For those wondering - THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
Yes, I was wondering. thanks for that.
For those wondering - THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
I read the announcement, it said wait another year for the next expansion,
Wow. Pretty weak Frontier. The promised Premium Content delayed again. After being delayed again and again.
Just another announcement of another coming announcement. This one in 18 months. You have really outdone yourselves this time.
As for you LEP's Frontier just told you to go yourselves again.
Closer to two years.
Much closer.
Yep. Read "latter half of 2020" as "December 2020 at best".
I think you missed the part where he said that LEP owners get the whole new content for free...
Also I got news for you: Making content, especially as big as advertised, takes time.
And it's not like they stop making any updates until 2020.
Eh?
I'm not getting LEP content for free... I already paid for it when I handed over my money for the LEP!
I wish I could remember the stream where one of the team mentioned that there would be a very long wait for what was going to follow Beyond. I took that, with no proof admittedly but plenty of hope, that this meant pretty much a whole new game. That perhaps they’d had a look at some of the positive and well received aspects of SC, of NMS etc and decided to pull some stuff from Chapter Four that they probably knew simply wasn’t going to be ready or good enough and put it all in to something that they could build from the foundations of Elite Dangerous.
I’ve only been playing for a little over a year so I’m still fairly optimistic having had a very much predominantly positive experience within the game. Perhaps the result of an 18-24 month wait may well change that but currently I’m excited by the prospect.
If FD are to tackle issues like instancing, the BGS and any of the other structural problems then surely it’s going to take some level of redesign. That’s before we get to adding all of the player demands like ‘legs,’ atmospheric landings or even atmospheric gas giants. If we want significant gameplay for any of these things then it can’t be a surprise that FD need the time to really plan, design and build a new foundation rather than just attempt to bolt things on to a structure using whatever sticky tape and old screws they have lying around.
As I said, I’m still fairly new, I’m not generally a shouty kind of person and I’m certainly not a game designer so I could be very wrong on so many aspects but I’m not seeing all doom and gloom.....just a long wait.
The interesting thing, as someone mentioned above, is the risk FD take in a two year ‘break’ should any new Space game come along in the mean time.
Only time will tell....as countless songs tell us.
So if they're really doing this to bring big new content to the game, why wouldn't they tell us what some of that content is to keep us interested? They didn't say one word about any actual new content being developed, and that's a bit telling I think.
The white knights are going bananas trying to explain away this. 5 years between horizons and whatever the next dlc is. There's slow...then there's FDev development slow.