Elite: Lore

Meowers
01 May 2024, 1:49pm
Yeah, that's an absolutely valid assumption: knowing how game design works (a bit), it's not that difficult to apply these rules for Elite and Thargoids too. The in-game 3D model, hitboxes and general behaviour scripts may remain the same most of the time, yet there could possibly (much likely) be some variables to adjust the parameters for different game modes, instance types etc., and whilst plain straightforward pulling the hitpoint slider left and right, so to speak, may be too crude, obvious and shitstorm-generating once the players figure out the differences, there may be more intricate variables at play, such as 'at which angle it starts to attack', 'how quick it reacts to the situation' etc. and slight changes in them are way more difficult to spot and address: you have that feeling of 'something isn't right, isn't common about that particular Thargoid' but you can't figure out what exactly, it may feel more or less difficult to deal with even having absolutely the same 'hard' parameters as speed, manoeuvrability and hit points.

Of course that's just a speculation and an attempt to extrapolate some generic game design patterns onto Elite, and this may or may not be true and I have no way to know it other than landing a job at FDev, which is super unlikely to happen 'as is', and, even if I imagine it happening, I won't be able to speak about it on third-party forums or speak at all due to non-disclosure stuff lol.
Shg56
01 May 2024, 4:37pm
Sampi OgonekI do not contest the notion that AX combat zone scenarios may have been changed in a way that makes Medusa kills harder; but that is quite different from the Interceptors themselves having been beefed up (or nerfed). Kind of like the difference between the difficulty of a car race and the difficulty of the race track.

Either or the end results are the same.

Last edit: 03 May 2024, 11:41am
Blackvertigo1
13 Jul 2024, 10:00am
Ships SLFs and SRVs use He-3 for fuel, so I don't understand why carriers need Tritium. Tritium needs Deuterium or He-3 to work.

And since technically they are fusion reactors for power plants you could "plasma slug" your way for ammo and whatnot synthesis.

I guess Elite is too primative to work with such an idea like that.
Shg56
02 Aug 2024, 7:27pm
Thanks God, Arissa has prevailed again....
PDJazzHands
12 Aug 2024, 10:24pm
Blackvertigo1Ships SLFs and SRVs use He-3 for fuel, so I don't understand why carriers need Tritium. Tritium needs Deuterium or He-3 to work.

And since technically they are fusion reactors for power plants you could "plasma slug" your way for ammo and whatnot synthesis.

I guess Elite is too primative to work with such an idea like that.


Virtually all helium-3 used in industry today is produced from the radioactive decay of tritium
Imperial Senator Bluecrash
14 Aug 2024, 1:05pm
Of course that's just a speculation and an attempt to extrapolate some generic game design patterns onto Elite, and this may or may not be true and I have no way to know it other than landing a job at FDev, which is super unlikely to happen 'as is', and, even if I imagine it happening, I won't be able to speak about it on third-party forums or speak at all due to non-disclosure stuff lol.[/quote]

Imagine if the NPC's actually had dialogue we could interact with.

Vasil Vasilescu
14 Aug 2024, 1:46pm
Imperial Senator Bluecrash Imagine if the NPC's actually had dialogue we could interact with.

That would definitely make the game more of a MMORPG than a SpaceSim.
Imperial Senator Bluecrash
14 Aug 2024, 3:04pm
Vasil Vasilescu
Imperial Senator Bluecrash Imagine if the NPC's actually had dialogue we could interact with.


That would definitely make the game more of a MMORPG than a SpaceSim.


Yeah... I really thought odyssey would add a 'choose your own adventure' type interaction with the NPCs... more exploration focused on finding rare NPCs with relevant quests...

Been trying to think of a way to best convert the docs we have made to be more video and interactive.

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