I hope it's fake! If fdev don't release atmospheric planets in 2020 the game will be doomed!! I mean.. I like the idea of legs and base building... But not before atmospheric planets and new exploration contents!
I hope its true! Been looking forward to space legs since forever 
Don't like the idea of turning Elite Dangerous into a first person shooter. No thanks to Starship Troopers
if I wanted space legs Id play Halo
Making spacelegs an FPS would be the most stupid thing to do. One look at Dust 514 and CQC should tell you how that would turn out.
I doubt a genuine leaker would reveal his source. But imagine if it were true, it would make life hell for all the artistic staff wondering who......
Is JWE in such a bad place? I know it has its critics, like with ED, but not sure the forums are a guide.
But I do believe Legs would provide more micro-transaction income for FD than atmospheric landings. They are part way there with the Holo-Me and now auto-travel-docking-thingy.
They would want to do atmospheric planets really really well - stunning visually and with the sensation you are really there. My guess it will come in stages as we originally understood, but perhaps not before Legs. Or perhaps in conjunction with "mini-legs" which is walking around in the ships and EVA in space.
Is JWE in such a bad place? I know it has its critics, like with ED, but not sure the forums are a guide.
But I do believe Legs would provide more micro-transaction income for FD than atmospheric landings. They are part way there with the Holo-Me and now auto-travel-docking-thingy.
They would want to do atmospheric planets really really well - stunning visually and with the sensation you are really there. My guess it will come in stages as we originally understood, but perhaps not before Legs. Or perhaps in conjunction with "mini-legs" which is walking around in the ships and EVA in space.
So somebody presumably posted some hearsay. I'm not really getting much out of this. Spacelegs has been long anticipated, and seems like a natural direction to take, but it won't be easy, and might as well never happen. It could work as an attempt to "relaunch" this game. I was a bit shocked when they admitted having explored possible models for the thargies in the past though. Then we have ingame characters, for no other purpose than editor, menu screens and cosmetic items? Regarding FPS, how this game should be played, has been interesting subject for a while.
I could engage sarcastic mode, but in the past that has riled people up the wrong way .... so ...
Not saying Elite Dangerous won't have walking around in it, but First Person Shooter style game is new to Frontier and Elite, so as I stated above, I am of the opinion this is fake.
But let's be brutally honest. Unless FD offer some more information about their official roadmap(s), this kind of "leak" is going to keep coming.
Speculation loves a vacuum.
Speculation loves a vacuum.
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They are a PLC and have all that comes with to consider. There's no way they would give concrete info about future projects, just in the same way they haven't for years. People can keep trying to make leaks, but if they're as lazy as this one then it'll be fine
Also imo Base Building in Elite is completely pointless because of instancing/modes, let alone making no sense what-so-ever in the context of the game.
Indeed, they haven't achieved Fleet Carriers yet !They are a PLC and have all that comes with to consider. There's no way they would give concrete info about future projects, just in the same way they haven't for years. People can keep trying to make leaks, but if they're as lazy as this one then it'll be fine
Also imo Base Building in Elite is completely pointless because of instancing/modes, let alone making no sense what-so-ever in the context of the game.
A wise (but sneaky) man once said that the best place to hide a lie is between two truths.
This is probably somebody who did get some information about FDev using it to provide credibility for their own assumptions.
To be brutal, FDev's "100 person team" took two years to produce Horizons and more than a year to produce Beyond.
Unless they're all mainlining Proplus and NZT-48, I can't see them putting together a viable FPS and a base-building system in 18 months as well as rolling out bug-fixes and minor updates at the same time.
This is probably somebody who did get some information about FDev using it to provide credibility for their own assumptions.
To be brutal, FDev's "100 person team" took two years to produce Horizons and more than a year to produce Beyond.
Unless they're all mainlining Proplus and NZT-48, I can't see them putting together a viable FPS and a base-building system in 18 months as well as rolling out bug-fixes and minor updates at the same time.
The only thing I take from this is that if base building can be done (as already mentioned) and if it is FD's intention to do so.. Then it does kinda make sense that space legs and base building would come before atmospherics.. Those would be game play elements that give us as players a reason to land as has often been said is necessary for the introduction of more landables..
Whether this is a genuine leak remains to be seen tho'..
Whether this is a genuine leak remains to be seen tho'..
a "framework" for a hyptothetical viable FPS and base-building system on the other hand ...
I've seen streams before where streamers bemoaned the fact that they aren't treated as journalists. This type of video is why, OA, this is why.
No offense to OA but I don't dig the "we don't know if this is true, but let's talk about it as if it is" spreading of perhaps intentionally placed misinformation. I hope we go further away from this kind of sensational "1st to the story" kind of thing. Again nothing against OA and he's a content provider so I get it.
I dont care: space legs or atmo or base building or all of it; all cool stuff.
DOOMED!