Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter Launched

BrianRubin · 2015-09-25T08:17:00.000Z

Awwww maaaan…

KevinC · 2015-09-25T08:32:49.000Z

They confirmed multi-crew ships, from what I saw on reddit. Are these AI crewmembers or can multiple players crew a ship, anyone watching know?

BiggerBoat · 2015-09-25T08:36:50.000Z

Here’s a summary of what I picked up:

Horizons will include explorable moons and rocky planets up to 8x earth size

Updated planet generation will include planets that aren’t perfectly spheroid (i.e. deformed by gravity)

Big ships get a fighter bay!

Multi-crew is coming as part of Horizons. Players can fly together on a single ship. Didn’t hear whether this will include potential AI companions. From the comments thread, a developer said that you fly the ship, and your buddies can use turret weapons and control ship internals.

As part of mult-crew, players now get a face via avatar creation.

Loot and crafting: Allows creation of special/unique things. Example given: lasers with specific damage ratios and colors. Some components will be very rare; some only found on planets.

Horizons release still “Holiday 2015”

1.5 will be released alongside horizons. Brings full complement of ships up to 30 (31 with the new Cobra).

Showed a screenshot of the Viper Mark IV. Trades a bit of speed and maneuvering for better internals.

And last, but not least, bobbleheads are back. David Braben bobblehead available for a limited time for pre-order.

Unfortunately, no gameplay video for planetary landings. Insert sad face here.

KevinC · 2015-09-25T08:48:47.000Z

BiggerBoat:

Unfortunately, no gameplay video for planetary landings. Insert sad face here.

What are they hiding? I hope Derek Smart starts investigating this.

Ginger_Yellow · 2015-09-25T08:57:47.000Z

Yay bobbleheads.

BiggerBoat · 2015-09-25T09:01:13.000Z

All sorts of meaty info in the new newsletter.

About deploying fighters:

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.

About Multi-crew:

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.

There aren’t enough squees for me. Exciting stuff.

divedivedive · 2015-09-25T09:05:52.000Z

Damn, this might be the only game I need for the rest of my life.

BrianRubin · 2015-09-25T09:08:02.000Z

This all just sounds so fantastic.

JMR · 2015-09-25T09:58:30.000Z

Why does the Cobra have a damn pitot looking thing sticking from the nose like a 60s era Soviet fighter?

Jason_Levine · 2015-09-25T10:10:35.000Z

JMR:

Why does the Cobra have a damn pitot looking thing sticking from the nose like a 60s era Soviet fighter?

Uh, it’s a space-speed indicator, or maybe it’s a space-to-space refueling probe, or something.

schurem · 2015-09-25T11:46:23.000Z

JMR:

Why does the Cobra have a damn pitot looking thing sticking from the nose like a 60s era Soviet fighter?

Because 60s era Soviet fighters are frakking cool is why.

Fishbreath · 2015-09-25T11:57:29.000Z

schurem:

Because 60s era Soviet fighters are frakking cool is why.

… Yup.

Papageno · 2015-09-25T12:58:57.000Z

Aw jeez, read that newsletter and now I’ve gotta go change my pants.
I know what I’ll be playing the hell out of during my end-of-year break, that’s for sure.

MrCoffee · 2015-09-25T13:13:22.000Z

JMR:

Why does the Cobra have a damn pitot looking thing sticking from the nose like a 60s era Soviet fighter?

It’s the anal probe!

GreasyPig · 2015-09-25T13:13:54.000Z

JMR:

Why does the Cobra have a damn pitot looking thing sticking from the nose like a 60s era Soviet fighter?

Isn’t that the new viper?

schurem · 2015-09-25T13:20:33.000Z

https://player.vimeo.com/video/140400240?autoplay=1&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

fuck. this video will not link.

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/commander-braben-bobblehead.html/

it is just too fricken awesome lol. i aint rich but that just earned em 6 bux.

BiggerBoat · 2015-09-25T13:36:43.000Z

GreasyPig:

Isn’t that the new viper?

Yep. It’s the new Viper.

Sam_Jones · 2015-09-25T13:39:38.000Z

schurem:

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/commander-braben-bobblehead.html/

it is just too fricken awesome lol. i aint rich but that just earned em 6 bux.

What does “Each Bobblehead design can only be owned and displayed once at any one time” mean? Are these things disposable?

BiggerBoat · 2015-09-25T13:43:33.000Z

Papageno:

Aw jeez, read that newsletter and now I’ve gotta go change my pants.
I know what I’ll be playing the hell out of during my end-of-year break, that’s for sure.

Thing to keep in mind is that the Horizon features will be staggered through the year. First comes the moon/rocky planet landings. Multi-crew stuff, etc. will be later in the “season”.

Which is all fine by me. Don’t overwhelm me with awesome. Hook me up to an IV drip and let it trickle in.

Going to spend this coming weekend getting serious about earning some credits. Gotta’ have some bank to buy one of those big ships and my Condor captain’s yacht. I mean, park your big tradeship in near orbit, fly down to the surface in your fast, agile Condor, then do some canyon runs. How cool is that?

There are a lot of “wide as the ocean, shallow as a pond” Elite naysayers out there, but as far as I am concerned Frontier is doing this shit right.

BiggerBoat · 2015-09-25T13:47:03.000Z

Sam Jones:

What does “Each Bobblehead design can only be owned and displayed once at any one time” mean? Are these things disposable?

I would imagine it means only having one “displayed on your dash” at any one time. The “owned” thing is kinda’ weird though. Maybe in the sense that your character can’t choose to display a different one on each ship you own? The one you have active is displayed on all of your ships? Hard to believe they wouldn’t want people to collect 'em all.