The Planetary landing and planetside missions discussion Thread
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I would be nice to walk around the ships, especially after all the time and effort it took to buy them.
Do we NEED it? No. But I very much want it. I want missions where you board spacecraft to take them over, planetary landings, lounges where pilots can hang out, explorable station rings where you can maybe even settle down and start a family? Who knows. I think it'd be exceptional for any eventual guild-style expansion and player/guild-owned stations.
I want to dock my Sidewinder in my partner's Anaconda (not a euphemism!), walk up, and sit down in the copilot's seat while we jump to wherever.
I want to dock my Sidewinder in my partner's Anaconda (not a euphemism!), walk up, and sit down in the copilot's seat while we jump to wherever.
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Well I haven't read the whole thread, this might have been said, but yeah we do need them, now that frontier have been selling an expansion pass on the strength of it for most of the past 2 years.
Yea, so were the EVE players when walking in stations was being bandied about.
That went well.
Seems like a good idea to me, if any of you recall Privateer II this was a lot like Elite an had a very strong plot line, although you couldn't walk about 3rd person style there were plenty of off ship mission elements with accompanying cut screens and clips. At the time the tech just wasn't there so I say take advantage and do it.
Need to have story elements / trade etc. to make it worthwhile though.
Need to have story elements / trade etc. to make it worthwhile though.
For my educated guess I offer this.
1st we get to create a personal avatar, and walk around our ship. Possibly at the same time we get multiple people on a single ship co-op play (I want a 2nd seater for my Cobra to operate turreted weapons).
Next we get to land on airless moons with outpost-like landing pads.
Next we get to walk around on space stations (but this is a big thing, requiring NPCs), and gradually the stations have more and more areas opened up.
Something like that...
1st we get to create a personal avatar, and walk around our ship. Possibly at the same time we get multiple people on a single ship co-op play (I want a 2nd seater for my Cobra to operate turreted weapons).
Next we get to land on airless moons with outpost-like landing pads.
Next we get to walk around on space stations (but this is a big thing, requiring NPCs), and gradually the stations have more and more areas opened up.
Something like that...
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Given i have paid for it already I hope so.true its a big job but its the next logical step. I just hope it's worthwhile and not just like landing in frontier which was impressive and all but essentially just a different graphic for a space station
Yes we do. This game needs far more content. Since playing Beta i had a lot of fun and that mostly came from things being added so regularly. Since release ive played barely at all. Its all become very stale. More updates please!
I'm down with it, but I've also seen it done wrong (hint - starts with the letter X.) So there would need to be some meaningful things to do when walking around.
I LOVE the lounge/observation deck idea. Anything that brings players together is good. Maybe EVERYONE on a station, regardless of in-space instancing, would be able to chat / transfer cargo or funds in the lounge.
I also like the idea of walking / space-walking around your ship manually messing with systems to get them running again / tweaking stuff to squeeze a little extra performance from them.
The only thing is, both of these things could be done through a GUI, without having an actual avatar of yourself walking around. So again - great sounding features, but if we're gonna have to walk around to use them, it needs to be executed really well.
I LOVE the lounge/observation deck idea. Anything that brings players together is good. Maybe EVERYONE on a station, regardless of in-space instancing, would be able to chat / transfer cargo or funds in the lounge.
I also like the idea of walking / space-walking around your ship manually messing with systems to get them running again / tweaking stuff to squeeze a little extra performance from them.
The only thing is, both of these things could be done through a GUI, without having an actual avatar of yourself walking around. So again - great sounding features, but if we're gonna have to walk around to use them, it needs to be executed really well.
"Do we REALLY need planetary landings and ship/hangar walkabouts?"
Not really no, but it'd be sweet if we could!
As for planetary landings? It'll be as natural as landing on any Space-based station, landing on a spaceport outside London ,or even Duval City. It was in Elite 2 (and 3) and I imagine it Will be in Elite Dangerous if (and hopefully when) it's added to the game
Not really no, but it'd be sweet if we could!
As for planetary landings? It'll be as natural as landing on any Space-based station, landing on a spaceport outside London ,or even Duval City. It was in Elite 2 (and 3) and I imagine it Will be in Elite Dangerous if (and hopefully when) it's added to the game
Amen brother.
If FD even think about doing more "fluff" content like FPS stuff before core gameplay mechanics like persistent NPCs I going to be on there case really really hard.
