News Elite Dangerous - 2.4 and beyond
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Animated characters in the space stations, workers who work around stations, animated bases on the planets etc ... would be great
Good news!
Zac, I have a suggestions about "core gameplay":
1) War between factions doesn't make sense when players in SOLO and PRIVATE can influence everyone.
2) CQC needs a system for creating private sessions (we can organizing championships using this) - and if possible add more ships
3) Wing missions ("Boss hunting", same as traditional MMOs. Facing waves of enemies with a stronger "boss" at the end). And that these missions drop rare materials.
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******* finally. This is all I've wanted to hear for a very long time.
Core Gameplay indeed means the existing activities such as trading, mining, bounty hunting, exploration missions, planetary landings and so forth.
Many of which could do with some attention and improvement in my opinion.
There's likely to be new content, but that content will most likely be directly related to the existing core activities above.
That's my interpretation - and I really really read your post this time just to be sure I got the answer right
Zac does say "Core Gameplay & exciting new features". So I am reading that as-they will keep adding new stuff, but it will take a back seat to core gameplay improvements. Which is the reverse of what we had in seasons 1 & 2.
And you'll be paying for it too. Don't you just love today's marketing techniques?
Since when is Quality of Life improvements equated to "Dumbing Down" of anything??? [wacko]
Whatever dude... You can go stand over there in the corner and watch the rest of us enjoy this process if you want.
of those who insist there is nothing currently in need of fixing within the game.
There... fixed that for you.
This is good news and I welcome it as i'm sure almost all CMDRs do. That said, to leave QOL elements until 'after' yet more featured depth (the community will be judge of whether it is a feature or hindrance) is added is a little barking in my view.
QOL = depth. CMDRs will make and blaze their own trail and keep themselves occupied if you give them QOL elements now. Stable Multicrew, wings, wing missions, exploration and bookmarking tools are all needed now FD. not wayyyyy down the line.
Just my view.
As ever, appreciate what you do. Thanks
'T'
QOL = depth. CMDRs will make and blaze their own trail and keep themselves occupied if you give them QOL elements now. Stable Multicrew, wings, wing missions, exploration and bookmarking tools are all needed now FD. not wayyyyy down the line.
Just my view.
As ever, appreciate what you do. Thanks
'T'
Really, where did you get that from? I suspect that from 2.4 onwards we might see a steady increase in the number of planets we can land on, though Earth-likes may still be 2+ years away.
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Nice OP, Zac. Professional, well written, and liking the direction.
And great news!
And great news!
To be fair, every update since 2.0, as well as some of the patches, has had at least some QoL improvements as part of the mix, & I feel certain that 2.4 will be no exception.
Speaking as one of ED and Frontier's more vocal critics... I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt with respect to this new plan and how exactly it will all be implemented. I would imagine that the foundation of these often requested improvements to the core game will begin as soon the next update.
Could likely begin as early as 2.3.10. The under the hood stuff as Zac called it will not be blatantly obvious on the surface, but since they want us to Beta test what would normally be considered a point update, there must be some changes in there that they want to make sure work properly.
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Hi Zac,
It really sounds like you guys will be releasing a thargoid scenario in 2.4. In this "beyond" (you guys should make it the season name, definitely) you said that the focus will be to improve quality of life, existing features,etc. Can we assume that the improvements on planet surfaces, adding more planet types considered to be improvements over existing mechanics? Because, honestly speaking, most people wouldn`t be so happy to wait for another 1.5 year, spent without adding these promised features. Since you guys are revealing general information on what to expect, can we expect those improvements in that list? It is a known fact that you will post the new roadmap sometime later so no harm in confirming (or not) these for excited people.
Thanks
That's great, but I hope this doesn't delay Space Legs (EVA).
Thanks for your hard work.