Is there any actual public roadmap or major content coming to Elite or just updates and fixes?

WillTheWise

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I remeber years ago we had a roadmap showing all the major content planned but since Odyssey I've never seen another like that. I really don't now what is coming (apart of Thargoids updates) and if there is something to bring hope for the players in this game. Don't get me wrong, the game is good, but still has so much potential and I can't see any great expectations on it for the next years. Is Elite still worthy for the dev team? Can we still wait for new exciting content coming? or just lore and regular updates?
I assume that most of you had already seen the Starfield new extended gameplay and there is so much from that gameplay that could be implemented in Elite Dangerous (ship interiors, docking with other ships, interesting planets (not only big dead land masses with settlements), npc crew, small cities, etc...
 
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WillTheWise

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Spacerschoice-00 said:
update 16 is coming according to rumors
also if want more star field

Game Discussions - Bethesda Softworks Starfield Space RPG

The BGS is a tool to generate dynamic environment. Nothing of it has any dedicated MP purpose. Yes, except it accounts all players at once in 1 go once per day. This means it does MP.
forums.frontier.co.uk

as for Elite Dangerous some healthy competition is good. both ways.
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Is there any thread or discussion somewhere talking about this and what to expect?
That's my complain, there's rumors but just it, it's not easy to find what Frontier is planning and for outsiders this could look like a dead game.
I really hope that the competition make the game more interesting

GroG79 said:
There is no roadmap. You could have searched that.
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The fact that I'm asking for it doesn't tell you anything?

Internet is much bigger than your capacity to research and not everything is there
 

Danieros

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Most of what's to expect this year is story-related (thargoids), so I don't think they'd spoil it.

We recently had updates 15, 15.01 and 15.02. Of what we know for the future:

1. Update 16.
2. Feature rework news: "details of this investigation and our plans towards the end of this year".
 

shockbait

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WillTheWise said:
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That's my complain, there's rumors but just it, it's not easy to find what Frontier is planning and for outsiders this could look like a dead game.
I really hope that the competition make the game more interesting
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There's like, a whole narrative-based constantly evolving war going on right now, with new assets and gameplay being added.
I fail to see how anyone could assume a game midway through a narrative driven storyline is a "dead game".
I'm sorry, but this reads like "doom" disguised as "I'm just asking questions, bro".

As an aside to the fact you for some reason tagged this with "Starfield", I also fail to see how a single player bethesda game is competition for a primarily multiplayer focused space simulator. I'm not saying it will be bad or I won't play it, but thats like saying Skyrim was competition for World of Warcraft, it's nonsensical.

I'm also not saying I wouldn't want some of Starfields features in Elite either, but it's childish to underestimate the difference in complexity of implementing features in a 1000 system single player game vs an online real life galaxy sim with peer to peer networking.
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
WillTheWise said:
Can we still wait for new exciting content coming? or just lore and regular updates?
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Well, "just lore" certainly is "new content", right? ED is a space sim game with a lot of procedurally generated content, not a RPG driven by a meticulously handcrafted narrative. Never was.

WillTheWise said:
I assume that most of you had already seen the Starfield new extended gameplay and there is so much from that gameplay that could be implemented in Elite Dangerous (ship interiors, docking with other ships, interesting planets (not only big dead land masses with settlements), npc crew, small cities, etc...
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No, it couldn't. Who would implement all that? With what resources? The Starfield features you mentioned where probably planned and initiated many years ago. Starfield was specifically developed with the goal to deliver a single-player Bethesda game experience with a (hopefully) gripping story, convincing characters etc. It's an entirely different game within a different genre. How and why would FDev copy all this now and bring this into a game that has been around for many years and is -- for better or worse -- a totally different experience?
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
WillTheWise said:
That's my complain, there's rumors but just it, it's not easy to find what Frontier is planning and for outsiders this could look like a dead game.
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By its very definition, Starfield is the dead game here. Don't get me wrong, I do love most of the big Bethesda games. It's just that a single-player game is "dead" once it's published. Yea, there will be some patches and some DLCs, but it won't evolve any more, because that's just how it was planned. I can't imagine that the official News section for Starfield will be as busy as the one for ED after 8 years. So again, not really fair to both games to compare features like that.
 

Flimley

Flimley
Nowadays development is just made up as it's going along. Depending on what frontier feels is popular.
Prior is spaghetti, wall, sticks etc.

Flimley
 
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