"working on something secret for PC and Mac"
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Its going to be something small not huge.
I think its going to be unlocking some locked areas of space and maybe intelligent aliens. Thats at most i think.
Maybe by some slim chance walking around inside ships and adding NPCs.
FD doesnt have a large dev team like star citizen has. So dont expect anything better then what star citizen has or is getting. FD will be i would guess at least a year or 2 behind star citizen.
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They never gave out a time frame for the expansions. So dont expect to much. I was excited about E3 and that sucked. So i dont expect anything huge from this Dev team anymore.
I think its going to be unlocking some locked areas of space and maybe intelligent aliens. Thats at most i think.
Maybe by some slim chance walking around inside ships and adding NPCs.
FD doesnt have a large dev team like star citizen has. So dont expect anything better then what star citizen has or is getting. FD will be i would guess at least a year or 2 behind star citizen.
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They never gave out a time frame for the expansions. So dont expect to much. I was excited about E3 and that sucked. So i dont expect anything huge from this Dev team anymore.
Which is why Elite is a game people are actually buying and playing on multiple platforms, whereas Star Citizen is... Erm... Well, you can pay money to buy pretty ships you can't even fly yet...
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I wouldn't expect any major expansions for at least a year. I was thinking more along the lines of core features of the initial release. Hopefully they are in the pipeline but for some reason have yet to be announced.
Vocal Minority and fanatics. Most of us, not really.
We need more meaningful/interesting things to do in the current game IMHO before throwing in curve balls with alien races.
Alien races can only be added once, so the game needs to be in a solid position before then to make the most of it.
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Agree. Everything NPC related would affect pretty much every single aspect of the game, and if done right, in an awesome way, too, IMHO.
Have to agree.
This community is very much willing to inflate every fracture of words FD tosses in. Wishful thinking for the very reason of ED leaving a lot to be desired.
What I expect is another injection to the "mind-game" we have here which would be awesome if it worked properly or other elements asked for very long now would work and support the idea.
The "can't really make any benefit of a feature because another two are broken"-kind of phenomenon is haunting ED from the beginning. We may have another one of this. FD can prove me wrong though, a lot of us are waiting for that!
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Star Citizen isn't even a game yet. You do realise that? Yet it's FDev who've let you down? It's FDev who haven't given you 'what SC has'? #baffled
Not wishing to derail the thread, but
Holy crap, that explains exactly what I was hoping for from Powerplay and why I'm so disappointed with it. Frontier, give this man a job!
Whatever super-secret thing they're working on, I suspect will be just as disappointing when it's unveiled
Holy crap, that explains exactly what I was hoping for from Powerplay and why I'm so disappointed with it. Frontier, give this man a job!
Whatever super-secret thing they're working on, I suspect will be just as disappointing when it's unveiled
Except that the playable parts in both games when compared, many think ED has done more.
Say what?
I also said "reinforcing the core features". While I would be OK with extra content it is clearly not the point at that stage of the game. It's like being in a restaurant with uncooked meat and having the waiter telling you "oh sure, let me bring you some fries and drinks". The core of the game itself is not fully cooked, let's have it finally perfected and then go for more content. I would love to see:
- better smuggling system, especially regarding the black market;
- more events/scenarios/scripts during missions;
- sharing missions or co-op missions (beyond wing which is really the minimum right now);
- #add other features improving already existing systems#.
So yeah no need to reinvent the wheel, a lot of improvements can be way better than new content.
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Well I got stuttering fixed during PP Beta, and back again on public release
That would be an interesting addition. If Traders could employ (& outfit) an NPC Wingman, it would provide some safety for trading.
Consider then simply commands to:-
- Protect this.
- Attack that.
Now finally add in better tiered missions, so you have for example convoy defense and convoy attack missions? Now your NPC wingman becomes an interesting gameplay mechanic. Do you tell them to defend an important ship in the convoy, or help with your target? etc etc...
However, I don't think we'll see NPC wingman simply because of PvP unbalancing ?
Good to hear that
There are still a lot of people thinking XBO is just a pain to the PC version, whereas they both versions can actually be beneficial to each other.