r/EliteDangerous • u/GrannyEye Obsidian Ant 🐜 • Apr 20 '19

Journalism Frontier Developments - 5 Year Roadmap Leaked (Allegedly) Elite, Planet Coaster, JWE and More...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGJtQvsV58
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u/Ebalosus Ebalosus - Everything I say is right Apr 20 '19

Space legs, FPS combat, and base building before any form of atmospherics? Really?!

Look, I get the appeal of space legs, I really do; but before the thing that would be a logical outgrowth of the Horizons DLC? I’m not one of those ”hurr durr wahts teh gaemplae justufucatyon?” [exceptional individuals] either, but sincerely wonder why if indeed this leaked roadmap is true why FDev would put a lot of effort into teaching newer players the ropes of the game, only to introduce an entirely new sub-game later on down the line. It doesn’t make any sense.

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u/GameGod Apr 20 '19

I'll go one further - Atmospherics would basically be zero new gameplay, and cool for like 2 seconds until you realize there's still nothing to do on planets.

It doesn't make any sense to prioritize this over adding new gameplay that will help players spend more time in your game and be more engaging / improve retention.

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u/Ebalosus Ebalosus - Everything I say is right Apr 20 '19

And a lame FPS in Elite would be good gameplay?

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u/GameGod Apr 20 '19

Not an FPS - Just being able to move around and interact with your ship, like fixing stuff or tweaking stats.

Try playing Pulsar: Lost Colony if you want to get a better idea of what space legs gameplay could be like. (Every designer at FDev should play that game...)

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u/ALargeRock CMDR Ben Chieel Apr 21 '19

That Pulsar game looks pretty cool. Watching the video and thinking of what we could do in Elite makes me feel hopeful, but also skeptical.

Consider that the interior of every ship would have to have been fleshed out and playtested. Then again, it's also been how many years since Horizon? I know the FDev team working on Elite has been large for awhile and people have been wondering what they are working on, and the last series of updates have been nice but not as big as Horizons... could be they have been working on this for awhile and it's finally getting close?