Future ground/foot content?

[Gleitfrosch]

Is there any information about future content or equipment additions for ground/foot gameplay?
This year was very ship gameplay friendly, some new gear, weapons or missions for space legs wood be very welcome.

 

[Inscydeus]

Not yet. The January livestream is said to have a roadmap for 2025.

 

[Gleitfrosch]

Let's hope there will be an announcement. I would love to see more settlement variety and maybe even more mission content

 

[the100thmonkey]

We can but hope.

The on-foot content is all right - if not especially challenging, even with a freshly rolled CMDR - but could do with some TLC.

 

[Yure]

Here is what I would love to see. You land at one of those Horizon settlements with the odd little buildings with a door. You disembark your ship and walk to the building'a door. You hack in or know the code or something... then a little loading screen like the Fleet carrier elevator, and BAM! You are in an instanced scenario. It could be anything, like discovering a drug den, or a devasted bio-lab which some experimental animals escaped, or something where the achilles robots went rogue. Then once you develop this, exapand on it... we can land onto stations, or the tunnel inside the spires can open up and lead us into further exploration of the spires.

 

[Kira Goto]

You land at one of those Horizon settlements with the odd little buildings with a door. You disembark your ship and walk to the building'a door.

That reminds me when I investigated one of the ubiquitous Odyssey POIs found around the Bubble, which had some shady-looking structures with a bit of cargo and engineering materials inbetween two big blocks of concrete or something.

I would certainly have liked to go in there and take a look around, alas, they’re just there to look cool. Another time I found some building guarded by anti-ship and SRV turrets for some reason, but as I was running local missions I didn’t want to pick up a bounty or anything by blasting the turrets to get a closer look. Didn’t exactly strike me as a legal operation though.

 

[aRJay]

Let's hope there will be an announcement.

Yes.

I would love to see more settlement variety

Yes.

and maybe even more mission content

I would much prefer non mission content, to much being told what to do already.

 

[Cosmo]

Not yet. The January livestream is said to have a roadmap for 2025.

Where did Fdev mention that they'd give us a roadmap for 2025?

 

[Inscydeus]

Where did Fdev mention that they'd give us a roadmap for 2025?

Maybe the use of the word "roadmap" in my post was a little reckless, but they did mention in the previous livestream that they will be talking about the year ahead in January.

 

[GarlicFresh]

Where did Fdev mention that they'd give us a roadmap for 2025?

They did promise to present the 2025 roadmap in January indeed, on one of their livestreams, but unfortunately I can't find the exact timecode. It was on one of the last two "uncloked", if I remember correctly.

 

[aRJay]

They did promise to present the 2025 roadmap in January indeed, on one of their livestreams, but unfortunately I can't find the exact timecode. It was on one of the last two "uncloked", if I remember correctly.

Yes but the didn’t as far as I recall use the trigger word roadmap, they said they would be telling us what was coming up.

I think it was the last live broadcast but it might have been the recorded, and released early, Frontier Unwrapped.

 

[Cosmo]

During this livestream: Elite Dangerous | System Colonisation Q & A (20 Dec 2024), Zac said (at 19:50 min): "the first unlocked show we ever did we kicked it off we talked about what's coming to Elite Dangerous this year. That went down super well so why don't we do the same again next year".

So we should get info about the development plans for ED in 2025 during the first FU this year. I guess no roadmap though.

 

[CMDR Daiyus]

Fingers crossed Odyssey gets some attention this year. I count last year as one of the greatest successes Elite has had in terms of engagement, and I'd really like to see the potential of Odyssey appropriately leveraged and brought into the game with more verisimilitude.

 

[Semivivus]

As long as it´s not alien-themed on-foot content. That would only make the concept of Thargoids even more laughable. Imagine this thing waddling towards you with a caustic blaster. Is that what people really want?

 

[Kira Goto]

As long as it´s not alien-themed on-foot content. That would only make the concept of Thargoids even more laughable. Imagine this thing waddling towards you with a caustic blaster. Is that what people really want?

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That really looks more like concept art for a standard worker drone to me. Not one you'd necessarily find fighting you out in the open. I vaguely recall seeing some rather pointy limbs in old INRA bases that look like they'd make good stabbing implements.

... and I'm not sure where I have the figure from (may just have picked it up somewhere) but think these Thargoids are at least 2.5 meters tall. In other words, they'd tower above humans pretty significantly, and your body can be a weapon too. Especially if they are pain resistant enough to lose limbs and seem to not be too inconvenienced by the pain. (Another disturbing bit of INRA research)

Now imagine what a Thargoid warrior drone might look like, if they exist. I don't think I'd laugh much if I was getting charged down by a murderous three meter alien. People take the Alien xenomorph pretty seriously even though the head of the most commonly known one resembles something rather inappropriate found on the male body.

 

[Semivivus]

That really looks more like concept art for a standard worker drone to me. Not one you'd necessarily find fighting you out in the open. I vaguely recall seeing some rather pointy limbs in old INRA bases that look like they'd make good stabbing implements.

The issue isn´t with their immediate appearance, but them being gradually humanised and diminished from a unique spaceship concept to the level of "hoorah!" boots-on-the-ground type of interaction. For beings as advanced as they are - and are supposed to be, they shouldn´t and wouldn´t resort to that - they would easily vaporise us through other means if they wanted. After all, they had players at their mercy for years, interdicting and disabling them on a whim, before various "resistances" reasearch efforts (or whatever they were called) and other Guardians, backed by plot armour, started gaining traction.

This is all being done (but not yet) for the sake of familiar gameplay, so players could have something to pew-pew at.

 

[0pt1x]

On foot megaship clearing and salvage would be nice.

 

[Kira Goto]

they would easily vaporise us through other means if they wanted

And also destroy everything else around in a large radius when that might not necessarily be their intent (see how they decided to, for some reason, use automated drones to guard military sites). But I get the point you are making… even if I’m not sure it’s one that would discourage Frontier. We all know that there is physical Thargoids behind it all, somewhere.

Human plot armor in this war does feel a bit strong, at least so far. Even if the aim of the Titans was not extermination (which their actions suggest, to some extent), it quickly fizzled out into more just hedge trimming the edges of the Bubble from relatively meaningless Thargoid disruption. It’s hardly what I would have wanted or expected out of it.

… you could say it was always hedge trimming with most systems affected relatively unimportant, but it at least felt like there was a threat initially, for a couple months.

 

[GarlicFresh]

As long as it´s not alien-themed on-foot content. That would only make the concept of Thargoids even more laughable. Imagine this thing waddling towards you with a caustic blaster. Is that what people really want?

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Who said anything about hand blasters? The sounds of the combat exoskeleton are intensified

 

[Jinx Chrome]

I was hoping for Thargoid ground combat (style of 'Edge of tomorrow') but I think that at that stage of the Thargoid war (essentially over) ground combat may appear as an afterthought and dragging out the story. I'd like to see the beginning of something new (Guardian AI, another race or their relics, a kind of environmental threat (e.g. instable hyperspace)) and the Thargoids back in their realm for at least a couple of years.