How we all feeling about being thrown under a bus?

karamu

karamu
O7 PlayStation commanders.

Yesterday's announcement was a bit of a body blow - I think we all expected not to see Odyssey on PS4 but the line "cancel all console development" was a tough one to take. We've joked long enough about being second class Elite citizens - well it was confirmed in spades by David Braben yesterday.

My initial reaction was to quit the game, uninstall like many others were saying but after having a fun session in a conflict zone last night with my two squadron mates I don't think I will. I will certainly never spend another penny of real world money on Arx again and I will never buy another Frontier game but I think I am going to continue enjoying the galaxy as I have these last two years / 3000 game hours.

How long will we be able to do this though? Braben said consoles will continue as they are right now but of course the inevitable "how long will the servers stay up?" question was asked and not answered. I think the very least FDev could do is give a clear minimum life expectancy. I am 80% through Dangerous in combat - am I going to have enough time to achieve triple Elite?

What do we all think? Quitting / carrying on / moving to PC?? (The last is not an option for me - I have bills to pay and a family to provide for, I can't afford a gaming PC.)

(Oh, if anyone is hanging about and wants to join a wing / squadron that plays most evenings UK time give me a shout!)
 

karamu

karamu
darthanubis said:
The specs to play elite are extremely low. You won’t need a multi-thousand dollar gaming PC. FYI
Click to expand...
Well, seen plenty of reports that high end machines still struggle. But I mean, it's not only money - I don't want to switch gaming platform for one game.
 

CMDR Sutonious333

CMDR Sutonious333
For me what I haven't had I wont miss. I will continue exploring and visiting the many sites I have yet to see and have a laugh in conflict zones. It's still the best space sim MMO on the market in my view. So why would I want to stop playing? It is after all a game!
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
As I said in the annoucement itself, if he thinks we're all suddenly going to buy it on PC, he's mistaken!

They should be at least releasing it on PS5 and Xbox X (and the core game in general), not cancelling it! 😯😡 .

While perhaps returning to the PS4/Xbox 1, after the "next gen" version is out.

But no, seems that they're going to "nuke it from orbit!" 😐 .
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
darthanubis said:
The specs to play elite are extremely low. You won’t need a multi-thousand dollar gaming PC. FYI
Click to expand...
It's more a question of whether we want to play the game or other games on PC, than whether we can afford gaming PC for most of us...

I'm most comfortable playing games on Playstation and want to every game I can on one, which is my and as said many people's choice 🤔😯😐🩲 .
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
karamu said:
O7 PlayStation commanders.

Yesterday's announcement was a bit of a body blow - I think we all expected not to see Odyssey on PS4 but the line "cancel all console development" was a tough one to take. We've joked long enough about being second class Elite citizens - well it was confirmed in spades by David Braben yesterday.

My initial reaction was to quit the game, uninstall like many others were saying but after having a fun session in a conflict zone last night with my two squadron mates I don't think I will. I will certainly never spend another penny of real world money on Arx again and I will never buy another Frontier game but I think I am going to continue enjoying the galaxy as I have these last two years / 3000 game hours.

How long will we be able to do this though? Braben said consoles will continue as they are right now but of course the inevitable "how long will the servers stay up?" question was asked and not answered. I think the very least FDev could do is give a clear minimum life expectancy. I am 80% through Dangerous in combat - am I going to have enough time to achieve triple Elite?

What do we all think? Quitting / carrying on / moving to PC?? (The last is not an option for me - I have bills to pay and a family to provide for, I can't afford a gaming PC.)

(Oh, if anyone is hanging about and wants to join a wing / squadron that plays most evenings UK time give me a shout!)
Click to expand...
I run Odyssey on ULTRA settings using an 8-core Intel i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM and an nVidia 1080 GPU with no problems however, my monitor limits me to 60 FPS. o7
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
Playing last year on my PS5, where it frequently crashed, was not fun.

Playing a game with poor graphics etc, against all these lovely Next Gen games, it feels off, the more new stuff I play, the more I find I’m distancing from my will to play the game.

I held out hope, but yesterday’s announcement was the last straw for me. The lack of any new content and decent Developer support has finished this for me.

I’ve usually been on the hopeful side in defence of the game, but clearly stated my issues.

The graphics toggle on the PS4 Pro was regressed/broken when Fleet Carriers were released and then never fixed, so what we’re playing now, on our PS5’s is far worse than the visuals offered a long time ago.

I cannot support these developers anymore, I wish all of you the best, I’ll hang around here for a bit, winding up.

But I’m done, I’m moving on, new games to play, new things to enjoy.

o7 y’all console and PC gamers, of whom support the struggle we’ve had for a title we’ve ploughed hours of dedication into.
 

Madag the Q

Madag the Q
[PS4] protoculturejunkie said:
I'm thinking we should get with the Xbox players and start putting the important systems into lockdown every week.
karamu said:
O7 PlayStation commanders.

Yesterday's announcement was a bit of a body blow - I think we all expected not to see Odyssey on PS4 but the line "cancel all console development" was a tough one to take. We've joked long enough about being second class Elite citizens - well it was confirmed in spades by David Braben yesterday.

My initial reaction was to quit the game, uninstall like many others were saying but after having a fun session in a conflict zone last night with my two squadron mates I don't think I will. I will certainly never spend another penny of real world money on Arx again and I will never buy another Frontier game but I think I am going to continue enjoying the galaxy as I have these last two years / 3000 game hours.

How long will we be able to do this though? Braben said consoles will continue as they are right now but of course the inevitable "how long will the servers stay up?" question was asked and not answered. I think the very least FDev could do is give a clear minimum life expectancy. I am 80% through Dangerous in combat - am I going to have enough time to achieve triple Elite?

What do we all think? Quitting / carrying on / moving to PC?? (The last is not an option for me - I have bills to pay and a family to provide for, I can't afford a gaming PC.)

(Oh, if anyone is hanging about and wants to join a wing / squadron that plays most evenings UK time give me a shout!)
Click to expand...
as someone who started the Elite journey on the ZX spectrum back in 1984 this seems a poor ending to the story for me. Elite is the reason I bought a PS4. Honestly I have not played the game in a while since just before all the Odyssey stuff started and it seems a shame that space legs is the thing that killed the game on console at least. I think the game had to come to an end at some point but to end like this leaves a bad taste
Click to expand...
 

ApolloTheWhite

ApolloTheWhite
darthanubis said:
The specs to play elite are extremely low. You won’t need a multi-thousand dollar gaming PC. FYI
Click to expand...
And what about our progress? 5 years worth of ranks, permits, ship access, modules, engineering grind? I want to keep playing but it is absolutely a knife to the gut to basically have to start over since FDev doesn’t offer full migration. I made most of my progress the first 3 years. If I have to start over with my current free time it’ll be 10 years before I manage the same progress. :-/
 

Nerix

Nerix
I can still remember all the hype prior to PS4 release in the console forum section. We tried to gather all information prior to release, figure out which hardware to use, the best possible button mapping, gathering all the tips, tricks and guides from other parts of the forums etc. Everything to be prepared in the best possible way for release day. This was genuinely one of the best times I had as a gamer. The first trips to Colonia and Sag A together with a friend. Figuring out the complex controls and learning new things, even after weeks and months of playtime. Distant Worlds 2 with the great community (it was still existent on consoles back then and we had great events).

All in all, I feel like my favorite game was taken away from me. I like many other games for a specific period of time, but there is no other than ED that I come back to on a regular basis. I know, I can switch to PC. But after probably more than a thousand hours of playtime I definitely do not have the will to unlock all engineers again, to grind my ship to the best possible outfit again etc. So they should give us at least the option to transfer our CMDRs to PC (it's still ridiculous that they did not include that in their announcement - it's not that they didn't have enough time to figure it out). But tbh right now I am not even sure if I would take the offer...

Anyway, o7 CMDRs and hope to see you in the black again at some point.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
As a PC VR cmdr lm curious.
I've never owned a console since the mega drive.
We have rigs. Namely a PC and a chair with a hotas and possibly pedals or 2 sticks or kbm etc etc.
Do console owners own all this too? And if so isn't just buying a PC a more expensive option but the same as buying a next gen console?
And again if so. Then yeah get one.
But... fdev must give the option of a port over for your accounts that's for sure or the deals off we lose 1000s of cmdrs.
Damn shame.
Wish it wernt so as it is. Let's hope they do something.

o7
 

Deleted member 166264

D
Dragsham said:
As a PC VR cmdr lm curious.
I've never owned a console since the mega drive.
We have rigs. Namely a PC and a chair with a hotas and possibly pedals or 2 sticks or kbm etc etc.
Do console owners own all this too? And if so isn't just buying a PC a more expensive option but the same as buying a next gen console?

o7
Click to expand...

Some do. AFAIK though, most don't. I never done a survey of how many do use extra peripherals with this game (and I never bothered looking either). I do know out of the several dozen or so players I've friended in this game I think about four or five had a Hotas controller. The rest of us just used the normal PS4 controller.

For me the only reason I played on the PS4 was that I couldn't get used to using the mouse to fly in Arena, the PS-style Logitech controller I had at the time kept wanting to pull the ship up even though I had zeroed the analog sticks, and I couldn't get the PS4 controller to work on my PC quite right.
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
Dragsham said:
As a PC VR cmdr lm curious.
I've never owned a console since the mega drive.
We have rigs. Namely a PC and a chair with a hotas and possibly pedals or 2 sticks or kbm etc etc.
Do console owners own all this too? And if so isn't just buying a PC a more expensive option but the same as buying a next gen console?
And again if so. Then yeah get one.
But... fdev must give the option of a port over for your accounts that's for sure or the deals off we lose 1000s of cmdrs.
Damn shame.
Wish it wernt so as it is. Let's hope they do something.

o7
Click to expand...
Ok, so my PS5, £450, the game say £30 around the time I got it, PS4 Pro was £350 when I bought that.
TV I use about £300/£400 when I bought that (it’s over 10 years old now).

Total spend over 8 years for lounge based gaming, excluding the games: £1300+

PC, total £1.1k, brother-in-law donated me a monitor so nothing paid for that, my HOTAS Stick £35 but from early 2000’s, I bought a nice HyperX KB/Mouse combo for around £40. My desk was about £150, PC speakers about £30. Free EPIC Elite, then £30 or so for Odyssey.

Total PC spend (PC from May 2021, 16gb DDR4, i5 9th gen, 12gb 3060 RTX, 250gb SSD, 1TB HDD): £1355+
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom