Nice to see some optimism of the game and the positives that come with it. One of the most underrated feature of the game is its UI.. it's probably one of the most intuitive UI's of any game I've seen and blows all other space game UI's out of the water IMHO. Hope to see more of your videos!
@@_The_Specter_ LOL That's true but for a reason you don't know. It happens that I am a veteran (Canadian Armed Forces). I still feel like a noob at times because there are Cmdrs who have been playing since day 1, which has been seven or eight years I think.
@@Mr.Free2Play "No direction" is part of the point. Most games have a more or less linear story that leads the player from A to B to C, with side quests along the way. A lot of people aren't able to transition to a game that doesn't tell them what to do next or that gives them a limited set of options to choose from. Elite gives the player a living galaxy with a rich history and countries moving parts all interacting, and lets them decide how they want to live there and what they want to do. If you're used to having objections spelled out for you, having the freedom to do or be anything you want can paradoxically feel a lot like "there's nothing to do." If that's the case, and you're not comfortable setting your own objectives, it might not be for you. But for me, after 5 years I still have a long to-do list even outside of the various current events happening in the galaxy.
@@Datan0de *Living galaxy* - bullshit. The galaxy offers 0 surprises and no dangers unless you stick your head in it and its gameplay loops if you can even call them that have never been diversified, they have been the same and bore the shit out of players. All the planets - same, all stations - same. If you've been to one, you've experienced all of them. *Rich history* - no one gives a shit, when that history is told through text and voice messages. Its 2023, video games came up with motion capture performances and interactive storytelling like 20 years ago, FDev's still haven't worked it out. *Moving parts all interacting* - bullshit, you have a pathetic BGS system, in which nothing but percentages on a table change and nothing more, no visible effect, no rewards, just some numbers changing because the feature has never been developed since introduced. *Lets them decide how they want* - bullshit, in order to advance in any meaningful way you have to grind. if you want to trade better, you need to engineer your hull, if you want to explore you need to engineer FSD, if you want to be a better fighter, engineering, boring, stupid, disheartening grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, so no choice. Here is where your logic fails. When a game lacks a story or a definite purpose, it needs to compensate with variety and it needs to make sure that all the progression you go through leads somewhere and it is satisfying and meaningful and exciting. Elite is none of those things. It might be for you, but there is such a minuscule number of players like you enjoying the game that it is dying and getting progressively worse. Change needs to happen right this second and not only does the game need to take a new direction of development but Frontier needs to fire the entire idiotic development team behind Elite that led this game to the pitiful shitty state it is in right now.
It's really great after all these years to still see videos like yours popping up on my feed reminding new audiences what an amazing game Elite: Dangerous is. Am planning to feature this video in the community section of tomorrow night's episode of Lave Radio.
Played Elite on the BBC Acorn computer and on C64 and it was an absolute blast... years of playing from a single game. I still have the box, manual, and storybook... somewhere.
As others have said, glad to see some optimism during these dark times. Despite everything I still stand by Elite being one of the all time best VR experiences out there by a country mile. Fdev might be a little seemingly incompetent at times but they knocked the VR port clear out the fucking park.
o7 Commander, I have over 2600 hours in the game and still not tired of it and still play it whenever I have time. By the way, I used to play it on my Commodore 64 in 1986. 🙂
I played Elite on my C64 as well. I made a bunch of forms to keep track of trade prices and locations, and spent many hours buying and selling just to finally get a docking computer! I really sucked at manual docking!! Graphics were basic wireframe type, but for the time it was pretty good. Hard to imagine that now. If we could have seen the current graphics back then we wouldn’t have believed it!!!
I played Freelancer back in the 00s. That was what gave me this obsession with space... never knew about Elite... tried to find something that could be like Freelancer... Star Citizen... eh... i dont like the first person stuff... Everspace? No rpg, but definitely fun for combat and flying or a challenge. Then I saw Elite in "UpIsNotJump"... and i was hooked. I've always been positive and more positivity is appreciated. I agree with your list, sir! Also. Try standing outside and looking at a star... and then realising you can actually THEORETICALLY GO THERE IN ELITE!?!?!? Start from Earth, fly towards the destination as if youve taken off from your house. So much fun.
I just came back to this game a few weeks ago and it's great actually. Yes it has a learning curve but when you get the hang of it does it flow. It's a challenge and in a good way. Definitely worth the time you put in. Great video I like the positive review. Thxs the game needs more support and love.
Well lot of you have pitched in as to why it is awesome. Here are my 2 cents that i belive are the best features: VR Combat is unbelievable Ship's simulation/flying/control mechanics Sound engine Great video man 👍
@@_The_Specter_listening to your commentary on the video, you sound young, don't let that hold you back by making great elite content. I wish you the best buddy.
Thanks for making this video i've had it since launch! I think its the greatest space piloting sim of all time with no contest. The fact that they modeled the game after the real milky way and made everything astronomically as accurate as possibile is just a pure win!
Played from 2015 until, then thought I was done with ED after losing console support. Then my fiance and I got engaged, moved in together and I had access to his excellent gaming PC setup and VR. It was like experiencing it new, all over again! I'm very happy to see ED still getting love! Awesome video!😁
Thank you for your video I really liked to see something positiv about Elite. Sadly Elite never made it to show me this beauty...I tried it and to me it felt wrong from the very first moment...I really thought it could be the space game I could love after years in SWG, Eve Online, SC and many more.
Absolutely 100% agree... 1:1 scale of our galaxy and how it's like a SIM.... the realism elements are huge for me... The QUALITY is also amazing - sound and graphics. I got addicted to Rust, so i didn't play Elite for several years but came back after developing RSI in my right hand (mouse-hand).... Elite (esp w HOTAS) is easier on my hand...
I love this game so much and I've gotten a few friends who never heard of Elite to recently start playing and they've been enjoying it too! I was recently doing some Anti-Xeno activities with members of the AXI and I was pretty bummed out when they were saying they expect this game to end / have the servers shut down due to Frontier's recent money issues. I really hope that's not the case and people continue to actually support Elite like what you're doing with this video so it can continue for years to come. However if it does come down to the servers needing to go offline, I hope the devs are able to make the game be hosted by dedicated servers similar to how ARK does it so that fans can keep the game running on their own.
You are right. The pessimism seems to come mostly from those that approach games to quickly learn mechanics and find ways to 'exploit' a game in ways the designers did not intend. Whereas for those of us that want to be transported to different worlds for real escapism in our gameplay appreciate the value of games like ED. I have played since the 1984 version on BBC B and was a kickstarter funder for ED. It was an absolute masterpiece of coding on the BBC B (I have 40+ years in the business so I can appreciate the skills) and it has progressed well. I hope with some relatively minor improvements, such as more player involvement in what ED calls BGS (BackGround Simulation) perhaps akin to what is done in EVE we might re-ignite player interest.
I've been playing since Elite 2 on my Amiga and although I've dipped out over time, I've always returned and is by far the best game I've ever owned. And it's not just the game itself it's the whole fan base around it too with the sites, forums, and TH-cam.
I think this brings home a distinction that really needs to be made especially by the crowd that bashes this game because....Star Citizen. ED is a space simulator. SC is space fantasy. They both have their places. ED is much more like what space colonization might look like and the real empty barren world that is the Milky Way. SC is a fantasy world to create a Star Wars or Firefly type fantasy adventure with realistic aspects of living but not space itself. I've been following the story of ED pretty closely since the beginning of this saga but haven't played much as I think I'd like to get some flight sticks after my last run of playing.
We've been playing about the same amount of time and I haven't slowed down at all, at the expense of other hot games like IL-2 Sturmovik, DCS World, ARMA -- all kinds of monies wasted -- taking up space on the drive is all. Flightsim -- then Elite are my all-time two, and I go back to when Christ was a Corporal as far as gaming goes.
Always good to have Elite as a favorite game :D i usually get distracted from other games for E:D, nothing can beat that feeling of discovering a great looking planet :D
I played 5 years i had over 3000h. It's good to see positive feedback. Not positive feedback is usually from commanders that have played this very long time. That is because Frontier with developers they promised us lots of things and that promise was broken. No new ships and no other big new features. But game is still great.
just got back in..i come and go..but after playing starfield i missed the vastness of this game ..i just started exploration and engineering my ship..Because it has no end game or basic story i think some get confused as to what it is ..Its just get in and do it ..find soemthing to do and enjoy the ride
The main selling point of the game for me was just flying around space. No space game can top that right now aside from ss having better planets but the feel of traveling there in space is negative 10 out of 10
The pessimism on youtube is definitely a bit wearing at times. The game could've done better at a few points, and there's a lot that still needs to get fixed, but you can still put a hell of a lot of hours into it. Got into playing it with a friend recently for his first time, and was surprised how much I enjoyed playing it again myself, even after putting 4 digits of hours into it prior. I'd never built a stealth ship, or attempted to mangle a beluga into something it's not supposed to be using engineering. Good times all around.
I just wish there were more gameplay loops and the existing ones should be deeper.. engineering shouldnt be such a grind and you should be able to leave a mark on the galaxy, otherwise I just feel pointless in a game as big as this. You should really try out Star Citizen, I also held off for years but its actually pretty good, even in the state it is now.
Engeeniering isnt nearly as bad as some make it to be. Planets you explore and map first will forever carry your cmdrs name.. And you always will have to make up your own Story in a sim like Elite.
@@Sir-Complains-a-Lot I have played this game for 1,600 hours and believe me, the engineering IS a grind. The only reason some of it is bearable is because you can cheese some of it (like Daves Hope for whatever its called), engineering more than one ship to its max potential wil waste dozens for hours of your life. Nevermind the GRIND it takes to get into xeno combat with a decent ship (Grind Guardian Modules ie. which also only works if you relog and switch game modes once youve already landed on a guardian site, which imo, also counts as cheesing since this is not the "natural" gameplay loop), etc. This game is a time sink in all the wrong ways. Oh yes my name on one of the quadrillion planets in the game, what meaningful progression that is! You should be able to take influence in some of the systems more easily, etc. I personally would very much enjoy outpost building out in the vast empty galaxy, but it would probably be too much work to implement. Its great if you enjoy the game for what it is, but please dont make yourself look foolish by arguing that this game is not a total grindfest without any deeper meaning behind it.
I mean, Elite actually is one of the very few games where you CAN leave your mark on the galaxy. In many, MANY ways actually. Fist discovering some interesting location and making POI out of it, discovering generation ships, guardian ruins, thargoid sites, barnacles etc. Every time, there was always someone who found out about something first and these things are usually being remembered in some form and even being in game
@@Vithonil Well, it's a game lmao not like anything there matters at the end of the day. Feel free to share in what other games you can leave as big mark as in Elite, I'm eager to find out, maybe I'm missing some hidden gem 🙂
I will NEVER support this studio again after how they handled consoles, dropped an entire platform because they blamed it for poor dev speed and optimization. What came of that? Nothing, they cut revenue by more than a 3rd and then continued to push out half assed non-functioning updates, only after 3 YEARS has anything meaningfully progressed and yet Odyssey is still barely functioning.
consoles were holding the game back as they are old - get a pc and frontier has waaaay more games on its plate that caused the revenue issue - elite had nothing to do with it - and odyssey is running great for me but then again i have a good pc lol
@@cinchmccoy What exactly were consoles holding back? A bunch of horrendous Thargoid updates that halved the playerbase and about 100 new bugs? The only comfort in this absolute shitshow is the fact that console players really didn't miss out on all that much. PC players started leaving just like console players after the game on their platform was cancelled. The level of tragedy in this situation is straight up remarkable. 😂 Just let the math blow your mind :D After consoles were cancelled it was widely announced that about 30 percent of the playerbase straight up left by all statistics? Well, after the Thargoid updates 50 percent left 🤣🤣🤣 You literally cant make this stuff up. They chased away 30 percent of their players so that they make 50 percent more go away These developers need a priest or something or a blessing from the Pope to save their souls. 😅😅😅
@@Tamburello_1994 well i have clocked in atleast 5k hours into it.. ive been to beagle point and then back and that is before fleet carrier is even a thing, been to colonia and sag A couple of times, i got triple elites years ago, unlock most of the engineers and the PMF i a was part of has controlled in more 50 system and present in atleast 200 systems. i can assure you i am one of the player the game is for so the problem is not with the player, its the maker. you can only play stagnant game for so long until it burns you out
100% a you problem! Maybe you need to join a squad and ask them what you could do coz there are hundreds of things to do that are the opposite of boring....
@@OldManPaxusYT Higher standards of what fun is. Jumping from one Star to another over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ...obviously translates to fun in your world. I wish I was as easily amused as you are.
Unfortunatly it's mainly just very large and pretty. I understand there's people that get more fun out of it. But for most people it's pretty boring. Even for a big cosmology nerd like me it was lacking. I REALLY want to love this game but I just can't :(
The minority that likes the game can sing its praises as much as they want; players will keep leaving it because it is not improving, changing or developing.
Because YOUR not interested in those changes -- improvements -- or dev work doesn't mean they're not taking place. But it always interests me that folks like you hangout in these comment sections just to cry about what you don't have, but you're here nonetheless. Seems like agenda, or narrative to me. On about a decade on now, the game is what it is.
@@Tamburello_1994 There are no changes or improvements and the so-called "dev work" amounts to players leaving and the company going down 90 percent, that's a fact, not a question of opinion or interest or an agenda. But fair enough, if you don't like hearing the truth.
Nice to see some optimism of the game and the positives that come with it. One of the most underrated feature of the game is its UI.. it's probably one of the most intuitive UI's of any game I've seen and blows all other space game UI's out of the water IMHO. Hope to see more of your videos!
Yep, the UI is awesome. not too plain, not too complicated. right on, CMDR! O7
I'm glad you're having fun. December 24, 2023 will be my fifth anniversary of playing the game.
That's decently close to my anniversary for the game - day-wise anyways - still a couple years behind ya. Mine is Dec 26, 2020
we've got a veteran E:D player!
@@_The_Specter_ LOL That's true but for a reason you don't know. It happens that I am a veteran (Canadian Armed Forces). I still feel like a noob at times because there are Cmdrs who have been playing since day 1, which has been seven or eight years I think.
@@Rigel_Chiokis yeah, I think 2014 is around the time the game came out - not sure about beta previews though that some people had access to
It's hands down the best game I've ever played. 5 years and 4600 hours and I'm never not excited to get back out in the black!
o7! That's a lot of dedication, 4600 hours! im only a rookie, ive got like 1.7k lol
Yes, I agree, Elite Dangerous is one of the best ever. It is really unique! I'm not playing with nothing else more! 😅
The game is a snooze fest. No direction, good for exploring, everything else is average.
@@Mr.Free2Play "No direction" is part of the point. Most games have a more or less linear story that leads the player from A to B to C, with side quests along the way. A lot of people aren't able to transition to a game that doesn't tell them what to do next or that gives them a limited set of options to choose from.
Elite gives the player a living galaxy with a rich history and countries moving parts all interacting, and lets them decide how they want to live there and what they want to do. If you're used to having objections spelled out for you, having the freedom to do or be anything you want can paradoxically feel a lot like "there's nothing to do." If that's the case, and you're not comfortable setting your own objectives, it might not be for you. But for me, after 5 years I still have a long to-do list even outside of the various current events happening in the galaxy.
@@Datan0de *Living galaxy* - bullshit. The galaxy offers 0 surprises and no dangers unless you stick your head in it and its gameplay loops if you can even call them that have never been diversified, they have been the same and bore the shit out of players. All the planets - same, all stations - same. If you've been to one, you've experienced all of them.
*Rich history* - no one gives a shit, when that history is told through text and voice messages. Its 2023, video games came up with motion capture performances and interactive storytelling like 20 years ago, FDev's still haven't worked it out.
*Moving parts all interacting* - bullshit, you have a pathetic BGS system, in which nothing but percentages on a table change and nothing more, no visible effect, no rewards, just some numbers changing because the feature has never been developed since introduced.
*Lets them decide how they want* - bullshit, in order to advance in any meaningful way you have to grind. if you want to trade better, you need to engineer your hull, if you want to explore you need to engineer FSD, if you want to be a better fighter, engineering, boring, stupid, disheartening grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, so no choice.
Here is where your logic fails. When a game lacks a story or a definite purpose, it needs to compensate with variety and it needs to make sure that all the progression you go through leads somewhere and it is satisfying and meaningful and exciting. Elite is none of those things. It might be for you, but there is such a minuscule number of players like you enjoying the game that it is dying and getting progressively worse.
Change needs to happen right this second and not only does the game need to take a new direction of development but Frontier needs to fire the entire idiotic development team behind Elite that led this game to the pitiful shitty state it is in right now.
It's really great after all these years to still see videos like yours popping up on my feed reminding new audiences what an amazing game Elite: Dangerous is. Am planning to feature this video in the community section of tomorrow night's episode of Lave Radio.
Played Elite on the BBC Acorn computer and on C64 and it was an absolute blast... years of playing from a single game. I still have the box, manual, and storybook... somewhere.
As others have said, glad to see some optimism during these dark times. Despite everything I still stand by Elite being one of the all time best VR experiences out there by a country mile. Fdev might be a little seemingly incompetent at times but they knocked the VR port clear out the fucking park.
What dark times? For most people things are pretty good.
o7 Commander, I have over 2600 hours in the game and still not tired of it and still play it whenever I have time. By the way, I used to play it on my Commodore 64 in 1986. 🙂
What was it like, playing the old Elite? Must've been a great leap forward with E:D!
I played Elite on my C64 as well. I made a bunch of forms to keep track of trade prices and locations, and spent many hours buying and selling just to finally get a docking computer! I really sucked at manual docking!! Graphics were basic wireframe type, but for the time it was pretty good. Hard to imagine that now. If we could have seen the current graphics back then we wouldn’t have believed it!!!
I love Elite Dangerous Odyssey. Elite Dangerous Odyssey is beautiful game and my favorite space sim game 🙂👍🏻✨🌌
I played Freelancer back in the 00s. That was what gave me this obsession with space... never knew about Elite... tried to find something that could be like Freelancer... Star Citizen... eh... i dont like the first person stuff... Everspace? No rpg, but definitely fun for combat and flying or a challenge.
Then I saw Elite in "UpIsNotJump"... and i was hooked. I've always been positive and more positivity is appreciated. I agree with your list, sir!
Also. Try standing outside and looking at a star... and then realising you can actually THEORETICALLY GO THERE IN ELITE!?!?!? Start from Earth, fly towards the destination as if youve taken off from your house. So much fun.
I'm over 3k hours in and still haven't done everything (namely mining). Right on, Commander! It's a rich galaxy out there!
definitely, there are plenty of things to take a look at!
Deep Core Mining is very therapeutic and satisfying lol. Even surface abrasion mining is great! Watching the collector limpets work😁
I just came back to this game a few weeks ago and it's great actually. Yes it has a learning curve but when you get the hang of it does it flow. It's a challenge and in a good way. Definitely worth the time you put in. Great video I like the positive review. Thxs the game needs more support and love.
Well lot of you have pitched in as to why it is awesome. Here are my 2 cents that i belive are the best features:
VR Combat is unbelievable
Ship's simulation/flying/control mechanics
Sound engine
Great video man 👍
dam i forgot about them, shouldve included gameplay/sound design
@@_The_Specter_listening to your commentary on the video, you sound young, don't let that hold you back by making great elite content. I wish you the best buddy.
Elite in VR! There is nothing better! Certainly at locations like these!
It's truly incredible in VR. The sense of scale is hauntingly beautiful
I just got back into Elite after a few years off after getting a Quest 3 headset and exploring some local nebula in VR is breathtaking.
I've been playing iut since before release and still have my accounts up and running on PC, Xbox and PS and still love it
nice! me too
Honestly despite the flaws this game just feels real and i enjoy the progress i make
Thanks for making this video i've had it since launch! I think its the greatest space piloting sim of all time with no contest. The fact that they modeled the game after the real milky way and made everything astronomically as accurate as possibile is just a pure win!
Played from 2015 until, then thought I was done with ED after losing console support. Then my fiance and I got engaged, moved in together and I had access to his excellent gaming PC setup and VR. It was like experiencing it new, all over again!
I'm very happy to see ED still getting love! Awesome video!😁
Im still in awe with the space gameplay. I didnt know you could explore planets?! 😍
If you have the option, try Elite in VR.
It will make everything feel Epic.
Thank you for your video I really liked to see something positiv about Elite. Sadly Elite never made it to show me this beauty...I tried it and to me it felt wrong from the very first moment...I really thought it could be the space game I could love after years in SWG, Eve Online, SC and many more.
yeah i wish it had more depth to it, i kinda agree
Absolutely 100% agree... 1:1 scale of our galaxy and how it's like a SIM.... the realism elements are huge for me... The QUALITY is also amazing - sound and graphics.
I got addicted to Rust, so i didn't play Elite for several years but came back after developing RSI in my right hand (mouse-hand).... Elite (esp w HOTAS) is easier on my hand...
I love this game so much and I've gotten a few friends who never heard of Elite to recently start playing and they've been enjoying it too! I was recently doing some Anti-Xeno activities with members of the AXI and I was pretty bummed out when they were saying they expect this game to end / have the servers shut down due to Frontier's recent money issues. I really hope that's not the case and people continue to actually support Elite like what you're doing with this video so it can continue for years to come. However if it does come down to the servers needing to go offline, I hope the devs are able to make the game be hosted by dedicated servers similar to how ARK does it so that fans can keep the game running on their own.
You are right. The pessimism seems to come mostly from those that approach games to quickly learn mechanics and find ways to 'exploit' a game in ways the designers did not intend. Whereas for those of us that want to be transported to different worlds for real escapism in our gameplay appreciate the value of games like ED. I have played since the 1984 version on BBC B and was a kickstarter funder for ED. It was an absolute masterpiece of coding on the BBC B (I have 40+ years in the business so I can appreciate the skills) and it has progressed well. I hope with some relatively minor improvements, such as more player involvement in what ED calls BGS (BackGround Simulation) perhaps akin to what is done in EVE we might re-ignite player interest.
It's my favourite too. If poeole want something to be pessimistic about starfield does exist, sadly
mine as well! its a gem out of many imo
Started playing in January, absolutely addicted to this beautiful game
o7
I've been playing since Elite 2 on my Amiga and although I've dipped out over time, I've always returned and is by far the best game I've ever owned. And it's not just the game itself it's the whole fan base around it too with the sites, forums, and TH-cam.
intense only you is a song i think of when i play elite , good choice
good to see that weve also got some Only You fans there :D
is the code still active? haven't played for 2 years or so, just curious
Good man
I think this brings home a distinction that really needs to be made especially by the crowd that bashes this game because....Star Citizen. ED is a space simulator. SC is space fantasy. They both have their places. ED is much more like what space colonization might look like and the real empty barren world that is the Milky Way. SC is a fantasy world to create a Star Wars or Firefly type fantasy adventure with realistic aspects of living but not space itself. I've been following the story of ED pretty closely since the beginning of this saga but haven't played much as I think I'd like to get some flight sticks after my last run of playing.
does the buggy still turn over all the time?
这游戏还会有大的更新吗，比如登陆类地行星，飞船内部构造，很喜欢这个游戏
不。據我所知，這不是計劃中的。
我对此表示怀疑。不幸的是，在进一步的改变之前，这款游戏并没有得到很大的发展。
@@_The_Specter_ no😭😭😭
We've been playing about the same amount of time and I haven't slowed down at all, at the expense of other hot games like IL-2 Sturmovik, DCS World, ARMA -- all kinds of monies wasted -- taking up space on the drive is all.
Flightsim -- then Elite are my all-time two, and I go back to when Christ was a Corporal as far as gaming goes.
Always good to have Elite as a favorite game :D i usually get distracted from other games for E:D, nothing can beat that feeling of discovering a great looking planet :D
I played 5 years i had over 3000h. It's good to see positive feedback. Not positive feedback is usually from commanders that have played this very long time. That is because Frontier with developers they promised us lots of things and that promise was broken. No new ships and no other big new features. But game is still great.
Got elite in 2014 and got odyssey on halloween sale.Its definitely not perfect but boy does playing with friends make it 10x better
As close as I'm likely to get, to owning my own spaceship! o7
just got back in..i come and go..but after playing starfield i missed the vastness of this game ..i just started exploration and engineering my ship..Because it has no end game or basic story i think some get confused as to what it is ..Its just get in and do it ..find soemthing to do and enjoy the ride
Love the game although more choices for the players in order to have more personalized gameplay would be quite welcomed (ships, armors, weapons)
The main selling point of the game for me was just flying around space. No space game can top that right now aside from ss having better planets but the feel of traveling there in space is negative 10 out of 10
Thank you for making this
Thanks for this. You speak for many.
The pessimism on youtube is definitely a bit wearing at times. The game could've done better at a few points, and there's a lot that still needs to get fixed, but you can still put a hell of a lot of hours into it. Got into playing it with a friend recently for his first time, and was surprised how much I enjoyed playing it again myself, even after putting 4 digits of hours into it prior. I'd never built a stealth ship, or attempted to mangle a beluga into something it's not supposed to be using engineering. Good times all around.
nice vid loved elite for years and am glad so many others do.
Why it be an amazing movie or series
I just wish there were more gameplay loops and the existing ones should be deeper.. engineering shouldnt be such a grind and you should be able to leave a mark on the galaxy, otherwise I just feel pointless in a game as big as this.
You should really try out Star Citizen, I also held off for years but its actually pretty good, even in the state it is now.
Engeeniering isnt nearly as bad as some make it to be. Planets you explore and map first will forever carry your cmdrs name.. And you always will have to make up your own Story in a sim like Elite.
@@Sir-Complains-a-Lot I have played this game for 1,600 hours and believe me, the engineering IS a grind. The only reason some of it is bearable is because you can cheese some of it (like Daves Hope for whatever its called), engineering more than one ship to its max potential wil waste dozens for hours of your life.
Nevermind the GRIND it takes to get into xeno combat with a decent ship (Grind Guardian Modules ie. which also only works if you relog and switch game modes once youve already landed on a guardian site, which imo, also counts as cheesing since this is not the "natural" gameplay loop), etc. This game is a time sink in all the wrong ways.
Oh yes my name on one of the quadrillion planets in the game, what meaningful progression that is!
You should be able to take influence in some of the systems more easily, etc. I personally would very much enjoy outpost building out in the vast empty galaxy, but it would probably be too much work to implement.
Its great if you enjoy the game for what it is, but please dont make yourself look foolish by arguing that this game is not a total grindfest without any deeper meaning behind it.
I mean, Elite actually is one of the very few games where you CAN leave your mark on the galaxy. In many, MANY ways actually. Fist discovering some interesting location and making POI out of it, discovering generation ships, guardian ruins, thargoid sites, barnacles etc. Every time, there was always someone who found out about something first and these things are usually being remembered in some form and even being in game
@@cmdrHeliaxx sure buddy, have fun doing that and maybe in 10 years youll find something that actually matters :D
@@Vithonil Well, it's a game lmao not like anything there matters at the end of the day. Feel free to share in what other games you can leave as big mark as in Elite, I'm eager to find out, maybe I'm missing some hidden gem 🙂
I was certainly amazed....
... at the amount of potential and time this studio/game wasted.
Elite is the future, if handled properly
I will NEVER support this studio again after how they handled consoles, dropped an entire platform because they blamed it for poor dev speed and optimization. What came of that? Nothing, they cut revenue by more than a 3rd and then continued to push out half assed non-functioning updates, only after 3 YEARS has anything meaningfully progressed and yet Odyssey is still barely functioning.
consoles were holding the game back as they are old - get a pc and frontier has waaaay more games on its plate that caused the revenue issue - elite had nothing to do with it - and odyssey is running great for me but then again i have a good pc lol
@@cinchmccoy What exactly were consoles holding back? A bunch of horrendous Thargoid updates that halved the playerbase and about 100 new bugs? The only comfort in this absolute shitshow is the fact that console players really didn't miss out on all that much. PC players started leaving just like console players after the game on their platform was cancelled. The level of tragedy in this situation is straight up remarkable. 😂
Just let the math blow your mind :D After consoles were cancelled it was widely announced that about 30 percent of the playerbase straight up left by all statistics? Well, after the Thargoid updates 50 percent left 🤣🤣🤣 You literally cant make this stuff up. They chased away 30 percent of their players so that they make 50 percent more go away These developers need a priest or something or a blessing from the Pope to save their souls. 😅😅😅
post specs LMAO fucking cope dude, i promise you my personal machine is better.@@cinchmccoy
so utterly based@@heavybattle6650
am gonna give this game one more try
Were you having trouble learning?
this game is fun... until its not
...because it doesn't cater to those with short attention spans.
makes sense, ive got those times where i just lost interest, especially stuff like engineering and stuff
@@Tamburello_1994 well i have clocked in atleast 5k hours into it.. ive been to beagle point and then back and that is before fleet carrier is even a thing, been to colonia and sag A couple of times, i got triple elites years ago, unlock most of the engineers and the PMF i a was part of has controlled in more 50 system and present in atleast 200 systems. i can assure you i am one of the player the game is for so the problem is not with the player, its the maker. you can only play stagnant game for so long until it burns you out
@@Spitfire-zx7rj Ah yes, the classic. Game managed to keep me entertained for 5000 hours. Must be sth wrong with it when I stopped playing eventually.
@@cmdrHeliaxx yeah well excuse me for seeing things without rose tinted glasses
Wish Odyssey would come to PS5😢
Hahahahahahahaha
@@Mr.Free2Play evil.
First
nice!
Unless its changed a lot since Frontiers. The game is extremely boring.
100% a you problem! Maybe you need to join a squad and ask them what you could do coz there are hundreds of things to do that are the opposite of boring....
@@OldManPaxusYT Higher standards of what fun is. Jumping from one Star to another over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ...obviously translates to fun in your world. I wish I was as easily amused as you are.
@@OldManPaxusYTJoin a squad when barely anyone plays, good joke. Lmao
Unfortunatly it's mainly just very large and pretty. I understand there's people that get more fun out of it. But for most people it's pretty boring. Even for a big cosmology nerd like me it was lacking. I REALLY want to love this game but I just can't :(
No, its not. It really, really is not.
I could and should have been, but its a massive let down.
The minority that likes the game can sing its praises as much as they want; players will keep leaving it because it is not improving, changing or developing.
that’s nice, we’ll just keep having fun
@@_The_Specter_ No, its not "nice". But good for you.
i meant in a sarcastic manner tbh@@heavybattle6650
Because YOUR not interested in those changes -- improvements -- or dev work doesn't mean they're not taking place.
But it always interests me that folks like you hangout in these comment sections just to cry about what you don't have, but you're here nonetheless. Seems like agenda, or narrative to me.
On about a decade on now, the game is what it is.
@@Tamburello_1994 There are no changes or improvements and the so-called "dev work" amounts to players leaving and the company going down 90 percent, that's a fact, not a question of opinion or interest or an agenda.
But fair enough, if you don't like hearing the truth.