ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

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lysan

lysan
Rybodhi said:
Take my money! $$$ Bloody Awesome!
Two Questions: Will you be able to wounder around your ships? (I suspect you will.)
and more importantly will it be VR compatible?
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As of now we don’t know! It could be like the SRV, you’re just on the lift and go out. I hope the ships will be fleshed out inside.
 

Scoob101

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Jaimes said:
It's a paid DLC, you don't like space legs, you don't have to buy it. lol

Play your game your way.
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Assuming the press release from Frontier is technically correct, This ain't no DLC, this is a new game.

See the galaxy like never before. Touch down on breathtaking planets powered by stunning new tech
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That "new tech" is a new graphics engine - you can't plug that into an existing game.

My guess would be that Odyssey is a rewrite from the ground up, which hooks into the back end servers in the same way as the original game, allowing two distinct games to exist in the same virtual galaxy
 

Oldviboy

Oldviboy
Max Factor said:
It's not a CGI video, it's rendered from the in-game engine. Also read the blurb.
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kinematics usually done with the engine of a game,and they are still CGI´s.

Anyway ,I already discussed that 2 pages ago, learn to read also before starting to answer everyone randomly.
 

Skizomeuh

Skizomeuh
LKx said:
Feet on the ground (pun intended), what we'll probably get:

  • "space legs" on the ground
  • fps weapons and related missions
  • barren atmospheric landings
  • no ELWs
  • no gas giants and water worlds (maybe late in the "season")
  • no ships insides and zero-g activities (maybe very late in the "season")
  • no stations insides wandering (maybe very very late in the "season")

still GREAT!
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Yep, same here. Though I'd make some assumptions on your 2 points I highlighted: I don't find mentions that Horizons is required to use Odyssey, so we could have players with only ED and Odyssey, so they will have legs without planets surfaces, so they'd have some surfaces to walk on, so I guess at the very least ship interiors and maybe stations. Though I guess we won't have huge places with minutes long train commutes ;)
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Filthymick420 said:
Everyone cant necessarily have the same engineering. Base game only owners cant engineer the metas and are not comparable. Personally i dont see why people cant either choose to like something or not and instead find the need to push their wants on others
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In quite a lot of cases people 'push' wants that Frontier have trailed and in some cases implemented. I can't really see why they shouldn't, Frontier do ask for feedback.
 

Scoob101

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Skizomeuh said:
I don't find mentions that Horizons is required to use Odyssey, so we could have players with only ED and Odyssey, so they will have legs without planets surfaces
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Asuming its "traditional" DLC, you're right. If its a new game in the same universe then it would get round that.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Scoob101 said:
Assuming the press release from Frontier is technically correct, This ain't no DLC, this is a new game.



That "new tech" is a new graphics engine - you can't plug that into an existing game.

My guess would be that Odyssey is a rewrite from the ground up, which hooks into the back end servers in the same way as the original game, allowing two distinct games to exist in the same virtual galaxy
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Ummm....
You did check the Steam (and many other references hereabouts) page on it where it mentions it is a DLC and the main game is required?
The engine rewrite was hinted at a few months back.
Just like any update, when Odyssey is released the new codebase appears as an update for the non-Odyssey players - everyone playing on the same codebase immediately.
 

Scoob101

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Wayland Pentonville said:
Ummm....
You did check the Steam (and many other references hereabouts) page on it where it mentions it is a DLC and the main game is required?
The engine rewrite was hinted at a few months back.
Just like any update, when Odyssey is released the new codebase appears as an update for the non-Odyssey players - everyone playing on the same codebase immediately.
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That doesnt explain that Odyssey is "Powered by stunning new tech" - implying that if you dont purchase odyssey, you wont be "Powered by stunning new tech"
 

The Lawful

The Lawful
Wayland Pentonville said:
Wow! No answer since yesterday afternoon... Dreadful!
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Amazing, Grace. But wrong. On this matter, no answer since about one and a half years ago when the Elite Deadly topic came up and VR suddenly vanished from marketing completely. Back then, Paige - who has left the team in the meantime - came up with the 'commitment' statement I quoted. The question of VR support has been issued in about any livestreams I watched and absolutely no answer. And that may indeed be an answer in itself.

Bad news ahead?

Hi VR fellows, as you may have noticed, FD have recently updated their ED site (elitedangerous.com). While the new site looks much more professional and flashy (optimized for generations who prefer visuals over text and have a short attention span, possibly), two things struck me: 1. All the...
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O7,
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