There will be starports and rich content, the rich content I have no idea but the starports and landing on planets were on the old games. Not the original elite but frontier and first encounters. Another game that did planetary landings way before elite was starglider 2 by jez san, another awesome killer game back in the day. I think mercenary and damocles by Paul woakes did it first I think off top of my head.
Apparently theres been redundancies at Frontier according to euro gamer. I thinks its only to do with the Tycoon series that they publish though.
Yeah there was redundancies at the end of the Ks 2 years ago. Dont really mean anything apart from staff coming and going.
Damocles and Starglider 2 had more "instanced" type landings where the planet filled the screen up and you went into a flat horizon land mode. On the other hand, the Frontier games did have a proper seamless approach and exit which was quite a thing to see for the first time, there were some bugs in the rendering though due to palette switching I think. I was one of the first people to get Damocles (Atari ST), the assistant in Virgin Megastore in Oxford St. got it out from the back for me the morning it came out. It wasn't widely known that it was out that day but I'd phoned Novagen and they had told me the day before. I remember the guy next to me at the counter who had just bought another game looking at me aghast, hee hee!
Yeah good times, Damocles came alittle too late from what i remember, StarGlider 2 was amazing. I remember if you flew to close to the Sun the screen just melted infront of you. From what i remember you had to build a bouncing bomb to take out some enemy satellite, you had to travel around the galaxys planets and moons collecting pieces. The planets also had tunnel networks to fly down ( similar to powerdrome although not as fast) were the resistance was. Pretty ****ing ground breaking indeed for 1988 (off top of my head). Ive always rated Jez San tbh, a real Visionarie and Pioneer. He know owns PKR.com and rightly so.
Thank you heaps for this, Veteran. I had already looked at rares trading, but the sheer distances involved means I'd be making a ton of hops and stopping to refuel a lot. It would take hours, but I'll use the planners to see if I can come up with a route. But you're a legend for taking the time, and do you mind if I add you in game? I mostly play solo ATM so I don't have to worry about griefers.
Add me ingame and when I'm on usually in the evenings after 7pm. I can escort you to your destination, I never used to get griefed even when I started. Avoid uszzaa or any systems under anarchy and you should be fine. Most players only go for people who are wanted. On a side note ive now achieved the rank of an imperial knight. I need to get to an imperial baron to purchase the imperial clipper. 2 more ranks to go.
No But I can install Fraps. Hi everyone, For this week’s dev update the focus is on the 1.1 update which will go into beta next week. First we have some good news for explorers. We’re adding the discovered by tag to the system map so when you view a body’s information you will see which commander first scanned and returned to sell the data for that body. Supplementing this we’re also adding information when you sell exploration data of the bodies contained within the exploration data being sold for a specific system. There’s also a change to enable selling exploration data a page at a time to help those who have been on long journeys of exploration! In last week’s update I mentioned the community goals feature which will be added in the 1.1 update. Here we have two specific examples of what we will be doing with those goals. The first is a minor faction seeking to expand their military capability by constructing a capital ship (one of Farragut Battlecruisers or Majestic Interdictors) which is obviously a huge undertaking so they’ll require a lot of support and resources to successfully construct the warship. The commander who contributes the most to the construction will have the opportunity to name the ship. We’ll need to vet the name of course One of the other community goals will be a more involved process enabling the expansion into an unpopulated system. This will be a three stage process. The first step is for us and the DDF to establish a short list of candidate systems. The aim for this initial colony is to support further exploration and to act as a hub for other expansion in the region. Once we have the shortlist players will be invited to map the candidate systems and whichever system has the most data about it sold will be the target system. A community goal will then start to gather the resources needed to build an Ocellus starport that will be deployed in the chosen star system. As well as the new features we’re continuing to fix and investigate issues, some fix highlights include improvements for AI docking and the docking computer, better handling of ship to ship collisions, balancing dumbfire missiles and shield cells and balancing of heat generation by weapons. Last week I shouted out about the community news item thread and that is off to a good start with some stories already being used. If you have a community event in game or something newsworthy then you can submit it via this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101801 Thanks! Michael https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=106524
Very cool almost make me want to play. Looks to be shaping up like eve o but you actually fly your ship.
Dangerous Newsletter #60. Contents This Week 1.1 Update Peek Of The Week Ship Stats PAX South Michael Brookes' Elite: Legacy Comms Chatter GalNet http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=53c2aa5471&e=47e28f4c6f
This was so cool *__* Every time I see this game in motion it's like wow.... being a little kid again... hahahaha
Bought this game in alpha and d1cked around a bit with it, but decided I'd wait until I got a proper hotas setup to fully commit to learning it. My brother got me an X-52 Pro for Christmas, and I finally set it up today. Result: Holy sh1t, what a difference versus kb/m or 360 controller! I did the simple dogfight training against two AI fighters - took me twenty minutes and my hands were covered in sweat. I suck horribly at this point, but loved every minute of it. Really looking forward to getting into the meat of the game now.
Is there a point in upgrading my sidey? I've put a 1A power distributer on it and am now saving up money for a 1A thrusters (160k or so). I've read that you can sell the upgrades before selling the ship to recoup some costs? Or am I better off just saving up and upgrading to another ship?
The first beta build for update 1.1 will be live at 6.30pm GMT, to download the client you need to grab the latest launcher (version: 0.4.2023.0 ) and then you download the beta client. It contains the following changes: NEW FEATURES/CONTENT - Community Goals added - Route planning extended to 1,000 ly - Russian language translations added - Add 'Discovered by' tag to system map - needs to be surfaced scanned - Fancy new gas giant shader - City lights on imhabited planets - Pilots Federation rank decals - Parallax shader for cloud layer on terrestrial planets - Add explored system details on the right hand side of the cartographics shop - Top benefactors support added to system map STABILITY FIXES - Prevent shadow manager trying to unregister view nodes that it never registered - Fix a crash caused by systems with stations only orbiting non-habitable planets - In the safety checking of the start location, make sure the body we are trying to load at exists, if it doesn't start around the largest star instead - Prevent crash when generating star textures on low end hardware - Prevent crash in the targetting system - Fix possible crash entering capital ship scenarios - Fix file load hardlock - Fix potential crash in tutorials - Fix a crash where limpet's parent exists but not fully created - Don't crash when the AI looks up a ship state - Fix crash selecting decal in livery - Prevent softlock when a mission is progressing as a location transfer occurs TWEAKS & FIXES - French and German translations updated - Fixed incorrect masses for C3 beam weapons - Added in LOD levels for the holographic guide markers on the landing pads. This should fix the issues with the guides vanishing randomly since there should always now be some mesh to render regardless of what LOD the parent hanger is set at - Fix AI issues at high frame rates - Ensure that bounty checks for correct faction - Some optimisations for performance is busy network conditions - Correctly scale companion stars with large in system map if they are children of a common centre of gravity - Optimise route planner - Skybox stars now know if they're in/behind a nebula and fade out accordingly - When an NPC kills the player, report any claimed bounties to the webserver so they can be cleared; clear relevant bounties on client - Fixes for some issues with docking computer: - Slow down when on final part of descent to pad, to avoid damage; if station is rotating the chosen speed has to be greater than the rotational velocity at the pad - Fix some issues on outposts with the chosen point above the pad being inside or too close to the bounding volume of the outpost - Allow NPCs to travel faster in the first stage of moving to an outpost - Ensure NPCs ignore outposts as obstacles when in final descent - Fixes to stop awkward ships like the Python from hovering over the pad while docking, because they aren't trying to get close enough - Improvements to getting NPCs to leave a crowded station when player is denied docking permission - Fix issues where 3D anaconda and Orca ship schematics clip parts of the UI - Prevent GUI colour rotation from affecting the galaxy map - Expanded news-item text can now scroll - Rebalanced shield strengths at different pip levels to make those levels useful - Fixed a random number 9 floating near Natural Fabrics commodity at Dobrovolski Station CM - Remove sparkles on asteroids when rendering to Oculus Rift, as they have been found uncomfortable for Rift users - Fix for movies not being rendered with the appropriate size when side-by-side rendering is enabled - Added a chevron to the landing pad schematics to help indicate the direction that a player's ship should be facing when docking - Rebalanced shield cells to take more power, have less ammo and cost more per unit than before - Lowered the ammo count and increased the cost per unit for Chaff Launcher - Added chevrons to pad schematics to indicate direction player should face when landing - Increased Federal capital ship heat relay health - As neutron stars have their radii saved in km, not Suns, use the black hole size method for them in the galaxy map - Added missing mass lock components to ships that needed it - such as the Imperial Clipper - Remove term 'medium' from Type 7 description to prevent players thinking it will land on a medium pad - Fixing some areas of the Coriolis' collision mesh including those which were causing some aiming issues with the station's defences - Correct consumed by string for Marine Equipment - Put exoplanets Kepler 438 b and 442 b into the correct star systems - Art and collision fixes for criminal outposts - Fix for the asteroids on the radar spinning too quickly - Tweaks to Prism system economy and faction - Fix for the mass-lock sphere visualisation not fading off when outside of the radar bounds - Art and collision fixes for commercial outposts - AI ships seem to sometimes be orienting incorrectly fixed - Tweaked flight model for Orca - Fix for number of steps in the orbit lines - NPCs shouldn't be able to use FSD with hardpoints deployed - Art and collision fixes for science outposts - Fixes for Galaxy Map searches: - Fixed it only accepting a lowercase character for 1 part of the search. - Also fixed it setting the final number in a name to 0 - Fix the case of missing black hole effects when three are in a system and forces background stars to render when the visible distortion is very high - Fix the texture values on the mining laser heatsinks so that they don't colour pop when deploying - Fix the rare background brightness curve popping between low luminosity stars. - Add a 'planning route' graphic to cover the loading of the plot - Make sure that an AI follows a player into their session after an interdiction - Removed stray particle effect from beam laser muzzle - was never supposed to be there! - Realigned lens flares that were not in the right places on weapon muzzles - Weapon impacts improved - Weapon impacts on player improved- Explosion glitches fixed - Allowed supplemental devices to be used. They count as PCPads (for example independent throttles, custom control panels) - Fixes to Ammunition (cannon trails and empire laser bolt light inner range) - Toggle focus mode never reaches right panel fixed - Fixed incorrect size limits on the sensors of the Imperial Clipper - Lowered speed, manoeuvrability and shield strength on Python - When rendering planets set a shader parameter for the planet's radius. This allows shaders to produce consistent results when rendering in miniature form in the system map - Fix Terrestrial_Volcanic planets not showing their schematic - Atmosphere shader optimisations - Removed stray muzzle particle effects from pulse lasers - Changes for various backer names stations - Added Supersampling menu options - Removed collisions from station doors to fix an issue of some ships crashing while docking - Drive lens flares should now stay within sane brightness values - Fix for the galaxy map not responding to changing options - Add the Repairable component to several modules that otherwise couldn't be repaired by AFM modules. Discovery scanners, Detail scanners and Thrusters are all now repairable in the field - Fix some missing system descriptions - Collision damage update: - Damage is now calculated at both ends and each apply half, it should no longer be possible for one party to miraculously escape undamaged from a collision - Changed the mass/velocity to damage calculation, it should now be more consistent and harder to damage large ships with small ones, even at high speed - Store whether the system map was entered from galaxy map or cockpit, and invoke appropriate transition out back to the previous state - Notice when route finder fails to find a route and replace the progress spinner with unavailable route text - When generating scenarios that lie outside the containment area of their body, update the address to be relative to the correct parent (the same one ships will use if they drop into those scenarios). Most noticable when unable to stay in nav beacon scenarios near a close binary pair of stars - Implement sort by Mass, Power Draw and Name for outfitting items - Star temperature used for driving colours clamped to sensible range based on Harvard and Yerkes classification - Interdiction can be a Crime - Extended the hitcheck out to included the Fed Fighter's engines - Extended the hitcheck out to include the Federal capital ship's main engines - Shadow fixes for various ships - Headlights balanced. Now slightly more useful in an asteroid field. Larger ships with larger lights have stronger beams - NPC chatter line added when police interdict a player - Don't just consider combat rank when determining AI rank - Stop AI miners from mining empty space - Fix 'nearby bounty' so it include local minor factions - Dumbfire missiles can now be shot down by PD weapons - Allow axis input to control scanner zoom level - Have different combat bond values for each ship type - Performance improvement for galaxy map after route has been generated - Put Cygni X-1 Black hole in the right location - Improved light behaviour on station exterior - Eagle art fixes - Automated turret fire shouldn’t aggro non-hostile ships - Make AI use turrets correctly, and ignore the default - Fix the barrels on guns spanning back to the identity position when they stop spinning - When the player accidentally hits an AI ship damage is accumulated. If a threshold is exceeded (by multiple hits or a powerful weapon like a rail-run), the ship turns hostile. The AI ship will "forget" the damage before it turns hostile: 1) if the AI ship recharges its shield to 100%. 2) if a (currently 30 sec) timer runs out. - Make the system apply to stations as well. - Large lateral thrusters now have settings consistent with small and medium thrusters. Balanced lighting and fade in/out durations - Federal Fighter art fixes - If a ship is scanned by the police and they discover that it has a bounty, don't turn the station hostile, just get the police to attack - It's possible that players could get docking offences stuck on even when they were no longer causing offence now fixed - When AI ships are starting docked don't do the hyperspace-in effect - Fixed the incorrect engine stats so they give the appropriate benefit - When a large planet is converted into a star, clamp the spin speed so that it cant spin too fast as planets and stars follow different rules - Fix generated system name mismatch that was causing missions to fail - Use localised faction names in the galaxy map - Station menu now shows the local major faction rather than the system major faction - Fix for star lens flares appearing through planets - Fix floating station names and text on station surfaces - Sort the commodity screen trade data drop-down menu alphabetically - Decreased damage modifier from for missile weapons against shields - Lowered hardness piercing stat on explosive missiles to make them less effective against larger ships - Prevent cargo duplication - Allowing gravitational distortion effects around white dwarves and neutron stars - Fixed light range on the class2_B retro drives so that it doesn't light up the Adder cockpit, also moved the lens flare offset so it's actually visible - Tweak Python collision to make cargo scooping a bit easier - Decal colouration fix for the Viper's Mercenary paintjob - Fix some artifacts when close to the surface as the position of the vertices changes with different levels of tessellation - Heat generated from weapons fire is now increased based on how empty the weapon cooling system is - Shield cells generate heat while charging - Abort the docking process if the station becomes hostile during it - Clear boost state when docked - Don't scan if the advanced scanner module is disabled - Landing pad numbers now consistently numbered front-to-back then clockwise in stations (in other words, bones 0 and 12 swapped over, so that pads 1 and 13 are now in their correct places). Also checked Outposts and fixed pad numbers there too, so that the medium pad is always the highest pad number - Balancing pass on Plasma Point Defence - Balancing pass on dumbfire weapons - Rebalanced heat gain in certain weapons (Beam laser, Missile Rack, ECM, Chaff, Plasma Accelerator, Pulse Laser) - Supercruise lens flares now smaller when close to them - More detail and softer/more subtle sun rays in star lens flare - Fix the landing gear disappearing when retracted on the Eagle, which leaves a hole in the ship - Rebalanced boost heat amounts as they were all set to 10 when that was only appropriate for the sidewinder - Add starport to BU 741 - Increased ammo for the top range shield cell banks slightly - New improved torpedo explosion effect - "Seeking Luxuries" Rarer in boom states - Improve AI behaviour if they get trapped in station structures - Turreted weapons Set to Target Only will no longer fail to fire if you aim at a subsystem - Point defense turrets can no longer cause aggro or commit crimes on your behalf - Turrets will now check if their line of sight is blocked before firing, should drastically reduce accidentaly hits - Turret weapons set to Target Only will now obey the correct range limit and not waste ammo when out of range - Added in interdiction chatter lines - Federal Dropship art fixes - Turn on the aim-blocked checking for all weapons set in a Fire at Will or Target only mode - Up the rate of damage the python receives from overheating - Increase the timer before dishing out a bounty for trepassing in a station to 90 seconds from 30. People in big heavy ships should be able to avoid being killed for that mistake - Refraction particles now only visible when FX quality setting is set to high - Spark and most debris particles now disabled in low FX quality setting. - Added star class filter to the galaxy map - Prevent infinite stream of pirates in extraction zones - Set up Distance Based Lodding for explosions - Added a new "ultra" shadow quality, a replacement "medium" with one extra cascade, and replaced the existing "low" with the old "medium" - "California Sector IR-W D1-26" no longer requires non-existent permits to visit - Increase player arrival distance in capital ship scenarios - Fix when you had confirmation window that your group had been created where was no focus on it - Fix when you attempted to disband your group but chosen "cancel" in confirmation window for this action you'd have disband button still greyed out - Attacking ships wanted by the local jurisdiction doesn't necessarily incur the rep hit - Fix where the message log would say you've claimed a ship's local bounty when you didn't because you haven't basic-scanned it - Ice planets optimised and improved visually - Tweaks for hanger cameras for various ships - Pending states in the system status panel dissapear after viewing and then viewing a faction that does not have a pending state fixed - Players cannot press "B" on an xbox pad to exit the commodities market while the "galactic average" tab is highlighted fixed - Exiting game during combat has an infinite spinning 0 timer icon at the end of the countdown fixed - Tweaks to reduce stuttering around planets caused by surface texture generation - Optimisations for particle effect management - Reduced the glow scale on the medium thrusters so they don't clip through the ships - Added some extra logging to track down voice comms issues - When you target a sub-target of a ship, the sub-target GUI displays incorrectly - Show stored ships in the correct locations - Rename the duplicate 12 Aquarii system to Bentonio - Adjusted shadow max frustum distances up a little so that high/ultra settings manage to encompass station during drop from supercruise - All ships now rebalanced to work with new gui lighting set up. Emergency lights and chair lighting have been standardised across ships - The UI focus mode toggle button closes the chat pane if you wait a few seconds when it is selected fixed - Make low influence minor factions able to generate missions at a comparable rate to influential minor factions - Atmosphere colour and intensity tweaked for gas giants and reduced saturation of neon atmospheres - Fix a mistake in the English version of the description for type II gas giants, it had been replaced by the description for type III gas giants - Fixed searching for stations, it now correctly cycles between all systems that contain a station with that name - Also fixed searching using generated system names so that it only matches systems that have that name, rather than also matching to authored systems - Reputation in the mission summary screen now includes the contribution from the major faction - Restored missing Founders World permits from some Commanders who have reached the rank of Elite in Combat, Trading or Exploration - Fix a bug stopping newly created Commanders' names from appearing in the Comms Panel during the first few minutes of their career AUDIO New - Under construction station has dedicated ambience and spot sound effects. - Renamed dynamic range modes and further tweaked the volume curves, please keep providing us with feedback as we’re still working on improving these. - Added a new BOOST dynamic range mode that is intended to offer a good compromise between industry standard reference volume (normal) and louder mixed games. - Centre channel is now used for some positional audio such as other ships, cockpit blowout, GUI etc. - Improved audio on Docking Bay Lifts and panels. - New music added to Exploration. - “Power Plant Capacity exceeded” - voice and sfx warnings added. - Support for muting "Engage" ship voice alert. - New audio for the “First to Discover” notification. - Landing gear audio re-implemented: now matches each ships’ deploy and stow animation. Tweaks - Additional audio for when entering Supercruise/Hyperspace. - Supercruise engines and music now interact much nicer. - Improved feedback of engine/masslock in supercruise. - Brought back the hyperspace tunnel flybys and detail sounds, with new implementation. Previously removed to fix render issues. - Balanced boost stress noises. - Cockpit blowout sequence remixed to fix clipping. - Mixpass on docking sequence audio. - Remixed force field audio for when using larger ships or flying at lower speed, to fix clipping issues. - Mixpass on hardpoint stow and deploy animations. - Increased volume of cargo bay door opening, when launching drones. - Added more debris and shockwave content to Explosions. - Reduced fire-rate of the small multicannon to differentiate it from the medium one. - BeamLaser/PulseLaser on others will change according to energy capacity. Helps in identifying an opponent’s remaining power on weapons. - Unified volumes and fixed issues on Asp, Cobra, Orca, Empire Clipper, Python, Anaconda, Type6, Type 7 and Type 9. - Arrival music should be more audible now. - Mixpass on gui for consistent behaviour across various game areas. - Mixpass on the Station Menu ambiences. - Sounds for adding a Sensor or FSD Interdictor in outfitting. - Sell sound added to outfitting. - Station menu is positional now to follow head tracking movement. - Mixpass on Galaxy/System Map for consistent volume and effects. - Collision and Navigational warnings now better respond to distance and speed and will be more audible in dangerous situations. - Mixpass on cargo scoop gui. - More variation added when selling items in Stellar Cartography. - Galaxymap crossing of the grid is slightly more audible. - Galaxy and system map musical elements in ambiences are now controlled by music slider and sfx elements by sfx slider. Bugs - Fixed many performance and mixing issues. - Fixed bug that would cut off Exploration music prematurely. - Fixed clicks in Python assets. - Fixed an issue with reverbs in the stations. - Fixed a bug that would spam physics audio on friction, causing drop outs. - Fixed clicking in the multicannon. - Fixed clicking in the beam laser. - Fixed bug in system map on out-of-focus state always playing Jovian Gasgiant ambience. - Fixed in game music playing during the menus instead of menu music in some situations. - Fixed medium turreted beam lasers from not stopping correctly. - Fixed a bug that would double fade the stellar ambiences. - Fixed several ship voice related bugs. - Fixed missing Jovian Planet Ambiences in system map. - Fixed hard-panning of Python engines when wearing headphones. Thanks Michael https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108887
