There may not be many people left here to play that with. I hope you have "low forum membership" count on there.
Polygon and Twinfinite interviews - more Odyssey details, unknowns, and Walking-In-Ships not at launch
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There may not be many people left here to play that with. I hope you have "low forum membership" count on there.
Elite Dangerous expansion aims to give players their own ‘Neil Armstrong moment’
The details for the Odyssey expansion are still a bit hazywww.polygon.com
Elite Dangerous Interview: Devs Detail Upcoming Odyssey Expansion
Elite Dangerous is marching towards another major expansion titled "Odyssey," due out in 2021. It will add full on-foot exploration of many planets in thetwinfinite.net
Other questions about gameplay details went unanswered. That’s because, principal designer Gareth Hughes said, many of those details have yet to be finalized. That includes how the game’s flight model will be changing to deal with traveling through atmospheres for the first time.Also undecided is how players will transition from ships or wheeled vehicles to walking on foot. The team wants players to have their own “Neil Armstrong moment” Hughes said, of being the first person to step on a distant world. Trouble is that they’re just not settled on what that moment will actually feel like.
Ah man, I really hope we don't get the black out transition screen. We need to physically get in and out!
They don't know yet what colour the transition will be, but it will be a transition :
"Also undecided is how players will transition from ships or wheeled vehicles to walking on foot. The team wants players to have their own “Neil Armstrong moment” Hughes said, of being the first person to step on a distant world. Trouble is that they’re just not settled on what that moment will actually feel like. "
I'm not overly concerned about that aspect. Given that the dozens of ships we have all have different handling characteristics across at least three different flight regimes already, the flight model is probably already highly parameterized. If so, nailing that down is just finishing the debate over what values to set the various knobs at. Plus, at the atmospheric pressures we're talking about, aerodynamic effects really shouldn't have a large effect on flight dynamics except perhaps for the few seconds you're in glide mode on final approach.
I recall someone posting a while back about the landing stairs becoming a landing elevator. So...
Perhaps like FCs, we'll get to stare at the wall of the shaking elevator box after a brief darkened screen similar to getting into the SRV or SLF. After that time-gate, the ele-door opens and the animation of us walking out ensues, followed by the screen flicker where the game changes back to game mode and you take over your avatar.
Just pray it isn't a several-second unskippable cut scene. You'll be wishing for a fade-out-fade-in transition after watching it for the thousandth time.
Overall, feet are going to be Slower SRV...
How badly is the game being held back by 7 year old consoles that had mediocre specs at their launch? Pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs were horrible, and 1.7 teraflops of graphics power is pathetic by today's standards. It would be interesting to know.
It's 6PM UTC, so 7PM BST. An hour and ten minutes from now.
Interesting - I wonder if this is a misinterpretation on the part of the interviewer, or truly a confirmation of fauna.
These articles were written by people who spoke to Frontier directly about Odyssey, not exactly gossip.
Oh please, good sir. Such naivete.
There will be a whole new class of "Emote-gineers" that you'll have to bring your alien plant clippings to. Then, you'll be able to unlock Emote-gineer -specific emotes, and upgrade them through 5 levels of expression.
Because, of course.
Could also be sedentary fauna like the tubeworms and such. Or static structures created by fauna like anthills.