elite dangerous is a true success
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If the FPV and walking of Odyssey had no shooting or guns, there would still be complaints about it anyways. As usual FDev can never win, even though ED is so cutting edge and unprecedented in combined scope , now moreso with Odyssey. imo, it brings to realization more of the lore scope that was hinted at with Elite II and III and the background material which included on-foot adventures and stories. And I think this is just the beginning "new era" and foundational work with the FPS and walking system, and plenty new and more to come in the next decade of ED development. It's just amazing seeing npc's and cmdrs walking around far off several hundred meters away, while everything of Horizons all still works in the instance and in the background.
Agreed, I'd always felt ED has been such an awesome accomplishment unprecedented in the spacesim genre still, a true interstellar spacesim with no fake suns or static planets in a non-simmed wallpaper background of a confined "starbox". I'd played Elite II and III before ED, so I share the perspective in how ED has updated and fulfilled plenty of the vision of the overall franchise so far.
There's plenty to like and be amazed about Odyssey with a fair perspective. Multicrew was greatly expanded on (as I predicted it would need more on-foot infrastructure back when the first multicrew arrived with holo-me) with the team functions, and the promise of multiple cmdrs in a shared hangar has been fulfilled per the visual of the first ED trailers. Frontier and FDev continue to gradually fulfill the ambitions shown in their initial preconceptual paintings one after another over the years. Taking taxis can be chill and relaxing, while riding to the next mission locations. The various gravities of the planetary bodies also realistically affects how well and high one can boost jump. And Odyssey seems to continue to be updated and improved. Sitting on some seatable areas came with update 11 along with fleet carrier interiors, even including able to see the witchspace hyperjump from in the carrier. Looking forward to more of this new era of ED in the future for years to come. Like it'd be nice to have some massive cities of Elite lore and popular planets and places someday like the example of the "Pariz" painting. o7
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Amazon, Corsair Gaming, Microsoft, etc. don't compete against FD, their stock value is irrelevant for the purposes of gauging the state of the gaming market.
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You are not using the timeframe Paine showed (1 year), here are the performances of said stocks during the last year in NASDAQ:
- Nvidia: 11%
- AMD: 21%
- Meta: - 39%
- Apple: 10%
- Google: - 5%
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Yet again you are comparing the wrong timeframes and with stocks which aren't even listed in the NASDAQ...
- Amazon (NASDAQ): - 33%
- Bandai Namco (TYO): 14%
- Akatsuki (TYO): - 21%
- Capcom (TYO): 7%
- Corsair (NASDAQ): -53%
- EA (NASDAQ): -7%
- Esports Entretainment (NASDAQ): -95%
- Nintendo (TYO): -8%
- Ubisoft (EPA): -19%
- Blizzard (NASDAQ): -19%
- Microsoft (NASDAQ): 3%
I really think the milky way galaxy is its greatest feature. Just wish they would flesh it out some more with all planets types. Would love to see them throw liquid into the procedural generation like water, lava, mud or even weather. Anything that would increase the variables within a given system, all interacting with one another to generate unique events and environments that maybe even the developers couldn't predict.
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Read that about 5 times and see if it sinks in.
Abusing the 'enter' character doesn't give you any favors, regardless, you've not said anything new.
And now that I come to think about it, even if I compare all of your tech stocks, only one came out worse last year so yes, you have proven FD has underperformed.
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Just to add to this last post, I've been playing [that other space game that can't be named], and boy do I miss even the simplest of orbit and rotation mechanics. I don't personally need 400 billion solar systems to enjoy a space game, but it would be nice if the collection of solar systems felt like an actual solar systems instead of a painted backgrounds. In [that other game I like], it's quite normal to spend a lot of time in a single system, usually in orbit of a single planet, so you notice things like that the sun and stars and moons NEVER MOVE... EVER.. Whereas in Elite, when I log in today to play the CG, the view will be entirely different than it was yesterday, because the station is orbiting the planet below, and that planet is rotating, and if I were to operate in that system long enough, I'd even witness the other planets shift in the heavens. I just cannot express how important this "little thing" is to my overall immersion. Contrast this to a literal painting for a skybox [in that other game I like], and it's a really big deal to me.
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When I get the angle of descent and speed of entry right on a landing, it feels like I'm arriving at the rebel base in Star Wars. I'm almost looking for the guy in the watchtower. The only thing that spoils it is the ten second or so judder of transfer from space to planet mechanics, when controls (and everything else) 'freeze up'.
Wow, what are you playing on? My PC is several years old potato and the "freeze" is a few seconds at most, often less. 2GB NVidia GE Force GT 1030.
Even with my Epic account (running on a HDD - and just being transferred to SSD) the transition is very short, a second or so, on my Frontier launched accounts (on NVMe 4G) the transition is barely perceptible.
But, I am fortunate enough to have 'upgraded' in December of last year to reasonable spec CPU/GPU which I am sure has helped a lot. I'll have to have a play on my laptop and see how long the changeover takes on that, it is much less powerful than my desktop.
So, anyway, where's these knockers we were promised in the OP ? I'm expecting Page 3...
Yeah man. We can nitpick this or that as we see fit, but Elite: Dangerous+ has some really great aspects to it.
Cheers.
Speaking of which, we rewatched Labyrinth recently.
About the best I can do is honk my fog horn in ED.
Safe to say, a computer/connection that is giving me more issues than the average player. I'll time some transitions, if I remember to, but you're going to have to trust me that it feels like an age...
The one negative to my praise is that it's a whole lot easier to add this effect (planets & stations in motion) to [that other space game that can't be named] than it is to add persistent NPCs and realistic economy and supply chain to Elite Dangerous. Heck, it might even be something I can mod in myself. But still, the fact that there are things about my other favorite space games that I wish were more like Elite is a testimony to Elite.