Odyssey DLC goes live tomorrow. What's the next big DLC going to be?

[Montgomery Dog]

If I may quote this timely passage from The Fronteriad, being a Chronicle of the Third War of Expansion.

Disbelieving the liars evidence of their eyes, and cleaving to the true faith in their hearts, a small band of forum knights would embark upon a valorous crusade against the enemies of Frontier.

And lo, on the eve of total victory and upon a battlefield strewn with the forum threads they have smote, as their signature banners flutter and snap triumphantly in the wind ... doubt creeps, like a black smoke across a graveyard, into the very hearts of the battle weary.

"Woe! Alas! For is it not true that the optimisation was not miraculous? Was there, after all, truth upon the bloodied tongues of the enemy? Look upon thy frame-rate and despair! Our cause is lost! Will the horizon ever be reunited with the land? Look upon the chasm rent in the skies (at least six months they say)."

"Hold fast, brothers!" Sword aloft, chief among their number, with postings innumerable. "Hold fast! Is it not also true that we hold the field? Who now remains to offer challenge? Let us take their words. Let us claim them for our own, as our victory gives us right, for are we not ...reasonable?"

 

[Murfelton]

If they are going for a redesign, I think they need to go back to fundamentals, and either lock into a server-based multiplay only game, or a mainly PVE experience using peer-to-peer networking with co-op (and possibly with consensual PvP).

I think a lot of complaints are around the problems created by the hybrid design.

If they want to keep the existing model, might as well just stretch it out without too radical changes.

 

[Dagwit]

Elite: V - The Exodus... The overwhelming Thargoid incursions into Human occupied space forces those left alive to seek new, safer, surroundings and rebuild.

That's not simple at all - even without further major patches, they'd still have to support ED indefinitely in terms of servers, support, content, etc.

When what is now Odyssey was announced, I thought of a scenario like RatCatcher's: the bubble burns, and though the Thargoids are ultimately stymied - for the time being - a human diaspora has spread through the Galaxy.

I saw this as being placed twenty or more years into the future, to allow Frontier to continue to support Elite Dangerous for a couple of years* after sales stop without the old game crashing into the new narrative - I was at that point assuming that with the new content announced to appear at the same time as the new generation of consoles, Frontier were intending to take advantage of the new consoles to thoroughly update the game.

In the event, not, but Frontier will have to bite the bullet sometime, and when they do there are worse ideas than RatCatcher's.

*I presume Frontier will have to keep the servers up for maybe a couple of years after they stop selling the current game, new game or no, or they'll have their last customers looking for their money back.

 

[Rat Catcher]

"Woe! Alas! For is it not true that the optimisation was not miraculous? Was there, after all, truth upon the bloodied tongues of the enemy? Look upon thy frame-rate and despair! Our cause is lost! Will the horizon ever be reunited with the land? Look upon the chasm rent in the skies (at least six months they say)."

Well, that gave me a chuckle, thanks

Maybe in 6 months time, there will be no optimised code to share and only the few might play, on their powerful CPU/GPU PCs, the expansion that was made, solely for them!

It wouldn't matter for some of us if Odyssey was very poorly optimised, we had the power to play it even in alpha

... but it is splendid to read your excellent story of woe.

 

[Montgomery Dog]

Well, that gave me a chuckle, thanks

Maybe in 6 months time, there will be no optimised code to share and only the few might play, on their powerful CPU/GPU PCs, the expansion that was made, solely for them!

It wouldn't matter for some of us if Odyssey was very poorly optimised, we had the power to play it even in alpha

... but it is splendid to read your excellent story of woe.

Just a bit of fun at the expense of both 'sides'.

It's been fun, commanders. I'll probably bow out now until the next expansion.

o7

 

[Rat Catcher]

Just a bit of fun at the expense of both 'sides'.

It's been fun, commanders. I'll probably bow out now until the next expansion.

o7

Your posts have always been in good humour - thanks for the smiles!

 

[Stewart Forgie]

They could always surprise everyone and finally give us DDF members the long promised "God Like Powers"

 

[thistle]

A train commute dlc.

A tank with no purpose?

Turtles. I vote turtles.

 

[Rat Catcher]

That's not simple at all - even without further major patches, they'd still have to support ED indefinitely in terms of servers, support, content, etc. (Or they could stop doing that, and have exactly the same outcry, more or less, as if they'd raised the system specs for it, so it's not like it gets them anywhere)

Why would Frontier need to support ED indefinitely? The game had a "10 year plan" and we are already over 6 years into it. Announcing a termination date and stopping sales a couple of years beforehand should be all that is required to close this version down.

Should a new version, with more realistic hardware requirements (Think 'overengineered' rather than 'just about') be produced, and an option to port ones 'progress' into the new game, if required, it would at least have the opportunity to provide content, and playing environments, for all.

 

[Cervantes01]

Build your own base would be awesome.

 

[Stewart Forgie]

Why would Frontier need to support ED indefinitely? The game had a "10 year plan" and we are already over 6 years into it. Announcing a termination date and stopping sales a couple of years beforehand should be all that is required to close this version down.

Should a new version, with more realistic hardware requirements (Think 'overengineered' rather than 'just about') be produced, and an option to port ones 'progress' into the new game, if required, it would at least have the opportunity to provide content, and playing environments, for all.

They could even stop sales of edo and include a copy for free if you pre ordered the new game so players could continue to play seamlessly.

 

[StanleyDunkan]

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

It's going to be an exciting launch tomorrow - long anticipated space legs finally become a reality. Of course, it will take some time to polish game mechanics, optimize the performance and get rid of all kinds of bugs and issues, build tons of new content upon the new platform and so on.

It is way ahead of the game, however, I can't help myself but wonder - after all the above, what's the next big game expansion?

Personally, inspired by the moment when you could finally 'stretch those legs', I imagine an epic "trailer" moment when CMDR could walk land in the green fields filled with grass and flowers, disembark, hear singing birds, take the helmet off and inhale an earth-like world air, gaze into sunrise above the horizon where ocean meets the blue sky, turn around, and walk towards the big futuristic city lights with the spaceships traffic above it.

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What would you like to see as a next expansion of the game world?

I'm expecting smaller paid for DLCs from now on. Now that everything is in place, they can add stuff to the base that they have. Extra planet types to land on for £15. Space EVA DLC for £20 etc.

 

[CMDR James]

Elite Dangerous is my favorite game. I completely trust in the leadership, vision, genius and imagination of David Braben. Whatever comes next, I'd like for it to bring Elite Dangerous closer to being exactly what David Braben envisoned/envisions for Elite Dangerous. Where David Braben wants to go with Elite Dangerous is where I would like to see ED go next. o7 CMDRs

 

[IamMe]

What would you like to see as a next expansion of the game world?

Atmo planets expansion ; water worlds, weather, thicker atmos, gas giants, more space phenomena and maybe ELW but i doubt that)

 

[Welsh Wizard]

I would love to see powerplay get a refresh that rewards players for playing in Open.

Also anything that improves instancing would be welcome.

Hell, I would be happy if multicrew worked properly.

Or SLF fighter lag was addressed.

Or FDL nerfed a little.

Or a meaningful economy like Eve.

Or EVA to repair ships

Planetary basebuilding would be great.

But it is FDev, so not holding my breath.

 

[Mr T]

Well, Odyssey might be released on PC tomorrow but that's really just the start of it for FDev. Development and testing on consoles and merging the instances will be next, along with the many bug fixes and improvements that come with that. For now I'd rather they kept focusing on that rather than thinking of more DLC they can start developing.

 

[Vayporz]

...Starfield.

 

[Ghural]

I suspect the next DLC will have a headline feature like "Base building", and include incremental improvements to planetary generation that would potentially include planets with thicker atmospheres, weather, fauna and surface water.

 

[CMDR Maxus]

Bold to assume there will be a 'next DLC'. I don't think this game will last another 6 years without one personally. It would have to come substantially sooner than that.

For now the hype is back as odyssey is borderline a new game with the overall code refresh. However it all depends on profits.