ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I have 2 hopes/worries
1) will this be a fully fleshed out NPC driven game with the option of playing with other players , or will it be like SRVs, ship's crew and wingmates in the current game. Multiplayer only.

2) will VR be fully supported.

 

[MikeonLinux]

I personally just don't care about walking around my ship. The first few times may be cool, but the 100th time walking out of the cockpit and down the hall, then down the ladder to the surface is going to be boring. And just how different do you suppose the cargo hold of an Anaconda is than the cargo hold of a Python? So I can see my cmdr's bedroom, is lying down and taking a nap exciting gameplay? No doubt we'd be able to buy interior decorations for ARX, but buying sets of sheets and throw pillows is not what I'm looking for in a space game. Interiors of ships will most likely be just a lot of re-use of the same graphics over and over. I would imagine that different ship constructors will have different design language to match the cockpit differences, but still, will the interior of a Dolphin be all that different than the interior of a Beluga? I'd be glad to be wrong, but I just don't see the lasting value of ship interiors unless boarding other ships is part of the FPS expansion.

Think Star Citizen. Wandering in your ship is ALWAYS a good thing, and never gets old, even after years playing. The immersion will be total, as you feel like you are part of a (living) world, and not playing a videogame (even if we all know you are just playing).

 

[LKx]

OMG!

To elaborate more:

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OMG!

 

[saulscmit]

Interesting development. Just hope we get updates to Thargoids and Guardians stories, along with much needed changes to power play with Patches likely to come along with this update.

There's billions of stars, but there's only so much jumping, scooping, combat & samey NPCs we can interact with or do.

Understand what you've got FDev, and Mr.Braben especially. You've got some people that have poured close to 20,000 hours into this game, don't let them down. You could make this game better than SC, X-series and EVE. I stopped playing EVE hoping my new time sink would be E!

 

[ifthisworks]

I think therefore atmospherics for sure. Which is good. If no VR though? Sigh, probably not then. Can't imagine having to take VR helmet on and off during gameplay.

 

[Madrax573]

Just read the announcement.

The only thing that is new compared to the original premise of ED is the enhanced sphere of combat....
Is it going to be a tacked on FPS mission game that has some form of 'lobby' (reference to social hubs) system for them..... feeling pretty cynical about the whole thing tbh

And I see no reference to atmosphere planets...

 

[Turd Ferguson]

hmmmm, a short video that shows no gameplay and makes a point of NOT flying space ships in a game about flying space ships.

I have 2 hopes/worries
1) will this be a fully fleshed out NPC driven game with the option of playing with other players , or will it be like SRVs, ship's crew and wingmates in the current game. Multiplayer only.

2) will VR be fully supported.

1) you mean like Squadron 42? That would actually be interesting.

2) no VR support = instant uninstall

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

One question for mods and Fdev if I can.

I bought a tobi eye tracker just for ED, and I’m using it with great satisfaction.Will Fdev continue to support it in the new expansion ?

 

[Nomadski]

"Sergeant! Four pips to shield." ... no answer.
"SERGEANT!"
His beam laser rifle was overheated. Snow was melting and vaporizing instantly just to immediately returning to snow as it froze in the deadly cold winds.
The whiteout blizzard on the ice world of LHS 417 2 tricked the brain into going to sleep. The 2.37G world made every move an exhausting endeavor of pain, even with the exoskeleton servos to help. Every step cracked the ice and snow beneath their feet. The sound it made stayed with them forever.
The surface temperature of 437K at the equator made everything slippery steaming water. The rain that fell on them at their more northern positions instantly froze to ice and snow causing the whiteout blizzards. This was a horrible place. But humans need conflict. It is in their blood. On their minds. Driven by greed, honor and glory.

"Their shields are down! Use kinetic weapons!"

Those pictures remind me what a modern Midwinter might look like...

Hi, CMDR W A S Sick here. I had similar problems when I started with my Rift - it was awful. However I read some advice and to my surprise it worked. The moment you start to feel sick stop. Leave it, note down what you were doing when you got sick and come back when you feel okay. Try to avoid the action that made you sick the next time you play. Repeat, each time avoiding all the things that make you feel sick. Each time you should find you can play for slightly longer. For me it took about ten iterations. Then you can start adding the things you couldn't do without being sick. Apparently your brain associates being sick and you need to unlearn it. Most people try to "man" through it and that can work, but for most people it just cements the trouble. Hope it works for you.

Yeah just everything and anything in VR seems to have that effect. I can barely get out of the trailer in Arizona Sunshine, shoot the first zombie and I feel nauseous. I play that arena fighting game for a minute and i feel nauseous. Sometimes if I spend too long in the Steam or Vive VR menu I feel nauseous.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

hmmmm, a short video that shows no gameplay and makes a point of NOT flying space ships in a game about flying space ships.



1) you mean like Squadron 42? That would actually be interesting.

2) no VR support = instant uninstall

S42 like would be ace but no that is not what I meant (I am fairly sure that won't happen)

I just mean will I be able to squad up with a platoon of NPC's and work in a coherent manner as part of a team or will it be limited to other meat suits. The fact I can't multicrew with NPC's and never ever get to see another SRV unless I am playing with mates is not great.

Not expecting miracles just feature parity

 

[TheGrimCorsair]

It's got some real Killzone 2 reveal trailer vibes to it.

 

[Deluvian]

Left me breathless... THANK YOU!!

 

[Gully Foyle]

I just realized there's some sort of space worm in the picture...cool. What if there were hunting missions to clear facilities from space bugs?

That's a Sandworm. The Great Maker. Shai-hulud!
Oh terrific now we have to find Arrakis

 

[JDemiDawg]

Need VR please...
I have about eight friends who got VR this past year and several other existing VR friends. I'm planning to push this game hard on them if this DLC has VR support.

 

[ArchEmperor]

Awesome! then the planet radious would need to be massive and rotation quite small, it would have super strong winds and tornadoes in mid-latitudes due to the Coriolis effect combined with the extreme temperature gradient..I love it!

What's even more curious is that the clouds of the planet would need to be quite unique because H2O wouldn't condense at such high temeperatures and it would also prevent such a contrast from happening, also the planet must absorb crazy amounts of infrared radiation in order to reach such surface tempertures, perhaps CO2 clouds will do such as the ones in Venus...

Ice is not just H2O.
Heat is not just from radiation from the local stellar objects. It can come from within or from kinetic sources.
And yes, it is quite unique.

 

[Zorvan]

Need VR please...
I have about eight friends who got VR this past year and several other existing VR friends. I'm planning to push this game hard on them if this DLC has VR support.

But you somehow couldn't "push" this game on them before now when the game already has vr. Something tells me vr isn't going to help.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Interesting development. Just hope we get updates to Thargoids and Guardians stories, along with much needed changes to power play with Patches likely to come along with this update.

There's billions of stars, but there's only so much jumping, scooping, combat & samey NPCs we can interact with or do.

Understand what you've got FDev, and Mr.Braben especially. You've got some people that have poured close to 20,000 hours into this game, don't let them down. You could make this game better than SC, X-series and EVE. I stopped playing EVE hoping my new time sink would be E!

It's been better than all three of those since it came out.

 

[Hfarl]

Sweet trailer! I am very excited for this next expansion!

 

[Morbad]

I am cautiously optimistic again!

 

[LanceLord]

Thanks for the heads up Yamiks!

This is for all those who insisted that our Holo Mes were really the ship and not a MAN! Lets hope the space leg feature will be up to snuff. Implemented in an immersive way like in Space Engineers, Skyrim, Fallout, NMS, X4 and Executive Assault 2.

And NOT the mind numbing walking simulator that it is in-that-pre-alpha-space-game-that-will-not-be-mentioned-here

• NO jumping and dying immediately on contact with ground
• No falling through the ground/floor into the eternal void of space
• No falling through your ship floor and falling indefinitely into the vacuum of space
• NO 30K server disconnects!
• NO frequent server reboots
• YES TO ALL FPS SHOT EM UP GAME PLAY AT LONG LAST. Blasting 'Goids to little bits in true Fallout style
• NO laggy gameplay and reduced fps please! And for the love of all things Holy....
• NO NPCS STANDING ON CHAIRS (hopefully not this if we can finally enter stations)
• WE'VE GOT THE FREAKING JET PACK!! HELL YEAH!!!!

Wonder if we'll be able to interact with our NPC crew mates and have them as possible companions?

And thank you once again FDev for restoring my religeon in this franchise. Now if this is only coming with interactive POIs and FPS activity with 'Goids the way they work in NMS and Empyrion Galactic.......