What do you miss from Alpha/Beta?
- Thread starter CMDR Hagglebeard
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Well, they are really "done" with the Elite 1984 remake.
What we hope for is the Frontier upgrade with planetary landings.
Also:
-Remove Peer-to-Peer solution
-Remove reduced weapon damage to larger ships
-Make armour protect modules
-Add faction modules as alternatives to ALL weapon modules in all sizes (reverse engineering and espionage CANNOT be forgotten in 1900 years)
-Change PP to the regular reputation system and give it a Bulletin board
What we hope for is the Frontier upgrade with planetary landings.
Also:
-Remove Peer-to-Peer solution
-Remove reduced weapon damage to larger ships
-Make armour protect modules
-Add faction modules as alternatives to ALL weapon modules in all sizes (reverse engineering and espionage CANNOT be forgotten in 1900 years)
-Change PP to the regular reputation system and give it a Bulletin board
Yes, I do and that's why:
Currently I am playing my 4th CMDR since 1.0 release, not counting the early Betas and Gammas, running around in a fully combat-kitted Vulture (except for the A-class shield gen), having a fully explorer outfitted Diamondback Ex in stock as well as approx. 3.5 mil loose change.
And I started this CMDR 2 weeks ago after throwing away the CMDR I had started with the 1.3 release, meanwhile even having been shot down by an Elite CMDR in a Python, while I was still flying a DB Scout.
And I do think this game is too easy and youre just a wimp.
Graphics were improving instead of being optimized. Here I am with $1300 in GPU's inside a $5,000 PC built for space sims and my favorite game is working towards being capable of running on a TI-86 with no plans to switch to DX12 and LiquidVR, despite the minimal effort required.
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Graphical horsepower is going to be leaping ahead by huge amounts in the next couple years. If FD wants to keep Elite relevant and keep selling copies along with expansions they need to leap with it. The gameplay leaves a lot to be desired, they could at least help me forget that by changing the curtains and putting a few throw pillows here and there. Let's see those high quality textures come back. VRAM is cheap yet this game only uses 900mb at absolute maximum settings. I've got a 4 year old GPU with 3 times that amount that sells for $80 used and can run the game maxed out at 90fps inside the stations, sitting on the shelf collecting dust. Anyone playing ED could pick one up and stick it in overnight if they wanted to.
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You need to move forward, FD, before Moore's law causes your game to be overshadowed before you're even finished with it. Let's see some more variation in shader models on planet textures, better celestial body geometry, more variety and activity in the asteroid fields, etc.... I know the baseline for hardware on ED is low, but you don't have to change low/medium settings as they are. Build up from here, and don't touch anything already established.
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Edit: Oh, and Bobbleheads. Bring them back.
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Graphical horsepower is going to be leaping ahead by huge amounts in the next couple years. If FD wants to keep Elite relevant and keep selling copies along with expansions they need to leap with it. The gameplay leaves a lot to be desired, they could at least help me forget that by changing the curtains and putting a few throw pillows here and there. Let's see those high quality textures come back. VRAM is cheap yet this game only uses 900mb at absolute maximum settings. I've got a 4 year old GPU with 3 times that amount that sells for $80 used and can run the game maxed out at 90fps inside the stations, sitting on the shelf collecting dust. Anyone playing ED could pick one up and stick it in overnight if they wanted to.
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You need to move forward, FD, before Moore's law causes your game to be overshadowed before you're even finished with it. Let's see some more variation in shader models on planet textures, better celestial body geometry, more variety and activity in the asteroid fields, etc.... I know the baseline for hardware on ED is low, but you don't have to change low/medium settings as they are. Build up from here, and don't touch anything already established.
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Edit: Oh, and Bobbleheads. Bring them back.
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Hmm check those facts lol. I too miss optimism and positivity. So many tortured souls around here lately.
I miss npcs having only a 20% landing success rate.
Would probably get annoying after a while, like it did in early beta, but for a short time again would I really enjoy it.
What I don't miss: the Bobblehead, it can rot where ever it bugged off to <.< so glad that there was an option to turn it off.
Would probably get annoying after a while, like it did in early beta, but for a short time again would I really enjoy it.
What I don't miss: the Bobblehead, it can rot where ever it bugged off to <.< so glad that there was an option to turn it off.
Deadlock989
Banned
The absence of a crushing sense of disappointment and not feeling a painful burn coming from the pocket I keep my wallet in.
Harsh...
If you don't die often enough how about going no shields next time?
How about we throw in some positivity! Fish trading in and around I Bootis, in Beta! 
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How about we throw in some positivity! Fish trading in and around I Bootis, in Beta!
*Lights pipe*
Ah ye fresh little traders, hardly more than mudturtles. Ye have it so easy, with yer A-grade FSDees and rare routes.
Ye were not here during the great I Bootian fish bubble of autumn 3300. Those were the times! Silent running Vipers outside Freeport, their intent as obvious as a trumble in a cookie jar. The skies of Eranin alight with the blaze of war. The dim lights of Romanek's folly hiding yet darker transactions...
The memories still haunt me... the canisters... the canisters everywhere... the enterprising young traders, millionaires in the morning, worse off than a Beggar on a frontier station by evening.
It was a hard time. A hard time for everyone... the fish, the fish! Chango was never the same world, the federation never the same nation. Something dark happened during those days, during the fish bubble of autumn 3300... the young forget quickly. For that I envy them...
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.Repped!
Deadlock989
Banned
Ahhhhh, the old vertical slice. Haven't seen that term in a while. Good times. Good times.
I certainly don't miss not having wings. I'm pirating the Carns CG in a wing, and it's amazing fun. Not many pirates to compete with as it's just robotics being moved.