Super excited about this. Elite has been hard to play with friends, going to be super nice to pop into their ship, or vice versa, and have a good time. Also sounds rewarding between the buffs and bounty payouts. I hope some mission types would have shared rewards too. Would love helping and having help with missions and build faction ranks as a crew.
Maybe one day wings will have that type of reward, but wing setup has a downfall of it taking work to stay together. As cool as it is flying my own ship, having the convenience of never being able to lose your friend is better. We'd dock together, jump together, land together, and fight together as one. This is the moment when more arcadey touch sounds like a complete win. Yay for making an addition based on simplicity and convenience, that and the higher rewards will bring more people to this.
As far as the people hating on the telepresence, no. Just, no. I want to invite people to a fun time in Elite, not to a long time of doing jump runs just to share a moment. With this I can get a buddy to hop on for a short time and spend the whole time together, having fun, and getting rewarded by it. I'm hyped, bring on the livestreams so i can get more hyped please.
Maybe one day wings will have that type of reward, but wing setup has a downfall of it taking work to stay together. As cool as it is flying my own ship, having the convenience of never being able to lose your friend is better. We'd dock together, jump together, land together, and fight together as one. This is the moment when more arcadey touch sounds like a complete win. Yay for making an addition based on simplicity and convenience, that and the higher rewards will bring more people to this.
As far as the people hating on the telepresence, no. Just, no. I want to invite people to a fun time in Elite, not to a long time of doing jump runs just to share a moment. With this I can get a buddy to hop on for a short time and spend the whole time together, having fun, and getting rewarded by it. I'm hyped, bring on the livestreams so i can get more hyped please.