You're not alone. I really don't see what planetary landings will add - if it's like Frontier etc - essentially just somewhere to land / bomb / mine, then OK, but the whole FPS thing - why? What the game needs is a proper living/breathing galaxy; powerplay is a step in the right direction, but only a step. Everything else (Thargoids excepted - they could add a whole extra dimension) is just window dressing.
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You're not alone. I really don't see what planetary landings will add - if it's like Frontier etc - essentially just somewhere to land / bomb / mine, then OK, but the whole FPS thing - why? What the game needs is a proper living/breathing galaxy; powerplay is a step in the right direction, but only a step. Everything else (Thargoids excepted - they could add a whole extra dimension) is just window dressing.
We must comprehend that everything around you is floating in space so ED would continue being a space game having a planet landing feature. (just a cheap philosophy)
I would really like to enjoy the atmospheric entry with lots of turbulence shaking, heat, fire, fire alarms etc.. All this with an amazing scary sound.
This would happen while the scenery is loading, separating space from ground. Once stabilized in atmosphere, we initialize navigation process to wherever waypoint already marked in your GPS. Cities, mines, bases..
For the cities, as we are in the future, humanity evolved so we now make better use of space and resources with a minimalist and ecologic concept of living. So people no longer overpopulate one small area and realises individuas need more space to avoid crisis.
So they spread out through universe in an misantropic era. It would justify small cities(less work, better fps) Also most of them live underground due to some magnetic solar problems or atomic mayhem.
Sorry for my english (not native)
I would really like to enjoy the atmospheric entry with lots of turbulence shaking, heat, fire, fire alarms etc.. All this with an amazing scary sound.
This would happen while the scenery is loading, separating space from ground. Once stabilized in atmosphere, we initialize navigation process to wherever waypoint already marked in your GPS. Cities, mines, bases..
For the cities, as we are in the future, humanity evolved so we now make better use of space and resources with a minimalist and ecologic concept of living. So people no longer overpopulate one small area and realises individuas need more space to avoid crisis.
So they spread out through universe in an misantropic era. It would justify small cities(less work, better fps) Also most of them live underground due to some magnetic solar problems or atomic mayhem.
Sorry for my english (not native)
Yes.
And no.
FD were working on a FPS game that was abandoned (though they have never admitted it) a few years back. The working hypothesis is that assets from that game will be re-purposed for FD - they will be in the Cobra engine already anyway - giving them a head start.
I am with Tinman, I think we will see at least 1 this year and I think it will be nearer the end of the year.
Although planetary landing will be cool - what I'm really hanging out to see is.....What can we do after landing? Maybe go to a bar to pick up missions, have coffee at the spaceport, find clues at information brokers, ????????
Who knows? Flip a coin, cast the runes, consult the I Ching - the answer has as much chance of being accurate as any guess we could make.
All we know for sure is that planetary landings and FP content are the two promised/planned/theoretical big upgrades that we can reasonably expect to be delivered, and that each will probably take a year or more of development. I'm guessing planetary landings first, not earlier than this Christmas, more likely next year.
All we know for sure is that planetary landings and FP content are the two promised/planned/theoretical big upgrades that we can reasonably expect to be delivered, and that each will probably take a year or more of development. I'm guessing planetary landings first, not earlier than this Christmas, more likely next year.
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Even if the core of the game was flawless I'd get bored fast. Even in a spacegame I want livelihood. They should add people walking around the station drydock at the very least.
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Absolutely not! If you can't leave your pilot seat then the open world freedom of the game is a mere illusion. It's not like this is a 100% spacecraft simulator where you have to monitor it like a REAL vehicle. It has already expanded into the wider world.
I also agree with this development " Walking around your own ship -> Walking around stations -> Atmosphere flight -> Landing (docking style) on planets -> Fully functional planet landing." i been saying the same thing for awhile.
There is so much stuff they would have to do with planet landings. Gravity will be different on each surface. They would have to give us spacesuits also not every planet has a normal atmosphere. Catching a virus or pathogen. Or bringing virus or pathogen to the planet that kills off its own life forms.
I would say next xmas if we are lucky.
I can't wait to make planetfall in my cobra. That's when the game will feel complete to me, a true successor to elite2.
IMO entering atmospheres to land at a spaceport that has the same functionality as current stations is fine. I have zero interest in any first person shenanigans.
IMO entering atmospheres to land at a spaceport that has the same functionality as current stations is fine. I have zero interest in any first person shenanigans.
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Several games and countless demos imply otherwise.
All of that is true; forum wars are inevitable whenever something new is introduced. It's either completely unnecessary, or not implemented well enough, with very few shades of grey in between. But FD are weathering (or ignoring!) those sorts of problems all the time.
The thing we have to remember is that planetary landings were a day one Kickstarter announcement. FD were savvy enough to realise that they wouldn't be able to do justice to SPL in the initial release, so they offered them as a future expansion for which some people paid a lot of money (at least £90) to effectively "pre-order." It was as close to a promise as it's possible to get without actually using the word, and money changed hands on the strength of it. We already saw the mess that resulted following offlinegate, with people demanding refunds and FD having to backtrack on their initial choice not to award them. Planetary landings have to be implemented in some shape or form, because the backlash if they don't will make every previous forumstorm pale in comparison.
I like the idea of underground cities, and given that we have mining lasers perhaps there's an argument in lore that it's easier to drill down than to excavate and build up. I still feel that political and corporate egos would demand the building of bigger and more elaborate structures in the age-old story of architectural -waggling, but perhaps those people would spend their trillions on space stations rather than skyscrapers.
(On a tangent, for me one of the more annoying things about CQC is the back-story that one of the arenas is a disused space elevator. Really? The greatest structural achievement mankind has ever built and there's only one of them in the whole galaxy? And it's now used solely for the 34th century equivalent of motorsport?)
