Mike Evans was at the back of the room struggling to hear the panel. Apparently he spent a brief moment thinking they'd announced they would release Starbug.
I am disappointed this rumour is false.
I would sell everything in exchange for Starbug.
Mike Evans was at the back of the room struggling to hear the panel. Apparently he spent a brief moment thinking they'd announced they would release Starbug.
I am disappointed this rumour is false.
I'm SURE we heard someone mention the Moray Starboat.... (and then Chris Gregory said "what's that?"). Perfect for when planetary landings come along.
I'll take that as confirmed then ;-)
Linkage?
I can confrim that announcement was correct. We are aiming for the full Xbox One release and PC release of CQC to come as close together as possible.
I've really enjoyed reading this thread, thanks for all the new info. I'm excited for the game's future again.
Why is CQC on the XBox billed as a "timed exclusive"? Doesn't this mean that it's only available on XBox for a set period of time?
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...box-one-as-console-exclusive-this-summer.aspx
Frontier lawyers have look at their contract with Microsoft and found a little loophole, preview period counts towards their exclusivity period. Expect that loop hole to be quickly close by Microsoft lawyers during their next round of exclusivity deals.
Can you clarify? Is the 15th release date for E: D on XBone the full release? I'm confused...Does that mean we get CQC in a few weeks?
Sorry, posted late Saturday and spotted "make public" wasn't ticked later - it's fixed now: http://www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk/Blog/2015/7/11/details-of-new-ship-emerge-from-lavecon-2015
Shame. A film in the elite universe could be fun.The power-play characters appearance was modelled initially on the actors David Braben would have selected to play them in an Elite feature film (“which is not being made” – Michael Brookes). According to Sandro they are not all modelled on the actors that some have speculated.
I cannot imagine that you will get any more clarity than we have already had. Zac has confirmed that there is no 'trick' in the wording. Some have suggested that the most parsimonious explanation is that CQC for the XBox will be released later than we currently expect, so that the PC version (which FD have indicated is expected for 'the holiday' - presumably Christmas) will follow on quite soon after the XBox version.
Shame. A film in the elite universe could be fun.
What does this mean??? Does this mean CQC is coming to PC sooner rather than later?
They have already said 'the holidays': i.e. in time for Christmas. So November or early December. The way that allows them to say the PC CQC will be soon after XBox is probably that the XBox CQC is not going to be as soon as we expected. Perhaps. Maybe. Hell, they could surprise us all and announce it will be in August. The exclusive deal is likely to be for the game (i.e. if you want it on a console, it has to be an XBox during that period), rather than for a feature of the game. So there may be no real restrictions at all.If it is a 6 months exclusivity period, Xbox one I think will be release in September, I predict CQC will come in November .
They have already said 'the holidays': i.e. in time for Christmas. So November or early December. The way that allows them to say the PC CQC will be soon after XBox is probably that the XBox CQC is not going to be as soon as we expected. Perhaps. Maybe. Hell, they could surprise us all and announce it will be in August. The exclusive deal is likely to be for the game (i.e. if you want it on a console, it has to be an XBox during that period), rather than for a feature of the game. So there may be no real restrictions at all.
They have already said 'the holidays': i.e. in time for Christmas. So November or early December. The way that allows them to say the PC CQC will be soon after XBox is probably that the XBox CQC is not going to be as soon as we expected. Perhaps. Maybe. Hell, they could surprise us all and announce it will be in August. The exclusive deal is likely to be for the game (i.e. if you want it on a console, it has to be an XBox during that period), rather than for a feature of the game. So there may be no real restrictions at all.
Awh man, i'm stoked. So stoked i'm ready to be disappointed in how boring and lackluster CQC is going to be. I guess that could be the big announcement they have in store for Gamescon on August 5th. I mean, i'd rather something else, some sort of a glimpse into what's in store for around Xmas to mark the year the game has been released but... Dunno. I guess CQC is a nice announcement...? Would only be nice if they said "Yeah, it's being released tomorrow!"
"The announcement" is suppose to be something secret (CQC isn't secret) they are working on for PC/Mac that the majority of the dev team is working on (CQC isn't worked on by the majority, it's a smaller group within the dev team).
That would certainly be a secret, but...no.![]()
Erm
Secret = coloured laser beams. Or Michael has had a shave again.
I think you were better off with that first guess...
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