*another* big exploration update? Have I missed something?
Will there be more exploration content after Q4?
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*another* big exploration update? Have I missed something?
OP - yes agreed !
Flimley - There are signs the next big thing in 4.0 will be based on atmospheric planets (I wish it was legs !) so that's got to count a lot toward exploration. I mean, what else can you do with it ? Unless it is Legs with atmosphere, in which case it could be boarding ships and pew pew on feet
What signs are you talking about?
Q4 will hopefully be a big exploration update, but it is only hope at the moment.
We already have these. As to being armed when exploring, I am always armed. Its called being prudent.
Yeah, the latest info we have is that FDev is waiting for the next generation of graphics cards (the ones that just launched) to go mainstream. I'm guessing they're going over the top on atmospheric effects which is great, but it does mean no atmospheres until around 2020.
So your exploring ship has a full brace of human and guardian weapons? Not everyone goes exploring on an anaconda, you know.
My guess would be : the next era big paid update they say are working on will be released in 2020 and will be some form of space legs, atmo is far far away and they'll have to drop ps4+xboxone and move to ps5 and next xbox to achieve it on consoles. Just a guess.
Don't put words in my mouth. It doesnt do you any favours.
Which would be about the right timing ("a considerable time") judging by Zac's comments. So there's plenty of time for a FFF then, seeing as they've only just got started
When I'm exploring I avoid combat at all costs. My data is too valuable to risk losing in a battle. It's called being wise.
Well, if you're going to be prudent by arming yourself, you need to assume that you may be attacked by humans or aliens. Human weapons do little damage to alien ships and vice versa, and if you're going to go under-armed then you're just wasting power, so you have to take a full brace of both. If you didn't do this then you're making assumptions about not being attacked.
Maybe the best question is - after Gnosis - will there be any explorers around in Q4? Seriously...
Where did this come from? Let's see a link to FDev, thanks.
Genuine question: what's your loadout? Given that AX weapons are not effective against human commanders, and that standard weaponry is highly ineffective against Thargoids, what do you carry?
Gimballed Hindsight Cannon with medium Fixed Rhetoric Launchers...
Heh, I've put about 80 unsuccessful hours into trying to find geysers/fumaroles/lava so far. Nada. I'm currently searching a planet for geysers during this Gnosis Fail...and hours into it without a hint. We need some science tools, dammit! And scanners that can work below 1.5km altitude.
One step at a time...one step at a time...
This. Frontier have backed off two very large parts of Q4. Despite how people want to trivialize. I can't see too much more exploration work because I'm not convinced the developer really even knows how to do so.
And combat has become their bread and butter. So.. do the math, I guess.
Citation needed. This sounds like hand waving to explain why no action is just fine because wouldn't you know its soon. Where have I heard that before?
Frontier deciding improvements can wait for at least 3 years would be delusional. They won't have many people left if they wait 2+ years to get around to graphical improvements. That was supposed to be examples in Q4.
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...Maybe they will give you all a Huge Explorer Railgun to quell dissent after Gnosis...
Maybe the best question is - after Gnosis - will there be any explorers around in Q4? Seriously...
Where did this come from? Let's see a link to FDev, thanks.
From here (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/442987-Game-s-future?p=6947231&viewfull=1#post6947231):
Brett C said:
I interpret that as "The upcoming generation of GPUs can finally handle what we require of them". I presume he's talking about NVidia's Turing (due out this month) and whatever AMD's equivalent is.
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