Update 4.0? what will it be?

fico74

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I think they will take inspiration from other existing single player games (NMS, X4) trying to export some features in a multiplayer context.
From NMS they can be inspired to allow planetary atmosperical landing or create a more variable biological environment.
From X4 they could take inspiration to allow space legs to move into spaceship's cabin or stations (only landing pad and internal space stations' tunnels).
 

johnwer

johnwer
Hi,
Mr. David Braben already said that the next big update will be a logical evolution of the game.
I’m in the void right now for the first time.
Hope that logical will be a exploration evolution , with a lot more to do with the galaxy.
 

Franc Kaos

Franc Kaos
johnwer said:
Hi,
Mr. David Braben already said that the next big update will be a logical evolution of the game.
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Semantically Null statement: I think atmospherics is the next logical evolution of the game, him over there thinks SpaceLegs is, someone else thinks Newtonian flight dynamics, someone else thinks better missions with speaking actors, RNG lifeforms, Thargoid invasion, comets, better stellar phenomena... They're all logical evolutions of the game (but mine is the most right).
Darn! Ninja'd by Deadlock-3000 :)
 
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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Old Duck said:
.... all sorts of things that never came to pass.
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I hate to agree with this but......
DB said over the years..
He does not really consider ED an MMO and it would not have normal MMO tropes
The BGS would work to keep everything in check and sensible
There would be no one stand out way to make money, all careers would essentially be equally viable (with variation depending on how well you do them)
That losing an expensive ship is meant to be significant loss and not something we could do willy nilly
That exploits would be jumped on and dealt with swiftly.
That the pilots federation would react with an iron fist against members who attack other members without a legal reason.
That horizons would be a series of updates over 12 months.
And more
 

Bunkerkind Anni

Bunkerkind Anni
Mad Mike said:
I hate to agree with this but......
DB said over the years..
He does not really consider ED an MMO and it would not have normal MMO tropes
The BGS would work to keep everything in check and sensible
There would be no one stand out way to make money, all careers would essentially be equally viable (with variation depending on how well you do them)
That losing an expensive ship is meant to be significant loss and not something we could do willy nilly
That exploits would be jumped on and dealt with swiftly.
That the pilots federation would react with an iron fist against members who attack other members without a legal reason.
That horizons would be a series of updates over 12 months.
And more
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That FDEV will never allow the console patch verification process to slow down the deployment of patches to the PC version.
 

Neutronium

Neutronium
With no particular order:
- Ability to land on non-atmospheric lava worlds.
- Caves on non-atmospheric worlds with stalactites and stalagmites
- Canyons with negative slop cliffs (non-atmospheric worlds)
- landslides and/or avalanches on non atmospheric worlds.
- Ice Planets (as promised in 3.3 - non atmospheric).
- Ring shadows on planets and complete re-work of the lighting and shadowing system (to fix at least notorious ship causing planet eclipse bug)
- Accretion Disks around black-holes and neutron stars (with damaging potential).
- Solar flares / storms and coronal mass ejections that can inflict damage on our ships (similar to neutron star & white dwarf jets that we have now).
- Comet tales on icy asteroid belts with very eccentric orbits.
- Gas Giants upper atmospheric flight with bases in upper cloud layers, gas mining and fuel scooping. (Probably late 2020 as a 4.4 / 4.5 or higher update or postponed for season 5..).
- New SRV type(s)
- New Ship(s). Personally I don't care. We already have more than enough.
- Fleet Carriers. Also don't care.

Things I don't expect to see in 4:

- Atmospheric flight on terrestrial planets of any kind and possibly on upper layers of gas giants. I want them as much as anything but I have a bad feeling they will not be in the next update.
- Space legs. Don't care really.
 
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Pug

Pug
Jaylem;7331197 Although it is has not been overly long since 3.3 launched said:
Good evening Jaylem,
I'm not exiting anything at the moment, unless it gets more (in game) **money** (get forward) orientated.

I do have a simple request though, and it's this----
Can we have an orbital or outpost station that is an absolute 'Pain in the ' to land on but reaps Rewards.

Watch the first ship / shuttle, station landing in Enders game (sad I know, but I enjoyed it) to get the idea.

It hasn't been long since the 3.3 update, I agree they should have given us a rough idea by now.
What done it for me was when the Krait Mk 2 was released the detail on the rear hatch and scale were perfect to climb up into :)

I have my preferences and ideas the same as everyone were all individuals that's what made me excited about your post.
Take care Cmdr.
Regards
Pug
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Garand1987

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Blightedmythos said:
I really want to be able to build a space station or planet base somewhere and slowly upgrade it, sell commodities, and extract resources from a planet. Something tells me that's really unlikely though...
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That would be cool. Imagine if players were allowed to claim one system as theirs (with 400 billion to choose from it would hardly be crowded) and then you were able to purchase stations, docs, planet outposts etc and also buy upgrades like what ships you have for sale. But you also get a cut of the income. So if you plan right, you get a profit, overbuild for what the system can support or attract for pilots and it’ll lose money and maybe you can’t pay your security force and it becomes lawless. Or maybe it’s a pirate port purposefully who knows. Maybe you can permit lock it too, only allowing in certain commanders or commanders of certain rank in certain fields etc.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Jaylem said:
Unlike Beyond that was reviled at an expo just before the year it was due, we have not heard anything about update 4.0 (this year's update). no road map, not even a leak has been produced.

Although it is has not been overly long since 3.3 launched, this sort of thing is always exiting to think about.


What do you believe lies ahead for the next year? anything you want to see the most?


Take care!


CMDR Jaylem
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What I would like most is for the update to be almost a surprise with the date revealed with just enough time that long term activities can be brought to a safe place.
 

OnasKnox

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I really hope it's the ice worlds update, I would love that. And I hope atmospheric ice worlds have wampas... or some kind of cool life. I really hope for space legs. Space suits, battle rifles, super jumping 1st man on the moon style.

How would we deal with high gravity? If I train on high g worlds, will my kamehameha be much more powerful?

Fleet carriers would be awesome, but will we be able to pilot them? I want a farragut personally.

Oh and a new anaconda sized alliance style ship, hull tank of course.

And also a brand new ship class just for exploration.
 
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