Hey Chief, what will the costs of the suits and hand weapons be?
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Q&A- First Footfall
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See, that’s the interesting point. Only the discoverer cares that their name is on something. I’m not belittling the fact that players care about their names on something in game. It’s that this feature, which adds very little, if any, real value to gameplay gets people all twisted when there is any chance that parity can’t be maintained across platforms. Who has ever found significance in gameplay by seeing another commander’s name on something, other than the fact that you now can’t put your name on it? Did the name itself even matter? Besides, it’s not like we’re ever going to run out of things to put our commander names on.
I guess what I’m saying is that this feature that provides little to the gameplay of the game is generating a lot of stress and anger from some and it just seems silly.
Wasn't your name Wrecked But Whole at one point?
I cannot wait to walk around a guardian site.
Yes, but only on the forums. Still not sure why I had to change it...
And, my point exactly... I couldn’t care less about seeing that name on things in the game. It would be ridiculous. However, silly forum names add to the immersion of the forums
Fair enough, I tend to forget people often use different names on the forum.
Vamos a mais duvidas: no galaxy map terá uma indicação de planeta em que se possa desembarcar? pelo que entendi até agora os planetas em que podemos usar o SRV poderemos andar também? e alguns planetas com Atmosfera desde que esse não seja extremo EX: Vênus, mas luas de júpiter e de saturno vão estar liberadas ou vão ser bloqueadas?
Possible, all the non atmospheric landable planets are getting the same graphics upgrade that the new planets are, so things will likely look different.
To be honest it does give you a sense of Pride to see your name permanently etched in a game that you love and grind on for week's, months,or years !
And I can guarantee you there are a lot of players that find a killer system only to find it's already been claimed by someone and they raise their hand in the air and say rat fart !
But as far as angry, not at all.
By the way do you play on computer or console?
Well, I hope so. We currently know what the planets in our solar system look like, I'd like them to be accurate in the game
Not really, first foot fall wasn't even the issue I and other console CMDRs brought up. It was the exclusion of us in being able to participate in any lore events during the PC exclusivity period, that require landing on the new planets to get logs or info to find the next part of the story. I personally play nearly exclusively for the gameplay behind trying to solve these things first when they get added, and have put in over 3500+ hours engineering my fleet, getting my carrier, getting all the permits / ranks unlocked on my console account on the off chance they ever have something come up that requires one of those to solve, to now be told that for the first several months of Odyssey, I won't be able to make claim of the discovery of any new lore related settlements like the one from the event last week with the NMLA Prison Breakout. Same thing with console CMDRs getting their names in the Codex for any of the new organic life. When the NSPs were added, the majority of the discoveries were made within a time period shorter than how long console players are going to have to wait... Personally as someone who was first to touch down, discover, and post the logs from multiple lore locations during Beyond, and who has their name in the Codex for discoveries, not being able to continue making discoveries and participate in the ongoing narratives as the character I have developed an attachment to over all these years... Is absolutely crushing. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that either.
I'm not getting the sense of this whole "first foot tagging". To place you name on the galactic map you only need to find undiscovered system or planets and use FSS (and return data). For "first foot tag" you will need to land and disembark. If those planets will be mainly empty is there a sense to land? What for? It will took a lot more time than FSS. And if some explorer will find a system with 57 planets will he "foot tag" all of them?
Speaking for myself, I will gladly land on the surface of some interesting planet. I will check on system map for some surface features like canyons, mountains etc. Or I will pick random one or two or three for sightseeing. I can't even imagine how boring this could be to land on 57 planets in one system just to tag them.
Speaking for myself, I will gladly land on the surface of some interesting planet. I will check on system map for some surface features like canyons, mountains etc. Or I will pick random one or two or three for sightseeing. I can't even imagine how boring this could be to land on 57 planets in one system just to tag them.
The issue with consoles and PC are release methods. The PC versions go through steam and elites own launcher. The console versiona go through their own stores, which they have to vet (probably wrong word) the console version for their systems. I'm not going to pretend to know what goes into them vetting it but I know it takes a few months to do it. The issue you have is not with the devs but with the makers of the consoles.
It sounds like, what you'd like to happen is they stop the release for PC just appease the console players, which just isn't an option for the biggest player base.
A small step for man, a big step for the game.
Some people will want to do it, some won't. I've never been bothered about getting discovered tags either.
No new tags in human inhabited space.. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know this won't matter to most, but it was an often tense experience if you cared about tags last time around. It was okay, but once is enough for me.
Not assuming its in the sphere of possible, but given there are now 3 names per body, if its all one person, the game elite would be made better if it was summarised into just one.. ie, CMDR X has first discovered, first mapped, and first footfall, instead of 3 entries saying the name, it becomes just one, maybe with an embellishment, something like "first conquered"..
Not assuming its in the sphere of possible, but given there are now 3 names per body, if its all one person, the game elite would be made better if it was summarised into just one.. ie, CMDR X has first discovered, first mapped, and first footfall, instead of 3 entries saying the name, it becomes just one, maybe with an embellishment, something like "first conquered"..
I don't watch or play football, just interested in what other activities we can do on planets other than shooting NPCs or each other, also what physics are available for players.Wrong thread. First Football is down the corridor
No. What likely happened is Frontier promised investors a certain release and earnings, then found that there weren't any versions which could be ready in time. So they pulled all their developers off the console versions so the PC one could still be released within the fiscal quarter promised.
A 6 month delay is NOT due to console validation (that is 4-6wks afaik). It is strictly due to lack of development work.
Consoles are rougly 1/3 of the game population... that is not an insignificant amount.
I was referring to this:
Which is why I asked the question as it is opposite to the previous betas I've had chance to play.
And my post was referring to a post after that and stating that what happens in Alpha/Beta stays in Alpha/Beta.