Oolite Bulletins

Aye, true enough - but it is only a demo vid, not game-play. For actual in-game vid, we are still waiting.

Gimi wrote:

I could write an essay on the Star Citizen trailer from the Kickstarter.

pagroove wrote:

But I think a lot of things here happen in the engine already.

Gimi wrote:

This is worth a look.

 Naval Torpedo

pagroove wrote:

But it looks fantastic. I'm excited. Actually I find the first seconds of warping most impressive and also the motion.

Norby wrote:

Gimi wrote:

This is worth a look.

I am not sure that I am right but I take the following process from the video.

The Federal BattleCruiser has enough  Naval Torpedo to stun the big enemy ship, but can not launch these until the Point-Defense weapons of the enemy are operational which can easily destroy slow torpedoes.

There are turrets on BC which can destroy PD cannons but must be hidden until enemy fighters are near due to these turrets are very vulnerable from fighters. So player must take down these fighters before BC can start his attack.

I think these steps are interesting, maybe worth to implement into Oolite also in the future.

Gimi wrote:

Cody wrote:

The Founders' system has been named - Shinrarta Dezhra.

Good catch there. I hadn't noticed that Liqua changed his signature.

Cody wrote:

Gimi wrote:

Cody wrote:

The Founders' system has been named - Shinrarta Dezhra.

Good catch there. I hadn't noticed that Liqua changed his signature.

Has there been any mention of Shinrarta Dezhra in the DDF/PBF? It seems odd that I'm the only one to comment on it.

Norby wrote:

The movie-like camera motion add a lot to the lookout also, can give inspiration to improve [wiki]Camera_Drones[/wiki].

Griff wrote:

I can't help feeling sorry for Derek in the sidewinder nobody seems to care he got blown up right at the start...

Hi everyone,

Michael here with the latest Kickstarter update to introduce David's sixth dev diary video. In this diary David provides commentary on the Capital Ship Battle video we released recently to announce the in-game composer. If you haven't watched the video yet then you really should check it out, the music is great! (You can see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8B4KptyVI (Preview) ). In this dev diary David talks about the process we followed and how it has helped to advance development of the game by putting the video together.
http://youtu.be/V4-gyDLRMXg

David also recently gave a talk at TEDx about procedural generation called 'Rules Can Be Beautiful', you can watch a video of his talk here: youtu.be/GEVutbSqBI0

As mentioned in the last update we'll also release an art diary breaking down the art side of the video in more detail in the next few weeks.

In other news the latest newsletter will be released in the next few days, we've re-synced the newsletter releases so that they correspond with the video releases.
Things are as busy as ever on our forums, if you've backed the game and your reward includes Private Backers or DDF access then make sure to pay a visit and get involved with the discussions. Last week saw a new feature start in the Private Backers forum, it's called 'Peek of the Week' and each week we'll provide a new piece of art or a screenshot of the latest cool asset or feature in game.

Thanks as always for reading and remember that you can still back the game via our website: http://elite.frontier.co.uk

Michael

Michael Brookes wrote:

Great news that we know many of you have been hoping for – today we’re announcing that Elite: Dangerous will support Oculus Rift. We’re very excited by this and if you aren’t aware of what Oculus Rift is then visit their website to find out more:

http://www.oculusvr.com/

I’m sure you’ll also be pleased to learn that the Oculus Rift version of Elite: Dangerous will be available to ALL backers that have an Oculus Rift headset for no extra cost.

Here’s David’s opinion on this:

“We’ve been playing with the Oculus Rift dev kits and are excited about the potential – just glancing around your cockpit or being totally immersed in a space battle. Many of our backers have made it clear that they would like Oculus Rift support – and so do we! We’re very pleased with the results so far.”

Michael

Here we have some work in progress for small ship explosions (again this was a lucky shot!), once of the aspects being investigated is having debris in the explosion. There's still work to be done, but it already feels quite satisfying to see the enemy ship disintegrate in front of you.