4101

EG has more info on the console versions, though it still doesn’t answer all the questions (since cross platform play is still not a given, I’d imagine profile sharing would similarly be a question mark): http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-06-elite-dangerous-xbox-one-console-david-braben

Wendelius

4102

Yeah, and besides profile sharing, I’d think early kickstarter backers or alpha buyers would probably like some way to carry over their early bird benefits to another platform, at a reduced pricing of some sort.

4103

I could be wrong but given how much easier it is to port from one console to the other this generation, it would be fairly surprising if a PS4 release didn’t turn up eventually. It’s not the dodgy bit of a business that we had with the PS3. No?

4104

If you read the linked article, you will see it’s already confirmed for the PS4 at a later date.

Wendelius

4105

FD has a relationship with MS. Zoo Tycoon was an XB1 exclusive.

4106

Yeah, that means its nice that this will come to the PS4 as well.

4107

Indeed. It’s addressed by Braben in the article.

Wendelius

4108

Hey cool, I was always a little bummed that No Man’s Sky wouldn’t be coming to Xbone, I’ll probably have to give this one a try.

4109

I think the first thing I’m going to do in 1.2 is head back to Sol so I can fly around, in and out of the capital ship using the external camera.

4110

you do know you can not control your ship while in the external cam? all flight controls move the cam and the ship is inert or continues on its set course.

I just spent the entire evening busting cobras with a tricked out viper in a Resource Extraction Site. Fun times. PewPew while listening to some good radio. Made about half a mil but the fucking rating won’t budge! i have about 610 bounties claimed and just south of 5mil made in bounties total. When is it going to tick over from competent to the next?

4111

It takes a while, took me a while of straight hunting to get to competent.

4112

I know it takes a while but I want hard fucking numbers! For example my exploration rank ticked over at exactly 1.5million earned in exploration. Trade ticked over at 5 million iirc. Nice round numbers. Not so for combat apparently. I want to be beyond competent. I also really resent the fact that my trade rank is higher than my combat rank. I’m a fighter not a trucker dammit!

4113

I might very well be wrong, but I vaguely remember reading that the skill of the npc’s affect how much weight they give to ranking you up. Like 1 expert npc’s kill is worth 5 mostly harmless npc’s.

4114

If only there were a consistent way to attract bad-ass pirates then. I love being back in the viper. its cheap and fast yet packs a good sized punch. erhaps I should go find me some kind of conflict zone and beat on that for a bit, not for profit but for ratings…

4115

And PS4. Much as i pretty much hate what modern console gaming has done to games in the AAA space (and it is the main reason i no longer am primarily a AAA gamer), what it has done to the good over the decades is ensure a certain level of QA, so products are mostly pretty well ‘polished product’ by the time we get our grubby mits on them (well except me, as i don’t buy…rarely).

So to balance the possible issues ED going to console might mean, it is on PC FIRST (important this is that way around), BUT there is no way in hell ED as it is would be put up with by the console platforms or their gamers. It is just too obtuse, which is fine for hardcore ‘quirky’ PC gamers, but i’m hoping this extra level of scrutiny from the console platform QA process will FORCE Frontier off their butts to actually make changes to the game that improve all the little aspects they seem to love avoiding to deal with currently. There might be a raft of much needed ‘polish’ coming if it is to be accepted for console release, maybe. That is the good i hope for in this otherwise less good news for PC ED going forward.

4116

That might very well be true and explain the erratic behavior of the combat rating.

4117

My combat rating finally went from competent to expert. My ship log tells me I have claimed 5.9M CR from bounties, so that just might be the magic number.

4118

gratz and thanks, guess i have about one more million to go then before i go up. Not happy until “deadly” tho ;-)

4119

Yeah, I think that might take a while.

Incidentally, all, just got an in-game broadcast that 1.2 should be going live soon.

4120

Nice, I know what I’m doing this weekend.