On-foot exploration gameplay needed

[CardioTherapy]

Odyssey needs on foot exploration gameplay. Some may say it kind of exists right now with the biological scanning, but I would not call that on foot gameplay. You don’t do almost anything on foot. You just land right next to the plant, scan it, board ship and off to the next one. I never had to walk more than 50 meters away of the ship and definitely never had to to use my srv.

When Odyssey was announced I was mostly interested in the on-foot exploration especially when Frontier said there will be some survival mechanics to it. I was expecting to be able to leave my ship in space and board a destroyed outpost and investigate it, or to enter narrow canyons or caves on planets where you can’t go with the ship and being able to discover new life forms specific only for those areas, probably some dangerous too that need shooting at. The Artemis suit has a gun. To discover some ancient ruins on atmospheric planets that can be investigate only on foot.

 

[Far Beyond Driven]

You will find the cabbages. You will find the moss.

 

[Astaran]

Abandonded settlements with (audio) logs for additional Elite lore
An enclave of the Far God Cult somewhere away from the bubble
Space Legs Guardian content
Space Legs Thargoid content
proper Xeno Archaeology with new tools, ruins, rank, rewards

The tools and mechanics are all in the game

 

[Sighman]

I want to scan geology, ideally for a bit of hand- or srv- mining. (Not for regular goods, maybe something higher value like gems, power crystals or some other maguffin?)

Cracking a few rocks while exploring a deserted, newly-discovered planet would be a bit of extra fun. Especially if it involved drilling holes and shoving sticks of gelignite in. Big booms!

 

[Schattenmacher]

I would like Minecraft blocks.
Then I would build pyramids everywhere.

 

[CardioTherapy]

I want to scan geology, ideally for a bit of hand- or srv- mining. (Not for regular goods, maybe something higher value like gems, power crystals or some other maguffin?)

Cracking a few rocks while exploring a deserted, newly-discovered planet would be a bit of extra fun. Especially if it involved drilling holes and shoving sticks of gelignite in. Big booms!

I have the same thoughts. We need a lot more content for on foot and srv exploration. SRV mining should replace the current horrible mechanic of collecting raw materials.

 

[zombieapocalypse]

Odyssey needs on foot exploration gameplay. Some may say it kind of exists right now with the biological scanning, but I would not call that on foot gameplay.

I would barely even call that gameplay. It almost feels like that plant scanning was thrown in as a half-baked afterthought so they could tick off the "exploration gameplay" box for EDO.

 

[tomimt]

Some kind of a cave system with discoverable minerals, fungus or mosses could be a fun addition. But I'm guessing it would not be that simple of a thing to actually implement.

 

[Tikanderoga]

I would barely even call that gameplay. It almost feels like that plant scanning was thrown in as a half-baked afterthought so they could tick off the "exploration gameplay" box for EDO.

Tacked on grind, yes.
Gameplay? Hardly.
I don't know how some people can do it and just grind their way to Elite V by scanning the same plants over and over and over again. What's even more disturbing that 2 systems over, you'll find the EXACT same plants again! Immersion breaker right there. Right next to that crashed ship on that undiscovered planet. With 3 distress beacons.

Some kind of a cave system with discoverable minerals, fungus or mosses could be a fun addition. But I'm guessing it would not be that simple of a thing to actually implement.

From what I know, the current system does not support caves. So the odds for that are 0.0.

 

[alexzk]

Caves aren't supported by engine. So forget it.
To make caves they will need upgrade comparable to Ody sized.

However, adding gameplay to existing things would be nice.
Like:
1. manual fix of the ship (including reactor) using Maverik. Should take a lot of time and material too..
2. gathering of materials, SRV is fine ... but hand held scanner should show at least the name of that rock. I can shoot it out by pistol but can't see what I got without SRV... also some high valued gems there could be nice addition, just because. Hand mining. Could be even almost same as ship mining.
3. limits of 1000 items negate existing Ody gameplay. I stopped to visit all those signals because all is 1000 now. And hard to make prediction what can I sell and what I must keep.

....some gem-boosters? Which happen to grow in some exact geoms for long time (like 1-2 months respawn to force people fly far-far away, record places, and keep it secret for own use). Those gems could be used as synth - boosters now, for example, make carrier single jump 2000ly and gem gone. Tradable between people.

 

[gooddoc]

One person's foot gameplay is another players' yawn!

Granted, what we currently have, in my opinion isn't enough to keep me interested long term, now that my upgrading/modding is complete.

I would like to see Caves, abandoned Ships, on foot Mining & EVA stuff added along with Base Building.
That would then start to satisfy my interest in long term play for Odyssey..............whether all or even any will come along, who knows

 

[AngryAntz]

whether all or even any will come along, who knows

Given their history of half done ideas I am pretty sure we all know.

 

[gooddoc]

Given their history of half done ideas I am pretty sure we all know.

Yeah......one can dream though

 

[TrollhunterX]

Can we has ancient stuphz, and cunning traps?

"Why did it have to be rakes??"

 

[TheRoninX]

Abandonded settlements with (audio) logs for additional Elite lore
An enclave of the Far God Cult somewhere away from the bubble
Space Legs Guardian content
Space Legs Thargoid content
proper Xeno Archaeology with new tools, ruins, rank, rewards

The tools and mechanics are all in the game

But the imagination is not.

 

[Staarlord]

I feel like Odyssey 2.x, like Horizons 2.x, will be the one to top off the Odyseey on foot experience, while the next expansion will likely add full atmo flight and, upon conclusion, maybe even add landfall capable capitals, for each super power. That’s my dream, anyway. That and base building/ colonizing mechanics.

…But I agree…I’ve been jonesing for some cave exploration etc.

 

[Asmodeus]

Lara Croft Space Raider......

 

[Tikanderoga]

I feel like Odyssey 2.x, like Horizons 2.x, will be the one to top off the Odyseey on foot experience, while the next expansion will likely add full atmo flight and, upon conclusion, maybe even add landfall capable capitals, for each super power. That’s my dream, anyway. That and base building/ colonizing mechanics.

…But I agree…I’ve been jonesing for some cave exploration etc.

I would love to see single cities you could approach and walk around on foot.

 

[varonica]

Caves aren't supported by engine. So forget it.
To make caves they will need upgrade comparable to Ody sized.

Unfortunately that's true, and stated by FDEV, although hand crafted caves rather than procedural could possibly be placed in the game, but in my opinion that would be silly, you would have the same caves appearing multiple places and that's something I would really dislike a lot!

 

[Ronzer]

I feel like Odyssey 2.x, like Horizons 2.x, will be the one to top off the Odyseey on foot experience, while the next expansion will likely add full atmo flight and, upon conclusion, maybe even add landfall capable capitals, for each super power. That’s my dream, anyway. That and base building/ colonizing mechanics.

…But I agree…I’ve been jonesing for some cave exploration etc.

Are you meaning you'd like to see....planet interiors? ducks