Although to be fair, actual journalists are generally much much worse.
I think the base building is probably the one part in the supposed leak that went just too far to be believable.They are a PLC and have all that comes with to consider. There's no way they would give concrete info about future projects, just in the same way they haven't for years. People can keep trying to make leaks, but if they're as lazy as this one then it'll be fine
Also imo Base Building in Elite is completely pointless because of instancing/modes, let alone making no sense what-so-ever in the context of the game.
For me, legs and different types of atmospheric landings would be expected as DLC's since FD HAS to make money in order to keep the lights on. Not everyone wants legs. Not everyone wants to dive into a gas giant but WOULD like to land on some of the worlds/moons with atmosphere. It would make perfect sense to have these released as DLC's and let us choose which "thing" we like. Example: base building. I have no desire for this but if I see others on youtube showing the advantages to having them, I'd give it a go.
With Lagrange clouds here and there, I can see FD is experimenting with "mist" flowing by your canopy. That, to me, means they really want to do at least gas giant atmosphere environments and hopefully space whales.
Like OA says, taking this leak with a grain of salt.
With Lagrange clouds here and there, I can see FD is experimenting with "mist" flowing by your canopy. That, to me, means they really want to do at least gas giant atmosphere environments and hopefully space whales.
Like OA says, taking this leak with a grain of salt.
I would be just happy about expansion with (some) atmospheric planets to land/fly/drive/dive in (with or without space legs, just to make universe feel much more alive and open), even with less top graphics if there would be enough variation on PG (or possibility to go for better with good PC, and if consoles can´t handle this maybe no DLC or rather much more light graphics?)
Atmos are long overdue. We should have had at least Mars-like worlds with 0.01% atmo pressure by now. These shouldn't be too complex to make and not require complex weather to look believable & realistic. We were told that atmos won't be part of horizons. Ok we are beyond Beyond now and Horizons officially ended in end 2017. If the 2020 (End of it actually - so effectively 2021) update does not even include mars like worlds then I don't think there is any point in waiting for atmos of any kind. Planetary landings will be limited to airless bodies for the entirety of the franchise. And this is a prospect I am not looking forward to. I am not interested in space legs and base building because I think (and this is my own opinion) this is a big deviation from the scope and type of game that the Elite franchise is known for. I really hope this post turns out to be a troll..
They are just playing with your heartstrings I'm afraid, its transparent gubbins cobblers or balderdash.
Consider that 100 devs are working on ED since 1 year only. During horizons season there weren't so many..
You know what April Fools is, yes?
Totally agree with this
I dont think its real. Base building? I know its been talked about before but no where near as much as Atmos and Space legs, its never struck me as a much desired item.
I cant imagine Fdev introducing this because it would no doubt require them to increase there back end footprint in order to make persistent the stuff people build, ED is P2P and it was no doubt done this way because it lowers Fdevs infrastructure costs.
Im personally not interested in 'Base building'.... like at all. Why sent ED down a NMS direction?
I cant imagine Fdev introducing this because it would no doubt require them to increase there back end footprint in order to make persistent the stuff people build, ED is P2P and it was no doubt done this way because it lowers Fdevs infrastructure costs.
Im personally not interested in 'Base building'.... like at all. Why sent ED down a NMS direction?
As I said a few months ago, no spending on ED until Atmos comes. I see no point in legs at all. Base building ? ED has the worst local networking I have ever played, sometimes we get 16 in an instance, other times 2 is a push, and even then we are not synced.
Alas, I love this game & I cannot quit, so not giving my billions away
Alas, I love this game & I cannot quit, so not giving my billions away
![[VR] Mad Mike](https://d2aefvhu2f0gi9.cloudfront.net/data/avatars/m/27/27910.jpg?1553527108){kind=avatar}
ED is certainly not MY space game and as it happens space legs and base building I could have fun with however that said anyone a bit dissapointed with base building and space legs coming out before the features currently in the game are fleshed out and whilst the DDF still has so many really cool features still missing would have a valid gripe imo
You'd be surprised how much people enjoy doing busy work like building and crafting in games. The potential to grow new player crowd is huge with such feature.
Myself though is not that great fan of it. It's a cool feature to have but I don't think I will do much with it. But I KNOW others will go nuts on it.
I've said it before, I'll say it again : I think fdev are still sticking to their original plan.
The original plan (kickstarter page?) had airless planetary landings (horizons), fps in ship and station, basic atmospheric landings, then the more complex atmospheres and fps on those etc. I think that was the sequence, although it did say the list wasn't necessarily in sequence but it made sense it would be the plan.
What's changed I think is just the delivery - rather than incremental updates like horizons, it looks like the 2020 update will be a complete update rather than the start of a season. So I do believe on the plan the basic FPS comes first, before atmospheres, but I think those bundled together would make sense for the 2020 update. With more complex atmospheres obviously for much later.
And nowhere as far as I can remember was there anything ever mentioned about base building. So it won't happen imo. And the leak is fake.
But who knows?
The original plan (kickstarter page?) had airless planetary landings (horizons), fps in ship and station, basic atmospheric landings, then the more complex atmospheres and fps on those etc. I think that was the sequence, although it did say the list wasn't necessarily in sequence but it made sense it would be the plan.
What's changed I think is just the delivery - rather than incremental updates like horizons, it looks like the 2020 update will be a complete update rather than the start of a season. So I do believe on the plan the basic FPS comes first, before atmospheres, but I think those bundled together would make sense for the 2020 update. With more complex atmospheres obviously for much later.
And nowhere as far as I can remember was there anything ever mentioned about base building. So it won't happen imo. And the leak is fake.
But who knows?
Bases you say?
they already inject crafted content into the procedural world. the game doesn't have more persistence simply because it isn't profitable for them, that doesn't mean the option isn't technically there and they can't use persistence on selected items to support their 'living galaxy' thing, which they do. by the same token they can invest just a little more hardware to support another 'killer feature' supposed to bring in another heap of $$$.
just theorizing, i'm making no bets, but that's not a valid reason to rule out base building.
Well, I've heard the road map includes cultural trading stations where you can watch Powerpoint presentations about Vogon poetry... all from the comfort of your cockpit.
What a time to be alive
What a time to be alive
Of course, FD would never ever include something that nobody really wanted much