PC is the priority development and optimisation platform for Elite Dangerous, always has been, always will be.
Development Update 4 - September
- Thread starter Arthur Tolmie
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Does it means that I will be able to wear my epic sunglasses on my suits again? I hope so.
Perhaps they were (pause to remove sunglasses) dropped?
Leaving aside my animosity to other issues, its the only way FD can really assess if a console version is even possible until they have at least gone through the motions for PC. My guess is that point of go / no go will be the new year at the earliest.
I got to applaud them on the addition of Fleet carrier Interiors; that's got to be the best possible social space available, because it's about the only place where you are guaranteed a waiting period With multiple players in the same space.
I hope they had an option for a CQC arcade, that would be a fantastic way to spend time while waiting for the fleet carrier to jump.
I hope they had an option for a CQC arcade, that would be a fantastic way to spend time while waiting for the fleet carrier to jump.
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lots of work, good ... but still not a word on VR support, sad ..
Why a combat SRV? WHat about a long range exploration SRV or a cargo hauler for working ruins? People have been asking for those for years. I don't understand why everything has to be driven towards combat, not all of us have that as a playing style.
long ago Sandro spoke of a 'spine' where ships fit along it for certain things. I wonder what happened to that? Right now that spine has so many slipped discs it needs physio and a wheelchair.
FC interiors! Combat SRV's! Cats and dogs, living together! Biblical proportions!
Please just tell us now that you have no intention of releasing Odyssey on console EVER. You keep saying you want to get Odyssey running properly before releasing to console and I get that and am willing to wait but you're constantly releasing and planning to release new stuff to Odyssey that will inevitably need fixing making our wait wvenlonger. Why can't you just fix what's there then release to console then add new stuff. We've waited long enough and are just ignored constantly and kept in the dark.
I suspect the issue surrounding performance (which is the main issue at the moment) will have zero effect on a new SRV or extra missions.
I don't care about the other games, I don't play them. They have told us the plan, this is what is happening.
It's a different game. Fdev have a whole team dedicated to the consoles. From what I know, they haven't disapeared.
Maybe because they don't know yet. No point in giving a release time if they don't know it.
Why. You know what the answer is. As soon as they know, we will know. Yes I'm sure its disappointing, but what can they do, apart from concentrating on getting the performance where it needs to be (which they are working on) so it can be ported to consoles. But they need to get that fixed first before they will have a rough estimate on console release.
But while they are optimising, there is literally no reason why they should stop developing that game.
It's cute that you still believe it's ever being released to console. This is the end of the road for us
They've been pretty clear on VR support already.
It takes more than just a 3D artist to add a new vehicle into the game. There will any physics related coding changes to make it handle how they want it to (because we know those things are tweaked rather than always calculated for reasons of both balance and computational efficiency) plus how it should accelerate, top speed, weapons targeting, size of inventory, etc, etc. Not to mention the testers ... who, as a result of testing the new SRV, will not be testing other things.
I do get your general point - there are folks with different skills and it is possible that all of the people that could be fixing network connectivity bugs on Horizons are simply not available because they are too busy fixing bugs on Odyssey. My point is more how this looks. Irrespective of how much effort it took or what those folks w/could have been doing instead, announcing additional content built on top of something that already doesn't work properly and already doesn't have a plan for when it will come to consoles is just a slap in the face. And a stupid PR move. Unless of course you don't give a flying monkey for your console market which, frankly, I rather suspect is the case.
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shrug, facepalm, impatient
Someone made a point - could have been this thread or another - that if they really wanted it to work on consoles they should have started there and then scaled UP. A heck of a lot easier than trying to scale down.
Yes, and when stuff is being tested, they can work on other stuff. Its how we all work. I don't send stuff out on proof and sit there for a few days until someone gets back to me, I start working on the next project.
It's not a slap in the face when you use some logic.
Thats a good point.
They did actually give some information about this in the stream, in that the console builds have to be verified by the console makers before they're granted a license to use the platform. Seen like that you can see why Sony etc wouldn't want Frontier knocking on their door every five minutes, with a new point update looking for accreditation.
They also mentioned again consoles are still slated for development once Odyssey is in the right place and that Arf is a console player himself, so keen to see it too. So while I can see how console users might want Frontier to hold their hands for them, no news can be good news too. Consoles are still slated for release when Odyssey is in the right condition for porting, so it's as you were.