Elite: Game talk

Tigger
12 May 2021, 6:12am
Always fill your hold with gold.....

It repels pirates.
LordPsymon
12 May 2021, 6:23am
Sounds like a tasty treat for my hatch breakers.
Sakashiro
12 May 2021, 6:43am
Yup, it's a paper Python. Only fit for solo.
Tigger
12 May 2021, 6:44am
LordPsymonSounds like a tasty treat for my hatch breakers.


Get away from her you pirating scum.
LordPsymon
12 May 2021, 6:47am
Yarrrr, a plunderin' scallywag like me takes no orders from ye lan'lubbers.

Sakashiro
12 May 2021, 6:55am
Never getting tired of this one...

Episparh
12 May 2021, 8:19am

...
For broadside, for broadside, a long time we lay
Blow high! Blow low! And so sail we!
Til at last the Prince of Luther shot the pirate mast away
All a-crusin’ down the coast of High Barbary

Oh quarter! Oh quarter! Those pirates they did cry
Blow high! Blow low! And so sail we!
Oh, but the quarter that we gave ‘em was to sink ‘em in the sea!
All a-crusin’ down the coast of High Barbary!
Quillmonkey
12 May 2021, 9:12am
So, like many people who pre-ordered EDO but didn’t sign up for the Alpha, I’ve been watching vids and updates with interest. However, I’m left with a fundamental question that I’m suspecting will have a depressingly regular answer.

As a person with no interest in average first person shooters, is there anything except graphics upgrade to make me select EDO over EDH on the launcher?

As far as I can see, feet explo, xeno-bio and mining seem to be very poorly implemented and will most likely get removed rather than strengthened for launch. The ship-based interaction with feet that was so hyped at first, is pretty much a pretty add-on with no practical use and with no new SRVs or ships on offer, I can’t see much excitement past the initial ‘oh look how fDev have made all the ships comedically oversized’

Can any of you that played in Alpha sell it for me?
Episparh
12 May 2021, 9:40am
Based just on Alpha, not. We haven't probay seen everything EDO gas to offer.

It is a wild speculation from me, but since we saw something like vehicle, ship and building schematics alongside with suit and weapon schematics, I can assume that EDO content will have some inpact on no-foot content.
Similar with what planetary landings added with Horizons - engineers, guardians, materials for synthesis, etc.

If I hadn't pre-ordered I would rather wait for a sale and detailed information after launch.
Sakashiro
12 May 2021, 9:54am
There were on-foot missions in the alpha that did not involve shooting. I expect there will be equivalent on-foot missions for almost anything we've been doing with ships in Horizons. Courier jobs, for example. Go to settlement X, pick up a package, bring it to settlement Y. Threat level zero, no weapons required.

For me personally the big selling point of Odyssey is being able to walk around and meet other commanders face-to-face. It makes the game so much more immersive.
G.Souza
12 May 2021, 10:04am
Im pretty sure if the blueprints keep being in the game, that indicates probably release will not have the full odyssey gameplay still, because a lot of those blueprints like ship or building schematics are in there but no word on anything they are going to be used for from FDev, so its probable that they will be a lot of content added AFTER odyssey releases but for odyssey itself. Of course i could be very wrong but thats my theory.
Iwao Kishiro
12 May 2021, 1:18pm
I am still interested how Frontier handles the fact that you can't use pad and HOTAS at the same time* as means of control on Xbox and Playstation.

*You still can need to use the pad as headset port since HOTAS have no port for them but it won't control your ship.
Terias
12 May 2021, 2:09pm
Aaaaand now Odyssey players won't be able to play with Horizons players until full release on console...

Fdev, you've cocked up again.
Quillmonkey
12 May 2021, 2:55pm
TeriasAaaaand now Odyssey players won't be able to play with Horizons players until full release on console...

Fdev, you've cocked up again.

All the good things of Odyssey will be given free of charge to Horizon players come console release. It does make me think I could get money back on EDO and use it to buy a decent shooter for when I get that urge.
Still, it’s one up on previous comments that made out that the PEGI rating was what separated EDH and EDO from being instanced.
Stillgar777
12 May 2021, 3:31pm
SakashiroNever getting tired of this one...



Some historical perspective on 'privateering.' You can thank my father for this one.






o7

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