I've been thinking about a few of the new features announced at FX, particularly the winged missions and the galnet text to speech system.
I'm guessing most people think winged missions = missions where you and another human player can go and accomplish some task together. That's likely what it will be, but imagine this for a moment. What if winged missions also included NPC winged characters in addition to any human wing members partaking in the mission? Now that there is a text to speech system, wouldn't it be awesome to pick up a mission at a station, meet up with a couple of NPCs that talk about the mission over coms, give the objectives and some back story. You and the wing jump off to some location and... raid a base, or fight a pirate lord and his minions, or protect a mining vessel in an asteroid field. The applications are limitless.
I'm picturing a mission type that has parameters like: Max wing size 2 (or 3 or 4) if you have met the wing size requirement with human players in the wing, you all accept the mission and set off on the mission. However, if you are alone or your wing size isn't large enough for the mission, NPC characters join your wing to perform the mission with you. With the text to speech system, these characters could even talk to you and provide dialog and story background about the mission. The level of immersion would be awesome. I know this is highly unlikely to ever exist in the game, but I think it's still fun to fantasize about.
What missions would you like to see?
I'll start us off:
Thargoid base invasion. You and a wing of 4 assault a thargoid base. Two wing members are assigned to air support and two are assigned to infiltrate the base in SRVs. The objective is to steal secret thargoid tech and return this tech to the mission giver. Thargons are expected to be patrolling the skys over the base, so air support is going to be key to getting SRVs into the base. Once in the base, guard scavengers will be guarding the base. They will need to be defeated in order to access the objective tech that needs to be collected.
I'm guessing most people think winged missions = missions where you and another human player can go and accomplish some task together. That's likely what it will be, but imagine this for a moment. What if winged missions also included NPC winged characters in addition to any human wing members partaking in the mission? Now that there is a text to speech system, wouldn't it be awesome to pick up a mission at a station, meet up with a couple of NPCs that talk about the mission over coms, give the objectives and some back story. You and the wing jump off to some location and... raid a base, or fight a pirate lord and his minions, or protect a mining vessel in an asteroid field. The applications are limitless.
I'm picturing a mission type that has parameters like: Max wing size 2 (or 3 or 4) if you have met the wing size requirement with human players in the wing, you all accept the mission and set off on the mission. However, if you are alone or your wing size isn't large enough for the mission, NPC characters join your wing to perform the mission with you. With the text to speech system, these characters could even talk to you and provide dialog and story background about the mission. The level of immersion would be awesome. I know this is highly unlikely to ever exist in the game, but I think it's still fun to fantasize about.
What missions would you like to see?
I'll start us off:
Thargoid base invasion. You and a wing of 4 assault a thargoid base. Two wing members are assigned to air support and two are assigned to infiltrate the base in SRVs. The objective is to steal secret thargoid tech and return this tech to the mission giver. Thargons are expected to be patrolling the skys over the base, so air support is going to be key to getting SRVs into the base. Once in the base, guard scavengers will be guarding the base. They will need to be defeated in order to access the objective tech that needs to be collected.
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