Elite Dangerous 2024, Is It Worth It?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today we take a look at Elite now, back then, and even in the future. 10 years later, is it still worth a buy?
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Elite Dangerous: store.steampowered.com/app/35...
- Chapter Information -
0:00 Intro
0:20 Ships
1:44 Game World
2:26 Story
6:30 The BGS
7:50 The FPS
8:44 The Price - เกม
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A few details have aged in this video a bit since this videos release, like I said its been an active year lol. So there are P2W microtransctions present now in game, and cosmetics costs more than they did. I personally wouldn't worry about them too much though, this change happened after a major price decrease and the prebuilt ships are very limited. They now let players access new ships early for a few months for a fee aswell. But everyone with Odyssey will get them for free. So if you get the 25 USD version, your gaming experience isnt really impacted in my opinion.
forgot to mention the monstrous grind.
Unfortunately that's one of my favorite things in video games, doing the same thing over and over might be boring to some, but for me even a slight decrease in run time in something I've done thousands of times is an achievement, efficiency at its best is rewarding,
And getting loot from getting better at the video game is a nice bonus,
That's why Monster Hunter is my favorite franchise, you can fight the same monster multiple times but learning their moves and turning the battle into a dance is just pure candy.
You're correct about the grind... but if you're into that sort of thing, it can be a beautiful and Zen thing. I haven't played in a couple of years, but one thing I used to love doing is fire the game up in VR at 2 or 3 in the morning, find an asteroid cluster, and just mine for several hours.. Me, my ship, the rocks, the void, and the shining primary off in the distance, the interplay of light and shadows keeping me company in the cold. It was a sort of vibe thing that, admittedly, isn't for everyone.
You can get $300m in like a week with a couple friends
@@ryean8212 I don't mind grind, but the grind for my pre-engineered FSD and the complexity broke me, haven't played in 6 months, and i LOVE the game...sigh
@@R0d_1984the pre Eng FSD broke you!?!
For what it's worth, the engine changes introduced into Odyssey are now part of the base game too, which means the base game does now require a slightly beefier computer than when the game first came out, which imo makes sense. That being said, some of the on foot activities of Odyssey, such as the on-foot Combat Zones, are particularly taxing in system resources.
On foot combat zones are mainly taxing on cpu and ram.
"slightly" is a hell of a understatement
i literally have a 9yr budget card, man its so over
How beefy?
@@no-replies I have a 3070 and the game can still kinda chug when running around on planet surfaces with ultra settings. Everything else though is a pretty buttery smooth 144fps. You can comfortably play this game on a Steam Deck too.
A few points form someone who quit years ago after putting in nearly 1000 hours, also someone hoping that the updates coming later this year actually fix and rectify the boring monotony of certain game systems like Power play which was noted at the time of its original release as being lackluster and the exact thing 90% of the community explicitly said they DID NOT WANT in the form it was introduced, because I still HOPE that they get new management that actually wants to capitalize on Elite's potential rather than squandering it with cheap and practically dead on arrival updates, because then I might get my game back and feel like investing more time in it....
1. The flight model is not Newtonian, ships have capped speeds and turning off flight assist simply allows for altering orientation while maintaining current vector, the game still enforces each ships max speeds regardless.
2. Paid (premium) content is no longer simply cosmetic as Frontier have announced their intent to put paid for (premium) ships in the game, injecting a ''pay to win'' mechanic to at least some degree.
3. Frontier's blatant disregard for their player base and community, which is easily searchable as there has been much controversy around Elite.
4. Regardless of the price, you need to ask yourself (and more important in this era of gaming) has the developer actually done anything? rectified things the player base dislikes? behaved themselves as a corporate entity? Because your money IS a vote, and if Frontier are still up to their old tricks, that's what you're voting for.
5. Frontier completely altered Elite's direction. After Braben sold the game as being an ever evolving ambitious project with ever increasing scale and complexity, with ship internals, ''space legs'', boarding actions and EVA.... we got no complexity, just more grinding. We got no EVA nor ship boarding, just a paid expansion that added ''space legs'' and more monotonous on foot combat. Ship internals went from Braben talking enthusiastically and showing graybox renders of the internal spaces of ships only for a 'Community manager' to tell us they aren't doing it as there's 'no gameplay value' in it years later.
6. Yes it has a 1:1 scale of the universe, and that would be exciting... if it were in the real world were we would be able to study new planets, find new minerals and/or life etc, but there isn't, it's just fly here, scan a selection of samey looking rocks in space (again, realistic in presentation, but in real life there's far more to do than just look and scan, if you get me). Now, nobody including myself has asked for 'NMS levels of procedural generation' but what we have asked for are MORE VARIED ACTIVITIES, which we haven't got. It seems Frontier just can't understand the concept of minigames within a game that are tied to a game system.
7. The developer's insistence of 'mile wide, inch deep' game design. Back when they announced multi-crew, many of us got unnecessarily hyped. What we envisioned as the game getting something to tickle that Star Trek itch a little, one friend manning scanners, another weapons etc turned out to be yet another dead on arrival update. Fist and foremost, rewards player crews get is dependent on THEIR relevant ranks in Combat, Exploration or Trade. Secondly.... Most of the time there's literally nothing for your crew to do outside of combat. Someone can't man the scanners/science console and play minigames to 'find' specific scan results like POIs (points of interest). They are also not actually on your ship, they are 'HardLight holographic contracts' projecting from their ship to yours, which conflicts with the Odyssey DLC because if your friends are crewing your ship with you, if you land and get out in space legs for whatever reason, they can't, they are stuck in your ship and if they want to join you they'll have to fly their ship to your position.
Tbh, I can just keep listing the BS Frontier has done and how much they've destroyed their own game's potential and reputation (along with their own as a developer) but it's started to depress me a little. So much potential yet so much of it squandered by developers who's attitude is to put in as little effort as possible.
Quite the essay, I know, but relevant to get the full picture of what you'll be buying.
The video motivated me to get back and buy odyssey, the comment made me realize I'm better off avoiding this bs altogether.
@@cryonimdont listen crying
This comment sums up the situation perfectly. The game has more potential than any other game out there, but it was ruined by lazy and greedy leaders. Do NOT vote for these evil people with your money.
this comment is the actual game review
Please people do not waste time on this game. They never listened and never will listen. They keep it at minimal to squire the last money they can at same time not moving a finger. Fleet Carrier jump times for example NOT FIXED TO THIS DAY.
The titan content is truly epic, now if i could only keep my vette in the fight for more than 1 minute
I played elite for a good while actually years ago, had fun solo and doing some missions with friends, little bit of exploration, even came back to get my name on a couple first footfalls near nebulas when odyssey released. the thing that ultimately drove me away was that if I wanted to progress further it seemed like I would have to spend dozens of hours grinding tedious repetitive tasks to engineer modules. personally I’m not a fan of that. it was a duel in kraits with my buddy that ultimately opened my eyes to how necessary the engineering grind was; I could match him shot for shot and even outfly him occasionally and I’d just get shredded because he had upgraded guns and shields. never really played much after that.
This is why I quit in like 2017 too. I exclusively PVP'd and then all of the upgrade stuff came out and I had to grind another 100+ hours just to get a single ship up to spec to play how I wanted to play again. Nope. Not doing that. I was sick of the grind already and was not about to go back to PvE just to play PvP.
Time Investment that actually matters and pays off, well damn.
@@tydendurler9574 It's actually been an issue in gaming for a long time. Is your game about actual player skill, like counter strike, or is it an artificial form of progression like in Dungeons and Dragons?
Both are valid, but being disappointed that a person's superior flight combat isn't more of a factor would understandably be a turnoff to a typical flight sim player. I can understand why they may have designed it this way, but it has it's drawbacks.
Similar to the way travel works here or in a game like EVE online, it's slow for a reason and that is balance.
@@Dante3214 yeah, whatever.
The game is an MMO. Period.
How silly would it be to grind 100hours only to beaten by someone who plays the game for 5 hours?!?
It's just that skill shouldn't be pointless.
AND it's just like real life. The guy who worked 20 years for a Ferrari will beat you in your Honda, no matter how good you drive. No complains there.
The engineering grind is the worst thing they ever did to the game. It is completely braindead, the gameplay behind it is non-existent. Imagine you're leveling in WoW - but instead of venturing through Azeroth, killing ever stronger enemies, delving into dungeons, and completing various quests, you grind level 1 hogs for 200 hours. Like in that one South Park episode. It's the most important, most impactful part of the game and it's designed so badly that the people responsible for it deserve jail time.
The people who try to defend this with their utterly nonsensical, fallacious arguments are completely delusional. I don't care about your "sunk cost" driven self-defense reflex.
Great video good to see positive ones about elite. Its a special game that shaped alot of the industry. Elite needs to survive
Elite needs to be BETTER. We've been promised, and let down, repeatedly for a decade. There's SO MUCH POTENTIAL, but the devs refuse to capitalize on it. Elite needs to evolve.
They need to stop ruining it then with crap like Odyssey and pandering to investors. Start listening to players, stop being greedy and ignorant and include VR !
@@murdurmuffin7872 in contrast to many other games out there, Elite has evolved - a lot. Only the core elements of the 2014 game are still present in the latest 2024 version after 18 large updates. And there are more large updates to come. That can not be said about many 10-year old games still on the market. At the asking price of now $25 Elite with Odyssey is an absolute steal.
Shaped the industry? in what way? as far as I can't tell, nobody gives a shit about it.
Elite in 1984 was special.
One thing I didn't see mentioned is the absence of P2W, which is another selling point of Elite over games like EVE Online and Star Citizen. If you get blown up by some ganker in a fully engineered FDL or Cutter, it's because they worked for the ships, not paid real money for them. While you can spend money for ARX, as mentioned, they only affect your ships and weapon colors.
EDIT: Of course, it happened. FDev has just announced, today, 23 of April, that you can pay to purchase the Python Mk2 three months early for real-world money. Additionally, pre-configured ships can also be bought with ARX. Modern monetization strikes again! God knows they need the money though, lol.
I did say that its purely cosmetic but yea I probably should have illustrated it clearer.
technically Odyssey is P2W because exobiology is fucking busted
I would argue that the SC PtW is not that clear cut since everything can be earned in-game and the ships you buy are no better than anyone else earned in-game.
I heard green pew pews make it better :v
then it still falls on the problems that WoW had with people spending lifetime amounts of time on the game to become very skilled/powerful to the point where they're unbeatable to the average person (the majority of players) and take another lifetime amount to even have a chance against him. Though even that, to me at least, was more bearable than knowing I was screwed because I didn't want to spend money on a "free" game.
Ok let me add bc I felt silly bc I started with nitpicking: Indigo this video is a must seen for people who are interested in ED. Thank you for making this. I love how the story of ED is the history what we live through. With a lot of immersive events, news segments...
Never forget when I first learned about automatic stabilization, between switching it it off and on in mid combat really gave me an immersive experiences. Performing maneuvers that place you out of enemy weapon range and you unleashing a barrage of weaponry. Or that one time pirates attack, leaving me for dead space! Bought my ship HP down to 1%, cockpit canopy broken. I thought I was stuck, then my buddy told me to turn off the ship and turn it back on. Did that and got home safely on one freaking percent!
Haven't played in 2 years but i remember the day the first Hyperdiction happened and i was logged in every night all night. It was so exciting all the things happening.
I'm just going to say " This is my all-time favourite game ever" I've been playing nearly every day since kickstarter back in 2012, if your even slightly intrested in space flight, give it a go!
Elite is a great game “for players who haven’t been negatively impacted by various Frontier decisions” and/or are happy to ignore them and move on because it doesn’t effect them or they simply don’t care. Personally I think Elite has a good 200hrs gameplay in there for most people but it could be so much more and it is to a core group who basically fall under the 1st sentance…
I think that ultimately the hate this game receives is overblown. Skyrim is not a perfect game and is still to this day broken even though it’s been released like 10 times. But people still love Skyrim. Star Citizen has over half a billion in funding now, and the bots still don’t work. As for the past, I wasn’t there for a lot of it, but for the now… Elite is 25 bucks, comes with mountains and mountains of content that is finished and functional, the opinions on the content vary. Regardless, beyond worth it imo, and that opinion will never change. It was worth it to me full price, but now… even more so.
@@indigointoblack Comes with tons of functions that were finished, but they gave up on the Xbox community a bit before the Series models were announced, Odyssey never came to Xbox, despite their promises.
well you say that @@indigointoblack but imagine for 1min Frontier decide to drop support for something that effects you say joystick and hotas controls you'd be pretty pissed then I bet...
@@bigbangerz5856he would, as would I. But that is a strategic decision on Frontiers part. It's not personal, you're allowed to be pissed, but that doesn't invalidate other peoples love for the game.
I literally said that in the OP@@ImBarryScottCSS
ED is still truely an epic game even after 10 years, its the game to have in VR and VR is becoming stronger by the months. Would love to see Odyssey work in VR rather than a grey box flat screen, more variations of stations, it has lost players but i'd expect if a few tweeks here and there were made and some extra level of love then the player base will pick up again.
yeh kinda sad it is such a great vr experience, a shame they didn't make odyssey for it.. stopped playing because of it.
For a game that can sometimes go on sale for less than a McDonalds visit and will give you thousands of hours of gameplay while still discovering new things, I'd say its worth it
Completely agree with everything you said. It's a fair and balanced synopsis of the game. I also agree regarding the cost/value equation of ED; it's a bargain.
Beyond that, dude, awesome voice-over and presentation skills. Your audio is immaculate, including the oft missed compression, voice EQ, and excellent mix which makes for very easy listening. Your projection and articulation into the mic is also topnotch, pro level. Nicely done!
Thank you! o7
DMAN that was the greatest comment I’ve read in a while, explained why I was immediately sucked in, the voice made it very easy to listen and watch through. Props!
I wholeheartedly agree. I started with Elite in 2017 on the PS4 and moved to PC Odyssey about a year or so ago. 2500+ hours combined and I still find reasons to play every week.
Give me some reasons
Honestly, the player community is the best reason. I’ve been involved in Squadron play since 2020 with a very active in-game squadron and it’s 100% the reason I keep coming back.
@@JosephLinares But, what have to do with all of it? Just drive a spaceship?
I mostly focus on bounty hunting wanted ships and trading for profit in furtherance of my squadron’s goals set out by the leadership.
But you can play any way you want. Explorer. Pirate, power player, miner. Best is to try a little of everything and then focus on what you like best.
@@EuOctane you have NO IDEA
please for the love of God bring VR for on-foot, that's the only thing holding me to return to elite. Once you play it in VR, you can NEVER return to flat monitor
100% When Odyssey came out with no VR I played for a little bit. But then it became clear that VR wasn't going to happen. I haven't played since.
Great intro/summary 👍 10k hours + and counting in game.
As Yoda would say ''Life, you have not.'' that's like someone saying they have 10000 hours in Call of Duty, like, bro, reassess your life choices, seriously.
@@psyanidemcpsy6501 thanks.....what a nice community this game has 😏
been playing since 2015 ish and remember both my kids' names so it's all good.
My job is pretty stressful and chilling in Elite has been a great counter to the hurly-burly over the last 9 years...
@@psyanidemcpsy6501why be a cunt?
The Taranis moment we had last week was truly epic. I have never seen anything like it in a game.
Bought this game quite awhile ago and forgot about it. Just start it these 2 days. Play the the tutoroil once and then auto launch my sidewinder, absoultely my mistake, totally panic at the space. What an experience ! Just like car broke down on nobody land. Clear the scave, run tutorial 3 more times. Done around a bunch ultra low risk delivery jobs and got a bit kowning of the control and the on screen display. It is a good game.
Subbed for positive ED content
As long as its not pvp, right?
whenever I see someone use "ED" as an acronym for elite dangerous I need to remind myself what they meant.
@@Sir-Complains-a-Lot Still looking for a friend, eh?
One thing that must be said about Elite's story is that it is told in the most realistic and /immersive/ manner. You learn about events either by participating in them or reading about them in the news, some episodes can take months to reach their conclusions, alternatively you can ignore everything and do what you like far away from trouble... and it's the same in Elite.
Feels like a dev account trying to market the game
Hah, I wouldn't be surprised tbh.
So don't fall for it? Because he's doing a good job...
I was always curious but never tried it. Had a lot of fun with No mans Sky though if that's an indicator?
@@tydendurler9574i think if you never played it its worth it to try. You would need at least 50hrs to fall in love with the game and its world.
However for me after 600 hrs the game doesn’t feel alive anymore. My squadron closed down, there are not many people online (not that you could meet any when there were people playing it). I still love the game and have fond memories exploring the universe. I might go back to it one day, but not sure.
@@tydendurler9574 absolutely no indicator. These games are so different to eachother that it almost feels like they don't even belong to the same genre. Elite is ultra hard game for a newbie. It has it's beauty and undeniable massive potential, that is sadly being neglected by developers. And the devs very often feel like they are trying to make everything they can to discourage people not only to the game but also to themselves. If you are planning to try Elite out, be aware that it's almost a full time job, if you are even remotely serious about diving into it.
Awesome vid!! Great that people are noticing how good Elite is, its not the usual game, its a cool environment you can play in and has the best community. Playing with people makes Elite amazing!
I'm very much liking the change to the narration of your videos. I think you nailed it in this one. GG
Imma comment my own comment... I think this might be one of your best videos yet. totally loving the mix of narration and in-game footage!
I remember the event of Titan tirranis, i was there on hip 22460, we had two dozen ships or so in the instance dicking around until the cutscene kicked in, truly amazing. I've been playing for a little over 3 years now, and its truly a masterpiece of a game
Man, I used to play Elite Dangerous at release in VR with the Saitek X52 sticks and a CV1, and it was AN EXPERIENCE!
Great video, excited to start my Elite Dangerous journey very soon
Is there any possible chance I would be able to use a Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS controller along with the mouse & keyboard? I've had a few games that would disconnect & reconnect with noticeable feedback delay the HOTAS whenever I'd move press any hotkeys or move the mouse around.
What's the VR controls like with motion controllers? Is there any support? I've been considering getting into it but i can't find any good answers on that. I have a Quest 2.
You’d be better served with a HOSAS like the VKB NXT Gladiators. Theres no touch controller support.
I just use an xbox controller and it works great, there are no motion controls and it would likely not work very well if there where any.
Your channel is really well put together so far, mate. I reckon a solid "Getting Back Into Elite" type video could do well and ease the re-entry of players back into the game.
great idea, will do!
Fantastic video, keep up the great work!
I have 2003 hours in that Dangerously Elite game. Ive been to Beagle Point and I've seen the center of the Galaxy. I've seen the largest star and some of the most breathtaking nebulas. I have only 4 more leaders to serve in the powerplay and have mined Void Opals, LTD, Painite, you name it, just to pay for a fleet of ships. I have won a free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital that came with a pretty cool mug from the gift shop. and i'm so close to my own carrier... and with this short video, you have shown me how little ive played this game. wow.
P.S Please Frontier update the ship HUD omg... it did not age well.
ship hud i still think is pretty sick but in terms of QOL yea it could use some looking at. and to be honest, there are things out there thatll make me feel the same way, even after hundreds or even over a thousand hours somehow elite can still make me feel like im new lol, its insane.
the only thing personal that upset me about Odyssey DLC was lack of VR this game is amazing to play in VR and i would have loved to have Done That In Odssey As Well
If odyssey was fully VR supported it I would be absolutely insane
I’m really enjoying starting over again after a four year absence. It is a space game experience like no other.
i stopped playing around 2018 when i got triple elite, never got the chance to do engineering as the material gathering was just too much for me, even with enough mats it was just gambling on results. i understand that it's end game thing but still it felt like taking forever just to unlock an engineer and level up to upgrade a heat sink. is it better now?
I remember like it was yesterday when we first encountered thargoids. No one knew it was coming and it was pretty scary. Also, the thargoids planet bases were epic. We were landing our ships around and exploring the beuty there... there is so much more u didnt notice but whatever. I guess people have to try it themselfs...
Been playing since release. I've done a little bit of everything. Just got a fleet carrier, helped kill Titan :Oya and all that good stuff. This is the perfect space game for me.
Great video and very good summary
VR Headset + HOTAS + Voice Attack also makes this the coolest VR experience I have played so far. I last played a couple years ago though and didn't get to check out the FPS gameplay with this setup so not sure how it translates.
VR is no longer supported
@@Mike-yv9qs whaaaaaaaaaat!? That makes me sad even though I don't have a PC or headset to play it anymore. Others not being able to experience how cool this was sucks
@@CH-hp6ow You can still use it, but it's unsupported now, so any VR issues/bugs may not get resolved.
One of the best most imersive and relaxing games i have ever played, Recently ported my console save over to PC and was blown away by how much better it looks and feels especially with the odessey stuff. I only wish i had more time to play this game as you really do need to sink a few hours at a time to feel any real benefit. I also play EVE (Echos and online) but Elite is my favourite space game, and the comunity are helpful and welcoming
Started playing elite around 2018 and loved every moment of it, then wehen odyssey launched, was unhappy with the state of the game (as many were/are) and moved to star citizen (which has become my most played game in recent time). But i'm definitely gonna check out elite D again, still have plenty of asteroids to crack and stars to visit =] and boy do i love the asteroid mining in elite
Used to play on console and loved it. Never will forgive them for shutting down further support…
Do you know what is the game play space in ED? I mean the space used to change content in depends where you are? You spoke of skybox, i guess you meant something like spacebox or universebox which displays area which can be traveled to, that is super nice... Like in case of SC it started with 1mil x 1mil x 200k, then it expended for solar system size to roughly 100mil x 100mil and Pyro will be or is for some about double, i was always wondering what it is for ED or NMS, NMS also uses single solar system which changes it's content during warp and that's how big gameplay space is in there really
Elite uses instances. So you have an instance for the current star system while in Supercruise (all of it, even hundreds of thousands of light seconds across). E.g. a system containing a secondary star with planets 400,000 LS away would be 120000000000km, and you can fly the whole way without a break. Some systems have secondary stars over a million LS away.
When you exit supercruise you exist in an instance as well - e.g. planet surface (you can drive right around a full-size planet with no loading screens, pauses, or pop-in). You instance at space stations, or in deep space, or asteroid belts, or anywhere else.
@@Sighman thank you... Instance is a word which I needed because now I have much more results online.How big they are and how it works, and thank you for your explanation too
It is illegal to make such a good video with so few subsribers!!
Strange seeing myself mentioned in the video like that... Not in a bad way though 😊😊
Thank you for that.
And thank you for showing your side of the game and why you love it and want to share your passion with everyone else. Your passion is really contagious.
Wish you all the best and amazing work on the video.
Cheers.
Thank you for the comment! Really cool to run into you here!
Been playing this game in VR since I got it recently. I absolutely love how it feels.
I got this game from a giveaway but i havent touched it yet. It looks intimidating, any recommendations for getting started or finding a community to join to learn from?
Avoid new player guides, they're just about how to do everything as fast as possible and kill the all fun out of it.
I started after watching some new account playthrough. That really helps
play the tutorials, and just play the game and enjoy it.
This game would rule over all other space games if it had some more interesting planets and ship interiors.
I just came back from a long hiatus and I'm halfway between Sol and Beagle Point. Gonna be a fat minute before I see any action because I was on the way to Beagle Point when I took a break. So I'll be getting at least that far before turning back. But I'm definitely way outta the loop on what's been going down in the bubble.
Excellent video!
Its fun if you like to fly around and do little missions like collecting resources or fighting. The community is fun, it feels great, all the sounds and motion is great. My first time in a black hole was cool, i grinded for like 2 months then set out on a journey to the center of the galaxy
I got well over 2k hrs and still loving Elite, thankyou Big Daddy Braben 😁
Thank you for the video Indigo ! It's nice to see something nice about ED after all this time of toxicity. Have a good one my friend ! ~Mu
I bought ED + Odyssey 3 weeks ago and have already got my money's worth, and have only scratched the surface. I also still have the original Elite badge from the 1980s BBC micro version.
Excellent content and quality production. Subbed.
thank you!
I've played other space games before Elite but there was always a "lack of freedom" which is ironic considering the genre. This is the first game I've played that allows me to go and do whatever, whenever, however
My favorite aspect of elite really is the chill gameplay. My maimship at the moment is a dolphin.
My biggest issue was the fact they didn't tell us they were going to charge us for the features promised during early access. A paid for DLC just for the ability to land of very few planets. Then another paid for DLC that gives the feature to get out of your ship. Both of these were listed as future features coming to the game.
There are many competing games that already have these features and do a better job of it. And they didn't charge me anything extra to use them. This is basically the horse armor DLC all over again. At least in the case of the horse armor, the DLC didn't cost as much as the base game.
Like I mentioned in the video the game is way cheaper now, 25 usd for the whole deal, odyssey and all. on sale its like 12 usd. Insanely good price imo. and yes there are a few really strong competitors, none of them actually pull off the simulation part, either the galaxy, or the bubble civilization thing. the sim is just too cool, and i cant really get it anywhere else ive found.
I haven't played this since 2016 but you've convinced me to give it another shot.
you got a lot to catch up on XD
I've Owned ED and Odyssey for years now and have never played it. Your video has me downloading it now and jumping in. Thank you! c:
something i regret not pressing on this video is how brutal the game is to new people, you will be tested lol. but if you make it through its an insane video game not yet done anywhere else as far as ive known.
@@indigointoblack There are a ton of mechanics that I need to learn for sure! Flying is a little hard coming from No Mans Sky but with practice I can see becoming an amazing pilot! Thanks again for making this video!
Thank you. Good content. I enjoyed this, thank you.
I'm coming back into the game and I've decided to take part in the war against Thargoids. I actually had no idea there were huge events like this until a few days ago and I'm kinda sad that I didn't participate haha
I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment because there's a lot of information to digest but I can't wait to go flying again !
It is a very extensive system, if you want a more intro friendly POI to participate in, try to find a surface settlement that is under attack, as they offer quick repair and restock without leaving the conflict zone. I earned a couple billion there with a totally unengineered ship, with the usage of guardian tech. There are also great unengineered AX build guides here on youtube
@@indigointoblackThanks for the advice !
Nice vid 👍. How is Elite work out in co-op? Is it clunky, non existing, or awesome, or…?
PLaying Elite Dangerous with VR/HOTAS + HCS Voice Packs+Voice Attack is honestly the closest to flying in space you will ever get. Just a next level experience.
I don't hnow if Odyssey is completley supported, but Elite and Horizon was Mindblowing in VR. I used to play this game in VR with Voiceattack and it was like a dream come true. Loved it, but Life took me a bit away from it. Now I'm curious to see it with my Quest 3 and those fantastic lenses.
Looking forward to the next defeat of a Titan. Don’t want to miss it like I did the last one.
Elite Dangerous is really a niche of the space genre because it the only game that let us explore our Milky Way Galaxy with gameplay on top of it.
The way they can fix the engineering is to make it just require materials with no credits to upgrade completely (no multiple rolls just the one per grade) or use credits to roll the grade up to full with no materials, the odyssey weapons and suits are worse as they require both parts and credits, honestly it should be one or the other, or it’s free if you have all the materials and would cost a surplus if you don’t have any materials (discount if you have some of them).
Elite dangerous currently on sale 60%-70% off get it while it's hot
I'd dive back in if they gave us FULL VR support and ship interiors.
6:00 sold me. Nice job
Downloading it now. I can’t imagine how good that will look on the 4090 49” super ultrawide. Installing a 2nd 34” 4k above when the arm comes tomorrow.
For $25 dollars you are getting alot of value, but you need to put in some 50+ hours of dedicated grinding to get to the endgame like engineering, faction-locked ships, Thargoid hunting, guardian weaponry, and fleet carriers. Ontop of the credit grind, it's a massive time investment.
All I remember was driving a ship around with cargo for like 5 hours. I call it space trucking simulator because you really don't get to do anything else for probably a very long time.
you do get to do a lot of other things, but if you only space truck that all the experience youll get.
I only abandoned playing this because I cant afford to get a new PC still, used to be on the Xbox side of the game, but the devs abandoned Console before the Series models were announced(?), way back when Odyssey was about to come out.
"Its been years since Odessey launched" And still no fucking ship interiors. Fucking destroys the immersion.
Hi mate
Thanks for the video!
Can you please share and upload your keybinds settings files?
I want to come back to the game and I really hate rebinding everything
Thanks❤
I’m a brand new player about a week in and I have to say where has this game been all my life!! Exploring the community a bit I can see how some veteran players have been wronged in the past, and may feel bitter. But as a completely fresh player I have nothing but great things to say about the game and I’ve convinced some of my other friends to play too :)
Thanks for posting this brilliant vid.
*The Nitty:*
Elite is a fine, chill single player space sim experience. The persistent server and instancing issues/limitations ruin it as a multiplayer game though. VR exists but do not expect a polished experience outside of lone, ship-based activities.
*The Gritty:*
This is not a gamer's game, it is a dreamer's game.
Outside of playing make-believe space pilot and basking in the novelty of (very well) simulated sci-fi space flight, the mechanics available for intrinsic fun are shallow and unfulfilling. The systems are complex, but they are not well designed as *game* systems.
The community of this game (and those of other space sims) have a tendency to fixate on what the game *could* be rather than what it is. They focus on the *potential* of being set free in a simulated galaxy, rather than the lack of direction inherent in that.
They will parade the very well built simulation of Elite in front of you and tell you the sum of it's parts make a game. They do not.
How powerful of a pc should i have? The specs on steam seem minimal. I want to try but not confident in my 5 year old gaming laptop
Elite's optimization is very here and there, the most intensive it will get on your system is probably a High Intensity On Foot Conflict Zone. Space is pretty light and can run well on a lot of systems, I would also try Supersampling on Normal at 1.25x as elites anti aliasing is like... either not working right or broken and makes the game look way worse than it can.
I haven't played since they added planet landing I need to get back on. I was in a group they actually added our own station in a system do t know if its still there.
How does the MMO aspect of it work? Is it one mega server or multiple? Or do you just invite friends to your game?
so, Open is kinda a giant server, theres more going on in the back end but yea. Private Group Session is kinda like a private game, where you and whoever you add to the session are the only players youll run into, everyone else is an NPC. Solo is solo. You are still connected to the simulation when you play in any of the modes, which is why its online only. You can invite friends to a Team with the top left panel in your ship, this will make it more likely you will instance with each other if you are in the same area, and you can share team missions with each other, which enables 2 people to get the reward of a mission.
Just swooped the steam deluxe edition on sale for $10 gonna try it out soon
Was getting the dlc for planet coaster and saw this and cant wait to try it out
As a Star Citizen nerd, i've been struggling to get myself into it, though i really want to
Just bought the deluxe edition again on a new Steam account. I wanna start fresh, with Odyssey being in the game. I made my start back in 2016. Crazy how long this game has been around.
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I'm fairly new to the game. I've clocked about 80 hours in it and I think this is one of the most amazing games I have ever played. For anyone interested in space sims this is a must play. I'm sure it won't be for everyone, it's a hard sci-fi experience to the core, but it is truly spectacular.
Great video. Well thought out and explained. Only gripe I have is with the f&%#ing idiots at TH-cam who thought the perfect place for an ad interruption was in the middle of the titan explosion sequence. TH-cam is getting to be a poor choice in platforms.
Newbie here. I just bought Elite Dangerous, and it starts me out in a bunker with a mission to get stuff from another bunker. But when I get to that bunker, I run out of oxygen and battery for my cutter and can't seem to operate my controls and die. Is there a good beginner guide?
There are tons of guides out there, most of which will focus on money. If you are talking about the very first tutorial mission you get in to, thats teaching you some of the Odyssey (fps) mechanics. Hold ALT on your keyboard to bring up your util wheel and you can recharge your suit, you need quite a bit to overcharge to do so, and to overcharge a door without access youll need to activate "illegal mode" lol, which is Q when you have your charger out I believe, best to check your keybinds.
thanks @@indigointoblack I'll check my bindings
How are you able to figure out where events will take place? And when? I just want to be there when it all happens but I don’t know how!
community goals have a dedicated little icon above they system that they are happening in, and Galnet is great if you want to keep up with the big Thargoid stuff, Inara (3rd party website) is also an amazing resource.
I still remember playing this on the xbox one. Honestly surprised it could run this game especially horizons.
I'm not good at the space combat, or surviving it. I focus on exploration, how's the FPS side of the game now? is there more for that than before?
more so been polished up and visually tweaked, like the game looks really really good now if you supersample (fdev please give us proper AA) and exobiology is like one of if not the best money in the game.
I notice you didn't mention anything about the agony that is the engineering grind. Understandable given that knowing of it would chase away new players.
But I agree with a lot of what you said.
so much too do, soo much to see.....BGS 2.0 coming, new ships, the culmination of the thargoid war.....I've been playing since 2019 and there are still types of gameplay I haven't even done. Thousands of hours in and there are game play loops I haven't experienced yet. Insane.
You are correct, it is the best time to get into Elite. The software and service are in the best shape its ever been in. The price is low. The player engagement is high. Frontier Developments has been forced to pear down and concentrate on titles that have been delivering. Elite Dangerous is one of those.
It's a good time to put on your space boots and go for a fly!
Truth is I alternate between Star Citizen and Elite because whenever I play one I end up missing things about the other, so in my mind they are equally good, minus the bugs and performance problems of SC. I will say this though, there is nothing like Elite out there. Star Citizen just doesn't scratch the same itch. If enjoy exploring like me, Elite is like the Death Stranding of space games. You just jump and jump for thousands of light years to see what's on a distant nebula or the other side of the galaxy. Then you get paid handsomely for it.
Last night I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go, looking at various PoI and nothing was really jumping out at me. So I went for the tried and true answer - UP! Just fly directly up from wherever you are and see how high you can get, still fun now and have found some amazing systems on the way. 10 years in I still love exploring in this game.
I originally played Elite but stopped because the engineering grind turned me off so I played Star Citizen but unfortunately it is not a complete game and is more about the new technology. I mean everyone is wating to go from one system to another , or an improved flight model, economy or even map. Elite has billions of systems - great map and great flight model so while waiting for SC 3.23 I decided I would try Elite again. I looked up videos on how to make the grind less combersome and really started to engineer my ship to the point I was able to survive my first multi pirate battle. In these last few months I have engineered my ship and even joined the Thargoid War. The best part is the progress I have made like my fleet carrier or engineered ship will not be reset. Elite is not perfect (No ship interiors which was another turn off when frontier said they were not important) but for those who are willing to put these aside there is is a really good space game to enjoy. I am glad Frontier is putting more emphasize on Elite.
The one thing had prevented me from playing this game still in 2024 is a mouse useable UI within the ship. Why can't we have a simple toggle button to toggle a mouse pointer on / off for use with the ship menus? I hate navigating the menus with the keyboard. So unintuitive when the same controls are used to fly the ship.
One of the greatest Videos ever for Elite Dangerous. Lots of love!
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Is the Odyssey and Horizon DLC VR supported as well? I know the base game is, but not sure if the DLCs are. Would be cool if you can play the ground stuff in VR too.