ANNOUNCEMENT Odyssey Update 2021
- Thread starter Arthur Tolmie
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You must be rich to spend so much money on superficial things 
I agree that a toggled option for the most purists out there would be fine. It never hurts to add more, on the contrary. Elite Dangerous is a MMORPG with a lot of immersion features. Keyword: 'immersion'. It's not a 'pure simulator' and I hope it never becomes one. With the addition of Odyssey this very much reinforces the MMORPG part and adds some FPS elements. Nothing less, nothing more.
Simulators tend to recreate elements of the real life. If it was a pure simulator then we would never be able to jump to other star system, or even travel to distant planets. And what about the Thargoids? Reality is boring. We see it everyday when we wake up in our beds. There is a lot of fantasy in Elite Dangerous and I hope they add even more.
My most desired feature is ship interiors and it 'might' come in the future. But at the moment... the have a full year of polishing Odyssey before they add anything else (in my opinion).
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and who are you to tell me to go elsewhere? Com on man, what I wrote are valid opinion. I respect your right to disagree, but if you want to interject into a conversation, please bring valid argument or... as you say, go elsewhere. A forum, is a place where people can exchange; censoring people by telling them to go elsewhere whenever you disagree isn't a proper answer and clearly if you lack the understanding of what is an appropriate exchange of opinions... Well, you might want to go elsewhere... I can't help to wonder what is your interest into trying to invalidate criticism toward a corporation... Are paid by FDEV? Are you a shareholder? There is nothing for you to be gain by telling people to go elsewhere... It's toxic and inappropriate. This is the only answer you'll get from me.
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Thanks for finding a better way to explain my thoughts. I don't think that it will be too confusing now because it does translate exactly what I had in mind and I do happen to totally agree with your idea of having a "simulated sound" button.
Thought Sable was black
Well if your space suit is a vacum on the inside, then yes no sound from your own feet, But as the suit has air in it, it will transmit all sounds from inside, if someone was to tap you on the space helmet you would hear it. Your ship is a container, it contains air, when you canopy goes pop, you are then on life support in a spacesuite.
He didn't even disagree, he just said if you want a true sim maybe you should go elsewhere. That seems a valid suggestion; you just don't like it.
Then you start insinuating that he is paid by FDev or is a stakeholder. Again, if someone doesn't agree with you and offers a suggestion - it doesn't make it a toxic comment.
Ian Phillips
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Everyone - stop this !
I was beginning to enjoy some of the speculation on the science of sound in space * , but other recent posts are making this thread silly and boring, and a little bit sad. We're all interested in the success of Odyssey. Insults and accusations from one commander to another are neither helpful nor even remotely cool. Being kind to one another regardless of differences in opinion, on the other hand, is.
So if you're feeling cranky go find someone or something lovely to hug (ideally someone / thing soft, warm and fluffy). Then come back and be nice.
* The correct answer: Sound will be heard by human ears whenever vibrations with sufficient energy to generate sound reach a functioning auditory system. Those vibrations need a conducting medium to move through, which can be a gas, solid, or liquid. So, in space, footsteps will generate sound when vibrations travel from a person's foot or boot up through their bones and suit material (depending on what material that is) and through the air space in the suit, to their ear drum (Try wearing really good earplugs that block external sounds, then tap the bottom of your foot or knock on our knees - you'll hear it, softly but clearly, from inside your own body. Its the same principle). This is why astronauts on a space walk can hear their footsteps against the exterior of a space vehicle / space station, just like they hear their tummy rumbling inside the space suit, and why the Apollo 11 astronauts did indeed hear their footfalls on the lunar module ladder, and on the moon's surface. It is also why you would very likely be able to hear your own footfalls on a planetary surface in ED. So FDev has it right. Loud explosions in space are a little more fanciful.
p.s., As for having a vaccuum inside your space suit, I'm a Space Health researcher, and would not recommend it, because you'd be dead.
So if you're feeling cranky go find someone or something lovely to hug (ideally someone / thing soft, warm and fluffy). Then come back and be nice.
* The correct answer: Sound will be heard by human ears whenever vibrations with sufficient energy to generate sound reach a functioning auditory system. Those vibrations need a conducting medium to move through, which can be a gas, solid, or liquid. So, in space, footsteps will generate sound when vibrations travel from a person's foot or boot up through their bones and suit material (depending on what material that is) and through the air space in the suit, to their ear drum (Try wearing really good earplugs that block external sounds, then tap the bottom of your foot or knock on our knees - you'll hear it, softly but clearly, from inside your own body. Its the same principle). This is why astronauts on a space walk can hear their footsteps against the exterior of a space vehicle / space station, just like they hear their tummy rumbling inside the space suit, and why the Apollo 11 astronauts did indeed hear their footfalls on the lunar module ladder, and on the moon's surface. It is also why you would very likely be able to hear your own footfalls on a planetary surface in ED. So FDev has it right. Loud explosions in space are a little more fanciful.
p.s., As for having a vaccuum inside your space suit, I'm a Space Health researcher, and would not recommend it, because you'd be dead.
I will say this... Those random sounds you hear... In your ship, in stations, etc... Aren't so benign...There are clues hidden in what you think is garble. At the same time this will explain the noise in the suit.
"When we speak we generate sound waves. Sound waves needs some atmosphere to carry them, so in ISS or in space suit atmosphere is created artificially, hence they can hear their self voice in space suit."
"When we speak we generate sound waves. Sound waves needs some atmosphere to carry them, so in ISS or in space suit atmosphere is created artificially, hence they can hear their self voice in space suit."
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mmm, it would not be correct since the alpha 4 files have the bugs, what I did was delete that folder (of the alpha4) and voila, recover the space
Did you try different modes? Yesterday, I was getting the "tauped" error when trying to play in open. I switched to PG and I got in right away.