Codex actually does a wayyy bigger contribution to game than it seems at first.

KG_Jedi

KG_Jedi
Because of....

LORE ARTICLES!

You know, having a full lore articles about major factions and just story of Elite in general in AUDIO and text at same time, which I can listen to during gaming is AMAZING!
Plus, it's not text-to-speech, it's actual voice acting, and good one, as far as I hear it.

I just can't tell how much it adds to game in general. It adds immersion, that understanding what everyone stands for and logical reasons for their actions in-game.

Good job, really. Having it in-game in very usable way is also a great amount of work.



Mind one question though, does it come in other languages as well? Russian for example... Because I know russian version of Elite has everything in russian, UI, texts... Having russian text with english voice acting would be a bit weird, so wondering how it will be in Q4 update.

Thanks, and see ya all at next livestream chat! o7
 

smiths121

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See thats all nice and all - but as a teenager I memorised FE2 gazetters and te FFE universe.

Cos of that, I thouth the personal journey stuff was better.

Of course YMMV - but all good in my view.

Simon
 

[VR] Deggial

[VR] Deggial
The Codex looks great!
Finally some background for the Elite universe and also beautifully narrated!

On suggestion though:
I was missing a "GalNet" tab.
Wouldn't it be useful to have quick access to older GalNet articles, too?

They could be sorted by the different story arcs so that new players could easily get a recap on what happened so far.
For example: every article related to the "Far god cult" could be gathered in one arc.

Edit: Having all the (also future) articles narrated is certainly not feasible. Plain text or the already implemented TTS function would therefore be fully acceptable for the GalNet section, imo.
 
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Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Deggial said:
The Codex looks great!
Finally some background for the Elite universe and also beautifully narrated!

On suggestion though:
I was missing a "GalNet" tab.
Wouldn't it be useful to have quick access to older GalNet articles, too?

They could be sorted by the different story arcs so that new players could easily get a recap on what happened so far.
For example: every article related to the "Far god cult" could be gathered in one arc.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Here's hoping that there's improvements to the Galnet part of the UI as well.
 

akaliel

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The Discoveries part of the Codex has me the most excited. Just having something in game that tells us there's something over here that nobody has found yet gives explorers a goal beyond what the ones they give themselves.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
akaliel said:
The Discoveries part of the Codex has me the most excited. Just having something in game that tells us there's something over here that nobody has found yet gives explorers a goal beyond what the ones they give themselves.
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Plus the 'reported' and 'rumoured bits'...
 

S3B4ST13N

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The narration was top notch, it's so Mass Effect that I loved it instantly. I will definitely be brushing up on my lore.
I only wished they'd done the same for GalNet articles; not the auto-generated ones with reports and such, those are fine; but the more lore related types, the news articles. A news anchor person reading this stuff would have been awesome. :)

Deggial said:
The Codex looks great!
Finally some background for the Elite universe and also beautifully narrated!

On suggestion though:
I was missing a "GalNet" tab.
Wouldn't it be useful to have quick access to older GalNet articles, too?

They could be sorted by the different story arcs so that new players could easily get a recap on what happened so far.
For example: every article related to the "Far god cult" could be gathered in one arc.
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That would be an excellent addition, I would definitely want to playlist those as I go about my business.

Lightspeed said:
Just one question: How am I going to read it all ? [woah]
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Fully narrated; not the text-to-speech stuff. Proper voice actors. :D
 

govny

govny
I have not understood if through codex you can see your discoveries in detail, like the earth-like planet you have discovered and so on. Otherwise to me it is useless.
 

S3B4ST13N

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govny said:
I have not understood if through codex you can see your discoveries in detail, like the earth-like planet you have discovered and so on. Otherwise to me it is useless.
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There are three parts to the Codex: Commander, Discoveries and Knowledge Archive.

The Commander section which contains some interesting stats (think .. Inara I guess?); it has a session log and an archive. The session log explains things you've been doing for that session.
The archive contains your discoveries, they weren't clear on whether or not that includes planets (that might not be possible given the amount of information and amount of planets that can be discovered).

Discoveries, is a nice way to keep you busy; travel to a region and start looking around. Discovering stuff and it keeps track of that.

Knowledge Archive is basically just a big book on Elite history. Think of the Codex from Mass Effect for reference.

Hope that helps.
 

M00ka

M00ka
The only thing I would have liked to see in the CODEX is the user guide just so players don't have to leave the game if they come up against something they haven't seen or experienced before.

In addition to the CODEX I did like the new addition that if you incur a bounty or fine there is a blurb telling you what is required to clear it - well done FD!
 

Braandlin

Braandlin
M00ka said:
The only thing I would have liked to see in the CODEX is the user guide just so players don't have to leave the game if they come up against something they haven't seen or experienced before.

In addition to the CODEX I did like the new addition that if you incur a bounty or fine there is a blurb telling you what is required to clear it - well done FD!
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on a positive note at least now they have somewhere to actually put the user guide when they include it. - even with links to other parts of the codex...
 

M00ka

M00ka
Braandlin said:
on a positive note at least now they have somewhere to actually put the user guide when they include it. - even with links to other parts of the codex...
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I was just thinking that very same thing, there is a lot of room for expansion on the CODEX screen so hopefully more and more things will be added over time.

One thing I would have liked to see is that ability to include notes against the discoveries, they could be stored on the user side but it might be nice to be able to jot down something pertinent about a planet - like good source for selenium or nice place for buggy jumping. that sort of thing.
 
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