Development Update 5 - October
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Would be cool to be able to have some small activities between players, for example - playing a poker (ex using points, no currencies involved), or any other simple board games.
Basically create some spaces that can attract players all over the galaxy and be social hubs, I believe this will bring better feeling of being a citizen of the Milky Way in the FD, and facilitate people to spend their ARX more on the outfit.
At a moment it's all about missions, which quite often too 'heavy' cooperation, need to find right ppl, need to coordinate for the missions - this works for players that play together often, but occasional collaboration is harder. Also such 'social hubs' can boost in-game cooperation on missions later on too, people will get to know each other and then can agree on taking some coop missions.
Basically create some spaces that can attract players all over the galaxy and be social hubs, I believe this will bring better feeling of being a citizen of the Milky Way in the FD, and facilitate people to spend their ARX more on the outfit.
At a moment it's all about missions, which quite often too 'heavy' cooperation, need to find right ppl, need to coordinate for the missions - this works for players that play together often, but occasional collaboration is harder. Also such 'social hubs' can boost in-game cooperation on missions later on too, people will get to know each other and then can agree on taking some coop missions.
Will the work on the SRV mean that there's finally a chance to get an option to turn off the horizon locking?
It has been the most bothersome thing for me about vehicle 'combat' since SRVs have been added, that the turret when the vehicle is at an angle, automatically does pitch movement so sole left/right input follows the horizon.
It's not intuitive to me as I've never seen another game do this and it made using the turret manually a pain every single time, and I'm still waiting on an option to finally turn that off and get truly relative control over it.
It has been the most bothersome thing for me about vehicle 'combat' since SRVs have been added, that the turret when the vehicle is at an angle, automatically does pitch movement so sole left/right input follows the horizon.
It's not intuitive to me as I've never seen another game do this and it made using the turret manually a pain every single time, and I'm still waiting on an option to finally turn that off and get truly relative control over it.
Everyone making a big fuss about an interior for a ship that you can't drive; which is OK, if this is what you like in a game, enjoy your static view of the outside from a static object 
I am more interested in the new mission types, and POI; where hopefully this game will be more akin to a regular MMO where you can find gameplay opportunity as you travel through the galaxy, instead of going to a station/settlement hub to get the same mission types, just with different names on it
I am more interested in the new mission types, and POI; where hopefully this game will be more akin to a regular MMO where you can find gameplay opportunity as you travel through the galaxy, instead of going to a station/settlement hub to get the same mission types, just with different names on it
I'd still like to see ship, weapon and suit upgrades being offered as mission rewards. The only reason I would ever want to get into a firefight on foot would be to steal a new weapon or module from some R&D station.
You might think so, but fleet carrier concourses will essentially add private social spaces for wings, parties or entire squadrons. I can see them being useful just for that.Everyone making a big fuss about an interior for a ship that you can't drive; which is OK, if this is what you like in a game, enjoy your static view of the outside from a static object
I am more interested in the new mission types, and POI; where hopefully this game will be more akin to a regular MMO where you can find gameplay opportunity as you travel through the galaxy, instead of going to a station/settlement hub to get the same mission types, just with different names on it
Presumably it will also allow carriers to be used as Apex travel nodes. It's easy to imagine what an improvement this will be as well.
So are the mission changes for on-foot missions only, or are you going to go back and add much needed complexity to the missions in the base game?
Also, your new SRV variant shows your ongoing obsession with combat based game-play. How about SRV variants with higher cargo capacity (but with a speed trade off), or a Surface Mining SRV, or a Stealth SRV?
Also, any news on improvements to on-foot Exploration or a full-blown Stealth approach for on-foot missions? Those were both extremely lacklustre during alpha and at initial release.
Any improvements to be made to the heat map, to make it more like what you promised before the Alpha launched? The one we got at launch was pretty dull, to be honest.
Lastly, glad to see you're bringing us the Multi-limpet controller.....we've only been asking for that for around 4 years.
I'm starting to think that FD has some kind of psychological trauma with the NPC's in the cockpits.
We play this game on firsat place because of space ships. We buy, outfit and fgly our spaceships. Having new spaceships and ship interiors is critical for the success of teh game. Baing bale to walk inside your favourite ship, to modify your interior and to interact with it in different ways is waht matters. Tyhere are plenty of good MMOs out there but not a lot good space ship, open world, sandbox gamesEveryone making a big fuss about an interior for a ship that you can't drive; which is OK, if this is what you like in a game, enjoy your static view of the outside from a static object
I am more interested in the new mission types, and POI; where hopefully this game will be more akin to a regular MMO where you can find gameplay opportunity as you travel through the galaxy, instead of going to a station/settlement hub to get the same mission types, just with different names on it
That is your take on it... I play Star Citizen and I could care less to have ship interiors that does nothing but adding pretty visuals to be honest.
If there is a reason to have interiors, because they augment gameplay, then yes; but since you can't do anything in FPS beside when you are landing at a station or outpost; the fact that you can walk around is useless to me.
If there was EVA and combat/exploration in space, then yes, I would like to walk around my ship and explore other ships; but as the game is now, walking around is just useless, when you can do everything from a terminal. It is fun for 5 minutes, then you won't mind anymore. Then of course YMMV; to each their own.
This is very wrong. In Horizons we have srv and we land on planets all the time. However, there is no need to land on planets at all apart of raw materials grinding but we still land just to wonder around a bit and make photos. if we have cusotmizable interiors it will be the same. We will spend time to have the best looking ship ineterior. Also in my previous commetn I mentioned interactable interiors that allows you to do something more than just walking around. Also, the fact that you have played SC doesn’t make you expert in ship interiors. I have played SC too and I am not impressed at all with the game mechanics so please don't compare.
Your statement just enforced mine; thanks for trying to counter on the point that you need to have gameplay tied to a feature, otherwise that feature is just for looks.
Also you should stop to talk as "we"; talk for yourself, otherwise you sound quite pretentious speaking for others. Since you tell already what others should do and say, I think you started already on the wrong foot, but you have time to fix things.
You land on the planets because there is a mechanic (material collection), which is essential to survive if you go out of the bubble and plan to mine, repair your ship and so on (unless you find someone else ship that offer those services); that is the whole point of it. And for pretty pictures of course, or to walk aimlessly, if you got time for that (lucky)
Then we have the POI; where you can find either materials, combat or both...
Then we have DNA collection from living lifeforms to collect...
So yeah... No reason to land, right? I would suggest you to not work for marketing ever because you would sell products for the competition for sure, with your very strong and well thought points
Try taking pictures in Space Engine, that is probably a product you may enjoy.
I disagree with the part of all missions given by npc, today we already have a cell phone app to order food and transport, the delivery man is like a commander looking at the terminal looking for missions, but i think they could have unique missions given by npc, i dont like to have the same missions in npc and in terminal, the missions given by npc should be more elaborate.
I would very much like to walk around my Vette while in orbit of an unknown planet in deep space.Your statement just enforced mine; thanks for trying to counter on the point that you need to have gameplay tied to a feature, otherwise that feature is just for looks.
Also you should stop to talk as "we"; talk for yourself, otherwise you sound quite pretentious speaking for others. Since you tell already what others should do and say, I think you started already on the wrong foot, but you have time to fix things.
You land on the planets because there is a mechanic (material collection), which is essential to survive if you go out of the bubble and plan to mine, repair your ship and so on (unless you find someone else ship that offer those services); that is the whole point of it. And for pretty pictures of course, or to walk aimlessly, if you got time for that (lucky)
Then we have the POI; where you can find either materials, combat or both...
Then we have DNA collection from living lifeforms to collect...
So yeah... No reason to land, right? I would suggest you to not work for marketing ever because you would sell products for the competition for sure, with your very strong and well thought points
i disagree, tthe only time I landed on a planet for the specific purpose of collecting materials was for engineering, and I guarantee that it didn't give 1% of the time I landed on planets, most of the time I'm just enjoying the view, or playing with my friends.Your statement just enforced mine; thanks for trying to counter on the point that you need to have gameplay tied to a feature, otherwise that feature is just for looks.
Also you should stop to talk as "we"; talk for yourself, otherwise you sound quite pretentious speaking for others. Since you tell already what others should do and say, I think you started already on the wrong foot, but you have time to fix things.
You land on the planets because there is a mechanic (material collection), which is essential to survive if you go out of the bubble and plan to mine, repair your ship and so on (unless you find someone else ship that offer those services); that is the whole point of it. And for pretty pictures of course, or to walk aimlessly, if you got time for that (lucky)
Then we have the POI; where you can find either materials, combat or both...
Then we have DNA collection from living lifeforms to collect...
So yeah... No reason to land, right? I would suggest you to not work for marketing ever because you would sell products for the competition for sure, with your very strong and well thought points
Do you think that it would grab your attention for more than few times? Do you see yourself walking around a ship that has no gameplay associated to it?
Or would you rather get up and walk around because there is a gameplay associated with it?
That is your way to play; some people spend time in that way, others look for gameplay opportunities.
Building something just for show is a waste of engineering time; building something with a purpose of adding gameplay has a bigger impact on engineering resources and also a bigger ROI