Gamescom 2015 - What will FD Unveil?
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Got a link to said cloud picture?!?
Oddball, +1 Because I know who oddball is and now I must go watch for the bagillianth of times
and yes, exactly what I was thinks
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Plus ship crew allowing us to fly the corvette class ships, would be nice.
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Okay, no walkies, but what about talkies?
Never going to be seamless. At some point we will need to leave SC and enter an instance. No getting around that as far as I can see
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Sorry, might be being dumb as I don't do twitter but how is that anything to do with ED?
Big day tomorrow, off to bed with you kiddies, you need your rest!
Neither do I, but Braben retweeted the tweet (no I don't know why or what that means) for some reason. That with the model Cobra sitting on what appears to be a lunar surface suggests planet landing.
Edit: my failure in link posting to reflect the retweet by Braben.
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seamless planetary flight should only be done if :
A. gravity is simulated - and idiots who chose thrusters too weak to escape the gravity of a world without a means up purchasing a bigger thruster should be stuck there or if available, purchase a sidey and abandon their ship at the planet-side station. Hint: Escape velocity of earth is 11.2km/s and the fastest ships currently in the game boost at around 0.4km/s
B. If you enter a planet with a cracked canopy, if the planet is not earth-like, the likely poisonous and/or corrosive atmo will kill the pilot.
Seems more realistic to implement space elevators and atmospheric specific ships. This would have the side-effect of only being able to enter/exit planets with elevators.
A. gravity is simulated - and idiots who chose thrusters too weak to escape the gravity of a world without a means up purchasing a bigger thruster should be stuck there or if available, purchase a sidey and abandon their ship at the planet-side station. Hint: Escape velocity of earth is 11.2km/s and the fastest ships currently in the game boost at around 0.4km/s
B. If you enter a planet with a cracked canopy, if the planet is not earth-like, the likely poisonous and/or corrosive atmo will kill the pilot.
Seems more realistic to implement space elevators and atmospheric specific ships. This would have the side-effect of only being able to enter/exit planets with elevators.
So excited!...Announcement is 10AM CEST?
That means I'll get to wake up to the announcement waiting for me!
Or, maybe I'll just get myself up at 3AM...
I worry that whatever FD have up their sleeves won't live up to the forum-driven hype that we've seen here, which will subsequently result in more unbearable moaning and whining post-announcement. Planetary landings would be awesome, but it wasn't long ago (a couple of months perhaps) when FD suggested these were quite a way away. Still, I suppose an announcement referencing a date (even if it is far in the future) is possible.
If you know DB like some of us do, you also know that he likes to drop hints or wind us up on occasions.
Seamless planetary flight should not be done at all. There will be at least one flight mode transition from Supercruise to something else: perhaps a new mode and then another mode change to 'normal flight' or perhaps a cut scene and then 'normal' flight. (It cannot go straight from Supercruise to normal flight since the slowest supercruise is much, much faster than the fastest normal flight). Even without instancing it would be daft for there to not be a visible transition there because the flight modes are so different. Supercruise is faffing about with spacetime - your spacetime bubble moves, not your ship.
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And escape velocity is irrelevant, since that applies to bodies with no thrust. You can escape at lower speeds as long as you keep burning fuel.
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For those that want David Brabens Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBraben
I am pretty sure that IF FD anounce PL tomorow then the first chunk Release will be Christmas 2015 (just airless Moons and the upper Layers of Gasgiants).
Just a gues of course, so dont beat me
I could imagine that the main Team working on this Expansion since begin of 2015 (wich explain the lack of bigger update this year. PowerPlay and CQC where rather small updates for an team of 80+ people) and 1 year should be enough to create this first part of this expansion. Dont forget : DB said that they where able to to bring PL in August 2014, but only with nice looking but very empty planets.
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I think it is a bad omen for the Imperial Wedding tomorrow...hence his sudden defection to the Federation ::spits::
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