ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

[Mengy]

I can find places right now in the game, where you can have almost the very same hue on the skybox.

Please show me these planets which have blue skies in the game today. I'd LOVE to see it!

 

[Stelar 7]

Source: https://youtu.be/MwpmqMnngRk

 

[Lightspeed]

There's a chance I will live long enough to get something from my LEP

Where is there any indication of atmosphere? Everybody wears a spacesuit and carries a large gun in the pictures. Not a single word about atmosphere, either. I guess the smiley you added wanted to hint that neither of them actually was mentioned?

Watch the beginning of the video clip .... that is an atmosphere around the planet as the ship approaches, and it's a blue sky (i.e. atmospheric scattering of light).

 

[Crank Larson]

Something I've always wondered is how they are going to make space legs controllable with a HOTAS...

The transition to space legs would be jarring enough in VR if it involved switching control methods, without having to switch display as well.

I'd be quite happy to grab my XBox controller - I'd keep it close by. I'd certainly prefer that to using my HOTAS to move around.

 

[tequila_tibbs]

On the steampage there is no word about VR-compatibility...can someone just confirm if Odyssey supports VR or not (only if it's supported, not the actual detailed implementation of it).

i can confirm there is no VR support

 

[JonesTheFilm]

As someone who has been uncomfortably but firmly on the fence about the prospect of the Next Era stuff, I do quite like the look of this.

Who am I kidding, it looks great!

 

[Mavadelo]

Since this is a family friendly forum, let's just say things where happening down there while watching that trailer. Very excited.

 

[Exeider]

Look at the planet they are on. It has an atmosphere.

My hope is that not just a graphical thing or shader change to make that. That it's actually in terms of the game flagging it as a "Atmospheric World"

I mean even as a graphical change, it looks good, but you know what I mean.

I'll reserve my judgement for the gameplay trailer.

 

[Rudolphus]

it sound great but first we would get it end 2020 now early 2021 so it is delayed again

 

[Vasco Sapien]

The joy at this realisation is palpable.
Allow me my moment

 

[Pigletslastand]

Just call me Hypey McHype-Face right now!!!!!

 

[Luniticisi]

I can find places right now in the game, where you can have almost the very same hue on the skybox. So you're telling me that we actually were flying in atmosphere in space already since a long time and did not know it?

Sorry, outside of that color potentially being an artistic choice, some nebulas in the game produce the same. If that's all your evidence, please try some more.

Not being funny here, but do you have any images of that because I have never seen the sky lit up like that? with no visible star field.

 

[Fost]

Something I've always wondered is how they are going to make space legs controllable with a HOTAS...

The transition to space legs would be jarring enough in VR if it involved switching control methods, without having to switch display as well.

There's similar issues with things like ARMA III - and it takes a while to set up but you tend to use multiple controllers in the end or just do everything with mouse and keyboard.

As long as they expose they keybinds then we have lots of options.

 

[Deltus Infinium]

Can't wait to do some Splinter Cell style missions in space!

 

[rOmiLaYu]

i can confirm there is no VR support

And who might you be, then?

 

[JesusRocks1988]

My hope is that not just a graphical thing or shader change to make that. That it's actually in terms of the game flagging it as a "Atmospheric World"

I mean even as a graphical change, it looks good, but you know what I mean.

I do see what you mean. I, too, hope there is re-entry gameplay, and that it is volumetric.

Although we do know that Frontier have been playing with volumetric effects for years now, and gradually adding them into the game. So, here's hoping.

 

[Manu Wörkl]

[...] and explore with unrestricted freedom.[...]

So, we'll finally have access to permit locked regions?

 

[CMDR Mayhem]

The first pic in the official post, in the background, you can see green on the mountains ever so slightly too.

 

[tequila_tibbs]

And who might you be, then?

just someone trying to help

 

[Hydrino]

There's a chance I will live long enough to get something from my LEP

Watch the beginning of the video clip .... that is an atmosphere around the planet as the ship approaches, and it's a blue sky (i.e. atmospheric scattering of light).

However, the association most people will have when you say ATMOSPHERES is not what is coming. This will just be the upgraded planetary graphics FD already mentioned, including ice-planets and better scattered debris. We will not get worlds with thick atmospheres like Earth or Venus. There will not be Earth-likes available to land on. FD already has a broad outline of paid expansions from the beginning with walking about and worlds with atmosphere as separate major development branches. So yes, there is atmospheric scattering in a limited way. Like vapor in craters today. Yes the visuals of some planets will have a bit of thin atmosphere, which could even just be dust and not gas. But if anyone expects gas-giant game play or landing on Earth they will be disappointed.