News Beyond - Chapter Four - Release Date Announcement
Why?
You are aware this is a game with lots of other flashy things which would cause just as much, if not more, of an issue for anyone with epilepsy than the signal scanner.
Lasers: fine
Multi-cannons: fine
Jumping next to suns: also fine
Signal scanner: not fine [knocked out]
This game is not photo-sensitive epilepsy friendly, period.
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Yay! It's not on my day off!
8 days to go!
8 days to go!
Nice 
While I like this announcement and look forward to the release, I leave the following addition to the feature list:
Legacy modules
Face enemies that have significantly more powerful weapons and modules, that you will not be able to obtain. This is true for both PvE and PvP.
Thargoid combat zones
This is everyone was waiting for.
Undisclosed money glitch
Again the mission board will be highly imbalanced. You will find missions totally worthless, while others will get you in an Anaconda in no-time.
All platforms?
This release simultaneously everywhere right?
This release simultaneously everywhere right?
Looks like the forum was spot on for the timing of the release:
Never
Soon
New Year
After Christmas
Before Christmas
19th Dec
18th Dec
17th Dec
16th Dec
15th Dec
14th Dec
13th Dec
12th Dec
11th Dec
This Week
Immediately Beta Closes
If anyone said "sooner than you think," that was a pretty good guess also
Never
Soon
New Year
After Christmas
Before Christmas
19th Dec
18th Dec
17th Dec
16th Dec
15th Dec
14th Dec
13th Dec
12th Dec
11th Dec
This Week
Immediately Beta Closes
If anyone said "sooner than you think," that was a pretty good guess also
Great news. I do hope Frontier change their mind about Passive scanning though.
I think it's a bad mistake to incorporate this into the game where people get credits and First Discoveries when the ship finds things close by that they likely had no intention of looking for in the first place. Also it messes up untouched systems involuntarily.
If passive scanning stays as a 'feature', then firstly the messages should only pop up on your HUD in Analysis Mode and any of the discoveries that are made passively should be informational only, thus not counting towards actual exploration data or the ability to have a first discovery off it.
Scanning a Nav Beacon to populate all the names in a system is informational only. So should it be with passive scanning.
Credits and discoveries (particularly First discoveries) should be attained with some manual effort from the pilot.
This is an explorer completionists nightmare as it is now.
I do hope Frontier see sense on this for the live build. Other than this, I think Chapter 4 is one of the best updates so far.
I think it's a bad mistake to incorporate this into the game where people get credits and First Discoveries when the ship finds things close by that they likely had no intention of looking for in the first place. Also it messes up untouched systems involuntarily.
If passive scanning stays as a 'feature', then firstly the messages should only pop up on your HUD in Analysis Mode and any of the discoveries that are made passively should be informational only, thus not counting towards actual exploration data or the ability to have a first discovery off it.
Scanning a Nav Beacon to populate all the names in a system is informational only. So should it be with passive scanning.
Credits and discoveries (particularly First discoveries) should be attained with some manual effort from the pilot.
This is an explorer completionists nightmare as it is now.
I do hope Frontier see sense on this for the live build. Other than this, I think Chapter 4 is one of the best updates so far.
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Ooh, that's pretty good timing. I'm just putting the finishing touches to my new exploration ship.
Booked the Wednesday off work, nice one for the advance warning FD!