Probably no news on the next expansion this month...

Factabulous

Factabulous
Ian Skippy said:
Yeah, but they will go for max exposure with such an announcement. Some kind of convention would make a lot more sense than just a comment on the forums. :p
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Yeah - I was initially in the 'they'll announce it on the 25th Anniversary' camp, but it makes more sense to get the press to cover the 25th Anniversary - and then a few weeks (or more) later to announce the plans for the next release. 2 bites of press coverage instead of 1.

(Now I said that they will announce the plans as part of the 25th anniversary :) )
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
I'm not expecting any news until the big summer gaming conventions, it wouldn't make any sense to tell us (and more importantly the media) now about something coming in Q4.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
Factabulous said:
In some ways it would be nice if the first we heard was:

Patch Notes 4.0

* Atmospheric Planetary Landing
* Space Legs
* ...
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Hopefully FD aren't as pedantic as DD.


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amigacooke

amigacooke
Rubbernuke said:
Well, FD need to actually start properly maintaining core features of the game like PP, the BGS etc- the silence on those issues is frankly embarrasing.

FD/ ED on the Mac was down to Apple being silly with Metal / Open GL. The silence around that was FD simply waiting for Apple to do something that helped them.
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The problem may be the same in both cases, not enough people for FD to justify the resources to do what you want.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Wouldn't it be good if FD plant little hints in the game, rather than announce "Well, we are working on Legs and Atmosphere this season?"

Are we seeing hints with the travellators fitted to the Kraits and now the Phantom? Keep an eye on the other ships.

Question is how they might drop a tease about atmospheric planets.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Lightspeed said:
Question is how they might drop a tease about atmospheric planets.
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Casually glancing at the system map and suddenly notice ....THAT thing around the edge of the planet! OMG, it's got an, an, atmosphere! And it shows landable????!!!! No notice of it in the last update notes!! No, it must be an error. Let's check it out anyway and see..........

OMG!!! it's happening! I'm seeing flames around my ship. No stopping at the body exclusion zone!!!

Mother of God, help me! I'm goin' in!!! We finally got atmospheric landings!!!

Yeah, that's how I'd like to discover it. No, really. THAT is how I'd like to discover it's been added in.
 
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Factabulous

Factabulous
Leadfoot said:
Casually glancing at the system map and suddenly notice ....THAT thing around the edge of the planet! OMG, it's got an, an, atmosphere! And it shows landable????!!!! No notice of it in the last update notes!! No, it must be an error. Let's check it out anyway and see..........

OMG!!! it's happening! I'm seeing flames around my ship. No stopping at the body exclusion zone!!!

Mother of God, help me! I'm goin' in!!! We finally got atmospheric landings!!!

Yeah, that's how I'd like to discover it. No, really. THAT is how I'd like to discover it's been added in.
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Nah - it would get bug reported :)

(Actually yes, I'm with you, but the kids ... they need their news fix)
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Leadfoot said:
I'd prefer the sweet surprise. That, or one day suddenly seeing my character in my Krait over at the coffee machine, sipping a nice hot cup of java and saying "Oh, hi. I guess you want to go fly somewhere."
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.. and the introduce NPC crew the same way, you just look around, and there they are :)
 

[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
IndigoWyrd said:
No doubt there is a plan, probably one pretty well fleshed out up to the final update, whatever and whenever that will be.

It seems incredibly unlikely that any planning for the next update would wait until the release of the previous update and be conducted during the span between that release and the first announcement. Most, if not all, of the initial coding for whatever is coming next is likely already done, which leaves stuffing it and stitching it together to integrate it.

How's that axiom go? "Failure to plan is planning to fail"?
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Given FDev's Elite team is bigger than ever, I would be very-very surprised if in the past year (at the very least) they wouldn't started working on the next extension - especially as there was very little new content in Beyond. Icy planets were also postponed but I guess not into the distant future.

For some reason I believe the biggest headache for them is how to release the content, how to price/package it.
 
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