Elite on Kickstarter...

[Mat]

I'm never going to come out of my oculus am I :/

Yeah, but judging by the comments, you'll be coming in your Oculus a lot, eh? EH?


/coat

[Muttley]

In the new build they added the ability to take 4x screenshots and last night I made a few and stuck them in imgur if you fancy a look (they're quite large at 6400x3600 resolution): http://imgur.com/a/Zz13P

[Istar]

My boss stops by my desk two or three times a week to share ED and NMS vids/screenies - we were just looking at these 4K shots and drooling, when a nasty thought occurred to me.

What if we get so good, as a species, at modelling rich universes to explore, that we lose interest in the real one? Why bother spending trillions on trying to develop Alcubierre-type FTL if instead you can blow a grand on a PC rig and navigate a simulation at huge FTL speeds, exploring strange new worlds and discovering things without the hassle of worrying about breathable atmospheres, gravity extremes, alien biospheres, etc.

That would be a shame. And maybe it accounts for the lack of visible drive-trails in the night sky - everyone else out there is wearing their own VR suits and exploring universes we can't see.

Although maybe we could then link them up, and play together in a universe-spanning universe sim.

OK back to work.

[Muttley]

Newsletter #29 has just come out.

The big news is that standard Beta is scheduled to start on July 29th, with the Lifetime Expansion Pass (which includes all future expansions) which was aimed to be a reward for early backers will be withdrawn from sale on the same date.

Some more cool pics too:

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

The detail of modelling is really lovely isn't it?

[Darkflame]

Need to work on that planets continents a bit though in the last screenshot it looks a bit ropey.

[Muttley]

Need to work on that planets continents a bit though in the last screenshot it looks a bit ropey.

Yeah, it's still WIP.

[Muttley]

A cool Rock, Paper, Shotgun story: Words Which Fail To Do Justice To Elite 4 On Oculus Rift

[Misfit]

A cool Rock, Paper, Shotgun story: Words Which Fail To Do Justice To Elite 4 On Oculus Rift

Can't wait. So beta is 29th July. Will my DK2 be here by then? There is hope.

Will I try the Beta without my DK2 I'm thinking not....

[Muttley]

Took a rather nice 4x screenshot (6400 x 3600) of the LHS 3006 system last night: Click for Pic

System details from one of the newsletters:

LHS 3006 – an M5V orange/red dwarf star

LHS 3006 has a low population extraction economy (a Federal Corporate State).

A tiny system, recently (in stellar terms) stripped of its planets in a close encounter with another star, leaving just Vulcan in the eccentric orbit it has today. Vulcan is still in the process of cooling and reforming from the cataclysm, with the giant ring system the only remnant of the other body with which it collided. Ores and minerals are readily available in both the rings and on the surface, and are actively mined by the WCM Corporation.

[Muttley]

Great David Braben talk from Nordic Game 2014

[Muttley]

Found an amusing bug:

[Muttley]

Just look at the friggin' detail on this: http://i.imgur.com/XMOeKol.jpg

[Istar]

[IronGiant]

Wow!