Odyssey & The Weather

[Mav359]

Any word on the weather patterns on the atmospheric worlds in Odyssey?

I know they are not full ELW atmos and Im not expecting rain & snow or Glanet cutting to some dude doing the space weather but even Mars has sand storms and the like. Im just wondering if we will be getting anything like that

 

[Linnunrata]

Released imagery seems to suggest just atmospheric fog. As noted in one of the earlier threads, sandstorms would probably be something that they would be showing off. Maybe.

 

[Danieros]

It's a good question, especially since Mars presents such weather with just 0.006 surface pressure. Through Odyssey trailers so far we have been shown a landable planet with over thrice that, at 0.02 atm.

 

[Thepirateorc]

It's a good question, especially since Mars presents such weather with just 0.006 surface pressure. Through Odyssey trailers so far we have been shown a landable planet with over thrice that, at 0.02 atm.

I hope there is more variation of planets and not just rocky and icy planets if you get what i mean.

 

[Thepirateorc]

Released imagery seems to suggest just atmospheric fog. As noted in one of the earlier threads, sandstorms would probably be something that they would be showing off. Maybe.

For ice planets a blizzard would be nice

 

[Bottom Hat]

It's a good question, especially since Mars presents such weather with just 0.006 surface pressure. Through Odyssey trailers so far we have been shown a landable planet with over thrice that, at 0.02 atm.

Good use of the word "thrice" old chap, lovely stuff

 

[VR StarLightPL]

Ummm... Blue shader, yellow shader, pink shader ;P

 

[Wrecked]

Yea, I highly doubt anything more than atmospheric fog. Doing weather systems right would be difficult and I think the things discussed by FDev about Odyssey are already full of difficult to implement things.

Would be pretty sweet if the dev diaries talked about this more... hint hint, FDev

 

[fennster]

We have this... Which doesn't rule out any weather at all, but personally I don't think there will be any, not at launch anyway.

Is there going to be any weather system affecting players and/or their ships on planets, such as thunderstorms or dust storms?

Luke Betterton: At launch, Odyssey will allow players to land in thin atmospheres which won’t have aggressive weather fronts of this kind, but we would love to bring those to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey in the future.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Interview - From the Darkness of Space to the Light of Uncharted Planets

We've recently interviewed developers from Frontier to discuss the upcoming on-foot expansion for Elite Dangerous, called Odyssey.

wccftech.com

 

[fennster]

Also I would rather not have any weather at all than some POI type system I can imagine being used if it was forced into the game with no consideration.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Released imagery seems to suggest just atmospheric fog. As noted in one of the earlier threads, sandstorms would probably be something that they would be showing off. Maybe.

Dead pirates attack the living and drag them into the fog.

 

[zimms]

Odyssey is like the weather. Nobody can predict exactly what you'll get.

 

[thistle]

Odyssey is like the weather. Nobody can predict exactly what you'll get.

and the predictions are ALWAYS wrong

 

[Caydran]

It's not Weather in Odyssey, it's whether Odyssey will have [pick your option].

 

[Andro]

Mars's atmosphere (2021 not 3307) is less than 1% of Earth's, but Mars still has large sand/dust storms. I don't know if I would call them weather, but it would be pretty cool to infiltrate a settlement under the cover of a sandstorm. Imagine being able to see them moving across the surface from space.

Spoiler: Imagine something as intense as this, where you'd have to get to shelter.

 

[gooddoc]

Good use of the word "thrice" old chap, lovely stuff

Uncanny!
'Thrice' was used by one of the commentator's at the Dart's on TV over the weekend........with the same response too - "good use of the word thrice"

 

[Warpfactor]

Well we already have space lighting in some NSP. Can't be that hard to adapt that into instances of atmospheric weather I suppose. Would be kinda cool to get caught in a dusty electrical storm in the middle of a gun fight.

 

[Martyn W]

As my old dad used to say - Whether the weather be good or whether the weather be bad, we'll whether the weather whatever the weather.

 

[Oytis57]

We accpt Bets....

 

[Linnunrata]

Well we already have space lighting in some NSP. Can't be that hard to adapt that into instances of atmospheric weather I suppose.

Just having weather effects probably aren't much of a challenge, but NSPs are just POIs, they are just static places in space with "weather". I'd hate to see planetary weather to be static POI or random instance based occurence, invisible from orbit (something that works easily with fog but not with storms).