I can think of other features which might easily take two years and have been hinted at as things they might want to do ... but it would be virtually impossible for them to be "fenced off" for a chargeable DLC ...
Hi there Ian,
fellow Cmdrs
most of you've been around much longer than I, let me ask you out of curiosity, how was it prior to horizons? ( I started with horizons back in 2018) What I mean is, were there pleasant surprises in the release no one saw coming, or was everthing leaked before? I like good surprises.![]()
That's not really how I remember 2015. CQC and Powerplay was a surprise for all of us, generally we didn't know about an update until a few weeks before release. In terms of content, frequency and communication I'd say Beyond / 2018 was the best year so far.Not everything was leaked, but there was a lot more info on ongoing developments. There were also much more frequent content releases.
The more bullet spongy and immune we get the less fun combat becomes (For me).
In 2015 newsletters still had news in them!That's not really how I remember 2015. CQC and Powerplay was a surprise for all of us, generally we didn't know about an update until a few weeks before release. In terms of content, frequency and communication I'd say Beyond / 2018 was the best year so far.
That's not really how I remember 2015. CQC and Powerplay was a surprise for all of us, generally we didn't know about an update until a few weeks before release. In terms of content, frequency and communication I'd say Beyond / 2018 was the best year so far.
Expect news about upcoming content closer to upcoming content...In 2015 newsletters still had news in them!
I believe every 2 months never happened.A few weeks before release is actually a lot when you get content releases every 2/3 months like in the first year.
I believe every 2 months never happened.
True, but 1.1 was basically just increasing the route plotter from 100 to 1000ly. Imagine Frontier would sell that as an update these days...1.0: December 16th 2014
1.1: February 10th 2015
1.2: March 10th 2015
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Indeed, but these were months before the releases, not a few weeks.Expect news about upcoming content closer to upcoming content...
And to this day, nigh on fives years on, CGs are still being flogged and rebadged for all their worth, with little/no improvement of note...True, but 1.1 was basically just increasing the route plotter from 100 to 1000ly. Imagine Frontier would sell that as an update these days...
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And CGs. I remember how people hated those though.
And yet people act like pausing them is the worst thing that could happen to the game...And to this day, nigh on fives years on, CGs are still being flogged and rebadged for all their worth, with little/no improvement of note...
Didn't check them all, but newsletter 72 was released a few weeks before the Powerplay Beta.Indeed, but these were months before the releases, not a few weeks.
Here there is a big IF, because tbh all discussions about Legs and Base Building come from an unofficial leak and, even worse, atmospheric planets is purely players speculation.
So what IF the New Era of Elite Dangerous is about none of the three?
Let's prepare ourselves to a B-Plan: with such a "big" manpower of roughly 80 developers working at this project for more than 2 years, what would you expect or wish to see as an alternate content release?
I'll stick around for sure... I'll miss the rest of you, but at least will have more elbow room in the galaxyIf none of the three are in there, then we're probably looking at a complete re-write of the game from the ground up. However, do you see many of the existing players sticking around if at least one of these items arn't implemented.