Please Abandon FPS (First Person Shooter) part of Odyssey

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Elite Dangerous is a spaceship game, first and foremost. I think the community appreciates Frontier attempting to add FPS to the game but, that is a huge deviation (if not departure) from what elite Dangerous was. The fact is, once a person has played a FPS, no matter the platform or game, you’ve essentially played them all.
I think most of the community would have been happy with walking in stations, walking on planets, and reasons for doing both. Then, eventually moving onto walking in carriers, ships, and again reasons for doing so.

The FPS add-on just doesn’t seem to fit the character of Elite Dangerous. Therefore, it reduces the appeal of Elite Dangerous for long term players.

Thank you for your consideration to the above.

(Eve Online attempted something similar with “Captain’s Quarters,” with a planned move toward walking in stations, years ago. EO lost hundreds if not thousands of players, and never recovered from that. Why? because EO is also a spaceship game first and foremost, although it never compared to what Frontier achieved with their fantastic universe, spaceships, and flight. Elite Dangerous had the character, most games only hope to achieve.)

I may see why you would want to improve it but abandon it? you bought a game which from the very get go always planned ultimately for us to be more than an avatar of a ship. if that is a deal breaker for you should should have either voted with your wallet or gon into KSer at a high enough level to have your voice heard.

I like parts of the FPS in elite.... Indo think it could be much better but......

edit. hell just saw age of the OP. sorry.

 

[Rainbro]

edit. hell just saw age of the OP. sorry.

It's too late for apologies. The sin cannot be undone.

 

[rootsrat]

Totally, and same with ships, let's remove all the weapons from them too, since I only use them as taxis.

Let's remove the whole game, its dead anyway and nobody plays it anymore.

 

[Ryox]

Let's remove the whole game, its dead anyway and nobody plays it anymore.

I'm cool with it, until we keep the forums, the only fun activity remaining.

 

[rootsrat]

I'm cool with it, until we keep the forums, the only fun activity remaining.

I thought they were dead too? :

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

It's too late for apologies. The sin cannot be undone.

lol at least it wasn't me who necroed it. ( I have accidentally done that before as well)

 

[rootsrat]

lol at least it wasn't me who necroed it. ( I have accidentally done that before as well)

what, the forums as a whole?

 

[metatheurgist]

Let's remove the whole game, its dead anyway and nobody plays it anymore.

Can we just remove the people that never play but come here to wish the game was already dead?

 

[tolm]

Can we just remove the people that never play but come here to wish the game was already dead?

Or we could just move them to the “legacy” forums?

Ssssh … they’ll never know …

 

[Screemonster]

I thought they were dead too? :

are you kidding? That's where the best pvp is

 

[CMDR thefezzer]

Just came here to say I play Frontline Solutions almost every single day, and I see other CMDR's out there on the field. It's turning out to not only be really popular, but it's also the BGS meta.

 

[EdzUp]

I know Odyssey is as buggy as hell, but there is no way that it will be dropped now. Maybe dropped from consoles, but not entirely.

Ouch do you want some fries for that salt mountain.

Odyssey was a requested feature maybe not in the way it was implemented but wanted none the less, what was requested was a SC level of walking around what we got was a Quake 3 level of walking with Deus ex minigames added.

 

[SteveWW57]

I would not be without Odyssey. Ship combat does nothing for me. But, let me done a maverick suit, and strap on a Tormentor and Executioner, and then it's "lock and load!"

This is at the 5th day of war I have been fighting:

Steve

 

[Frankymole]

It is very cathartic blasting some corporate shill in the face with a plasma shotgun after a tough day at work.

 

[MickyG1982]

Ouch do you want some fries for that salt mountain.

Odyssey was a requested feature maybe not in the way it was implemented but wanted none the less, what was requested was a SC level of walking around what we got was a Quake 3 level of walking with Deus ex minigames added.

They were last seen in 2021, I doubt they will respond...

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Is it abandoned now? I don't think there are any plans for it going forward apart from speculated thargoid enemies.

 

[Morbad]

Add a FSD and interdictor to the Artemis suit, plz.

 

[Frankymole]

Is it abandoned now? I don't think there are any plans for it going forward apart from speculated thargoid enemies.

Who knows. FDev don't publish their plans in advance of updates.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Who knows. FDev don't publish their plans in advance of updates.

True. Its more productive with frontier to consider everything abandoned regardless of whatever state its in (or whether it was sold with the kickstarter) and just be pleasantly surprised with anything that comes.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I'm cool with it, until we keep the forums, the only fun activity remaining.

I thought they were dead too? :

That doom prediction does at least have the trend line pointing the right way.

About three years left, if that pattern holds, and then the mods can have a rest.