AMA IV - Happy 3307

[CMDR AL-CELESTYEL]

Following the VR questions, is it coming any time soon for PS4/5 ?

 

[Zac Cocken]

Will some ships be great in thin atmospheres? I.e, will the Federal Dropship be better than a Krait move better/ have advantages?

We'll get this one answered by the dev team!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Will Thargoids be out and about for the Odyssey FPS side of things? So we can see them in all their alien glory? And shoot them dead?

 

[Paul_Crowther]

Following the VR questions, is it coming any time soon for PS4/5 ?

We don't have any current announcements for PlayStation VR support.

 

[Rubbernuke]

If ships today hit a skimmer, it knocks out the ships shields and you are in trouble (to stop players simply mashing them). What happens to a ship if it hits a players shields on foot? Will the same happen (and the ship loses shields?).

 

[Bruce G]

Can they be bought or synthesised and then you can remove the time delay after firing 3 probes? Pilots who use probes carefully need to synthesise less of them. Those that prefer to just spam 50 probes quickly can do that too. While you're at it, remove the need to be going so slowly to fire them - if they miss because I'm going too fast, they miss (could be an engineering mod)

Sounds reasonable, although my personal take is that the annoyance of this nerf after all this time would outweigh the benefit of a small amount of extra realism.

 

[BirdWisdom]

Any chance that we can remote control experimental effect in engineering ?

 

[jonty]

Will we see a richer story line this year now Gal Net is back ? Lots of twists and turns and community goals that result in big changes ?

 

[Paul_Crowther]

Will Thargoids be out and about for the Odyssey FPS side of things? So we can see them in all their alien glory? And shoot them dead?

 

[Ozric]

Sounds reasonable, although my personal take is that the annoyance of this nerf after all this time would outweigh the benefit of a small amount of extra realism.

To be fair, while the efficiency targets are so easily achieved (even more so with the new module) it's kind of a moot point.

 

[Darkman Returns]

When will hired NPC crew members be able to sit in the cockpit? In the unlikely event that we're full of human commanders in multicrew they would obviously be kicked out of the chair, but for the 99.99% of time we're not multicrewed it would be a welcome addition to the cockpit/bridge, increase immersion and go some way to justify them taking a 10% cut when they're not actually doing anything.

 

[Zac Cocken]

Any chance that we can remote control experimental effect in engineering ?

There are currently no plans for this, do you have any idea how you would want this implemented?

 

[Rubbernuke]

Will FD be making the Panther Clipper as an ironic SLF?

 

[Shields Offline]

Are there any planned changes to Fer-de-Lance coming? Given it's complete hegemony in the PVP world.

 

[Bruce G]

Will we see a richer story line this year now Gal Net is back ? Lots of twists and turns and community goals that result in big changes ?

Yes.

 

[Andruxich]

Will there be any non-letal weaponry in Odyssey?

 

[Bruce G]

Will FD be making the Panther Clipper as an ironic SLF?

This is doubtful.

 

[Bruce G]

Are there any planned changes to Fer-de-Lance coming? Given it's complete hegemony in the PVP world.

We don't have plans to announce, but will be considering PvP as a whole this year.

 

[Rubbernuke]

This is doubtful.

So a full size Panther is on the cards then? We know you have it

 

[Danieros]

Will existing planetary installations (the ones without docking pads) get the positive BGS work options being announced for Odyssey? Currently they're kind of a liability as an asset for a faction to own because they're only targets for negative work (like planetary scans, destroy generators or things like that).