News Gamescom 2016: Day Four - Complete

varonica

varonica
x Sylar321 x said:
Holy crap sticks and bagels! All that's coming in the next update?! Also, what does body kits mean?
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One thing I have seen consistently missed from these lists is the new goodness for explorers;

[h=2]It’s a mysterious place, the Milky Way[/h]There’s so much more out there that we haven’t even touched on in these livestreams… puzzles to solve, mysterious abandoned structures, geographical marvels and ancient sites. We’ll leave these for you to find Commander. Good luck out there.
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I am also hoping for a new reward system for interesting discoveries. Explorers are getting some goodies finally.
 

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
Am I the only one who thinks that the Shady Contact should be a function of The Black Market?

It would be really great if the Black Market was your go-to place to buy/sell illegal goods, get your fines and bounties paid off-for a premium, & find out rumours about potentially lucrative illegal activities that you can take part in.
 

ArchEmperor

ArchEmperor
Love the alien part!
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And I want alien co-op missions where we do old style shot em up surface strafing missions with our ships like the old Amiga games 'BattleSquadron' and 'Katakis' ( but in 3D ofc ) and also missions leading into the depths of the planet surface ( where aliens have secret bases ).

I would also like a universal 'stash' where I can store my materials and cargo when changing to a smaller ship ( so that I wont lose all the precious cargo items I have been collecting for engineering etc etc... )

And of course, we all want to go down into the atmosphere of Gas giants to collect Hydrogen and other valuable gasses using our fuel scoops. Even docking at floating cities in the gas giant clouds ( just like the star wars Cloud Cities ) and traversing the jet slipstreams to get a boost between stations.

In the future I want surface battle missions as a commander or participant like ( Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, which is the best RTS ever made ). Where we can have missions to drop supplies or actively enter the fray.
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We can dream....
 

Retrograde

Retrograde
This was a triumph.
La lala laa, la la la laaa...
[squeeeee]

I'll go buy a skin in appreciation.
(But how about just one hour per day next year?)
 

kpmop

K
All looks good.

Doubtless the answer begins with "S" and ends in "N", but were there any dates for 2.2 beta / release given*?

(*no I haven't read every single thread, so if it's been discussed a 1000x already, well now it's 1001) ;) )
 

Ian Phillips

Volunteer Moderator
Ian Phillips
Release middle october. No info on Beta start dates as yet.

That may come in the bumper newsletter later today.
 

Duckfather

Duckfather
Is there anywhere that has a list of the answers for the questions we put to FD in the relevant threads? I can't find anything on the forums :(
 

Hydrino

Hydrino
Marc_Hicks said:
Am I the only one who thinks that the Shady Contact should be a function of The Black Market?

It would be really great if the Black Market was your go-to place to buy/sell illegal goods, get your fines and bounties paid off-for a premium, & find out rumours about potentially lucrative illegal activities that you can take part in.
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From the Livestream, that's my understanding exactly; shady contacts will be located at the Black Markets.

However, no mention of finding out about illegal activities there but it would make sense to have things outside the faction mission screens - to run missions and such that aren't specifically for a faction (like the passenger lounge).

Maybe we see this in a future update... FD?

I'll +2 FD if they will simply provide a single, bullet-point, stickied forum post with all the update deets with any awesome pictures posted after all the text.

The livestreams are nice at the show I am sure, but for those looking for deets from the outside, watching 2-4 hours of video a day is just madness.

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Duckfather said:
Is there anywhere that has a list of the answers for the questions we put to FD in the relevant threads? I can't find anything on the forums :(
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Check Reddit for a summary.

No real surprises on answers and as usual lots of non-comittal, maybe-laters or not-right-nows. There was one interesting tidbit for me about the fighter bays being 3D printer/manufacturing robots that will make up to 10 replacement fighters after the destruction of an existing fighter and also after a not-yet firmed up delay of 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. IMHO FD need to think about making that mechanic consistent with SRV's and that was brought up as a consideration.
 

Marc_Hicks

Marc_Hicks
DarkMatterGenerator said:
From the Livestream, that's my understanding exactly; shady contacts will be located at the Black Markets.

However, no mention of finding out about illegal activities there but it would make sense to have things outside the faction mission screens - to run missions and such that aren't specifically for a faction (like the passenger lounge).

Maybe we see this in a future update... FD?

I'll +2 FD if they will simply provide a single, bullet-point, stickied forum post with all the update deets with any awesome pictures posted after all the text.

The livestreams are nice at the show I am sure, but for those looking for deets from the outside, watching 2-4 hours of video a day is just madness.

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Check Reddit for a summary.

No real surprises on answers and as usual lots of non-comittal, maybe-laters or not-right-nows. There was one interesting tidbit for me about the fighter bays being 3D printer/manufacturing robots that will make up to 10 replacement fighters after the destruction of an existing fighter and also after a not-yet firmed up delay of 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. IMHO FD need to think about making that mechanic consistent with SRV's and that was brought up as a consideration.
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I hope you are correct about the Shady Contact. The other stuff I mentioned was more about my "dreams for the future" in terms of fleshing out the Black Market ;).

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Morwo said:
is there a summary of community questions answered on live stream?
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+1 to this. Sadly I don't have several hours to sift through all the Q&A's!
 

Gaarp Kobayashi

Gaarp Kobayashi
Cocalarix said:
That was an awesome Gamescom guys. I loved the spooky messages.

Too bad the final interview was leaked early though. It would've been a nice surprise for the final day.
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Yeah..., it wasn't leaked..., someone responsible for the task did a fatal mistake that should not have happened!! Not when so many people at Frontier were working so hard to prepare all this marvelous materials:((

But we're all just people, aren't we? We all do mistakes, don't we?:)

Anyways, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BRILLIANT SHOW YOU HAVE PLEASED US WITH, DEAR FRONTIER!!!! :D

(group-hug!!!)
 

nrage

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Malakie

Malakie
Have not had the time to watch the gamescon vids and etc.. Did they elude to a release date for the 2.2 release and has 2.3 been pushed back since it was supposed to release now based on the original timeline?
 

nrage

nrage
Malakie said:
Have not had the time to watch the gamescon vids and etc.. Did they elude to a release date for the 2.2 release and has 2.3 been pushed back since it was supposed to release now based on the original timeline?
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They are looking at a mid-october launch for the 2.2 update. No comment on 2.3.
 
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