It’s a rather weird timing. I would’ve understood the 12th, that was PC release date. The 18th is a bit too late, but not so much too late to explain why the wouldn’t have dropped it a week earlier. Something wasn’t ready, but how can you get that something ready in just a week? Guess they crunched the hell out of last week. Has anybody seen Sean lately? How long is his beard?
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ROFL.
I am more shocked they couldn’t have put this tease out a week ago. Clearly they waited for a reason, but I cannot fathom why wait, if its just the title drop.
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Probably to take pressure of the team. They might have found it difficult to estimate when they would be ready.
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Dang, I was actually hoping the update wouldn’t be until September, since I have a business trip at the end of August. With my luck the update will drop when I’m gone from home. Oh well, I can enjoy it when I get back.
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Have to agree. I think if it was just another day or two we would just get the normal emoji or they would wait and drop the string of posts with a proper trailer.
The only other thing would be they planned to drop, couldn’t it kept pushing back further then they expected and finally had to just release the hint trailer.
Next week will unfortunately not be good on my keyboard.
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I think maybe there was so much talk about them dropping NMS for the next big project and people wondering if someone had died…they had to calm and reassure us. 
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Mayube they did anounce it on the anniversary and we are only hearing the Echo now 
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My thoughts exactly
Was sort of hoping the same, No business trip for me but still enraptured in BG3 which I’m trying to finish before Valheims Hildirs Quest update drops,which looks to be coming next week too 
I can easily fill it all in but, better start cancelling outside human plans to do so. I’ll convince them to be inside humans too somehow.
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With twitter being the way it is right now, that might be the most plausible theory I’ve heard so far… 
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Love the flashback video (echoes from the past) as well as the clever animated Echoes text.
I don’t expect that Echoes will give easy access to past major update and expedition play, but that would be nice!
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I have a feeling that the next content update will have to do with 1 of three things(putting to the side that its likely part 3 of 4 of this new story)
My predictions:
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A new location to explore relating to the autophages. Perhaps abandoned structures of this race.
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Something about our mech exocraft, mainly because Armored Core 6 is coming soon so it would bring good publicity to at least have a new skin for it for publicity and ride the robot wave. Similar to the one we got not too long ago.
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Maybe, just maybe, ship customisation. I only say this because they have been experimenting with ship variety with the new sentinel ship.
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The name Echoes seems like an interesting choice, seeing as we’ve been growing an Echo Collective in-universe recently. The “E” of the logo was also pointed out to look like the Crimson helmet’s lights, which is also the head on the unused NPCROBOT model…
Maybe this third part leads to the echoes taking on physical form, and our choice of the spider autophage’s personality will impact the choice of this collective?
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That text reminded me of the Alien/Aliens movie in the way the text built up to reveal the title (and then faded again). Nice!
Given that the term ‘Echo’ is used often in the Korvax lore, I suppose its safe to assume that this update will fill in some story…?
Or perhaps it’s some sound effect & ambience upgrades. Echoes on mountain planets or in derelict freighter dungeons or something.
My thoughts as to the release timing is it’s maybe avoiding conflict with other releases, ensuring maximum polish & bug sqishing prior to release & perhaps it is being tied in with another Expedition so it’s simply lots of extra work & testing.
I’m ok with a delay.
Waiting is way better than exasperation when my games crash or bug up.
I patiently await…
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Patch Notes:
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Added three new flavours of reverb
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What?! What do you want from us!?
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Here’s my speculation on the update:
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*still a lot it wants to try. "
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I’m not entirely well-versed with steam’s cdn, but the 7th anniversary video HG posted on the steam page (which steamdb reports as being added to Movies/Trailers for NMS) has a different appid (256964454) in the link than the one on other images accessed via the cdn, like here (275850). Is this just a Steam Quirk, or HG uploading the original under a separate app?
Edit: This seems to be the case for all videos. I think I’m just looking into Echoes too deeply 
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Well since what I expected didn’t come to pass…I’ll share I was expecting it to be about Shadows.
I just hope more immersive environments, building / utility and story
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Shadows are no longer in the universe. Same for Vorlons.
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