To be honest there wasnt much news or infact anything in the "News" letter 
August Dev Diary, your hopes and expectations
- Thread starter Andro
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With respect for my what?
I think we'll have to disagree about what the playerbase will find more interesting. Yet another formulaic newsletter or the time and date of an event when Frontier might actually give some information out about Odyssey.
Tough call.
The fact their name is incorrect on the list kind of says it all really....broken, Fdev are broken lol FRONTIER DEVELOPM where is the EMTS...oh yes they only get that part when they finish a product with content that is fun...
The Ents were last seen marching on Isengard. Hope they are okay.
There will be sooooo many summaries of Dev Diary .... either pop into the forum afterwards, or wait for the first YouTube influencer to post
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Indeed and if they stick to that it is good news for me if they roll that into ED.H as I will be stuck in that if I want to carry on playing. I would love to see those concept images in my SRV in VR
Definitely going to lose the SIM crowd over that one, but I suspicion most of Elite's playerbase are in fact RPG-oriented...not SIM oriented. They just think they are, but bring back flight take off routines, higher fuel and repair costs, and really grind out supercruise and hyperspace...
I love simulators - love them - but Elite is clearly meant to be a game, not a SIM, if Odyssey is any indicator. What remains to be seen is if that gamer population can stand shallow content - or none at all - much longer. It says a lot that, at this juncture, single-player titles like X4 have more life in them than this game.
Well, you probably mean you would like to see the results the game artists made from that concept art.
Sorry for being pedantic, but there was only ever one (maybe two?) image(s) that were from the game engine, the rest were concept art, and everyone got really excited for some reason...
It was an ice shader folks...
I hear what you are saying, as I find flying my Krait in Space Engineers WAY more challenging than flying the same ship in ED.
Whoa! Salty!
Maybe you didn't realise in your eagerness to sprinkle us with your salty response, but I was repling to someone else's views on what they'd like to see, and simply airing what my take on it would be.
As for improved planet surfaces, there were of course the much touted ice world improvements delayed from 2018 which we're still waiting for... We can only assume these were delayed because it made more sense to combine it into some other later release? I'd assume that could be planetary surface improvements in general coming with this next big update.
Now, take a deep breath and maybe go easy with that salt! It's bad for you in quantity!
ps: Braben talking about clouds 8yrs ago, which again, we can only hope tech and content like this is due soon (and it would be higher up my list than FPS pewpew) -
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Whoa! Salty!
Maybe you didn't realise in your eagerness to sprinkle us with your salty response, but I was repling to someone else's views on what they'd like to see, and simply airing what my take on it would be.
As for improved planet surfaces, there were of course the much touted ice world improvements delayed from 2018 which we're still waiting for... We can only assume these were delayed because it made more sense to combine it into some other later release? I'd assume that could be planetary surface improvements in general coming with this next big update.
Now, take a deep breath and maybe go easy with that salt! It's bad for you in quantity!
ps: Braben talking about clouds 8yrs ago, which again, we can only hope is due soon? -Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk&t=4m40s
What no-one realises is that you are in fact driving on a giant salt crystal and dodging sodium ions.
Absolutely. I was talking about the target renders NOT the (imo more than acceptable but not stunning) in engine ice surfaces.
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I've never seen the game as a space flight sim, as it's not really like space flight in the slightest. To me it's more like what you say, a Han Solo simulator. I'm a commander struggling to survive in a harsh galaxy. But the only thing missing are harsher consequences. It's too easy at present.
That's one of the few games that nearly convinces me to splash on a PC again. I've been console peasant for years now, though, and aside from missing RTSs I really have been ok. That and my playstations never jack up. Like, ever. I guess I'm just lucky, but aside from the Thrustmaster drifting in the twist...console has been surprisingly uneventful in all the right ways.
Anyways...I'd love to play Space Engineers. Needless to say, I enjoy NMS for building junk...but that doesn't have as much functional stuff in it like Space Engineers.
Called it.
Although to be fair, the "gun" they showed off was a legit science tool. A science tool. I got to give them credit, that actually surprised me.
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It's a handheld composition scanner. Wouldn't go so far as to call it 'science'