News Beyond - Chapter Four - Beta Announcement

When ED was first launched I had hopes that during exploration you could find excellent mining spots and sell on this information, allowing other players to visit the places you've scouted. I'm hoping that the new exploration, mining and BGS mechanics will allow this. Not fussed at all by new ships.
 
When ED was first launched I had hopes that during exploration you could find excellent mining spots and sell on this information, allowing other players to visit the places you've scouted. I'm hoping that the new exploration, mining and BGS mechanics will allow this. Not fussed at all by new ships.

you mean like selling it to players?
 
I'd like to have some kind of a tether harpoon with physics enabled between the ship and the tethered object. It could create extremely funny gameplay moments when both are objects of similar mass, eg a Sidewinder tethering itself to a large chunk of USS debris, which is then smacked by a boosting larger ship. I'm sure we've all played Thrust or one of its descendents here.

What would it be used for? Throwing each others' SRVs at skimmers, lifting them into orbit, grappling to asteroids to run cold, grabbing annoying authority Vipers in a RES and mashing them off asteroids, that sort of stuff.

[spot the Just Cause player]
 
It's not a coffin, it's a glorious ship.
It's widely known as the space coffin.

To be honest I have never flown one. But I prefer the krait with the SLF. If the T7 came with a SLF bay, I could be interested. Saying that, the krait phantom looks speedy and manouverable, so that may not need a SLF.
 
Can you confirm the lightening storm effects will be just visual effects or will it have an actual effect on your ship, ie damage and impact effects? Thanks
 
It's widely known as the space coffin.
The T-7 is just a pawn in the game of life. Which is why mine is called Mongo.

To be honest I have never flown one. But I prefer the krait with the SLF. If the T7 came with a SLF bay, I could be interested. Saying that, the krait phantom looks speedy and manouverable, so that may not need a SLF.
It just felt wrong to explore with it. The Krait looks like it's in a hurry.
 
I remember and lot of people say it was great.

Same here.
I also remember many people ignoring the facts given and then vented their diappointment on the devs. Not nice, people.

But back to the topic:
I am a bit relieved that the space lightning seems to have something to do with those star-like objects and is not supposed to be natural.
I love that fat button saying "DETONATE NOW" and the detonation...
I am looking forward to a Krait hybrid exploration ship because this would be the three ships I wanted for Q4 in one and the same ship.
Squadrons will be able to be aligned to factions, and they can select a home system. I am thrilled!

If this continues like that Q4 will be my favourite thing for Christmas (and there are a lot of good games coming this Christmas I'll plan to give as a present to myself).
 
To my eyes the spikey structures look like some for of energy capture structures - to harness the electrical discharges, possible crystalline formation in their make up which would hint at Guardian tech given their liking for crystal stuff.

Notice how they illuminate or glow after the electrical discharge then go dark again. The shot of the Krait around 45 second mark the spikey thing at the top of the shot, going dark - illuminated - dark
 
The trailer is great and I hope I am seeing what I think I am seeing, which is the star illuminating and shading the gas clouds correctly...adds a lot of atmosphere
 

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It just felt wrong to explore with it. The Krait looks like it's in a hurry.

I know what you mean. Have you tried a T-10. I took one slowly all the way to Colonia, and it's still there. Not graceful, but definitely slow enough for the big-ship-explorer feel.

Now I've built an explorer Krait, imaginatively called Krait Explorations, and was waiting for 3.3. Now I'm wondering if I was in too much of a hurry :rolleyes:
 
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on topic? Me? Are you nuts? (Don't answer... we already know)...

It's a classic old style beta coming up which will be nice... r1 new features... r2 new features plus more new features and some fixes for the old new features... etc
 
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