To be honest there wasnt much news or infact anything in the "News" letter
With respect for my what?With all respect for your enthousiasm
The fact their name is incorrect on the list kind of says it all really....broken, Fdev are broken lol FRONTIER DEVELOPM where is the EMTS...oh yes they only get that part when they finish a product with content that is fun...
There will be sooooo many summaries of Dev Diary .... either pop into the forum afterwards, or wait for the first YouTube influencer to postMy hope is that the dev diary goes live before MSFS 2020 downloads, otherwise I'm going to have a really hard decision to make.. It's going to be a close one!
Indeed and if they stick to that it is good news for me if they roll that into ED.H as I will be stuck in that if I want to carry on playing. I would love to see those concept images in my SRV in VRWell... if they stick to their promise, the new iceplanets wont be a part of Oddyssey, as they specifically said they weren't pushing the stuff they had shown then (like carriers for instance) into a paid expansion.
So that'll have to be part of the base game upgrade.
Jus sayin.
My hope is that the dev diary goes live before MSFS 2020 downloads, otherwise I'm going to have a really hard decision to make.. It's going to be a close one!
Indeed and if they stick to that it is good news for me if they roll that into ED.H as I will be stuck in that if I want to carry on playing. I would love to see those concept images in my SRV in VR
I hear what you are saying, as I find flying my Krait in Space Engineers WAY more challenging than flying the same ship in ED.Definitely going to lose the SIM crowd over that one, but I suspicion most of Elite's playerbase are in fact RPG-oriented...not SIM oriented. They just think they are, but bring back flight take off routines, higher fuel and repair costs, and really grind out supercruise and hyperspace...
I love simulators - love them - but Elite is clearly meant to be a game, not a SIM, if Odyssey is any indicator. What remains to be seen is if that gamer population can stand shallow content - or none at all - much longer. It says a lot that, at this juncture, single-player titles like X4 have more life in them than this game.
Whoa! Salty!are you serious?
they said space leg and tenuous atmospheres like you can see in the teaser. It is not hard to understand what they mean, and they don't mean what you write.
I bet you will come here the day after release ranting about the absense of all that feature they never promised.
Whoa! Salty!
Maybe you didn't realise in your eagerness to sprinkle us with your salty response, but I was repling to someone else's views on what they'd like to see, and simply airing what my take on it would be.
As for improved planet surfaces, there were of course the much touted ice world improvements delayed from 2018 which we're still waiting for... We can only assume these were delayed because it made more sense to combine it into some other later release? I'd assume that could be planetary surface improvements in general coming with this next big update.
Now, take a deep breath and maybe go easy with that salt! It's bad for you in quantity!
ps: Braben talking about clouds 8yrs ago, which again, we can only hope is due soon? -Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk&t=4m40s
Absolutely. I was talking about the target renders NOT the (imo more than acceptable but not stunning) in engine ice surfaces.Well, you probably mean you would like to see the results the game artists made from that concept art.
Sorry for being pedantic, but there was only ever one (maybe two?) image(s) that were from the game engine, the rest were concept art, and everyone got really excited for some reason...
It was an ice shader folks...
I've never seen the game as a space flight sim, as it's not really like space flight in the slightest. To me it's more like what you say, a Han Solo simulator. I'm a commander struggling to survive in a harsh galaxy. But the only thing missing are harsher consequences. It's too easy at present.I am also from the Pong era!
I think it depends on whether you think of a ELITE as a space flight simulator or whether you think of it more as a Han Solo simulator (which is the camp I'm in). So being able to get out on foot is a good thing in my book. There are only so many types of adventure you can have if you're always sitting down in a spaceship.
I'd forgotten that the preview we have talks about missions. So I guess it's just trying to imagine how you'd do missions for all the different "professions" on foot.
I hear what you are saying, as I find flying my Krait in Space Engineers WAY more challenging than flying the same ship in ED.
Called it.My expectations? They'll only talk about planet side on-foot gameplay, and might show off a gun. Or two.
Agreed, and the best part about the diary was in the title itself.Although to be fair, the "gun" they showed off was a legit science tool. A science tool. I got to give them credit, that actually surprised me.
Called it.
Although to be fair, the "gun" they showed off was a legit science tool. A science tool. I got to give them credit, that actually surprised me.