FD should have stuck with Horizons to make it the best they could....then Planned Odyssey.

[FatzDomingo]

What could they have done in Horizons FIRST ....?
Atmospheric Landings.
Improved Graphics.
A STORY.....
Removed unforgivable 32 button limit by utilising the newer DirectInput2 Library instead (128button limit)
Extend moving about the cockpit to the entire ship.
Leave ship whilst in space to effect repairs, board derelict or abandoned ships.
Reactivate the Team responsible for Lore and Power Play, bring in a couple of Actual Economists for their input.
Real Trading at Station/System Auction Houses.
Rent Warehouse Space to store goodies and loot.

Well, you get the idea of a missed opportunity.
I would have HAPPILY paid for all of that, then ponied up for Odyssey.
Incidentally, if they'd done all of that, Odyssey could have been marketed as a Value Added Upgrade giving the On Foot Mission Capability, or NOT if you ignored it.
Missed opportunity indeed in my opinion.

 

[Factabulous]

lol. so they should have written a couple of DLC before doing legs ... sure. I bet people would have loved atmos landings without legs ...

 

[CMDR Serra]

What could they have done in Horizons FIRST ....?
Atmospheric Landings.
Improved Graphics.
A STORY.....
Removed unforgivable 32 button limit by utilising the newer DirectInput2 Library instead (128button limit)
Extend moving about the cockpit to the entire ship.
Leave ship whilst in space to effect repairs, board derelict or abandoned ships.
Reactivate the Team responsible for Lore and Power Play, bring in a couple of Actual Economists for their input.
Real Trading at Station/System Auction Houses.
Rent Warehouse Space to store goodies and loot.

Well, you get the idea of a missed opportunity.
I would have HAPPILY paid for all of that, then ponied up for Odyssey.
Incidentally, if they'd done all of that, Odyssey could have been marketed as a Value Added Upgrade giving the On Foot Mission Capability, or NOT if you ignored it.
Missed opportunity indeed in my opinion.

So - done what you want? OK.

 

[dexatron]

I'm not sure pointing out " what could of been " is going to help at this point in the game. It is what it is, And there is no changing that.

 

[PRORABBIT67]

 

[Cohen the Worrior]

What could they have done in Horizons FIRST ....?
Atmospheric Landings.
Improved Graphics.
A STORY.....
Removed unforgivable 32 button limit by utilising the newer DirectInput2 Library instead (128button limit)
Extend moving about the cockpit to the entire ship.
Leave ship whilst in space to effect repairs, board derelict or abandoned ships.
Reactivate the Team responsible for Lore and Power Play, bring in a couple of Actual Economists for their input.
Real Trading at Station/System Auction Houses.
Rent Warehouse Space to store goodies and loot.

Well, you get the idea of a missed opportunity.
I would have HAPPILY paid for all of that, then ponied up for Odyssey.
Incidentally, if they'd done all of that, Odyssey could have been marketed as a Value Added Upgrade giving the On Foot Mission Capability, or NOT if you ignored it.
Missed opportunity indeed in my opinion.

The fanboys won't like that.

 

[FatzDomingo]

lol. so they should have written a couple of DLC before doing legs ... sure. I bet people would have loved atmos landings without legs ...

Legs is just a DLC it’s not a new game…..

 

[Cohen the Worrior]

Legs is just a DLC it’s not a new game…..

It is a new game.
It is a fps stapled on to a space exploration and trading game.

 

[FatzDomingo]

It’s sold as a DLC

 

[netshaman [VR]]

It’s sold as a DLC

In an alpha state...^^

 

[Kyokushin]

On foot experience for me its very important, its huge immersion - i am not a starship anymore - am the person.
But, it should be implemented since the beginning - just walking outside.

The most important for me in this game is VR. When it was released then i used the smartphone-gogles but that was unusable. At now we have 2021 - i have powerful PC, good VR gogles, Elite have even AMD FSR but finally FDev cut the VR... for odyssey.

 

[Kyokushin]

VR was "cut"? That's new to me. All I've heard is that it's not usable for the new on foot content (apart from a bit of a weird compromise), but everything else should still work the same as in Horizons. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not a VR player.

Yes, but for a guy like me who stepped from leg to leg since 2014 for VR space legs it is a cut. They cancelled futher development for VR.

 

[netshaman [VR]]

And not to mention that most people that played Elite along these 30 years had dreamed to get out of the ship^.
But this dream was cut by half.

 

[Kyokushin]

And not to mention that most people that played Elite along these 30 years had dreamed to get out of the ship^.
But this dream was cut by half.

Agree, we were so close