Remember how the Minbari nearly destroyed humanity because their leader was killed!!! Now imagine these "barnacles" are a alien nursery!!! Gonna be good times ahead!?!!
+RyanRising I can see it now. A four armed alien walking towards a barnacle holding grocery bags and it drops its bags, mouth agape... "... What happened to my Summer home... WHERE ARE MY WIFI ANTENNAS?! I have to tell Gourge about this. *dials organic phone* You too?! AGH!"
Good to see Obsidian Orbital was repaired, although it could perhaps be one of the first targets that gets attacked when / if the aliens arrive and find out what people have been doing those their little barnacle sites... :D
Welcome, Zanxbroop! What have you to report about our "Intergalactic Flower of Peace sign" that we have sent to the alien species known only as Ooomun? *Supreme Overlord! The aliens destroyed them - every single one!* ASSEMBLE THE FLEET, Zanxbroop - the aliens want to fight!!!
+RyanRyzzo You say that, but the Elite player base would probably accept the fight with gusto. After all, a dead alien spaceship is an alien spaceship that won't complain when you loot (or salvage, if you're talking to someone official) them for swag.
+IVIaskerade If I remember correctly from playing Elite as a child... Targoids were pretty much the toughest opponents in the game... not that I'm saying that these barnacles are Thargoids of course!
Here's my personal theory: The Unknown Artifacts are part of a massive portal. They all align towards Merope to help calibrate the portal. They're designed to appeal to our quest for knowledge, so we take them all over the universe, allowing whoever is controlling them to better triangulate the exact position of where they want to come through. That way they can perfectly align the UAs down to a single point. The barnacles aren't just life, they're engineered. They've come through as part of the second phase, and once they've been there for long enough and the UAs have all aligned, _something_ is gonna come through. I don't know what, but I don't think it's Thargoids. I don't think that they're even from our galaxy. Because of the UAs' scanning abilities, they know the specifications of all our ships. They know our weapons, 'cause we've used them to blow up their shit. They're playing the long game.
+DoctorWhoFanBadWolf It was never really known if Thargoids are from our galaxy to begin with though. Very, very little was ever know about them. But, the look on barnacles does look a lot like Thargoid. That was one of the rare posts on this video that wasn't painful to read by the way. A good comment, and a nice theory.
+Andrew Hirst yeh a story that been slow burning longer than it takes to read war and peace... i do enjoy a good story but for the love of god get to the point at some stage , all this talk of aliens for months and still nothing... change the record or stop blowing smoke up my ass.
+Boaby Nixon its supposed to take place over a very long time, if it took place over a week or even a few weeks what would there be afterwards? nothing?
+harrier331 this isnt the course of a "few weeks" this story has been dragging on much , much longer ... as i said get to the point , there have been stories before this where it just ended , nothing more came of it .. id doubt theyd take this path with the barnacles but im just getting tired of galnet stories and no tangible related content.
Hello there scott! Wether you see this or not, I want it to be said. THANK YOU. For everything that I have learned from you from kerbal physics to real physics I feel as if I am a new person, the universe is now the center of my universe. Knowledge is one of the greatest gifts you have given me and many others but more importantly you made me think, and from thinking comes imagination. Because you of you I feel as if I am more imaginative than ever, I will never see the universe the same way as I previously have. Your videos have inspired me to set myself up for a future career in any job that involves space, and I am happy as can be learning more about the inverse everyday. And all of my current inspiration for space came from you, keep doing what you are doing scott. Never stop teaching others. THANK YOU!
I think it's a tad disappointing that no sort of scanners reveal any additional information. While it's certainly possible that there is some way everyone's missing, it means that you either have to choose to shoot at them for a defined gain or choose not to shoot them on the principle. I think principle almost always loses when there's no evidence to back it up.
Scott i'm sure you have heard this before, but i wanted to tell you you are one of the best youtubers on youtube. I love your vids and i like how you can be funny but also serious. Thanks for the great vids keep them up.
Until they realise this is all the game is, making money to get ships to get better way to make money to then do absolutely nothing at all with that money.
+Scott Manley yeah I see that. I've seen those jumpcuts in your other horizons videos, just wanted to help. You can pretty much land anywhere, as long as you are flat with the terrain underneath you.
this was very fun to watch and very revealing, but im mostly thankful for the editing, im being picked up soon and if it wasnt for your editing, this video would've been wayyy longer and i wouldent have time ^^. So thank you : ).
I love how Scott puts his Elite videos under the TH-cam "Science and Technology" category rather than the "Gaming" one XD Keep it up Scott, by far my fav youtuber!
I was part of the group that shut down the Achon Delaine capital, we did it in open, no solo play at all :) There are actually videos to prove it as well!
+KlingonCaptain Horizons is the full game, you don't have to buy both. it's only those of us who already bought Elite Dangerous that are getting ripped off by having to pay twice.
Hey, Scott. You can fire the turret from inside the cockpit of the SRV without having to go to turret view each time. Simply lock onto target and open fire from cockpit.
I thought E:D was hyper realistic to replicating our galaxy. Aliens, pff. Wish Horizon's wasn't such a scam; $60 for planet landings is beyond absurd. Being gated from doing something that should be part of the core gameplay of any space sim (and is part of SC/NMS) is ludicrous.
+Ace Strife Horizons is a scam, you're right, but ED was never hyper-realistic about replicating the entire galaxy. Its just that a lot of the procedurally generated content is realistic, and the size and amount of star systems is as well. How did you really expect a game set 1000 years into the future to know everything about it? All of the space ship stuff is unrealistic by our standards. Plus, aliens are probable anyway, so don't scoff at their possible existence.
The real problem with this game is that it takes some imagination, and most gamers have become brainless drones that want the game to hold their hand and guide them through a theme park. The real beauty of Elite is that the players get to provide their own narrative. So instead of whining about the price when there's games like $tar Citizen that are selling players digital ships for real life dollars in a game that doesn't really even exist yet (i've played the current alpha, it's AWFUL) I'll be over here enjoying this awesome sandbox. You won't be missed :)
+Gregory Jeffery they are not selling, they are allowing people to continue to donate money to the game, the ships they get are the developers thanking them for their support. not to mention you dont NEED to buy any more than a 45$ starter pack to play the game. you cant judge a game by its alpha state/content. thats like me judging a apple tree because all the buds are rock hard and dont taste like apples.
+Phyankord EVAing, First person on foot combat, ship boarding as a result, literal player rescue missions involving stranded players without a ship, even without official distress beacons implemented yet, space-hoboing, which mean going to places without a ship, only relying on other players, thus having an already unofficial public transport/taxi system, unofficial cargo runs from point A to B, again even without official cargo implemented yet, and soon to be player trading, and clothing shopping at that. All of these interactions make up more of a sandbox than what I see currently in any game currently released, out there. Indeed, judging an apple before the fruit is ripened is a perfect analogy, but even in this regard, this alpha tree is essentially already giving you a few drops of apple juice.
+xtremetuberVII "All these features that aren't in the game yet make the game better!" rofl you're kidding right? Enjoy getting rekt by some nolifer in his idris on day one :)
I played both of them, or let's say I tried to play Elite Dangerous about 5 times,, but alway gave up because of the over complicated way you have to play it, and because nearly each planet and space station looks exactly the same, and because of the tedious way you have to warp to another system. If you think NMS repeats itself to much this is even more the case with Elite Dangeorus. NMS is far from perfect, but believe me, it is much better than ED anyway.
I think this is a very bad opinion.. but each his...... Try having fun with combat in no man sky... The deep control system in Elite is where the fun is at. But yes its repetitive.
Ah Pleiades! I have seen those set of stars so many times and always wondered what they were called, they are always what i look for first in the sky. Now I know what they are called, thanks Scott.
***** Well yes, but apparently they are charging full price for each expansion, even though each expansion includes all of the non-expansion content, so from a consumer point of view it doesn't make sense to buy it until at least most of their expansions have been released.
They have been teasing the hell out of this for months and months. Something this game needs badly is depth, and they continue to tease it. I would be screaming for them to introduce more things like this, and get the Alien race into the game...if I was still playing it. Got very bored of it months ago. There is no mystery or unknown in the game, go to a handful of systems and you have seen mostly everything. One thing you learn about FD is that they are so bad at game design, and pushing their game forward.
+MrRick1719 THARGOIDS ARE COMING GUISE... 5 months later.. THARGOIDS ARE ALMOST UPON US GUISE... 2 months later, BARNACLES ARE UPON US GUISE, THARGOIS ARE ALMOST HERE
+MrRick1719 Too busy working on a Rollercoaster Tycoon successor to focus on actually providing E:D with any substantial content in a reasonable timeframe.
+Nico Sänger they are building a game 10 times bigger (depth wise, not size wise) than ED as a first build of the game PLUS a campaign. ide like to see you do that in the same ammount of time as ED, NOT TO MENTION that for SC the entry price is 45$ rather than 60 on launch + 60 for every expansion you want to buy at launch.
I disagree. Tried to play Elite Dangerous a few times, but I always falled asleep every time I tried it, either while watching white dots flying towards you or driving over an empty stone planets. Maybe this one is the only one planet in the Elite Universe which has life. In my opinion No Man's Sky is much m more interesting than crappy Elite Dangerous hahaha
No Mans Sky is bullshit space, this is what space is really like. You will find almost no life on planets in real life, thus only a few that we found at the moment can.
"I bet you wish that was possible, hm?" :D Excellent video for an Elite dropout who *will* get back in at some point and tries to stay up to date. Thanks!
Frontier releases paid expansion packs: "OH wow what assholes, pay 50 bucks for a more complete game WTF is wrong with people!?" Blizzard releases its 7th expansion for WoW: "HOLY FUCK BUY IT NOW!" People are funny...
Real nice video very informative and entertaining made me laugh at your humour. I have an Asp Explorer but its not got D Class modules on it, as when returning to populated space OR travelling to Obsidian orbital, its a hot system, you will get interdicted by NPCs and blasted. I dont have 30LR jump range its 27.5LR. but you don't want to loose 1 day or several days of exporation date. oh and trade your exploration data in at one of your control systems. it will make it more profitable Will watch some more of your videos S Manley. have a good one
awesome reference... I just put down that book by alan dean foster not 2 mins ago... it's my fav. trilogy and its sitting on my shelf right in front of me.. I always wondered what LV stands for.. but I eat up anything weiland-yutani "building better worlds"....
Hey Scott, have you heard of Evochron Legacy? Same as Elite, but made basically by one guy, and actually does a lot better aside from planet scale and graphics. You can warp away from mapped systems (the only systems on the map are ones with warp gates) and discover new planets and star systems. You can discover planets with life, land on them, and build cities or star bases both online and offline without either being affected by online DRM. Voice acting, combat, fuel management, small campaign, easily my #1 space sim at the moment. It also has realistic physics, your ship doesn't apply its own brakes. You can boost and fly in any direction. Feels far better than Elite, even with FA off. Highly, HIGHLY recommended, check it out on Steam!
Hi Scott. Are you using the PS4 PRO or PC. Oh never mind , i just saw the video date. I don't see Galnet on my PS4 PRO. I just started with the recommended flight, docking and rover deployment three days ago. So I'm a greenhorn for sure. I sure do hope there will be a VR patch for ED on the PS4 platform. Thanks for your videos. I've been following your channel for over a year. It started with the Gear VR and downloaded your videos for the Gear VR. PS4 PRO with the PSVR headset is a really big step up for me and immediately fell in love with Elite. Happy flying.
Was probably mentioned already but that weird whining sound in the Asp are the RCS thrusters. Don't ask me why but they just make that sound depending on how much they fire.
I have a bad bad feeling about us shooting these things :) Good to see Frontier delivering on the alien life theme. More! Let's be having trees and vegetation (where applicable) and other such lifeforms.
Scott, that sound you hear when flying above the surface isn't your engine, its the sensors. The ships don't have wave scanner but the normal sensors still give you this basic audio queue that there are signatures(POIs and resources) nearby.
One time I was running a trade route between a large resource site for barnacles and a lucrative buyer about 9 jumps away. My second to last jump before the buyer's system would sometimes route me through Thargoid controlled space. I didn't really think much of it, it's just one jump right? Well I was eventually yanked out of witch space at that location and when I came out I was facing not just 1 or 2 Thargoid interceptors, but 7 in a symmetrical pattern. The worst part was they were perfectly superimposed between me and my next jump and I was flying a type 10 configured strictly for trade. I have no idea what type they were as I was too busy flying in between one of the gaps as they were scanning me. As I was engaging the FSD I could hear the sounds of them going into combat mode, but luckily I was able to make the jump and get the hell out of there. I suppose they got tired of me giving them the finger by flying through their space with 200+ Metal Alloys on board over and over again lol. Needless to say I paid attention to that second to last jump point and made sure to avoid their system from then on, which wasn't much longer because another resource took on more value shortly after so I dropped the route anyway.
The first found 'fixed' Barnacle is at -26.3615, -156.4056. The name 'Barnacle' is the original official one because FDev leaked it due to Meta-Alloys being visible on markets you can sell them to already and their description saying they were found from structures called Barnacles found in some regions of space. See 17:30
When I can't sleep I watch ED video's and I fall asleep in 2 minutes every time, even in the middle of the afternoon. This game is so mind numbing it should be available on doctors prescription only.
Liked the aluminium being spelled correctly comment, can't tell you how much it bugs me when Americans (try to) correct us Brits on the spelling. +1 thumbs up and a new subscriber atb o/
You find out Elite is shallow when you realise you can play with 1 button. When you see that there're no differences between nav beacons, conflict zones and RES, the USS comes to you, you dont scan for them, neither you scan planets, you just point to them and wait. To enjoy this game you need to create your own rules and gameplay. It all comes to the same mechanics, shoot things, transport things and pretend you're exploring. Very simple mechanics with no challenge. The only things that are really well done are the sound and the graphics.
I was just at Obsidian a couple weeks ago on an exploration mission! I had literally no idea about the alien thing. Time to suit up and go back, I suppose!
Amazing idea; sometime in the future when the alien race has been more fleshed out everyone gets an emergency broadcast warning of an alien invasion force coming in 7 days. Everyone spends the next week rushing around gearing up their ships for combat and making their way towards the assembly point where the aliens are predicted to appear. Then when time's up a massive fleet of alien fighter ships / cruisers drop out of hyperdrive and an enormous space battle starts with thousands of players all trying to fight off the invaders.
The original Elite games had aliens in them, so it wouldn't be surprising to see them in the new one. They were an insectoid race called Thargoids said to exist outside of our galaxy. Their technology was said to be bioorganic.
Nice video, I'm looking forward to seeing what the devs make of this. Although given the way Brits have butchered the language, I don't believe I shall refer to them for any "proper" spelling.
yep it's decided I'm getting this game! don't know when... but I shall. always heard stuff about this game but never really checked to much into it, and I was more for the idea of no man's sky and when bad stuff about that blew up I kinda turned my nose away from this type of game, but just seeing how he fly's down to the planet and lands and drives his Rover around seems interesting to me so yeah might as well.
Watching this video I was like, "yeah this doesn't seem too bad. Good excuse to patch ED and start playing again". Then I remembered that I have to fork out $86 in local currency ($107 for the "Beta expansion") to be able to access this content. Never mind, I suppose. When I purchased ED a year or two ago (a full $86 local) , I kind of expected this kind of content to be included as a free update. I'm the one at fault for not being better informed about the development plan for the game, and it was one of the risks of buying an incomplete game. I really shouldn't complain, but I still feel a little burnt. I've got my fingers crossed for Star Citizen delivering as expected (though I'm not holding my breath).
I've got only one word to say: Thargoids. Remember them? They were the insectoid aliens from the 1980s/90s games. Their stuff was a weird organic/synthetic hybrid, IIRC. Big dectagonal command ships launching hexagonal fighter drones. My bet is that David Braben is going to bring them back and soon; possibly the vanishing bases were destroyed by Thargoid fleets tracking down the 'stolen' meta-alloys (which could be some part of their species' reproductive cycle or possibly something more pedestrian; maybe the barnacles are robot mining/refinery stations and the 'flowers' are 'budding' end products). I wouldn't be surprised, given the amount of harvested Meta-Alloy, if Obsidian is the next target. I wonder how many players will be present when the Thargoid attack fleet arrives on its latest 'rescue mission'? Either way...? Beware, for I think Witch Space is about to become very, very dangerous for the unwary!
Ok this got me interested. This is what I wan't from Star Citizen, but it seems Elite can give it to me sooner. I really have to consider getting this game.
In the US and most of Canada, it is spelled and pronounced "aluminum" according to the American Chemical Society and Webster's Dictionary. The IUPAC has decided that the scientific designation should be "aluminium" as of 1990, but Sir Humphrey Davis proposed the element be called "Alumium" in keeping with the -ium of sodium, magnesium, etc... and from "alum" the dying and tanning mineral. He then chose and published his book of the elements and chose to use "aluminum", but many of his peers thought that "aluminium" sounded more classical and science-y and decided to just start using that. So if you think it should be called by it's original designation then it should be "alumium", if by the name chosen by its discoverer then "aluminum", if by the IUPAC then "Aluminium", or if by the ACS and Webster's then "aluminum". All are correct.
Humphry Davy, the *British* scientist who first isolated aluminum, actually named it (first _alumium_ but then) _aluminum_. '[A]n anonymous contributor to the _Quarterly Review_... objected to _aluminum_ and proposed the name _aluminium_, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to _aluminum_, which has a less classical sound."' Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
+I Got that Nope.avi I think his point is we should honor the guy who first isolated it and named it, than some high brow commenter in the Quarterly Review.
My point was that it's ironic that the British tease Americans over the pronunciation of the word, since the American pronunciation is actually the original, British one.
just started in the game, discovered 2 whole systems on my first trip to colonia so far, one of which had life, has anyone seen any of the life on the gas giants with life yet? i was kind of in a rush to go the 20k gap so i didnt explore the planet yet, i do have it bookmarked though.
You don't need a beast PC to run this game. I'm playing it on my old phenom ii x4 955 + gtx660 just fine. That said, this game is like crack, I just can't stop playing.
The way those barnacles sing makes me think they're for communication. Maybe they're conduits in a collective hivemind that controls the alien lifeforms.
Strange game. Probably some people like it. Saw it on sale, bought it, run out of ideas what to do after 3 days. Empty universe devoid of anything, endless grind without any purpose. Oh, and if you are intercepted by a pirate (NPC one) - kiss your ship goodbuy. You can't fight back as pirate ship will be vastly superior and chances to run away are close to zero. Also, no tutorials how you actually do it. TL;DR - $20 thrown away...
I too forsee some aliens getting extremely cheesed off that we found life and immediately shot at it. Not that there's much else to do.
+RyanRising Typical humans.
Remember how the Minbari nearly destroyed humanity because their leader was killed!!! Now imagine these "barnacles" are a alien nursery!!! Gonna be good times ahead!?!!
+Patrick Jensen To be honest, even if we were given an alternative we'd probably have shot at them.
+RyanRising I can see it now. A four armed alien walking towards a barnacle holding grocery bags and it drops its bags, mouth agape... "... What happened to my Summer home... WHERE ARE MY WIFI ANTENNAS?! I have to tell Gourge about this. *dials organic phone* You too?! AGH!"
Spoon Fox Lol!!!
I wonder if they taste good?
I mean, if this was real life, someone would have tried cooking this thing by now.
+Lovenought And putting their dick in it.
+Maxim M Scott seemed happy enough to "take it back to my ass(p)"
Iron Prostate
.... your username...
Hell, I'd stir-fry that thing back to the stone age with some barbecue sauce...
+Lovenought Well Asians eat raw scallops and seaweed so i dont see the difference
Good to see Obsidian Orbital was repaired, although it could perhaps be one of the first targets that gets attacked when / if the aliens arrive and find out what people have been doing those their little barnacle sites... :D
Now only a year until we see an alien add on for the cheap price of $600!
The Omnicronians from Persi I8 will not be amused.
+petehjr1 they already send their demands: they want the one we cal McNeal. Or they will lay waste to our cities with their anti-monument laser.
+OnionChoppingNinja Or we shall be at the mercy of LRRRRR, RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSI I8!!!
+OnionChoppingNinja we will raise the temperature of the planet by 1 million degrees every minute intill you give us the one we call mc neal.
Just feed them some hippies.
So within one year, the alien addon will be released for 49,99....
+Antoine Thisdale no doubt. But i do have a cool name for the add-on... "Elite Dangerous: Contact"
+Dark Star ohh thats good :)
+Dark Star So..
Elite: Damned Space Refugees Not on my Planet
is out of the question then?
+Josh Friedman Why not 'Elite: We're back, did you miss us?
Nah. You could go. Elite: Get Fucked m8
Welcome, Zanxbroop! What have you to report about our "Intergalactic Flower of Peace sign" that we have sent to the alien species known only as Ooomun?
*Supreme Overlord! The aliens destroyed them - every single one!*
ASSEMBLE THE FLEET, Zanxbroop - the aliens want to fight!!!
+Evan Kerman the video
+RyanRyzzo You say that, but the Elite player base would probably accept the fight with gusto.
After all, a dead alien spaceship is an alien spaceship that won't complain when you loot (or salvage, if you're talking to someone official) them for swag.
+IVIaskerade If I remember correctly from playing Elite as a child... Targoids were pretty much the toughest opponents in the game... not that I'm saying that these barnacles are Thargoids of course!
And how long before GDI and NOD start fighting over them?
+Von Neely In the name of Kane!!!
natku1
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. :)
+Von Neely Their design does look tiberium/scrin-ish, specially the spines!
DOWN WITH GDI!!!
MAKE THEM SUFFER!!!
Here's my personal theory: The Unknown Artifacts are part of a massive portal. They all align towards Merope to help calibrate the portal. They're designed to appeal to our quest for knowledge, so we take them all over the universe, allowing whoever is controlling them to better triangulate the exact position of where they want to come through. That way they can perfectly align the UAs down to a single point. The barnacles aren't just life, they're engineered. They've come through as part of the second phase, and once they've been there for long enough and the UAs have all aligned, _something_ is gonna come through. I don't know what, but I don't think it's Thargoids. I don't think that they're even from our galaxy. Because of the UAs' scanning abilities, they know the specifications of all our ships. They know our weapons, 'cause we've used them to blow up their shit. They're playing the long game.
+DoctorWhoFanBadWolf elite dangerous: get rekt humans
+Ueberdoziz Elite Dangerous: Chapter Seven (Your shit is wreaked.)
My god this game has so much potential. I really hope your theory is right. Because that would be bad ass.
+DoctorWhoFanBadWolf It was never really known if Thargoids are from our galaxy to begin with though. Very, very little was ever know about them. But, the look on barnacles does look a lot like Thargoid.
That was one of the rare posts on this video that wasn't painful to read by the way. A good comment, and a nice theory.
Damn, Scott has an Asp that won't quit
Alien life! amazing! what can you do with it? absolutely nothing!
wow what great consequences this groundbreaking discovery has
+ascendence It's a good way to introduce the Thargoids into the game. People destroy barnacles, Thargoids get mad and that's how the war gets started.
It's part of a storyline.
+Andrew Hirst yeh a story that been slow burning longer than it takes to read war and peace... i do enjoy a good story but for the love of god get to the point at some stage , all this talk of aliens for months and still nothing... change the record or stop blowing smoke up my ass.
+Boaby Nixon its supposed to take place over a very long time, if it took place over a week or even a few weeks what would there be afterwards? nothing?
+harrier331 this isnt the course of a "few weeks" this story has been dragging on much , much longer ... as i said get to the point , there have been stories before this where it just ended , nothing more came of it .. id doubt theyd take this path with the barnacles but im just getting tired of galnet stories and no tangible related content.
Hello there scott! Wether you see this or not, I want it to be said. THANK YOU. For everything that I have learned from you from kerbal physics to real physics I feel as if I am a new person, the universe is now the center of my universe. Knowledge is one of the greatest gifts you have given me and many others but more importantly you made me think, and from thinking comes imagination. Because you of you I feel as if I am more imaginative than ever, I will never see the universe the same way as I previously have. Your videos have inspired me to set myself up for a future career in any job that involves space, and I am happy as can be learning more about the inverse everyday. And all of my current inspiration for space came from you, keep doing what you are doing scott. Never stop teaching others. THANK YOU!
I think it's a tad disappointing that no sort of scanners reveal any additional information. While it's certainly possible that there is some way everyone's missing, it means that you either have to choose to shoot at them for a defined gain or choose not to shoot them on the principle. I think principle almost always loses when there's no evidence to back it up.
I think you're the only TH-camr who makes quick edits in videos this entertaining. And for this you earn a Sub!
Obsidian Orbital is named after everybody's favorite Elite gamer from the subreddit, +Obsidian Ant!
Scott i'm sure you have heard this before, but i wanted to tell you you are one of the best youtubers on youtube. I love your vids and i like how you can be funny but also serious. Thanks for the great vids keep them up.
this is what No Man's Sky should have been. Wow, I'm impressed with this game.
I bought No Man's Sky and 2 days later, out of dissapointment, bought Elite Dangerous and horizons
Then I'am pretty sure you will be much more dissapointed with Elite Dangerous by now :)
Why?
lmao how are you impressed with this
Until they realise this is all the game is, making money to get ships to get better way to make money to then do absolutely nothing at all with that money.
Eve video...one day...soon? cool video non the less :) love your work Scott, top bloke!
Scott when you land and it says unsuitable terrain stop moving somehwhere else. you have to angle yourswlf correctly to the terrain it will be fine.
+SquaredSpekz Why do you think there was a cut, I was mucking around for 2 minutes before I gave up.
+Scott Manley yeah I see that. I've seen those jumpcuts in your other horizons videos, just wanted to help. You can pretty much land anywhere, as long as you are flat with the terrain underneath you.
+SquaredSpekz *as long as you are level with the terrain underneath you.
this was very fun to watch and very revealing, but im mostly thankful for the editing, im being picked up soon and if it wasnt for your editing, this video would've been wayyy longer and i wouldent have time ^^. So thank you : ).
It's cute when Elite: Dangerous tries to give itself a story.
It's not like it's the fourth game in a series or anything...
I love how Scott puts his Elite videos under the TH-cam "Science and Technology" category rather than the "Gaming" one XD Keep it up Scott, by far my fav youtuber!
Something tells me its not a good idea to shoot these aliens
+James Minor There's always a character in a sci-fi flick that says that!
megatiger78 Genocide is one word.
+James Minor
roleplayer DansGame
+James Minor, Lol nice profile pic
I was part of the group that shut down the Achon Delaine capital, we did it in open, no solo play at all :)
There are actually videos to prove it as well!
Good work.
What is the difference between "Elite: Dangerous" and "Elite: Dangerous - Horizons?" Why do we have to buy two games now?
+KlingonCaptain Horizons includes Dangerous. Horizons is a 20 dollar expansion that basically flips the bird at current Dangerous owners.
+KlingonCaptain As in it should be a 20 dollar expansion at most for those that already bought Dangerous.
+KlingonCaptain Horizons is the full game, you don't have to buy both.
it's only those of us who already bought Elite Dangerous that are getting ripped off by having to pay twice.
+KlingonCaptain You only need to buy Horizons.
+Scott Manley UNLESS you have elite dangerous already, in which case you need to buy both :|
Hey, Scott. You can fire the turret from inside the cockpit of the SRV without having to go to turret view each time. Simply lock onto target and open fire from cockpit.
You should inspect LV-426
+Matej Vereš I'm pretty sure that's where the Leathery Eggs at Ridley Scott station come from.
Thanks for the excellent vid. I really enjoyed it and had no idea about this alien life form finding til now. I guess I need to pay closer attention.
I thought E:D was hyper realistic to replicating our galaxy.
Aliens, pff.
Wish Horizon's wasn't such a scam; $60 for planet landings is beyond absurd. Being gated from doing something that should be part of the core gameplay of any space sim (and is part of SC/NMS) is ludicrous.
+Ace Strife Horizons is a scam, you're right, but ED was never hyper-realistic about replicating the entire galaxy. Its just that a lot of the procedurally generated content is realistic, and the size and amount of star systems is as well. How did you really expect a game set 1000 years into the future to know everything about it? All of the space ship stuff is unrealistic by our standards.
Plus, aliens are probable anyway, so don't scoff at their possible existence.
+I Got that Nope.avi Ladies and gentleman, if you look to the right you'll see someone's ass getting ripped with some knowledge...
+I Got that Nope.avi I agree completely, plus I'll take aliens over no aliens any day of the week
Nathan Wagner The first part of my comment was sarcasm, of course.
Hanniffy Dinn Fuck off already. People like you are the worst.
great job CMDR, had been following the threads on the forums for awhile
Elite: Coming Over 'Ere, Taking Our Jobs
Expansion coming 2019. R.R.P £40.
Zeke Iddon at least in start citizen it’s one time 45 dollars and free updates
Viewing this 7 years later knowing the current events unfolding in our own bubble... Who knew we would end up here.
The real problem with this game is that it takes some imagination, and most gamers have become brainless drones that want the game to hold their hand and guide them through a theme park. The real beauty of Elite is that the players get to provide their own narrative. So instead of whining about the price when there's games like $tar Citizen that are selling players digital ships for real life dollars in a game that doesn't really even exist yet (i've played the current alpha, it's AWFUL) I'll be over here enjoying this awesome sandbox. You won't be missed :)
+Gregory Jeffery Also, great vid. Liked and subscribed :) Maybe I'll see you out there in open play!
+Gregory Jeffery they are not selling, they are allowing people to continue to donate money to the game, the ships they get are the developers thanking them for their support. not to mention you dont NEED to buy any more than a 45$ starter pack to play the game. you cant judge a game by its alpha state/content. thats like me judging a apple tree because all the buds are rock hard and dont taste like apples.
+Phyankord EVAing, First person on foot combat, ship boarding as a result, literal player rescue missions involving stranded players without a ship, even without official distress beacons implemented yet, space-hoboing, which mean going to places without a ship, only relying on other players, thus having an already unofficial public transport/taxi system, unofficial cargo runs from point A to B, again even without official cargo implemented yet, and soon to be player trading, and clothing shopping at that. All of these interactions make up more of a sandbox than what I see currently in any game currently released, out there. Indeed, judging an apple before the fruit is ripened is a perfect analogy, but even in this regard, this alpha tree is essentially already giving you a few drops of apple juice.
xtremetuberVII
better yet, the apple is only getting bigger and jucier!
+xtremetuberVII "All these features that aren't in the game yet make the game better!" rofl you're kidding right? Enjoy getting rekt by some nolifer in his idris on day one :)
haha.. entertaining, Mr Manley! you're awesome! love it and love you! Keep love thriving!
That's a neat looking ship. I guess you could say it's... Bad-asp.
Alright, I'll leave now.
Really enjoyed this. Keep up the great work!
What the hell? Why haven't I heard about this gem, but some shitty No Man's Sky is all over the internet?
I played both of them, or let's say I tried to play Elite Dangerous about 5 times,, but alway gave up because of the over complicated way you have to play it, and because nearly each planet and space station looks exactly the same, and because of the tedious way you have to warp to another system. If you think NMS repeats itself to much this is even more the case with Elite Dangeorus. NMS is far from perfect, but believe me, it is much better than ED anyway.
I think this is a very bad opinion.. but each his...... Try having fun with combat in no man sky... The deep control system in Elite is where the fun is at. But yes its repetitive.
Ah Pleiades! I have seen those set of stars so many times and always wondered what they were called, they are always what i look for first in the sky. Now I know what they are called, thanks Scott.
Anyone know when the full game is coming out? This looks interesting.
+Liarra “Heart” Sniffles The game fully launched a year ago. A month or so ago the first expansion released.
***** Well yes, but apparently they are charging full price for each expansion, even though each expansion includes all of the non-expansion content, so from a consumer point of view it doesn't make sense to buy it until at least most of their expansions have been released.
+Liarra “Heart” Sniffles The last expansion will be released in 2025. There's 10 expansions.
Harichi Kashanami I'll be waiting a while then...
Liarra Sniffles Yep.
That was awesome! Elite Dangerous looks amazing! Thanks!
They have been teasing the hell out of this for months and months. Something this game needs badly is depth, and they continue to tease it. I would be screaming for them to introduce more things like this, and get the Alien race into the game...if I was still playing it. Got very bored of it months ago. There is no mystery or unknown in the game, go to a handful of systems and you have seen mostly everything. One thing you learn about FD is that they are so bad at game design, and pushing their game forward.
deez butts
+MrRick1719 THARGOIDS ARE COMING GUISE... 5 months later.. THARGOIDS ARE ALMOST UPON US GUISE... 2 months later, BARNACLES ARE UPON US GUISE, THARGOIS ARE ALMOST HERE
+MrRick1719
At least FD has a complete development plan. Not like RSI which got overfed with money, and now running in circles -.-
+MrRick1719 Too busy working on a Rollercoaster Tycoon successor to focus on actually providing E:D with any substantial content in a reasonable timeframe.
+Nico Sänger they are building a game 10 times bigger (depth wise, not size wise) than ED as a first build of the game PLUS a campaign. ide like to see you do that in the same ammount of time as ED, NOT TO MENTION that for SC the entry price is 45$ rather than 60 on launch + 60 for every expansion you want to buy at launch.
Great stuff, elite is beginning to get very interesting filling up space.
So much better then crappy NMS lol hahaha
absolutely
I disagree. Tried to play Elite Dangerous a few times, but I always falled asleep every time I tried it, either while watching white dots flying towards you or driving over an empty stone planets. Maybe this one is the only one planet in the Elite Universe which has life. In my opinion No Man's Sky is much m more interesting than crappy Elite Dangerous hahaha
No Mans Sky is bullshit space, this is what space is really like. You will find almost no life on planets in real life, thus only a few that we found at the moment can.
"I bet you wish that was possible, hm?" :D
Excellent video for an Elite dropout who *will* get back in at some point and tries to stay up to date. Thanks!
Frontier releases paid expansion packs: "OH wow what assholes, pay 50 bucks for a more complete game WTF is wrong with people!?"
Blizzard releases its 7th expansion for WoW: "HOLY FUCK BUY IT NOW!"
People are funny...
+Reavermyst Especially considering WoW has a monthly subscription of $15 a month. That's $180 a year on it's own lol
CMDR Kappa Right?
+Reavermyst I hate people. ;w;
+wastelander8899 yeah same goes for a single raid dungeon.... oops wait I should look at the content list... *hint hint*
Synoots
You apparently missed the post just a few comments ago. Planetary Landings is only the start of what's going to be in Horizons.
Real nice video very informative and entertaining made me laugh at your humour.
I have an Asp Explorer but its not got D Class modules on it, as when returning to populated space
OR travelling to Obsidian orbital, its a hot system, you will get interdicted by NPCs and blasted. I dont have 30LR jump range
its 27.5LR. but you don't want to loose 1 day or several days of exporation date.
oh and trade your exploration data in at one of your control systems. it will make it more profitable
Will watch some more of your videos S Manley.
have a good one
So an 18 minute long video of him shooting some barnacles and selling them back to the station for a community even, great.
I can't believe you shot it!! The first alien life we came across, and its already being eradicated for its exotic product.
Typical humans.... we find alien life and we shoot it. I somehow think pissing off aliens is probably a bad idea
That was a really nice compilation there.
the most boring aliens in a video game, ever
So we're those eggs on LV426.... Until they got woken up.
ahhhhh, facehugs are my favourite.....
awesome reference... I just put down that book by alan dean foster not 2 mins ago... it's my fav. trilogy and its sitting on my shelf right in front of me.. I always wondered what LV stands for.. but I eat up anything weiland-yutani "building better worlds"....
I get so excited when Scott does an elite video :D
+That Guy Yep, the upload notification is the only exciting bit about Elite videos.
Good thing they are still free..
***** Just a shame your comment is a complete lie :(
+Angel Kanchev lol I remember you from one of his other Elite videos. What are you watching and commenting on these for if you hate it?
Hey Scott, have you heard of Evochron Legacy? Same as Elite, but made basically by one guy, and actually does a lot better aside from planet scale and graphics. You can warp away from mapped systems (the only systems on the map are ones with warp gates) and discover new planets and star systems. You can discover planets with life, land on them, and build cities or star bases both online and offline without either being affected by online DRM.
Voice acting, combat, fuel management, small campaign, easily my #1 space sim at the moment.
It also has realistic physics, your ship doesn't apply its own brakes. You can boost and fly in any direction. Feels far better than Elite, even with FA off. Highly, HIGHLY recommended, check it out on Steam!
Such a really chilled game play. Reminds me a little of my wormhole exploration days in Eve online...
The sounds in this game are horrifyingly beautiful! Give me goosebumps!
Hi Scott. Are you using the PS4 PRO or PC. Oh never mind , i just saw the video date. I don't see Galnet on my PS4 PRO. I just started with the recommended flight, docking and rover deployment three days ago. So I'm a greenhorn for sure. I sure do hope there will be a VR patch for ED on the PS4 platform. Thanks for your videos. I've been following your channel for over a year. It started with the Gear VR and downloaded your videos for the Gear VR. PS4 PRO with the PSVR headset is a really big step up for me and immediately fell in love with Elite. Happy flying.
If you didn't know, the space station is named after a popular youtuber that mainly does videos on Elite. His name is ObsidianAnt.
Was probably mentioned already but that weird whining sound in the Asp are the RCS thrusters.
Don't ask me why but they just make that sound depending on how much they fire.
I have a bad bad feeling about us shooting these things :)
Good to see Frontier delivering on the alien life theme. More! Let's be having trees and vegetation (where applicable) and other such lifeforms.
obsidian orbital is named after obsidian ant, awesome youtuber who focusses on elite dangerous
for anyone that is wondering about the coordinates of this particular barnacle. its -26.3510 Latitude. Longitude is -156.4070.
Good Hunting!
Scott, that sound you hear when flying above the surface isn't your engine, its the sensors. The ships don't have wave scanner but the normal sensors still give you this basic audio queue that there are signatures(POIs and resources) nearby.
Awesome vid mate thanx for the post
really well put together video
I like the Star Wars transitions you put
this whole new mystery/event in EDH is giving me lots of wanderlust
One time I was running a trade route between a large resource site for barnacles and a lucrative buyer about 9 jumps away. My second to last jump before the buyer's system would sometimes route me through Thargoid controlled space. I didn't really think much of it, it's just one jump right?
Well I was eventually yanked out of witch space at that location and when I came out I was facing not just 1 or 2 Thargoid interceptors, but 7 in a symmetrical pattern. The worst part was they were perfectly superimposed between me and my next jump and I was flying a type 10 configured strictly for trade. I have no idea what type they were as I was too busy flying in between one of the gaps as they were scanning me. As I was engaging the FSD I could hear the sounds of them going into combat mode, but luckily I was able to make the jump and get the hell out of there.
I suppose they got tired of me giving them the finger by flying through their space with 200+ Metal Alloys on board over and over again lol. Needless to say I paid attention to that second to last jump point and made sure to avoid their system from then on, which wasn't much longer because another resource took on more value shortly after so I dropped the route anyway.
The first found 'fixed' Barnacle is at -26.3615, -156.4056.
The name 'Barnacle' is the original official one because FDev leaked it due to Meta-Alloys being visible on markets you can sell them to already and their description saying they were found from structures called Barnacles found in some regions of space. See 17:30
Pleiades, my favorite star cluster. So beautiful :')
When I can't sleep I watch ED video's and I fall asleep in 2 minutes every time, even in the middle of the afternoon. This game is so mind numbing it should be available on doctors prescription only.
Liked the aluminium being spelled correctly comment, can't tell you how much it bugs me when Americans (try to) correct us Brits on the spelling. +1 thumbs up and a new subscriber atb o/
You find out Elite is shallow when you realise you can play with 1 button. When you see that there're no differences between nav beacons, conflict zones and RES, the USS comes to you, you dont scan for them, neither you scan planets, you just point to them and wait.
To enjoy this game you need to create your own rules and gameplay. It all comes to the same mechanics, shoot things, transport things and pretend you're exploring. Very simple mechanics with no challenge.
The only things that are really well done are the sound and the graphics.
Oh my God, this game looks great! Wish Mass Effect include one of its mechanics at some point in future
I was just at Obsidian a couple weeks ago on an exploration mission! I had literally no idea about the alien thing. Time to suit up and go back, I suppose!
Amazing idea; sometime in the future when the alien race has been more fleshed out everyone gets an emergency broadcast warning of an alien invasion force coming in 7 days. Everyone spends the next week rushing around gearing up their ships for combat and making their way towards the assembly point where the aliens are predicted to appear. Then when time's up a massive fleet of alien fighter ships / cruisers drop out of hyperdrive and an enormous space battle starts with thousands of players all trying to fight off the invaders.
AdamDDJ the battle will last for days
I am continually amazed by this game.
I used to play Elite on my Amiga 1200... Finally 20 odd years later its on the PS4..
I love when Frontier does stuff like this. I wish they did more of it :D
The original Elite games had aliens in them, so it wouldn't be surprising to see them in the new one.
They were an insectoid race called Thargoids said to exist outside of our galaxy. Their technology was said to be bioorganic.
Nice video, I'm looking forward to seeing what the devs make of this. Although given the way Brits have butchered the language, I don't believe I shall refer to them for any "proper" spelling.
yep it's decided I'm getting this game! don't know when... but I shall. always heard stuff about this game but never really checked to much into it, and I was more for the idea of no man's sky and when bad stuff about that blew up I kinda turned my nose away from this type of game, but just seeing how he fly's down to the planet and lands and drives his Rover around seems interesting to me so yeah might as well.
Watching this video I was like, "yeah this doesn't seem too bad. Good excuse to patch ED and start playing again". Then I remembered that I have to fork out $86 in local currency ($107 for the "Beta expansion") to be able to access this content. Never mind, I suppose.
When I purchased ED a year or two ago (a full $86 local) , I kind of expected this kind of content to be included as a free update. I'm the one at fault for not being better informed about the development plan for the game, and it was one of the risks of buying an incomplete game. I really shouldn't complain, but I still feel a little burnt. I've got my fingers crossed for Star Citizen delivering as expected (though I'm not holding my breath).
I've got only one word to say: Thargoids.
Remember them? They were the insectoid aliens from the 1980s/90s games. Their stuff was a weird organic/synthetic hybrid, IIRC. Big dectagonal command ships launching hexagonal fighter drones. My bet is that David Braben is going to bring them back and soon; possibly the vanishing bases were destroyed by Thargoid fleets tracking down the 'stolen' meta-alloys (which could be some part of their species' reproductive cycle or possibly something more pedestrian; maybe the barnacles are robot mining/refinery stations and the 'flowers' are 'budding' end products). I wouldn't be surprised, given the amount of harvested Meta-Alloy, if Obsidian is the next target. I wonder how many players will be present when the Thargoid attack fleet arrives on its latest 'rescue mission'?
Either way...? Beware, for I think Witch Space is about to become very, very dangerous for the unwary!
I got the "Orange Horus" paint for the Asp because I missed the construction site yellow of the DBX.
That whining noise is the ASP's engines. I confused me at first too, but like other ships, she sings in her own way.
Ok this got me interested. This is what I wan't from Star Citizen, but it seems Elite can give it to me sooner. I really have to consider getting this game.
In the US and most of Canada, it is spelled and pronounced "aluminum" according to the American Chemical Society and Webster's Dictionary. The IUPAC has decided that the scientific designation should be "aluminium" as of 1990, but Sir Humphrey Davis proposed the element be called "Alumium" in keeping with the -ium of sodium, magnesium, etc... and from "alum" the dying and tanning mineral. He then chose and published his book of the elements and chose to use "aluminum", but many of his peers thought that "aluminium" sounded more classical and science-y and decided to just start using that. So if you think it should be called by it's original designation then it should be "alumium", if by the name chosen by its discoverer then "aluminum", if by the IUPAC then "Aluminium", or if by the ACS and Webster's then "aluminum". All are correct.
I just replayed Mass Effect, and driving on the surface in Elite reminds me of that.
Humphry Davy, the *British* scientist who first isolated aluminum, actually named it (first _alumium_ but then) _aluminum_. '[A]n anonymous contributor to the _Quarterly Review_... objected to _aluminum_ and proposed the name _aluminium_, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to _aluminum_, which has a less classical sound."' Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
+Frank Atanassow And your point is...
***** Yeah, but we call it aluminium anyway, so it isn't much of a retort if no one cares about the retort.
+I Got that Nope.avi With a guy like you it must be _The less you know!_
+I Got that Nope.avi
I think his point is we should honor the guy who first isolated it and named it, than some high brow commenter in the Quarterly Review.
My point was that it's ironic that the British tease Americans over the pronunciation of the word, since the American pronunciation is actually the original, British one.
"That is a barnacle right there."
-Scott Manley
quote of the century
just started in the game, discovered 2 whole systems on my first trip to colonia so far, one of which had life, has anyone seen any of the life on the gas giants with life yet? i was kind of in a rush to go the 20k gap so i didnt explore the planet yet, i do have it bookmarked though.
tks, really nice show, I follow your shows just so u know.
Whutchoo talking about "Asp isn't a good gun platform/combat ship"..? She's a great one, in Scout or Explorer version.
Love your thoughts on some alien race probably getting totally pissed off right now.
You don't need a beast PC to run this game. I'm playing it on my old phenom ii x4 955 + gtx660 just fine. That said, this game is like crack, I just can't stop playing.
The way those barnacles sing makes me think they're for communication. Maybe they're conduits in a collective hivemind that controls the alien lifeforms.
10:19 "Look at that!" Yeah, I did... then the 90's called and wanted their polygons back.
these things look like they will open up at some point. maybe some organic type mechanism that opens to underground hanger of some sort.
>'The ant hill mob'
>*Wacky Races theme plays in the distance*
Strange game. Probably some people like it. Saw it on sale, bought it, run out of ideas what to do after 3 days. Empty universe devoid of anything, endless grind without any purpose. Oh, and if you are intercepted by a pirate (NPC one) - kiss your ship goodbuy. You can't fight back as pirate ship will be vastly superior and chances to run away are close to zero. Also, no tutorials how you actually do it. TL;DR - $20 thrown away...