I was hopeful for interiors, as there are so many game play elements that could be created to breathe more life into the game. I hear some people complain that walking around your ship would get old in like 2 minutes... that would only happen if there were no game play elements accompanying that feature, and there could be lots of good, fun and realistic game play mechanics involved with walking around and interacting with the different areas of your ship. Ship interiors can be far more then just "wandering around your ship aimlessly"
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Making a boot that uses negative feedback sensors to sense walking motions and control groups of electro-magnets wouldn't be that difficult.
That said, walking around a hull shouldn't be directly impacted by lack of "artificial gravity".
That said, walking around a hull shouldn't be directly impacted by lack of "artificial gravity".
Being able to survive 9G in a standard flight suit, much less min/max ships being able to lift, without some form of gravity control screams handwavium.
- You could break in to a cmdr's ship and swap all the knives for spoons in the cutlery drawer, Like a space Alanis Morissette.
- Play hide and seek.
- Buckyball running races around an annie.
- Engage in hide the sausage.
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I like golgots analysis... ship interiors and stations was actually a separate bullet point in newsletter 29.
When you think about space legs at first glance yeah it doesn't make sense, but from playing elite for the last few years im kinda hoping they save it for another large release.
100% purely going by every major patch from 2.4 onwards, there's a characteristic about frontier or the elite team that just can't build video game features like everyone else. Making srv legs sounds like a big enough problem for them to handle in one go, (even given 3 years full time) if we're not going to get 1/2 baked junk. Carriers was being developed for 2 years, delayed by 6 months and still half baked. We have to be reasonable and respect what the developers can produce.
EDIT: Also why was the yamicks video deleted? Same as always except he screamed really loudly in what im guessing was shock right at the beginning.
When you think about space legs at first glance yeah it doesn't make sense, but from playing elite for the last few years im kinda hoping they save it for another large release.
100% purely going by every major patch from 2.4 onwards, there's a characteristic about frontier or the elite team that just can't build video game features like everyone else. Making srv legs sounds like a big enough problem for them to handle in one go, (even given 3 years full time) if we're not going to get 1/2 baked junk. Carriers was being developed for 2 years, delayed by 6 months and still half baked. We have to be reasonable and respect what the developers can produce.
EDIT: Also why was the yamicks video deleted? Same as always except he screamed really loudly in what im guessing was shock right at the beginning.
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The tyranny of choice: Animatics or Fade to Black in options - both player types catered for.
Also means VR wasn't dropped over performance concerns which is hopeful.
Virtual narcotics / slaves are never as much fun as actual narcotics / slaves... I've been told.
No, the no next gen console complaints aren't silly at all, the new PS5 and Xbox Series X have a lot of advantages over the current gen like ray tracing, much faster loading times, etc.
I'm not surprised Fdev isn't implementing next gen console though, they're already having a hard time including engaging gameplay over the span of two years.
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As for the platforms and where we’re headed, I’ll tell you that we’re looking at PC, Xbox and PS4, as far as what we’re pushing it to, it’s not currently planned for PS5 or the Xbox Series X. We’re continuing to evaluate.
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"Not currently planned". Which means that the new consoles will have been out once it launched, but it won't be made for them. It may or may not ever be made for them.
Let's see ... within the context of Elite: Dangerous being able to walk around the ship interior could offer the following game play:
- manually repair your ship.
- boarding other ships.
- repelling boarders.
- going to the passenger cabin to talk with the passengers, thereby increasing (or decreasing) their level of happiness.
- with physical PC to NPC contact: throwing that jerk passenger out an airlock (I know you've had at least one of those if you do passenger transport missions).
- since this is Elite: Dangerous ... BASKING in the glorious interior that is the Imperial Cutter.
- Finally figuring out what that room on the nose of the Anaconda is for.
By now there are more reports of what's not gonna be included then what will be.
I was hoping to get out of my commander's chair during a long supercruise, and walk down to the SRV bay to do some modifications on the suspension
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But virtually all of the things people are suggesting as "new game play elements" are nothing more than taking what we can do right now, instantly, from the pilots chair, and adding a time sink to them.
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A nice to have, for sure - if I was a project manager at FDev though, I'd have to think hard whether it makes sense to get my team to work on a 100% optional feature that most players will likely skip after trying it once.
Though I suppose it wouldn't be the first such asset to be in the game (Thargoid map anyone?), so what do I know.
Heh - I was going to reply "Once, most have never seen it once!". Then I remembered that in following the Thargoid invasion I decoded the messages from 3 of those sites each week for over a year ( so I saw it ... around 150 times) - so I'm the one that got my moneys worth out of that addition
On ice planets ......In many ways my worry is that they do add walking around your own ship - which will be 10 minutes of 'ohh', and never again. Then again I worry that the same will be true of EDO on planets - 10 minutes wandering around saying 'oh, that ship is big, this planet is pretty' followed by ... but what do I do?
I guess we'll see soon
Just another voice opposing those who think ship interiors are a waste of time - I want ship interiors - that plus landing on atmospherics like in frontier elite 2 . I only play in solo , don't care to interact with other players and there is plenty of game play in this game for me already - I am looking for the immersion factor . Sometimes I'll just sit in my cockpit (ship/srv) with the sound up and listen/watch and thats just as good "game play" for me . I would like to walk through my ship and sit - look out a window . SC is a buggy mess - when it is less of a Buggy Mess then it will likely satisfy my requirements and I'll play less of ED .