It always amazes me that so many people need reassurance on these things. The Lifetime Expansion Pass is exactly that.
Sheesh. It was a replied in jest
EDIT: I forgot how to type and construct a sentence
It always amazes me that so many people need reassurance on these things. The Lifetime Expansion Pass is exactly that.
I hope there that not all content is aimed at combat only, and that explorers are not forgotten.
Ummm...I've not yet landed on a planet with a blue sky. Anyone?
Yeah, personally ive quietly had reservations since DB did a video not that long ago where he questioned VR....
Earth-likes are a different paid major release. FD already 'basically' said that with David Braben's kickstarter discussions and early newsletters. It's a ton more work to add plants and animals and weather and gas giant gameplay in giant cloud-storms (which DB has also talked about). Everyone is entitled to an opinion but anyone saying Atmospheres are coming and thinking that means Earth-likes is just speculating and imho is dead wrong.
Your comment about living worlds being 1000x harder is correct. They also imply massive cities with weather effects and many NPC and traffic which is a whole other modelling and rendering performance and open world issue. Wild speculation that the FD team could make FPS gameplay and walking in buildings and releast Earth-like worlds in the same 2-year development sprint is imho laughable. "no way in hell". <- I'd be very happy to be wrong but it's unlikely.
Sheesh. It was a repled with jest.
"you're standing for the first time on an unexplored planet. What can you do next? " Be the first to circumnavigate a 5G world by walkingI hope there that not all content is aimed at combat only, and that explorers are not forgotten.
It's the best VR game out there and I use VR all the time. Once you've played ED with VR there is no going back to 2D
Don't think you'd be doing much walking on 5g"you're standing for the first time on an unexplored planet. What can you do next? " Be the first to circumnavigate a 5G world by walking
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.
They built an add-on to ED, not a FPS game..ED already exists. Also it's not just combat, there is also diplomacy and trade missions. Sure there will be combat too. All this does is make it a First person perspective play expansion, that is being added to Elite Dangerous, not a dedicated FPS standalone game. Read the blurb instead of cherry picking parts to boost your argument.
There's a way to make it a whole lot easier. In a realistic universe, "living" planets are logically going to be few in number. If there's indeed base building, simply make it possible to make player "habitats" that you can then collect flora and fauna from a living planet to keep in your habitat. So you only need a dozen or so different planets to have all the habitat customization on "dead" worlds you'd ever need.Earth-likes are a different paid major release. FD already 'basically' said that with David Braben's kickstarter discussions and early newsletters. It's a ton more work to add plants and animals and weather and gas giant gameplay in giant cloud-storms (which DB has also talked about). Everyone is entitled to an opinion but anyone saying Atmospheres are coming and thinking that means Earth-likes is just speculating and imho is dead wrong.
Your comment about living worlds being 1000x harder is correct. They also imply massive cities with weather effects and many NPC and traffic which is a whole other modelling and rendering performance and open world issue. Wild speculation that the FD team could make FPS gameplay and walking in buildings and releast Earth-like worlds in the same 2-year development sprint is imho laughable. "no way in hell". <- I'd be very happy to be wrong but it's unlikely.
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.
"you're standing for the first time on an unexplored planet. What can you do next? " Be the first to circumnavigate a 5G world by walking
Unfortunately not at hand. But I've watched some explorer streams, and they found some places inside some nebula, which put a similar blue hue to the sky. Not the exactly same one, I have to admit, but similar enough that wouldn't consider it enough to confirm atmospheric flight.
Mind you, if we get atmospheric flight, perhaps even atmospheric biomes, i'll be quite happy. That part would interest me much more than any tacked on FPS module, no matter how good it would be. But within the scope of the announcement, I don't see anything like "atmosphere confirmed". For me it's more like people hoping that it also includes it.
My comment wasn't aimed directly at you, and was also hardly very serious... Just have a look through the thread and see how many people ask about the LEP. Happens every time an expansion gets mentioned.
Disappointingly, they seem to have forgotten the macOS client once again!Lack of VR support icons on the Steam page is slightly concerning :/