Re: Elite: Dangerous - and the return

[drew]

So we're left with a sort of half-hearted gesture towards reality, for no good gameplay reason, and wings'n'things stuck to ships for the same reason big chrome fins were added to cars in the 1950s: it Looks Cool. Why they didn't just go for magic reactionless drives to go with the magic hyperspace engines, so we could all have our dogfighty fun and not give a stuff about the physics, I don't know. Instead we've got this one blob of "Hey, kids, realism!" stuck on a confection of made-up fluff ...

Now that's grumpy!

It's consistent with FE2 and FFE!

Cheers,

Drew.

[Griff]

... and I bet that robotic body of yours eats AA batteries like they're going out of fashion!

You mean that 'fully-configurable automotive environment'?

Yeah, you really should get a couple of fins stuck on that Disembodied, they'd look really cool

[Disembodied]

I was thinking more a big spoiler on the back ...

[xzanfr]

Useless wings aside, I quite like the idea of these. Has anyone here played X2 before? There was a series of missions where you had to take passengers on a sight seeing trip and gained extra money by making it exciting (i/e getting attacked by pirates and surviving). By having a ship thats specifically designed for passenger carrying it stops you from being able to do it in your iron ass therefore making it that much harder with corespondingly higher rewards - more passenger windows = weaker hull.
Perhaps this is what frontier are going for on this.

It'll also make it that much easier for "popping" one and picking up the "cargo" for resale

[Cody]

It'll also make it that much easier for "popping" one and picking up the "cargo" for resale

Actually the passenger ships are pretty tasty

I think he means combat-wise, not looks.

[Commander McLane]

Looking at them again, I'm thinking more "fins" than "wings". And both ships remind me of penguins, especially the smaller one. Is that a good thing? Probably not.

[Cody]

Submarines, fins... that would fit, as they're labelled as Dolphin and Orca class. As for penguins... <chuckles>

Mobius the Photoshopper has been at it already (but even underwater, I still don't like them).

[Commander McLane]

Mobius the Photoshopper has been at it already (but even underwater, I still don't like them).

Underwater, their windows are wrong. They would need a glass belly, not a glass top.

[Wolfwood]

AFAIK, these will be player controllable ships and all player controllable ships will also be able to enter atmospheres - thus the fins are understandable. What is less undestandable is the design that clearly hints towards artificial gravity when there should not be any.

[Disembodied]

AFAIK, these will be player controllable ships and all player controllable ships will also be able to enter atmospheres - thus the fins are understandable.

Although that begs the question as to why all player-controllable ships don't have fins ...

[Wolfwood]

AFAIK, these will be player controllable ships and all player controllable ships will also be able to enter atmospheres - thus the fins are understandable.

Although that begs the question as to why all player-controllable ships don't have fins ...

Yes, I admit it does...

[Cody]

Good grief, there's some mierda being posted in the E: D forum lately!

[Wolfwood]

mierda?

I haven't spotted anything unusual, though I have to admit I haven't been very actively following everything in the past few weeks...

[Geraldine]

Dev Diary 5 Passenger Ships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... sBPDnHiTi8

[Cody]

Not sure what your definition of twitch based is as I don't believe we've ever said Dangerous is going to be twitched based in the way a typical FPS is twitched based or something like Strike Suit Zero (a modern space shooter) is twitched based. We're going for a much more sedate and paced experience with flying these ships. Think more like a boat than a fighter plane