Odyssey Suggestions

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Hello,

Obviously we don’t know much about what is coming - but here are a list of things I think FDev could implement into Oydessy.

1) Emotes
Yes, I’m serious. These things add so much flavour and amusement to an online community (sit, lay down, handstand - whatever)

2) Rank Locked Clothing / Gear
Imperials should look sufficiently regal, and the Feds should look efficient and militant.

3) Easy Player Text Chat
The social aspect hoping to be brought forward will fall flat if there is no simple straight forward way to chat. Even if this is a persistent game window (be quiet about immersion breaking).

4) Apex Legends “pinging” system
Apex Legends has an innovative system of in game communication where you can highlight anything and with a click of your mouse wheel your character will voice; “Lets check over here”, or “Heavy ammo here”. You can even double tap to say “Enemy spotted over here“. This would be a game changer! It’s faster than usually typing too.

5) Different body sizes
Self explanatory but crucial to avoid a big pile of same. Such as cardboard cut out players on cardboard cut out beige planets.

6) Power Play Leaders as NPCs
Yes, pop in them in suitable social hubs. We want to finally meet them (and maybe emote right in front of their faces)

7) More hidden things...
We’ve all seen the brain trees and molluscs etc. Add more things we can explore via getting out the ship. And either take a sample or destroy the damn thing.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Bump!

 

[Reg-01]

It would be nice if your Avatar can get out of the ship on a Station and go to a Crew Room, where they can chat with other players.

 

[Darkeyed]

2) Rank Locked Clothing / Gear
Imperials should look sufficiently regal, and the Feds should look efficient and militant.

why? no one is really limited in getting rank with both factions and the average old players will rank up both anyways to get both the cutter and the vette. so all this would affect is the new players. which is a bad idea to kick them in the crotch since we need the new players to stick around.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

I hope that Guardian sites get a little revisit from the Dev team, to make them worth going back to on foot?

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Maybe the NPC pilots should also get some love, they still look like they've hit every branch falling out of the ugly tree

 

[Crank Larson]

8) VR

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

Well quite

 

[kris_Ghoststar]

Hoping social hubs are like this

 

[I7ain]

9) Let us walk inside our ships please! So you know that they're not just chunks of metal on the inside with a cockpit fitted on it? This game builds around immersion and in my opinion this is a must.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

I'm also all for RNG generated NPC's ... but please give them more than 12 heads and colour schemes

 

[VirtueXOI]

2) Rank Locked Clothing / Gear
Imperials should look sufficiently regal, and the Feds should look efficient and militant.

Arx ! 90% chance it will happend

1) Emotes
Yes, I’m serious. These things add so much flavour and amusement to an online community (sit, lay down, handstand - whatever)

Well , as a last priority dev , why not. or maybe .. ARX EMOTE , ok then 80% chance to see that happend

 

[varonica]

It would be nice if your Avatar can get out of the ship on a Station and go to a Crew Room, where they can chat with other players.

I'm really of two minds on some stuff. Sure there are interactions you can add that make it more social, but you have to be careful you don't put a lot of work into something that 99% of players use once, think "that's nice" and never use again. For instance you could, instead of having it on the mission board, require players to go to a seedy part of the station to take pirate and smuggling missions, give them a bit of a proper illegal feeling rather than being right there with the rest of the legal missions.

The problem here of course is that it increases the amount of time taking missions by a large amount, and most players would try the "let's go to the "last chance" bar and see of anyone is offering high paying illegal missions" at least once, decide it takes to long and in the future just take the missions from the mission board. Of course you could remove the missions from the mission board altogether and force people to go there, but knowing the community 99.9% of your players will flood the forums to complain, and what are the devs going to do?

So it needs some serious thought, what do you put your time into that's not just going to be wasted effort.

 

[Drelthar]

Hello,

Obviously we don’t know much about what is coming - but here are a list of things I think FDev could implement into Oydessy.

1) Emotes
Yes, I’m serious. These things add so much flavour and amusement to an online community (sit, lay down, handstand - whatever)

Oh.... oh dear....

2) Rank Locked Clothing / Gear
Imperials should look sufficiently regal, and the Feds should look efficient and militant.

Cool. (Also I wish you couldn't have high ranks in both at the same time but that's not what this about...

3) Easy Player Text Chat
The social aspect hoping to be brought forward will fall flat if there is no simple straight forward way to chat. Even if this is a persistent game window (be quiet about immersion breaking).

Sure.

4) Apex Legends “pinging” system
Apex Legends has an innovative system of in game communication where you can highlight anything and with a click of your mouse wheel your character will voice; “Lets check over here”, or “Heavy ammo here”. You can even double tap to say “Enemy spotted over here“. This would be a game changer! It’s faster than usually typing too.

Don't see why something like this couldn't be done. Maybe it could use HUD info

5) Different body sizes
Self explanatory but crucial to avoid a big pile of same. Such as cardboard cut out players on cardboard cut out beige planets.

I mean... ok, I guess. I just don't really care.

6) Power Play Leaders as NPCs
Yes, pop in them in suitable social hubs. We want to finally meet them (and maybe emote right in front of their faces)

Sure (aside from the emoting in faces thing....)

7) More hidden things...
We’ve all seen the brain trees and molluscs etc. Add more things we can explore via getting out the ship. And either take a sample or destroy the damn thing.

Of course, more stuff is good stuff.