Fun fact : right after the goid war ended and the systems got repaired we saw one of if not the largest powerplay war for alpha centauri and sol in the history of elite :3 And jerome archer, one of the smallest powers, *won against aisling duval*
Wait until you realize that engineering is required for any kind of effective combat. Enjoy your weeks of grind for a single ship to become combat viable.
@@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity well thats not true at all, ive been doing plenty of combat with my krait mk ii and am loving it..... not sure why youd try to scare people away from playing.... ive been playing for about a month and have a couple hundred hours and am still having tons of fun, the only combat ive found that needed engineering is going to combat zones in your ship and trying to fight the ships above said zone, other than that i havent had a single problem so im not sure what your talking about, not to mention theyve made grinding for mats A TON easier it seems, havent had to use relogging once and have tons of mats
I actually came back from a 6 year hiatus to witness the meltdown of cocijo, worth it. Elite Dangerous is a great game, flaws and all, i hope for the best.
I'm just waiting for this one mandatory question under every more famous Elite video about sounds existing in space and conversation spaning over hundreds of replies
@@spytherein the year 2985 they discovered that old earth scientists were just wrong and sound does exist in space. Stop this misinformation, glory to the federation!
@@Zachius920 The sounds are simulated in your cockpit. They're what your ship simulates them as and then pushes it through speakers or so in your cockpit to improve a CMDR's response times. I don't know where this lore tidbit came from, but it can be what's suggested when your canopy shatters, as all sound except what could potentially reach you through your contact with the ship is silenced completely.
I always love seeing Bubble folks happy. I'm out in the black, it is what calls me to the game. Finding untouched paradises above lonely suns, discovering never visited phenomena in the void, Seeing a water world high above a gas giant. I only fought a Thargoid above some forgotten moon, the only titan I saw die was Taranis, I cannot celebrate with you, but I love to see you people enjoy yourselves! o7 Commanders! To a good next year.
I remember being with 12 dudes on consoles back when it first started Waiting for 2h+ for a ship to come on the surface and scan It’s sad that I was only able to see the war from affar, as many know, we lost support on console, and never got anything past Frigates But I am proud of the community for the hard work, I miss y’all CMDR’s o7
Elite Dangerous is the space opera we can all play. As a player of the original Elite and a reader of much SF, this game to me is the seat from which I get to participate in the telling of a galaxy spanning storey. This is rare if not unique in gaming and is comparable to reading a long running series of books over many years. Those who have criticised the game for being a mile wide and an inch deep have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for your work and your comments mirror my thoughts closely.
I fought all 8 titans saw several of them in their last moments... still watched your whole vid and reminisced all the way. I love how you go silent during the titan's explosion sequence, well done. Thanks for putting this together and capturing what many of use will remember as a phenomenal time in Elite! o7 CMDR.
My frustration with it years ago was that you couldn't work this stuff out on your own 90% of the time. There was no in game mission to investigate them and you had to record the beacon's scream and put it through an audiograph program on the internet or on your computer. I'm sure that was thrilling for the first people to ever do it but the rest of us had to copy them. How was anyone meant to find this out? The same goes for the map the scream displayed being difficult to understand, the buried thargoid titans and the guardians. Elite felt like I was an NPC in a singleplayer game where the protagonist was years ahead of me.
The way I see it Elite’s mysteries are “real” mysteries. They make no effort to make themselves known to you, but they are there. This to some is a special aspect of the game, to some it’s a frustration. I think fdev made the decision even with its faults in mind
@@indigointoblackand it was the right decision 100%. There are so many other games that are gonna hold your hand through every little thing, can’t the people who don’t want that have one for them? Not every game is made for everybody, and that’s ok.
@@dragoxk4542 That's why I always come back to Elite. I have a break here and there but I always come back because no other game has the freedom of Elite. I can always find something to do.
I commented and then went and played elite again for the first time in years. Banked 6 hours and I enjoyed it. I have my serious gripes with the game but I wish the tools we use were in game. And I wish there was an in game prompt (not hand holding) telling you what sort of game it is and what sort of mysteries it contains. Like stuff in galnet news or comments from an NPC, more unidentified signal sources, anything! Otherwise 90% of the playerbase misses out.
I was never involved in the Thargoid War but when you speak about living lore being created I was thinking back to when deep core mining was added and that being my gold rush with Void Opals, or more significantly being a member of the Distant Worlds II expedition and traveling all the way to Beagle Point and back. I will always have mixed feelings about Elite but it really is something special.
This is probably the best E:D retrospective so far. I love the emotional tone paired with an overview of the most important events of the past years, the explanation of game mechanics and loops, the footage, the music. Extremely well done!
Veteran Elite Player here from the Pill Capsule Beta days. This game can only be explained as a feeling. Even recently I have gotten back into elite to run some of the background simulations in an effort to shut off one of the most needed and important..... well, we will get to that when it happens :) I have started out and technically still am using Elite as well for the continuing story of my channel lore with currently 3 parts out, with the 4th being what sets up the escape of elite in the 5th. This game IS A FEELING! When i explain to people that I love going out into the void to explore to my hearts desire it just itches something special, despite 99% of it just being the black void, its that 1% that I hold onto. Its that 1% that got me and another to be the very first people to discover Stolon Trees and Gyro Trees, permanently putting our names out there and it will be that 1% again on some upcoming journeys that I am taking to the most absolute desolate forgotten places of the galaxy that will put my commander name into the stars as the first. Elite, I WILL FIND YOUR SECRETS~! And when there are no more secrets.... then we already have plans to force you to talk about us. Death to your bubble, death to your super powers and giant middle finger coming to all pilots across the game. GET OUT THERE COMMANDERS! The void calls.
A brilliantly constructed documentary and retelling of the biggest event in one of the most unique game's history ever. Your editing, music choice, and flow throughout the whole video was on point. As a player who started this game just before the major conflict with the thargoids, but took a long break due to the slashed console support, your video was a quality review to not only get me up to speed, but also remind me why I truly love this game. This amount of effort is sure to shoot your channel to the top in the world of Elite's youtubers, and now I'll be here for the journey
I played elite years ago, when the aliens first started to be rumoured. Thing is, i played the game as a deep explorer. I didnt know what i was doing, and spent months warping farther and farther away. One day i realized i was missing eveeything happening, and got off. Im going to get this on my pc and start over. Cool video
You’re allowed to have a one-time migration from your console profile to PC. It literally just takes 5 minutes and an email and you can carry all that stuff over. I, too, started on PS4. My sister’s boyfriend worked at GameStop and he used to give her dozens of different ps4 games. In any case, just selling my exploration data alone, I was able to get over $2,000,000,000 credits!
Recently got myself a gaming computer so I'm so happy to be able to come back to this game and slowly re learn it heehe, I used to play this game back on my console a few years ago before it stopped being updated. It does feel weird to me though like I have missed out on so much but its also really cool because its a lot of new content and gameplay to be able to learn and play and its still lovely to able to be kept in the loop with videos like this and being able to pick up the game on my pc and able to transfer all of my saved progress from console over to pc without starting all over again is amazing.
I hopped back into the game just in time to build an AX chieftain and participate in each of the events you described in the video, I'm so glad I got to do it. Truly prime game magic. And to be there when Cocijo exploded... chefs kiss
Your end speech was taken right out of my mind, good sir! I love the work you're doing. Not only does is give me a real sense of comradery but these videos are also great to show off to my friends, trying to get them to play. Bless you Commander, keep em coming! o7
I have had ED on my radar for multiple years now as a lover of space games since my first introduction to starsector. A part of me watched this video and wants to get the game rn and spend hours on it. But then I also see reviews and how it can get overwhelming and I just end up wiggling along the edge of what to do. Personal strife aside, the video was fantastic. Always good to watch someone do something they enjoy, and make it an entertaining watch. Keep it up
If you can get it at a deep discount, you should. You will have a few hours of fun. The flight model is amazing. You'll play it long enough to get a few ships, fly some cargo, do some exploring, do some combat contracts, then you'll quit because you realize that the flight model is the only good thing about the game. It's like having an amazing super sports car that you can only drive in a parking lot.
Stopped playing consistently in 2021, tried my best to stay up to date on major events. Watching all of this develop after the (rather disastrous) release of Oddyssey has really sparked hope that, as you said, 2025 will be be a great year for this game.
I wish I could’ve seen it, but I came back just after the event ended. I was there when we were first exploring ancient ruins and finding obelisks and artifacts though!
I see these mechanics making a return if/when players colonize their way to permit locked systems, we repelled the invation, the next step being to take the fight to them, probably repeating the same steps Jameson regretted.
You definitely deserve a like for this video. Unfortunate for me that I left at almost the height of the Thargoid invasion, but I wasn't (or didn't feel) ready to fight. But it motivated me to come back. I'll against good reason wipe my CMDR and start fresh and *really* learn how to play this game.
awesome video. I started playing literally a month ago because it was on sale and I still know nothing about this game lol. I have absolutely no clue what i just watched but i like it
Knowing I got to experience a potentially once in a lifetime gameplay moment in VR side by side with my brothers and sisters in The Swords Makhai is unreal. I only joined elite a few months before we were able to kill the titans and I am so happy I did. Over the course of 2024 I amassed 370 hours in elite mainly doing combat against the thargoids and those fights with those bugs were some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game, brings back memories of my first VOG clear in D1. Sucks to see it go but, there is always a bigger fish, I'm exited for what's next
I always get chills whenever i hear the goids 'speak' i was playing back in 2017, i remember my first goid hyperdiction, i remember all the CGs, all the hours space trucking only to have a midlife crisis when the mamba dropped and that became my be all end all. hell I've been in a 8 year relationship because of someone i met in Elite. I recently came back from a hiatus when odyssey dropped and it feels like falling back in love. Incredibly special game to me.
I started playing in 2019. The thargoid war was one of the wildest times in gaming I've experienced. In most mmo online games I've played the "raid boss" is always there. You beat it and someone else can come along after you and beat it too. This was different and amazing.
Saw this pop up on my feed, I havent played Elite since prior to engineers. I had a buddy try and get me into again and I just didnt pick it up. Glad I found this, was really well done and interesting, thank you!
I started playing in July 2024. I’m an explorer, but I did participate in the final invasion. Transporting people to the rescue mega ship and attacking the Titians emergency vent. Definitely a learning curve. I died a few times before I got the hang of it. It was really fun. The only thing that ticked me off is that I had just unlocked Sirius so I could use that Engineer there unlock the Engineer I needed for my Thrusters. I think that’s one of the main reasons chose to join in the battle. lol that damn engineer went into hiding. I’m farming materials now before I go back exploring. But that Thargoid Invasion helped me get allied with factions I needed, earn credits, and I got 6 FSD drives
As someone with hands on experience maintaining an MMO as a dev, I can tell you Frontier's ways aren't particularly unconventional, and almost everything about how the game has been handled after Horizons felt painfully familiar to the broken mess that company put me on. Either Thargoid content is coming back, or the game is shutting down, you can place your bets. Normally the latter would be an insane outcome after such a massive surge in active players, but we live in an era where even successful games are killed by execs. Best of luck to this one. We killed a lot of bugs - now it's the devs' turn.
Back in my day us explorers didn't have a FSS. We had to, slowly, fly up to each planet individually and wait for them to be scanned. God, things are so much fucking better
I absolutely adore your videos! Thanks to the hard work you put into them your passion to this game shines through, and I love how easily "accessible" these video essays are for outsiders and people who have not yet picked up ED. For example I link your "Elite Dangerous 2024, Is It Worth It?" video every time somebody asks on socials if ED worth it (I don't want to file requests, but do you think later this year maybe when Fdev will roll out Colonisation, you could make an updated version for 2025?) I love this video too - the narration, videography, and the music are fantastic! This war was fantastic - and I dare to say Thargoids are one of the bests if not the best alien design in gaming - their flight model, combat patterns, narrative are so unique. Pure hard sci-fi creations.
I've always lived vicariously through others when it comes to Elite Dangerous. I tried early on as a KS Backer, and it just didn't grab me, and every time something big came out I've wanted to jump in and explore but always find myself just... a bit lost really. I'm glad that its found its stride again, and that events like this have both shaped and been shaped by the players and Frontier in unison. Great video... I might have to try again sometime.
It’s very daunting at the start. I played on Spectrum many moons ago and was staggered when I rediscovered the game on PS. Moved over to PC and it’s the only thing I play now. TH-cam is your best friend and there are superb content creators who will pretty much cater to your every need. Buur Pit, Obsidian Ant, Down to Earth Astronomy (unfortunately no longer active but videos are still available) Cmdr Exigious to name but a few will be extremely helpful. Also quite a few apps to help in game - SRV Survey and EdCopilot (which I’ve just starting using) to name a couple.
Oh Elite. It has plenty of lows but when it hits a high, there's nothing like it in all of gaming. The sound design, the way the community works together. I've never been one to do much combat, I explore and haul, but I love watching stuff like this! Thank you for your service in the war Commanders o7
‘I was there’ I helped build a space station at the center of the galaxy. I pushed on to the far side, out to the edge. I navigated the dark bubbles of space where FSD doesn’t work. I’ve seen things no other commander has seen, things so beautiful
Great video man, we are seriously lacking in elite dangerous creators. Was on a 3 year break and came back after engineering rework, got to bomb 4 out of 8 titans. The game is in a great place right now. The thargoids feel like a force of nature, hope everyone joins the blockade on the 12th in HIP22460. Practice your cold orbits! Glory to mankind!
Great video, titan bombing has been the most fun I have had in game and I am struggling to get over the withdrawal symptoms now it appears to be all over. Hopefully some more Thargoid content will appear in the future.
Very good video CMDR. Thanks. I started in 2018. Way before the first hyperdiction. It was Guardian module season. I did it all. From killing my first Scout to soloing an Interceptor in my meta Chieftain. All the way up to "soloing" Cocijo to get those 6 sweet SCO's. Great times. Funny, I earned my Carrier cash during that gold rush as you did. Kept hauling right to the end making a cool 10 billion. Plenty for the FC and years of upkeep. Now it's chill time. Adding the new ships to the pit of 30 fully engineered ones. Looking forward to what's coming. Anyways, see you out there. o7
It's really cool seeing this kind of thing because ED is something unique to me, despite only being on Xbox and not really even getting to experience any of this
I was also there when the final heart of the Titan over Earth (I can't pronounce the darn thing either! :P ) blew up. I can't say I did anything special. But I was pumping missiles into the main heat vent when the notification went up and so I guess I did my part. 24 hours later I was there when the final big boom happened. I'm about to go on an exploration expedition in celebration of Apollo 14 (have already been on Distant Worlds 2, Apollo 15, Wild Wild West, and Passage to Andromeda expeditions. So this feels like taking off the combat boots and slipping on a pair of beloved old sneakers. I'll keep up to date with things back in the bubble of course. I've developed a taste over the last few months for things I thought I would never bother with - including ground combat! You are so right - this game STILL has SO MUCH more to offer. May it continue another 10 years!
As a console player, I wasn’t there to defend the bubble, but I still fly. I still explore. The galaxy is vast. Bigger than my remaining years, and I know I will never see it all. There will always be something for the next generation. Endless Wonder.
I stopped playing 2 years ago, and this has just filled me with a sense of..sadness. As I was never allowed to share any of these moments with anyone or even able to do it, as I was a console player. Left behind.. And as much as I want to get back into it at times, that woukd require all the rep grinding again, all the Cr again.. And I just breakdown. This game is special in such a way that I don't want to think about it.
I took a very long break from Elite, I thought the game was near dead. But then I saw on Elite’s subreddit that Titan was approaching earth- I watched the stories that came from it and it really moved me to jump in the game again and start taking it seriously again. Now I gotta start figuring out the guardian tech and engineering….
I started playing in 2018 after a friend brought me in. We played for the next couple of years, building our ranks, banks, and shipyards. And then, out of nowhere, Fdev canceled console support. I was crushed. I had a brand new hotas set up and re arranged my entire play area for the game. But I didn't have a PC till 2024, when I built my first PC and installed the game right in time to take part of Cojico. I had only killed 1 or 2 Cyclops' before that and it's been unreal learning how much has changed in the few years I was away. Still learning a lot about on foot side of the game and my carrier needs some attention, but it's good to be back. Although I have a couple more kids, a full-time job, and other great games I'm playing, I will be here for whatever comes next in 2025! o7 commanders.
I remember when they were just showing up and pulling us out of jumps. Then they started taking out stations. Im so sad I missed all of this for war thunder now. I hope we can keep it going on, this game is genuinely beautiful. I'm back to stay now.
i really do wish we could have done more with the thargoids that wasn't just combat. more things like the surface site maps, the fact that they could turn green on scanners when you dropped them meta alloys whether that was a glitch or not.
It seems like the next step for Elite Dangerous is to expand outwards again with player colonization, which is something I have always wanted in the game- more player control. I fought in the Thargoid War for a bit and was even there way back in 2017 or so when the Thargoids just entered the game. I remember being in Merope with the barnacles and getting interdicted for the first time. Currently I'm heading over the Colonia to go see something new but also my canon reason is my character got exhausted from the war and wants to start a new life on the frontier. I'm really excited for player colonization as I want to see more fringe bubbles and colonies throughout the milkyway.
I came back after hearing about the colonization update coming, im finally going through the effort of getting a fleet carrier and prepping for colony building. Currenty out at colonia getting ridiculous amounts of bio samples, the tharagoid war is how I did the federal rep grind for the corvette, I did evac missions exclusively for the federal faction and made it all the way to rear admiral. My corvette is named the Buenos Aires like the town in star ship troopers that rico was from, I did my part.
It's sad that this game got abandoned on console. I had a blast playing this on PS4 and before that on Xbox. I somehow managed to move my data to PC before the transfer nerf but it never felt the same. My in game friends (all RL friends) were on console and most of them didn't have PCs. I ended up quitting before such things as carriers or space legs were added to the game. I tried giving it a go recently on PC when this titan thing started but the game was totally unrecognizable to me now.
This is the only time so far in my time playing Elite that i actually joined a large group of people to play with. It was amazing. I really hope the developers keep this type of event going on in the future, Titan combat is a lot of fun.
This event was the most fun I’ve had in a community event in any game. Fighting in the battle for earth after ten years of playing the game felt incredible. Was stationed at Mars High o7
I did all of this stuff! I killed saucers, soloed interceptors, defended bases, and attacked 6 of the titans. It was glorious gameplay, and it paid soooooo well.
I remember the day it was discovered that there were secret graphic spectrogram images from unknown probes that you couldn’t realistically be expected to have ever discovered on consoles being simultaneously pissed and deciding to start over on PC. Lol
Man... you are so very right about each player's personal story. I remember the ups and downs of my time in this game - oh so many downs. But I remember the ups, too. My first Cobra MkIII. Flying it for ground salvage ops when the SRV came out. The oh so eccentric Keelback, my first ship with a fighter hangar. Grinding imperial rep for a cutter, and mining my ass off in a python to afford it. And then the Great Mainani Massacre - when the introduction of wing missions and a minor local confict of two irrelevant backwater systems 150 LY from the bubble produced a profit potential so massive the playerbase smelled blood in the void and descended upon these systems like an entire swarm of hungry sharks, with double digit numbers of fleet carriers in this one system that is strategically irrelevant... the first TRUE test of my cutter. She's is still out there. Waiting for me to come back and take a seat at the helm of this distinguished war machine once more.
While I didn't start it, that honour falls to Selene Stardragon and Psykit, being there to help Selene push Operation Wychhunt was wonderful and I'm honoured to have been able to help lead it. Of course like, we were sure we would never *stop* the Proteus Wave from firing... but we delayed it by 2 whole weeks! Azimuth Biotech, who called my once favourite system of T Tauri home, now barely hold any influence *anywhere* and are still fairly isolated (as far as I know, it's admittedly been a while). The fact that we, a small group of streamers and players, were able to rile up such a fuss and cause such a disruption to that minor faction, that FDev actually canonized us AND "delayed the plans" by two weeks because of us is mind boggling. You don't get that in other games! Of course, we don't know what happens next. They've said the Thargoid story isn't over, the plot thread that Salvation is possibly still out there hasn't been tied up yet, among many other things... I don't think we'll see the end of this soon but I'm excited to see what Elite does next.
i started playing during the final days of the war at the invitation of a friend who had been playing for years. pretty much as soon as I finished the tutorial, he invited me to multicrew on his ship to do a bombing run on cocijo as there was only two hearts left and he wanted me to experience it before it was gone forever. i was in charge of the caustic sinks, pulse neutralizer, torpedoes, and multicannons. took a few runs but eventually i got the hang of it and we got a few good bombing runs in. fast forward a few days later to when the final heart is destroyed and me and my friend are racing to get me enough money to buy and outfit a diamondback explorer to do rescue runs on the titan. I scrape together the bare minimum but timezone differences mean I have to attempt my first couple runs solo. they go exactly as you'd expect: I die in hyperspace interdiction on my way to the titan or die to interceptors before I can figure out how exactly to use my new rescue modules. the next evening, there are only a few hours left before meltdown but my friend is able to hop on for a little while to show me how it works. we do a couple runs together and I get the hang of it, but my very limited cargo space means I can't carry many pods. he has to hop off again to sleep but is planning on waking up watch the meltdown. I continue doing runs until there's less than an hour left. I know I can only do one more run and I want to make it count. I use all the credits I just made to buy and outfit an asp explorer with all the modules from my diamondback and as much cargo space as I can manage and have just enough left over to cover one rebuy. I know heat is gonna be an issue but it's idling at 21%. i know i can get it below 20 by keeping some modules switched off and I know the thargoids aren't super aggressive now anyway so I figure fuck it: one last run. I get into the titan no issues and start rescuing. I'm goinf as fast as I can. my friend joins up minutes before the titan explodes and is surprised to see me flying an asp. I almost manage to fill up my cargo with seconds left on the counter, so my friend tells me to pull back so we can watch the fireworks. I start to move out but somehow I pull aggro on a thargoid ship. I make a break for the asteroid field while my friend desperately tries to get the ship off me. I dont have shields so my hull is melting quickly. I have single digit hull integrity when i make it to safety with a repair limpet from my friend keeping me alive. Not sure how I made it out with literally two seconds left, I dont even have time to fully swing my ship around before we're blasted back out through the caustic storm. ...and I had my caustic sinks turned off to lower my heat. I blow up the moment i hit the cloud. 10/10, no better intro to this game
Just got the game and am learning the operations. It appears to have a deeper "learning curve" than arcade style space games. Am interested in seeing it develop into what the community makes it.
I put the game down when they added carriers because they were insanely overpriced for the grind at the time. Hearing how fondly you speak of how things went this past year is making me strongly consider picking it back up again, so thanks in advance for helping me give this game another chance!
I went out for exploring trip 4½ years ago.... i came back december. Had nice RP session where my ingame character went "War??? The eff you mean by War against Thargoids??? and we won??? The hell happend?"
I have played on and off for almost all of E:D's lifespan, but I really got into the game around Horizon. The launch of Odyssey is still the only time I have ever seen a DLC reduce the amount of players instead of increase it. I remember Colonia finally getting engineers, and my favorite CG was the building of the Colonia Bridge, even though it seems all those mega ships were just kind of abandoned by players in the years since. The jump drives you got for delivering materials were the best in the game until the introduction of SCO, and especially the introduction of the double engineered SCO drives after the last Titan exploded. Now I have a Mandalay with a casual 80ly jump range, outclassing my little DBX I've been flying for years quite handily while still having more modules. I've also basically stopped flying my Type 9 in favor of my Type 8, just for the better feel and faster flight and landing times. It's so strange seeing how the game has changed over time, and coming back to the game after a long break is usually a little disorienting.
I was playing a bunch when the Thargoids were only hitting unknown systems and a few missions allowed you to go hunt them, and I remember the Megaship disappearing, but then I lost interest for a while. Now I wish I'd built a Thargoid killer. I'm gonna have to make the trek to Sol and see the dead Titan.
I actually didn't have the materials (or experience) to do engineering when Cocijo became bombable, so I did my titan bombing in an un-engineered Krait MKII. With most of my modules disabled (including weapons and power dist.) until the vents opened, I was able to get to a spot where I could sneak up to a vent 20% heat without silent running. I could take out 4-5 vents per a run consistently with silent running and heat sinks throughout the run, and made around 4-6mil per run. And with materials to synthesize sinks between runs and a repair limpet controller, I actually managed to get to top 25% contributors in my little Krait MKII. It was difficult, but fun. I feel like the whole, "you need engineering"/"you need THIS build" thing kinda put off some people to participating in atleast bombing during this event.
I avoided the thargoids for the longest time. And then they attacked Shinrata. And that was the day I joined the fight. I remember it fondly, despite not being a fan of fighting thargoids due to the difficulty. I still went to the frontlines when a system I cared about was under attack.
I can't believe this chapter came to an end. I just got my carrier when the Colonia Bridge got built, still have my Brewer decal for helping it. Then this happened, the Proteus Wave. Days after we found the Stargoids. I was helping Canonn with tracking these things. Weeks before their arrival, I saw all 8 of them in the skies above the Guardian sites, when I gathered stuff for the war. The day of the invasion was so overwhelming. Hundreds of systems destroyed, billions of people in danger, and they were just overpowering every of our defenses. I thought we'd be using the Colonia Bridge but then it slowed down. We won more and more battles and for me it got too boring. But seeing Titans explode was so surreal. The major attack on ShinDez, and then the last push on Sol. Even went online just to see the final minutes of the war. To know that there will be new generations of players who will only hear our war stories from the time the Thargoids invaded our systems, see remnants of the devastation... This makes ED so special
I never got into the thargoid combat stuff cause it always seemed too convoluted for someone who wasn’t a combat player to begin with. So while I hope all those mechanics aren’t just dead now, I also hope they’re refined and not just reutilized as-is.
I've been in and out of the game every now and then since 2020, I wish I could've had the skill and time to hunt thargoids. But I am glad I at least participated with evacuating stations, I couldn't even try to count the amount of round trips I made going back and forth picking up civilians on starports and taking them out through the wrecked interiors of the starports. It's the least I could do considering my circumstances.
when i first joined the game i got picked up by a guild and well I started off mining and i kind of burned my creds to get the grind experience the gold rush I was apart of was the Painite mining area where you could earn millions in say 4 hours easily. and dealing with the Painite crash was hard but i when to grinding the empire reps as a courier and I really love there ship designs.
i came back to the bubble to fight this thing, and rescued several people before it went boom. im 25000LY away now but if they ever come back or there is an official counter attack i will be there.
Fun fact : right after the goid war ended and the systems got repaired we saw one of if not the largest powerplay war for alpha centauri and sol in the history of elite :3
And jerome archer, one of the smallest powers, *won against aisling duval*
i didn't know this was happening but this explains a lot about why i was completely randomly shot down in my cutter while just trying to unlock qwent.
@ We can see what power you're pledged to, if you werent pledged it was likely an archon or duval gank squad
The federation has always been in Sol though so it makes sense
Jerome won? That's mah dude!
The war is not over. The DEFENSIVE phase of the war is over! 😃
Just got into Elite a couple days ago. I'm now watching 10 years of history this game has brought.
I hope it keeps delivering.
Wait until you realize that engineering is required for any kind of effective combat. Enjoy your weeks of grind for a single ship to become combat viable.
@@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity well thats not true at all, ive been doing plenty of combat with my krait mk ii and am loving it..... not sure why youd try to scare people away from playing.... ive been playing for about a month and have a couple hundred hours and am still having tons of fun, the only combat ive found that needed engineering is going to combat zones in your ship and trying to fight the ships above said zone, other than that i havent had a single problem so im not sure what your talking about, not to mention theyve made grinding for mats A TON easier it seems, havent had to use relogging once and have tons of mats
@@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity gladly - now it's much easier to gather materials.
Welcome commander o7
@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity I did it in 2 days. They changed evening to cost less, don't whine 😊
I actually came back from a 6 year hiatus to witness the meltdown of cocijo, worth it. Elite Dangerous is a great game, flaws and all, i hope for the best.
You spelled grind wrong.
Except for the part where they abandoned a significant portion of their playerbase and lied about dlc coming to console.
@@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity You spelled denial wrong.
I'm back after a long break too and having a good time. Now you can watch the meltdown of bitter vet boomer ED players who need to touch grass! 🤣
@@stab74 Denial in bitter tone. Looks like a SC player who don't have a better PC to play a 11 year's pre alpha ?
6:47 Elite has literally always hit the mark with sound design. Completely unmatched
It's one of the best parts. Every little thing has it's own noise and often it's nuanced as well (eg fsd cool down)
I'm just waiting for this one mandatory question under every more famous Elite video about sounds existing in space and conversation spaning over hundreds of replies
@@spytherein the year 2985 they discovered that old earth scientists were just wrong and sound does exist in space. Stop this misinformation, glory to the federation!
FTL music is perfect to pair with ED
@@Zachius920 The sounds are simulated in your cockpit. They're what your ship simulates them as and then pushes it through speakers or so in your cockpit to improve a CMDR's response times. I don't know where this lore tidbit came from, but it can be what's suggested when your canopy shatters, as all sound except what could potentially reach you through your contact with the ship is silenced completely.
I always love seeing Bubble folks happy. I'm out in the black, it is what calls me to the game. Finding untouched paradises above lonely suns, discovering never visited phenomena in the void, Seeing a water world high above a gas giant. I only fought a Thargoid above some forgotten moon, the only titan I saw die was Taranis, I cannot celebrate with you, but I love to see you people enjoy yourselves!
o7 Commanders! To a good next year.
this man hears the call of the void and he answers
what you do for surviving?
@user-a7x6j6w6u your goddamn right
last time i played i was on my way back from a pilgramage to beagle point
I remember being with 12 dudes on consoles back when it first started
Waiting for 2h+ for a ship to come on the surface and scan
It’s sad that I was only able to see the war from affar, as many know, we lost support on console, and never got anything past Frigates
But I am proud of the community for the hard work, I miss y’all CMDR’s o7
Elite Dangerous is the space opera we can all play. As a player of the original Elite and a reader of much SF, this game to me is the seat from which I get to participate in the telling of a galaxy spanning storey. This is rare if not unique in gaming and is comparable to reading a long running series of books over many years. Those who have criticised the game for being a mile wide and an inch deep have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for your work and your comments mirror my thoughts closely.
I fought all 8 titans saw several of them in their last moments... still watched your whole vid and reminisced all the way. I love how you go silent during the titan's explosion sequence, well done. Thanks for putting this together and capturing what many of use will remember as a phenomenal time in Elite! o7 CMDR.
My frustration with it years ago was that you couldn't work this stuff out on your own 90% of the time.
There was no in game mission to investigate them and you had to record the beacon's scream and put it through an audiograph program on the internet or on your computer. I'm sure that was thrilling for the first people to ever do it but the rest of us had to copy them. How was anyone meant to find this out? The same goes for the map the scream displayed being difficult to understand, the buried thargoid titans and the guardians.
Elite felt like I was an NPC in a singleplayer game where the protagonist was years ahead of me.
The way I see it Elite’s mysteries are “real” mysteries. They make no effort to make themselves known to you, but they are there. This to some is a special aspect of the game, to some it’s a frustration. I think fdev made the decision even with its faults in mind
@@indigointoblackand it was the right decision 100%. There are so many other games that are gonna hold your hand through every little thing, can’t the people who don’t want that have one for them?
Not every game is made for everybody, and that’s ok.
@@dragoxk4542 That's why I always come back to Elite. I have a break here and there but I always come back because no other game has the freedom of Elite. I can always find something to do.
I commented and then went and played elite again for the first time in years. Banked 6 hours and I enjoyed it. I have my serious gripes with the game but I wish the tools we use were in game. And I wish there was an in game prompt (not hand holding) telling you what sort of game it is and what sort of mysteries it contains. Like stuff in galnet news or comments from an NPC, more unidentified signal sources, anything! Otherwise 90% of the playerbase misses out.
I was never involved in the Thargoid War but when you speak about living lore being created I was thinking back to when deep core mining was added and that being my gold rush with Void Opals, or more significantly being a member of the Distant Worlds II expedition and traveling all the way to Beagle Point and back. I will always have mixed feelings about Elite but it really is something special.
This is probably the best E:D retrospective so far. I love the emotional tone paired with an overview of the most important events of the past years, the explanation of game mechanics and loops, the footage, the music. Extremely well done!
Veteran Elite Player here from the Pill Capsule Beta days. This game can only be explained as a feeling. Even recently I have gotten back into elite to run some of the background simulations in an effort to shut off one of the most needed and important..... well, we will get to that when it happens :)
I have started out and technically still am using Elite as well for the continuing story of my channel lore with currently 3 parts out, with the 4th being what sets up the escape of elite in the 5th. This game IS A FEELING! When i explain to people that I love going out into the void to explore to my hearts desire it just itches something special, despite 99% of it just being the black void, its that 1% that I hold onto.
Its that 1% that got me and another to be the very first people to discover Stolon Trees and Gyro Trees, permanently putting our names out there and it will be that 1% again on some upcoming journeys that I am taking to the most absolute desolate forgotten places of the galaxy that will put my commander name into the stars as the first.
Elite, I WILL FIND YOUR SECRETS~! And when there are no more secrets.... then we already have plans to force you to talk about us. Death to your bubble, death to your super powers and giant middle finger coming to all pilots across the game.
GET OUT THERE COMMANDERS! The void calls.
A brilliantly constructed documentary and retelling of the biggest event in one of the most unique game's history ever. Your editing, music choice, and flow throughout the whole video was on point. As a player who started this game just before the major conflict with the thargoids, but took a long break due to the slashed console support, your video was a quality review to not only get me up to speed, but also remind me why I truly love this game. This amount of effort is sure to shoot your channel to the top in the world of Elite's youtubers, and now I'll be here for the journey
What an awesome video. You told the story in such a beautiful format. Great job.
Great video, Elite definitely has a special place in my heart, I'm glad that it continues to evolve after 10 years (and 40 years as a franchise)
I played elite years ago, when the aliens first started to be rumoured. Thing is, i played the game as a deep explorer. I didnt know what i was doing, and spent months warping farther and farther away. One day i realized i was missing eveeything happening, and got off. Im going to get this on my pc and start over. Cool video
You'd make so much money on scanning data if you came back from the black, though!
You’re allowed to have a one-time migration from your console profile to PC. It literally just takes 5 minutes and an email and you can carry all that stuff over. I, too, started on PS4. My sister’s boyfriend worked at GameStop and he used to give her dozens of different ps4 games.
In any case, just selling my exploration data alone, I was able to get over $2,000,000,000 credits!
Recently got myself a gaming computer so I'm so happy to be able to come back to this game and slowly re learn it heehe, I used to play this game back on my console a few years ago before it stopped being updated.
It does feel weird to me though like I have missed out on so much but its also really cool because its a lot of new content and gameplay to be able to learn and play and its still lovely to able to be kept in the loop with videos like this and being able to pick up the game on my pc and able to transfer all of my saved progress from console over to pc without starting all over again is amazing.
I hopped back into the game just in time to build an AX chieftain and participate in each of the events you described in the video, I'm so glad I got to do it. Truly prime game magic. And to be there when Cocijo exploded... chefs kiss
Your end speech was taken right out of my mind, good sir! I love the work you're doing. Not only does is give me a real sense of comradery but these videos are also great to show off to my friends, trying to get them to play. Bless you Commander, keep em coming! o7
I have had ED on my radar for multiple years now as a lover of space games since my first introduction to starsector. A part of me watched this video and wants to get the game rn and spend hours on it. But then I also see reviews and how it can get overwhelming and I just end up wiggling along the edge of what to do.
Personal strife aside, the video was fantastic. Always good to watch someone do something they enjoy, and make it an entertaining watch. Keep it up
If you can get it at a deep discount, you should. You will have a few hours of fun. The flight model is amazing. You'll play it long enough to get a few ships, fly some cargo, do some exploring, do some combat contracts, then you'll quit because you realize that the flight model is the only good thing about the game. It's like having an amazing super sports car that you can only drive in a parking lot.
Just buy it and join a community that makes learning a lot easier! You can also join my squad ive been with for years now!
Stopped playing consistently in 2021, tried my best to stay up to date on major events. Watching all of this develop after the (rather disastrous) release of Oddyssey has really sparked hope that, as you said, 2025 will be be a great year for this game.
I wish I could’ve seen it, but I came back just after the event ended. I was there when we were first exploring ancient ruins and finding obelisks and artifacts though!
I see these mechanics making a return if/when players colonize their way to permit locked systems, we repelled the invation, the next step being to take the fight to them, probably repeating the same steps Jameson regretted.
You definitely deserve a like for this video. Unfortunate for me that I left at almost the height of the Thargoid invasion, but I wasn't (or didn't feel) ready to fight. But it motivated me to come back. I'll against good reason wipe my CMDR and start fresh and *really* learn how to play this game.
Super underrated channel and video! Also thanks for explaning all of this cleanly, I can finally kind of wrap my head round this game 😂
awesome video. I started playing literally a month ago because it was on sale and I still know nothing about this game lol. I have absolutely no clue what i just watched but i like it
Welcome commander o7
Knowing I got to experience a potentially once in a lifetime gameplay moment in VR side by side with my brothers and sisters in The Swords Makhai is unreal. I only joined elite a few months before we were able to kill the titans and I am so happy I did. Over the course of 2024 I amassed 370 hours in elite mainly doing combat against the thargoids and those fights with those bugs were some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game, brings back memories of my first VOG clear in D1. Sucks to see it go but, there is always a bigger fish, I'm exited for what's next
I always get chills whenever i hear the goids 'speak' i was playing back in 2017, i remember my first goid hyperdiction, i remember all the CGs, all the hours space trucking only to have a midlife crisis when the mamba dropped and that became my be all end all. hell I've been in a 8 year relationship because of someone i met in Elite. I recently came back from a hiatus when odyssey dropped and it feels like falling back in love. Incredibly special game to me.
I started playing in 2019. The thargoid war was one of the wildest times in gaming I've experienced. In most mmo online games I've played the "raid boss" is always there. You beat it and someone else can come along after you and beat it too. This was different and amazing.
Love the thumbnail. Is it a nod to Escape Velocity Nova? I would guess at least the ship is related.
Saw this pop up on my feed, I havent played Elite since prior to engineers. I had a buddy try and get me into again and I just didnt pick it up. Glad I found this, was really well done and interesting, thank you!
Amazing!!!
I started playing in July 2024.
I’m an explorer, but I did participate in the final invasion. Transporting people to the rescue mega ship and attacking the Titians emergency vent. Definitely a learning curve. I died a few times before I got the hang of it.
It was really fun.
The only thing that ticked me off is that I had just unlocked Sirius so I could use that Engineer there unlock the Engineer I needed for my Thrusters. I think that’s one of the main reasons chose to join in the battle. lol that damn engineer went into hiding.
I’m farming materials now before I go back exploring.
But that Thargoid Invasion helped me get allied with factions I needed, earn credits, and I got 6 FSD drives
I’ll be damned, I quit ED two years before the beginning of the thargoids hunt and never returned… now you’re making me want to change my mind
Don't. It's as boring as you remember. Wide as a puddle and deep as a puddle. It's really pretty though.
honestly it's still boring in some form, you'll still have to grind guardian equipement if you didn't and engineers
As someone with hands on experience maintaining an MMO as a dev, I can tell you Frontier's ways aren't particularly unconventional, and almost everything about how the game has been handled after Horizons felt painfully familiar to the broken mess that company put me on. Either Thargoid content is coming back, or the game is shutting down, you can place your bets. Normally the latter would be an insane outcome after such a massive surge in active players, but we live in an era where even successful games are killed by execs. Best of luck to this one. We killed a lot of bugs - now it's the devs' turn.
Back in my day us explorers didn't have a FSS. We had to, slowly, fly up to each planet individually and wait for them to be scanned. God, things are so much fucking better
Phenomenal video! We're in such an exciting time and place in Elite's history right now
honestly this video was wonderful, really well made
I absolutely adore your videos! Thanks to the hard work you put into them your passion to this game shines through, and I love how easily "accessible" these video essays are for outsiders and people who have not yet picked up ED. For example I link your "Elite Dangerous 2024, Is It Worth It?" video every time somebody asks on socials if ED worth it (I don't want to file requests, but do you think later this year maybe when Fdev will roll out Colonisation, you could make an updated version for 2025?) I love this video too - the narration, videography, and the music are fantastic! This war was fantastic - and I dare to say Thargoids are one of the bests if not the best alien design in gaming - their flight model, combat patterns, narrative are so unique. Pure hard sci-fi creations.
thank you for the nice words! im currently working on a much better version of that 2024 video :)
@@indigointoblack This is freaking amazing to hear!!! I wish you the best :)
I've always lived vicariously through others when it comes to Elite Dangerous. I tried early on as a KS Backer, and it just didn't grab me, and every time something big came out I've wanted to jump in and explore but always find myself just... a bit lost really. I'm glad that its found its stride again, and that events like this have both shaped and been shaped by the players and Frontier in unison. Great video... I might have to try again sometime.
It’s very daunting at the start. I played on Spectrum many moons ago and was staggered when I rediscovered the game on PS. Moved over to PC and it’s the only thing I play now. TH-cam is your best friend and there are superb content creators who will pretty much cater to your every need. Buur Pit, Obsidian Ant, Down to Earth Astronomy (unfortunately no longer active but videos are still available) Cmdr Exigious to name but a few will be extremely helpful. Also quite a few apps to help in game - SRV Survey and EdCopilot (which I’ve just starting using) to name a couple.
Oh Elite. It has plenty of lows but when it hits a high, there's nothing like it in all of gaming. The sound design, the way the community works together. I've never been one to do much combat, I explore and haul, but I love watching stuff like this!
Thank you for your service in the war Commanders o7
Very well done video. Thank you for this. You have convinced me to return to the game full time.
Absolutely amazing video, I really enjoyed watching it!
‘I was there’
I helped build a space station at the center of the galaxy. I pushed on to the far side, out to the edge. I navigated the dark bubbles of space where FSD doesn’t work.
I’ve seen things no other commander has seen, things so beautiful
I love your style of story telling!
Great video man, we are seriously lacking in elite dangerous creators. Was on a 3 year break and came back after engineering rework, got to bomb 4 out of 8 titans. The game is in a great place right now. The thargoids feel like a force of nature, hope everyone joins the blockade on the 12th in HIP22460. Practice your cold orbits! Glory to mankind!
Very good writing. Great video and audio production. Connects with my game experience. Subscribed.
Great video, titan bombing has been the most fun I have had in game and I am struggling to get over the withdrawal symptoms now it appears to be all over. Hopefully some more Thargoid content will appear in the future.
Great summary, keep up the good work! 😎
Love ya man, my #1 Elite creator
Hell yea. Awesome video. Love the story and action coming with it. Its like we're in a movie. But get to be that characters in it. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, yes, Fdev always had a knack for fantastic sound design, not just for the aliens!
i will always maintain the fact that Elite Dangerous has the best visual design and audio design ever
That was a very well worked on video. Amazing
Very good video CMDR. Thanks. I started in 2018. Way before the first hyperdiction. It was Guardian module season. I did it all. From killing my first Scout to soloing an Interceptor in my meta Chieftain. All the way up to "soloing" Cocijo to get those 6 sweet SCO's. Great times. Funny, I earned my Carrier cash during that gold rush as you did. Kept hauling right to the end making a cool 10 billion. Plenty for the FC and years of upkeep. Now it's chill time. Adding the new ships to the pit of 30 fully engineered ones. Looking forward to what's coming. Anyways, see you out there. o7
Damn never heard about Elite: Dangerous but thats was great watch! Thanks man!
I regret missing the cerberus plague...
But I've been there for every event since!
Very good video - I loved every second o7
Great footage, I was on my way back when the last shot was fired, I had to experience it through the comms chatter.
It's really cool seeing this kind of thing because ED is something unique to me, despite only being on Xbox and not really even getting to experience any of this
I was also there when the final heart of the Titan over Earth (I can't pronounce the darn thing either! :P ) blew up. I can't say I did anything special. But I was pumping missiles into the main heat vent when the notification went up and so I guess I did my part. 24 hours later I was there when the final big boom happened.
I'm about to go on an exploration expedition in celebration of Apollo 14 (have already been on Distant Worlds 2, Apollo 15, Wild Wild West, and Passage to Andromeda expeditions. So this feels like taking off the combat boots and slipping on a pair of beloved old sneakers. I'll keep up to date with things back in the bubble of course. I've developed a taste over the last few months for things I thought I would never bother with - including ground combat!
You are so right - this game STILL has SO MUCH more to offer. May it continue another 10 years!
when you need to enter silent mode to get rid of the acid turning your ship into piss, you feel the thrill this game uses to test your skills.
As a console player, I wasn’t there to defend the bubble, but I still fly.
I still explore. The galaxy is vast. Bigger than my remaining years, and I know I will never see it all.
There will always be something for the next generation.
Endless Wonder.
I'm glad it's over for now. I participated in the Sol runs. Two successful runs.
I still play Elite from time to time on PS4. And man I'm so sad that support was cut. But still I love this game to death.
I stopped playing 2 years ago, and this has just filled me with a sense of..sadness. As I was never allowed to share any of these moments with anyone or even able to do it, as I was a console player. Left behind..
And as much as I want to get back into it at times, that woukd require all the rep grinding again, all the Cr again..
And I just breakdown. This game is special in such a way that I don't want to think about it.
I took a very long break from Elite, I thought the game was near dead. But then I saw on Elite’s subreddit that Titan was approaching earth- I watched the stories that came from it and it really moved me to jump in the game again and start taking it seriously again. Now I gotta start figuring out the guardian tech and engineering….
I started playing in 2018 after a friend brought me in. We played for the next couple of years, building our ranks, banks, and shipyards. And then, out of nowhere, Fdev canceled console support. I was crushed. I had a brand new hotas set up and re arranged my entire play area for the game. But I didn't have a PC till 2024, when I built my first PC and installed the game right in time to take part of Cojico. I had only killed 1 or 2 Cyclops' before that and it's been unreal learning how much has changed in the few years I was away. Still learning a lot about on foot side of the game and my carrier needs some attention, but it's good to be back. Although I have a couple more kids, a full-time job, and other great games I'm playing, I will be here for whatever comes next in 2025! o7 commanders.
16:35 I love a good sci fi explosion and this is one of the best.
CMDR Jameson was a true hero. His crash site has singlehandedly given me all the data I've ever needed for engineering
I remember when they were just showing up and pulling us out of jumps. Then they started taking out stations. Im so sad I missed all of this for war thunder now. I hope we can keep it going on, this game is genuinely beautiful. I'm back to stay now.
i really do wish we could have done more with the thargoids that wasn't just combat. more things like the surface site maps, the fact that they could turn green on scanners when you dropped them meta alloys whether that was a glitch or not.
It seems like the next step for Elite Dangerous is to expand outwards again with player colonization, which is something I have always wanted in the game- more player control. I fought in the Thargoid War for a bit and was even there way back in 2017 or so when the Thargoids just entered the game. I remember being in Merope with the barnacles and getting interdicted for the first time. Currently I'm heading over the Colonia to go see something new but also my canon reason is my character got exhausted from the war and wants to start a new life on the frontier. I'm really excited for player colonization as I want to see more fringe bubbles and colonies throughout the milkyway.
I came back after hearing about the colonization update coming, im finally going through the effort of getting a fleet carrier and prepping for colony building.
Currenty out at colonia getting ridiculous amounts of bio samples, the tharagoid war is how I did the federal rep grind for the corvette, I did evac missions exclusively for the federal faction and made it all the way to rear admiral.
My corvette is named the Buenos Aires like the town in star ship troopers that rico was from, I did my part.
It's sad that this game got abandoned on console. I had a blast playing this on PS4 and before that on Xbox. I somehow managed to move my data to PC before the transfer nerf but it never felt the same. My in game friends (all RL friends) were on console and most of them didn't have PCs. I ended up quitting before such things as carriers or space legs were added to the game. I tried giving it a go recently on PC when this titan thing started but the game was totally unrecognizable to me now.
This is the only time so far in my time playing Elite that i actually joined a large group of people to play with. It was amazing. I really hope the developers keep this type of event going on in the future, Titan combat is a lot of fun.
This event was the most fun I’ve had in a community event in any game. Fighting in the battle for earth after ten years of playing the game felt incredible. Was stationed at Mars High o7
I did all of this stuff! I killed saucers, soloed interceptors, defended bases, and attacked 6 of the titans. It was glorious gameplay, and it paid soooooo well.
I remember the day it was discovered that there were secret graphic spectrogram images from unknown probes that you couldn’t realistically be expected to have ever discovered on consoles being simultaneously pissed and deciding to start over on PC. Lol
Man... you are so very right about each player's personal story.
I remember the ups and downs of my time in this game - oh so many downs. But I remember the ups, too.
My first Cobra MkIII. Flying it for ground salvage ops when the SRV came out.
The oh so eccentric Keelback, my first ship with a fighter hangar.
Grinding imperial rep for a cutter, and mining my ass off in a python to afford it.
And then the Great Mainani Massacre - when the introduction of wing missions and a minor local confict of two irrelevant backwater systems 150 LY from the bubble produced a profit potential so massive the playerbase smelled blood in the void and descended upon these systems like an entire swarm of hungry sharks, with double digit numbers of fleet carriers in this one system that is strategically irrelevant... the first TRUE test of my cutter. She's is still out there. Waiting for me to come back and take a seat at the helm of this distinguished war machine once more.
While I didn't start it, that honour falls to Selene Stardragon and Psykit, being there to help Selene push Operation Wychhunt was wonderful and I'm honoured to have been able to help lead it. Of course like, we were sure we would never *stop* the Proteus Wave from firing... but we delayed it by 2 whole weeks!
Azimuth Biotech, who called my once favourite system of T Tauri home, now barely hold any influence *anywhere* and are still fairly isolated (as far as I know, it's admittedly been a while).
The fact that we, a small group of streamers and players, were able to rile up such a fuss and cause such a disruption to that minor faction, that FDev actually canonized us AND "delayed the plans" by two weeks because of us is mind boggling. You don't get that in other games!
Of course, we don't know what happens next. They've said the Thargoid story isn't over, the plot thread that Salvation is possibly still out there hasn't been tied up yet, among many other things... I don't think we'll see the end of this soon but I'm excited to see what Elite does next.
i started playing during the final days of the war at the invitation of a friend who had been playing for years. pretty much as soon as I finished the tutorial, he invited me to multicrew on his ship to do a bombing run on cocijo as there was only two hearts left and he wanted me to experience it before it was gone forever. i was in charge of the caustic sinks, pulse neutralizer, torpedoes, and multicannons. took a few runs but eventually i got the hang of it and we got a few good bombing runs in.
fast forward a few days later to when the final heart is destroyed and me and my friend are racing to get me enough money to buy and outfit a diamondback explorer to do rescue runs on the titan. I scrape together the bare minimum but timezone differences mean I have to attempt my first couple runs solo. they go exactly as you'd expect: I die in hyperspace interdiction on my way to the titan or die to interceptors before I can figure out how exactly to use my new rescue modules.
the next evening, there are only a few hours left before meltdown but my friend is able to hop on for a little while to show me how it works. we do a couple runs together and I get the hang of it, but my very limited cargo space means I can't carry many pods. he has to hop off again to sleep but is planning on waking up watch the meltdown. I continue doing runs until there's less than an hour left. I know I can only do one more run and I want to make it count. I use all the credits I just made to buy and outfit an asp explorer with all the modules from my diamondback and as much cargo space as I can manage and have just enough left over to cover one rebuy. I know heat is gonna be an issue but it's idling at 21%. i know i can get it below 20 by keeping some modules switched off and I know the thargoids aren't super aggressive now anyway so I figure fuck it: one last run.
I get into the titan no issues and start rescuing. I'm goinf as fast as I can. my friend joins up minutes before the titan explodes and is surprised to see me flying an asp. I almost manage to fill up my cargo with seconds left on the counter, so my friend tells me to pull back so we can watch the fireworks. I start to move out but somehow I pull aggro on a thargoid ship. I make a break for the asteroid field while my friend desperately tries to get the ship off me. I dont have shields so my hull is melting quickly. I have single digit hull integrity when i make it to safety with a repair limpet from my friend keeping me alive. Not sure how I made it out with literally two seconds left, I dont even have time to fully swing my ship around before we're blasted back out through the caustic storm.
...and I had my caustic sinks turned off to lower my heat. I blow up the moment i hit the cloud.
10/10, no better intro to this game
Just got the game and am learning the operations. It appears to have a deeper "learning curve" than arcade style space games. Am interested in seeing it develop into what the community makes it.
my favorite game through thick and thin! still super greatful my friend gifted it to me back in 2021!
I put the game down when they added carriers because they were insanely overpriced for the grind at the time. Hearing how fondly you speak of how things went this past year is making me strongly consider picking it back up again, so thanks in advance for helping me give this game another chance!
I went out for exploring trip 4½ years ago.... i came back december. Had nice RP session where my ingame character went "War??? The eff you mean by War against Thargoids??? and we won??? The hell happend?"
I have played on and off for almost all of E:D's lifespan, but I really got into the game around Horizon. The launch of Odyssey is still the only time I have ever seen a DLC reduce the amount of players instead of increase it. I remember Colonia finally getting engineers, and my favorite CG was the building of the Colonia Bridge, even though it seems all those mega ships were just kind of abandoned by players in the years since. The jump drives you got for delivering materials were the best in the game until the introduction of SCO, and especially the introduction of the double engineered SCO drives after the last Titan exploded. Now I have a Mandalay with a casual 80ly jump range, outclassing my little DBX I've been flying for years quite handily while still having more modules. I've also basically stopped flying my Type 9 in favor of my Type 8, just for the better feel and faster flight and landing times. It's so strange seeing how the game has changed over time, and coming back to the game after a long break is usually a little disorienting.
I remember the first time they were checked in HIP 23716, that was a hell of a campaign
Great video! Thank you. :)
I was playing a bunch when the Thargoids were only hitting unknown systems and a few missions allowed you to go hunt them, and I remember the Megaship disappearing, but then I lost interest for a while. Now I wish I'd built a Thargoid killer. I'm gonna have to make the trek to Sol and see the dead Titan.
was fortunate enough to participate in some titan dives on cocijo. got to watch the final boom in a sidewinder :D
18:48 just because they say one thing, does not mean they would stick that decision, no way they would want to lose their cash cow
I actually didn't have the materials (or experience) to do engineering when Cocijo became bombable, so I did my titan bombing in an un-engineered Krait MKII.
With most of my modules disabled (including weapons and power dist.) until the vents opened, I was able to get to a spot where I could sneak up to a vent 20% heat without silent running.
I could take out 4-5 vents per a run consistently with silent running and heat sinks throughout the run, and made around 4-6mil per run.
And with materials to synthesize sinks between runs and a repair limpet controller, I actually managed to get to top 25% contributors in my little Krait MKII.
It was difficult, but fun. I feel like the whole, "you need engineering"/"you need THIS build" thing kinda put off some people to participating in atleast bombing during this event.
I love that there is a huge Alien Invasion going on with warfare etc, meanwhile many of us are just chilling Mining and Trading 😂
I avoided the thargoids for the longest time. And then they attacked Shinrata. And that was the day I joined the fight. I remember it fondly, despite not being a fan of fighting thargoids due to the difficulty. I still went to the frontlines when a system I cared about was under attack.
I can't believe this chapter came to an end. I just got my carrier when the Colonia Bridge got built, still have my Brewer decal for helping it. Then this happened, the Proteus Wave. Days after we found the Stargoids. I was helping Canonn with tracking these things. Weeks before their arrival, I saw all 8 of them in the skies above the Guardian sites, when I gathered stuff for the war. The day of the invasion was so overwhelming. Hundreds of systems destroyed, billions of people in danger, and they were just overpowering every of our defenses. I thought we'd be using the Colonia Bridge but then it slowed down. We won more and more battles and for me it got too boring. But seeing Titans explode was so surreal. The major attack on ShinDez, and then the last push on Sol. Even went online just to see the final minutes of the war. To know that there will be new generations of players who will only hear our war stories from the time the Thargoids invaded our systems, see remnants of the devastation... This makes ED so special
I never got into the thargoid combat stuff cause it always seemed too convoluted for someone who wasn’t a combat player to begin with. So while I hope all those mechanics aren’t just dead now, I also hope they’re refined and not just reutilized as-is.
I've been in and out of the game every now and then since 2020, I wish I could've had the skill and time to hunt thargoids. But I am glad I at least participated with evacuating stations, I couldn't even try to count the amount of round trips I made going back and forth picking up civilians on starports and taking them out through the wrecked interiors of the starports. It's the least I could do considering my circumstances.
when i first joined the game i got picked up by a guild and well I started off mining and i kind of burned my creds to get the grind experience the gold rush I was apart of was the Painite mining area where you could earn millions in say 4 hours easily. and dealing with the Painite crash was hard but i when to grinding the empire reps as a courier and I really love there ship designs.
Good history. I missed the first few titan kills but enjoyed all the ones I was there for
i came back to the bubble to fight this thing, and rescued several people before it went boom. im 25000LY away now but if they ever come back or there is an official counter attack i will be there.