hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous and our odyssey footage
of the latest mission has dropped along with when the alpha is going to be released
let's take a look at the mission give our thoughts really break it down and take it apart
so straight off the bat let's address the elephant in the room when are we gonna get our hands on
this pre-alpha footage well the 29th of march is when it's gonna drop so check back for more
videos on this then so let's take a look at what happened in the actual footage we've been given
so dave braven came on and said hey you know they're doing a good job of getting things sorted
out here we are on approach directly to a planet and the planet rendering i think looks absolutely
fantastic i've got to say it what it's going to look like on my old 1070 graphics card though
i don't know and that's what i think is going to be the key thing to take a look at
so our pilot has dropped the ship down to the planet that's great
he's landed it's a munition stockade and here come our protagonists we get a good look at the suits
as well there's skimmers flying around um footprints on the floor excellent lighting
coming down over the ridge line we've got here and that's great absolutely brilliant
now they're saying that they're currently clean so if the guards approach them uh just let them
be scanned don't go firing until they get to the objective so obviously you know notoriety
and your status is obviously going to take some sort of toll on this so century skimmers
they're avoiding uh the guards there's a bit of stealth and line of sight avoision going on
and that's good stuff there's the command center right at the back
that's where they're going there goes our ship good luck if you need me all right see you later
again excellent nice to see a bit of blue on the planets as well between the blue the black moving
to the blue on the sky and down here we're getting a damn good look at the um the hud
i see two personnel over the other side just outside sure everyone's moving up
now they're scanning everybody okay we have some medical supplies quintessential med kits
you just know that's a med kit just by looking at it and that's great
a little bit of a michael jackson shuffle going on there with that character as he was sidestepping
didn't look too out of place though i got eyes on the power building are we okay to
move up yeah let's move across to the command center i wonder if the footprints on the sand
right on your mark change when we walk across them that's going to be something to take a look at
all right guys i'm in position i went behind the ridgeline what's in that box there
on the left hand side storage crate there don't know what that is can you access it i don't know
yeah it looks like we've already having a good look around the skimmers are still flying around
that's good i'm sprinting over so very sort of sneaky beaky it kind of reminds me of solid snake
and now we've got the bit of hacking going on and you can see where they've sort of like channeled
or we're gonna we're gonna cut that panel open alien style um then fuse fuse the door to get in
right could you cover me so this is this is cutter all right cutting it down
at least it doesn't take too long to do the cutting
like it does in some games so that's quite good
panels down but that falls off switching to the engine this is um the siphon tool siphon the
power out perhaps okay okay everyone's having a good look round are there any guards coming
so he's gonna siphon the power and that's gonna open the outer door now the people inside are
completely oblivious to this the fact that the doors opened and someone's cut a panel off
so they're going to take out the workers inside but ash for the workers coming in just doing
their jobs looking forward to their sandwiches at dinner time and they get popped in the back
this is a little bit funky it all went a little bit lord of the dance then with his legs if you
notice excellent okay so that's the reactor looks very soft warp quarry reactor-ish doesn't it
very good like it wouldn't be too out of place on star trek so they've interfaced with the panel
all right shut the core down right okay i mean i'm getting ready to disengage the regulator
so the alarm is going to go off you ready yep right disengage the regulator okay do that then
okay right so the base is on alert you've got the lights nice flashing alert sound
lights flashing all around the base and now all the guards are waking up let's get ready
if you want them as well so there's more med kits inside good good stuff for that we have
three guards here come all the guards they've got their shields on but shields will look a
bit i mean i don't and i've watched this a couple of times how many times you got to shoot somebody
to drop them because he's letting him have it good and proper right shooting shooting
shooting shoot his shields look like he's gone but we don't see anybody sort of like you know
hitting the dirt as it were a bit a long range he's got like an extended scope nice realm as well
we are three quarters of the way done i'd get those engines warmed up as well so we've
got like a small handheld smg so like you know very much like what a lot of scouts use you've
seen that on other sort of like first person games and i gotta say it seems to be playing
quite well it's pre-alpha footage right it's it's pre-alpha so there's gonna be some tweaking done
how much longer do you need i'd say another five seconds right here comes the pilot he's coming in
for his evac they're picking up the regulator so he's got the regulator there's loads of
guards outside now this is the bit i found a bit odd so we're doing a run for it now right yeah
people are shooting at us great there's shield strength there as well 70 bottom
left-hand corner they're making it out to the west side of the of the base here comes our pilot
west side west side we're going to need you soon pilot
smg sort of thing again i mean how many guards are there and how many do you have to take out
of course the skimmer the goliath skimmers having a go at them now like it's a shame really um
you can't lay down some additional fire in the ship a few more moments
um and it's that skimmer does have the ability to scan the ship
and are these people who have pulled off this heist are they now wanted have they been scanned
okay so they get into this this blue regular circle mark which means they can get onto the ship
so let's have a look at some of the key points so we've got our first real look of being outside
and walking around i mean no footprints hopefully that's gonna be put in later there are footprints
around showing where people are moving good view of the ridgeline good lighting effects nice to
see a blue sky once in a while we can see where areas have been traveled as well inside the base
um and that can also gauge i think when where people are moving and where you
know the movement lines of troops in the base actually are now here we've got our med packs
so they're left lying around good to have them it's a good placement as well when you see that
a little bit later on like in in the actual so like the encampment in the room this guy look i
thought this was a bit of a problem beforehand but he's doing a good sort of sideways shuffle
um because he's looking so he's sidestepping and i thought that was a good um effect okay moving on
so we've got the habitation we've got command you know all these different areas you want to avoid
obviously you want to avoid habitation when you're storming somewhere there's the command center as
well we've got the you know the track marks in the sand on the planet surface showing where people
have been so you know where to avoid we've got the cutting tool i like the look of this you know
very so reminiscent of aliens cutting that panel open and then giving it a bit of mischief this
needs work though uh and let's talk about this a minute now it is pre-alpha footage though when he
got shot it was legs and arms everywhere falling through steps so you know this kind of needs a bit
of work because people are just going to pick up on this and tear it apart i mean you know
obviously it's pre-alpha footage let's hope it gets fixed so moving on there's the reactor
core and what you've got to get out you've got to disengage that disengage the regulator regulator
pops out that was quite good and then when you start engaging the guards their shield comes on
you hit them a couple of times the shield goes off but i didn't see anyone actually put down
and then there they are on their way out you know laser beams firing everywhere you've got looks
like explosive canisters here there and everywhere as well again more shielded guards coming at you i
mean what's it gonna take to get someone put down on the deck so they don't shoot you and then we've
got you know the uh the escape to the ship uh with the goliath skimmer taking people off as well
forging the ship not taking any damage so in all i was quite impressed with it needs more polish
i mean but they're putting a full first person shooter and stealth game into a space combat game
so it's trying to be all things to all people and you know no one is ever really going to be
happy i think but for pre-alpha i thought it looked alright hey i've been ricardo thanks
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