No worries looks my response wasn't exactly the most civilised either I do love how the internet makes it so easy to misunderstand one another!
"July will be a Claire Dearing DLC that will include a safari truck ride, paleo botony (growing plants for food in the feeder). Mission will be to save the dinosaurs from Nublar and move to the sanctuary island."
I'd be really, really, really surprised if someone from inside Frontier gave that much detailed information on what they had coming up to a 'mate' - who then released all the information whilst drawing attention to who gave them it. I'm pretty sure if this did happen he's no longer the friend of the person concerned.
Edit: That said it does seem to be correct so far.
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The other is that FD have not explicitly denied it- Ed used to pop up very quickly to dampen the rumour fires.
I still think the "leak" is fake, and at best educated guesswork. Whoever is the person who posted the leak almost certainly reads these forums (I'm not trying to narrow it down, honest) as I found this post in the "Games By Frontier" section in Off Topic ...
So ... that covers getting the name right .... I can't explain the announcement date.
So ... that covers getting the name right .... I can't explain the announcement date.
Or the fact they got the information right about the 3 names of the dinos in the JW release......
That would have to be some quality guesswork
The other one was the very correct contents of the last jwe patch before it was announced
Apparently if you look in the game files, you can see those dino names.Or the fact they got the information right about the 3 names of the dinos in the JW release......
That would have to be some quality guesswork
If the part about walking around, FPS, basebuilding being the focus and direction of Elite in the 2020 update, I will be spending a lot of time playing Planet Zoo.
Would make sense so far it could be very good guesswork.
I think the interesting bit is we are here discussing a potential leak because of a chronic lack of useful information from fdev because apparently their marketing strategy was set by mi-5
From What I can gather a number were registered including planet safari so there would need to be a question mark as to how they guessed the right one
Ah well that could explain it. Providing they were the only three names?
While I’ve looked at this “leak” with a sideways squint and a bit of a “nah”, it did get me thinking about the “base building” part.
My immediate assumption was that it would be like how NMS implemented it - but then I considered it might not be. How about an evolution of the old mining machines from FE2? It could be like the mining POI bases that are currently in-game, but with a bit more customisation. Scan a planet to find mining hotspots, drop down and set up your base, maybe slap some defences around it, return periodically to collect the product.
My immediate assumption was that it would be like how NMS implemented it - but then I considered it might not be. How about an evolution of the old mining machines from FE2? It could be like the mining POI bases that are currently in-game, but with a bit more customisation. Scan a planet to find mining hotspots, drop down and set up your base, maybe slap some defences around it, return periodically to collect the product.
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I don't believe that Frontier have ever responded to any of the other "leaks". Rumours yes, but nothing that was released as a leak.
They are slightly hamstrung being a PLC.
And a fourth is being openly recruited
Bases don't need to be planetary, they could also be player-built space stations, or in 'roids.
Maybe we'll get more info later this year, but you are right: I too never understood the need for this amount of secrecy.
I struggle to buy the plc impact on shares nonsense releasing roadmap info isn't required to be secret. Plus even if we did buy the plc argument the recent April update would have 0 impact if they announced it in January last year or a day before it released it was a small patch so there was no need for secrecy.
The approach, in my opinion, is 100% driven by terrible marketing that still thinks going for the big bang approach is sensible.
Jenner
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Why not both?
Ok, seriously though - I'd love me some space legs. If that's the direction Elite takes then I'm all for it.
If for the sake of argument base building is true, then it would have to fit into the game and not just be some random plodding down of bases in crazy shapes and designs. Some time ago (before mining was revamped) I spent some time working on the idea of how mining on planetary surfaces could translate into base building for factions. This would involve planetary scanning for hot spots on surfaces via a new modules and then if the find was lucrative the faction would build a base on it. This could then be expanded, go derelict, be re-fitted taken over etc. and players would have to run missions to the base to keep it going. With the subsequent addition of Squadrons this could I suppose be replicated for player groups, with smaller bases available to lone-wolf commanders........