BREAKING NEWS: GNOSIS STRANDED, GALNET NEWS!

[Metal Angel]

Dang. I love Elite and I’m usually pretty defensive of FD, but this certainly looks like a botch. Maybe they needed a little more time to develop the course of the Gnosis and this is their way of doing that without breaking the fourth wall?

 

[CMDR Blackleaf]

anyone who has been around for a while should have seen this coming.....

plus this made me lol


“There’s no doubt that we would have been destroyed if not for some of the Commanders travelling with us. They lured the Thargoids away while ejecting meta-alloys from their holds. The aliens were more interested in scooping up the meta-alloys than attacking us. The Commanders later reported that the Thargoid vessels were the recently identified Hydra Interceptors.”

really?

You mean we're all really heroes just for showing up? I didn't even leave the lounge and I'm totally a hero?

YAY ME!

 

[Lightspeed]

I hope they make it right.

Because deep down, I LOVE this game. LOVE it. The first time or three I put my hands on a HOTAS setup and turned my head after taking off, using my TrackIR - both purchased for THIS game - I was AMAZED. The sound, the FEEL...the first time I landed a ship, I genuinely FELT the impact on docking, so masterfully crafted were the flight and sound model. I mean that, genuinely - flight and sound are a masterpiece.

And like many others, from that day to about 18 months or so ago, genuinely, eagerly awaiting new content.

But somewhere along the way, a truth hit me: FDEV are incapable of realizing their vision. Maybe its talent. Maybe its tech. Maybe its both. Whatever the reason, they CANNOT do it. But you know, that in itself is ok. Just tell us the truth, level with us and do the best you CAN. I would have been ok with that.

But they didnt do THAT, either. Instead, they started down the road of "exciting content we are interested in bringing you...one day." And they kept at it. For literally YEARS on end.

And I am angry about that. Angry and hurt. We were lied to. Mislead. And intentionally, for quite some time now, no less. As we watched the game we were sold slowly transition not into some tier two "Best Effort" that we could all rally around and learn to love in spite of the technical limitations that forced Fdev to come up short, but...no...instead, we watched our game become little more than an idle clicker RNG casino with a flight model. And we watched this focus last for YEARS...despite all of the "exciting content we are interested in bringing you" pep talks from a Dev who, it turns out, KNEW they could no longer deliver all along.

Nonetheless, despite my hurt, and the anger left in the wake of this betrayal - despite its ruining Kickstarter and Crowd Funding for me, as I will NEVER contribute to another unfinished product, no matter how brilliant it seems, so long as I live - despite MY bitterness, I hope they manage to fix this. For all of you who HAVE stuck by them. Waiting patiently. Professed faith. I HOPE that somehow, they swallow the bitter pill of an all nighter and get their collective asses to work.

Because who knows? If they do that, maybe it will reignite the studio's passion for the game. Maybe it will light the fire that incites some miracle turnaround. Maybe it will lead to them fixing this entire mess of RNG grind that could have been the greatest space sim in the history of gaming.

Would that make me wrong in my predictions if that happens? Sure. But thats ok. Because I WANT to be wrong. I want to eat crow until I burp feathers. Because one day, I want to plant my hands back on that HOTAS and buzz down from a station onto an Atmo planet to pull a sketchy job the likes of Malcolm Reynolds would pursue, in the Elite universe, with THIS flight model, with interesting, persistent characters who remember the rep I have earned in their neck of the 'Verse, for good or ill.

Give me that game, and I'll put ketchup on my crow and SHOUT on these forums about how wrong I turned out to be. And I'll LIKE it. Provided I can tear myself away from playing long enough to DO it.

But for now, they need to fix this. Because you lot deserve better than this.

You know, that really is one of your posts worth a good rep [yesnod]

 

[Ra'Kaan]

Ooops

 

[Zurie]

wait.... why did I spent the last 3 days doing guardian blueprint unlocks? I was going to work all day / evening getting Guardian weapons on a retrofitted conda and ship it all over, or fly hoping i'd make it in time... are you saying I wasted my time? or are you saying I am just really prepared now for the new CG?

 

[Chaparral]

this isn't FDEv's fault, it's Canon's.. how many ways in game do they have to say no?

if anything, get at Canon and demand they lose their favoritism.. remember, they get a mega-ship.. we got the middle finger (fleet carriers)

HAHAHAHAHAHA the one player group that goes to the trouble of solving the inane esoteric puzzles offered by the pocket-protector wearing spreadsheet humping grindmasters and actually make this accessible are the ones to blame. You sir are a prince.

 

[NUMBERZero1032]

FDev, really, the Thargoids were lured away by meta-alloys? That's the cheesiest thing ever, and I think you've misread what we have aboard the Gnosis.

We don't have meta-alloys. We have Gauss, and lots of it. We have maybe 300 combat pilots in AXI, and most pilots mount quad Gauss. We have over 1,000 Gauss cannons on board the Gnosis. No matter how many hearts an interceptor has or how fast they regenerate health, I don't think the Thargoids have a single ship that can survive volley fire from a thousand Gauss.

 

[WorldsGreatestForumDad]

Its obviously disappointing.

Seems like they are being disappointing on purpose.

There has got to be a method to this madness the past few weeks

At least I hope so.

 

[Faybs]

Dang. I love Elite and I’m usually pretty defensive of FD, but this certainly looks like a botch. Maybe they needed a little more time to develop the course of the Gnosis and this is their way of doing that without breaking the fourth wall?

Part of the problem is that it reeks of a setup for a CG, which is why a lot of us are upset - we didn't want to do a CG, we wanted to go and see the unknown. If all they wanted was a delay, they could have posted a galnet article about Far Gods cultists getting caught inside the Gnosis, and it's going to take a week to check the ship to make sure they hadn't sabotaged it.

 

[Stewart_]

I am loving it.

The OUTRAGE is palpable.

Keep it going. More salt. Feed me!

Lol.


Your a Salt vampire!? ( like ST : OS)

 

[McNemisis]

FDev, really, the Thargoids were lured away by meta-alloys? That's the cheesiest thing ever, and I think you've misread what we have aboard the Gnosis.

We don't have meta-alloys. We have Gauss, and lots of it. We have maybe 300 combat pilots in AXI, and most pilots mount quad Gauss. We have over 1,000 Gauss cannons on board the Gnosis. No matter how many hearts an interceptor has or how fast they regenerate health, I don't think the Thargoids have a single ship that can survive volley fire from a thousand Gauss.

but that would have been some gameplay........

I can't wait to see how they get out of this one....

 

[kofeyh]

I'd like to know if CMDR Delmonte or any of Canonn inner council knew about this before tonight as I will be incredibly disappointed if they did.

This, if true, is possibly the biggest fail this year so fr in this game. I wasn't sdure WHAT to expect when we jumped - and that is why it was an interesting expedition. I will not be taking part in any CG, I will wait and see what happens.

I dont know. I hope they didnt. Knowing this would have been heartbreaking. It's the antithesis of everything they stand for.

Frontier I think need to call time on elite. Either take the lessons learned a build a game, and not a monument to Braben.

Or just go into the long tail, stabilise elements and let players poke around for another year or two then call time.

It's like a TV series you know should go out with a bang, that limps on and dies a horrible slow death.

 

[Blackcompany]

Good post - nailed it. Its Elite . Elite 4 was THE game. And what we have is pretty good but, maybe they need to call time on it and work on Elite: Deadly instead and learn from this.

Gullible as this may make me, and hypocritical as it might seem...I would buy another Elite game. But ONLY with conditions:

1. Offline. Single player/coop. ANY Online requirement, and its a Hard Pass.

2. Mod support. And I dont mean just hacking numbers and settings for small tweaks. I mean REAL mods. Content. Ships. The whole Bethesda-sized Enchilada.

3. A FINISHED. Product. Period. That means they make the whole base game, delivering on their promises and fully fleshing out the mechanics BEFORE release. NO exceptions.

4. Player Agency in a Sandbox Mode. That means a living, breathing universe. One that remembers me, reacts to me and the things I do (or dont) and changes as I play.

5. A different Lead Developer. Sorry, this one had his chance.

Deliver on these things, with this or a similarly sound flight and sound model, and I would happily buy in. But do another big, online only, MP "space sim" with an Early Access release, and I will just blacklist your website and forget your company even exists.

 

[Mole HD]

I hope they make it right.

Because deep down, I LOVE this game. LOVE it. The first time or three I put my hands on a HOTAS setup and turned my head after taking off, using my TrackIR - both purchased for THIS game - I was AMAZED. The sound, the FEEL...the first time I landed a ship, I genuinely FELT the impact on docking, so masterfully crafted were the flight and sound model. I mean that, genuinely - flight and sound are a masterpiece.

And like many others, from that day to about 18 months or so ago, genuinely, eagerly awaiting new content.

But somewhere along the way, a truth hit me: FDEV are incapable of realizing their vision. Maybe its talent. Maybe its tech. Maybe its both. Whatever the reason, they CANNOT do it. But you know, that in itself is ok. Just tell us the truth, level with us and do the best you CAN. I would have been ok with that.

But they didnt do THAT, either. Instead, they started down the road of "exciting content we are interested in bringing you...one day." And they kept at it. For literally YEARS on end.

And I am angry about that. Angry and hurt. We were lied to. Mislead. And intentionally, for quite some time now, no less. As we watched the game we were sold slowly transition not into some tier two "Best Effort" that we could all rally around and learn to love in spite of the technical limitations that forced Fdev to come up short, but...no...instead, we watched our game become little more than an idle clicker RNG casino with a flight model. And we watched this focus last for YEARS...despite all of the "exciting content we are interested in bringing you" pep talks from a Dev who, it turns out, KNEW they could no longer deliver all along.

Nonetheless, despite my hurt, and the anger left in the wake of this betrayal - despite its ruining Kickstarter and Crowd Funding for me, as I will NEVER contribute to another unfinished product, no matter how brilliant it seems, so long as I live - despite MY bitterness, I hope they manage to fix this. For all of you who HAVE stuck by them. Waiting patiently. Professed faith. I HOPE that somehow, they swallow the bitter pill of an all nighter and get their collective asses to work.

Because who knows? If they do that, maybe it will reignite the studio's passion for the game. Maybe it will light the fire that incites some miracle turnaround. Maybe it will lead to them fixing this entire mess of RNG grind that could have been the greatest space sim in the history of gaming.

Would that make me wrong in my predictions if that happens? Sure. But thats ok. Because I WANT to be wrong. I want to eat crow until I burp feathers. Because one day, I want to plant my hands back on that HOTAS and buzz down from a station onto an Atmo planet to pull a sketchy job the likes of Malcolm Reynolds would pursue, in the Elite universe, with THIS flight model, with interesting, persistent characters who remember the rep I have earned in their neck of the 'Verse, for good or ill.

Give me that game, and I'll put ketchup on my crow and SHOUT on these forums about how wrong I turned out to be. And I'll LIKE it. Provided I can tear myself away from playing long enough to DO it.

But for now, they need to fix this. Because you lot deserve better than this.

In a nutshell...

Back to Witcher 3 now the excitement is over again

 

[Kamiyoda]

but that would have been some gameplay........

I can't wait to see how they get out of this one....

"Thargoids have Hyperdicted the forums and damaged are servers"

Genius

 

[OldSchoolPlayer]

I'm amazed (and shocked) that this forum have more drama than the game itself !

 

[Netah]

I will not say I am not disappointed.

However, I am hoping they can pull out of this rut and that Plan B is viable and more interesting. C'mon, FDev! You can do it!

My commander is going to wait it out.

 

[Faybs]

In a nutshell...

Back to Witcher 3 now the excitement is over again

The Far Cry 5 Mars DLC has spacelegs AND giant insects. Just sayin'.

 

[bkrownd]

if anything, get at Canon and demand they lose their favoritism.. remember, they get a mega-ship.. we got the middle finger (fleet carriers)

We all have the mega-ship. I have no affiliation with Canonn and I've been operating out of Gnosis for several days.

 

[kofeyh]

Its obviously disappointing.

Seems like they are being disappointing on purpose.

There has got to be a method to this madness the past few weeks

At least I hope so.

After five years, my dude, you kinda see this coming. Frontier have a way of doing. And this is just what they do. Far too many people are very good to frontier and support them and take endless crap like this on the chin.

They, we, just shouldn't have to. Not any more.