News Gamescom 2016: Day Two - Complete

More than a little disappointed, thought we would have our first iteration of Multi crew, then said it would be npc crew for fighters, then come to find out it is npc crew to man drones from inside your larger ship ??? I remember it was stated that we be able to dock one or two small fighters (sidewinder or vulture size) ships & pilots to fly them out of & back onto our ships. But not interested in the Drone wars & what about npc or player crew for the bridge positions (Engineer,weapons officer,science officer) on the larger ships (Anaconda or Fed Corvette) ? Nothing mentioned (lately) & no mention when or if this will occur ? Did FD forget the game play they mentioned when they pitched this game a couple of years ago? They need to concentrate more on things that make the game play immersive & forget about "power play" this is something that should go on in the background anyway & not be the focus of the game play. We need fps & the ability to walk around our Huge ships & be able to find ancient ruins to explore & aliens to fight & or meet & deal with. The way things are going currently I am seriously concerned with the future of this game that has so much potential. I hope FD is listening.

Shadowma
 
Any chance we can get a real people crew? My friends would just like to ride in my ship and fly the fighters when needed.
 
Many thanks Brett for the update from a CMDR out in the wilds of the Gorges du Tarn in southern France with little if any WiFii or phone service. Looking forward to trading my canoe for a ship launched fighter in the weeks ahead.

CMDR Dukie o7
 

Brett C

Frontier
I knew I was missing something... forgot to include these images in the article from the other day!

Day Two NPC Crew.jpg

Fighter Paint Jobs Day 2.jpg

Day three's article will be up soon. Still putting things together for it! :D
 
Holy Space Cows! Passengers and Fighters and hired NPCs. Awsome.

It cost me 25 euros for 2 weeks of 512k internet with a really really unstable wifi connection in a Minorcan resort to find this out (after about 30+ attempts) - but it was worth it.

My daughter has been waiting for passenger missions since launched so she is v chuffed and my son is a step closer to being able to fly a short range fighter out of my Anaconda.

Really looking foward to this update. :)
 
NPC Crew is great! But you should also be able to hire NPC-Wingmen! With the new Crew module implemented, this should not be a huge problem, and it would be great for gameplay, especially for lone wolves like me who now and then would be glad for some assistnance :)
 
So when my ship is destroyed I manage to eject 100% of the time, but the hired pilot dies 100% of the time? That doesn't make any sense.

Oh, I'm sure they have an escape pod and get transported back to the last station; they just don't want to be seen with you again! For immersion I say that if you die too many times and you try to rehire them they can refuse. :p
 
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