Hello, fellow comanders. Right now I am outside of the bubble, coming back from traveling to Beagle Point. My question is, will I be able to land and explore planets on foot without returning to some station, to buy the gear, or it will be similar to Horizons DLC, and my ship will automaticly have new modules installed?
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Newcomer / Intro Odyssey exploration question
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yes.
Both your cases are the same ....
Both your cases are the same ....
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Since you only have one commander then it would follow that only that commander can go walkabout. So out in the black you can land on a planet and go for a stroll. This is just a supposition following along with how things have been so far.
I don't think any dev answers have indicated otherwise.
I just hope that despite all that pew pew focus, they actually add a thing or two for us explorers to DO on foot.
Even if it were just tightening screws on the landing gear and throwing rocks against the ship's shield for fun...
The main "in-game" difference between a Horizons ship and a base-game ship was/is the installation of a "planetary landing suite". This was auto-installed on all ships once Horizons arrived, so all ships could fly down to, and land on, a planet surface.
However, the SRVs you needed to actually do stuff on the surface once you landed, were not pre-installed. You had to fly back to the base for one of those.
When Odyssey arrives, I strongly suspect one (or both) of the following will be required:
However, the SRVs you needed to actually do stuff on the surface once you landed, were not pre-installed. You had to fly back to the base for one of those.
When Odyssey arrives, I strongly suspect one (or both) of the following will be required:
- You will need to swap out your "planetary landing suite" for an "atmospheric landing suite", if you want to land on non-airless planets. You should still be able to land on currently-landable airless planets, and see the new Odyssey terrain renderings on those planets, and you will be able to see the new renderings of atmospheric planets from orbit, but you won't be able to get down onto the new atmospheric planets without returning to port and installing the gear.
- You will need to buy a spacesuit, handguns, hand-scanners and whatever else an explorer might need on a planet surface, if you want to get out the airlock and walk about on foot. So you can still deploy the SRV and drive around on an atmospheric planet, but "First Footfall" and the new bio-scanning doohickies will be denied you until you land at a starport and buy the gear. (? Perhaps we'll need to go to one of these new walkabout "settlements" in order to buy spacesuits 'n' stuff ?)
I think I recall the devs saying that all players will automatically have a suit suitable for walking, but to specialise and get say an exploration setup you will need to go to a place to buy one. So sort of like all players get a sidewinder free....the very basics will be available no matter where you are, but extra stuff won't be available. How they are going to differentiate between Odyssey and non-Odyssey owners we don't yet know, but I imagine it will be made available automatically to all odyssey owners no matter where they are.
This is all speculation based on previous updates of course, wait until Alpha and we will have a better idea.
This is all speculation based on previous updates of course, wait until Alpha and we will have a better idea.
I'm not convinced that exploring on foot is going to be all that interesting. If it was then surely it would have got more attention in the advertising trailers ?
To date, if you didn't know it was Elite, most of the trailers would make you think it was an entirely separate space shooter game - and not a particularly good one either.
Historically exploration in Elite has been mainly geographic, basically along the lines of - 'Oh look - a new planet' ; and not much interaction with the local environment when you get there - even in a SRV.
There are supposed to be major changes to the graphics - so exploration will probably be 'Oh look- a new planet with a tenuous atmosphere' etc. and not much else.
If the devs would invest as much time in making the game interesting, as they do in finding different ways to slaughter everything in sight, then, I'm sure, a lot of us would be eternally grateful.
To date, if you didn't know it was Elite, most of the trailers would make you think it was an entirely separate space shooter game - and not a particularly good one either.
Historically exploration in Elite has been mainly geographic, basically along the lines of - 'Oh look - a new planet' ; and not much interaction with the local environment when you get there - even in a SRV.
There are supposed to be major changes to the graphics - so exploration will probably be 'Oh look- a new planet with a tenuous atmosphere' etc. and not much else.
If the devs would invest as much time in making the game interesting, as they do in finding different ways to slaughter everything in sight, then, I'm sure, a lot of us would be eternally grateful.
I suspect most of the released footage has been combat related because that is easy to make look exciting which is useful for short attention grabbing pieces for advertising, plus combat is a third of what Elite is.