I've played in open exclusively since beta and really wanted to sum up my experiences with the multiplayer aspects of Elite:
Since beta I've had:
I have to conclude that (for myself and the group I play in) the multiplayer PvE is Elite's strongest element. I think (broadly) many of the people who are concerned about the game may feel the same way and are worried all the development effort is going into PvP features like CQC and Powerplay. I'm not knocking those features for the people who like them - am sure I'll get involved too but I'm far more excited about ANYTHING that would make playing as wings more fun.
I'm just casting my vote here and asking FD for some love for those who like to play as a wing.
Wing missions at the least would be an amazing start.
More things to do as a wing would be even better (Next level surface scans for explorers? Split cargo trades for traders? Teamwork kills for Bountyhunters?).
Here's hoping.
TL/DR: Wing missions - yes please!
Apologies all for another brain dump thread
Still loving Elite.
Playing every week and really excited about its future.
Since beta I've had:
- Many fun chats with other CMDRS - especially returning explorers .
- Many fun chats in and around stations with 84'ers.
- One really cool interdiction by a role playing pirate which was unfortunately spoiled by the networking going really laggy so it was impossible for me to fight back. Despite that I thought this really added something to the game. Mainly because the pirate player made it so much fun. (Wish I had a chat log so I could salute them on here)
- 2 random wordless deaths from CMDRs in ships that massively outgunned me. I found this a little dull but it added some element of danger I prefer over not being in open.
- 2 wordless attacks from people where I took their shields down to ward them off but they used the supercruise cheat to repeatedly return so I had to kill them.
- 2 Fairly even PVP combats that went on forever due to constant shield cell boosts until I eventually got bored and left.
- A number of random CMDR encounter wing ups to do some bounty hunting
(always seems to be Anaconda players!!) which were great fun. - Loads of amazing wing PVE action with another on the same network and friends nearby. We're all on virgin cable in the same postcode so don't know if that helps but (messaging winging up bugs aside) this is a great part of the game.
I have to conclude that (for myself and the group I play in) the multiplayer PvE is Elite's strongest element. I think (broadly) many of the people who are concerned about the game may feel the same way and are worried all the development effort is going into PvP features like CQC and Powerplay. I'm not knocking those features for the people who like them - am sure I'll get involved too but I'm far more excited about ANYTHING that would make playing as wings more fun.
I'm just casting my vote here and asking FD for some love for those who like to play as a wing.
Wing missions at the least would be an amazing start.
More things to do as a wing would be even better (Next level surface scans for explorers? Split cargo trades for traders? Teamwork kills for Bountyhunters?).
Here's hoping.
TL/DR: Wing missions - yes please!
Apologies all for another brain dump thread
Still loving Elite.
Playing every week and really excited about its future.
