Talking of balls, I'm sure my 9 Iron dropped it into this long grass, but I can't find it. Think you can help? It's only the 5th hole...
State of the Game
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Talking of balls, I'm sure my 9 Iron dropped it into this long grass, but I can't find it. Think you can help? It's only the 5th hole...
More to the point, if Wendy has balls, I think we should be fore-warned....
Why ? Lots of women like to play with balls. It's perfectly ok.
I think of footballer and the like.
I think I found Wendy's collection.
Is it too early to start singing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."
Is it too early to start singing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."
[insert Braben Jesus post]
silly me... snooker, tennis, golf, S&M....
Has anyone seen @Amy Pendergast recently. Missing her! Hope she's okay!
She comes sometimes but don't post.
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She has fallen from the grace of Brebus.
Odyssey rest her soul.
Yeah. How can JWE run on the Nintendo Switch, but EDO can't run on my Wii U?! I demand an explanation, Frontier!
Oh well, at least Daddy Braben let us have... whatever this is.
Interestingly the game is about rollercoasters and the main menu has a rotatable planet in the middle. Smells familiar...
Perhaps she was sent to do missionary work in the land of the heathens of NMS and SC ?
I didn't know.
Nice cat playing handball. Or should I say "pawball" ?
not all balancing needs new game play loops, true. But the kind of balancing that it really needs does. The small balancing available now will only magnify the the other unbalanced things more.
Like if you did improve dirty and clean drives, to open up stealthy gameplay. You'll be even more incensed as a player when your rewards for being a stealthy player are no different from those who aren't. Because in the end they'll still only have credits and materials to give you that ends up being the same no matter how you got it.
in a finite economy ...a lot of different commodities serve a purpose because they can be used to leverage crafting or be used in determining the spawning of npcs and the outcome of the bgs activities.
In an infinite economy like we have, they are useless filler. They are being used strictly to either get credits or to be mission objectives. They serve no meaningful purpose unique to what they are in any other way.
You can easily eliminate all but maybe 3-5 of them and have the exact same game.
I disagree. FD now think everyone is a hand holding, juice drinking 40 something. Its like the choices they made for the holo adverts- 'friendship drive charging'- see the sights etc. Its blinded FD to the tone of Elite. Its only very recently CMs and FD have woken up to the fact its a problem.
LOL! I needed a laughwipes tear from eye
Its started out better in some ways, because it was actually a hard thing to do that required planning. Plus I can elvel that argument at Powerplay, since it was launched unfinished...........and remained unfinished to the point where its an imcomplete feature.
updates for screenshots and video captures isn't for exploration. That's where most of the non-combat foot play updates have been directed. Not at improving the exploration mechanic.
The procedurally generated galaxy hasn't been leveraged for the benefit of exploration. That's what was used to sell the game. Fdev hasn't leveraged these nearly limitless systems for exploration at all. It's just one empty system after the next. An endless disappointment followed by a loading screen and another pointless empty system to be disappointed about.
exploration as a role and game mechanic is more incomplete than powerplay ever was.
Exploration has no purpose to exploring. Not only is most content completely missing from most systems, but the systems that do have content tend to be very close to populated systems.
Exploration has no impact to the rest of the game. That's your missing "pp promotion and pp collapse" type functionality there.
Exploration and powerplay are similar in many ways in how incomplete they are. But exploration is an empty shell consisting only of loading screens and staring at meshes. There's a lot more for PP.
those basic bolts are still more engaging than staring at an object and watching loading screens.
Empty systems just like the previous empty system is not "something to find". You're finding nothing.
Improved moon surfaces dont add anything to exploring. Exploring doesn't get easier or harder because the surface of the moon has a slightly different texture applied to it.
Fdev doesn't improve visuals to help or even for exploration. They do it to look good in videos on youtube and twitch. Because that sells games. (which obviously helps everyone, but still.. it doesn't do anything to exploration as a game mechanic or in the role)
Just like putting 400 billion systems in the game wasn't done for exploration ... it was a marketing gimmick to sell the game to players for kickstarter.
if it was done for explorers, there would be a point to actually going to them by now after 7 years.
i dont think it's that. Because otherwise we would have disjointed but effectively complete aspects of the game (since each update tends to be mostly self contained). Instead, we always get incomplete things that never get any follow thru.
i think it's something common that has existed throughout all of these leads tenures. because that "wanting to be everything to everyone when you know such things aren't possible" mentality has existed since kickstarter ...and this directive to make everything optional has followed since release. You know, on top of all of the other development/process problems that seems to be embedded deeper than just the elite dangerous game in the company.
Also did not know that!
Well she is probably burnt at the stake by now then
more likely laughed at. What would she say to convince them?
"Look at how much better it is in ED (cuts to a scene of rioters and forums on fire)..." while they are all flying pet creatures and walking around in mech suits and cave diving in the ocean in VR?
if anything, she joined them.