The video already mentions cryovolcanoes. But would we get lava volcanoes? Are we gonna be landing on metal-rich worlds?
I don't think we know yet.
FYI: they said it won't be there *at launch*. Assume it will come at some point.
I imagine they're only gonna do explorable space stations once they start doing cities in general.
If I had to guess, Odyssey will be a separate launch the same way Horizons is and it just won't support VR at all.
No need for guessing, they already confirmed Odyssey and any content arriving with it will not support VR. It "may come at a later date", but the community on Reddit and their forum agree it's likely the Elite VR experience begins and ends with Horizons, given previous "maybe later" statements. You will still be able to play Horizons/Vanilla in VR though, of course.
Oh yeah, we knew that. The question I think Hylian was asking was do they make you just take the headset off for the on foot stuff? I'm saying my guess is Odyssey as an .exe won't let you use VR at all even in the ships.
Yeah that's what I mean :) Odyssey will be a seperate launch item, same as Horizons.
A bad first impression is given by the tutorial: after a balance update, the ship you are dogfighting against became veeeeeeeeeeeery strong. And they never modified the tutorial mission, so you are basically istantly in an expert mission with no hope if you are, well, someone who is playing a tutorial to learn the basic!
I'm not sure about a "desperate need", but it would be nice to do.
The problem is figuring out the alien flora and fauna in a way that feels scientifically plausible using procedural generation, at 1:1 scale. Just rendering 1:1 scale forests and shit will be hard as hell, though Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 might be a good preview of what that's like from a tech perspective.
Depending on how the tech works getting people to be able to land on planets might not be more work than letting players explore cities and social areas on foot, or it might even be less work. It's probably largely a matter of advancing the procedural generation tech. Natural terrain is one thing, inhabited cities is probably a whole other challenge entirely.
They'd still have to procedurally generate all that from station to station though. And I think the issue with procedurally generating inhabited spaces is there's much more scrutiny from players to make it look "natural". That's not as tough with terrain or even vegetation. No Man's Sky has space stations and on-planet stations but that game's art direction gives it some slack.
The way I'm envisioning it is pretty much exactly how space stations work currently, where the same models are used over and over with minor changes. It would literally just be an updated hanger and pad model, the interior of a tram, and a plaza/concourse environment per station type. Procedural generation would be limited to the same functions it's currently used for; populating signs and npcs.
Yep. I hoped the next expansion is bringing some new excitement. But space legs and no vr are nowhere near excitement (for me anyway)
Apparently new players will be able to choose between starting out on foot and in a Sidey. It seems like they're confident in the on-foot stuff.
Woah. I think ED would have to work really well as an FPS for them to be that confident.
It might only be a "cosmetic" choice, in that you're free to walk straight to your ship even if you choose to start out on foot.
