The Planetary landing and planetside missions discussion Thread

OnePercent

OnePercent
Nasher said:
I'm wondering if they have fixed the lighting on planets for this expansion. At the moment planets only receive light from one star! Which is going to be ever more broken looking when on the surface.

Stations have the same issue, but it's less noticable.
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Sounds like they got some work to do then on the lighting, since making sure PL looks right they'll focus on that, i'm sure this patch would be universal so all versions of elite get the same updates like these.
 

M00ka

M00ka
%OnePercent% said:
Those with horizon enter orbital cruise seamlessly where those without it drop out of FSD as soon as they hit the invisible wall, if you try to fly in normal space down to a planet you will hit the body exclusion zone and are unable to continue.
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Okay that makes sense, thanks and of course Rep is due. Still curious to know whether the game will just 'know' I can't go past the the body exclusion zone or whether we need something fitted to allow us to pass that barrier?

Vasious said:
Same think as what happens now
"Body Exclusion Zone Reached"

*ninja'd**
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So close, missed it by 5 minutes but deserves Rep :D
 

Lestenio

L
M00ka said:
Okay that makes sense, thanks and of course Rep is due. Still curious to know whether the game will just 'know' I can't go past the the body exclusion zone or whether we need something fitted to allow us to pass that barrier?
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Im guessing it will be a different installer.
if you are not running Horizons you won't have all the planet assets
 

Tinman

Tinman
M00ka said:
But with a system that you don't have a permit, you can't set that as your destination in the Galaxy Map right. But I will be flying in a system, I can fly directly to the moon/planet, the only thing stopping me now is once your cross that line it kicks you out of SC with an emergency stop.

Next time I am playing I might buy myself a Sidely and see what happens if I just go in by normal thrusters :D
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You'll hit an exclusion zone and be bumped back out again.

Yes, they have thought of this. ;)
 

Mark Lock

M
M00ka said:
I have had a read of the recent threads but couldn't find the answer to this question:

If I don't buy the Horizons module, how will the game stop me from trying to land?

According to everything I have read, we will all be in the same universe, whether it be Solo, Open or Group - right? So there will be some players who have paid for Horizons and naturally some that haven't (remember it isn't mandatory to purchase it!). We have been told the transition from space to planet will be seamless.

So I am approaching an airless planet, and decide to pay it a visit but I don't have Horizons module. How will the game know I can't go there? My only guess is that Commanders who do purchase the expansion will be given some module or modified thrusters/FSD (guessing here) that will allow them to go past the current barrier. I am also curious if anyone has tried to approach a planet now, what happens I wonder?

So if anyone knows, or has an educated guess, or even an uneducated guess I would be interested to hear it.
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You will not be able to enter Orbit cruise so you won't be able to get to the planet

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Lestenio said:
Im guessing it will be a different installer.
if you are not running Horizons you won't have all the planet assets
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No, I don't think so, expansions are tied to your account not the installer, if it was as you say we would not be able to play all expansions at the same time
 

Herik

Herik
M00ka said:
I have had a read of the recent threads but couldn't find the answer to this question:

If I don't buy the Horizons module, how will the game stop me from trying to land?

According to everything I have read, we will all be in the same universe, whether it be Solo, Open or Group - right? So there will be some players who have paid for Horizons and naturally some that haven't (remember it isn't mandatory to purchase it!). We have been told the transition from space to planet will be seamless.

So I am approaching an airless planet, and decide to pay it a visit but I don't have Horizons module. How will the game know I can't go there? My only guess is that Commanders who do purchase the expansion will be given some module or modified thrusters/FSD (guessing here) that will allow them to go past the current barrier. I am also curious if anyone has tried to approach a planet now, what happens I wonder?

So if anyone knows, or has an educated guess, or even an uneducated guess I would be interested to hear it.
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How they will do it I dunno. But will they? YES...Brett or Michael already said so.
 

warlock

warlock
dc83 said:
And we're interested in a discussion from two months ago because...?

Edit: Oh, nevermind. I thought you wanted to complain.

You do realize though that by opening a thread about the subject at all, you've just started it all over again, right?
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Check the year !!!!!!
 

Herik

Herik
bfoster68 said:
With all the talk about planetary landings I went looking for some past discussion about them.

David talks about planetary landings being more than a single release and that they would start with landings on airless moons. This was posted a little more than a year ago and completely inline with the horizons expansion and what it will contain.

Then Michael in January posted about expansions, beta periods and they would be announced when nearing release.


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I am very interested to hear more about the planetary landing. What is planned? How much detail will there be on the planets? Are they going to be limited in any way?

Planetary landings won't be a single thing. I think I've said before - it is what is down there that makes planetary landings compelling - and please remember all of this will be after first release of the game.

I imagine we will start with landings on airless moons. You would be able to see heavy industry, craters up close, and ultimately be able to deposit things on the surface (stash cargo or mining machines). Atmospheric worlds are a bigger challenge - whether rocky or gas giant in nature - and a key element there is the atmosphere. They should have rich cloudscapes with lightning, turbulence etc.

The biggest challenge is with what we call 'outdoor worlds'. I would want rich and varied vegetation, wildlife, and so on.




Link to posts

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=20351&page=10&p=455691#post455691

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60284&page=5&p=1024338#post1024338


Michael Brookes on Paid Expansions

As you all know we’re also working on paid expansions for the game and these will have their own beta periods as well, we’ll again make details available of how this will work as we near their release.


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99493&highlight=Expansions
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Yes, this was what I was always telling people, but I'm just a purchaser...
 

Daemonshmike

Daemonshmike
Planetary landings, please let me visit this planet

I don't recall where and when I got this pic from but it has travelled over several hard drives.
Anyway, let me land here:

BEACH.jpg
 

Neo-ST

Neo-ST
Planetary landings - seamless or "seamless" ?

Taken from here:

· Game play extends seamlessly from space to the surface - taken from Dev Update.
· Planetary Landing will follow process: Orbital Cruise (like Supercruise) > choose anywhere (surface allowing) to land on the planet/moon
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Now, this sounds like contradiction to me.
If there's "orbital cruise", then we'll have to drop in/out of it, in other words, it's a gimmick to allow for assets loading, meaning it's not really seamless.

Really seamless would be something like how Space Engine / Outerra / I-Novae Studios does it (just youtube/google it if you haven't seen).

Do we know the definitive answer?
 
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