Colossal announcement at Gamescom in two weeks' time

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ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
CMDR SaintSpark said:
"Colossal" may be the refrence to "Very big ships with special functionality". I don't think that it'll be PL. I think "space first", EVE has this lesson with "Encarna" exspansion.
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Incarna?

I thought that was walking around anyway.

Planets are in space, the ability to fly down to them (and land on outposts and do some other things) has been in the series since 1994. So it's just a level of detail that was deliberately excluded from the initial release, but I don't see why ED doesn't deserve to go to that level of detail (granted it's much more complex 20 years later) it's part of the background of the Elite playground.
 

Samosa

Samosa
Windscreen Smudge said:
Those idiots can keep screaming. I don't get why people think they are mutually exclusive. Expansions usually come with huge updates to the main game, and are typically worked on as a whole package.
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People who would prefer that the majority of resources be dedicated to improving the main game are idiots? How rude!
 

Blastbeats

Blastbeats
With the release of Windows 10, and upcoming released of DX12, I would imagine that it is one of a few things:

Since Windows 10 is going to be supported on ANY Windows device, that means Cross platform play between PC and Xbox. So they could have figured out a way to make their P2P network support Cross platform play between PC and Xbox. We are all sharing the same sim anyways, we just exist in different dimensions of the same space, essentially. I don't see how that would work, and if they did, there could be balance issues between Mouse+Keyboard /HOTAS users vs Controller. If this was the case this would be a pretty big announcement imo.

OR:

It's just something basic like PC and Xbox are getting CQC at the same time, along with a release date. Which wouldn't be bad, just wouldn't be a "Gigantic" announcement.

As far as planetary landings go, I don't think we are going to get an announcement for that until at least thanksgiving time.
 

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
avgroenink said:
Did FD say the Colossal Announcement was about ED?
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If you start reading newsletters from #80 onward in gives snippets of information starting with this:

The Elite: Dangerous team is bigger than ever, and the majority are working on something secret for PC and Mac. It's not quite ready for the world just yet, but we'll be able to tell you more at Gamescom. Believe us: we can hardly wait.
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TheDayman

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It's been stated previously that cross-play between PC and X-Box will not happen. One reason being due to the game updates that we receive. X-Box has to verify the updates first which is a longer process then the PC updates.

Also, it's been stated already that X-Box will get CQC ahead of PC. I doubt the announcement is that they're now being released at the same time.

My guess for the announcement is the first expansion which will be ship/station walking and include things such as passenger missions, stealth missions, perhaps ship boarding as well.

A note on boarding: A while back, there was a game artists rendering of what a ship boarding would look like. I would love it if someone could find that picture. I remember it looked like a ship that was blown in half with a human on the inside of the ship looking out into over the missing section. Does anyone have that picture by any chance?
 
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Jynessa Loraeyn

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Check this out:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/space-new-world-war-ii-david-walsh

Just published article by Chief Operating Officer of Frontier Developments.

This part:

"Of course we’re not standing still even now. We’ve been working very hard for a long time on some truly mouthwatering new features which fundamentally transform the game, and are about to come to fruition - we’ll be making a big announcement at Gamescom next week!"

This is quite a bit more than just 'colossal'.

I really think the Gamescom announcement is the Feature That Must Not Be Named. *cough*etary*cough*ndings.

How else is that to be interpreted? That is quite an unrestrained bit of description. They're really setting themselves up to have to deliver something huge.

<_<;
 

Alien

Alien
To everyone hoping or thinking the gamescon announcement will be Planetary Landings ... if it isn't, I hope you all take this as a lesson not to get your hopes up or speculate about what's coming and just let Frontier get on with it.

Of course if it is an announcement about Planetary Landings, I'll be as happy as the rest of you. What I'm not going to do is have any expectations.
 

lysan

lysan
Alien said:
To everyone hoping or thinking the gamescon announcement will be Planetary Landings ... if it isn't, I hope you all take this as a lesson not to get your hopes up or speculate about what's coming and just let Frontier get on with it.

Of course if it is an announcement about Planetary Landings, I'll be as happy as the rest of you. What I'm not going to do is have any expectations.
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Are you one of the sock eating commanders?
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
Alien said:
To everyone hoping or thinking the gamescon announcement will be Planetary Landings ... if it isn't, I hope you all take this as a lesson not to get your hopes up or speculate about what's coming and just let Frontier get on with it.

Of course if it is an announcement about Planetary Landings, I'll be as happy as the rest of you. What I'm not going to do is have any expectations.
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I think it will be Planetary Landings. I don't hope it will be, however. I would much prefer something major from the core of the game, though I never seriously expected things like proper exploration or tier 2 NPCs, etc., to be announced at a con. Just not shiny enough, and lacking in bling. And none of that stuff would be described, even by FD's PR department, as fundamentally transforming the game. So either it is something huge from out of left field (and I can't think of anything, not that I would have thought about powerplay, either), or it is a big expansion. And with going walkies already explicitly ruled out by FD, that only leaves planetary landings.

But with "Colossal" and "fundamentally transform the game" they are setting themselves up for a huge fall if it is not spectacular.
 

Jack Dalton

Jack Dalton
Might as well be Planetary Landings... a "colossal announcement" may perfectly amount to nothing more than promising planetary landings, showing a bit of pre-rendered work-in-progress stuff and throwing a late-2016 date.

I sure hope I am being too much of a skeptic.
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
AnnuverScotinExile said:
I think it will be Planetary Landings. I don't hope it will be, however. I would much prefer something major from the core of the game, though I never seriously expected things like proper exploration or tier 2 NPCs, etc., to be announced at a con. Just not shiny enough, and lacking in bling. And none of that stuff would be described, even by FD's PR department, as fundamentally transforming the game. So either it is something huge from out of left field (and I can't think of anything, not that I would have thought about powerplay, either), or it is a big expansion. And with going walkies already explicitly ruled out by FD, that only leaves planetary landings.

But with "Colossal" and "fundamentally transform the game" they are setting themselves up for a huge fall if it is not spectacular.
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When you say "walkies" I'm assuming you're referring to walking on planets/ships/stations - can you cite evidence of this?
 

AnnuverScotinExile

AnnuverScotinExile
TheDayman said:
When you say "walkies" I'm assuming you're referring to walking on planets/ships/stations - can you cite evidence of this?
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Yes I do mean that. There was a recent throw-away remark that it was not coming for quite a while. Probably in a Dev update or in the Lavecon feedback, but I do not recall exactly where. Someone will - it has been mentioned lots of times, indeed there is probably a link in an earlier page of this thread.
 
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Barking_Mad

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AnnuverScotinExile said:
Yes I do mean that. There was a recent throw-away remark that it was not coming for quite a while. Probably in a Dev update or in the Lavecon feedback, but I do not recall exactly where. Someone will - it has been mentioned lots of times, indeed there is probably a link in an earlier page of this thread.
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Someone, IIRC, asked Michael Brookes at Lavecon and he said walking was a long way off. It's definitely NOT this part of the game.
 
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