Just to add, the articles say inside spaces for planetary bases/outposts etc, but not ships/stations at launch.
Polygon and Twinfinite interviews - more Odyssey details, unknowns, and Walking-In-Ships not at launch
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Well ... I get everything else wrong
Players should be able to at least walk manually up a ladder, lift to the front of the ship's door imo.
It sounds like they are trying to work out the best way to do it, so it's up in the air it seems.
And even more so if you actually had to walk over, and push a button, wait for an elevator, doors to open, then actually climb down stairs. I think transitions are the way to go. Just think of the number of times players go in and out of stations, and land on planets. Actually doing the walking would be interesting the first dozen times you do it, but after that, it is nothing more than an unnecessary time sink.
We all suspected there was a very good chance of no ship interiors, but one thing I wasn't expecting them to say was "no, but we're working on it". Usual SOP is either "flat denial" or "nothing to announce". So that's a silver lining.
The word used was "considering" which is a fair bit different from "working on".
Bruh.
I can't wait to put g5 dirty drive thrusters on my jetpack using alien cactus flowers as the required raw material.
You'r a funny guy ! (remember that you can only upgrade it a special social hub , that are 2000 Ly from each other)
It really truly does. Years of development, and we can't even stand up in our own ships? This is what people have waited for? I am glad my expectations were tapered years ago because of Frontier's track record. The update seems to keep proving my suspicions. At this rate, I will likely wait 2-3 years before purchasing it, when the content is actually in the update you would expect from it.Then again, it may never come, or be slated for the next expansion. (Like ice worlds now being an Odyssey selling point after they were cancelled from Horizons. Walking around your ship will be a 2026 Elite Dangerous Andromeda update)
Considering = "Thinking about" = no coding development has been done on that. Concepting and planning maybe at most
Well here we go. I expected nothing and got exactly that... nothing.
Not being able to walk around my ship would be a KO criteria for me.
Not being able to walk around my ship would be a KO criteria for me.
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Well ... I get everything else wrong
Well, I totally didn't start the stream an hour early either. Nope, didn't happen. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen
This I'm not too excited about.. The generated POIs that vanish the moment you disconnect or leave the area.
I was hoping they were moving away from this system.
I mean, it's ok that enemies and such spawn randomly. But entire installations or derelict ships, that pop up and then go poof, really drags down the whole experience.
I wish I was joking.
I just hope there isn't like a G6 or G7 level of ship engineering that requires these "new" biological materials. But you know there will be.
I can barely tolerate crystal shard farming in the SRV. Having to do it on foot with space gardening shears sounds awful.
But it's the future, so... time to buckle up, I guess.
I have been waiting for years for planets that look like these, so I see it as time well spent. Couldn't care less about walking around in my ship. Plenty of other games for that kind of stuff.
Yea, I'm pretty disappointed with the lack of actual progress on the expansion based on these two articles. Someone asked in this thread, "What has this team of over 100 been working on for 2+ years?" I think that seems like a valid question based on those two articles.
From the articles, it sounds like all that has been done is about a Star Citizen level of achievement from 2018, i.e. it looks like they've just been working on a tech demo.
We're supposed to believe this is 6 to 8 months away from release? I can't imagine this is true, unless it is completely bare bones.
Hopefully we'll see some real progress in what the expansion game play actually is soon.
From the articles, it sounds like all that has been done is about a Star Citizen level of achievement from 2018, i.e. it looks like they've just been working on a tech demo.
We're supposed to believe this is 6 to 8 months away from release? I can't imagine this is true, unless it is completely bare bones.
Hopefully we'll see some real progress in what the expansion game play actually is soon.