Elite Dangerous 2.4... ships fighters?

[lysan]

I recently picked up Adr1ft for playing on my oculus rift and before FD implement EVA, I think this game should be required playing for all the devs.

it works perfectly and would be a fantastic fit. It "feels" believable, and from my selfish point of view works superbly in VR.

Too many games which do zeroG do it fast paced and imo not only does it not work well, it feels unbelievable.

imo movement in zeroG should be clunky, but clunky only works if it is all slow paced... too fast and it is just irritating imo.

It works with TrackIR too, and I would also like this kind of EVA to be in ED compared to "that other space game".

 

[Fosdyke]

If Brabens "Winter is coming" statement about Thargoids wasn't hint enough.

2.4 which was intended to be quarter 4 of 2016 aka winter, is going to be Thargoids or some other Alien race.


Of course, there is the issue of the Delay... and how that will affect the other releases including season 3.
David was pretty vague in the livestream, we still don't know how long 2.2 has been delayed or if it even has been delayed at all.

Thargoids imho are a season by themselves (lore, worlds/region, technology/ships, IA) so i don't think they will appear soon.
FD will probaby introduce the human scale as soon as our avatars will come (Ground crew on starports and settlements, first steps of walk around before 3.0)

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

i do not think there can be a "Thargoid" season, because unless we have some incredibly lame fencing off, all core players have to have them as well.......

which is why i think they will be drip fed into the game over the course of a number of seasons.

 

[Karla]

Couldn't there be an intergalactic war between the different powers? Alliance vs Federation vs Empire etc? I'd expect that before an alien invasion.

 

[Monk]

Of course, there is the issue of the Delay... and how that will affect the other releases including season 3.
David was pretty vague in the livestream, we still don't know how long 2.2 has been delayed or if it even has been delayed at all.

It was my understanding that parallel teams were working on each release. Meaning the others are not necessarily delayed unless they had to re-task devs to put out the 2.1 fire.

Clearly, we won't know until FDev feels confident enough about a release date.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Thargoids imho are a season by themselves (lore, worlds/region, technology/ships, IA) so i don't think they will appear soon.
FD will probaby introduce the human scale as soon as our avatars will come (Ground crew on starports and settlements, first steps of walk around before 3.0)

David had said before "Winter is coming" that there would be "some Thargoid related activity" in season 2. What that is, nobody knows

 

[Barking_Mad]

It was my understanding that parallel teams were working on each release. Meaning the others are not necessarily delayed unless they had to re-task devs to put out the 2.1 fire.

Clearly, we won't know until FDev feels confident enough about a release date.

Looking back at the Frontier talk at EGX (September 2015) when they initially showed video from the commander creator, it was fairly clear that they'd already been working on it for some time (minus the hair!) and David spoke about the number of sliders you could use. It could be most of hard slog as far as that goes is already done.

 

[xdeath]

Thargoids imho are a season by themselves (lore, worlds/region, technology/ships, IA) so i don't think they will appear soon.
FD will probaby introduce the human scale as soon as our avatars will come (Ground crew on starports and settlements, first steps of walk around before 3.0)

This isn't a matter of opinion but of speculation. FDev might not share your opinion on what qualifies for a season.
Not to mention that Thargoids have been in development since before release, the lore most certainly has been finished.

It was my understanding that parallel teams were working on each release. Meaning the others are not necessarily delayed unless they had to re-task devs to put out the 2.1 fire.

Clearly, we won't know until FDev feels confident enough about a release date.

I am thinking more or less along the same lines as you. I'm certain the whole team wasn't working on 2.1, it's fairly light on artwork(engineer bases were probably finished prior to the delay), not to mention that the faction avatar portion of 1.6 would carry over into 2.3s character creator.
In fact, a lot of the updates were pretty well along when they showed them off last year.
Meaning the majority of the work in 2.1(during the delay) was probably UI and under-the-hood stuff.

Still, though, until we see word from FDev we can only speculate.

 

[frostypaw]

Couldn't there be an intergalactic war between the different powers? Alliance vs Federation vs Empire etc? I'd expect that before an alien invasion.

This is brewing already.

At least we're not also on the verge of first contact with a totally unknown and bewildering race whose barnacles we've been shooting up tho am I right?

 

[Just_Zis_Guy]

Sooooo.....2.3 will introduce ships mice ?

Trumbles.

 

[Fosdyke]

This isn't a matter of opinion but of speculation. FDev might not share your opinion on what qualifies for a season.
Not to mention that Thargoids have been in development since before release, the lore most certainly has been finished.


I am thinking more or less along the same lines as you. I'm certain the whole team wasn't working on 2.1, it's fairly light on artwork(engineer bases were probably finished prior to the delay), not to mention that the faction avatar portion of 1.6 would carry over into 2.3s character creator.
In fact, a lot of the updates were pretty well along when they showed them off last year.
Meaning the majority of the work in 2.1(during the delay) was probably UI and under-the-hood stuff.

Still, though, until we see word from FDev we can only speculate.

we speculate for fun here, i don't intend to do the job of FDev. Stay cool