Wow - horizons

[evovi]

Just in case anyone ain't seen this - love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jlcPe8cII&sns=em

[Skipp]

i missed the stream so thnx for the video.

I really hope they fix the ground textures... because the terrain in the video looks horrific. The buggies are awesome though

[evovi]

Yeah - it's clearly still WIP but wow, does it open up new depths and experiences... Roll on Christmas - I'm off work for 2 weeks

[WolfRaven]

Yep, wow from me too, just watched the whole stream.
Loved the responsiveness of the SRV's, and also seeing the cobra landed there really gives them scale.
It'd be awesome whizzing around on the surface, with maybe someone's Cobra flying overhead, scouting out bases, fortresses & outposts.

The gameplay designers wanted it to be fun... and it sure looks like fun to me!

[GlobusDiablo]

Reminded me of Stunt Car Racer. Epic fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn32IgQGrOQ

[UnmarkedBoxcar]

I can't wait to see sponsored races and player run events...I wonder which planets will end up popular for the Elite: Racing scene?

[Brsingr]

looks worth the $45 preorder lol

[TorTorden]

looks worth the $45 preorder lol

And those 45$ gets you the full year of expansions, not just the landings and buggy.
Also: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcb ... 5fd2c5476a

Ship-Launched Fighters can be docked in your ship's hold to give you a far greater range of options to tackle any situation in which you find yourself. Deploy your fighter under AI control or take the stick yourself and fly into battle while your mothership lies in wait.

...

Multi-Crew lets you fly in the same ship with friends, which will up the intensity and camaraderie levels of a joint mission even further! You’ll be able to share and alternate control of weapons systems, turrets and flight duties to multiply your effectiveness. Even to the extent of piloting a ship-launched fighter and working in combination with the mothership. It’ll be especially useful in some of the very large trading ships coming in season two.

Although I am fairly sceptical to how this crew thing would work.
Seriously what kind of game play would this entail, and what happens if you sign up for a crew job, only to have the captain blast off hundreds of light years away from where you parked your vulture ?

Would you have to shoot him and commandeer the ship to get back ?
(that idea would probably be too cool to be implented)
FD say it up's camaraderie, I say it could up tensions and hostility ten fold..
Another issue is simply the players, we want to be at the helm, if we didn't want that we would already be playing something else, and sitting shotgun in someone else's ship is not really my idea of "good times".

Anyhoo I digress,
Back to point,YAY Buggy !!

[Brsingr]

looks worth the $45 preorder lol

And those 45$ gets you the full year of expansions, not just the landings and buggy.
Also: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcb ... 5fd2c5476a

Ship-Launched Fighters can be docked in your ship's hold to give you a far greater range of options to tackle any situation in which you find yourself. Deploy your fighter under AI control or take the stick yourself and fly into battle while your mothership lies in wait.

...

Multi-Crew lets you fly in the same ship with friends, which will up the intensity and camaraderie levels of a joint mission even further! You’ll be able to share and alternate control of weapons systems, turrets and flight duties to multiply your effectiveness. Even to the extent of piloting a ship-launched fighter and working in combination with the mothership. It’ll be especially useful in some of the very large trading ships coming in season two.

Although I am fairly sceptical to how this crew thing would work.
Seriously what kind of game play would this entail, and what happens if you sign up for a crew job, only to have the captain blast off hundreds of light years away from where you parked your vulture ?

Would you have to shoot him and commandeer the ship to get back ?
(that idea would probably be too cool to be implented)
FD say it up's camaraderie, I say it could up tensions and hostility ten fold..
Another issue is simply the players, we want to be at the helm, if we didn't want that we would already be playing something else, and sitting shotgun in someone else's ship is not really my idea of "good times".

Anyhoo I digress,
Back to point,YAY Buggy !!

BUGGY

i just wish they would allow us to hire NPCs for wings (up to 3 NPC ships)...the tech is there as its part of the combat training

heck I dont even know WHY they made it so two players can be in the same ship....its really retarded imo

[TomoRosso]

BUGGY

Without a doubt