The fact that this artwork is now available is by no means evidence it’s in game, rather it’s more likely omitted content which hit its retention period.
There exists a lot of similar artwork for this game, much of it several years old, showcasing the same type of content.
Due to that assessment alone I doubt this is news, but just identifies an historical period in ED development, more likely it highlights a variant timeline on where ED ‘was to go’ but hasn’t. FD proposed a number of different SRVs SO long ago but they never materialised.
The current SRV code was known about a year prior to EDO launch, as was the code for Thargoids on legs. This artwork IMPO is not worth getting excited about. It’s just artwork which hit its retention period and is ‘safe’ to publish as it doesn’t relate any longer.
On that logic alone, FD would not allow such artwork out in the public domain, it is not leaked code.
The content provider hosting the video is well known for promoting a very ‘positive’ spin on FD news, I would advise everyone to take off their rose tinted glasses, too much faith is placed upon the shoulders of FD as progressively developing this game, as a backer I see no evidence of that, FD themselves admitted their roadmap as ‘flexible’, and have dropped a considerable level of ‘proposed’ content (much of it amazing) in favour of something simple and cost effective.
Just look at the concepts for Elite Feet and compare it with Odyssey to see how divergent their plans were against what gets green lit.
There exists a lot of similar artwork for this game, much of it several years old, showcasing the same type of content.
Due to that assessment alone I doubt this is news, but just identifies an historical period in ED development, more likely it highlights a variant timeline on where ED ‘was to go’ but hasn’t. FD proposed a number of different SRVs SO long ago but they never materialised.
The current SRV code was known about a year prior to EDO launch, as was the code for Thargoids on legs. This artwork IMPO is not worth getting excited about. It’s just artwork which hit its retention period and is ‘safe’ to publish as it doesn’t relate any longer.
On that logic alone, FD would not allow such artwork out in the public domain, it is not leaked code.
The content provider hosting the video is well known for promoting a very ‘positive’ spin on FD news, I would advise everyone to take off their rose tinted glasses, too much faith is placed upon the shoulders of FD as progressively developing this game, as a backer I see no evidence of that, FD themselves admitted their roadmap as ‘flexible’, and have dropped a considerable level of ‘proposed’ content (much of it amazing) in favour of something simple and cost effective.
Just look at the concepts for Elite Feet and compare it with Odyssey to see how divergent their plans were against what gets green lit.
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