Odyssey FPS peer to peer or server based

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Jason S

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The new FPS looks great and personally I think it is much needed to give extra things to do in Elite.

I am in Europe and not close to cities but I find that most of Elite works fine for me, however the multi-crew never finds me anyone to join so that part of the game is basically not available to me. I am hoping this will not be the case in Odyssey. Luckily I am Alpha member so I won't have to pay for it to try it out.

I also wonder if there will be AI bots FPS for missions when playing in solo mode, not because I prefer that option, but because due to my location if the multi player FPS does not work well if at all then there would be that option.

Games like Fortnite and Counter Strike work fine here, but I think those use servers and not peer to peer.
 

Ydiss

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I'd say it'll be precisely the same for Odyssey so I also hope that there's more friendly AI to support stuff like this. Rambo missions might get a bit old after a while.

To be blunt, AI that assists you should be much better developed than it is now (like in space, not just on foot). The crew system is great and works fine but there's a massive gap to be filled for having AI helping on missions or even just AI wings (the latter could very well be controlled by AI crew; it'd cost a lot of credits to support but man would it be fun). SLFs are great, I love mine, but I'd much rather bop about in a wing of AI if my friends aren't online. I'd also love to do certain missions with AI assistance... bit like CZs but semi persistent throughout the mission process. Like an assassination mission where you meet the contact? Well, instead of them just giving you information, they ask you to follow them and off you go to hunt the target together.

Caveat for AI wing members is you'd need to supply them with the ships and the rebuy would still apply if they die and you'd need them to be active to fly those ships, or use the transfer ship function to pull them together. So that'd require careful consideration from the commander as to what they're willing to risk. But even if they never changed wings from human control, I'd still love missions that have friendly AI assist you.

And I think it's almost essential for Odyssey FPS missions. Not strictly essential, no... but for absolute maximum fun, essential.
 

Jason S

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I liked the friendly AI in the original Halo, so even that sort of implementation would be great for me to do some FPS missions in "Solo" mode with AI team mates.
So I hope if not at the start that is implemented at some point for us players where multiplayer peer to peer performance is not so hot.
 

Oytis57

Oytis57
Jason S said:
I liked the friendly AI in the original Halo, so even that sort of implementation would be great for me to do some FPS missions in "Solo" mode with AI team mates.
So I hope if not at the start that is implemented at some point for us players where multiplayer peer to peer performance is not so hot.
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It would be nice (like in Ghost Recon Wildlands) but seeing how AI is already "dumb" in ED,I'm afraid they won't bother to give you cannon fodder allied NPCs.I only hope enemy NPCs won't be the usual "bullet sponges" but...99% they'll be.
 

Vedmo

Vedmo
If they are ditching p2p for servers, that would be pretty big news even I might have actually heard by now, so I doubt it.
 

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As mentioned above the answer to your question can be found over here :)

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