Coming to a System near you in 2022?

xzanfr

xzanfr
Rat Catcher said:
Well, the few console players left posting in the forum have been insisting that there is nobody playing on console for months... 🤷‍♂️

So a third does seem rather optimistic.
Click to expand...
It's a shame the console payers have dwindled.
They bought a valuable cash injection to the game when it was needed and most of the cmdr's are really dedicated, knowledgeable and lovely people.

I also love console owners on a personal level - my mate works at pc world and last year we clubbed together and bought up a dozen ps5's and a similar number of Xboxx's then sold them through ebay - we both made enough for new gaming pc's each and put the rest to a holiday - thanks consolers (y)
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Rat Catcher said:
Well, the few console players left posting in the forum have been insisting that there is nobody playing on console for months... 🤷‍♂️

So a third does seem rather optimistic.
Click to expand...

Yeah. Maybe somewhere between 1 and 3 based on regular references, but I imagine there are a few more knocking around.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
xzanfr said:
It's a shame the console payers have dwindled.
They bought a valuable cash injection to the game when it was needed and most of the cmdr's are really dedicated, knowledgeable and lovely people.

I also love console owners on a personal level - my mate works at pc world and last year we clubbed together and bought up a dozen ps5's and a similar number of Xboxx's then sold them through ebay - we both made enough for new gaming pc's each and put the rest to a holiday - thanks consolers (y)
Click to expand...

Going anywhere nice? I hope you're not taking shatner with you this time?
 

Thwarptide

Banned
Thwarptide
The way the OP read….
boppa_ said:
Odyssey available on consoles maybe/maybe not
Click to expand...
Pretty much injected a note of FDEV defective apathy towards the project while injecting new, exciting content into the PC platform.
Therefore not only I will not expect anything for console platforms in 2022, I won’t expect anything at all.
I definitely won’t be buying anymore ARX until they do.
 
Last edited:

Thwarptide

Banned
Thwarptide
boppa_ said:
This information came from Frontier. Perhaps it will increase in 2022?
Click to expand...
Either way, with consoles thats 33% of their ED business (excluding their other games) and I don’t think most companies would be so apathetic to dare risk losing it. FDev, “maybe/maybe not”. I certainly doubt they’d gain it back with in PC sales.
It seems rather callous of them to invest in defective apathy towards consoles and risking that share.
 
Last edited:

Ronzer

Ronzer
boppa_ said:
It's a new year and in the words of the Happy Mondays it's time to Think About The Future (WFL). What are the things that we might see coming to Elite this year?

The good people at Lave Radio recently speculated about:-

  • Cross Save and/or account unification (essentially make your account platform agnostic)
  • Cross Play (so we can all play together!)
  • Odyssey available on consoles (will it happen? maybe / maybe not...?)
  • On foot Thargoid content (long speculated)
  • Deeper mission chaining
  • Odyssey / Horizons content integration
  • Increased performance
  • On foot engineering balance passes
  • Increased exploration gameplay

The Burr posse recently pointed out some of the things we know:-

  • Fleet Carrier Interiors
  • No Odyssey/Console news since July 2021
  • Improvements to CQC
  • Ship Engineering balance passes
  • Progression of the ongoing story
  • Terrain system changes / intergration into Horizons
  • More mission types and emotes for Odyssey

That's quite a list of tweaks and features. Is there anything missing from it that you expect to see in 2022?

I'd like to see Fleet Carrier interiors fleshed out into Ship Cockpit interiors later in the year, before being extended out to full ship interiors later down the road, possibly as a paid expansion.
I'd also like see something definitive for Odyssey on console. Is it still in the future plan?
Finally I'd like to see the transformation of Elite into a truly platform agnostic MMO, via the introduction of Cross Save and Cross Play.
In addition, it'd be nice to get a peek at the long term development roadmap.

o7
Click to expand...
Not just Fleet Carrier interiors, but did you notice how long he looked at the 'interact' thing for the chair? Im guessing it'll be a fade-to-black thing, but if it's a smooth transition, that is a game changer.
 

[Cancelled Consoleer] boppa_

[Cancelled Consoleer] boppa_
Chorda said:
I've always felt crossplay was essential to a game this vast. Has there been any mention of it by fdev?
Click to expand...

We received a "we have no plans for that" on the Dev stream for Update 4, prior to that the only comment was from 2019 when they said they were "looking into it". There was also a mention of it in an interview with a games journalism site prior to Odyssey launch, here.

It depends how you interpret "no plans". Here's the current list of things that we've been told there are no plans for:

❌Current Gen console version of Elite or Odyssey
❌Cross Play
❌4K on PS5
❌Ship Interiors
 
Last edited:

Darrack

Darrack
Agony_Aunt said:
Think i can say with absoloute confidence that its not going to happen.

How about wishing for more bobbleheads instead? :D
Click to expand...
Well perhaps i could put forward an idea for one that Mr Hat may like

qQQdqZ2.png


O7
 

AlSki

AlSki
It probably isn't Cross-PLAY that is a difficult thing for FDev, more likely the issue is Cross-Release. FDev have always tried to keep the playing field as fair as possible, so any two players meeting in Open have the same version running together, which makes sense to me, given the level of complaints about PVP as it is.

If FDev had to release ALL of the formats at the same time, we wouldn't even have Horizons since Mac didn't support Horizon's shaders. Ignoring that elephant, you would still have no-one running Odyssey, since it isn't performing well enough on plenty of PCs, to run on console.

But just imagine a world where all of that was solved, and consider the future...
FDev decide to release a patch, they announce it on the forums, get everyone hyped up (Panther clipper anyone???), then MS or Sony block the release on just one platform. FDev would have no choice but to cancel it for everyone. Can you imagine the salt?
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
LeoBartlet said:
Correction it came from Liberum Frontiers broker and should be as Mr Pitt suggested treated as marketing information which is also apparently said in the documents fine print.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EOdWOlVnAU&ab_channel=TheBuurPit


7mins into his video.

To misquote Secretary-general Avasarala PC must come first :)
Click to expand...

More bad evidence representation?! This beggars belief quite frankly, I thought there was more research done into some of these claims?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom