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LaveCon 2018 QA quick recap
- Thread starter Cmdr Eagleboy
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I like lightning in the nebulae
Make the environment alive
Make the environment alive
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WOAH, at 12:30 timestamp in the video they are flying though a nebula with lightning arcing across the sky!!!!
YES !
... Excellent ! Like this, they will be ready for lightning on the planets with atmosphere
Very nice selection of teases, looking forward to seeing more later this year as well as any expo announcements for the next season. Those ice planets are going to be fun in VR, at least things will look pretty when players spin wildly out of control. Adding this sort of stuff during a "free" Beyond season was the way to go while preparing their next paid expansion.
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* Mining
+ Will have three stages - regular one (which we have now), a bit deeper mining, and splitting up asteroids. New, interesting stuff can be found and experienced (blowing up asteroids might end up being a bit risky);
* Exploration
+ Drones - enough said. Launching will take physics in mind and will enable exploration with multi crew;
+ Drones will give full map, which will show all interesting POIs so players doesn't have to 'peek' interesting stuff;
+ And that's not all, more hinted to come;
* Graphics
+ Update on lighting - new adaptive lighting system shots; Also with color grading; (Looks amazing btw)
+ OMG ice shader
Both mining and exploration will allow other crew members to engage with it.
Exporation drones! Yeh! This of course will mean they're introducing the orrery map to best plan their routes yes?
And of couse they stated there will be stateful finite mining resource location to be found yes? Else there will be no way to find rich deposits to make exploration and mining more while? And even for FD to inject gold rushes when required? So they said stateful resource hot spots were in yes? - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...eful-resource-hot-spots?p=6054187#post6054187
Looks good, overall.
I wonder if I'm alone in wanting a clear, definitive answer as to why Multi-Crew SRV isn't, or can't, be a thing. This is such a huge miss that has gone on for so long (and seemingly going to continue), the only conclusions I can arrive at are that it just can't be done, or they are afraid of something.
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I wonder if I'm alone in wanting a clear, definitive answer as to why Multi-Crew SRV isn't, or can't, be a thing. This is such a huge miss that has gone on for so long (and seemingly going to continue), the only conclusions I can arrive at are that it just can't be done, or they are afraid of something.
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Thanks for the intel Commander.
Wow, some actual new information!! I must admit, I'm shocked!!!!
Now, my initial (admittedly very premature) thoughts on what's been posted here so far:
EDIT: Now that I've watched the full stream, my impressions are much better:
- Mining changes sound very interesting and fun. Glad to hear we are getting larger "gold rush" asteroids, I was hoping for that!
Gold rushes require statefulness...
ie: A location can be mined down to nothing and that's it, forever...
Please tell me there's the suggestion we now have finite rich locations, which once mines are gone forever?!?
Good times are officially not over! These improvements do very much add gameplay and things to do in Elite.
Fingers crossed... But I'll wait till I try them...
Why? As long as it is viable in Solo, why can't there be a multiplayer aspect to it?
I've just watched the reveals. One of the human settlements that were shown with a Thargoid presence looks suspiciously like one of the Formidine Rift settlements...
Wow, I've didn't expected such things. Great work, FD.
Exactly.
I think DW2 launch is scheduled to be shortly after the Q4 update so if the update is moved back then the launch will be too.... <- I think, not 100% sure.