Thanks for the excellent coverage of the DW3 project, CMDR Buur - its very much appreciated! Even though Horizon's worlds offered more variety, just watching your video there its clear Odyssey, despite its shortfalls, brings a lot of beauty to the galaxy. But we know this can't just be about sightseeing and scanning plant life, there needs to be much more practical gameplay on offer to make it as engaging as possible. It would be a 12-week trek after-all, and that means having lots on offer. Early days yet though, lets see how things pan out in the coming weeks!
Hey Erimus :) Absolutely agree. We find plenty of beautiful vistas for sure but I'm really hopeful that the version of Frontier that we're seeing these days will be in an excellent place to support the event in a similar way to how they have in the past. DW3 would be such a good thing for the new era of Elite Dangerous. Can't wait to see what you guys conjure up between you :) o7
Thankfully no real shortfalls to Odyssey like a lot of the enthusiastic dead game memers claimed. Plenty to do for 12 weeks and to justify a 12 week journey. Many expeditions have successfully hit higher numbers than Mercury 7 crew on longer journeys since DW2.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM Distant Worlds has never been just about exploration though, its been about using an expedition as a background for all sorts of other events and goals to become a part of, some of those events even had little to do with actual exploration. Industry is an example of what DW2 added to that event by building outposts in the deep galaxy. So I get why they say this next one can't just be about scanning plant life. I guess they want to create something that exceeds what DW2 did, and that was a tough act to follow. no one stepped in and even tried, until now!
As an explorer, I feel hopeful for 2025. I'm hearing rumours of work being put in to add more to exploration, and I'm excited to see what we get. I'm also excited to see what community goals we get, as I'm always a fan of those
@SpaceHero-Elite just bits and pieces from the community, but in the last frontier unlocked they did bring up that they were interested in giving content to explorers. No rumours with actual substance on what that actually is beyond colonisation though
EDDB was a big loss, but Inara is a very good alternative. If there's one tool every Cmdr should have above all else, it's ED Market Connector, or EDMC.
I had almost completely given up on the chance of there being a Distant Worlds 3 that I fell out of the community for a while. Looks like I'll need to shake the rust off and get back to exploring!
great video as ever... probably take me a year to get back to the bubble cruising around the Norma Arm presently in the pursuit of juicy LTD's ..oh and pretty views ... o7 cmdrs 🥰
8:17 Magellanic Expansion everyone? Would be dope if Frontier announced a map expansion to the nearest galaxy, with Galnet saying things like "we have found a cluster of stars between milky way and the Magellanic clouds that was presumed to be nonexistent before"
Multi-posting but it just occurred to me that new features / gameplay around FC's would fit well into this since I imagine a lot of players might be hanging out in them. Having more spaces internally, more RP stuff to do (let us actually buy drinks for gods sake!), minigames, maybe even some remote observing / sensing tools? I would love to have scientific instruments on my FC that I could use to scan bodies from a science station before jumping in my ship to go explore them!
Im hoping they’ll sort the loading speed issues soon, it’s made an immersive experience pretty tough. The sound effect of footsteps in the loading screen from the cockpit to a planet’s surface are now more representative as a drip in the coffee machine as you drift off to sleep.
Great video, Cmdr Buur. A DW3 event would be amazing. I haven't played ED in 3+ years, but a DW3 is something that could bring me back. I doubt any of my ship assets are still around, and I wonder if I can still use my Cmdr's name again? I guess I'll see.
@TheBuurPit That's good news. Thank you Cmdr. Buur. I didn't erase anything. But, I'm sure my Fleet Carrier has been repossessed due to lack of payments 🤔. O7
Got the Mandalay yesterday. My god it's an amazing exploration ship. It handles the heat from fuel scooping with ease. I'll be spending even more time in the outer dark than I usually do now!
I'm personally very torn between joining community exploration events & solo exploration. But having missed out on the previous 2 Distant Worlds, I'm pretty eager to see a Distant Worlds 3.
DW2 was amazing, looking forward to whatever may come from the same team and if FDev get on board with something too then maybe it will make the news again. o7
To this day I still don’t understand why people fucking melted down so bad over odyssey. I’ve been playing elite since it came out watched every single update come out and played them all. I put over 1,000 hours into odyssey and still love it. Obviously there was updates to make it work better etc but when they gave me the ability to leave my ship elite became my all time favorite game. I have played every space game out there and I keep coming back to elite. I can say I would not be playing elite today if they just released more ships and even gave interiors like everyone wanted etc. I love space combat but the icing on the cake is rovers and ground.
Well not everyone has the same tastes or opinions. Just cause someone doesn't like something that you do doesn't mean it is wrong, I got near 1k hours in elite also but it just got incredibly boring for me there's a couple things that just annoy the hell out of me.
The person in charge of adding new entries to the EDSM Expedition list has been on vacation or in Do Not Disturb mode on Discord since October of last year. I've been unable to get my last 2 Exploration Expeditions listed and am about to give up on EDSM Expedition l8sting them,
I want to do a distant worlds run! I spend weeks outside of the bubble! I always miss all the events being in America. Usually all of the events take place when I am working or helping someone. Looking forward to DW3 but if it is in early July I will be in Japan and will not be on for two weeks. CMDR: S. R. Siege
thats one of the Guardian Technolgie SLF's there are 3 types of them which can be unlocked from Techbrookers, though iam not sure which of the ones is shown here
There is no point to ship interiors in ED. Even if they somehow did it, it would be utterly useless or used as a way to make gameplay annoying. Go play some SC for a while. You will get over the interior thing pretty quick...
To expand the exploration gameplay a bit perhaps we could have another suit. Only one where we go outside our ships in space to do manual repairs or whatever. We could even use this for sabotage or possibly putting trackers on other ships. An actual space suit with thrusters to interact with abandoned space stations maybe?
If you want to expand the user base then I think Elite has been heading in the wrong direction. All the development seems to have been orientated towards a small cadre of existing, experienced players. If the new ships indicate a new trend towards a 'flight sim' exploration type game then it might bring in more users. Just give us something worth exploring. Perhaps what we really need is a new, spin-off game without the complications of factions, complex weapons systems, innumerable modules, gankers etc etc. They could call it Elite Undangerous. 😀
i want "ship interior" & "thick clouds and weather system like rain and storm in the planets" "ship interior" will significantly increase the value of every single ships and sizes, the best feature on "star citizen", that game is getting so much money just from this feature only, and our "elite dangerous devs team" says "ship interior" is a useless and pointless feature? this will be the biggest mistake of there life! i bought "elite dangerous" after odyssey dlc just because u can walk in the planet and shoot like a real space sim game! suppose if "elite dangerous devs team" thought that walking on the planet is also a pointless feature then i would never bought the game! just imagine if this game makes "ship interior" then all of those "star citizen" hungry people out there like me, who can't run the game or don't wanna spend money to an unfinished product, they will all come to this game, cos this game runs well and it's a good finished product! some how i feel devs lost there passion about this game, big mistake there life again!
You need to describe a compelling game loop for interiors to become a thing. My experience thus far is 'make accessing menus really slow' and for that I cite Vista Genomics. Instead of land in station/fleet carrier, go to services/cartography/sell like you do with system data, you have to disembark, walk somewhere else and then access the sell menu. zzzzzz Atmospheric planets on the other hand - there's a whole plethora of options; new physics challenges (wind, visibility), new life to discover - perhaps with 'birds' that can add further challenges (damage to cockpit when colliding) or aggressive life that wants to eat you....many possibilities and a much better use of time spent I think
Thanks for the excellent coverage of the DW3 project, CMDR Buur - its very much appreciated!
Even though Horizon's worlds offered more variety, just watching your video there its clear Odyssey, despite its shortfalls, brings a lot of beauty to the galaxy. But we know this can't just be about sightseeing and scanning plant life, there needs to be much more practical gameplay on offer to make it as engaging as possible. It would be a 12-week trek after-all, and that means having lots on offer. Early days yet though, lets see how things pan out in the coming weeks!
Looking forward to seeing updates on DW3! Really hope it's happening!
Looking forward to where this all goes! Would be amazing to see it happen, o7
Hey Erimus :)
Absolutely agree. We find plenty of beautiful vistas for sure but I'm really hopeful that the version of Frontier that we're seeing these days will be in an excellent place to support the event in a similar way to how they have in the past.
DW3 would be such a good thing for the new era of Elite Dangerous. Can't wait to see what you guys conjure up between you :) o7
Thankfully no real shortfalls to Odyssey like a lot of the enthusiastic dead game memers claimed. Plenty to do for 12 weeks and to justify a 12 week journey. Many expeditions have successfully hit higher numbers than Mercury 7 crew on longer journeys since DW2.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM Distant Worlds has never been just about exploration though, its been about using an expedition as a background for all sorts of other events and goals to become a part of, some of those events even had little to do with actual exploration. Industry is an example of what DW2 added to that event by building outposts in the deep galaxy. So I get why they say this next one can't just be about scanning plant life. I guess they want to create something that exceeds what DW2 did, and that was a tough act to follow. no one stepped in and even tried, until now!
As an explorer, I feel hopeful for 2025. I'm hearing rumours of work being put in to add more to exploration, and I'm excited to see what we get. I'm also excited to see what community goals we get, as I'm always a fan of those
Got a link to those new exploration content rumours?
@SpaceHero-Elite just bits and pieces from the community, but in the last frontier unlocked they did bring up that they were interested in giving content to explorers. No rumours with actual substance on what that actually is beyond colonisation though
I am not playing ED anymore for almost one year now, but I am still watching your videos. Great work
So well put! And thanks for mentioning the seals, Arf!
It's nice we're back in an era of new community tools being developed. It felt like the tools community was closing up shop.
EDDB was a big loss, but Inara is a very good alternative. If there's one tool every Cmdr should have above all else, it's ED Market Connector, or EDMC.
I had almost completely given up on the chance of there being a Distant Worlds 3 that I fell out of the community for a while. Looks like I'll need to shake the rust off and get back to exploring!
great video as ever... probably take me a year to get back to the bubble cruising around the Norma Arm presently in the pursuit of juicy LTD's ..oh and pretty views ... o7 cmdrs 🥰
8:17 Magellanic Expansion everyone? Would be dope if Frontier announced a map expansion to the nearest galaxy, with Galnet saying things like "we have found a cluster of stars between milky way and the Magellanic clouds that was presumed to be nonexistent before"
Maybe once we 100% the current one ehh 😉
Don't understand why we need to add to the map when we haven't even explored 1% of this one and a big part of the community never leaves the bubble.
Confirmed we would follow that just like children following a trail of candy into the woods to a witches house :D
it's coming with the patch that includes stargates ;)
the magellanic streams cmdr Corr has been talking about for years at this point
Didn't participate in DW1 or DW2 but aiming to join in on DW3 for sure.
Thank you :D
I will be releasing a few updates over the next few weeks - feedback (as always) is welcome.
@CMDR_Niceygy awesome :) o7
Thank you for the news update
Another well-researched video. Buur at their best! And the languagistical curls on the ground of massaging our ears is just brilliant. Cheers. 🍻
I was drifting on a sandy planet thinking about racing in Elite then this pops up, great timing!!!
Multi-posting but it just occurred to me that new features / gameplay around FC's would fit well into this since I imagine a lot of players might be hanging out in them. Having more spaces internally, more RP stuff to do (let us actually buy drinks for gods sake!), minigames, maybe even some remote observing / sensing tools? I would love to have scientific instruments on my FC that I could use to scan bodies from a science station before jumping in my ship to go explore them!
Nice, I would love to do a DW expedition now that I have a tooled up explorer.
Excited at the prospect of DW3. Really hope fdev put some time into exploration content this year.
Im hoping they’ll sort the loading speed issues soon, it’s made an immersive experience pretty tough. The sound effect of footsteps in the loading screen from the cockpit to a planet’s surface are now more representative as a drip in the coffee machine as you drift off to sleep.
Great video, Cmdr Buur. A DW3 event would be amazing. I haven't played ED in 3+ years, but a DW3 is something that could bring me back. I doubt any of my ship assets are still around, and I wonder if I can still use my Cmdr's name again? I guess I'll see.
@@cmdrcorvuscoraxnevermore3354 unless you erased it, it should all be there still.
@TheBuurPit That's good news. Thank you Cmdr. Buur. I didn't erase anything. But, I'm sure my Fleet Carrier has been repossessed due to lack of payments 🤔. O7
Could also use a feature that lets us put 2 axis controllers on 1 axis. Stick twist and rudder pedals can both be used
Got the Mandalay yesterday. My god it's an amazing exploration ship. It handles the heat from fuel scooping with ease. I'll be spending even more time in the outer dark than I usually do now!
@@thefurrybstard1964 great isn't it :)
@@TheBuurPit Effing brilliant! And it sounds so much better than my Asp did. I actually got to hate the sound of a Lancaster Bomber in Space!
o7 everyone
I am SO in for Distant Worlds 3...
i went on dw 1 just got the game back then used a anaconda with 18 ly jump range cmdr bics
Il semble que nous ayons encore un peu de temps devant nous. tant mieux car je suis en expédition lointaine pour le moment avec mon fleet.
Let's get it done woooooooooooooot
Great vid.
This would be a great motivator for FDEV to plan some exploration oriented features/improvements!
DW2 is a reason the DBE is the ship I have the most hours in
If they do a Distant Worlds 3 expedition ... count me in !
Coffee ☕️ guy's. ❤ya 😎👊
Awr thank you!!! ❤️
I'm personally very torn between joining community exploration events & solo exploration. But having missed out on the previous 2 Distant Worlds, I'm pretty eager to see a Distant Worlds 3.
DW2 was amazing, looking forward to whatever may come from the same team and if FDev get on board with something too then maybe it will make the news again. o7
00:05 He's Commander Buuuuuuuuur!!!! o7, my friends! 🫡
I missed DW1 & 2. I would NOT miss a DW3!
To this day I still don’t understand why people fucking melted down so bad over odyssey. I’ve been playing elite since it came out watched every single update come out and played them all. I put over 1,000 hours into odyssey and still love it. Obviously there was updates to make it work better etc but when they gave me the ability to leave my ship elite became my all time favorite game. I have played every space game out there and I keep coming back to elite. I can say I would not be playing elite today if they just released more ships and even gave interiors like everyone wanted etc. I love space combat but the icing on the cake is rovers and ground.
C'est le sens même de ce jeu, son âme, sa raison d'être ! Elite est d'abord et avant tout une gigantesque exploration spatiale !!!
Well not everyone has the same tastes or opinions. Just cause someone doesn't like something that you do doesn't mean it is wrong, I got near 1k hours in elite also but it just got incredibly boring for me there's a couple things that just annoy the hell out of me.
Did I mention I’m still on my DW2 return trip on my main account. 😂😮😊
If DW3 were to happen, I’d like to participate in a sidewinder.
Would be interesting if that was a stipulation of the expedition 👍
The person in charge of adding new entries to the EDSM Expedition list has been on vacation or in Do Not Disturb mode on Discord since October of last year. I've been unable to get my last 2 Exploration Expeditions listed and am about to give up on EDSM Expedition l8sting them,
5:40 Why didn't anyone tell me Chris Hadfield knew what was going down???
I want to do a distant worlds run! I spend weeks outside of the bubble! I always miss all the events being in America. Usually all of the events take place when I am working or helping someone. Looking forward to DW3 but if it is in early July I will be in Japan and will not be on for two weeks. CMDR: S. R. Siege
It'd be starting Jan 2026 and conclude around April '26 if I understand correctly
Did DW2, but suspect if DW3 goes ahead, it will revolve around pc players with more content and better graphics than us console players get.
Frontier games could charge me thrice the amount of the base game for a DLc that has ship interiors and I would gladly pay the price, NO HESITATION
Give us ship interiors, and we’ll take a 3rd or 4th mortgage out on our homes to buy all those goodies
yo thats such a sick ship at about 6 mins... what is it?
thats one of the Guardian Technolgie SLF's
there are 3 types of them which can be unlocked from Techbrookers, though iam not sure which of the ones is shown here
my fc will be in Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 in ~40 mins staying for a few days then head to BP if any1 wanna join lmk
i wish thi sgame was still being developed on console i actually miss ed
gaah more tools! i will probably use it but the fact that it's so hard to setup powerplay activities in-game is so disappointing..
I want "ship interior"
Hoping for an Odessey 2.0 update myself.
I'll gladly accept a massive influx of microtransactions for ship interiors lol.
While we're at it, I'd like a button to toggle supercruise assist and auto docking please.
@@Kuldirongaze1 Omg yes this. Would be the biggest quality of life upgrade.
There is no point to ship interiors in ED. Even if they somehow did it, it would be utterly useless or used as a way to make gameplay annoying.
Go play some SC for a while. You will get over the interior thing pretty quick...
To expand the exploration gameplay a bit perhaps we could have another suit. Only one where we go outside our ships in space to do manual repairs or whatever. We could even use this for sabotage or possibly putting trackers on other ships. An actual space suit with thrusters to interact with abandoned space stations maybe?
Déjà, qu'ils commencent à nous donner d'autres bio et surtout commencer à intégrer de la faune, et pourquoi pas d'autres vies extra terrestres !
Poor power play tools server is on fire.
If you want to expand the user base then I think Elite has been heading in the wrong direction. All the development seems to have been orientated towards a small cadre of existing, experienced players.
If the new ships indicate a new trend towards a 'flight sim' exploration type game then it might bring in more users. Just give us something worth exploring.
Perhaps what we really need is a new, spin-off game without the complications of factions, complex weapons systems, innumerable modules, gankers etc etc.
They could call it Elite Undangerous. 😀
lol more 3rd party tools to provide essential information the game should provide...
As much as I would love to participate in DW3, my FOMO on events happening in the Bubble always keep me near to home.
FIRST!
Doofus 😂
Dang....SECOND!
Real arick
i want "ship interior" & "thick clouds and weather system like rain and storm in the planets"
"ship interior" will significantly increase the value of every single ships and sizes, the best feature on "star citizen", that game is getting so much money just from this feature only, and our "elite dangerous devs team" says "ship interior" is a useless and pointless feature? this will be the biggest mistake of there life!
i bought "elite dangerous" after odyssey dlc just because u can walk in the planet and shoot like a real space sim game!
suppose if "elite dangerous devs team" thought that walking on the planet is also a pointless feature then i would never bought the game!
just imagine if this game makes "ship interior" then all of those "star citizen" hungry people out there like me, who can't run the game or don't wanna spend money to an unfinished product, they will all come to this game, cos this game runs well and it's a good finished product!
some how i feel devs lost there passion about this game, big mistake there life again!
You need to describe a compelling game loop for interiors to become a thing. My experience thus far is 'make accessing menus really slow' and for that I cite Vista Genomics. Instead of land in station/fleet carrier, go to services/cartography/sell like you do with system data, you have to disembark, walk somewhere else and then access the sell menu. zzzzzz
Atmospheric planets on the other hand - there's a whole plethora of options; new physics challenges (wind, visibility), new life to discover - perhaps with 'birds' that can add further challenges (damage to cockpit when colliding) or aggressive life that wants to eat you....many possibilities and a much better use of time spent I think
Not First \o/
bro nobody is using Bluesky lmao
just for angry democrats