PAX East 2017 - Interview with David Braben
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The automatic subtitles transliterated "Thargoids" as "Star Gods".
George Soros of course
It wouldn't surprise me. I honestly believe he would sell out the human race it he could profit and not be affected.
Witchspace = quantum effect wormhole = black hole = star. Thargoids live in witchspace. Solved.
considering they bend reality it isn't too far fetched they are gods of the stars.
Ever looked up what a Seraph is, and why Black Flight Called the Goids that?
So you're telling me... He is actually a real person... Not just my bobblehead?
They used a bio 3d printer to make a real version of the bobblehead.
The guy you see in the video is probably a Thargoid, with a Lord Braben mask.
I wonder if David Braben loves to grind for engineers.
stang46l I wonder if David Braben likes to grind with Engineers 😉
BTG02 Stoooooop 💦💦😩😩💦💦💦💦
There is a guy who believes in what he is doing.
*Salutes Cmdr Braben.
+!
It is always so nice to listen to Lord Braben.
Love your passion David!
.. but hate your results.
I live in his old house
@@mad293max7 Is Raxxla in the basement?
This game in few years.. omg. 400hrs in and cant stop playing, currently on my first visit to colonia!
Ambraham How many of those 400hrs were spent in supercruise? xd
I spent over 1100 hours and now I'm playing with it. XD
Fran Couz
you can play the game without traveling to 300.000 ls away stations. Just don't go there. You can spend very little time in supercruise and see everything the game has to offer.
and you certainly dont need to play it 400 hours either to see all it has to offer...........
I would argue that depending on your definition of "seeing all it has to offer" you actually might need more than 400 hours. Let's see...
There are an absolute boatload of specific sites, for instance, that have been discovered. Crashed or emergency landed ships, ancient beacons, abandoned bases, alien ruins, artifacts and encounters, weird lifeforms, surface features like geysers and weirder anomalies in space... Going to see it all would take a considerable amount of time, and (I believe this has actually been confirmed too, I could be mistaken) when you scan some of these things, it gives you data which might be required to unlock other secrets when you scan other odd things. For instance, you might not get the same result from scanning a datapoint in an abandoned planetary base depending on whether you have scanned specific beacons thousands of light years away previously.
Then there's all the different kinds of combat situations from interdicting pirates or authority convoys to joining battles in progress or investigating unknown signal sources. All of that can of course be done with your ship set up in ways that make it behave very, very differently. There's the PvP. Mining independently, mining for missions, searching for rare materials on planets. Influencing the galactic superpowers, toying with the minor factions in the game, trading for profit, trading to influence the world around you, joining one of the many player factions that work towards different goals like the Hussars who protect explorers returning to the bubble or the Fuel Rats who rescue stranded players with bingo fuel.
Unlocking all the engineers to modify your ships in crazy and quirky ways, trying all the different types of missions from transporting tourists (there are hundreds of tourist beacons that show you interesting places in space and give you in-game lore) to assassinating large ships or smuggling slaves, participating in community goals, you could even contribute to some of the interesting projects out there to map the galaxy or do different kinds of research, the list goes on...
But I'm pretty sure doing 100% of all of the above would take more than 400 hours. Of course, your definition of "seeing all it has to offer" could also just be hopping in and seeing that you fly spaceships around. By that definition you could do it in 10 minutes. I suppose it's a matter of taste how much of it you would enjoy doing, and some of us really, really like doing all or most of it. I personally think one of the reasons behind many of the people who get bored with the game is that they simply don't realize exactly how much stuff there is to do :)
I love this guy. The passion he has for his creation is something that's quite rare these days. Love Elite Dangerous.
I kinda love Braben's "mystery talk" he's giving everytime he gives a speech. He seems so wonderfully disconnected from the games development.
Jar Red Lmaaaooo this made me laugh more than it should have
I like his enthusiasm but as far as an ordinary player goes this is insignificant. No gameplay story to it. If you're a philosopher then the things Braben speaks about may keep you occupied for a while, but a typical gamer wants a story to participate in and see unfold. Or several short ones, whatever.
and cry a little too lol
There are a multitude of stories going on at any one time in Elite: Dangerous. But like real life, you have to pay attention to the media outlets (GalNet, system news, etc) to find out about them. For instance, I'm part of a player group and we just expanded into our 10th system. Some of the systems we are in, we control all the major assets, in some, we are facing opposition from an unknown force. And in another, we are currently in the middle of an election with another minor faction.
And this is just what is happening "story" wise with one minor faction.
oh okay, read about how the Emperor was coronated and "broadcasted throughout the galaxy on holo-recordings" - oh wait
or LAVE Radio? oh wait, that's fan-based
Radio Sidewinder? oh wait, again fan-based
please
Oh dear.. its what players do, that determine what happens in the future..... We are all so screwed... lol
As a new player I must say my experience of ED on the Vive is SPECTACULAR!. Instead of just playing a game, I feel like I am living the life of a space pilot. So much so that reality is s shock when I remove the HMD. KUDOS on this masterpiece! PS PLEASE give us a first person alternative to the horrible third person gunner position. In VR its a real immersion breaker!
I don't think it breaks the immersion, I'm sure your ship's sensors can make you see the environment around the ship.
Ondřej Saska Its an immersion-breaker. Frontier Developments need to place a screen on the gunners chair that depicts the vessel you're aboard as a wireframe depiction, with the real images of the enemy tangos as a hologram HUD or screen, akin to when you look at the HUD for the SRV or launching fighters. A different targeting system should also be in operation with this for the gunner.
The third person camera should be an option, but one you must select. So immersion is maintained.
Only if you choose to play in open. PVP is still optional ;)
I would have tried having a turret view where you sit in one of them and have when you look outside the view angle you see through the ship through your HUD (a bit transparent) so you still can track the enemy and have the movement locked to your input only.
Johan Ollikkala That's a good idea, but the turrets aren't large enough. There are, however many gunners seats on many larger vessels. Ie on the FDL there's a forward cockpit, on the ASP an underslung cockpit, the Anaconda, numerous unseen windowed ports etc...
But I like the idea of all the crew in the same bridge. I like seeing the avatars. Seeing others counters the isolation and emptiness of E:D.
I played Elite for Commodore C64 1984. It was this Game. Cant wait Tod Play it on PS4.
Commodore version was really great, i still play it.
This game is genuinely phenomenal. David is saying things in this video which are extremely consistent with earlier videos, only layered with more new info. Kudos Frontier Dev. Thank you for making such an amazing game!
I wonder how many of you people know the background to this whole 'Elite thing'. How David and his friend Ian Bell toiled over the game that started this all off back in 1984 when it was released, for 3 years while doing their coursework at the same time. David Braben is a personal hero of mine. Thank you David for all of your hard work and inspiration. I'm 10 years younger than you and I grew up loving Elite and loving my BBC B. You inspired me and I owe much of what I do now to you and Ian's inspiration.
i love how into the game DB is.
Edd Jordan Yeah, he's been making the game since '84. If he wasn't into it he would have given up a while ago.
He isn't. He never spends a single minute with it. He just pretends.
I started on Frontier Elite II on the Amiga. Great game.
Ed Warden Elite 2 is still a better game, for me. Let's hope E:D gets there some day.
I started on the Original Elite.
I started on the Commodore 64. :)
I played this game on a Commodore 64 in 1986 as a teenager, and was addicted to it. Almost 30 years later, David Braben brought it back as a startup..and now it exploded, it is so much better and addicted again as an old fart!
Heh, I was 28 in '86 when I was playing this game. Best thing ever released on the C64. Now I'm mostly retired and have logged nearly 1200 hours in Elite Dangerous. It's fun, but I'm really looking forward to seeing it fleshed out more in the years to come. Definitely getting my money's worth out of the lifetime DLC subscription.
CMDR Tony Curtis Same here CMDR, played mid '80s achieved Dangerous...midships, steady ahead...
He also brought it back in the 90s as Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga in 1992 and there was a sequel later on the PC that was rather buggy iirc.
Excellent stuff and a reminder of how MASSIVE the Elite Dangerous game is. Galactic sized!
Every time an update is released, I cannot help but smile and play some more E:D. It's still years away from completion, and at every update there are a million comments about how the game is lacking this and that. I hope David and Frontier will have the patience and resources to continue development according to their vision right until the day this megaproject is truly complete. Meanwhile, thanks for the ride so far!
David, i thank you so much, this Game is LOVE!
Excellent summary of the game. Really captures it well for people who haven't played.
A great guy back in the day and still a great guy these days.. down to Earth as always and very passionate about his brainchild, without it going to his head and making him a k__b like most people of his stature and elevation in life after they have mastered success... keep going David and keep inspiring us !!!
it´s always nice to have a listen to our lord and savior, mister braben
Elite is Cmdr Braben's life work. And what a fantastic life & accomplishment.
I'm following the series from the 8 bit era, it was a miracle in each iteration.
I love this guy's passion that lasted for 3 decades. Will try out.
Very interesting stuff, thanks!
I'm really new to the game I only got it around three weeks ago but its just so incredible to me as its every dream I ever had come true.
If I could I would go to space and it kills me to think that I will never be able to travel through out our galaxy but this feels so incredibly close and that means the world to me.
I haven't played it yet but I know who this guy is and the 1984 game Elite. This man was years ahead of his time, if I played this game back in the 80s, the concept of "sandbox" and "open world" would be difficult to wrap my head around. Honestly incredible.
What Braben said is very smart: Timescales are really so wide in our universe, that when two species meet and both are alive is a very lucky shot.
He really knows his "game" and area of expertise. Unlike many other game designers.
Not every ED gamer/commander is a "space case". you don't have to be, but the amount of immersion and feel when you really are is enourmous. How our galaxy is "treated" here is just plain beautiful, and although during the original Elite, the treatment was slightly typical Star Wars/Star Trek type (not forgetting multiple galaxies), here it is more downplayed, not so fantasy like anymore. I like it.
Sad thing is, I've learned more in this video about the Federation, Empire and Alliance than I have in playing the game for 1100 hours. In game, all they seem to be good for is grinding faction to get special ships.
Montague Zooma u tried the new update ?
"I draw comparisons with the wagon trains of North America."
Yo, Gene Roddenberry called; he wants his line back.
awesome!!! thank you
Top guy, top game. Playing since the comodore 64.
I started playing it on my C64 again recently, its still great!
The lord Braben hat bespoken to us mortals. PRAISE THE NAME !
BASK IN HIS GREATNESS!
A couple atheistic things I would love added to this wonderful experience we call Elite Dangerous. #1 During super cruise or when the hyper drive is going and we are in witch space I would love to occasionally see little micro impacts on the shields from space debris. #2 atmospherics on planets much like the aurora borealis, living in Alaska I get to see this display from the ground. Seeing in from the cockpit of an ASP X when approaching the dark side of a planet would be amazing. Other than that keep up the amazing work!
He seems like a great guy.
This is something I would work on completely for free. Elite games sort of shaped me to become who I am now. The reason why I became a data scientist and I'm so much into AI is because of these games! David Braben will always be my master!
I have 451 hours and this games is simply amazing! Frontier has done an incredible job creating this gem of a game. David Branden , Thank you for your vision! Elite Dangerous is a MUST have for any gamer at any level.
J'adore les thargoids et leur histoire ! Ce qu'on en connait du moins ^^ Hâte de voir des nouveautés !
ED is a great game with endless possibilities. I play on Xbox one and at first, there was a bit of a learning curve but with all the videos, I am finding it much easier to enjoy. Someone should turn this into a movie cause there is sooo much going on and plenty of story lines
I really love the game and the Galaxy you've created around it..that said, I would absolutely LOVE to see a motion picture setting up the different factions and state of Space in Elite:Dangerous. I know it would be ALL the money..But just think of those engine sound effects etc..
i would love to see david do a lets play of elite dangerous
I always think of this game as the new "wild west" as well.
With different territories, factions, laws, outlaws, bounty hunters, miners etc etc. Its brilliant.
Love elite dangerous and frontier elite neither games are perfect but they are still awesome!
Great having more, a shame we can't play together.
Great guy
Love for you David. your Visions are like my Spacedreams i hade since Child. Thank you for this lovely Universe. If i ever see you, i will drop my Shields for you Sir o7
Thank you Frontier as well.
Great Job, the best Game i ever play
david your an absolute legend
I found the planet from "unknown teaser already. =) Thanks- CMDR Roen Soul
I'm really hyped for this game but i don't have VR yet.
Good old Hugo! I remember when he proposed to Alice.
Great tech, and good game!!! Well done man, cool!
Will we ever get the cities in elite like you spoke on in 2016 its 2022
What im waiting for is ship interiors and walking on planets instead of being in a cockpit 24/7
I'm so excited for the new camera. . . . Going to make it so much easier to create nice videos of my travels. XD
Really new to the game but loving every second of it. The only thing I could wish for now is that there would be a way to combine Elite Dangerous with Alien Isolation.
Elite should add Andromeda as a second galaxy to somehow get to! That would be cool.
yaes!
What a great idea - having two galaxies to not have anything to do in.
Paweł Pawelec ye exactly! it'd be great
Only the original one. It was impossible in Elite 2 and 3, but the one galaxy we had was much larger, and based on the Milky way. The first game's lore is way outdated. It might happen in ED but i dont really see the point. Also, magelanic clouds are closer hence more likely to be the ones we migth visit some day.
I hope for atmosferic landable planets, with all the things they can bring in terms of gameplay.
If you can create an entire galaxy in 32 Kb memory (the memory of the original Acorn BBC Model B that Elite appeared on in 1984) imagine what you can create in 32 Gb memory.
I've been pretty vocal about my displeasure that the last two updates have only had passenger ships. a large portion of the player base that already have vets and cutters are looking for something new. I want the Turner class, or a huge battle wagon of some sort. on to my other issue, when are you going to let us pledge to our player factions? I'd like to know when I scan a player if he's a enemy faction. really struggling trying to find some direction, almost triple elite now and want more to do.
a flying goose Fuel rats unite!
It's clear that Braben has a passion for this game, which is exactly what will keep it going far into the future.
How naive.
excellent
Seeing as the in game Is moving on, might I suggest they add maybe super Novas as tourist attractions. Maybe adding massive mining ships trawling the system, shuttling metals for different super powers. I would like the game to keep the richness of the immersion.
Barnacles are tiberium. Elite takes place in the original Command and Conquer universe.
Honestly I just want to see Spansh's Neutron Router somehow integrated into the galactic map, now yes it is true that the galactic map does now take supercharge range and Neutron Stars into consideration when plotting a route, but it doesn't do it often enough.
I love Braben.
"in-coming aliens", straight from sir David. Lock n load people.
I haven't played since october and I have the Oculus Rift. Waiting for landings into Earthlike worlds.
Now we just need a guild system and some kind of player made infrastructure like stations and/or player alliances and this game will have legs for a decade on just what the players create.
Make a campaign quest of your whole ideia and give to us!
When can we land on lifeless atmospheric planets?
Indeed. However, I fear they will be busy patching console ports for the next year or so. All added content will be cosmetic just as these mega ships you cant do nothing with.
Multicrew, commander creator, camera suite and loads of structures (asteroid bases, megaships) are just a cosmetic content?
+Ondřej Saska Camera suite and structures are literally cosmetic content. Asteroid bases will serve exactly same purpose as bases in general. Megaships don't do nothing yet.
Multi-crew is actual content if you are a combat oriented pilot, that's true.
Usumgallu Eh? Of course not everything is gameplay content. That's how it works.
2020.
The Best
well done to all CMDR'S in colonia!
Maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else see a color coding message on the left side of his shirt? Could be a camera issue, but why is it a continuous distortion of random coloring imaging just on the left side of his shirt? Just saying
You don’t need 400 billion stars ... you need space legs
This guy loves his job
I like that you have a story in your now if you could just implement that into the game with some more story based missions........yaaaaaah that would be great.
No Ps4 release date?
Do it with full psvr gameplay option for the PS4 or will not buy it.
Wow, he almost made it sound like there was immergent gameplay happening in Elite dangerous. Sadly... not. You can't say that player organisation overthrow pre existing powers when you are forcing them to actually work together and give them something to do in the form of community goals. The players did nothing but follow your breadcrumbs to further the lore in own of 2 or 3 PRE WRITTEN directions.
Lord Braben o7
(also please make a new SRV,and new explorer ship.Love my ASP-X and Explorer Conda,but i want a better.Maybe Alliance ships? And vulcanic landing thing)
How do u start a player group in Elite
I am curious, I want to know if the game will have more realistic features such as being able to go to a bar on a space station for example. Talk to someone like in a secret organization to perform in secret missions. Still there is no life to the game. I am just wondering if we will have that kind of luxury in the game. I have not played star citizen yet, but from what I have seen, it looks amazing however I don't like the game mechanics such as the way the ships look in a dog fight. Elite seems to have a better dog fighting experience than star citizen to me. Anyways just wondering.
Those things("space legs", visiting stations and ships) are more or less planed as such for future seasons, but no time soon.
I wonder why everyone is so keen for the so-called space legs.
X Rebirth had them and they were awful. Running around in generic space station interiors, searching for generic people with generic dialogue options is not as fun as one might think. Players who were eagerly waiting for this feature, were soon demanding to make it optional and have all the interaction handled via the comms system. Going to a real bar with real people is fun, for sure. Alas, there is neither of both in a computer game.
I for one would rather see more multilayer content. Let us trade, let us team up (as in clan, corporation, player group, you name it), give us things to do as a group. I don't need the big politics of EVE online, the content for smaller scale groups would be enough. As someone already said, multiplayer challenges would be great, where you'd need ppl with different roles to accomplish something. Or a player driven market for items. Or, or, or... I could go on for pages here.
But space legs? There is already almost nothing to do on planets with the SRV. I don't want to have nothing to do on stations, too.
More narration in game please ! Use holo-me for that purpose, I didn't know the half of the story in ED and I played more than 500h...
Romain Reading news from galnet helps quite a lot.
Antti Piironen You can see the limit of Galnet. Just a little text cannot tell a story. Time to improve the narration !
will 2.3 drop for xbone the same time as pc?
It should. Every update so far since Horizons has been that way, at least
I'd like to know more about whether we'll be able to walk on earth-like planets one day.
Mors Magne If we are to survive as a species, we must. They may be vastly different in climate, gravity. We may have to use pollutants or fusion reactors to alter the atmospheric composition...
But we will. Or we will perish.
Mars may be the first world we remould as Elite Dangerous actually suggests.
I honestly just want a space shooter like X-Wing and Tie Fighter. I'm no explorer.
I love what you have done so far but please let the fresh influx of money get your creative juices flowing come playable content intot he game, tweak the faction system, pirate bases to dislodge, more mission variety, roaming pirate gangs, more mission types, rake some of the RNG out of the sim (everything from resource hunting, to engineer upgrades, to point of interest density/variety) put in less linear ship variants.
the fed dropship was a basic if promising start, lets see more builds based around fighter command, anti-swarm ships, missile boat, longer ranged heavy weapons platforms (passive benefits to range).
P.S. For the love of whatever deity there may be, tweak the PC UI so that we can mouse drive the menus, allow for a third "fire weapon/use selected module" function so we are not dancing between the fire groups in every fight (I.E. we want to scan, shoot projectiles and use lasers independently). Less clicks, more focus on the flying.
They are putting bits of that to the game with each update, so that's nice.
This guy is just amazing........huh u said wat Chris Roberts I didnt hear u wats a star citizen........oh that game that is going to release in the time this game is set 3300s
Space Legs, Man. Sort out space legs for better immersion.
He’s a blimmin Cambridge scholar... pretty sure he’s affiliated with the empire in-game!
Doubt many game executives are quite as charming and affable.
I think the Alliance has been kind of ignored by Frontier. We've got Federation ships and Empire ships but no Alliance specific ones? I think thats a shame and hope Frontier address that at some point real soon. On another point does anyone know if David Braben has had some sort of issue with his hands at some point in the past? Ive seen lots of interviews with David over the years (I've played Elite since 1984 btw) and he seems to have deformed fingers especially his pinkys. I've always wondered about this.
His fingers don't look funny to me. He just seems to have a habit of keeping them in a crooked position when using his hands for expression. At other points he has them straight and looking perfectly normal.
Mark Gowans the finger thing is probably just related to him getting older.
Mark Gowans the alliance wouldt have unique ships by its own nature as a loose conglomerate of independent systems, not having anything "standard issue" across the alliance
David's only a few years older than me so theres something about getting older to look forward to lol :)
I'd like to see some alliance ships. Maybe the alliance have older slightly more analogue ships left over from an old war retrofitted with modern avionics. you know something a bit hodgepodge/asymmetrical that have specific attributes at the expense of others. I'm thinking of ships that have no shields but have awesome armour reinforcement. or without armour reinforcement the could have really high top speeds for specific jobs like smuggling. Maybe they use deflector shields or electronic warfare (that was outlawed after said war). there are loads of interesting options they could explore for the alliance.
Maybe Alliance ships could be more adaptable (with regards to modules) and offer better upgrade abilities. I'm imagining there would have to be horrendously rare and expensive to balance everything out but if you get one and spend the money on the upgrades you could quite possibly own the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy . . .
2 years ago
He looks like south park Ike as an adult.
Will 2.3 be the last season update for season 2?
Thanks
All we've been said is
2.4 : ???? / to be announced at a later date ^^.
Really looking forward to what it may be..
Dave love your game, but we need some proper exploration ships. Asp Explorer Mk II with a 20 LY jump range unmodded
no point to proper exploration ships if they don't actually give you reasons to explore.
Look David there is not enough things to be found
Thank you David for the Great Game
In the trailer at 14:06 min, in the middle there is a white small fighter/ship I don't recognize. :O
NicoZ8 That's just some dingbat flying an imperial fighter backwards.
So is PS4 abandoned now?
PSVR? Please?
I am commander braben, i've been killed by an awful lot of people allready, i expect to carry on that way.
That explains the shield nerf, Its Brabens wrath :p