Get a rift anyway! You won't regret it, even if you only use it for ED!
News Beyond - Chapter Four - Beta Announcement
Get a rift anyway! You won't regret it, even if you only use it for ED!
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Am I the only person not in the least bit excited? Some space weather and 'cockpit interface changes' (ie the duradrive will give the codex and allow colour change). It's not bad or anything but nothing to get me elated about. Some people seem to be doing cartwheels over a lightning effect.
I expect two: an explo ship and a mining ship, introducing dedicated explo and mining slots. Mining gets both dedicated hardpoints and internals (so able to defend itself while having mining 'weapons' withoutbeing a warship), explo optionals will be added to Asp and DBS lines, plus the Adder.
One can hope.
Krait Phantom, stealth miner?
There's a lot more than "space weather" going on in this update. I'd go back and re-read the OP.
Also, confirmed that color changes are NOT going to be in this update.
Beta dropping a few days after RDR 2. No chance I'll get the chance to check the beta out.
Honestly I'm much more excited for the dates and schedule than I am for anything in the trailer, LOL!!!
I just want to get my hands on the new exploration mechanics and beta test the Frack out of this!
That was IT? That was what you were all hyping as being the undisclosed content that would make us whoop and gush like K-Pop fans... an explosion?
Sigh.
So let's see, the actual content is...
* Exploration changes that might be a little more fun to play, but which will be no more fulfilling than driving around for hours on a planet surface chasing a wave scanner; and which potentially slows down the entire act of long distance exploring because you have to do this wave scanner thing every single jump to even see what's in a system. I'm going to beta test this, but as it's already too late to change the actual design, I'm not hopeful...
* A new sky box, but no comment on it doing anything yet.
* Some new ships, which hardly anyone else will use unless they challenge the big 3.
* Some user interface changes.
* Squadrons, but with leaderboards to see who does the old content the most.
* An explosion. But no vampire.
Look folks, I want Elite to do really, really well; but hype, even if you believe it, is not the same thing as genuine promise or potential. I'm just not seeing anything in this tiny trailer that makes me think Fdev have really grasped how to add anything new, just new ways of presenting the same old stuff and exciting the over-invested.
But more will become clear during the beta.
WOW !!! Unexpected ship announcement ? YES PLEASE ! Trailer is a bit short but i'm mega hyped for mining and exploration already.
First order of business .... write my name into gas giant's ring Please tell me it will be visible from a distance....
First order of business .... write my name into gas giant's ring
Please tell me it will be visible from a distance....
Maybe read about the gameplay as well?
My thoughts exactly. If I'm hyped about anything, it's RDR2! Exploding asteroids don't really cut it imo.
The thing that bothers me is this tagging business. First, I hate the idea of polluting a planet with probes. But hey! Humans. Second, I'd like FD to give those who already have a first discovered tag for planet to automatically get first mapped without ever visiting it again.
DeletedUser191218
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Ye i saw that. Just all a bit meh for me. Oh well. Not sure if ED will have much more lifespan for me but we will see.
Hyping as undisclosed content? Nope sorry, don't know what you're referring to there. Probably a different thing to what I'm talking about then.
Oh no. I need another Krait.
Time to save up.
Time to save up.
Phew! Had me worried there for a minute. Still seems a shame we're talking "variations" rather than a pseudo-random fractal lightning generation algorithm tho! (he says, hoping to plant a seed in a dev's head
Exactly this. If there's only 1, or 3 or 7 variations of lightening, then you visit a system, see them, say "cool" and probably never have to see them again.
But if they're procedurally generated, ideally using system characteristics as the random seed, then each and every one could be different. Different colours, perhaps, based on the make-up of the nearby stars & planets. Different size, and speed, and ..errr.... forkiness?
The thing that bothers me is this tagging business. First, I hate the idea of polluting a planet with probes. But hey! Humans. Second, I'd like FD to give those who already have a first discovered tag for planet to automatically get first mapped without ever visiting it again.
Maybe the probes are biodegradable.
The thing that bothers me is this tagging business. First, I hate the idea of polluting a planet with probes. But hey! Humans. Second, I'd like FD to give those who already have a first discovered tag for planet to automatically get first mapped without ever visiting it again.
I think the idea is that a whole bunch of players weren't there on day 1.
Adding a new tag puts everyone on an equal footing.
I'd like FD to give those who already have a first discovered tag for planet to automatically get first mapped without ever visiting it again.
what's your reasoning on that one?