ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement
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Pretty sure I just heard Chris Roberts release a scream that rivaled Wesley's scream on the Torture Machine in Princess Bride. "I just sucked one year of your life away, so, how did that make you feel...and remember, this is for posterity, so be honest."
Nah, he saw the jetpacks and immediately rushed out into the office to tell everyone to drop everything and add jetpacks to the game.
Also, engineers? Upgradable equipment? Oh dear... Engineer grind v2.0 incoming.
This. Very very this.
The new surface details are looking great. Fingers crossed we get flora and fauna too.
I like the nods to NMS, jet packs and player hubs. The latter works really nicely in NMS and allows some nice interactions.
PS... Horray for everything \o/
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Powerplay early footage in Odyssey looking interesting
Very excited for this!
My two biggest questions:
My two biggest questions:
- Is there VR support for this expansion? I love playing the game in VR, and would love to walk around my ships interiors and stations! If it wasn't supported, my enthusiasm will be quickly deflated.
- If so, please make sure that proper support for left-handed VR players is a consideration. Other games, like No Man's Sky, forgot lefties completely. Accessibility considerations takes on new dimensions in VR with tracked controllers as input. This includes: Navigating menus and UI selections with either hand, ability to optionally swap sticks for locomotion, holding guns/tools in either hand, making sure sights "snap" to either eye if implementing virtual sights.
- With the ability to land on barren atmospheric worlds being shown in the trailer, will we also be able to land on more types of worlds? Will we also potentially see the ability to land on more kinds of worlds than we could in the past? (water worlds, ammonia worlds, volcanic, earth-like, etc.)
- Any changes to allow for more diversity of planets, like tidally locked worlds, and different biomes within the the same world? How about some aurorae?
- Any plans for updates to stellar bodies like black holes (proper lensing effects and accretion discs), systems with protoplanetary discs (since the cloud tech is there now), differing models for supergiants as oblate stars, contact binaries, comets (I want to stand on a comet, mine it, etc.!!!)
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u dont have to buy it it's a dlc .
Max, please enlighten us what they actually build then!
You seem to know more then FD, because they tell us that it's first-person combat and the guys on all the picures are holding guns. Or are those well disguised clubs, maces and swords and they actually make a first person melee combat game?
On foot!
Walk around and find the right rocks placed miles apart to shoot with your laser blaster and automagically fill your material backpack.
Yeah. Doing stuff like that already.
![[VR] Orodruin](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/237/237188.jpg?1614840532){kind=avatar}
You mean like you can play Elite without Horizons ... with significant disadvantages because of not being able to access engineers etc.
Can you see the atmospheric landings?
Can you read the post?
It definitely says FPS combat, I'll grant you. But that's clearly not all it is, based on... literally everything else in the post.
There's probably going to be some level of "survival" points to keep up, like health, food, etc.
I know. I dont like the space combat PvP in this game. Never once in all the years have I complained or threatened to quit because of it. I ignore it like a adult and choose to play the parts of the game I do like. Complaining about FD not making the game you specifically want is childish. Criticism is perfectly acceptable, but threatening to quit is silly.
It's an expansion within the lifetime of the game...
But they have atmospheres also
Where is there any indication of atmosphere? Everybody wears a spacesuit and carries a large gun in the pictures. Not a single word about atmosphere, either. I guess the smiley you added wanted to hint that neither of them actually was mentioned?
They built an add-on to ED, not a FPS game..ED already exists. Also it's not just combat, there is also diplomacy and trade missions. Sure there will be combat too. All this does is make it a First person perspective play expansion, that is being added to Elite Dangerous, not a dedicated FPS standalone game. Read the blurb instead of cherry picking parts to boost your argument.
Erm ...Blue sky
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