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I just noticed answer 7. No overhangs in the engine tech., That is a bummer. I hope that doesn't mean no caves either.but am guessing it will.
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Questions and Answers
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Only hand built and placed ones.
Its a limitation of directx, so until that changes, then no. Its not something FD can support.
I believe you can work around it using virtual controllers that remap the device into multiple virtual devices, thereby bypassing the limit.
Where did you get that snippet from? I seem to have missed that.
Certainly linked to the new technology used for the planets.
It would also be very interesting to have a Frontier thread dedicated to this new technology.
There isn't already? Maybe because it is too new, in final stages of development or? (wildly guessing here)
They made a thread for the Stellar Forge a few years ago, maybe someday we'll have one for the new planet technology.
Can someone please explain the hurdles of interiors, eva and caves?
fdev devs with knowledge of the code only, really.
imo eva and caves would involve rewrites of core elements of the code, but we dont know.
They were going to be part of Odyssey, but the Devs with the knowledge how to do them went to Hello Games as they needed a Disney type setting to work?
Interiors - obviously the number of ships that need to be modelled internally adds a lot of work. (I'm sure they have the basic internal layout down, and specified how many internal decks/spaces, but I doubt if they have much done beyond that). While some - like me - would love to just be able to wander about within the ship, most players will probably expect some new gameplay to be added too. Unless they add on hostile boarding, which would add a whole new level of gameplay/balance/griefing questions, then I'm not sure what that gameplay would be.
EVA - I'd actually expect this to be easy, but the question may again revolve around what the gameplay point would be. May not be much point in adding it in until there's meaningful gameplay to go with it.
Caves - not 100% certain, but I believe the terrain generation in the game is based around a procedurally generated height-map. i.e. it's just a map of x and y coordinate, and height. It's a relatively simple system that doesn't allow for multiple heights at the same point, so no vertical cliffs, no concave overhangs, and no caves. (There are some caves of a sorted added to the game, but they're not part of the terrain, they're just hand-generated structures that look like terrain placed on the surface. They could use that method to add new caves, but it'd likely mean they'd be small and repetitive).
Certainly not my experience with multi GPU. Anyway it's dying a death until Nvidia or AMD change their minds.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/ans...ort-transitioning-to-native-game-integrations
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How do you change suits and handheld weapons? (was that answered already?)
I get it with ship modules and SRV that you have to be at the station. (i don't get why i can't refuel the SRV from the ship)
But changing suits and weapons for different on-foot-roles should be possible from within the ship.
maybe do a internal module, with e.g. "Class 2: 4 Suit slots", analogue to SRV Bays..?
I get it with ship modules and SRV that you have to be at the station. (i don't get why i can't refuel the SRV from the ship)
But changing suits and weapons for different on-foot-roles should be possible from within the ship.
maybe do a internal module, with e.g. "Class 2: 4 Suit slots", analogue to SRV Bays..?
I assume you'll be able to swap out suits from on ship - it would make no sense to have to (potentially) travel 1000LY+ to switch to a scavenger suit just to check out a crashed ship.
You talk a lot about combat, but you mentioned that it is not the only possibility when you are on foot. You didn’t talk about scavenging and exploration of foot. Do you plan to show footage about on foot exploration and scavenging as well as other on foot activities that might happen in game? Many of us wont be into the combat but would like to enjoy other on foot activities.
Don't quote me on that but I believe I've heard that you'd be able to set your loadout before leaving your ship (so not only at the station stores). That implies you can have more than one of each thing available at your ship. Details on storage capabilities haven't been announced, though.
I don't see how a ship would not have a wardrobe/armory of sorts without the need of installing an internal module for it (you could have dozens of these and they would not even weigh 1 ton).
Yeah I think you're right, they definitely said we can have multiples of each suit specialised for different things, so multiple exploration suits, multiple combat suits etc. I imagine the storage will be unlimited or at least negligible.
Hey, it's FDEV we're talking about - I expect the storage will initially be severely limited and (much) later expanded to somewhat usable, after a lot of wailing and tooth gnashing on the forums & elsewhere.