Radar in No mans sky synthesis same as ED
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It’s always been similar, but this update pretty much made it identical.
The scanner design has been around since 1984 and nailed the functionality on the first go in my opinion. Other games like X-Wing and the Wing Commander series used different methods that weren’t as good and took a bit of deciphering to understand - so in this case I think it’s a bit like putting round wheels on a car. Ergonomically terrific!
Yeah, but they could at least change the color and make it a tiny ship as the player point or something. They didnt even bother to change that.
If I remember correctly the concept of the scanner and the decision to include it caused a publication delay while they added it to the original release.
Source: https://youtu.be/GpWoF5uVgbA
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Yeah it was a last minute Eureka moment apparently. Super great design.
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Cool, that crappy game finally has something to write home about
I'd call it progress.
That crappy game has updates that run complete circles around everything Elite has been able to do since the initial release (and with reported a VASTLY smaller crew).
It was a good game quite a few updates ago. It's verging on greatness at this point. Give it a shot if you haven't in a while.
bah, I hate it....much prefer the forward/rear sensors of Xwing series.
It's a fairly common style of Radar display, many space games use a similar system.
Is that a reference to Mega-Lo-Mania on the Amiga?
Oh that's what it said...
"Units received"
Crappy game? I understand that its possible that you don't like something.. but calling that game a crappy game? Seriously?Cool, that crappy game finally has something to write home about
I'd call it progress.
Yeah, I know. But its a teen rated forum, and it was about as far as the language filter allowed me to go.
That was actually in Braben's original design, as were the dotted grid lines showing approximate/relative distance.
I've no idea why neither of those made it into ED. Personally I still have a problem estimating distance on the concentric-ringed ED scanner regardless of whether it's logarithmic or linear. I found the grid a whole lot easier.
As for NMS, I must admit I'd always believed there'd been some sort of past legal action preventing other space games from copying Elite's scanner design, which explained why few other games implemented it and went instead for combined X-Y 2D plots or similarly inferior layouts. I thought I'd read it somewhere back in the day. Either I was wrong, or Hello Games are pushing their luck doing this. Even the colour scheme is ED's. I guess if you're going to "borrow" a design, it's better to be blatant.
That was actually in Braben's original design, as were the dotted grid lines showing approximate/relative distance.
I've no idea why neither of those made it into ED. Personally I still have a problem estimating distance on the concentric-ringed ED scanner regardless of whether it's logarithmic or linear. I found the grid a whole lot easier.
As for NMS, I must admit I'd always believed there'd been some sort of past legal action preventing other space games from copying Elite's scanner design, which explained why few other games implemented it and went instead for combined X-Y 2D plots or similarly inferior layouts. I thought I'd read it somewhere back in the day. Either I was wrong, or Hello Games are pushing their luck doing this. Even the colour scheme is ED's. I guess if you're going to "borrow" a design, it's better to be blatant.
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Exactly!