ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

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Whether you like it or not (to each their own), what I like about this stuff is that it shows ambition. Maybe it won't suit your playstyle, but one should acknowledge that the game's development is definitely not dead yet - which was hard to believe throughout 2019 and the first half of this year...

So way to go Frontier.
 
Lolwut? There has been VR support in Elite almost since the beginning, why would you think this expansion wouldnt have VR support? :D
Like, you fly in VR, then you land and you have to take the headset off because youre walking now? :D

Yes, there will be VR support, 100% guaranteed.
Because it's not listed, the trailer released the day the Sony conference was supposed to go live and Sony has purchased timed exclusivity of vr support before.

I would not say it's 100% going to be there.
 
Lolwut? There has been VR support in Elite almost since the beginning, why would you think this expansion wouldnt have VR support? :D
Like, you fly in VR, then you land and you have to take the headset off because youre walking now? :D

Yes, there will be VR support, 100% guaranteed.
This is why... a slight concern....

Flimley
 
So Is this an additional feature of the persistent elite universe say do some bounty hunting then set down on a planet get out and walk around or is this a separate thing.
 
Frontier,

...I love you. I do. But I need you to say, clearly, one way or the other: are we getting fully atmospheric planets? Will I be able to land on ELWs, or not? My fear is "no," because if we were going to get that, you would have said that...so SOME atmo world's, but not all?

Clarity. Please. Thanks!
No you won't.
Just very thin atmospheres and dust.
FD already clearly distinguished Feet and Atmospheres as two major developments.
Glad to be proven wrong going forward but highly unlikely.
Also, nothing in the few leaks FD has had say anything about living worlds yet; but do indicate walking about and FPS.
Expect Earth-likes in 2023 or later.
 
You will be able to build or buy bases/components. Like in the teaser trailer it has a single large landing pad, which undoubtedly descends into at least a small outpost below the surface. Imagine this as the initial "player base". If they were introducing animals and plants in a big way (bigger than currently in Horizons), we probably would have seen that in the trailer.

However, I agree with you that since we do have some creatures in Horizons it would be great to see FD expand that a bit. The leaks indicated fighting Thargoids in FPS, so that would be additional animals on foot. I just don't expect any sort of Earth-like experience. But seeing some more plants and maybe 'animals' on foot, yes.
I was mainly just addressing that it's fairly easy to get around the difficulty with having "living" worlds, as in contrast to unrealistic games like No Man's Sky where every planet magically has life, very few planets would actually be able to sustain life in Elite's more realistic approach. Thus, much less work. Even handcrafting living planets in Elite would take much less programming work than the "random procedural generation" ( that uses the word "random" very loosely ) in No Man's Sky, while also resulting in more varied biomes/details.
 
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