News Another sneak peek at Horizons progress (Base Raid)

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Ziljan said:
So maybe smaller ships will really have a purpose, especially on bigger planets? In any case, they should be able to avoid turret fire a little better than Corvettes. ;)
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Hang on .. a purpose?

Imp Eagle has been kicking some serious Faction but in a conflict zone today.
Absolutely rock and roll good fun ..

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bonds rewarded on one Fed Dropship with faction assist, several Asps, without. Vultures too.
Cobra is lamb to the slaughter .. Imperial Eagle is about 7k to repair, back from 6% hull.

Anyway, smaller ships are ideal for interdicting people, even before they get to the civil war.
Every little helps, o7


Will she carry a Scarab? Maybe no, maybe yes, maybe I don't know.
 
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BillD

BillD
When David, posted the first still image of the SRV on the planet, I made the comment " Well.... make it move". Now that they have, I am behaving like a 55 year old child eagerly pining for Christmas Holidays :) <-----BIG SMILE
I ave an entire month off work From 24th of Dec to 28th of Jan. I was going to paint the house, but I might just pay a person to do it now. Lucky I have the life time expansion or that would add even more cost :)
 

BoggiBlanko

BoggiBlanko
After some peaceful Planet- and SRV-Videos we get these lovely seconds of crazy Action, studded with the Premiere of the mighty Federal Corvette... Frontier knows how to tease!
 

Toumal

Toumal
I just want to say that Frontier finally "got it" in terms of building hype. I am very glad because these regular peeks are a great thing to see, and definitely good for their bottom line too.
 

BoggiBlanko

BoggiBlanko
Patrick_68000 said:
Perhaps, but with the blessing of the Master
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Sure! You mean something like this:


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:D
 

Ekar

Ekar
Wow, looks like great fun! And really brings in that multi-levelled connected gaming that the Battlefield series does so well. Attack from the sky, attack from the ground... looking fantastic.


Monk said:
I believe from Wednesday's stream, they mentioned there are still some graphical tweaks and upgrades that will be coming. However, I wouldn't expect it to look 100% on release and will likely be improved over time.
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That would be great. I'm into Elite mostly for the promise of realistic procedurally generated worlds. The team has done great so far but the presentation at surface level seems to have some way to go. In the recent videos it's hard to tell whether you're driving over rock or sand, for eg. I'd love to see lots more little rocks breaking up the surface, achieved mostly with something like occlusion mapping in some areas, while the bigger detail rocks could interact with geo and come in all different shapes and sizes, and really help to punctuate the terrain with interesting features.

Imagine the shown gameplay with rocks you could almost hide behind, like this..
http://funmozar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Space_Moon_surface_wallpaper.jpg

:D
 
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Ozram

Ozram
David Braben said:
Here is this week’s quick-and-dirty unedited video capture from the Planetary Landings update for Horizons (using the same dev machines as before) as we begin a raid on a surface base, using two SRVs and a ship. Still quite a few elements need work which I won’t list here, but you can see there's been good progress since last week:

https://youtu.be/AaV3FP5HJ48
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What's the matter with you people? I have a wife and child and business to attend to. How am I supposed to do any of that with this sort of thing on the horizon? Also, when's that Vive comming out anyway?

Stupendous job! I am having a great time now and don't even know what I'll do with it once this is out.

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Daemonara said:
Amazing, you are creating the game I've always dreamt about playing!
A big thanks to all of you who are working on Horizons. :)
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That's pretty much how I feel about it too.
 
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BaronDeKalb

BaronDeKalb
Wow this looks great, cant wait to see a capture with the defense drones in action also, maybe a good time to un-nerf missles and torps at least for planetary missions.

I am hoping this new planet thing will NOT be tied in with the powers as i tired that and could not get above rank 1 without spending more than i wanted to, if you have to maintain rank 3 to keep the gear perks it was just to much for me, so i hope these bases will be tied in with the regular mission system and local factions.
 

Quill

Quill
who? said:
I'm curious how this is going to work in Solo. If there's no NPC Wing functionality, I guess gameplay like this is out?

Also - and maybe this is partly due to the video quality - but depth perception does seem to be a consistent 'problem'. It's hard to tell how far away surface features are, or how big that Corvette is. Maybe that's perfectly realistic - in atmosphere-less worlds there's no fog/haze and there are no object of known size for reference (a person, a building of known size, a tree etc.) then it becomes impossible to judge size and/or distance.
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Depth perception was one of the issues the Apollo moon walkers had, it was very hard for them to tell how far away things were too, so we are in good company
 

BoggiBlanko

BoggiBlanko
CmdrJacks said:
I have an idea.

If we want a start date for the beta we just have to ask Don Braben on the day of his daughters wedding. He could never deny a request on such a day. Be warned though, one day.. maybe never.. Don Braben will ask us for a favour in return.
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...but untill that day we'll accept this, as a gift!
 

Hilight

Hilight
David Braben said:
Here is this week’s quick-and-dirty unedited video capture from the Planetary Landings update for Horizons (using the same dev machines as before) as we begin a raid on a surface base, using two SRVs and a ship. Still quite a few elements need work which I won’t list here, but you can see there's been good progress since last week:

https://youtu.be/AaV3FP5HJ48
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Very cool stuff. I can't wait to give it a try :) Thanks a bunch for posting it up
 
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