechanically.
Are you honestly saying, that graphics cards that now handle trillions of Ray-Ops per second, aren't enough? If the RTX series of GPUs isn't enough, what would you consider the point at which Frontier can deliver on their promises? Is this a technological barrier on the consumer side or on the infrastructure side? I'm genuinely curious as to why you added that caveat, because it's something I'm surprised to hear. We have an astounding level of technological progress being made, explaining what barriers you're facing would go a long way to mending the discord from a general lack of openness.
That's High end specs, not even released yet. The game as to run on consoles.
Also we don't know if we talk about cobra engine or hardware
Brett C
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Reply previously was more so of past-tense rather the upcoming generation (and soon to be current) of GPU's.
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Oh no! Another one of those "game is dead" threads!
Seriously though, no point in posting those anymore guys. We all know this game has been dead since 1984 and all it was doing for the last 34 years was just convulsing. And we are all here to witness the end. Because the end must be nigh, right? It's been foretold by so many people it MUST BE TRUE.
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Seriously though, no point in posting those anymore guys. We all know this game has been dead since 1984 and all it was doing for the last 34 years was just convulsing. And we are all here to witness the end. Because the end must be nigh, right? It's been foretold by so many people it MUST BE TRUE.
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