hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous yet another elite
dangerous odyssey update with more questions and answered being answered by the developers
so let's take a look at what's been said in this latest q a session
so released on friday the 29th of january 2021 we have yet another
q a session posted by paul crowther the community manager and answered by gareth hughes
so this is all about ships and vehicles they say greetings they've got a fresh selection of answers
to your elite dangerous odyssey questions and they've introduced gareth hughes to talk about
ships and vehicles now i'm looking at this for the first time as i read it out and report it to you
so we're gonna get a little bit of um of my feedback too so first question can a ship
and srv damage a player if i run over them so your person is out running about roaming free on the
elite dangerous odyssey planets in space legs mode can you get hit by a ship run over and buy a srv
absolutely an srv can damage or kill a player if they are not fast enough to get out of the way
so you're going to get a whole lot of grand theft auto going on and you really you know crazy taxi
this goes the same for ai although they will do their best to evade you if they see you coming
so that's for an srv can you hit him with a ship someone's there giving it all that with a rifle
can you fly your cobra directly at them well we'll have to wait and see our knacks they've
only mentioned srvs next up will there be updates to ship and srv combat as well as ground combat
they state ship combat and srv combat is in a healthy place right now
okay our focus is on ground combat for odyssey and ensuring that it's balanced well against vehicles
we will be looking closely at balancing in the upcoming alpha so didn't really answer
the question there really i think what they're saying is no change we've got it just where
it is at the moment and they're focusing on space legs combat first-person combat
okay do player shields affect ships like other ships do
right players will not be able to ram the ship whilst on foot
though it will be fun to watch someone try so okay you've got shields on you're running around
in first person shooter mode and your shields are on and you're gonna charge straight at somebody
what's what's gonna happen well apparently nothing
how will you balance night vision on ships with on foot players
night vision will work as it does currently providing ship commanders see ship commanders
and this was commented on um a response we had in the last uh dev update where they said you know um
uniforms and suits would be equipped with torches all right providing ship command
has improved vision in low light environments it is worth noting that on foot players will
be very small targets for commanders in ships and too small for ship weapons to lock onto
well say you're in a fighter anyway however commanders in ships will be very big targets
for players on foot with some handheld weapons being able to knock to lock onto them okay
rocket launchers aim things like that um next up will the ship launch fighter be used in ground
combat yes all deployable vehicles can be used a player can choose to play a fighter if they want
with all the benefits and drawbacks that will provide right well let's look at the first one
then so a fighter is really small compared to your ship because it has to fit in it we know it this
is the dynamics of things why can't you have your ship controlled by an npc or another person right
in multi-crew and then you get into your fighter and then go down and strafe and hover and take out
ground targets with your smaller ship and your smaller weapons inquiring minds want to know
okay next up we will be getting an addition to the ship hud as seen in the game play reveal what
would be getting an addition to the ship hood um as seen in the gameplay reveal we have a compass
surely to make things easier to communicate between players on foot and in ship srv a north
directional indicator should appear on your radar when in orbit around the planet or atmosphere
and they say the current head for ships and elite dangerous provides all the information you're
going to need okay fair enough not giving much away there next question will spaceships be able
to deploy anti-personnel vehicle bombs or missiles and they say we have no plans to add specific
anti-personnel ship weapons now that's a missed opportunity isn't it um we've put a huge amount
of work into ensuring the combat triangle remains balanced and fair ships will however
have create will have creative opportunities to use their existing arsenal mines missiles
interesting who knows it's a shame they didn't have like some sort of like
you could roll in with a bomb for whap you know um but you have to get past loads of
i'm sure they could have done something there anyway moving on will we be able to drop in
from our ships or do we have to leave and exit the ship like normal during combat situations
and they state in order to deploy from your ship commanders will need to land first so no drop pods
drop ships can we engineer our srv there will be extensive engineering options for
suits and weapons in odyssey however there are no plans to engineer srvs oh my god oh no why not
why not that is such a thing
when doing a multiple vehicle assault is it possible for player
crew members to drive srvs from the ship they don't own when doing multiple vehicle assault
is it possible okay fair enough similar way to launching an slv is now okay yeah yeah
um absolutely they say for instance there would be nothing to stop a commander in an alliance
crusader have their two multi-crew teammates deploying in a ship launched fighter and an srv
before landing and heading in on foot themselves
so at least you could use
this player crew member not mpc so that's multi crew right hmm all right well okay
let's see let's see let's see let's see they say that's it for this week a few things i want to
say about there why no engineering on srvs what the hell's going on come on right everything else
i could probably live with but i've always been a huge advocate of other srvs uh within the game
ones with roof racks one with trailers one for combat you know why not this is a missed
opportunity that's not to say it might not come in the future if you make too much of a stink about
it but hey who knows anyway i've been ricardo this has been a brief update on the community
and dev diary that's just come out on today january the 29th of the first um
2021 and that was all about ships and vehicles although to be fair not really much
i mean they could have said are we gonna get a new ship you know what i'm saying anyway thanks
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