Of course it’s going to be a kit. But it’s still going to be a lot of work. Environments are the biggest resource sink in game dev.
Interiors, why?
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Of course it’s going to be a kit. But it’s still going to be a lot of work. Environments are the biggest resource sink in game dev.
oh wow you cannot stay calm.
I’m a 3d modeler, specializing in vehicles. I work in a game studio. You probably played some games I worked on. That’s my job. I am telling you if time goes in there, it won’t be short, it won’t go elsewhere where it is maybe more useful. Environment is costly.
Yes the cockpits are the longest part to do in those ships I am pretty sure of that.
So because cockpits exist it means that the rest should be modelled and that it’s going to be easy peasy?
I’m not against full interiors but you have to make them for more than ego strolls.
This thread is an ego stroll.
I addressed that originally.."corridors could be cookie cutter with the ship manufacturers having a unique style"
You did. Most games are made that way and it still is very long.
yep, you enjoy it?
Don’t forget the wannabe smartass who likes to tell everybody what to say In a forum with a tentative cool relaxed sarcastic style.
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Sounds ... in Thrall ing!
Of course they are because that's what we play "in" and interact with. Without game environments we couldn't do much could we. Just becuase you have no interest in Interiors as an "environment" doesn't mean FD shouldn't add them.
I don't think anyone has said that it'll be easy peasy, Most people who want interiors also want FD to do compelling reasons to use them.....the only problem is can FD do the compelling reasons? Their track record on gameplay is not exactly stellar. Great games have one thing in common...great gameplay....some have photo realistic graphics, some have less than brilliant graphics, some have cartoony graphics. ALL have great gameplay.
Multicrew was never a great idea on paper though, you said it yourself "Multicrew was an attempt to split up an already fairly straight forward ship control experience, into smaller dedicated roles, which from the outset of the feature being announced, CMDRs asked what depth/engagement there would be in these smaller roles.... and it turned out when it was released, little to none. "
CMDRs called it a dead before it was created and were correct, you get to join someone elses ship and watch them play the game, YouTube does that well, and even then its a limited niche with little repeatability
Theres no depth to void hearts, yet here's one shown from the interior of a ship, that screenshot right there is a good 3-4 hours of gameplay because of the void heart location.
ship interiors is just that, the interior of a ship, no purpose behind it and im already excited about it, you are clearly not, but just as i said earlier, its no justification for FDev to not spend time on it, i dont trade, anything, ever, and while i could sit here and say Trading is pointless imo delete it, many CMDRs spend hours trading, doing the same task over and over again...
Much like i jump honk scooped 300 times last night, still not a novelty millions of LY later, and for what? to park the same ship in front of something and look at it (in a nutshell)
much like i would travel millions of LY again looking out from the ship interior doing the exact same thing.
and ps...
then support it and get behind it, don't be an oppressor, if you started a campaign to improve mining id be the first to support you.
Most modern games have a long development time, time is indeed the real enemy of a developer. FD have spent time developing stuff I don't give fig about but it happens. The bottom line is this, with other big games in the genre looking at expanding what the genre is beyond just piloting ships...FD have to show they are the innovators who can make it all work. I'm pretty sure if FD can crack space legs in all it's possible glory it'll steal a LOT of thunder from a certain other game and that means new blood and new money.
Hang on shouldn't you be encouraging stuff like this to create jobs for 3d modellers?!!!!
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Someone give me a shout when this thread gets to the grown up stuff, the stuff that matters.
Ship's cats.
Cats for ships.
Feline related issues to ship interiors.
Moggy modeling.
All the rest is academic until we get this issue sorted.
Ship's cats.
Cats for ships.
Feline related issues to ship interiors.
Moggy modeling.
All the rest is academic until we get this issue sorted.
Indeed, without interiors where would the cat litter trays go!!! We can't have cat poo everywhere...it stinks!!!
Secret weapon? Cat poo launcher next engineer upgade?
I envisage the main rub of the gameplay being first person combat attacking bases and installations, against Thargoids, and possibly AI enemy etc? I'd be surprised if it involves combat in ships...
My concern is, the more I think about it, the more effort it seems for this whole new area of gameplay, all of which is effort that is trying to compete with a number of dedicated game titles specialising in FPS. And of course it's all effort that could have been 'spent' elsewhere in the game to deepen/expand it.
It's going to be interesting to see what FD have decided makes sense for the game... And what to dedicate what seems to be their biggest development push for ED since release.
i'll tell you where they will go.... Everywhere
cat litter in 0g... hmm what could go wrong...
