Polygon and Twinfinite interviews - more Odyssey details, unknowns, and Walking-In-Ships not at launch
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Ok, call me a FUDster, but aren't we like half a year from release of something that has been in the works for around 2 years, and they still haven't decided on the atmospheric flight model or how players will transition?
Ummm....
In his defense. When carriers were announced I saw about 150-200 people say they were leaving the game for No Man's Sky as it just got another update with more substance at the same time as carriers. Though I am sure this can easily be dismissed as 200 people won't dent the 5,000 that play per day.
Not often I like Wrecked's posts, but this thread has seen a couple of +1's beins issued in response to salient comments like the one above.
A couple of hours ago I chimed in on the main Odyssey no VR thread about the company lacking clear direction/vision/strong leadership as denoted by the evasive language of any responses the release, I think its now worse that even internally they cannot commit to a path and that two years into development key decisions remain undecided.
As for your concerns that "the end result will be a rushed, half-baked, buggy mess" - business as usual?
It doesn't bode well that 6 months prior to release, they don't even know what they want this update to be. Aren't these usually concept-phase things? As in, this should have been discussed two and half years ago, and these last two years were nailing down the flight pattern and stuff?
Yeah but to make those absolutely challenge free "alien" type scenario's take longer than two minutes to complete at normal walking speed they used "plot McGuffin #3" to limit your walking speed so it just winds up being a dull stroll through randomly mixed up identical rooms. You need an element of actual danger to the player for the alien thing to work.
On the bright side I got a bugged freighter cargo expansion from the first one I did that never ran out so the freighter I never use as it's just a text interface is maxed out.
If only that video wasn't from 2018. I had a little tinge of hope they had developed some animations for something rather than fade to black as I expect.
Its a cruel irony the last Powerplay talk was from the same time too.
But hey! Exobiology! Er....yay!
Personally, I hope it works like Skyrim.
You have any idea how long it takes to get all the way around those damned rings? Run. If you walk the movie will never be over.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed they didn't start with gas giants first. You don't have to plan out "land" and you have this dangerous aspect of diving too deep into a gas giant and have it crush you like an egg shell. Or get eaten by a space whale.
I WAS curious about how much pressure is "tenuous". I would have thought going by atmospheric types (i.e., mostly water vapor or thin methane) would have been the criteria.
I've built my own PC's for several years now. The golden rule about doing that is "Whatever you have, it's out dated already. Go find more powerful stuffs....No, MORE powerful stuffs than that. No, even more powerful." Point is you NEVER finish upgrading a gaming PC. I just assume whatever I have now is just barely going to survive the "next generation" of stuff.
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Like as in FDev continue to expend millions of dollars to grow and support this game for a handful of people? Bruh, do you even logic?
That's old and not official.
Its a joke.
First dev diary of a series, and the other areas are to be explained in those other diaries apparently.
That handful was all time record breaking numbers last time I looked at steam stats.
What an amazing experience...loading onto a planet...
Would that be mining ?
I also suspect we will get mission boards, as before, except .....
"Walk 10 km to the nearest settlement to retrieve 10 wobbular isolators" [You will only be able to carry one at a time]
Haha, loved the ending.
Thats what I call "an Armstrong"