Yeah, I get that, but the AI still looked dumb and very easy, suggesting that they'll only really be a problem in large numbers. Which, for me, is not exciting gameplay. Hopefully, I'll be proved wrong when I get to play some Odyssey, but as I said before I remain relatively unenthused by the footage.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | The Road to Odyssey - Mission Playthrough
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As a few people have mentioned, it's really the stormtrooper tactics of poor aim and standing out in the open that worries me. I saw maybe 3 NPCs try to take cover?
The quality of what was in this vid inside, Znort is the classical 'former-fanboy-turned-bitter-hater' that for some reason is a bit of thing with sci-fi games. With most types of games people either like it or dont, and those who dont move on to things they do like. Games like ED, SC, NMS and X-series each have their share of 'negative groupies' who hang around for literal years craptalking the developments.
Its quite interesting, but in any case not really worth getting annoyed about. If you like sci-fi spaceship games you'll just have to accept these individuals are part of the package.
As for the vid itself: the animations did look rather clunky, and the AI looked not particularly challenging. Part of the issue seemed to be they were roleplaying 'infiltatring' a seemingly friendly settlement they could just as well have walked into. Its like me 'infiltrating' the local supermarket and complaining the clerks are 'poor AI' because they ignore me. Keep in mind that the spaceship part of ED usually looks fairly iffy as well when devs play it as, no offense to them, they seem to be on the level of some 70-year old granny who never played a computer game before.
As always: we'll see how it is when we get out hands on it. And I can already give you five names of people who will say it is the worst thing ever, and five people who will tell you it is the best thing ever.
What I want to know is to what extend there even is a 'cover' system in place, and if the AI uses it...
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This and the fact that the main combatant player just repeatedly stripped shields, rather slowly, with a laser rifle and did nothing else... also while standing still. I'm looking forward to when engineering lets us flatten shield resistances so this laser weapon becomes entirely, instead of mostly, useless.
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hahaha you know this tickles me no endLet the science scanning begin!
i'm gonna be chuckling away to myself all night now hahaha
I thought the stellarator was a nice touch.
Planet detail looks much improved...even better than the original Horizons incarnation.
Short scripted mission, played by the devs, against rather dense AI...about what I was expecting for a first look at the PvE stuff. Not really disappointed though, this is the sort of thing that is only really going to be good when other players are the OPFOR.
I'm still cautiously optimistic.
Planet detail looks much improved...even better than the original Horizons incarnation.
Short scripted mission, played by the devs, against rather dense AI...about what I was expecting for a first look at the PvE stuff. Not really disappointed though, this is the sort of thing that is only really going to be good when other players are the OPFOR.
I'm still cautiously optimistic.
So much pegi 16 science to do!
I for one am pumped for the ghost damage, rubberbanding and damage stacking that will result.
Another worry I have for Odyssey is that all these cool ground mission types will end up feeling just as lonely as the current missions do, because space is really pretty big and mostly empty (that's why it's called space).
I have this vision of release day on the forums - a bunch of complaints saying "hey these missions are cool but it sure would be nice to see one other player"
I have this vision of release day on the forums - a bunch of complaints saying "hey these missions are cool but it sure would be nice to see one other player"
So who actually watched the livestream discussion?
I imagine settlements in Shinrarta will be all out warzones.
How they handle matchmaking is certainly something that could make or break the experience. Latency and load constraints are quite loose in the current game; I do hope they tighten them up a bit.
that works fine for one of the greatest saga of all time, why shouldn't works for Elite.
There's a big difference between passively watching a film and playing an interactive video game. Besides, Star Wars is so overrated
This is awesome. The only thing I noticed is that the gunplay lacks the "punch", it feels a little weightless, as least in the video. Also, I hope character animations will become smoother and more natural in the finished version. All in all, I love what I see and am really envious of PC CMDRs getting it this year!