hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous odyssey alpha lots was revealed last
night with a walk around the station during the live stream with frontier and i thought i saw
take my time absorb it and then get a video out having a look and disseminating it okay let's go
so it all started off with the release of the elite dangerous odyssey roadmap there's
going to be four phases starting with the first phase where we get a new commander
and a limited sandbox in which to play in from the stream last night we also saw a couple of lovely
set pieces in regards to the station interior shops npc communication and what have you and in
some places the footage was a little bit clunky it has to be said although i did think it was
really good this is indeed pre-alpha footage let's take a good slow motion look through
okay so i've slowed the footage down to about 70 percent of what the original speed was so we can
pick up on a few things as we go through it now we've got a couple of panels dotted around as
opposed to reminding you of what station you're on and then moving up onto one of the main concourses
we start to come across one of the first mission givers that the demo comes across this young
lady here i like the head tracking i like the eye tracking as well um perhaps a little bit scruffy
around the animation but this is pre-alpha footage and hey you got to take it for what it is moving
on to apex interstellar this is the taxi service to get you to where you want to go without your
ship very good stuff and also we're coming up now into another mission giver old edward rosario who
is to try and offer us an infiltration mission this guy i thought was a bit better animated
um i don't know we'll ask so we can see a bit more of his face in regards there not being any hair up
or covering some of the facial features i thought the body inflections were really good i mean
if you um say you don't want to do the mission he turns away and sort of like you know he's not very
interested really good sort of like body language um i thought there as well i thought it was good
i thought it was really good i mean with all these animations on all these games you know the facial
aspect of things and never um what we see in the movies right because processing power just isn't
there moving up we've gone to the shop block pioneer supplies and we've got the vendor here
saying hey man you know i've got you if you want a weapon want a suit one equipment and as we walk in
we can see we've got boots we've got all the suits all the things that we've seen from the previous
alpha missions that have been showcased some of the weapons as well to me it was a bit reminiscent
of star citizen early days the shop was nicely dressed right i thought it was good um it needs
a little bit more gunge and grime that's what i liked about star citizen i think
it needs to look a little bit more lived in where's your coffee stains up the side of the wall
straight across now you've got vista genomics that's where you can sell all the samples
that you can scan with the sampler on the planets when you go out walking about and
we're moving into a bar area and the bar area then looks out over the space station
now this is what everyone's been waiting for and we've seen it in a couple of different videos and
odyssey promo you know but when you're gonna get there it would be great when you stand there and
you can see ships flying in now is it gonna be as good where you see ships flying in and
you know your friendly commander gives it a bit of a wiggle another mission giver as well now
this was good i thought this was really good now here gives you the information what does
the job involve and all the rest of it um you drilling a little bit further into another menu
and the dialogue changes slightly okay so what you're gonna find is is that you can negotiate
on the price okay how much does it pay what's the details no i don't want it so click on how much
does it pay you know it's going to take you in it's another menu and then you can start
negotiating yes i can do it i want to discuss payment what does this job involve so hit on
discuss payment can you give me a little bit more i don't think you got quite the
price right on this what's your price point you know i need a much better offer you know so you
can negotiate a bit i thought that was quite good this however is very similar to what's
in the witcher and the witcher series of games i thought so you know take the ref with the smooth
good that they're looking at other games that have done things really well and integrating them in
i mean the bar area looks nice clean neon swish looks modern you know you got your taps for your
beer as well hey we can't go into a normal pub so why not go to this one this guy here is looking
to make a trade looks a little bit shifty um you know you wanted to trade some chemicals hey you
know assets and good trading fair enough trade circuits trade tech trade chemicals lay it in
and he's going to give you whatever the price is quite like the idea of this as well
although is it going to make the game a little bit too lengthy but then again this is what everybody
want we wanted space legs to be able to walk around stations okay the ships will come later
no doubt okay this is what people wanted is it but is it going to make the game slower you used to be
able to rock in land on a landing pad within 10 minutes you cashed in your missions and you were
back can you still do that from the landing pad or do you have to go through all of this sometimes
you're just in it for speed to make some quick money but hey this is the option hopefully you're
just given the option so we're walking into um the ship selling area of the station zorgan peterson
we've got a nice 30 the third lance rotating in a sort of blue holographic thing on the table
all good stuff as well guy he says hey you know take your time bit like the old bmw dealership
not that i go in them very often to be perfectly honest with you but um you know all these can i
help you sir yes take time have a look you know letting the items sell themselves and here we've
got the shipyard purchase screen as well which i think is quite good select ships by manufacturer
as opposed to just scrolling all the way through them you get a nice rendering
of the ship as opposed to the the wireframe or the outline view that we've normally been having
they're utilizing all the in-game concepts i think to their maximum
which i quite like that i quite like it you get to see it a little bit of animation on there as well
good stuff you get the little notification pop up as well when you've made your purchase
so they've purchased the dolphin by the look of it great say goodbye to the bloke
and we're off so all these different interfaces as well within the game they do
show that there are different systems that's not just one unified system and that was generally i
think one of the good things about elite dangerous the user interface was the same wherever you went
but it stands to reason that they put different interfaces in a station for different environments
so the apex interstellar would be different uh the mission with the actual npcs will be different
the ship buying will be different and then i suppose you want that little bit of retroness
there's terminals you can go through common terminals now these look a little bit more worn
as well right like people have been handling them so we've got more mission boards complete new user
interface here as well from what we're used to um selecting through all the different portraits of
the different factions that are aligned this particular area and station quite like this
might take a little bit of getting used to but hey this is what the alpha's all about okay
um good little graphic as well next to it it's a shame that those weren't animated
then again so many missions you can't really voice act them and animate them all
selecting a mission you get another pop-up and that's a windows 10 sort of pop-up that
we've all come to come to see this is perhaps i think perhaps the most interesting part of
it is these common terminals to go and get your missions then you're into some sort of like lobby
or foyer or departure lounge area with the pods that will take you to your ship and your hangar
okay quite like the idea of this as well reminds me a little bit of the turbo lifts in star wars
go to the left where do you want to go i'll go to my dolphin thanks very much
and hopefully different ships that you have parked there you can select which area you want to go to
at that particular screen so that'd be quite good so we've arrived we've reached our destination
again you've got another departure lounge area a couple of seats knocking about
whatever that is some sort of box on the seat and there's your ship because this is the pre
loading area for any cargo that you might want to be putting on there and then you walk across the
landing pad and then you get an idea of the scale of the ship you are flying now we've seen the
interior of this particular pad before you know when you're the external camera i certainly use
it a lot in my streams um here we go underneath the ship to the blue entrance and egress area
head towards it and that's it you're in your ship click board and you're away so it's gonna be good
to get around in that one particular area and have a good walking around of of this underhanger as
well but is it gonna get old too quickly that's what i'm wondering is it gonna get too old people
are gonna go oh they've slowed the game down too much um have you got to get out of your ship to
go and get those missions or can you get it all from the interface from your ship again that's
more questions isn't it hopefully you can and if they if you can't they've really missed a trick
so here we go this is the last bit of the footage they're heading out now towards the egress point
of the station looks like an awful lot of work has been down the inside of that as well it might just
be the graphics card they're using certainly looks like there's been an awful lot of graphical work
done on it although you know no changes to the interior cockpits of the ship and why change
what works interesting to know if you can still change all your head colors as you know i've got
my head color changed to something bizarre though blues and reds which would be quite nice and that
is basically the end of the station walk around so it's all going to be happening on monday the 29th
hopefully unless they put it back unless they find another catastrophic bug that's gonna offload um
their plans in regards to releasing this they didn't give a time on the stream either
um chances are it's not going to be in the morning it's more than likely going to be in
the afternoon about 3 4 o'clock um fortunately for me i'm able to download it i work from home so as
soon as it gets released i will be downloading it and streaming it on the monday but some great
footage a few of the mechanics especially around you know people walking was a little bit sketchy
but again hey pre-alpha footage um and you gotta bear that in mind i've been ricardo
thanks very much for watching this breakdown of what the station tour was hope you enjoyed it
tune in to the streams on a saturday and sunday and also on monday the 29th
we'll be having a first look of what elite dangerous odyssey is all about see you soon
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