Will Odyssey be worth it?

Alien

Alien
Vingtetun said:
Yes. Undoubtedly worth it, if nothing else just for the stunning visuals.
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Vingtetun, come on, YOU of all people, you should have said it would be worth it for the gameplay you can have others
I know you Truckers, you know I know you Truckers. You and I both know the Truckers WILL be organising on-foot events, heck I'd guess you already have stuff in the planning stages.
 

avow555

avow555
30 quid is nothing, why do people whinge about things being expensive. Got enough money to buy the hardware to run the game on, right.
Just buy it and complain later.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
avow555 said:
30 quid is nothing, why do people whinge about things being expensive. Got enough money to buy the hardware to run the game on, right.
Just buy it and complain later.
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I already spent the money for very good hardware, thanks....

Best to wait to see what the £30-40 buys... Already been bitten by £50 for another game that released a few days ago in an completely unfinished state...

I think waiting may be better 🤷‍♂️
 

Comandante

Comandante
Can't wait to visit Shinrarta in Mobius' group. The place is going to be rammed with CMDRs on foot!

That'll make it worth it for me...
 

yianniv

yianniv
I already paid for my Deluxe version. That "Alpha Access" was what did the trick. And yes, I think it will be worth it, that what we've been shown so far is just a glimpse of the available graphical improvements and gameplay. I have confidence that FD will correct the bugs in Odyssay. Also, after Odyssey is released, the available dev team will be larger and can start focusing on the bugs presently in the game.
 

Ydiss

Ydiss
RiggedBottle said:
Now my opinion... as I'm sure there's people agreeing to what I'm going to say right now, pre-ordering was never a good option. My best advice is just wait for that specific thing to release, after that you can watch some actual gameplay from other people and/or the developers. Check the features and then you can make sure whether to buy the game or not.
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Unless you're interested in...

1) taking part in the beta (in this case, alpha)
2) supporting fdev early

I happen to be interested in both so the preorder was a no brainer. Others' mileage will differ. Your advice is sound if neither of the above are of interest.
 

Vingtetun

Vingtetun
Alien said:
Vingtetun, come on, YOU of all people, you should have said it would be worth it for the gameplay you can have others
I know you Truckers, you know I know you Truckers. You and I both know the Truckers WILL be organising on-foot events, heck I'd guess you already have stuff in the planning stages.
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Of COURSE we've got things planned. A "Tough Mugger" assault course is just one of them. However, even the LEAST part of it is worth it. Going OOOOOH at planets.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
sirpuma said:
So I have limited internet and while I can log in and play solo, playing in open is generally not an option for me. (Not to mention I hate gankers with a passion.) So the question is, before I spend a crap load of shekels for Odyssey, will it be worth it? I can't tell if it is designed more for MMORPG style or if it's balanced for playing solo or with just a couple friends. Simple question, but I love the idea of being able to exit the ship and walk around as well as land on planets with atmospheres. I remember my Frontier days, exploring strange new worlds and seeing the life on the surface as I skim the surface.
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Remember that the mean player population of an inhabited system at any time is about one, maybe a bit more at busy times, and then there's all the uninhabited systems too.
Odyssey is then increasing the amount of usable by space by adding a bunch more landable planets, station/building interiors, etc. so all those sparsely-populated systems are now even bigger.

Almost all the gameplay has to therefore be doable either solo or at the biggest in a wing - or for things like CGs, as a large collective group but still with no requirement to physically meet up.

I'd be very surprised if any of that would change in Odyssey or - indeed - if Odyssey is anything other than "more Elite Dangerous, this time on foot" (in the same way that Horizons was "more Elite Dangerous, this time on planets"). So if you like Elite Dangerous, you'll probably like the Odyssey bits too. (Equally, if you don't like Elite Dangerous, Odyssey almost certainly won't fix that)

But: there's no point in pre-ordering it either [1], certainly not now - you're not going to miss out on anything other than a cosmetic which you might not use. Wait for more previews, wait for people to show things out of the Alpha (and Beta), see what happens, and pre-order it a week before release if it looks good to you by then and you want the bonus cosmetic.



[1] There are a few exceptions to this - if I didn't already have Alpha access from my LEP, I'd probably buy it anyway, because I maintain a 3rd-party tool and early first-hand previews of new stuff are really useful for that. But most people don't need that.
 

RiggedBottle

RiggedBottle
Ydiss said:
Unless you're interested in...

1) taking part in the beta (in this case, alpha)
2) supporting fdev early

I happen to be interested in both so the preorder was a no brainer. Others' mileage will differ. Your advice is sound if neither of the above are of interest.
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Personally I don't find Alpha nor Beta interesting, it's just a broken and incomplete version of what's to come for me, supporting FDev will be exactly the same if you buy the game when it's freshly released, let's be realistic there will be people pre-ordering it, but it won't be thousands of people doing that.
 

RiggedBottle

RiggedBottle
Rubbernuke said:
You won't know until you play it and see exactly what it brings to judge value. Right now judgements are based on still pretty thin information.
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You need to play the game yourself to judge it, but you need to see someone else play it before to gain interest into it, two different things, just like in real life.
You don't have interest in getting something? You won't get it, and since you won't get that... you are not going to judge it neither.
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
RiggedBottle said:
You need to play the game yourself to judge it, but you need to see someone else play it before to gain interest into it, two different things, just like in real life.
You don't have interest in getting something? You won't get it, and since you won't get that... you are not going to judge it neither.
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Until you know the exact contents you can't judge value- from that you can then say "this bit looks good" and then it has increased in value to the point you want to buy it. The easiest way to know is to look at the change notes, wait for a week during beta and then choose.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
RiggedBottle said:
Giving out my opinion, there will be people pre-ordering it and there's no doubt there, personally I don't expect there to be tens of thousands. Hype was never a good thing, Cyberpunk is a good example on why Hype is no good.
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I didn't mention tens of thousands...
Never mind... It is opinion, not a fact.... :ROFLMAO:
 

RiggedBottle

RiggedBottle
Rubbernuke said:
Until you know the exact contents you can't judge value- from that you can then say "this bit looks good" and then it has increased in value to the point you want to buy it. The easiest way to know is to look at the change notes, wait for a week during beta and then choose.
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Well, of course, you can't judge something as long as you, personally, didn't play it, but before playing it you need to gain some interest into getting it, when it comes to games... looking at gameplay is the only option. I'm not inflicting that Odyssey will be bad and I'm sure it'll be amazing, I am looking forward into getting it but I am still hesitating until I don't see how it actually looks from an actual gameplay, then try it myself and only after, make myself eligible to judge its ups and downs.
 

RiggedBottle

RiggedBottle
Rat Catcher said:
I didn't mention tens of thousands...
Never mind... It is opinion, not a fact.... :ROFLMAO:
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Well of course, no one can predict what's going to happen, but everyone has to agree that hype is not good, you know how broken Cyberpunk was and still is after all that pre ordering and millions of people purchasing it, and it comes from a huge company that deelayed the game since 2012.
 
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