QUESTIONS WANTED: Elite Dangerous 2.3 Q&A Livestreams

[CMDR-AD]

Thanks for the stream, enjoyed it greatly, and good questions, too.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

After everything being sad and done, i gotta say something:

THANK YOU! Alex Brentnall, this was one of the best streams Elite pulled up IMO!

Very few "useless" questions, very good material you pulled up.



And don't forget,

MAKE PIRACY GREAT AGAIN !!!
YAR!

Well thank you too but to be honest I can take very little credit. All I did is put the questions from everyone here into a (hopefully) sensible group.


I agree on it being an excellent stream though. Both at PAX and last night Sandro averaged about 80 questions per hour. I am tempted to run back through an old Q&A and see the difference but first things first I have work to do and then this thread to update!

 

[Barking_Mad]

Well done Alex.... I noticed he skipped the CQC questions about it being brought into the main game... Then again he skipped all the Mac ones too so who knows what to read into that :/

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Major update: Answered questions moved to post #4. 2nd livestream answered a whopping 135 questions. Not including the ones in Hardware Support that were skipped over as "not sure"!

Updated to this point.

Spoiler

It may not be specific to 2.3 but a few of months ago you mentioned that you will be removing support for the 32bit.exe and will be solely x64 in the next few months. You said that the increased resources pool would be beneficial to all players within the game.
Can you give us some ideas of what these benefits may be?
Will the system requirements for Elite increase also?

System requirements question was asked in the livestream yesterday.

Loving your hard work FD! Keep it up
My questions: Does the introduction of multicrew now open up possibilities for cross-platform play?

And not a question, but my own hopeful imaginings for 2.4:
Titled "The Explorers" - comprising extended exploration gameplay, added landable planets (elemental planets such as fire (lava/volcanic worlds), ice, water, other previously unlandable rock worlds (with cave systems), and air (scoopable upper layers of gas giants). new SRVs for the new environments: ARV (Aquatic Recon Vehicle) and the HERV (Hazardous Environment Recon Vehicle - for dealing with extreme heat/cold), a few new ships (Panther Clipper, Puma Clipper?), new limpets (hull repair for those long journeys and recon drones for sending into those hard to reach spaces where your SRV or ship can't go i.e. into caves, sinkholes etc).
Ah, I can dream...

For the livestream yesterday: http://laveradio.com/frontier-2-3-beta-qa-live-stream-21st-march-2017/

Cross platform play was asked yesterday in the livestream.
More landable planets was also asked (specifically lava worlds)
New SRV's are on the list of questions to ask.
Panther Clipper was asked about on the stream yesterday
Hull repair limpets were asked about on the livestream at PAX and yesterday

Let me know if you have specific questions. Try to keep them short please as it saves me the editing down.
Things like:
Are there plans for X?
Will Y be in the game soon?
Any comments on Z?

Thanks

Question: A recent web article tweeted by David said,
Any comment?

Added

As season 2 is now almost complete is there any news about the following features that has been discussed during many Q&A and livestreams :

• Any chance of panther clipper in season 2 ?
• Any news about large domed cities ?
• Any plans to extend gameplay above planet surface ?
• Any direction regarding gameplay around CQC assets ?
• Is there a plan to offer large scale volcanism ?
• There is not enough UI input to find things above surface without flying around during 8-10 hours
• Any real change planned in exploration gameplay ?
• Do you consider a change into military rank, combat zones ?
• Where are comets ?
• There is no beta lyare stars, no black hole accretion disk yet, any plans ?
• Do you still plan new SRV and associated gameplay ?
• alliance ship and progression planned ?

Oh, lots more questions

As above link to yesterdays answers here: http://laveradio.com/frontier-2-3-beta-qa-live-stream-21st-march-2017/


Panther clipper got asked yesterday in the livestream

Domed is in the list: HaTeMe (ForumsQ&A thread): Any plans for a global chatroom(s) now we have avatars so that we don't have to use 3rd party like Discord/Teamspeak/Skype?Jim-San (Reddit): Any plans to bring back the large domed cities like in some of the older Elite series?

Surface is kinda in, get back to me if you want more:
SushiCW (ForumsQ&A thread): What kind of changes can we expect next regarding SRV / surface combat? Any plans to expand the base attack to be more challenging/dynamic? With lots of room for expansion, what do you think you'll get around to first?

CQC asset gameplay was asked yesterday in the livestream

Volcanism Q added

Ui input question added

Exploration gameplay got featured yesterday, let me know if you want an additional Q added.

Navy ranks are on the list of questions:
Yamiks (ForumsQ&A thread): Any plans on adding or better yet changing the navy rank system? (Dave G: Any plans to flesh out a naval role beyond ships/permits?)

Combat zone question added

Comets got asked about yesterday as did accretion discs and other phenomenon

New SRVs are on the list of questions:
cryptek66 (Reddit): Any plans for new SRV types soon? (HaTeMe: Skimmer tech hover bike would be awesome?)

Alliance love is on the list of questions:
TSgt Paladin (ForumsQ&A thread): Will the alliance get some type of love as well regarding at least a ranking system if not ships as well. Also will Jasmina Halsey become a alliance power play faction?

Question for 2.3: Can we get more ambient music? There's currently only a few songs during supercruise which gets repetitive. A lot of unused ambient music is on the ED OST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R3Zhwy3YMc

Added

Question: Will VR users ever get to use the camera suite fully including Zoom, DOF and focus settings, or is there a technical problem to do with us being able to move around rather than being a fixed point in space?

My camera suite in beta works just fine with VR, all settings are available as far as I can see.

Question: Will we get anymore insight on the Meta-Drive in 2.3?

Added although don't expect detailed answers to in game story/lore questions

Question: Would it be feesable to ask if you could change, (shorten) the duration allocated for completing missions to make it a little more challenging? As it is currently, the mission deadlines are too long and delivery type missions could be completed with a non-engineered sidewinder with class E FSD. It used to be somewhat of a challenge to meet the deadlines.

Added

Question: Will there ever be a feature to toggle relative mouse with a key press, or have a set of alternate controls for flight assist off.
As it stands, if you want to use flight assist off with KBM, you need to go into the options menu and turn on relative mouse every time you want to use it. However, this makes flying in supercruise rather difficult, so you have to go back into the options menu to turn relative mouse back off for traveling. An additional keybind to toggle relative mouse or and alternate set of controls for FA-off would make switching between modes far easier.

Was answered on the Q&A last night

Well done Alex.... I noticed he skipped the CQC questions about it being brought into the main game... Then again he skipped all the Mac ones too so who knows what to read into that :/

Yeah he jumped around a bit towards the end. He did make it clear that visuals and Hardware support arn't his "zone of influence" if I can use that terminology.

There's already been a number of people asking for a mixed panel livestream or a more techy livestream to get answers to some of these that Sandro can't answer. Or maybe they can prepare a cheat sheet for Sandy if nobody wants the limelight. Ah well, only time will tell.

Hopefully there will be a mac update soon. I've posted over on the Mac Forums version of this thread that I pulled some questions from. Maybe we'll see something soon but sadly I can't control what gets asked, I can merely leave it on the list in hope

 

[madbilly]

Sterling community service Alex!

I've been off the grid for a while, so not sure if this has been revealed or not: In one of the earliest 2.3 streams Ed said we'd not seen the best/coolest thing yet. Have we seen it now? Or is it still to come?

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Sterling community service Alex!

I've been off the grid for a while, so not sure if this has been revealed or not: In one of the earliest 2.3 streams Ed said we'd not seen the best/coolest thing yet. Have we seen it now? Or is it still to come?

Thanks

Was asked on Tuesday:
https://youtu.be/cgVKH0EIMPc?t=1559

"No comment to all of it" was the answer.

 

[madbilly]

Which can be easily translated as "no"!

Thanks. I'll try and catch up with the streams this weekend.

 

[CMDR Elvintree]

Multi crew Question?

Wile using multi crew for exploration,
does a visiting player joining a host pilots ship, get there name on the same planets with the pilot, when scanned by the pilot.

thx

CMDR Elvintree
Lightspeed & Loud Music!!

 

[NascentChemist]

Multi crew Question?

Wile using multi crew for exploration,
does a visiting player joining a host pilots ship, get there name on the same planets with the pilot, when scanned by the pilot.

thx

CMDR Elvintree
Lightspeed & Loud Music!!

I'm pretty sure this has been already answered. Multicrew don't get exploration data, first discovery credit, etc. As of now, you're just along for the pretty ride.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Multi crew Question?

Wile using multi crew for exploration,
does a visiting player joining a host pilots ship, get there name on the same planets with the pilot, when scanned by the pilot.

thx

CMDR Elvintree
Lightspeed & Loud Music!!

I'm pretty sure this has been already answered. Multicrew don't get exploration data, first discovery credit, etc. As of now, you're just along for the pretty ride.

Bit late back to this.

Correct. It was answered in a previous stream: No, exploration and multi-crew are in no way linked at all and the only reason to ever join an exploration trip in MC would be for the camera or visiting some-place.



Also answered one of my own questions on the list and added a question from Reddit.

 

[signal11th]

I'm pretty sure this has been already answered. Multicrew don't get exploration data, first discovery credit, etc. As of now, you're just along for the pretty ride.

Although this has probably been answered a million times are they just forgoing any attempt at realism with this tele-presence? How have they explained the "FTL" aspect of it?

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Although this has probably been answered a million times are they just forgoing any attempt at realism with this tele-presence? How have they explained the "FTL" aspect of it?

Hi:

Probably best checking this section of answered questions out:

"Telepresence" and "Holo" lore/immersion/mechanics questions https://youtu.be/PhsH5U7tz4A?t=4019
Bobbydylan (Forums): Will wings be allowed to teleport to each others location now as well? No
Bobbydylan (Forums): Why can't I just telepresence to any of my ships scattered around the galaxy? Because it would be rubbish
Bobbydylan (Forums): Will Data courier and passenger missions be removed from the game now that everything is just telepresence? No because there are contextual lore reasons why you wouldn't stream your data across space where it may be intercepted
Darkfyre99 (Forums) Can we cash in exploration data and combat bonds remotely, and get up to the minute trade data remotely, now that Telepresence has been established to exist in the Elite Universe? If the answer is no, why not? No as above. Would change game in an inapproprate way.
Xender (Forums): How telepresence-multicrew will work in future with Space Legs and EVA gameplay? Not sure. Legs is a long way in the future. Goal in core vision but would be like dove-tailing a whole second game into Elite so will take a long time, end vision.
Aidan Brooder (Forums):Are we humans or are we dancers? eh... holograms...Was it a hard decision to break the 4th wall like a bulldozer running down a dixie toilet? No, tried to back up the decision to make cool gameplay and what is best for the game and try to then make that work with lore and context. Game is the core.

Approx a 5 minute segment inside the first Q&A that'll hopefully answer your question. Let me know if not and I'll add it.