Planned, but low on priority - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12464
Hence my please to at least get cockpit/HUDless screenshots in the meantime (see sig).
Roadmap after release
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Planned, but low on priority - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12464
Hence my please to at least get cockpit/HUDless screenshots in the meantime (see sig).
Focussing on any FPS kind of stuff would be a huge mistake. Star Citizen has taken its huge ressources and developed around the idea of having a player character separate from his ship from the beginning. The game is built around that idea. It is actually built around a FPS engine! Boot up Arena Commander and you start out standing in a hangar, looking at your enterable ship. You get in, move through the detailed interior and finally, after lots of animations involving your pilot's seat, get a look at your HUD, where the game distinguishes between things projected on your helmet and elements visible on the canopy. Similarly, they have already shown a ship landing at a spaceport. The pilot can get out, walk through a terminal and enter an outside environment, complete with shops you can walk into. Some pretty convincing and certainly high fidelity FPS combat has also already been demoed. At one point, gravity goes out and you can see various items suddenly floating around along with the combatants.
ED is not going to be able to compete with that in the forseeable future, and neither should it.
SC will have to keep the lowest common denominator quite firmly in mind when it comes to core game mechanics. It's a Hollywood Blockbuster and it certainly has some heavy monitezation through pay2win'ish elements baked into it. Elite, not so much. ED could still fix its background simulation, enhance and extend the ways the player can interact with that simulation & fill the universe with (procedurally generated?) points of interest in every sense of that word. It should strive to become the thinking man's Star Citizen. How realistic is that? No idea, since we don't know how SC's persistent universe is going to turn out. The chances of actually competing in any meaningful way are certainly a lot better than they are if ressources are poured into FPS stuff.
ED is not going to be able to compete with that in the forseeable future, and neither should it.
SC will have to keep the lowest common denominator quite firmly in mind when it comes to core game mechanics. It's a Hollywood Blockbuster and it certainly has some heavy monitezation through pay2win'ish elements baked into it. Elite, not so much. ED could still fix its background simulation, enhance and extend the ways the player can interact with that simulation & fill the universe with (procedurally generated?) points of interest in every sense of that word. It should strive to become the thinking man's Star Citizen. How realistic is that? No idea, since we don't know how SC's persistent universe is going to turn out. The chances of actually competing in any meaningful way are certainly a lot better than they are if ressources are poured into FPS stuff.
Absolutely! - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=95448
Most of the careers need beefing up. ie: Mining and piracy need more depth and interest added to them. And then, as you say, the entire ED universe needs filling up with more variety, interest and just general mystery!
i still disagree with alot of you guys. you guys keep thinking that somehow the walking aspect in is going to be useless. but is seriously doubt that. i mean sure concentrating on fps isnt the smartest thing but it would be nice to have and be able to do.
and there is so much more to being able to walk then just shoot stuff.
i would love to go exploring planets and cities. and of course see some hand made sights and all the other things that come with exploring and living in a futuristic world.
not just being stuck in your cockpit flying around and only being able to buy new ships and parts for it.
and i am ready to buy the expansions if of course worth the money.
and there is so much more to being able to walk then just shoot stuff.
i would love to go exploring planets and cities. and of course see some hand made sights and all the other things that come with exploring and living in a futuristic world.
not just being stuck in your cockpit flying around and only being able to buy new ships and parts for it.
and i am ready to buy the expansions if of course worth the money.
Don't forget about external views and Newtonian flight...oh, and offline mode.
Was trying to keep off those subjects
but, you have a point. Where's my in-ship video player, bunk and microwave.......- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
Some will like it, some won't. I'm sticking to a wait and see myself but, one thing I think everyone can agree on is that anything FD adds to ED (within reason and I doubt it would be unreasonable) will add value to someone and eventually, fingers crossed, there'll be added content and features that tickles everyone's fancy at some point. Win/win.
Hopefully, in time, and I have no reason to doubt they will, the other career paths (for lack of a better term) will get a once (or twice) over like co-op is. I'm sure they will.