Development Update 5 - October
- Thread starter Bruce G
- Start date
My guess is it will that 2 slots so class 4 and up. Would love to be wrong though!
Confirmed here too, i get around 30fps average while on foot (CZ)
BUT I get crashes, game just freezes, and closes ...
not often, crashed twice in 4 hours while on foot CZ. (10~ med CZ with relog to restart)
Only thing is, ships have a certain size of SRV lift with a hatch. They can't force a larger SRV through the same hole, so maybe we'll get lucky and it'll just unfold like the current one.
Just because we get a tour of the build in development doesn't mean it'll be ready for release this year, I'm afraid. Although I certainly won't complain if it is.
Yeah, I've realized it's most likely a sneak peek on stream. I somehow thought of a small expedition when I read "FC tour".
maybe they’ll put some windows on the other side as well?
or maybe we get more than one “room”.
what was shown should be traffic control, and the actual bridge would be another.
just wish they would be connected with doors instead of elevators.
nice to see this lineup -- I hope this means that things are clearing up on the bugfixing and optimization side, and the team is getting more room to move forward with planned content. the halloween cosmetics were a nice surprise, especially for the sake of an Odyssey-compatible helmet with an opaque faceplate. I feel like I've seen some NPCs cropping up with new cosmetic models as well since the update, and I hope this is a sign that our fashion options are going to continue getting incrementally deeper.
The bridge tower is at the back of the carrier on mine (default layout). Therefore it looks over the landing pads to the front of the carrier.
The other day I took a couple of pics of the bridge structure so I can compare them later, when we get actual usable windows
Shot from the rear of the carrier, looking past the bridge to the landing pads and the nose (in the darkness)
Last edited:
Nah but there is quiet a few people who say you cannot compare ground performance to other current games due to the size or smth. Then again AC odyssey and ACV maps are larger at better graphics and better performance with more active interactions etc
I think you are misunderstanding what those other people are saying. You cannot compare EDO with AC, but not because of the number of stars. It's a long, long talk about many basic topics, so I am going to leave it at that.
This! It would be lovely to park my T9 outside a station with small/medium pads and fly in and land with a taipan. Taking/completing Missions, stocking up on supplies, or simply to hang out.
Cheers
DZ
having SLFs treated as 'landing craft' under certain situations sounds pretty fun. especially for on-foot stuff, where finding a decent spot to make landfall with something the size of the ISS might be difficult.
Regarding the multi-limpet controller and rebalancing, please add Class 2 and Class 4 ordinary limpet controllers (so there's class 1-5 limpet controllers) and give them limpets equal to their class number (increasing class 3 from 2 to 3 and class 5 from 3 to 5). I've always thought it's ridiculous that a controller 32 times more massive only gets three times more limpets.
Then add multi-limpet controllers for class 3, 4 and 5, with a class 3 having 2 limpets, a class 4 having 3 limpets and a class 5 having 4 limpets. For the multi-limpet controller, allow the specific limpet types to be chosen in the station.
This balances multi-limpet vs single-limpet controllers and gives a well deserved buff to the larger single limpet controllers.
Then add multi-limpet controllers for class 3, 4 and 5, with a class 3 having 2 limpets, a class 4 having 3 limpets and a class 5 having 4 limpets. For the multi-limpet controller, allow the specific limpet types to be chosen in the station.
This balances multi-limpet vs single-limpet controllers and gives a well deserved buff to the larger single limpet controllers.
Can't wait for Fleet Carrier Interiors!!!
As a reminder... (Yes, I insist !)
These are only some of the 2021 ones :
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
forums.frontier.co.uk
And here you can see such a feature has been requested each year since 2015 :
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/an-odyssey-with-cockpit-npc-crew-on-my-side.559657/
These are only some of the 2021 ones :
General - Assign NPC crew members to the spare cockpit seat so we can actually see our NPC crew members in our cockpits!!
Multicrew members can be assigned to spare seats in your cockpit. The same should apply to NPC crew members who are essentially invisible right now and don't feel like they're part of your crew. This would be a tiny but SIGNIFICANT change! Many thanks for listening.
Multicrew and NPC crew assignments. Enjoyable engagement Suggestion.
There are many suggestions applied to this game. This is because Elite Dangerous has come a long way to what it is now, and people want to see more of it. For me, there's no other game that comes close to what I experience with Elite Dangerous, so my suggestion is exactly what I ever wanted in a...
General - Walking in ship, npc followers
great, really enjoying Odyssey (mainly because all I do is explore) but it's really lonely out there with my Asp. There's a free seat underneath me, but I can't have a recruited npc use it, even if they just sit there looking pretty. It would be super cool if they could use that seat, and follow...
Apex style copilot
Dear FD, Since 2015, I've been waiting for an NPC copilot to take seat in the cockpit with me. But now, with how Apex Interstellar works, I know it's not only doable, but almost done... If you at least want to. Please, please, FD, let us have NPC copilots sitting next to us and taking us where...
AI "NPC" Crew... let us choose to drop them into the cockpit chairs
also, it'd be nice if crew that wasn't active didn't draw a paycheck... but more importantly, it appears that pilots for drop ships and shuttles can be rendered in... why o why are we not putting our NPC buddies in?
Make the NPC Crew visible!
It's just not nice to look at empty seats all the time when you look around your cockpit. I don't even know what the explanation is why the crew is not visible. Maybe its an oversight by Frontier or a long existing bug? I don't see any negative effects of making them visible, so please do it...
Can we PLEASE see our hired crew sitting in our ships please???
You can render the NPC's now, so can you please render my crew member into one of my empty ship seats? Heck, you could even let them get outfitted with suits / accessories same as our Commanders. All those hours flying with my fighter pilot, would be great to see them sitting there at long last.
General - NPC crew as co-pilots
Just recently tried out hiring NPC crew. Sure would be nice if we could hand off controls to them to autopilot a route. They could take the place of the supercruise assist / advanced docking modules. I don't always fly a fighter bay enabled ship, so any other utility when you don't have a...
General - player NPC Crew Pilot
Since you can use Apex to plot a route and be taxied to a location. Why not let the same be done with your own NPC Crewmate? They already take a percentage of your earnings. Why not let them shuttle you around?
NPC pilot to fly our ship
If we have apex interstellar, why we cant use npc crew to fly our ship?
Feature Request: Better NPC hirelings
I know this has probably been requested before. I'm sorry if I'm redundant. Coming from First/Third Person RPG world, one of the things I would most enjoy is a richer experience with the NPC crew. Some of the things that I think of... (please be mindful that I'm a full-time employed...
And here you can see such a feature has been requested each year since 2015 :
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/an-odyssey-with-cockpit-npc-crew-on-my-side.559657/
That's what I thought about the Artemis suit and players like myself near Beagle Point by the time Odyssey came out. It's now about 5-6 months later and I've still not been able to start any exobiology, since I'm crawling towards SagA/Colonia, taking a roundabout route (which is of course my choice) - at this rate I might be able to get a different suit maybe a year from now and start looking at this exobiology thing... And yes, I could have moved faster had I spent more time in the game and taken a shorter route and not scanning and exploring on the way etc. so in some ways it's my own doing, but still it would have been nice to be able to get (buy) a suit like that from a DSSA carrier, if not receive one off the bat on release.
But anyway, I like the update ideas even though most of those are not for me (multi-limpet controller could be though!), nice to see progress happening!
I think Frontier needs to start considering implementing the ability to place remote orders at previously visited stations. So you can buy and ship the item, Ah la Amazon or Fedex style of interaction.
Course for FCs they would need the services to be modules that someone can store and install/Uninstall outside of carrier admin systems.