Bas Bijl that's the idea

Zecr i know. but fd really did a good job on these

It gives the the place and situation some weight. Makes it feel real.

Creepy, frightening.... .... Depressing....

@@davecrupel2817 Even more frightening considering the current pandemic.

Nope. Just more to look at and wish for more.

One can hope.

Not everyone obeys galatic law bud. pirates and scavs exsist all over and theres got to be some mighty fine loot and artifacts in that ship.

SC will ofer such things :)

Can you imagine though? What if your suit ruptured and you caught the virus thing and then you docked at a station and caused an epidemic leading to community goals for cures and stuff. THAT is emergent gameplay frontier. Admittedly, they are making steps in the right direction but it's taken 2 years post release to even get voice acted logs in the game?!

Humans and human environment carry thousands of different cells, bacterias and viruses. Odds are that those alien viruses could have been killed I think. We are alient and dangerous to them the same way they are to us.

Alien micro organisms are most likely going to be pretty much "incompatible" with us, but that's all hard to tell because we've never found one yet. Still, pandemics are pretty much the number one most likely thing that could cause our species to go extinct here on Earth, a crowded spaceship with limited resources and FTL capabilities is even worse and a pretty scary scenario.

There's really no reason to think an extraterrestrial virus would be any less compatible with us than a terrestrial one. If you're talking about bacteria, sure-- that's a life form, and bound to be limited by all sorts of environmental factors. But viruses have no metabolic processes at all-- they're like random bits of data.

Think about it as if it is in relation to the disease that the Spaniards brought to central America. The indigenous people were susceptible to the disease and their bodies couldnt fight it off, yet it was alien to them. The "incompatible" argument falls apart there. We would be in the same shoes as the indigenous people of central America. Our bodies wouldnt know wtf the foreign microbe is, therefore we couldnt fight it and it could potentially kill us just like happened with this Generation Ship. They really should have ejected the infected person into space for the greater good of the community as soon as they realized the infection was alien. Perhaps kept a sample in a lab that would be indefinitely quarantined, with only one or two scientists/doctors studying it until they could come up with an immunization, or die trying.

+Viral Inspirations but the virus will not have the key protein for accessing the cell. Our earth viruses works only because we both coexisted MILLIARDS of years together. Coevolution. Our body will try to reject any foreigh bodies. And again: just by the number of living things in our body, we have more odds to kill the virus/bacteria since we have more types of organisms and immune mechanisms! Also viruses do not live by themselves because they need other living things to reproduce.

P3PO or System Shock

P3PO I was thinking about The Expanse.

Flesjemetwater uu yea

I was thinking HomeWorld: Cataclysm.

Funny coincidence: Today I saw my first stream of that game (didn't know it before) and today I first visited that generation ship. Now, after that, I saw your comment (first time).

Conserved for all eternaty in the cold hard vacuum of space. And disease as well.... Now Im really sad....

The thetis ship, blood all over the walls, crazed people, writing in blood. Dark hallways. Yeah, thats fucking Terrifying

Its time bois, odyssey awaits

@@SanctifiedEternity I dont think it will have that many features, probably just walking on planets

@@kiselinaV it won't have many when it first comes out lost likely. But ik sure they will be adding a plethora of features post-release

There are stellar phenomena in that system, you can check them out, they are definitely life that survives in vacuum.

Oh, the thargoids, I get it now.

As he said, quite a few did manage, but many didn't as this one did not

The Imperials reached Achenar on a generation ship didn't they?

I believe the starting planet in the original Elite game (Lave) was colonized by these generation ships.

Kudos for LOTR reference :)

Pretty sure that's an Event Horizon reference too.

The Background Gamer took em only 2 years

"He is dead, Jim" :,(

György Mohl it's for Xbox too if you have one that said pc is better

György Mohl I play on a 2 year old laptop with an intergrated graphics card from amd and I still very much enjoy the game

Cody Taylor Nope, i don't have any consoles. The plus side is, that when i'll buy a new pc, the game will be even more detailed (i really wait for more planetary landings 😀)

***** I have a 1GB gtx 550ti video card, that's not enough unfortunately 😕 Nevermind, i'll keep working, and hopefully will have the time to play, too

Max Stone My pc is already 5 years old, and it wasn't a gamer config back then either 😀 But i think an upgrade will be neccessary anyways, my work would need a stronger gpu too...

***** What if it lies dormant?

Someone needs to dock with it and investigate. Not me obviously. I mean, I'd love to... but I'm busy. I've got that...thing I need to do...in that place. Tell you what, why don't you go and let us know what you find. Don't tell me in person though. A text is fine.

Ryan Mitchell not just still onboard. In space too. they were throwing bodies out of the airlock. Bacteria can last thousands of years in space. so be careful what you pick up out there.

But if it was caught by the scientist cut in space then doesn't that mean it can survive fine in a vacuum? Or at least a form of it. I think it could still be around.

earl gαy a good point. but nowhere near as fun.

Thank you! :) Yes, I would love to see a lot more voice acting in Elite as well. I suspect it will come eventually...

W4DER that, and it needs to be organically discoverable, like with a discovery scanner pulse giving you an idea that a beacon pointing to something like what was in the video was within the current system. Then you go to any stellar body within the system to try an find the beacon(s) telling the player how to find the generation ship (for example), and voila! No need to decipher overly cryptic messages, just the wherewithal to seek and you shall find.

Evan Robertson but then everyone would find everything withing a few days. that's boring. I prefer that we have to figure out things like this. that its cryptic. makes the discoveries worth more.

Angry comment omitted out of respect and agreement with your sentiment.

munky342 there's 400 billion star systems and it's an example, not saying eveything has to be like that. however realistically technology would make it that I'm easy in elite, if not easier but so far it's difficult to prolong gameplay even if they community speaks out hate on that and want some life on the game

And these discoverys should be made public via galnet. Like when you open galnet you get a message: "BREAKING NEWS: GENERATIONSHIP DISCOVERD IN..."

there's a surprising amount of stuff, it's just hard to find, because you get few or no clues about where to go (which is nice to an extent, but it would also be nice if frontier made some of it more accessible). I went to some abandoned planetary settlements that someone else found (didn't even show up on scanners, so you have to know the coordinates or randomly stumble across it), and they had cool stories like this. One was about trapped miners and a corporate cover up, and the other was about a mysterious dead body and creepy "presence" lurking on the planet surface. Unlike this though, the data logs weren't voice acted. And just like the generation ships (and the planetary cities, stations, outposts, etc) the settlements are really atmospheric. One of them had an alarm that would periodically go off, with a voice telling you to evacuate (with screwed up sound, because it's been repeating for dozens or hundreds of years). Now frontier just needs to tie more of it into missions, and to also give us some FPS gameplay, to really bring this stuff to life.

Part of the problem is a lot of the stuff so far have been found because the player base have cheated, so the player base isn't being trained enough into how to find these things. The Guardians bases were suppose to be discovered in a certain way that was abandoned because we found them use the game trailer instead, Jacques station was suppose to be found following clues planted all over human space in news feeds, which would have surely train hundreds of people into reading the local news feeeds, but someone instead found it using the filters on the galactic map.

Just think about the hard cash you can make when you sell the exploration data ^^ That will make the trip easier

That is how a big sandbox game works. There is no "every player get the same content" and that is good so. You can be lucky and get more out of the game in 100h than other players in 1000h or you are the other player. Life is not fair, a sandbox game is not fair too. All what you can do to be on the better side is, to watch out for such discoveries from the community and fly there by your own like I do.

I'm not expecting the same content just more, more things to discover more stories to unfold, even if they are shared between players, actual missions that require more then fly here turn around and fly back. The only real content at the moment besides the rare once in a blue moon stories is player created content, expeditions, player groups, etc. I was part of the group that first discovered the barnacles and sure it was exciting, but exciting once a year or so doesn't cut it for content. Even tying CGs into stories would be great but that too most of the time is a missed opportunity. I could go on with ideas but they seem to fall on deaf ears.

Sorry, misunderstood this. You are right, there should be much more in it, but that is easy said, we don't know why there is not more in it, possible they have a too small dev team because of too less money for such things. Money is badly too often the reason why there is so much unused potential in a game and ED is a hugh game because they must fill a complete galaxy. I must say I like user generated Content, players can do so much by herself to fill a Sandbox game, but you need good peoples that plan and make that stuff the right way so that many have fun with it. We could also need much more of such players.

You mean it looks like a realistic spaceship with a proper whipple shield. The Icarus from Sunshine does not have any means of generating its own gravity though. The crew would be in freefall all the time except when doing a burn.

yeah I was thinking that too.

Karolina Wyszyńska Lol, exactly

SquaredSpekz awesome sauce!

Ross Balmer Didn't play any of the old games... what's a dredger?

PLKarmann A gas giant dwelling monster of death

Old glory ohh... okay...

Like the Generation Ships, Space Dredgers were mentioned in the booklet for the original 1984 Elite, but never actually appeared in the game. They are huge factory ships that scour space for debris.

Hopefully 2.4. or 3.0, after all someone got to clean up all of the mess the aliens will undoubtedly leave behind.

Thats the thing. I dont know much about Elites lore but Im sure by the time this happened the FSD was already a thing. Problem was, the ship was so far out, they didnt know where to look, not to mention the lack of communication over such wast distances.

Doesn't have to be a weapon. A protein structure such as a virus or microbe could be naturally-occuring. Doesn't even have to be a protein structure either. Many things could screw with the immune system and turn it against itself.

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