You are very emotional, maybe step away from the forums - I know I had to few times. Just to answer your assumption "ED ISN'T dumbed down ENOUGH...lets add some EVEN MORE simplistic elements to it..." - quite the opposite.
What's Wrong With Elite.
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You are very emotional, maybe step away from the forums - I know I had to few times. Just to answer your assumption "ED ISN'T dumbed down ENOUGH...lets add some EVEN MORE simplistic elements to it..." - quite the opposite.
They are? I've been happy flying in my ship for five years now and other than looking round it. I don't think it would be a plus for me.
N/A I am a backer so I get it whether I want it or not.
Curse you FD
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They are? I've been happy flying in my ship for five years now and other than looking round it. I don't think it would be a plus for me.
N/A I am a backer so I get it whether I want it or not.
Curse you FD
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/571816483928299929/
So far in SC you cant skip walking to the console, calling your ship and then walking to in on the platform to enter it - every time you spawn in your cabin in bed hehe
Every time you spawn in your cabin in your bed and see the little yellow counter in the top right showing 18fps. It's just a shambles.
Oh but wait, 3.3 is going to be the big patch! The one to cure everything.
Just like 2.6 was. And 3.0.
Yeah no.
Oh but wait, 3.3 is going to be the big patch! The one to cure everything.
Just like 2.6 was. And 3.0.
Yeah no.
I like how this topic started on what missing in ED, then we get to yelling at SC and now great space legs discussion is on the way - may I suggest "Elite needs autopilot" discussion now?
*runs away....
*runs away....
That was cool video! I don't know if we ever have space legs in ED, but I surely would love to have them.
That being said, I can relate with video maker, but engaging gameplay in that video really is in the eye of beholder. You can see that same excitement for example cmdr Isinona's Elite videos. Ordinary stuff, but the way he puts it really adds a sense of excitement.
Elite needs some imagination, thats for sure. So does SC, at it's current state, even more. But that is not a bad thing imho.
Especially with new trading tools I absolutelly love pretending to be a space trucker in Elite. I use time to check prizes, prospect unknown systems for new trading opportunities, plan routes, estimate risks with compromised nav beacons, evade pirates... It is exciting. But then again, I liked trading even before 3.0.
That being said, I can relate with video maker, but engaging gameplay in that video really is in the eye of beholder. You can see that same excitement for example cmdr Isinona's Elite videos. Ordinary stuff, but the way he puts it really adds a sense of excitement.
Elite needs some imagination, thats for sure. So does SC, at it's current state, even more. But that is not a bad thing imho.
Especially with new trading tools I absolutelly love pretending to be a space trucker in Elite. I use time to check prizes, prospect unknown systems for new trading opportunities, plan routes, estimate risks with compromised nav beacons, evade pirates... It is exciting. But then again, I liked trading even before 3.0.
The SC comparison was inevitable since I used an SC video, but it wasn't really the point (and most people seem to have gotten that), Space Legs is definitely part of it for me. I think my OP was a bit vague on what I was asking, and delibrately so, I'm not entirely sure of the question other than 'I think this video of a slice of SC's gameplay (which doesn't as a whole interest me, other than watching its development with a mix of awe and horror) actually looks like fun, more fun than in our game, but I'm not sure why. Help!'. The points wasn't SC itself, but 'why does this look better than what we have to me?' I see enough of SC that my overall opinion hasn't changed (I'll pick it up on Steam Sale in 4 or 5 or 10 years) but that slice intrigued me. And I had Obsidian Ant roaming around in my head as well (hence the second video).
That's a plus in my view. A game where your can spend time in bed. That's one for me.
I've said this before. Space legs is already in Elite it's just fleshed out yet. Launch camera = space legs.
I think the OP is a good taster of what things can be like.. I sent the clip to a friend of mine that dropped ED a year and a bit back.... I didn't say anything, but just posted the video.... he didn't even look at the titles and emailed me back right away saying OMG ED LOOKS AMAZING.
I replied to say not ED dude. BUT how I do wish we had legs, and that is MY Cutter a crew of friends are running around in.
ED plus group stuff plus space legs plus atmosphere planets = very near to my perfect game.
Seeing vids of SC, just reminds me of how cool ED really could be, and if they both did the same thing, and legs and player multicrew.... I'd stick to ED any time of day. That's where my broken heart is.
The weekly Exploit scandals and demands for dumbing down gameplay in ED are making me reconsider any longevity this game may have for me.
Im fast losing interest and i have to say that video does look good.
That would be better, acceptable even. Especially if you could skip it.
On the plus side the interior of the ship looked good. But considering the speed he ran through it. I feel it would pale quickly.
Your own?
It will be my avatars and if I have to stare at there backside all the time I am sure as hell gonna make sure it looks good.
Whatever magic ED once had was lost after it was released. I remember having a great time during alpha, and early betas mostly because the game was at that stage centred around player encounters. Truth of the matter is there were no template missions, no silly different modes, and most of what went on was pure player sandbox open world activity.
Frontier gutted the game with solo and pg and as for the trade run you speak about in the OP well anyone who refers to themselves as a 'trader' loses t he plot if their ship get so much as a scratched. Its these folks Frontier has catered and listened to. Its impossible to fail in ED, there is no real challenge or test of skill, and therefore no reward, people progress simply from a matter of turning on the game.
There was a time back early on when they were promoting ED and there was a line in the speil that went along the lines of, 'and cross trading lanes and become rich, if you make the journey' As soon as anyone loses their ship its mass hysteria on the forums and now there is zero jeopardy as a result.
Once you've played for a while it becomes obvious how shallow and poor the actual game-play is. Template missions, filling up xp bars (super power grind is a prime example here). If ED were a woman she would have the looks of a glamour model and the IQ of a pot plant.
The whole 'economy' is a joke. Everyone is a billionaire and yet prices never go up. It feels a lot like all the game is there to do is give people enough of a feel good factor to spend money on 'cosmetics'. And weekly they keep pumping out these dreary 'community goals' hearding players like a bunch of sheep. I dunno who came up with CGs but I am far from impressed.
Unless new blood and direction is given its hard to see anything really changing and if that means moving the key players on to a different project then so be it.
As it stands the game really isn't what we were led to believe it would be. What is frustrating is seeing the raw potential ED has but which Frontier are unwilling or unable to realise. This really can't just be a matter of 'we don't have enough resources', its all down to ideology in my view.
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The Star Citizen looks like more fun? sure it isn't an effect of it being new because they are doing mostly the same the only difference is the first/third person aspect and walking out on foot, does that really make deliveries that more exciting?
Though yes i entirely agree, legs cannot come fast enough for elite, it opens up sooo many possibilities, but even so, this example seems....odd?
This....pretty much is any game ever though and I can almost guarantee you it will happen to Star Citizen as well.
Couldn't have said it better myself, the last straw for me was engineers. What was tipped to be interesting side-grades that would add to the individuality of player ships became nothing more then rng stat padding.
Cosmos, if I could rep you twice I would.