Some quick notes from the official Discovery Scanner Dev Diary 2 livestream

Viajero

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Viajero
knowles2 said:
Tidied it up a little, I think

NPCs
  • Talk face to face with mission givers
  • Suits can be upgraded and customised
  • Can negotiate for mission rewards from mission givers
  • Negotiation success dependant on your reputation, influence, experience
  • Mocap used to get fluid human motion, then cleaned-up
  • Plus handkey animations used where needed and appropriate
  • NPCs will interact with each other
  • NPCs will differ based on factions that control them
  • NPCs will be voice acted.
Environment-
  • Three types of social hubs, in starports, outposts and surface ports (was in Polygon article)
  • Seamless walking in and out of hangar
  • Ships will be visible through port glass
  • Certain services and mission givers will be affected by BGS
  • Settlement airlocks are seamless transition
  • Settlements can affect BGS, and BGS will affect settlements
Missions
  • Combat and non-combat missions
  • Many missions locations can simply walk to
  • Some missions you will need to travel to (via your ship or Apex)
  • Missions can have items need collecting
  • Mission locations can have items for scavenging
  • Boxes to be searched, unlocked, looted
  • Special tools needed to unlocked some boxies (mini game?)
  • Items carried to ship, or large ones picked up by SRV
Services
  • Apex travel will be discussed in another Dev Diary
Ranks -
  • New rank of Exobiologist
Cross Platform:
  • Nothing to discuss on Cross Platform at the moment
Player-
  • Suits must be worn outside of stations
  • Suits will have shields, battery powered
  • No answer for emotes at this time (in another Dev Diary?)
  • No need to wear suit inside sealed environment
  • No plans to change in-cockpit animations for Odyssey
  • No answer for emotes at this time (in another Dev Diary?)
  • A lot of different weapon animations
CQC-
  • Ground combat CQC will be added to the game.
Fleet Carriers:
  • Interiors remain unconfirmed, will talk about it in another stream
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Wrecked ships as objects of scavenging missions were also mentioned afair
 

Maolagin

M
Andro said:
Fantastic. Glad getting to the social hubs won't be a teleport straight from the cockpit.
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I rather doubt the social hub is right through the door from your hanger. Keep in mind the scale of a station - unless the social hub space is truly vast, it could be a couple miles of corridors from your landing pad to the pub.

At surface ports, "seamlessly walking out from the hanger" makes sense, because the planet surface is outside. At space stations, I'm curious what would be out there. My initial suspicion is, probably a turbolift to the social hub.
 

thistle

T
Maolagin said:
I rather doubt the social hub is right through the door from your hanger. Keep in mind the scale of a station - unless the social hub space is truly vast, it could be a couple miles of corridors from your landing pad to the pub.

At surface ports, "seamlessly walking out from the hanger" makes sense, because the planet surface is outside. At space stations, I'm curious what would be out there. My initial suspicion is, probably a turbolift to the social hub.
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Yep, it does look like there are corridors connecting or adjacent to hangers, probably with turbolifts as you say.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
StuartGT said:
Twitch VOD recording
  • Suits can be upgraded and customised
  • Suits can be collected, not just keeping one at a time
  • Multiple copies of same suit can be owned and upgraded differently
  • Three types of social hubs, in starports, outposts and surface ports (was in Polygon article)
  • Talk face to face with mission givers
  • Some NPCs will be voiced (was in a previous article)
  • Can negotiate for mission rewards from mission givers
  • Negotiation success dependant on your reputation, influence, experience, faction status
  • Combat and non-combat missions
  • Many missions locations can simply walk to
  • Some missions you will need to travel to (via your ship or Apex)
  • Apex travel will be discussed in another Dev Diary
  • Missions can have items need collecting
  • Scavenger missions available: search/scan area for wreckage & loot
  • Boxes to be searched, unlocked, looted
  • Items carried to ship, or large ones picked up by SRV
  • NPCs can attack you unprovoked
  • Space Legs version of CQC
  • Seamless walking in and out of hangar
  • New rank of Exobiologist
  • Ships will be visible through port glass
  • Mocap used to get fluid human motion, then cleaned-up
  • Plus handkey animations used where needed and appropriate
  • No plans to change in-cockpit animations for Odyssey
  • No answer for emotes at this time (in another Dev Diary?)
  • A lot of different weapon animations
  • Tons of info to come over the coming months
  • "Odyssey is the largest update Elite has ever had"
  • Nothing to discuss on Crossplatform at the moment
  • Nothing to announce on SRVs right now
  • NPCs will differ based on factions that control them
  • Certain services and mission givers will be affected by BGS
  • New missions that will affect BGS
  • Suits must be worn outside of stations
  • Suits will have shields, battery powered
  • NPCs will interact with each other
  • Settlement airlocks are seamless transition
  • No need to wear suit inside sealed environment
  • Settlements can affect BGS, and BGS will affect settlements
  • All of the "pre-alpha development footage" is in-engine game footage
  • No, NPCs do not stand on tables
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Thanks for the summary (y)

🦠 🦠 🦠 🦠 🦠 🦠 😷
 

Andro

Andro
TheSisko said:
This all sounds great......but.....what about spacewalks? If I can't do that then 😥
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I rope that in with ship interiors. At least those have been acknowledged. Can't have EVA without ship interiors... I think. I thought the same with legs though lol, and it seems like our "Neil Armstrong" moment is a teleport. Not that I'm ungrateful, it's just surprising.

I think a few ships could use another detail pass if and when they allow us to EVA around them...
 

Maolagin

M
Andro said:
I rope that in with ship interiors. At least those have been acknowledged. Can't have EVA without ship interiors... I think. I thought the same with legs though lol, and it seems like our "Neil Armstrong" moment is a teleport. Not that I'm ungrateful, it's just surprising.
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It might be a fade to black, or it might not. I'm very curious to see that reveal too.

But I do have this nagging worry that instead of a fade transition, we could end up with an unskippable 15 second animation of getting out of the pilot's chair and walking to the lift at the back of the cockpit. Every single time you disembark.
 

VR Golgot

VR Golgot
More notes here if anyone wants:

Dev Diary 2 Q&As - Some Longer Notes

YT vid NB: they’ve chopped 7 minutes off the start of the vid now, so -7m off any timestamps. Known stuff from Polygon article: Social Hubs: 3 types (spaceports, outposts, ports) [16m50s] Careers: Similar roles as in space. Combat, Explo, Scavenging. [17m50s] Suits: Extra suits for explo...
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Includes fantastical David Braben throttling Arf for revealing too much
 

rrobes

R
I hope they have a Black Friday black suit, it would complement my ship colors, after all, one must be project a certain presence.

Looks like there may be some meat on Odyssey's bones. Thanks for the summary, OP.
 
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