Petition: Npc crew model in copilot seat

Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
Captain Willard said:
Pretty funny thread. You would look once in every ship you own. Then turn it off for causing fps drop. :)
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Not in VR. I was surprised this feature didn’t make the cut this time round as you would think it wouldn’t be too much work. That said, they would need to seriously improve the “aesthetics” of some NPC’s lest they be mistaken for Thargoids!
 

Old Guard

Old Guard
SirSlaughter said:
Dear FD, is it possible to allow our crew to occupy free crew seats?

I'm not asking any special feature... just spawn a body in an empty seat (and despawn when someone joins multicrew). Just for the sake of immersion.

Any other fellow player who is with me?
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Signed.
The mechanic is there for multicrew, so surely it would not be too complex to add.
It would go a way to making the ED world feel more alive and populated. I know there are other real commanders out there - sometimes I even see one. 😁
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Captain Willard said:
Pretty funny thread. You would look once in every ship you own. Then turn it off for causing fps drop. :)
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I noticed no FPS drop the one time I multicrewed with a friend in my Cobra. Unfortunately my friend is nowhere near as pretty as my avatar (and networking issues with MC caused more trouble than it was worth).

ps - and this was on a humble PS4 Slim!
 

Kemo

Kemo
Sweet&Dandy said:
Not in VR. I was surprised this feature didn’t make the cut this time round as you would think it wouldn’t be too much work. That said, they would need to seriously improve the “aesthetics” of some NPC’s lest they be mistaken for Thargoids!
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I was also surprised it wasn't in the chapter 4 release (I especially thought that was gonna be the 'little thing a lot of cmdr's have been asking for" feature that OA mentioned after the FD studio visit, but I suspect that may have been the orrery... which is cool btw!)

I'd be happy with Yaffle's suggestion, have the crew sit there, doing the same fidgety animation our cmdr does (ideally not in sync, that'd be too freaky :)) and throw up a load of crew uniforms for varying factions etc on the store, coz we all like to dress our dollies and voila... jobs a goodun!

Seriously, i'd love that, and it'd make sense instead of what we have now, which appears to be the crew member hiding in some dark corner of the ship in a telepresense pod (?), or whatever odd design choice that's supposed to be. If you MUST have telepresence written in to lore, it's a Cmdr only feature, because we're special.
 

Dutchman141

Dutchman141
/Signed

This has been asked for since the introduction of npc crew, Fdev likes to re-prioritize things when people ask for something.
I don't know why this wasn't implemented straight from the get go.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Limoncello Lizard said:
Crew would have to be much less ugly before I want to look at them.
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It'll add a whole new aspect of gameplay - instead of searching for barnacles and Guardian ruins, we'll be searching for pretty (or handsome) copilots :D

They are out there, as I've hired a few. Ironically my favorite NPC wasn't much to look at, but he had an awesome voice and his lines made him feel like a true part of my crew. Shame that he died on the Gnosis (grrr!), and I've yet to find another with his voice....
 
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