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Llega esta especia de liga de combates al universo de Elite Dangerous.
Primero está en una beta en la XBox, pero en breve estará en todos las plataformas (PC y Mac)
En el último newsletter hablan de que ahora su equipo es más grande que nunca y tienen mucha gente trabajando en novedades para ED en secreto.
De momento, la rumorología es la siguiente:

Esta semana en el salón de "Gamescom" el equipo de Frontier ha hecho un esperado anuncio para los elitistas :twisted:





Elite Dangerous: Horizons. Lo que será el primer pack de expansiones. La primera expansión de esta temporada. Aterrizajes planetarios.
De momento solo se podrán hacer aterrizajes en planetas sin atmósfera ya que todavía está en desarrollo todo el tema de dinámica de fluidos y las posibles "meteos" alienígenas. Pero por el momento se podrá:

- Aterrizar en puertos espaciales en la superficie de lunas y planetas. Aterrizar o bien en el puerto espacial o en cualquier lugar que te apetezca siempre que sea adecuado para el aterrizaje.

- Escanear la superficie en busca de otras naves, instalaciones, minas, restos de naves destruidas y fortalezas. Esto abre el juego a nuevas posibilidades de infiltración, escondite, minería, etc.

- Tomar conciencia de la auténtica escala 1/1 de la Vía Láctea simulada en ED. Seremos capaces de pilotar a través de cañones y sortear montañas.

- Aparece el efecto de la gravedad y cambiará totalmente la manera de pilotar las naves. Requerirá desarrollar nuevas destrezas al cambiar totalmente el modelo de vuelo.

- Todo ello sin carga de pantallas o pausas en el juego.

- La posibilidad de usar un robot "rover" de exploración (SRV), con el que podremos movernos por la superficie del planeta, y por lugares que nuestras naves no pueden acceder. Además tendrán un tamaño más parecido al humano y podremos apreciar el gran tamaño que tienen las naves de ED. En la parte final del video aparece uno de estos SRV, modelo Scarab que es todo terreno y tiene impulsores para sortear obstáculos en planetas de baja gravedad.


Con todo ello creo que Elite Dangerous ha dado el gran salto que le hacía falta y mejora en gran medida el buen simulador espacial que ya era. Ya han dicho que esta no será la única expansión de "Elite Dangerous: Horizons" ya que ellos a esto lo consideran como la segunda temporada de ED con sus expansiones. Y para los que los que adquirieron el "lifetime expansions" ED:Horizons será gratuito.

Quien no lo posea volará en la misma galaxia y será afectado por los mismos eventos que los demás. No afecta a quien decida "no expandir" ;)
Recordemos que los elitistas de la "primera temporada" aun nos tienen que dar algunas expansiones por la patilla como la de CQC.



Fuente:
Spoiler

Hi everyone,

As you can all imagine, it’s been a busy week here and I’m sure that you’re all as excited by the announcement for Elite Dangerous: Horizons as we are! We’ve been working hard on this release for some time now so it’s a good feeling to be able finally talk about it. I hope you’ll indulge me a little if I take this week’s dev update to talk more about the teaser trailer and what’s coming with the new Elite Dangerous: Horizons season, and the first expansion of that season, Planetary Landings.

This first expansion kicks off with the ability to land on airless planets and moons. It’s a great technical step forward, and more adds a huge amount of gameplay.

Gameplay extends seamlessly from space to the surface, so that you and your Wing can take a mix and match approach to tackling missions. It also adds new types of missions to engage in. Scanning planets and moons from space is used to detect signals, crashed ships, mineral deposits, outposts and fortresses. Playing alone or with friends on the ground and in the skies above, you can explore, mine and engage hostile forces as you attempt to infiltrate strongholds guarding valuable rewards.

While flying above the surface in Orbital Cruise you can discover points of interest like landed ships and surface installations. There will be star ports on the surface which can be docked at, although you can land anywhere on the surface that takes your fancy long as the terrain is appropriate, all without loading screens or breaks in gameplay.

As you approach the planet surface the effect of gravity kicks in and changes the flight model and so giving you a new set of flying skills to master. And the 1:1 scale planets and moons take our fantastic simulation to a new level, allowing you to swoop though canyons and skim mountain-tops.

For closer interaction you can deploy a Surface Recon Vehicle (SRV) and drive to locations to discover new points of interest. The SRV allows you to get to places where your ship can’t and to interact with new elements for mining, exploration, combat and missions. This really extends the scale of the game downwards to something more human-sized – and you can appreciate how big even a Sidewinder is compared to the SRV, and how truly huge the planets are.

The first SRV is the Scarab that you see at the end of the teaser trailer. The Scarab is designed to cross the roughest terrain and has some very cool features, such as thrusters to help jump gulleys and surmount obstacles. The thrusters are also very useful for pushing you down onto the surface in low gravity environments, to give you grip where you need it.

Of course its a lot of fun just to blast round, explore and just take in the views, but again it’s both a new set of skills to learn and gameplay possibilities to integrate with the rest of Elite Dangerous. SRVs are very small, and difficult to track by flying spacecraft, and enable you to tackle some of the fortifications you’ll find planetside in a different way from what you can do in a spaceship.

There is a lot for even the most experienced pilots to get their teeth into, and of course there’s also the simple joy in being on the surface and watching the sun rise above the horizon (hence the name!). I’m looking forward to seeing the incredible new screenshots people will be able to share.

As with our previous major updates, the Elite Dangerous: Horizons season of content is more than just the headline features. We will also continue to expand and build upon what is already in game. This will include missions, player roles and events in the galaxy, and many other features we have not yet discussed.

Some of these additions will be exclusive to Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ season owners (and if you have the lifetime expansion pass then you of course get it automatically). Others may be more fundamental, or are needed for the whole player-base so will be available to all players.

Throughout the season there will be major updates adding features and content. One example, which we will be talking more about in the near future, is a new loot and crafting system which again we expect to transform the gameplay experience.

For now this is just a quick dip into what’s coming. We’ll reveal more details as we progress.

We have always been very clear about our intentions for paid major gameplay updates like this as we continue to deliver on our roadmap, and so developing the game towards our long term goals. And in 2015 we still have CQC to release on PC and Mac in September alongside the full Xbox release, and a further update at the time of Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ launch that will bring our total of playable ships up to 30!

What we are doing is new in many ways, both technically and in terms of how we are realizing our long term ambitions for Elite Dangerous. As we evolve the game we are trying to give the best value we can to both existing and new players, for the long term benefit of everyone. That’s why we’ve worked hard to keep backwards compatibility for the Elite Dangerous: Horizons season, and are continuing to release updates for ‘season one’ players. Everyone will continue to fly in the same galaxy, and be impacted by, participate in and help to drive the same events.

Recordemos que los elitistas de la "primera temporada" aun nos tienen que dar algunas expansiones por la patilla como la de CQC.

¿Seguro?

Porque en CE hay un revuelo de la ostia con el tema.

Saludos

Respuesta de Brett C. en el anuncio de ED. Reiterado después en el foro:

That’s why we’ve worked hard to keep backwards compatibility for the Elite Dangerous: Horizons season, and are continuing to release updates for ‘season one’ players.

Muy interesante :)

Expansiones y actualizaciones del juego, no son lo mismo.

Saludos

The Close Quarters Combat, abbreviated as CQC, is an upcoming update in Elite: Dangerous that brings a separate mode from Open Play and Solo that consists of several competitive modes including 12 player Free-For-All, 6v6 Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag. The player will be able to fly the Sidewinder, Eagle and F63 Condor, unlock modules, weapons and abilities.[1]

Following CQC will be another free expansion, tentatively called Ships, focused on—obviously—ships. The update will raise the number of flyable vessels from the existing 20 to 30; several of the upcoming ships have been name-dropped by Frontier already (including the Panther Clipper, the Federal Corvette, the Imperial Eagle, the Federal Dropship Mk. II, and most recently the Cobra Mk IV). The Ships update is expected to be released this holiday season.

And that brings us to Horizons, the first major paid update to the game

El CQC pertenece a la "primera temporada de ED" y será gratis para todo el mundo. Sale en Septiembre para PC. Mac y XBox. Después sale "ships". Y después... Elite Dangerous:Horizons. Este no es gratis y de momento solo para PC.

Exacto, de hecho CQC es una expansión que no estaba programada.

Triunfazo para los que pillamos el "lifetime expansion pass" por 40 pavos, por una vez no activar el modo waitingman tuvo sus ventajas :mrgreen:

Los backers que lo comprasteis por 40 triunfasteis como la Coca Cola. Ahora vuelven a vender el "lifetime expansions" pero a 175 pavos :| :shock:
Ya no vale la pena.

Saludos