What happens when you die in Odyssey?

[Jace Harriman]

You wake up in a bacta tank, wearing an adult diaper, surrounded by your friends staring at you.

 

[Koben]

You'd exit 1st person view and enter 3rd person mode where you'd see the drone projecting your avatar flying back to your ship... as you're no longer being projected via telepresence, you'd find yourself back in your ship.

This is just a wild guess, of course.

 

[Stinja]

The burning question for me is: if i kill someone space-legging, can i then board their ship and drop a turd on their command seat?

Logically if they die their ship shouldn't despawn, so make this happen plz Fdev!

 

[Bobio]

Maybe they'll simply treat it as "incapacitation". I.e. there's a fail-safe on your suit that will knock you out before you actually die of asphyxiation or over-exposure or whatever.
Then you'd be conveniently transported back to the nearest med bay, etc.

Suppose for bullet wounds and other serious injuries it's a bit of a stretch, but they could still use that same excuse.

 

[Winterwalker]

Easy. You must at all times have one standing NPC crew (regardless of whether you have a crew capable ship or not). If you have NPC crew, and you die, they rescue you and you wake up in ship. If you don't, reset save.

I have spoken

 

[Factabulous]

It doesn't matter what happens when you die - 50% of the forum will be up in arms whatever happens.

 

[amigacooke]

You wake up in hospital and doctor comes round to tell you they have patched you up, then presents you with a bill.

Frontier have patched you up? Oh no! Your recovery may require 3 or 4 treatments and you still may never be quite the same

 

[amigacooke]

When you die? You won't have a leg to stand on.

 

[Stressfest]

You respawn in the basement with the gimp.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

You respawn.

 

[Bigmaec]

But muh immurshon.

 

[Factabulous]

But muh immurshon.

Ah, I see where you're coming from

Spoiler

 

[askavir]

Just respawn back in the ship just like with the SRV. No need for over-complicated solutions, and it's not like death can ever be handled realistically in a video game anyway.

 

[XYZ]

What happens when you die in Odyssey?

Nothing. You wakeing up realizing that walking around was just a telepresence and you never stand up from your pilot seat.

 

[Factabulous]

Imagine what will happen when we get ship-legs - the immersionistas will require that we have to run for the Escape Pod - and chances are some won't make it. Oh the lols.

Edit: Though I wouldn't object to addition of a super-ironman mode that does just that - not that I would play in it

 

[Gully Foyle]

You're ok as long as you have enough credits to rebuy your body. Otherwise you get put back into a starting body, and have to grow up all over again.

Toddler commanders confirmed.

 

[[DOOK] Droogie]

Allegedly, Elite is not a game about humans playing out their lives in a virtual reality.

Allegedly.

It certainly won't be in Odyssey, anyway.

 

[Leadfoot]

You see your commander's life flash before your eyes. Seconds later, slow fade to black. Growling sounds come from your speakers. The screen comes back, but distorted, blurry. You see your character struggle to rise, unsteady. You stagger forward a few steps. You hit "3rd person view" and seeing yourself, you realize ……

You are now a zombie...and must eat brains.​

 

[Rubbernuke]

When you die! You won't have a leg to stand on.

hIPPITY hoPPIty reSpawn OfF my PropeRTy

 

[Terekhov]

Does anyone else think that the appearance of the "Vitadyne Nanomeds" a couple of moths ago might just have something to do with this????????

Still I think that there will need to be some poetic licence used in the survival mechanism used to resurrect the player after he/she has been torn into thousands of pieces by a well aimed Packhound....

(edit for spellig (sic.) )