The Planetary landing and planetside missions discussion Thread

[Karakhian]

It's been confirmed by David Braben. Planetary landing and walking around very much happening.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=158095

I wonder if I can find that ammonia world I got a first discovery for. Be nice to fly around on 'my' planet. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

So happy.

 

[GunslingerSullivan]

You know what I like this link and what DB has said. I am sure they knew they would be a MASSIVE back lash about xbone getting exclusive before PC. But what he has said makes me a bit more happy and looking forward to the next update.

 

[Forlorn]

...
Wow, really...? You must be a delight to buy for for Christmas...

Nah, coal is relatively cheap and one chunk looks much like another

 

[Balfuset790]

THE FOOLISH HUMAN KNOWN AS BRA-BEN HAS REVEALED OUR INVASION PLANS!

WE MUST CRUSH HIM!

yours sincerely

Grand Thargoid Public Relations Executive and Human Liquifier in Chief

Haha! Rep for you good sir, for making me laugh on this too-hot Wedensday afternoon XD

 

[PsychoFish]

4th game mode confirmed. Open, Group, Solo and now XBOX

On that last point, Producer Ben Dowie reiterated that Xbox One and PC players won’t be playing head-to-head—although they’ll be playing in the same simulated universe, they’ll never encounter each other in space, likely because Microsoft’s Xbox patch cycle adds complexity to Frontier’s game update procedure. This means that PC players and Xbox players will often wind up on different clients, which means no head-to-head play. To that end, anticipated PC-centric features will likely land on PC first.]

 

[Robert Maynard]

4th game mode confirmed. Open, Group, Solo and now XBOX

.... don't forget XBox: Solo; XBox: Private Groups will exist as well as XBox: Open.

 

[Karakhian]

This makes me so ridiculously happy.

 

[MINDWIPE]

4th game mode confirmed. Open, Group, Solo and now XBOX

thats been known since they first announced the xbox version (no one believed me "what a surprise" but oh well people should read the Dev posts and replies more often i guess). so no new news there im afraid

 

[EAGLE 5]

YAY! (8 characters)

 

[PsychoFish]

thats been known since they first announced the xbox version (no one believed me "what a surprise" but oh well people should read the Dev posts and replies more often i guess). so no new news there im afraid

If you go that route, there is NO news at all in the article. Nothing that hasn't been said before.

 

[MINDWIPE]

If you go that route, there is NO news at all in the article. Nothing that hasn't been said before.

pretty much im afraid , actually The only reall ED news this week is CQC exclusive on xbox atm and that the Xbox version is in alpha testing on the MS preview scheme.. thats pretty much it.. everything else is exactly whats been said before but this time all in one article

 

[SteveLaw]

pretty much im afraid

If you go that route, there is NO news at all in the article. Nothing that hasn't been said before.

Let's be fair, we've learned that CQC is effectively a stand alone game.

 

[AnnuverScotinExile]

Let's be fair, we've learned that CQC is effectively a stand alone game.

We knew that, too.

 

[MINDWIPE]

Let's be fair, we've learned that CQC is effectively a stand alone game.

true i guess so by that route theres really NO news at all lol

 

[nosscar]

Not read the whole thread, so forgive me if already answered, but a couple of questions spring to mind from that interview.

"We spent several minutes on the Xbox version of Elite, and after getting my bearings it was a pretty easy transition to go from the Warthog HOTAS I usually play on to the Xbox’s controller. The controls have been collapsed so that every major flight system is available from the controller, either through direct button press or from holding down modifier buttons."

So xbox users have no keypad, how do they send com text messages.
And

"CQC takes place separate from the main game universe and is intended to be a quick join, quick action PvP matchmaking mode where players can jump and get immediately to action. To that end, players don’t play CQC with their own ships, but rather with a limited selection of four small ships: the Eagle, the Sidewinder, the Viper, and the newly playable Federal Fighter (which executive producer Ben Dowie said was his favorite).

So is the federal fighter due to make an appearance in the main game at some stage.

 

[CMDR Brock Samson]

I'm assuming that was a misquote...everything so far has been very much centered around a first person experience.

Gotta be 1st person.I hope.

 

[Iskariot]

I am a bit surprised at many of the reactions.

I never doubted that planetary landings would be implemented at all. Having seen and read every interview with David Braben since the kickstarter this was always crystal clear afaic.

And I already bought that expansion too .

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Journalist on reddit just confirmed that 3rd person view indeed slipped in by his own mistake. Article fixed.

 

[Synther]

Thanks for posting this. ArsTechnica saves the day for Elite after last night's um presentation.

 

[Distance]

This isn't really news. They confirmed landings and fp when they sold the expansions back in beta.

The "third person" thing was already discussed that it's the same debug camera we have on pc but on xbox.

Nothing ground breaking here.