News Chapter One Beta closure
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But support sounds your best bet.
Not stunned, but pleasantly surprised on how good the ch.1 beta turned out and the extra surprise features and changes. A lot of time and resources was getting the ps4 version to work which I would guess hampered the development of everything else in 2017. I'm amazed that the ps4 release was just six months ago and that the ps4 community has integrated so well. I'd still accept the tradeoff in a longer Horizons dev time since the ps4 community adds to the persistent galaxy, the future of the game, and the playerbase as a whole. They also announced a dedicated effort to Beyond during the FrontierExpo while continuing to work on the 2.4 Return. I'd thought the thargoid invasion had already started. Stations started burning. New megaship rescues. AX fighters and new weaponry. Even thargoid hunting & research modes were added to multicrew. They're slowly making their way to the borders of the bubble. Remember in Star Trek :TNG, the borg had decimated Romulan outposts in season1, and it was still more than a year since Q gave the TNG crew a heads up on them, before they invaded deep into Federation space in "Best of Both Worlds", so a two year drawn out invasion from another end of the galaxy.
Exactly. It's easy to examine NMS closely and see it's at its core a walking survival game with dressed up space elements. The space travel is cartoony, the planet flyover is basically a basic flight simulation level, and the ship is like an arcady, cartoony go-kart. The randomized planet variations gets old quick and has little of the physics and astronomical theory fidelity of the ED planetoids. I bet NMS' cartoony design style was intentional so that there was no need to adhere to a realistic style, space physics and galaxy which would have required a lot more work. Kind of like manga compared to realistic looking faces in comics. To give NMS due credit, it does have its own unique colorful art style which may be relaxing and dreamlike to some.
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I've just had a thought, while open beta has closed, might there not be a following closed beta to give a last minute shakedown before release?
As a backer (only at alpha stage), I've manage to get to test all the betas, before open beta was a 'thing'. So maybe beta isn't completely finished with ... yet.
I suspect that they are now working away on release version, but you never know.
As a backer (only at alpha stage), I've manage to get to test all the betas, before open beta was a 'thing'. So maybe beta isn't completely finished with ... yet.
I suspect that they are now working away on release version, but you never know.
On a slightly off-topic note.
Regarding PS4 and Xbox players ... are we likely to get cross platform integration any time soon?
It would be good to play with all players of Elite regardless of machine being used.
It would be better for game players in general and I think better for games companies.
As it stands you need to own one of each machine to be able to play every game.
Someone has already mention that bringing in console players has increased ED's footprint.
Best thing with ED is that there should not be any great advantage of one type over another.
Regarding PS4 and Xbox players ... are we likely to get cross platform integration any time soon?
It would be good to play with all players of Elite regardless of machine being used.
It would be better for game players in general and I think better for games companies.
As it stands you need to own one of each machine to be able to play every game.
Someone has already mention that bringing in console players has increased ED's footprint.
Best thing with ED is that there should not be any great advantage of one type over another.
Were the ships in the Beta? The Beta is/was totally separate from the live game, and all that happens in Beta stays in Beta - there's no transfer to the live game.
Good out of the box thinking there Wyaston! that would make sense and a new player might well be confused by the way of things.
That's why an open beta is probably not the best approch... there should at least be a minimum time of being registered in order to access the betas. Doesn't make much sense for new players to test a beta anyway, as they don't really have a clue of what and how to test.
Totaly agree!��
Not sure on that
when E
enters Beta I tend to use it to try out stuff that's new or alternately stuff that ive never tried before So I am effectively a "new player" and I often don't have a clue of what or how to test
Yes would give a little more flavor to the Newsletter
Not sure on that
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So I am effectively a "new player" and I often don't have a clue of what or how to test
Not really because you have enough experience in the live game to tell if things are better, worse or just different.
Never used Engineers before - used them in Beta
No idea if they are better, worse or different
Been playing Elite for the very beginning from before when ing betty the drunken station announcer would throw you out the airlock when docking as soon as you even looked at the station
Warm up phase Commanders
Very soon (tm)
And to start : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/407608-Crime-and-Punishment-in-Beyond-Chapter-One
Very soon (tm)
And to start : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/407608-Crime-and-Punishment-in-Beyond-Chapter-One
Out of rep Commander but this virtual one with pleasure +1
AldrickExGladius
Banned
am i the only one having a hard time going back to Horizons now that i played the beta for beyond?
no
i cant be
no
i cant be
No there are many of us who feel that way.
Thank you FD for letting regular players participate in the Beta 1 and 2! I had a blast! Can't wait for the update to go live. I parked around a really dull looking planet, looking forward to watching it evolve.