Elite Future?

[Roma Caput Mundi]

I was off the game for almost an year , I recently return playing and I still find this game really "attractive" and love to spend time here , I was wondering if there is some roadmap or some news for the future of the game? Frontier can not make this game gone forever

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Elite present is: it is working.

Elite future is unknown. There are no roadmaps or news. There are more updates to come - that's what we know, more or less for sure.

[Sleeper]

I'd prefer FD focus on revamping and renovate existing features rather then introducing half-baked new stuff like int he past like some checkbox. Station interiors could use more variety, develop more space anomalies for exploration, more planet variations, constant improvement in all areas.

[malorob]

Yes we are still waiting on the Panther Clipper to be added to the game

[Agent X ™]

I feel like the should beef up AI ship activity to make the world seem more lively. Once you leave the main bubble, it gets dry. Also they need to add cities on planets that we can walk in etc (ship interiors maybe new HUDs). They can do it. Imagine if they would have never put out that Sigmar game and worked on this instead........ Imagine if this game had a few elements from No man's sky. The game has so much potential. Maybe add in some shameless ship supporter DLC for some exclusive ships etc.

[Jeebs]

Originally posted by DYNAMIC ENTRY! ™:

I feel like the should beef up AI ship activity to make the world seem more lively. Once you leave the main bubble, it gets dry. Also they need to add cities on planets that we can walk in etc (ship interiors maybe new HUDs). They can do it. Imagine if they would have never put out that Sigmar game and worked on this instead........ Imagine if this game had a few elements from No man's sky. The game has so much potential. Maybe add in some shameless ship supporter DLC for some exclusive ships etc.

Most of those things are things I hope never come to Elite, if I'm being honest. I get that some people want these things but I certainly don't. For me the very fact that Elite is not trying to be like every other game, the fact that it's not cramming a survival game element into a space sim, the fact that they have avoided micro-transaction or pay-to-win models that are so prevalent these days, the fact that they decided not to add certain features unless there's some real gameplay loops to go with them... all of these things are what keeps me playing Elite.

It's why I keep choosing Elite over all of these other games people like to compare it to and say "I wish it was like these games" that failed to keep my interest for more than a few dozen hours (if it even managed to get my interest at all). I definitely agree that there's potential for a lot more gameplay loops and things they could add to Elite that would enrich it, but I think they need to keep following their own vision instead of trying to copy other games. I think if they keep doing what they're doing, the game will likely keep going for years yet.

[WhiteBoar]

no more, It will be Elite Dangerous 2 in 2030 .... They are just waiting on people to stop playing.

[slipperyspace]

Originally posted by WhiteBoar:

no more, It will be Elite Dangerous 2 in 2030 .... They are just waiting on people to stop playing.

So glade some one has a crystal ball working, mine has been on the fritz for a while now.

any chance you can tell us more about the future ?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by slipperyspace:

any chance you can tell us more about the future ?

“There are limitless futures stretching out in every direction from this moment—and from this moment and from this. Billions of them, bifurcating every instant! Every possible position of every possible electron balloons out into billions of probabilities! Billions and billions of shining, gleaming futures!”

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by DYNAMIC ENTRY! ™:

I feel like the should beef up AI ship activity to make the world seem more lively. Once you leave the main bubble, it gets dry. Also they need to add cities on planets that we can walk in etc (ship interiors maybe new HUDs). They can do it. Imagine if they would have never put out that Sigmar game and worked on this instead........ Imagine if this game had a few elements from No man's sky. The game has so much potential. Maybe add in some shameless ship supporter DLC for some exclusive ships etc.

No, no and no. Odyssey wasn't enough of a lesson? Now you want cities? Settlements can barely run at interactive frame rates. I don't want any of that in the game. We never learn. And we keep suggesting ridiculous stuff for the game when we have clear examples of why those are really really really really really bad ideas. SMH.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by DYNAMIC ENTRY! ™:

Also they need to add cities on planets that we can walk in etc

We already have cities on a planet that we can walk in. They are just outside of our windows.

I would rather have FDevs to develop something related to space, something that I can't easily do, myself, in real world.

Imagine if this game had a few elements from No man's sky.

No, thanks. Elements of that game kept less than 1/10th of my interest, comparing to this game. This game has better elements already.

The game has so much potential.

Definitely. And it doesn't mean "copying other games" potential.

Maybe add in some shameless ship supporter DLC for some exclusive ships etc.

Just no! If you want to support the game - there are ARX to buy. If you want to buy exclusive ships, then you want to play a tech demo of a game, not Elite: Dangerous.

[Sighman]

Elite won't be a proper game until it has the following:

Base building with a load of expensive interior design DLC. e.g. 400 styles of fridge.
Showering, food and drink, and other essential survival elements.
Manual gathering of sticks and stones to craft your own pickaxe
A cousin who always wants to hang out and play darts
Idle clicker mode for when you're afk
Pets, pet breeding and subsequent pet sales to other players
At least 250 different ships.
Instant travel to cut out all that boring space stuff
Instant engineering to cut out all those grindy gameplay loops like ship to ship combat, cargo hauling, passenger transport, assassinations, base infiltrations, asteroid mining, thargoid hunting, refugee rescues, essential supplies transportation, settlement reactivations, pirate slaying, conflict zones, exploration, thargoid spire shutdowns, piracy, smuggling, scav slaughtering, targeting settlement generators, data courier missions, skimmer hunting, VIP transport, and many others that are just grind, grind, grind even the first time you look at them on a mission board.

[slipperyspace]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Elite won't be a proper game until it has the following:

Base building with a load of expensive interior design DLC. e.g. 400 styles of fridge.
Showering, food and drink, and other essential survival elements.
Manual gathering of sticks and stones to craft your own pickaxe
A cousin who always wants to hang out and play darts
Idle clicker mode for when you're afk
Pets, pet breeding and subsequent pet sales to other players
At least 250 different ships.
Instant travel to cut out all that boring space stuff
Instant engineering to cut out all those grindy gameplay loops like ship to ship combat, cargo hauling, passenger transport, assassinations, base infiltrations, asteroid mining, thargoid hunting, refugee rescues, essential supplies transportation, settlement reactivations, pirate slaying, conflict zones, exploration, thargoid spire shutdowns, piracy, smuggling, scav slaughtering, targeting settlement generators, data courier missions, skimmer hunting, VIP transport, and many others that are just grind, grind, grind even the first time you look at them on a mission board.

allow mod support and all this will be possible & more

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Elite won't be a proper game until it has the following:

I am so glad that Elite is not a "proper" game!
And I heard that the "proper game" is still not a game.

[h1node]

an Interim patch and Update 18 is on the works. They also mentioned a "major feature overhaul" at the start of 2023 but now its almost 2024 and we don't know if frontier expects us to forget it.

My opinions and wants:
It would definitely be great if they did a complete mission and NPC overhaul. incorporating AI into the NPC system would be very good. for example all NPCs have a dynamic voice and speech system. A better mission system where not only you but also your crew and other temporary members will participate will also be good. this would make the game very lively.
And the must-have feature for a new update we all want would definitely be Performance fix. I paid to play Odyssey and i can't even play it on a stable frame rate while horizons run stable 45fps.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by NONSTOPPE9:

an Interim patch and Update 18 is on the works. They also mentioned a "major feature overhaul" at the start of 2023 but now its almost 2024 and we don't know if frontier expects us to forget it.

https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/update-15-upcoming-feature-rework-and-more