Well, I will admit it was a fairly quick acknowledgement of a forum post by FDev
Yeah right, how fast can we pull our pants up when caught out? LUDICROUS SPEED, GO!
Something still smells, fishy! You'd think FDev would have learned by now, are they trolling?
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After 1000s of hours I became fundamentally unhappy about the state of the game and its development.
Having said that, if atmospheric landings and updated astronomical objects (stars I think require an overhaul) would be announced in a nice trailer with David Braben himself talking about it enthusiastically, I would be absolutely thrilled about it.
Current state of Elite is as Ford Fairlane (in the movie) put himself: "some play hard to get, I play hard to want".
More like that.
I'm gonna be a mad old optimist and say:
They might have transitioned to the 'upfront delivery' model now. With a two year dev run being the broad aim for each PDLC, and smaller team support dealing with tide-over content. Which would put it at more like late 2022 for Atmos... or some similar futuristic-sounding date
I won't believe it until it's leaked
Not a problem to them, they've already had the cash.
They want those arx monies!!
So the "Next Era" of ED is basically monetizing the hell out of this game.
- ARX introduced inflating prices of everything behind the curtain (doubled).
- Space legs (will be introduced to encourage recurrent spending on customizing your CMDR) which maybe they saw nobody spends that much on right.
- Base building (will be introduced to encourage recurrent spending on customizing your base).
Unless they have a cunning plan to replace us oldies with new blood. You know, making it easier to progress, providing in game training and tutorials.
Oh ....
And its not like they will be looking to lure in players from the First Person Shooter and or console generations with... OH!
That said, being on the older end of the bracket of ages covered by "millenial", I'm looking forward to the "legs" update.
That said, being on the older end of the bracket of ages covered by "millenial", I'm looking forward to the "legs" update.
Have nothing against legs and base building but i hope they will deliver basic atmos in 2020 update, by basic i mean Marslike planets and such.
They don't need to go with complex atmo FM, they can water it down like they did with other parts of the game.
It's a futuristic space game not flight sim so they can justify it with anything like they did with other aspects of the game...nothing wrong with it.
Just add more danger and shaking with some visual effects in atmo entry and severe speed slowdown once in atmosphere and i'll be fine.
They don't need to go with complex atmo FM, they can water it down like they did with other parts of the game.
It's a futuristic space game not flight sim so they can justify it with anything like they did with other aspects of the game...nothing wrong with it.
Just add more danger and shaking with some visual effects in atmo entry and severe speed slowdown once in atmosphere and i'll be fine.
Oh no, developer might actually fulfill on pre-sold PDLC. Supplements earnings via optional cosmetic microtransactions! Won't somebody stop this evil?!?
Seriously, where's my plumed helmet. All of this sounds properly nefarious.
Viajero
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Those are indeed the tribulations of any game that lives such a long time.
