Future Development Plans

[Nats]

Have Frontier said anything recently about when atmospheric planets may be introduced into the game? I have been waiting for those to be added for ages - how many years is it now since the Standard Beta was released?

Have they revealed any hints about their future plans at all?

Anyone know what they are working on a the moment, other than Planet Zoo?

Just feel like playing the game again after a (very) long lay off but was wondering if they might be planning a new major development or two in the near-ish future that I might be better off waiting for. Nothing has really grabbed my attention lately that I've noticed in the newsletters, and I haven't seen any development videos or anything lately from Frontier.

Are many people still working on the game do we know?

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Nats:

Have Frontier said anything recently about when atmospheric planets may be introduced into the game?

No. (In fact, they never did.)

Have they revealed any hints about their future plans at all?

Nothing beyond the 2020 announcement and what they dropped at LaveCon the other day.

Are many people still working on the game do we know?

They say there are.

[IVAN__V]

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

Either you or Frontier are lying in that scenario.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

Either you or Frontier are lying in that scenario.

My money are on Frontier knowing more about the development of this game. :)

[Witcher]

I believe (or want to) atmospheric planet landings will come in next paid DLC starting mid-2020.

FD has already revealed Sep update and fleet/squadron carriers in Dec last weekend.

They also said last Apr iirc that a smaller team continues to work on quality of life improvements which will come as 3 or 4 free updates until mid-2020.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

Hmm... i guess the patches just write themselves then!

Wow, FD really have made a breakthrough in software development!

[IVAN__V]

Originally posted by Witcher:

I believe (or want to) atmospheric planet landings will come in next paid DLC starting mid-2020.

FD has already revealed Sep update and fleet/squadron carriers in Dec last weekend.

They also said last Apr iirc that a smaller team continues to work on quality of life improvements which will come as 3 or 4 free updates until mid-2020.

Nobody sees a pattern ? Work..next year..work...last year..next year last year..maybe dlc, maybe no dlc..

Get real.

[IVAN__V]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

Hmm... i guess the patches just write themselves then!

Wow, FD really have made a breakthrough in software development!

Patches? You call those patches? What No mans sky does is called patches..like 20 in 6 months...what Elite dangerous does is called accidentally having the bluetooth mouse in the pocket while sitting on the FD hq toilet and accidentally clicking a button that does a fake update release that contains no new code..sort of like a refreshF5&postupdate button..nothing comes out just a bunch of gibberish and we all know cause they forgot about EDey.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

accidentally clicking a button that does a fake update release that contains no new code..sort of like a refreshF5&postupdate button..nothing comes out just a bunch of gibberish and we all know cause they forgot about EDey.

No new code, yet new exploration and mining mechanics, just recently.

Please, stop the food of your factually incorrect gibberish. "We all" know better, as we actually play this game.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

Originally posted by Witcher:

I believe (or want to) atmospheric planet landings will come in next paid DLC starting mid-2020.

FD has already revealed Sep update and fleet/squadron carriers in Dec last weekend.

They also said last Apr iirc that a smaller team continues to work on quality of life improvements which will come as 3 or 4 free updates until mid-2020.

Nobody sees a pattern ? Work..next year..work...last year..next year last year..maybe dlc, maybe no dlc..

Get real.

The Apr update included a lot of fixes but it also introduced some new features (e.g., ADC & SCA and Pilot's Fed Disctrict) and quality of life improvements that are listed at https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/april-update-patch-notes.509331/.

You are not making any sense with your pattern comment but obviously unhappy over a game? I have played more than a few games but not many will continue to improve on their game designs for free. Most game developers stop updating to improve or fix bugs after 3 months or so.

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by IVAN__V:

LOL this whole post is so funny...nobody's working on anything on Elite Dangerous.

Hmm... i guess the patches just write themselves then!

Wow, FD really have made a breakthrough in software development!

Deep Fix!

[Sapyx]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

Originally posted by Nats:

Have Frontier said anything recently about when atmospheric planets may be introduced into the game?

No. (In fact, they never did.)

Well, I would consider the concept art of atmospheric flight, and Sir DB talking about how much he's looking forward to going on a safari on an alien planet, as "saying things about atmospheric landings", in the general sense that it was assumed that they would in fact be added to the game eventually. But no, no specific or even generic timetable information has ever been released.

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Sapyx:

Well, I would consider the concept art of atmospheric flight, and Sir DB talking about how much he's looking forward to going on a safari on an alien planet, as "saying things about atmospheric landings"

Yeah, I was digging at the "when" in particular. Not that we have much detail on the how and why either.

Much vision, little schedule, probably extremely high complexity to make it happen at a level David wants. E:D was Frontier's first independent game, it's on a massive scope, and the current 2020 schedule is testament to mistakes having been made now standing in the way of said vision. (Frontier effectively said as much when they announced the current development model, and there are several areas that management level folks told us were not too nice, e.g., the HUD system or the block structure of the Milky Way.)

[Nats]

Well there is this:

Current projects:

Planet Coaster
DLC - Currently working on a Ghostbusters pack.

Jurassic World Evolution (Project Nero)
DLC - December will be a 1993 pack with Nublar and Sorna. Classic Jeep track ride to get around. Missions will be to get JP back online.

Elite Dangerous (Project Watson)
Space legs. FPS style gameplay. Thargoids in the flesh that look very Starship Trooper-like. Base building. Coming end of 2020

New projects:

Planet Zoo (Project Darwin) - PC only based on Planet Coaster. Cool weather effects. DLC packs every 3 months or so with the first being around December.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 (Project Galileo) - Just a sequel to JWE. Releasing 2021.

Planet Coaster 2 (Project Einstein) - In talks with Disney about licensing. Not much info on this yet.

Project Marconi - A real time strategy game. Man v Machine and Lego Star Wars are both being worked on.

Jurassic World Survival. A Jurassic World themed survival game. Not much info on this at the moment.

So definitely looks like space legs coming before atmospheric planets which I guess makes sense. But base building?!! Yuk I hate crafting games. Looks like ED will be turning into Arc Survival Evolved in Space, which is a game I don't particularly like much because of the crafting and the lack of decent solo play. Truly hope this game ends up being a lot better than that one, but my hopes are diminishing tbh.

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Nats:

Elite Dangerous (Project Watson)
Space legs. FPS style gameplay. Thargoids in the flesh that look very Starship Trooper-like. Base building. Coming end of 2020

That is a purported "leak" from a highly questionable source. Nobody outside Frontier has any reliable information on the scope of the 2020 update.

(edit) And the same probably goes for the rest of what you dug up there. Remember the "Elite Roadmap" that turned out to be someone's fantasy running wild on Reddit? Yeah, like that.