I think frontier may have missed the point with Q4 exploration..

I've not complained before now, until I saw the exploration changes... If I'm wrong I'll happily apologize.

So I spent a few hours on ED last night, in advance I flew my exploration vette out into the black and ditched it until Q4 landed. I'd have to say the new changes were initially interesting but ultimately very lackluster, which is a shame because there is so much missed potential, just in FSS and DSS alone.

FSS

I weirdly do prefer the new discovery scanner but after a few systems it was all frills no quality. I hit the honk, access the FSS, and start scanning for the bodies it says are there, I like this process. One moon says it has 21 locations, so i get excited, finish off the body discoveries, then head to my exciting prospect. I get there and use the DSS to get a good scan of the moon. weirdly not much information acquired,nothing shows up when I look at the planet, nothing in navigation..where are the 21 locations? buzzkilled

Secondly is the fact I can't have my friend on my ship using my scanners, and location P.O.I..sad.

DSS
This is the flop...big time. All it actually does is turn the body blue. I was expecting some cool information, got a blue blob. no thermal mapping, no cool resource/materials mapping. just a blue blob...

As I said before...they missed the point.
 
From my personal point of view, where FD missed the point is that I expected to have more gameplay and interactions while exploring.

Instead, I got a lousy 2D cheap puzzler that has become the "exploration" part, and then it's just go-fetch. Never in a million years I would imagine not even in my wildest nightmares that scifi enthusiasts making a space game would come up with a thing like this as "exploration gameplay".

ED has had it's share up ups and downs, hits and misses, things I loved, things I hated (I always said I both loved and hated ED in equal amounts) but this "exploration update" has been, to me, the greatest disappointment so far by a very long stretch, perhaps because I was truly looking forward to it like I hadn't been for any update in a long time.
 
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