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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Q&A - Interface and NPCs
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SCANNING fOLIAHgeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Multicrew science!
All joking aside (and yes, I do freaking love that movie), I agree with @Snowymonk.
Apart from walking around on planets and scanning plant fungus, I'm still waiting to hear about any real exploration gameplay in this DLC, or any content to improve other game professions other than combat.
If Odyssey isn't substantially more than Elite Dangerous: Destiny 2 then I hope players have fun with it but I'll be playing other games. Hopefully the remaining Dev diaries will reveal more content other than pew-pew.
I suspect this is just a pre-Alpha review. One would hope/assume that player input during Alpha/Beta will decide the final outcome. I have said, numerous times, that we need way more Stealth Gameplay in Elite Dangerous, beyond the Silent Running mechanic.
Tbh I'm just waiting for graphical overhaul and the possibility of landing on other planet types, meeting other cmdrs in person maybe in a lobby or bar. This whole FPS thing is not for me and I'm suprised and kinda disappointed how focused Odyssey seems to be on that aspect of the game (combat) instead of making planets more interesting places to be. Hope I'll be nicely suprised but the hope is fading away with every AMA, Q&A etc.
Well, while i'm hoping for more too, combat has always been a big focus of elite, so is quite natural that it's on highlights also on foot.
Yep. I mean, we had those tunnels in Thargoid bases and I was hoping for that tech to be expanded upon, so we could explore underground caves and tunnels to see what's down there, either on foot or via SRV but.....I'm not getting my hopes up.
Caves, weather, sand storms, dust devils, snow falling on icy planets/north poles, seasonal changes, thin clouds maybe, that sort of thing you can find on thin atmosphere planets. Now new planets look like old ones but with blue sky, period, end of differences (besides obvious graphical overhaul) - they still are static, empty deserts. It's understandable on airless rocks but if there's an atmosphere, there should be atmospheric phenomenons.
Localised stuff like small dust devils should be in, since they don't require ground, air, orbit synchronization across instances to work.
All of which should also be possible in the SRV ... no reason to force you to walk around the planet looking for plants / POIs when surely the wave scanner in the SRV should also be capable of doing that?
So ... be nice to be able to get out of the SRV when you get there but ...
My concern with all of the news is that Odyssey reads like an entirely separate game: separate currency; separate capabilities; FPS view and mechanics; no transitions; no ship interiors ... I could go on ...
I don’t want a “Destiny-lite” mini-game inside Elite. Firstly it won’t be as well done as Destiny and secondly what kind of impact on the existing flight-based game engine is supporting this entirely different perspective going to have?
I think the Alpha is going to be very interesting ...
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Same with snowfalls on north poles/icy planets, where the ground is covered in snow already.
Sounds very interesting,
thanks for the information!
Cu
thanks for the information!
Cu
Bueno, una de las preguntas que no veo contestada es si puedes cultivar los cuerpos de los NPC y quitarles las armas que llevan.
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Well, one of the questions I don't see answered is can you farm the bodies of the NPCs and take away the weapons they carry.
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Well, one of the questions I don't see answered is can you farm the bodies of the NPCs and take away the weapons they carry.
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Apparently those tunnels were built by a programmer and placed there rather than grown like the planets were, so it would be a lot of work to make cave systems on more than a handful of worlds.
No Mans Sky has them, based on a RNG, to the best of my knowledge
Pilot AND his ship.
Until now we got the ship, with odyssey we'll get the pilot too.
Elite is a space opera, not just a flight simulator.
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I think the engine NMS uses is voxel based though, allowing concave shapes. ED to my knowledge uses heightmap displacement, and convex only.
NMS uses a different type of planetary generation that allows terrain...
...yeah, what Rubbernuke just said while I was typing
I think the best we could hope for is something like Skyrim’s or the earlier Elder Scrolls dungeons - hand crafted sections that can be linked together in many different ways.