Elite Dangerous - Asteroid Mining

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:29 pm

I have such fond memories of the original Elite from the mid-80s. I may buy this game after it's released next week.

A little bit of game video:

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Post by **Genom** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:10 am

Yeah, first Elite was my first "open" space game and I loved it. This one looks a tad slow, but I hope it captures the spirit of the game and will likely buy it too. Scott's been doing tons of videos for it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:33 pm

So its looking like it's going to be a FPS version of EVE?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:53 pm

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:13 am

Interesting, I haven't played an open space game since the '90s.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:53 pm

It's out now - is a joystick required? looks like an interesting game from the exploration point of view - which is what I mostly do in MMOs anyway

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:14 pm

Cool...

Someone found the Voyager 2 space probe in Elite: Dangerous
http://www.vg247.com/2014/12/11/someone ... dangerous/

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:01 pm

that's cool. I'm thinking about this game but I get lost in 2d dungeons. lol.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:05 pm

This is with Max Eye Candy.

Elite: Dangerous GPU Benchmarks:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1 ... ark-4k-fps

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 12:40 pm

FP - you pick this up? There's a review at Metacritic which seems to be you

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:28 pm

Yeah, I bought it, but I haven't posted any reviews.

Haven't had much time to play with it. The graphics ARE stunning, and the open world feel is incredible, but it's very intimidating.

There's a bazillion keyboard commands, and I had to scour the Internet for some user made keyboard templates. Probably end up making my own since I needed to customize some of the keys.

The in-game tutorials don't teach you much. They just drop you in a situation (on approach to space station for landing) and you're pretty much on your own with just some mentions of what keys to use. Landing (and taking off) from a space station involves some piloting skillz. It does greatly help that they have a bunch of tutorials on Youtube.

I flew around a bit, aimlessly, just to enjoy the show, but I haven't tried to do any trading yet. Maybe during the New Years holiday I'll just take a day and play with it.

Right now I'm still engrossed in COD Advanced Warfare multiplayer, and trying to finish Wolfenstein The New Order.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:24 pm

They had major issues with trade transactions over the holiday due to server issues.

This is why I have no desire to playing online (also I don't need to deal with human pirates).

I am one of the many people that are upset the game isn't 100% offline in solo mode. Sadly, very few games have a completely offline mode anymore.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92233

MrFSU · Post by **MrFSU** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:19 am

I've gotten into this game since I got it about a month ago. There's a good Facebook group called Elite

angerous Community that's really helped me along the way.

Basically there's 3 ways to make credits... Trading (how I made my scratch), bounty hunting/pirating and exploration. Exploration makes the least amount of credits but is rewarding in and of itself.

If anyone needs a hand in the game, let me know, I'd be happy to help!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:41 am

once I get my new rig all settled in I'm going to start this and I will be asking questions. Thanks for the FB link.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:12 pm

New forum just went up - run by the gang from the FB page
apparently.

http://www.edcofficial.com/?action=logi ... d%2F201363