NPC Bullet Sponges
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OP you mean dear Braben please ...
I was thinking more on the stealth aspect of it all
Watch out for those Elite NPCs. They will have engineered equipment up the wazoo.
I'd hope the maximum TTK is significantly lower than the current ship shield stack meta.
I am also happy for it to be somewhat higher than most "realistic" shooters where every gun is equally lethal and kills in less than half a second. Which I find tedious.
Hopefully, it's balanced...
I know CQC is controversial but the limited experience I had with it felt pretty good from a TTK perspective. You could survive a fight but focused fire will take you out quite fast.
Felt about right as a base line for fps combat.
I am also happy for it to be somewhat higher than most "realistic" shooters where every gun is equally lethal and kills in less than half a second. Which I find tedious.
Hopefully, it's balanced...
I know CQC is controversial but the limited experience I had with it felt pretty good from a TTK perspective. You could survive a fight but focused fire will take you out quite fast.
Felt about right as a base line for fps combat.
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It'll be snail paced . Good news is plenty of mature quality fps games out there to choose from instead 
Congratulations!It'll be snail paced . Good news is plenty of mature quality fps games out there to choose from instead
When did you land the dev job at fdev?
I'm sure they will draw on their extensive experiance of fps games to make a truely quality product ... 
I believe they hired specifically for this though.I'm sure they will draw on their extensive experiance of fps games to make a truely quality product ...
I'd guess they'd have a pretty good idea. Perhaps more than us.
Infinity Ward have over a decade of experience creating fps games but I stopped buying them after cod 4 because they turned gash. 2015 games (the company that ultimately split off to make cod, created medal of honor allied assault) had very little comparative experience prior to that game and I'll still play it now from time to time. It's a classic.
Not really sure I follow your logic. Unless your logic is just doomsaying for the sake of it. In which case you carry on.
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Gotta fit that shield generator somewhere.
Shields seem to work well enough in Halo games. I'm sure this will have been used for some ideas somewhere in the process.
This is the only thing I'm seriously skeptical about (ship vs srv vs player vs ship game play).One-shotting players with a ship's missile system will be fun to try.
If done right, it's a lot of fun (battlefield bad company 2 for example, loved that game; infantry can take down vehicles if they do it right). I just can't see how it could be done in ED considering how massively op ships can be.
One-shotting players with a ship's missile system will be fun to try.
Mines... that will be fun. Give them a sporting chance trying to spot the slowly falling (if low G) mines and trying to escape their blast radius.
Hell, this could be a fun thing to do with friends for a laugh. Last man standing sort of thing. Or given them an objective to reach while one person flies over dropping mines.
A very good point but, as you say, if done right it could be a lot of fun as I also enjoyed those games and if I fancied a change from solo mode, I could drop in to a faction war and help out now and then. And that's the thing which interests me: imagine player factions facing off and affecting the BGS with a ground war on some backwater lump of rock. It would appeal to a fair few I think and utilise the many forms of game play ED promises.