Colossal announcement at Gamescom in two weeks' time

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Pomerlaw

Pomerlaw
Jack Dalton said:
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.
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It is an announcement, of course it will be showing WIP only stuff. They are not going to dump PL in the next update.
 

askavir

askavir
Well with the announcement date approaching I though I would be more far more anxious than I actually am... Just hope to be positively surprised, but after the E3 disappointment and all those CQC newsletters i really ain't able to get hyped this time.
 
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askavir

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dc83 said:
Heh. Just because they say it isn't 'fps mode' doesn't mean it isn't being able to wander around your ship, maybe even stations. It just means that if you can, you won't have a gun or otherwise be able to kill people. After all, it's not an 'fps' if you can't shoot.
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FD said that people would not be able to exit ships until they could develop that feature in a manner that was truly satisfying. There would need to be reasons to exit the ships rather than just sightseeing, things to do, new game mechanics, stuff that will take time to implement. I don't think that leaving the seat will be something for the near future.
 
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Windscreen Smudge

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LeetNoob said:
It's certainly not mutual exclusive, but it is hard to imagine how resources spent on one thing wouldn't detract from resources spent on another. FD have limited staff time and it needs to be spread across everything they're doing.
I'd personally prefer they focus more on the core game rather than these bolted on additions, of course if they can do both affectively at the same time then I’m happy with that.
It remains to be seen what exactly they have been working on, I’m excited without getting my hopes up too much.
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Again, finishing what exists is typically part of making an expansion, unless you're incompetent. If content in an expansion relies on finished content in the base game, and it usually does, you finish that first. The reason those bits of the game probably got pushed off until the expansion is because it made more fiscal sense to work on them at the same time and make sure they mesh well, rather than doing it once and having to completely revamp it again when the expansion is being worked on because of unforeseen conflicts. So... If you expected something to be done 3-6 months ago and it got mysteriously pushed out for "reasons", this is probably that reason.
 

stevesideas

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For those of you wondering if Planetary Landings is the next big announcement I found this LINK on reddit. Just check the schedule that DB mentions. It can only be !

Plus it does declare that it will be seamless...which makes me very happy ! Although saying that, I wonder if FD consider transitions from SC to normal space seamless ? I don't !
 
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Alien

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stevesideas said:
For those of you wondering if Planetary Landings is the next big announcement I found this LINK on reddit. Just check the schedule that DB mentions. It can only be !

Plus it does declare that it will be seamless...which makes me very happy ! Although saying that, I wonder if FD consider transitions from SC to normal space seamless ? I don't !
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That has no connection at this time to what will be announced at Gamescon, OR another way to say it is, the reddit article does not indicate anywhere that the gamescon announcement must be planetary landings.

Please do not put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.
 

Windscreen Smudge

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Jynessa Loraeyn said:
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.

<_<;
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In-ship sushi bars with HD menu items.
 

Rami77

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Alien said:
That has no connection at this time to what will be announced at Gamescon, OR another way to say it is, the reddit article does not indicate anywhere that the gamescon announcement must be planetary landings.

Please do not put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.
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Maybe you are right, but they are talking about an Colossal Anouncement. Everything else then a Expansion Pack would be a joke. What else could it be? PS4 Release? (well maybe, this could bring them more money).

And if its an Expansion Pack then it can only be 1) Planetary Landings or 2) "Walking arround" Stuff. (Because they (kind of) sold this kind of Expansions Packs about 18 month ago : Exp1 or Exp2 or "Lifetime Pass").

BTW : An Anouncement didnt mean that the realease of this Expansion Pack is just arround the corner. But an Anounchment would give them the chance to (pre)sell these... wich means : Moar Money... And i am pretty sure FD needs money to finance further projects.

One thing is sure : The "Colossal Anouncement" is something that should generate money.

Expansion Pack (thumbs up!) or PS4 release (lame, but possible)!

Mark my words! :)
 
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Alien

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Rami77 said:
Maybe you are right, but they are talking about an Colossal Anouncement. Everything else then a Expansion Pack would be a joke. What thouls it else be? PS4 Release? (well maybe, this could bring them more money).

And if its an Expansion Pack then it can only be 1) Planetary Landings or 2) "Walking arround" Stuff. (Because they (kind of) sold this Expansions Packs about 18 month ago).

BTW : An Anouncement didnt mean that the realease of this Expansion Pack is just arround the corner. But an Anounchment would give them the chance to (pre)sell these... wich means : Moar Money... And i am pretty sure FD needs money to finance further projects.

One thing is sure : The "Colossal Anouncement" is something that generate money.

Expansion Pack or PS4 release!

Mark my words! :)
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I hope people are right and that is IS Planetary landings, I be will happier than any of you given how long I've been on this forum pushing for this ... but because we don't know what Frontier are working on, and they're not saying, I think we are foolish to expect it to be planetary landings.

If it is, great, if it isn't and is something else, then at least I am not disappointed that it isn't planetary landings.
 
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Aewarin Jameson

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I personally hope for EVA ... for me that makes more logical sense:

- Iteration 1: Fly ship
- Iteration 2: Walk about ship and leave (when on the station)
- Iteration 3: Land on surface of planet and walk about

It's adding new things to do, rather than new locations with nothing to do ;)

(Sorry but to me PL is not that big a deal)
 

Kris

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Little more hype for Gamescom:
Eddie Symons ‏@bovaflux 3h3 hours ago
I haven't said anything for months about what I've been doing on #elitedangerous. In a few days you'll finally find out what it is! #EDGC15
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Rami77

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Alien said:
If it is, great, if it isn't and is something else, then at least I am not disappointed that it isn't planetary landings.
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Whats your opinion? What could it be if they call it "colosal"?

And guessing is not foolish in my eyes.
 
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Obsidian Ant

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Liqua said:
I personally hope for EVA ... for me that makes more logical sense:

- Iteration 1: Fly ship
- Iteration 2: Walk about ship and leave (when on the station)
- Iteration 3: Land on surface of planet and walk about

It's adding new things to do, rather than new locations with nothing to do ;)

(Sorry but to me PL is not that big a deal)
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Won't be EVA. Frontier have already confirmed that "walking around" is not the Gamescom announcement.
 
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