It may not seem like much, but I saw a screencap from the Engineers beta and despite all of the other huge upgrades that the game is getting, I think I prefer this as my favourite add to Elite: Dangerous.
Imperial Cutters and Federal Corvettes are FINALLY going to become NPC's which fly around in space, as opposed to being stuck in Conflict Zones and other Faction specific combat areas.
I know it is only a small change, but in my opinion it is just going to rock like nobodies business. For instance, going to an Haz Res and finding a mining Cutter being pirated by a Corvette. This is my dream and my nightmare, what with the AI being upgraded it is likely that turrets won't wait to look at you to fire any longer. But that doesn't matter, I just love the idea of being able to find such monstrous craft and seeing how big the bounties get to take some of these beasts down. Like an Elite Cutter Pirate. Probably in the region of about 400,000cr seeing as how just under double the ship price seems to be the cut off point for the larger ships like the Anaconda.
Just found the image in the latest newsletter.
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dcbf6...ages/9f57f8af-21c5-4a4e-abce-0c5787c84fcf.jpg
Imperial Cutters and Federal Corvettes are FINALLY going to become NPC's which fly around in space, as opposed to being stuck in Conflict Zones and other Faction specific combat areas.
I know it is only a small change, but in my opinion it is just going to rock like nobodies business. For instance, going to an Haz Res and finding a mining Cutter being pirated by a Corvette. This is my dream and my nightmare, what with the AI being upgraded it is likely that turrets won't wait to look at you to fire any longer. But that doesn't matter, I just love the idea of being able to find such monstrous craft and seeing how big the bounties get to take some of these beasts down. Like an Elite Cutter Pirate. Probably in the region of about 400,000cr seeing as how just under double the ship price seems to be the cut off point for the larger ships like the Anaconda.
Just found the image in the latest newsletter.
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dcbf6...ages/9f57f8af-21c5-4a4e-abce-0c5787c84fcf.jpg