Elite's Alasdair Hibberd: "every single shot in this trailer is gameplay, absolutely nothing is pre-rendered in engine."

[StuartGT]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1337225722545524740

Source: https://twitter.com/AlasdairHibberd/status/1337225722545524740

And for anyone asking every single shot in this trailer is gameplay, absolutely nothing is pre-rendered in engine.​

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1337208861816713218

Source: https://twitter.com/AlasdairHibberd/status/1337208861816713218

Unbelievably proud of the team who’ve put this together. Odyssey IS a giant leap for Elite Dangerous. o7 Commanders​

 

[gorankar]

I don't think I saw anything all that special about it to make anyone believe it was not actual highish end PC gameplay footage. It looked really good, great even, but not to the point I thought the "IN-GAME FOOTAGE" tag was a lie and that it was actually prerendered.

 

[Helvellyn]

I'm encouraged by those rocks.

 

[Xious]

...but what does it taste like?

 

[Phoenix13]

...but what does it taste like?

The problem is that Odyssey will still smell like a man that showers maybe once a week due to working from home. They should introduce different smelling cockpits and be sure to plant nicely smelling flowers in the settlements.

 

[Alien]

Yes, it was in-game, but they also had a camera account recording the gameplay.

 

[-Crossed-]

I don't think anyone questions that, it just didn't show anything about what the actual gameplay will be like, how anything will work, ect..

 

[Ashnak]

I don't doubt that it was in-game is they say so.
However, since those atmospheric effects look pretty graphics intensive, I'd also like to know

• was it real time (i.e. did they render it at the framerate that was shown in the vid)?
• if yes, what kind of hardware did they run on?

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Looks good, but at the end of day it's the level of detail transitions and pop-in that will make or break it

 

[metatheurgist]

I don't think I saw anything all that special about it to make anyone believe it was not actual highish end PC gameplay footage. It looked really good, great even, but not to the point I thought the "IN-GAME FOOTAGE" tag was a lie and that it was actually prerendered.

Well, in this genre you've had people claiming stuff was in-game (oh so close to release) and lying about it so....

 

[Lightspeed]

I'm disappointed there is no snow. And before you say, thin atmosphere, how did all that ice get there?

 

[Hanerib]

 

[Northpin]

The question is not if it is in-game footage, but if it is regular gameplay.

I mean if you look at the ED space flight / combat trailers, you will see various ships flying together, fighting, jumping etc. And when i say various, i do mean it.

IF you check The Journey So Far trailer, 1:28 - you see a glimpse of a nice combat with Corvette, Anaconda, Cobra, Eagles, Adder and other. Not like you will meet something like that in game. It may resemble a CZ fight, but really vague and definitely not a PVP encounter where you will meet only FDL with the random Kraits/Mamba

Same goes for the fleet jumping at 1:40 - those are not normal occurrences (sure, a sort of similar jump happened probably in DW2) but really special events, not something that may be called regular gameplay.

Yea, FD trailers are really nice, but they're not really representative for something that will be normally encountered in the game.
That kind of combat footage i would expect to encounter in a UT/CS match, not in ED.

 

[Lightspeed]

The question is not if it is in-game footage, but if it is regular gameplay.

Actual in-game experience ...

 

[thistle]

I'm disappointed there is no snow. And before you say, thin atmosphere, how did all that ice get there?

There's no snow on our Moon, but there is ice at the poles

 

[Dutchman141]

I didn't expect anything less realy, there's nothing wrong with the looks of ED so Odyssey will perform well in that department too imho.
I'm more interested in actual gameplay, besides combat, graphics are nice but definitely not the one thing that makes a game good.

If they want me to pre-order Odyssey they should show off more actual gameplay not just some shiny camera footage.
To be frank, I don't understand Fdev's tight lipped behaviour regarding upcomming features while in the mean time they try to get people on board the hype train, it's counter productive imho.
I'm impressed by Odyssey's looks, the rest not so much up until now.

 

[Lightspeed]

There's no snow on our Moon, but there is ice at the poles

Yes, but not thick ice like they show us, skiddable ice, shiny compressed ice !

 

[jojon]

Yes, it was in-game, but they also had a camera account recording the gameplay.

Speaking of which... Any measures to prevent scouting ahead using the vanity camera, whilst still not removing it? :7
...that said - I could see a remote scout drone with a camera link, as an optional part of one's arsenal, for attaching to one of those two poles on top of the backpack... :7

 

[Alien]

Speaking of which... Any measures to prevent scouting ahead using the vanity camera, whilst still not removing it? :7
...that said - I could see a remote scout drone with a camera link, as an optional part of one's arsenal, for attaching to one of those two poles on top of the backpack... :7

I recall the CM's, probably Arthur, mentioning there is no external camera while on foot in Odyssey.

 

[Northpin]

I recall the CM's, probably Arthur, mentioning there is no external camera while on foot in Odyssey.

Not at launch
They need a backlog of features to add if they need Odyssey to run for another 5-6 years