Re: Elite: Dangerous - and the return

[Cody]

Buggies - or more correctly, SRVs! What can I say?

As for Linux, Diz - I reckon they'd have got more sales from Penguinistas than from Mac users!

[Venator Dha]

Buggies - or more correctly, SRVs! What can I say?

As for Linux, Diz - I reckon they'd have got more sales from Penguinistas than from Mac users!

I wonder how many Mac users adopted the same plan as I have.
I watched the PC release whilst they were producing the Mac port. I viewed the initial release as unfinished, and lacking several things I wanted from the game, but fully expected them to appear quite quickly.
By the time the Mac port was available these were not in place but several feature I had no interest in had appeared from nowhere. This was followed by others that I have absolutely no interest in. Further there is what appears to be poor development and a probably unplayable expansion has reduced my interest further.
So I still haven't bought it and suspect that I never will. I'm maintaining my watching brief but they are not progressing in the direction I want them to - This is not necessarily wrong for them, just not right for me.

And all the time Oolite just gets better and better

[kanthoney]

When do we get to play in those? Soon, I hope!

[Cody]

What, the buggies? Horizons Beta, if you have access - Horizons release, if not.

[kanthoney]

Release is Christmas, I assume? So beta next month?

[Cody]

Reckon so - full release planned for 16th December, would be my guess.

[Bugbear]

It's Frontier's new self-published game that they're developing. If you were on the ED mailing list you got an email about it. It's one of their roller coaster games.

Humph! I could have sworn I removed myelf from the E: D mailing list. It seems that I've now had to remove myself from a second mailing list.

<Deep breath>Oh well. As my boss has said in the past, always suspect incompetence over conspiracy. Then again, what does that say about FDEV?

[kanthoney]

They've just announced that the Horizons beta will be released (hopefully) on the 24th November. There'll be another beta (for 1.5) next week.

[Cody]

<nods> I'm hoping that the planetary approach/dirtside module will be free - but I fear it may not be.

[Cody]

Three years on! I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

[NigelJK]

I believe Planet fall is Horizon only

[maik]

Three years on! I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

Three years on?

[Cody]

Three years on?

A figure of speech - three years along the way/further down the line/older. <grins>

In other news, the latest Horizons trailer is here - zoom-out from a misty crater.

[maik]

Ah, thanks!

[Cody]

Synthesis - there's a word to conjure with!