News Beyond - Chapter Four - Beta Announcement

[amigacooke]

Your preferences may change in the next update. Maybe it's time to open up your horizons.

Assuming you bought Horizons.

 

[amigacooke]

The blame for that rests squarely with Apple. Everyone is consolidating with vulkan, but they had to have their own incompatible 3d API. Elite is not an iOS game, so fdev don't have to play Apple's weird platform games.

Everyone but Frontier as far as I know. Does Cobra include a Vulkan exporter, would Apple still have to take the blame because it was using a graphic api that Frontier choose not to support?

 

[Factabulous]

Do you WORK for Frontier? If not, I don't need your answer.

Someone doesn't know how the forums work

 

[Jezzman]

We really need bigger SRV in the game. A space truck, something like this, but with a cargo space instead of weapons, would be nice

 

[bitstorm]

Yes breaks the immersion, but Frontier must be able to fix with a random system.

Looking more carefully at the video, I think the lightning was "hacked" in, maybe edited in? At least I mean the version in the video is probably not the final implementation.

1) Every large lightning instance is the same pattern
2) Every large lightning instance is exactly the same size (almost looks like it's just been applied to a local "skybox")
3) Every large lightning instance is rotated the same way (what happens when the ship pitches?)

And if you watch the video, there's a panning external view with the lightning in the background, it's subtle but the lightning doesn't really seem to move with the background, as though it was pushed into the video via some sort of proof of concept implementation.

Not long to wait to see if the final version is improved though.

 

[lovely lovely]

Read the first post - someone's been to adjective school

Seriously, can't wait to help out where I can in the beta

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Everyone but Frontier as far as I know. Does Cobra include a Vulkan exporter, would Apple still have to take the blame because it was using a graphic api that Frontier choose not to support?

Apple should not have dropped OpenGL support, no one really asked for it. That's long and short of it.

 

[Valorin]

Looking more carefully at the video, I think the lightning was "hacked" in, maybe edited in? At least I mean the version in the video is probably not the final implementation.

1) Every large lightning instance is the same pattern
2) Every large lightning instance is exactly the same size (almost looks like it's just been applied to a local "skybox")
3) Every large lightning instance is rotated the same way (what happens when the ship pitches?)

And if you watch the video, there's a panning external view with the lightning in the background, it's subtle but the lightning doesn't really seem to move with the background, as though it was pushed into the video via some sort of proof of concept implementation.

Not long to wait to see if the final version is improved though.

Somebody asked about that before and it also has been answered:

Just remember the video may contain some work-in-progress elements and I've just got confirmation that there are multiple variations of the lightning effects.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

MS have been doing that for Early Game Access for years now. In fact, they did it for ED on Xbox - myself and others brought the early access version of this game.

It is more expensive to do console test though. Unfortunately there were some strange critical bugs uncovered that wasn't affecting PC version, so no doubt FD QA will look out for those and more.

 

[bitstorm]

Somebody asked about that before and it also has been answered:

Yeah that was me.

But Will's statement is quite broad, could just mean they have 3 lightning patterns instead of 1 rather than the video footage is a proof of concept and not "in-game effect footage" as I'm thinking.

I'm almost thinking the lightning was edited in afterwards, might be wrong though, I guess we'll find out soon enough.

 

[hexitex]

Crystals in Space http://nomanssky.wikia.com/wiki/File:Iridium_Space_Crystals.jpg

 

[Deleted member 182079]

Packing Krait
Shipping Krait
Loot Krait
...

I'm SO going to steal this as a name for my Scavenger Krait!

Repped

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

This thread is diseased. There is no meeeeh, neeee and dooooom in it. We live in a wrong world.

 

[discocat]

along some cockpits improvements can we get one seater FDL and cable free anaconda?

Visible and exposed wires is the Faulcon Delacy trademark. Don't deny them that

 

[Patrick_68000]

It's the footsteps of doom, macOS players have about 6 weeks to go and then it's 'time gentlemen please'.

Yes I know, it's very sad

 

[Valorin]

Why in the hell a long Beta Test?!?!

Okay now we a payed Beta Testers ????
OR only your tester-rats ?
Or we only test your new Thinks to not Angry more the Comunity ?
why in the HELL you get out of this patch the Grafics patch and the Carriers and Why in the f.Hell you (Devs) tells as on your House-mess in London yeah you get q4 Carriers and so on
I AM NOT YOUR BETA TESTER RAT MORE GET YOUR PATCH IN INTERN TEST and bring the Patch ready on the MARKET with no BUGs we have many Bugs in the game many of them a OLD and no fix yet.
i am very Angry at Moment and i am a Lifetime Player you tells as on the Start of the game yeah is come SPACElegs and so one and now after years of lies noting you tells as carriers and Lies to lol and i am Beta test f. NO.
Get your test by your SELF DEVS have fun. grrrrr

Sorry for my BAD english ich bin DEutscher und mega gekotz von dem Spiel weil es nur noch Versprechungen gibt aber nix davon umgesetzt wird und nur noch Bugs und scheisse passieren im spiel es ist einfach nur noch zum Kotzen

EvilMadcat

There is really no reason to be angekotzt. Also, beta is free and optionial and a really good thing in general, because you _can't_ test it all internally.
Apart from that your post borders on naming and shaming. Devs are people too.
Spiel was anderes wenn dir das Spiel nicht mehr gefällt.

Also: can I have your stuff?

 

[Patrick_68000]

Just remember the video may contain some work-in-progress elements and I've just got confirmation that there are multiple variations of the lightning effects.

Excellent !

 

[Patrick_68000]

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Cheers, I thought it might be that yes.

Thanks for confirming.

Essential for the immersion

 

[EvilMadcat]

There is really no reason to be angekotzt. Also, beta is free and optionial and a really good thing in general, because you _can't_ test it all internally.
Apart from that your post borders on naming and shaming. Devs are people too.
Spiel was anderes wenn dir das Spiel nicht mehr gefällt.

Also: can I have your stuff?

Hmmmm the Orginal post is delete or so lol i dont see them anymore mega lol but to your nice asking no you can not have my Stuff lol and no you can not have my Account mega lol

 

[Patrick_68000]

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.

Wait for the release of the beta to have a final opinion