A few details have aged in this video a bit since this videos release, like I said its been an active year lol. So there are P2W microtransctions present now in game, and cosmetics costs more than they did. I personally wouldn't worry about them too much though, this change happened after a major price decrease and the prebuilt ships are very limited. They now let players access new ships early for a few months for a fee aswell. But everyone with Odyssey will get them for free. So if you get the 25 USD version, your gaming experience isnt really impacted in my opinion.
@@ogcipher4967 in pay 2 win there is 2 word : Pay and Win By definition it could be explained as this : Paying for a content that vastly increase your chance of winning or ensure it, this being unobtainable by player that don't spend money on the game or they need a very long farming The problem is here , yeah regular player could not get python MK2 but the ship was not invincible, not even OP it was just another medium ship such as FDL , Krait MK2 , base python... So yeah , you could buy it and getting destroyed by almost anyone , why ? Because in fact ship don't do everything, skill does , but I think there is no "Skill package" I have been destroyed by some python MK2 like I destroyed some . The ship is good , is strong ,but it's not a "I win" button
Brand new ships that are purchased are not upgraded anywhere near good enough to be competitive in pvp, the new "pay 2 win" people talk about is purchasing a ship which is sold with combat modules but again they are not nearly good enough to be competitive in pvp but are good enough for low lvl pve
Unfortunately that's one of my favorite things in video games, doing the same thing over and over might be boring to some, but for me even a slight decrease in run time in something I've done thousands of times is an achievement, efficiency at its best is rewarding, And getting loot from getting better at the video game is a nice bonus, That's why Monster Hunter is my favorite franchise, you can fight the same monster multiple times but learning their moves and turning the battle into a dance is just pure candy.
You're correct about the grind... but if you're into that sort of thing, it can be a beautiful and Zen thing. I haven't played in a couple of years, but one thing I used to love doing is fire the game up in VR at 2 or 3 in the morning, find an asteroid cluster, and just mine for several hours.. Me, my ship, the rocks, the void, and the shining primary off in the distance, the interplay of light and shadows keeping me company in the cold. It was a sort of vibe thing that, admittedly, isn't for everyone.
@@ryean8212 I don't mind grind, but the grind for my pre-engineered FSD and the complexity broke me, haven't played in 6 months, and i LOVE the game...sigh
For what it's worth, the engine changes introduced into Odyssey are now part of the base game too, which means the base game does now require a slightly beefier computer than when the game first came out, which imo makes sense. That being said, some of the on foot activities of Odyssey, such as the on-foot Combat Zones, are particularly taxing in system resources.
@@some-replies I have a 3070 and the game can still kinda chug when running around on planet surfaces with ultra settings. Everything else though is a pretty buttery smooth 144fps. You can comfortably play this game on a Steam Deck too.
One thing I didn't see mentioned is the absence of P2W, which is another selling point of Elite over games like EVE Online and Star Citizen. If you get blown up by some ganker in a fully engineered FDL or Cutter, it's because they worked for the ships, not paid real money for them. While you can spend money for ARX, as mentioned, they only affect your ships and weapon colors. EDIT: Of course, it happened. FDev has just announced, today, 23 of April, that you can pay to purchase the Python Mk2 three months early for real-world money. Additionally, pre-configured ships can also be bought with ARX. Modern monetization strikes again! God knows they need the money though, lol.
I would argue that the SC PtW is not that clear cut since everything can be earned in-game and the ships you buy are no better than anyone else earned in-game.
then it still falls on the problems that WoW had with people spending lifetime amounts of time on the game to become very skilled/powerful to the point where they're unbeatable to the average person (the majority of players) and take another lifetime amount to even have a chance against him. Though even that, to me at least, was more bearable than knowing I was screwed because I didn't want to spend money on a "free" game.
A few points form someone who quit years ago after putting in nearly 1000 hours, also someone hoping that the updates coming later this year actually fix and rectify the boring monotony of certain game systems like Power play which was noted at the time of its original release as being lackluster and the exact thing 90% of the community explicitly said they DID NOT WANT in the form it was introduced, because I still HOPE that they get new management that actually wants to capitalize on Elite's potential rather than squandering it with cheap and practically dead on arrival updates, because then I might get my game back and feel like investing more time in it.... 1. The flight model is not Newtonian, ships have capped speeds and turning off flight assist simply allows for altering orientation while maintaining current vector, the game still enforces each ships max speeds regardless. 2. Paid (premium) content is no longer simply cosmetic as Frontier have announced their intent to put paid for (premium) ships in the game, injecting a ''pay to win'' mechanic to at least some degree. 3. Frontier's blatant disregard for their player base and community, which is easily searchable as there has been much controversy around Elite. 4. Regardless of the price, you need to ask yourself (and more important in this era of gaming) has the developer actually done anything? rectified things the player base dislikes? behaved themselves as a corporate entity? Because your money IS a vote, and if Frontier are still up to their old tricks, that's what you're voting for. 5. Frontier completely altered Elite's direction. After Braben sold the game as being an ever evolving ambitious project with ever increasing scale and complexity, with ship internals, ''space legs'', boarding actions and EVA.... we got no complexity, just more grinding. We got no EVA nor ship boarding, just a paid expansion that added ''space legs'' and more monotonous on foot combat. Ship internals went from Braben talking enthusiastically and showing graybox renders of the internal spaces of ships only for a 'Community manager' to tell us they aren't doing it as there's 'no gameplay value' in it years later. 6. Yes it has a 1:1 scale of the universe, and that would be exciting... if it were in the real world were we would be able to study new planets, find new minerals and/or life etc, but there isn't, it's just fly here, scan a selection of samey looking rocks in space (again, realistic in presentation, but in real life there's far more to do than just look and scan, if you get me). Now, nobody including myself has asked for 'NMS levels of procedural generation' but what we have asked for are MORE VARIED ACTIVITIES, which we haven't got. It seems Frontier just can't understand the concept of minigames within a game that are tied to a game system. 7. The developer's insistence of 'mile wide, inch deep' game design. Back when they announced multi-crew, many of us got unnecessarily hyped. What we envisioned as the game getting something to tickle that Star Trek itch a little, one friend manning scanners, another weapons etc turned out to be yet another dead on arrival update. Fist and foremost, rewards player crews get is dependent on THEIR relevant ranks in Combat, Exploration or Trade. Secondly.... Most of the time there's literally nothing for your crew to do outside of combat. Someone can't man the scanners/science console and play minigames to 'find' specific scan results like POIs (points of interest). They are also not actually on your ship, they are 'HardLight holographic contracts' projecting from their ship to yours, which conflicts with the Odyssey DLC because if your friends are crewing your ship with you, if you land and get out in space legs for whatever reason, they can't, they are stuck in your ship and if they want to join you they'll have to fly their ship to your position. Tbh, I can just keep listing the BS Frontier has done and how much they've destroyed their own game's potential and reputation (along with their own as a developer) but it's started to depress me a little. So much potential yet so much of it squandered by developers who's attitude is to put in as little effort as possible. Quite the essay, I know, but relevant to get the full picture of what you'll be buying.
This comment sums up the situation perfectly. The game has more potential than any other game out there, but it was ruined by lazy and greedy leaders. Do NOT vote for these evil people with your money.
Please people do not waste time on this game. They never listened and never will listen. They keep it at minimal to squire the last money they can at same time not moving a finger. Fleet Carrier jump times for example NOT FIXED TO THIS DAY.
Gotta mid size ship them and cold orbit them to bomb them affectively unfortunately the "vette" my fav ship in the game is 1 of the worse ships to fight a titan in.
For a game that can sometimes go on sale for less than a McDonalds visit and will give you thousands of hours of gameplay while still discovering new things, I'd say its worth it
I played elite for a good while actually years ago, had fun solo and doing some missions with friends, little bit of exploration, even came back to get my name on a couple first footfalls near nebulas when odyssey released. the thing that ultimately drove me away was that if I wanted to progress further it seemed like I would have to spend dozens of hours grinding tedious repetitive tasks to engineer modules. personally I’m not a fan of that. it was a duel in kraits with my buddy that ultimately opened my eyes to how necessary the engineering grind was; I could match him shot for shot and even outfly him occasionally and I’d just get shredded because he had upgraded guns and shields. never really played much after that.
This is why I quit in like 2017 too. I exclusively PVP'd and then all of the upgrade stuff came out and I had to grind another 100+ hours just to get a single ship up to spec to play how I wanted to play again. Nope. Not doing that. I was sick of the grind already and was not about to go back to PvE just to play PvP.
@@tydendurler9574 It's actually been an issue in gaming for a long time. Is your game about actual player skill, like counter strike, or is it an artificial form of progression like in Dungeons and Dragons? Both are valid, but being disappointed that a person's superior flight combat isn't more of a factor would understandably be a turnoff to a typical flight sim player. I can understand why they may have designed it this way, but it has it's drawbacks. Similar to the way travel works here or in a game like EVE online, it's slow for a reason and that is balance.
@@Dante3214 yeah, whatever. The game is an MMO. Period. How silly would it be to grind 100hours only to beaten by someone who plays the game for 5 hours?!? It's just that skill shouldn't be pointless. AND it's just like real life. The guy who worked 20 years for a Ferrari will beat you in your Honda, no matter how good you drive. No complains there.
The engineering grind is the worst thing they ever did to the game. It is completely braindead, the gameplay behind it is non-existent. Imagine you're leveling in WoW - but instead of venturing through Azeroth, killing ever stronger enemies, delving into dungeons, and completing various quests, you grind level 1 hogs for 200 hours. Like in that one South Park episode. It's the most important, most impactful part of the game and it's designed so badly that the people responsible for it deserve jail time. The people who try to defend this with their utterly nonsensical, fallacious arguments are completely delusional. I don't care about your "sunk cost" driven self-defense reflex.
When I was a kid I got depressed when I realized I'd never be able to jump in a space ship and explore the galaxy. Elite Dangerous is really the only space game that has *truly* made me feel like I was living that fantasy.
Never forget when I first learned about automatic stabilization, between switching it it off and on in mid combat really gave me an immersive experiences. Performing maneuvers that place you out of enemy weapon range and you unleashing a barrage of weaponry. Or that one time pirates attack, leaving me for dead space! Bought my ship HP down to 1%, cockpit canopy broken. I thought I was stuck, then my buddy told me to turn off the ship and turn it back on. Did that and got home safely on one freaking percent!
Elite needs to be BETTER. We've been promised, and let down, repeatedly for a decade. There's SO MUCH POTENTIAL, but the devs refuse to capitalize on it. Elite needs to evolve.
They need to stop ruining it then with crap like Odyssey and pandering to investors. Start listening to players, stop being greedy and ignorant and include VR !
@@murdurmuffin7872 in contrast to many other games out there, Elite has evolved - a lot. Only the core elements of the 2014 game are still present in the latest 2024 version after 18 large updates. And there are more large updates to come. That can not be said about many 10-year old games still on the market. At the asking price of now $25 Elite with Odyssey is an absolute steal.
Haven't played in 2 years but i remember the day the first Hyperdiction happened and i was logged in every night all night. It was so exciting all the things happening.
Elite is a great game “for players who haven’t been negatively impacted by various Frontier decisions” and/or are happy to ignore them and move on because it doesn’t effect them or they simply don’t care. Personally I think Elite has a good 200hrs gameplay in there for most people but it could be so much more and it is to a core group who basically fall under the 1st sentance…
I think that ultimately the hate this game receives is overblown. Skyrim is not a perfect game and is still to this day broken even though it’s been released like 10 times. But people still love Skyrim. Star Citizen has over half a billion in funding now, and the bots still don’t work. As for the past, I wasn’t there for a lot of it, but for the now… Elite is 25 bucks, comes with mountains and mountains of content that is finished and functional, the opinions on the content vary. Regardless, beyond worth it imo, and that opinion will never change. It was worth it to me full price, but now… even more so.
@@indigointoblack Comes with tons of functions that were finished, but they gave up on the Xbox community a bit before the Series models were announced, Odyssey never came to Xbox, despite their promises.
well you say that @@indigointoblack but imagine for 1min Frontier decide to drop support for something that effects you say joystick and hotas controls you'd be pretty pissed then I bet...
@@bigbangerz5856he would, as would I. But that is a strategic decision on Frontiers part. It's not personal, you're allowed to be pissed, but that doesn't invalidate other peoples love for the game.
I'm just going to say " This is my all-time favourite game ever" I've been playing nearly every day since kickstarter back in 2012, if your even slightly intrested in space flight, give it a go!
@@drewd4491 Mainly I'm a trader/Hauler but I also take part in the political side of the game running misions for my chosen faction, but if you are asking as someone who has not played before there are many differnt things to do in the game, Piracy, exploring, bounty hunting, fighting aliens, discovering strange plant life on planets and moons, there are 400,000,000,000. systems to exlplore.
@@drewd4491You can choose from many different careers so the game can be different depending on what you do. I tend to spend my time trading, mining and exploring. Just make sure you have a fuel scoop if you explore far from civilization. It is no fun if you get stranded far from anywhere with no fuel nearby.
i love Elite and use to play it on something that you glossed over the console side but when they stuffed us by saying that elite would get no more major updates i stopped playing, on console you can not affect the BGS anymore and that upset a lot of the fanbase
As Yoda would say ''Life, you have not.'' that's like someone saying they have 10000 hours in Call of Duty, like, bro, reassess your life choices, seriously.
@@psyanidemcpsy6501 thanks.....what a nice community this game has 😏 been playing since 2015 ish and remember both my kids' names so it's all good. My job is pretty stressful and chilling in Elite has been a great counter to the hurly-burly over the last 9 years...
At about 7:40, are you telling me I could single handedly change the fate of a small system? Additionally, if I provided enough to a system, would it get it's own orbital station? The last question, for myself, is if it were worth effort....
i know im 8 months late, but you wont get a NEW orbital station but whichever faction you support WOULD take ownership of said station. ALSO if you are apart of a decent sized squadron and effectively take over your chosen home system you can petition to the devs and have your squadron added to the game as a faction in the system
the only thing personal that upset me about Odyssey DLC was lack of VR this game is amazing to play in VR and i would have loved to have Done That In Odssey As Well
My favorite memory of the game is realizing that you get credit for discovering planets that no other player has discovered before. And since there are so many, it’s not a tall order to find them. You can return to civilization once you have your log of mapped planets and you get paid for each one. Extra money for “earth-like” planets that have never been before found. I went on a 200-system out hop and came home a multimillionaire, just for mapping planets
Ah... Elite... Honestly, it's a love / hate relationship. Elite is so freaking great at so many things, doing so many things right, but then falls short in almost all of those areas. A huge major issue with it is that everything just takes freaking ages, both in regards to gameplay with even simple things as travel (such as just getting away from a planet, or super cruise longer distances, or making a bunch of jumps for usually no reason whatsoever due to how generic almost every system is), and to the development itself, which just snails along without adding anything meaningful, or even just address the things it half assedly delivers. Take space legs for example... In essence there's a lot of cool stuff here and it is something that people wanted ever since its release (or even before when we talk about the dev diaries during the kickstarter). But one pet peeve isn't just the fact that we still have no accessible ship interiors to this date (years after its release), but the fact that they never even addressed the horrendous FPS combat mechanics to this day. Another example would be the mentioned Powerplay (another half assed feature that got added a long long time ago) overhaul, which we talked about with Sandro Samarco on stream almost A DECADE AGO! Elite is always like 2 steps away from greatness, and Frontier does seem to be hell bent to keep it that way.
please for the love of God bring VR for on-foot, that's the only thing holding me to return to elite. Once you play it in VR, you can NEVER return to flat monitor
Its never enough for you , you asked to be able to walk around, now VR, what is next after VR? How many players will use VR? How much it takes to make it work?
@@skowv9903 Are you nuts? "Elite Dangerous is a groundbreaking title for virtual reality gaming, because its one of the first major titles to offer full VR support with an exceptionally immersive experience in an all-encompassing universe. It was the go to game for many VR headset demos before the devices were commercially available. From a technical standpoint, Elite Dangerous is one of the PC’s most high-end VR titles, pushing even very powerful PCs to their limit. Elite Dangerous is designed from the ground up to support Virtual Reality and 4K Ultra HD display technology. It has Cutting-edge visual quality and performance enabled by Frontier's COBRA engine. It supports the latest displays at 4K resolution, and is built for the future with full 8K and 16K support. It's compatible with Oculus Rift, SteamVR and Vive headsets.[1]" We had VR looooong before Odyssey. The whole game was natively VR, so why in the world _wouldn't_ we expect it to continue to be? On top of that FDev intentionally mislead the VR crowd by saying that VR for Odyssey wouldn't be available _at launch_ , the natural assumption being that it was going to be added _after_ launch. They let folks believe that, tons of folks bought it, only to have the rug snatched out from under them when later FDev was basically like "Haha just kidding!".
What's the VR controls like with motion controllers? Is there any support? I've been considering getting into it but i can't find any good answers on that. I have a Quest 2.
ED is still truely an epic game even after 10 years, its the game to have in VR and VR is becoming stronger by the months. Would love to see Odyssey work in VR rather than a grey box flat screen, more variations of stations, it has lost players but i'd expect if a few tweeks here and there were made and some extra level of love then the player base will pick up again.
Ok let me add bc I felt silly bc I started with nitpicking: Indigo this video is a must seen for people who are interested in ED. Thank you for making this. I love how the story of ED is the history what we live through. With a lot of immersive events, news segments...
Fun video, but the ships are not using newtonian physics. Each ship has it's own speed limit. If it was newtonian, one could boost over and over and just keep going faster and faster.
The one thing had prevented me from playing this game still in 2024 is a mouse useable UI within the ship. Why can't we have a simple toggle button to toggle a mouse pointer on / off for use with the ship menus? I hate navigating the menus with the keyboard. So unintuitive when the same controls are used to fly the ship.
Love this video - have already shared it several times because I have not found another vid like this, explaning what I like the most about Elite: Dangerous (ODY)
Me and my friends played ED for years, were it prior to THAT news. I'd recommend this game to everyone. But after abandoning their entire console playerbase after promising us Odyssey and then not giving it, i can't recommend it to any console players. PC, yeah. But if you are on console, we were completely abandoned, don't even get events anymore. Went from being my favourite game to a massive disappointment.
I picked it up on Xbox around four years ago. The controls were very overwhelming. Is there a guide you can recommend for playing on controller or is it just not worth? I just don’t have the kind of money to build out a crazy pc to run this and I might not like it
I wholeheartedly agree. I started with Elite in 2017 on the PS4 and moved to PC Odyssey about a year or so ago. 2500+ hours combined and I still find reasons to play every week.
Honestly, the player community is the best reason. I’ve been involved in Squadron play since 2020 with a very active in-game squadron and it’s 100% the reason I keep coming back.
I mostly focus on bounty hunting wanted ships and trading for profit in furtherance of my squadron’s goals set out by the leadership. But you can play any way you want. Explorer. Pirate, power player, miner. Best is to try a little of everything and then focus on what you like best.
i stopped playing around 2018 when i got triple elite, never got the chance to do engineering as the material gathering was just too much for me, even with enough mats it was just gambling on results. i understand that it's end game thing but still it felt like taking forever just to unlock an engineer and level up to upgrade a heat sink. is it better now?
Completely agree with everything you said. It's a fair and balanced synopsis of the game. I also agree regarding the cost/value equation of ED; it's a bargain. Beyond that, dude, awesome voice-over and presentation skills. Your audio is immaculate, including the oft missed compression, voice EQ, and excellent mix which makes for very easy listening. Your projection and articulation into the mic is also topnotch, pro level. Nicely done!
DMAN that was the greatest comment I’ve read in a while, explained why I was immediately sucked in, the voice made it very easy to listen and watch through. Props!
I just wanna know one thing: it’s the console version up to date? Meaning if the console version has the space legs? That’s what holding me back from getting back to the game, since I don’t have the computer to run this game.
The console versions have been abandoned; FDev decided that it wasn't worth putting the effort in to optimise the engine after Odyssey released. "We need to be able to move forward with the story of the game" was the official line, which is baffling considering that E:D's story so far has only really been delivered via pre-rendered cutscenes, text / voice logs, and external media dumps.
One thing that must be said about Elite's story is that it is told in the most realistic and /immersive/ manner. You learn about events either by participating in them or reading about them in the news, some episodes can take months to reach their conclusions, alternatively you can ignore everything and do what you like far away from trouble... and it's the same in Elite.
I loved this game for years and would love to come back and play it…but Frontier lost me when they dropped console support for Elite. I can’t afford gaming pc prices these days, and so I can no longer play the game with any of the new story content. It really sucks.
I don't blame you, the new player experience is BRUTAL. but if its your thing, you wont find it anywhere else. try for it on sale maybe. the deluxe edition goes for like 12 usd when its on sale, easiest 12 bucks ever imo.
This just ISN'T a balanced look at elite as a game... sorry but no. The game is incredibly grindy.. there's no obvious story AT ALL, there are TONS of gamebreaking bugs, the amount of time you spend doing basically nothing and the amount of wasted time due to bugs is infuriating, and the game is so unbelievably empty only the biggest nerds will be able to get any actual gameplay out of it. It's the kind of game where if you love being a space dude and are OK with it being incredibly empty most of the time and don't really care about any real progression besides getting a new spaceship every now and then, then yeah it's for you. Otherwise, go play sth like Star Citizen or some other space game.
Well, you’ve just given an optimistic description of Star Citizen while suggesting to play it instead so not sure what your point is. Don’t get me wrong, I bounce off ED before long every time I play it because I do need more story and progression to keep me around personally, but Star Citizen has every problem you mentioned but worse.
@@RocketSurgn_ Yes I gave a positive opinion on SC and suggested playing it or something else. You said you get over elite quickly, which yes, we all do because it's empty af. SC has a huge amount of depth and the devs are showing they're doing everything they promised and much more, albeit at a snails pace. At least they're doing that. FDev have all but given up on this dinosaur of a "game" and rightly so - they're simply unable to deliver even a fraction of what was promised, hence the unhappiness of the majority of the fanbase. So yes, I suggest a game other than elite. Clear?
I have 2003 hours in that Dangerously Elite game. Ive been to Beagle Point and I've seen the center of the Galaxy. I've seen the largest star and some of the most breathtaking nebulas. I have only 4 more leaders to serve in the powerplay and have mined Void Opals, LTD, Painite, you name it, just to pay for a fleet of ships. I have won a free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital that came with a pretty cool mug from the gift shop. and i'm so close to my own carrier... and with this short video, you have shown me how little ive played this game. wow. P.S Please Frontier update the ship HUD omg... it did not age well.
ship hud i still think is pretty sick but in terms of QOL yea it could use some looking at. and to be honest, there are things out there thatll make me feel the same way, even after hundreds or even over a thousand hours somehow elite can still make me feel like im new lol, its insane.
My biggest issue was the fact they didn't tell us they were going to charge us for the features promised during early access. A paid for DLC just for the ability to land of very few planets. Then another paid for DLC that gives the feature to get out of your ship. Both of these were listed as future features coming to the game. There are many competing games that already have these features and do a better job of it. And they didn't charge me anything extra to use them. This is basically the horse armor DLC all over again. At least in the case of the horse armor, the DLC didn't cost as much as the base game.
Like I mentioned in the video the game is way cheaper now, 25 usd for the whole deal, odyssey and all. on sale its like 12 usd. Insanely good price imo. and yes there are a few really strong competitors, none of them actually pull off the simulation part, either the galaxy, or the bubble civilization thing. the sim is just too cool, and i cant really get it anywhere else ive found.
Also for those interested in Elite Dangeous: The game has a MASSIVE "go here and there and over there" collection grind to it, and you will be spending at least a month straight of hard play to get the ship you want, and then engineered to a viable state. The introduction of new features and continuing development is very slow, and often disappointing compared to the expectations set by the dev's communications and marketing. For example, it's been 10 years and you STILL can't walk around the interior of your ship. You could stop playing the game for 3 years, come back, and there will be MAYBE a new ship, or a gameplay loop that you have to pay 50% of the base game price to "enjoy". Believe me, I'm trying to stick to things that will matter to a prospective customer and leaving out the plethora of frustrations that have caused me to uninstall the game 3 times in the last decade. I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours in the game and I can confidently say the ONLY part that is worth it is the experience of flying your own ships to pretty much any world in the Milky Way Galaxy. No other game quite captures that feeling as well as E:D, but man is there a huge price to pay.
Depends how you play. Many people don't focus on getting one ship, or fully engineered modules. They just play, take materials rewards when they do missions, deploy collector limpets after destroying an enemy ship. If you decide you want a fully engineered Corvette in the first couple of weeks, that's on the player. The game doesn't force you to do it.
idk I dont think its quite all that, the grind is very annoying and a kill joy at times 100%, but considering how much game you can get without even really touching i think it is still worth it, and now that the fdev side of things is looking pretty lively, maybe itll get addressed. a few thousand hours says to me though you got some worth at least right?
The only time that "grind" is annoying, is when people want instant gratification, watch those "get rich quick" videos and burn themselves out. There is NO endgame, no goal to E:D. You do what you want, you set your own goals. It's a sandbox and you don't have to rush it. Just play at your own pace and have fun the way you like. I just can't understand the obsession with getting the "best" ship in game, fully engineered, etc... you don't need it. Must be a generational thing :P Playing the game for the sake of playing it and having fun, not being told how to play and what to do and being hand held, it seems to be a dying art.
@@scorpion29a My issue with that is the amount of people who've rather disingenuously told me that 'you make your own fun.' Which I'm absolutely okay with, except it's really difficult when it's just a big sandbox with very little to actually interact with, at least with any semblance of depth. I was hoping Odyssey would give a breath of fresh air to the game I felt it had been needing for so long, but the fake gameplay trailers they showed and the absolutely lackluster features it added only frustrated me all the more. I don't care about 'instant gratification', I'm more than happy to play the long game, I just wish the journey to get there was actually fun. Also when it comes to engineering, you say you don't need it...but let's be honest, the difference between an engineered and a ship without engineering is so vast that whilst in the strictest, most technical sense you don't need it, I think we both know the reality is that yeah...you kind of do.
@@scorpion29a My issue is that what I WANT to do is combat missions and/or easy courier trading missions. After a month of playing basically only Elite Dangerous as my game of choice, I still couldn't afford a combat ship. So I outfitted my starter ship with the best I could afford and.... yeah, I wasn't even putting a dent on the easiest of combat missions. The grind DOES exist. You can mitigate it if you enjoy playing the economy game, but I don't want to interact with the economy. At all. So progress is extremely slow.
Awesome vid!! Great that people are noticing how good Elite is, its not the usual game, its a cool environment you can play in and has the best community. Playing with people makes Elite amazing!
If you like spinning your ship around in space uncontrollably until you run out of fuel and then have to delete your save to start over then this is the game for you.
Ill say the same thing to the developers, who basically told the console players this same sentence. thanks for the memories, but pluck off on the pointy end of a dry wooden spoon carried sideways up Niagara falls on sewage appreciation week. Was great game while it lasted on console. Miss the friends i made.
I only abandoned playing this because I cant afford to get a new PC still, used to be on the Xbox side of the game, but the devs abandoned Console before the Series models were announced(?), way back when Odyssey was about to come out.
I got this game from a giveaway but i havent touched it yet. It looks intimidating, any recommendations for getting started or finding a community to join to learn from?
Avoid new player guides, they're just about how to do everything as fast as possible and kill the all fun out of it. I started after watching some new account playthrough. That really helps
Bought this game quite awhile ago and forgot about it. Just start it these 2 days. Play the the tutoroil once and then auto launch my sidewinder, absoultely my mistake, totally panic at the space. What an experience ! Just like car broke down on nobody land. Clear the scave, run tutorial 3 more times. Done around a bunch ultra low risk delivery jobs and got a bit kowning of the control and the on screen display. It is a good game.
PLaying Elite Dangerous with VR/HOTAS + HCS Voice Packs+Voice Attack is honestly the closest to flying in space you will ever get. Just a next level experience.
This is a great game. The only problem is the people running it. The updates are too grinding and its hard for new players to get into it. They threw out new game play without flushing out it so it's a shell of a game
I remember the event of Titan tirranis, i was there on hip 22460, we had two dozen ships or so in the instance dicking around until the cutscene kicked in, truly amazing. I've been playing for a little over 3 years now, and its truly a masterpiece of a game
Game is amazing. A lot of people talk about the grind but it is as grindy as you want it to be. Our crew has old and freshies and they all manage just fine. You mostly hear this from the people who have to have everything maxed out.
Two things the minds at frontier need to implement, and this is really geared to those that want to branch out to the furthest reaches of the galaxy: 1)Jump gates. With a jump gate you would be about to traverse across the galaxy not in a few hundred but thousands if not as much as ten thousand light years in one jump. But, the explorers would have to reach the star system they wanted a jump gate to be at. 2) Starports. Be able to aid in the construction of Starports throughout the galaxy. They wouldn't generally have much more function than a simple stop to refuel, trade resources, etc. It wouldn't be much different than lone gas stations dotted all over an otherwise unassuming desert. In both the Starports and jump gates, you would have to aggressively map all the planets in a system to ensure that all the necessary materials would be there to build either of the two massive structures. Once all that was established, you might have to pay a nominal fee of say 100 million to a billion credits per structure. Then deploy a medley of autonomous drones in a system that would then go about and mine and construct these structures while you go off and find other potential systems to construct in. The total actual build might take months even as much as a year of real time. But once completed, everyone in the game would be notified of the new structures and where. I would suggest that to go to a jump gate, you would have to originate from another jump gate. So if all there was was one jump gate, no one could really use it. Thoughts?
Oh jump gates would be very cool, could do some CGs to build them too. Whats funny is star port repair is a fully fledged feature. Players technically built Colonia after a failed jump to Beagle Point. The tools are already there, just no way for players to do it by themselves.
Elite's optimization is very here and there, the most intensive it will get on your system is probably a High Intensity On Foot Conflict Zone. Space is pretty light and can run well on a lot of systems, I would also try Supersampling on Normal at 1.25x as elites anti aliasing is like... either not working right or broken and makes the game look way worse than it can.
I’m a brand new player about a week in and I have to say where has this game been all my life!! Exploring the community a bit I can see how some veteran players have been wronged in the past, and may feel bitter. But as a completely fresh player I have nothing but great things to say about the game and I’ve convinced some of my other friends to play too :)
a good thing to mention would be the average player count, because it will have something to say if a player is looking for a space sim with lots of ppl to interact with, otherwise very good vid, almost made me wanna play the game again
I've spent 1000s of hours in elite, trading, exploring, mining and bounty hunting in asteroid fields. It's a great game but it's really missiing out on a much bigger player base by not including more systems like ship building/design/modularity and base building like Starfield. I look forward to Elite Dangerous 2, hopefully they'll improve and innovate based on the best of what the current space games have on offer .
So don't fall for it? Because he's doing a good job... I was always curious but never tried it. Had a lot of fun with No mans Sky though if that's an indicator?
@@tydendurler9574i think if you never played it its worth it to try. You would need at least 50hrs to fall in love with the game and its world. However for me after 600 hrs the game doesn’t feel alive anymore. My squadron closed down, there are not many people online (not that you could meet any when there were people playing it). I still love the game and have fond memories exploring the universe. I might go back to it one day, but not sure.
@@tydendurler9574 absolutely no indicator. These games are so different to eachother that it almost feels like they don't even belong to the same genre. Elite is ultra hard game for a newbie. It has it's beauty and undeniable massive potential, that is sadly being neglected by developers. And the devs very often feel like they are trying to make everything they can to discourage people not only to the game but also to themselves. If you are planning to try Elite out, be aware that it's almost a full time job, if you are even remotely serious about diving into it.
Excellent summary of this game. I've been playing since late 2022 and have over 2500 hours in it. Even taking into account that I bought it before the price drop, it's been totally worth it in my opinion.
2021 myself, although the odyssey launch basically pushed me out for a year until i finally really got into it, and im so glad i did, i cant believe i almost missed out on it.
Hi mate Thanks for the video! Can you please share and upload your keybinds settings files? I want to come back to the game and I really hate rebinding everything Thanks❤
Elite is the kind of game I want to exist and do well and for lots of people to play, but I don't really want to play. If I had a lot more time, I would, but there are just different things I want to do.
@@indigointoblack Oh, I've played it for years. And I'm sure if I ever reinstall it, I'll spend a few more hundred hours on it. And I'd LIKE to... if I had more hours in the day.
Definitely the best VR game I own. I just wish they would finish the on foot portion, but still it's incredibly immersive feeling like you're actually in a ship.
Imagine you are live at this event in VR Mode with a friend who is also in VR and you both are completelly stoned listening to Space Rock music. Would be epic! I think I must try this game out on my Meta Quest 3
something i regret not pressing on this video is how brutal the game is to new people, you will be tested lol. but if you make it through its an insane video game not yet done anywhere else as far as ive known.
@@indigointoblack There are a ton of mechanics that I need to learn for sure! Flying is a little hard coming from No Mans Sky but with practice I can see becoming an amazing pilot! Thanks again for making this video!
I want to play elite again but it just such a let down that they didnt continue with it on console. it be a while before i can get a good enough computer to run this game but maybe one day ill return
Downloading it now. I can’t imagine how good that will look on the 4090 49” super ultrawide. Installing a 2nd 34” 4k above when the arm comes tomorrow.
What would you consider to be a decent system to run Odyssey? I just happen to have a 2700X with a 3060 that has yet to get a taste of the Odyssey DLC.
VR Headset + HOTAS + Voice Attack also makes this the coolest VR experience I have played so far. I last played a couple years ago though and didn't get to check out the FPS gameplay with this setup so not sure how it translates.
@@Mike-yv9qs whaaaaaaaaaat!? That makes me sad even though I don't have a PC or headset to play it anymore. Others not being able to experience how cool this was sucks
Finally a positive ED video! I am completely new to this game and love it. I actually don't mind the grind because I love to explore all the systems and you get lots of money from exploring alone! The lore you can read in the codex about humanity's progress is cool. I also like the combat, although I am not very good at it. The game is not very beginner-friendly tho....had to watch a bunch of tutorials😅
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A few details have aged in this video a bit since this videos release, like I said its been an active year lol. So there are P2W microtransctions present now in game, and cosmetics costs more than they did. I personally wouldn't worry about them too much though, this change happened after a major price decrease and the prebuilt ships are very limited. They now let players access new ships early for a few months for a fee aswell. But everyone with Odyssey will get them for free. So if you get the 25 USD version, your gaming experience isnt really impacted in my opinion.
gosd damn part of me was like "well I've been owning the base game for years and never played it I should probs give it a try" and boom P2W bullshit
In fact , it's not pay 2 win, or people saying it is clearly either don't know the game or don't know what that mean
@@UniTopie well people like myself consider anything that is not purely cosmetic P2W, selling ships sounds P2W af
@@ogcipher4967 in pay 2 win there is 2 word : Pay and Win
By definition it could be explained as this : Paying for a content that vastly increase your chance of winning or ensure it, this being unobtainable by player that don't spend money on the game or they need a very long farming
The problem is here , yeah regular player could not get python MK2 but the ship was not invincible, not even OP it was just another medium ship such as FDL , Krait MK2 , base python... So yeah , you could buy it and getting destroyed by almost anyone , why ? Because in fact ship don't do everything, skill does , but I think there is no "Skill package"
I have been destroyed by some python MK2 like I destroyed some . The ship is good , is strong ,but it's not a "I win" button
Brand new ships that are purchased are not upgraded anywhere near good enough to be competitive in pvp, the new "pay 2 win" people talk about is purchasing a ship which is sold with combat modules but again they are not nearly good enough to be competitive in pvp but are good enough for low lvl pve
forgot to mention the monstrous grind.
Unfortunately that's one of my favorite things in video games, doing the same thing over and over might be boring to some, but for me even a slight decrease in run time in something I've done thousands of times is an achievement, efficiency at its best is rewarding,
And getting loot from getting better at the video game is a nice bonus,
That's why Monster Hunter is my favorite franchise, you can fight the same monster multiple times but learning their moves and turning the battle into a dance is just pure candy.
You're correct about the grind... but if you're into that sort of thing, it can be a beautiful and Zen thing. I haven't played in a couple of years, but one thing I used to love doing is fire the game up in VR at 2 or 3 in the morning, find an asteroid cluster, and just mine for several hours.. Me, my ship, the rocks, the void, and the shining primary off in the distance, the interplay of light and shadows keeping me company in the cold. It was a sort of vibe thing that, admittedly, isn't for everyone.
You can get $300m in like a week with a couple friends
@@ryean8212 I don't mind grind, but the grind for my pre-engineered FSD and the complexity broke me, haven't played in 6 months, and i LOVE the game...sigh
@@R0d_1984the pre Eng FSD broke you!?!
For what it's worth, the engine changes introduced into Odyssey are now part of the base game too, which means the base game does now require a slightly beefier computer than when the game first came out, which imo makes sense. That being said, some of the on foot activities of Odyssey, such as the on-foot Combat Zones, are particularly taxing in system resources.
On foot combat zones are mainly taxing on cpu and ram.
"slightly" is a hell of a understatement
i literally have a 9yr budget card, man its so over
How beefy?
@@some-replies I have a 3070 and the game can still kinda chug when running around on planet surfaces with ultra settings. Everything else though is a pretty buttery smooth 144fps. You can comfortably play this game on a Steam Deck too.
One thing I didn't see mentioned is the absence of P2W, which is another selling point of Elite over games like EVE Online and Star Citizen. If you get blown up by some ganker in a fully engineered FDL or Cutter, it's because they worked for the ships, not paid real money for them. While you can spend money for ARX, as mentioned, they only affect your ships and weapon colors.
EDIT: Of course, it happened. FDev has just announced, today, 23 of April, that you can pay to purchase the Python Mk2 three months early for real-world money. Additionally, pre-configured ships can also be bought with ARX. Modern monetization strikes again! God knows they need the money though, lol.
I did say that its purely cosmetic but yea I probably should have illustrated it clearer.
technically Odyssey is P2W because exobiology is fucking busted
I would argue that the SC PtW is not that clear cut since everything can be earned in-game and the ships you buy are no better than anyone else earned in-game.
I heard green pew pews make it better :v
then it still falls on the problems that WoW had with people spending lifetime amounts of time on the game to become very skilled/powerful to the point where they're unbeatable to the average person (the majority of players) and take another lifetime amount to even have a chance against him. Though even that, to me at least, was more bearable than knowing I was screwed because I didn't want to spend money on a "free" game.
A few points form someone who quit years ago after putting in nearly 1000 hours, also someone hoping that the updates coming later this year actually fix and rectify the boring monotony of certain game systems like Power play which was noted at the time of its original release as being lackluster and the exact thing 90% of the community explicitly said they DID NOT WANT in the form it was introduced, because I still HOPE that they get new management that actually wants to capitalize on Elite's potential rather than squandering it with cheap and practically dead on arrival updates, because then I might get my game back and feel like investing more time in it....
1. The flight model is not Newtonian, ships have capped speeds and turning off flight assist simply allows for altering orientation while maintaining current vector, the game still enforces each ships max speeds regardless.
2. Paid (premium) content is no longer simply cosmetic as Frontier have announced their intent to put paid for (premium) ships in the game, injecting a ''pay to win'' mechanic to at least some degree.
3. Frontier's blatant disregard for their player base and community, which is easily searchable as there has been much controversy around Elite.
4. Regardless of the price, you need to ask yourself (and more important in this era of gaming) has the developer actually done anything? rectified things the player base dislikes? behaved themselves as a corporate entity? Because your money IS a vote, and if Frontier are still up to their old tricks, that's what you're voting for.
5. Frontier completely altered Elite's direction. After Braben sold the game as being an ever evolving ambitious project with ever increasing scale and complexity, with ship internals, ''space legs'', boarding actions and EVA.... we got no complexity, just more grinding. We got no EVA nor ship boarding, just a paid expansion that added ''space legs'' and more monotonous on foot combat. Ship internals went from Braben talking enthusiastically and showing graybox renders of the internal spaces of ships only for a 'Community manager' to tell us they aren't doing it as there's 'no gameplay value' in it years later.
6. Yes it has a 1:1 scale of the universe, and that would be exciting... if it were in the real world were we would be able to study new planets, find new minerals and/or life etc, but there isn't, it's just fly here, scan a selection of samey looking rocks in space (again, realistic in presentation, but in real life there's far more to do than just look and scan, if you get me). Now, nobody including myself has asked for 'NMS levels of procedural generation' but what we have asked for are MORE VARIED ACTIVITIES, which we haven't got. It seems Frontier just can't understand the concept of minigames within a game that are tied to a game system.
7. The developer's insistence of 'mile wide, inch deep' game design. Back when they announced multi-crew, many of us got unnecessarily hyped. What we envisioned as the game getting something to tickle that Star Trek itch a little, one friend manning scanners, another weapons etc turned out to be yet another dead on arrival update. Fist and foremost, rewards player crews get is dependent on THEIR relevant ranks in Combat, Exploration or Trade. Secondly.... Most of the time there's literally nothing for your crew to do outside of combat. Someone can't man the scanners/science console and play minigames to 'find' specific scan results like POIs (points of interest). They are also not actually on your ship, they are 'HardLight holographic contracts' projecting from their ship to yours, which conflicts with the Odyssey DLC because if your friends are crewing your ship with you, if you land and get out in space legs for whatever reason, they can't, they are stuck in your ship and if they want to join you they'll have to fly their ship to your position.
Tbh, I can just keep listing the BS Frontier has done and how much they've destroyed their own game's potential and reputation (along with their own as a developer) but it's started to depress me a little. So much potential yet so much of it squandered by developers who's attitude is to put in as little effort as possible.
Quite the essay, I know, but relevant to get the full picture of what you'll be buying.
The video motivated me to get back and buy odyssey, the comment made me realize I'm better off avoiding this bs altogether.
@@cryonimdont listen crying
This comment sums up the situation perfectly. The game has more potential than any other game out there, but it was ruined by lazy and greedy leaders. Do NOT vote for these evil people with your money.
this comment is the actual game review
Please people do not waste time on this game. They never listened and never will listen. They keep it at minimal to squire the last money they can at same time not moving a finger. Fleet Carrier jump times for example NOT FIXED TO THIS DAY.
The titan content is truly epic, now if i could only keep my vette in the fight for more than 1 minute
Gotta mid size ship them and cold orbit them to bomb them affectively unfortunately the "vette" my fav ship in the game is 1 of the worse ships to fight a titan in.
As is the t10 and the 9 the chonda is decent because u can gib them and "F" them up pretty quick
For a game that can sometimes go on sale for less than a McDonalds visit and will give you thousands of hours of gameplay while still discovering new things, I'd say its worth it
It's actually free right now on the Epic Games store
I played elite for a good while actually years ago, had fun solo and doing some missions with friends, little bit of exploration, even came back to get my name on a couple first footfalls near nebulas when odyssey released. the thing that ultimately drove me away was that if I wanted to progress further it seemed like I would have to spend dozens of hours grinding tedious repetitive tasks to engineer modules. personally I’m not a fan of that. it was a duel in kraits with my buddy that ultimately opened my eyes to how necessary the engineering grind was; I could match him shot for shot and even outfly him occasionally and I’d just get shredded because he had upgraded guns and shields. never really played much after that.
This is why I quit in like 2017 too. I exclusively PVP'd and then all of the upgrade stuff came out and I had to grind another 100+ hours just to get a single ship up to spec to play how I wanted to play again. Nope. Not doing that. I was sick of the grind already and was not about to go back to PvE just to play PvP.
Time Investment that actually matters and pays off, well damn.
@@tydendurler9574 It's actually been an issue in gaming for a long time. Is your game about actual player skill, like counter strike, or is it an artificial form of progression like in Dungeons and Dragons?
Both are valid, but being disappointed that a person's superior flight combat isn't more of a factor would understandably be a turnoff to a typical flight sim player. I can understand why they may have designed it this way, but it has it's drawbacks.
Similar to the way travel works here or in a game like EVE online, it's slow for a reason and that is balance.
@@Dante3214 yeah, whatever.
The game is an MMO. Period.
How silly would it be to grind 100hours only to beaten by someone who plays the game for 5 hours?!?
It's just that skill shouldn't be pointless.
AND it's just like real life. The guy who worked 20 years for a Ferrari will beat you in your Honda, no matter how good you drive. No complains there.
The engineering grind is the worst thing they ever did to the game. It is completely braindead, the gameplay behind it is non-existent. Imagine you're leveling in WoW - but instead of venturing through Azeroth, killing ever stronger enemies, delving into dungeons, and completing various quests, you grind level 1 hogs for 200 hours. Like in that one South Park episode. It's the most important, most impactful part of the game and it's designed so badly that the people responsible for it deserve jail time.
The people who try to defend this with their utterly nonsensical, fallacious arguments are completely delusional. I don't care about your "sunk cost" driven self-defense reflex.
When I was a kid I got depressed when I realized I'd never be able to jump in a space ship and explore the galaxy. Elite Dangerous is really the only space game that has *truly* made me feel like I was living that fantasy.
Never forget when I first learned about automatic stabilization, between switching it it off and on in mid combat really gave me an immersive experiences. Performing maneuvers that place you out of enemy weapon range and you unleashing a barrage of weaponry. Or that one time pirates attack, leaving me for dead space! Bought my ship HP down to 1%, cockpit canopy broken. I thought I was stuck, then my buddy told me to turn off the ship and turn it back on. Did that and got home safely on one freaking percent!
Great video good to see positive ones about elite. Its a special game that shaped alot of the industry. Elite needs to survive
Elite needs to be BETTER. We've been promised, and let down, repeatedly for a decade. There's SO MUCH POTENTIAL, but the devs refuse to capitalize on it. Elite needs to evolve.
They need to stop ruining it then with crap like Odyssey and pandering to investors. Start listening to players, stop being greedy and ignorant and include VR !
@@murdurmuffin7872 in contrast to many other games out there, Elite has evolved - a lot. Only the core elements of the 2014 game are still present in the latest 2024 version after 18 large updates. And there are more large updates to come. That can not be said about many 10-year old games still on the market. At the asking price of now $25 Elite with Odyssey is an absolute steal.
Shaped the industry? in what way? as far as I can't tell, nobody gives a shit about it.
Elite in 1984 was special.
Haven't played in 2 years but i remember the day the first Hyperdiction happened and i was logged in every night all night. It was so exciting all the things happening.
Elite is a great game “for players who haven’t been negatively impacted by various Frontier decisions” and/or are happy to ignore them and move on because it doesn’t effect them or they simply don’t care. Personally I think Elite has a good 200hrs gameplay in there for most people but it could be so much more and it is to a core group who basically fall under the 1st sentance…
I think that ultimately the hate this game receives is overblown. Skyrim is not a perfect game and is still to this day broken even though it’s been released like 10 times. But people still love Skyrim. Star Citizen has over half a billion in funding now, and the bots still don’t work. As for the past, I wasn’t there for a lot of it, but for the now… Elite is 25 bucks, comes with mountains and mountains of content that is finished and functional, the opinions on the content vary. Regardless, beyond worth it imo, and that opinion will never change. It was worth it to me full price, but now… even more so.
@@indigointoblack Comes with tons of functions that were finished, but they gave up on the Xbox community a bit before the Series models were announced, Odyssey never came to Xbox, despite their promises.
well you say that @@indigointoblack but imagine for 1min Frontier decide to drop support for something that effects you say joystick and hotas controls you'd be pretty pissed then I bet...
@@bigbangerz5856he would, as would I. But that is a strategic decision on Frontiers part. It's not personal, you're allowed to be pissed, but that doesn't invalidate other peoples love for the game.
I literally said that in the OP@@ImBarryScottCSS
I'm just going to say " This is my all-time favourite game ever" I've been playing nearly every day since kickstarter back in 2012, if your even slightly intrested in space flight, give it a go!
What do you do in-game?
@@drewd4491 Mainly I'm a trader/Hauler but I also take part in the political side of the game running misions for my chosen faction, but if you are asking as someone who has not played before there are many differnt things to do in the game, Piracy, exploring, bounty hunting, fighting aliens, discovering strange plant life on planets and moons, there are 400,000,000,000. systems to exlplore.
@@drewd4491fly space ships
@@drewd4491 you can do many many things in game. mine asteroids, move cargo, fight, explore, and more
@@drewd4491You can choose from many different careers so the game can be different depending on what you do. I tend to spend my time trading, mining and exploring. Just make sure you have a fuel scoop if you explore far from civilization. It is no fun if you get stranded far from anywhere with no fuel nearby.
“elite dangerous 2024, is it worth it?”
ALL console players: “absolutely not”
Ah yes I remember buying this, getting invested in the game, to then be told months later they wouldn't be supporting it
you must be an xbox player
i love Elite and use to play it on something that you glossed over the console side but when they stuffed us by saying that elite would get no more major updates i stopped playing, on console you can not affect the BGS anymore and that upset a lot of the fanbase
Great intro/summary 👍 10k hours + and counting in game.
As Yoda would say ''Life, you have not.'' that's like someone saying they have 10000 hours in Call of Duty, like, bro, reassess your life choices, seriously.
@@psyanidemcpsy6501 thanks.....what a nice community this game has 😏
been playing since 2015 ish and remember both my kids' names so it's all good.
My job is pretty stressful and chilling in Elite has been a great counter to the hurly-burly over the last 9 years...
@@psyanidemcpsy6501why be a cunt?
Man, I used to play Elite Dangerous at release in VR with the Saitek X52 sticks and a CV1, and it was AN EXPERIENCE!
At about 7:40, are you telling me I could single handedly change the fate of a small system? Additionally, if I provided enough to a system, would it get it's own orbital station? The last question, for myself, is if it were worth effort....
i know im 8 months late, but you wont get a NEW orbital station but whichever faction you support WOULD take ownership of said station. ALSO if you are apart of a decent sized squadron and effectively take over your chosen home system you can petition to the devs and have your squadron added to the game as a faction in the system
the only thing personal that upset me about Odyssey DLC was lack of VR this game is amazing to play in VR and i would have loved to have Done That In Odssey As Well
If odyssey was fully VR supported it I would be absolutely insane
My favorite memory of the game is realizing that you get credit for discovering planets that no other player has discovered before. And since there are so many, it’s not a tall order to find them. You can return to civilization once you have your log of mapped planets and you get paid for each one. Extra money for “earth-like” planets that have never been before found. I went on a 200-system out hop and came home a multimillionaire, just for mapping planets
The Taranis moment we had last week was truly epic. I have never seen anything like it in a game.
Ah... Elite... Honestly, it's a love / hate relationship. Elite is so freaking great at so many things, doing so many things right, but then falls short in almost all of those areas. A huge major issue with it is that everything just takes freaking ages, both in regards to gameplay with even simple things as travel (such as just getting away from a planet, or super cruise longer distances, or making a bunch of jumps for usually no reason whatsoever due to how generic almost every system is), and to the development itself, which just snails along without adding anything meaningful, or even just address the things it half assedly delivers.
Take space legs for example... In essence there's a lot of cool stuff here and it is something that people wanted ever since its release (or even before when we talk about the dev diaries during the kickstarter). But one pet peeve isn't just the fact that we still have no accessible ship interiors to this date (years after its release), but the fact that they never even addressed the horrendous FPS combat mechanics to this day. Another example would be the mentioned Powerplay (another half assed feature that got added a long long time ago) overhaul, which we talked about with Sandro Samarco on stream almost A DECADE AGO!
Elite is always like 2 steps away from greatness, and Frontier does seem to be hell bent to keep it that way.
please for the love of God bring VR for on-foot, that's the only thing holding me to return to elite. Once you play it in VR, you can NEVER return to flat monitor
100% When Odyssey came out with no VR I played for a little bit. But then it became clear that VR wasn't going to happen. I haven't played since.
@@Dummyplugg Same reason I haven't pulled the plugg and bought it
@@Billkwando the sim game that left simmers behind. .
Its never enough for you , you asked to be able to walk around, now VR, what is next after VR? How many players will use VR? How much it takes to make it work?
@@skowv9903 Are you nuts?
"Elite Dangerous is a groundbreaking title for virtual reality gaming, because its one of the first major titles to offer full VR support with an exceptionally immersive experience in an all-encompassing universe. It was the go to game for many VR headset demos before the devices were commercially available. From a technical standpoint, Elite Dangerous is one of the PC’s most high-end VR titles, pushing even very powerful PCs to their limit. Elite Dangerous is designed from the ground up to support Virtual Reality and 4K Ultra HD display technology. It has Cutting-edge visual quality and performance enabled by Frontier's COBRA engine. It supports the latest displays at 4K resolution, and is built for the future with full 8K and 16K support. It's compatible with Oculus Rift, SteamVR and Vive headsets.[1]"
We had VR looooong before Odyssey. The whole game was natively VR, so why in the world _wouldn't_ we expect it to continue to be?
On top of that FDev intentionally mislead the VR crowd by saying that VR for Odyssey wouldn't be available _at launch_ , the natural assumption being that it was going to be added _after_ launch. They let folks believe that, tons of folks bought it, only to have the rug snatched out from under them when later FDev was basically like "Haha just kidding!".
What's the VR controls like with motion controllers? Is there any support? I've been considering getting into it but i can't find any good answers on that. I have a Quest 2.
You’d be better served with a HOSAS like the VKB NXT Gladiators. Theres no touch controller support.
I just use an xbox controller and it works great, there are no motion controls and it would likely not work very well if there where any.
Odyssey doesn't even have VR.
ED is still truely an epic game even after 10 years, its the game to have in VR and VR is becoming stronger by the months. Would love to see Odyssey work in VR rather than a grey box flat screen, more variations of stations, it has lost players but i'd expect if a few tweeks here and there were made and some extra level of love then the player base will pick up again.
yeh kinda sad it is such a great vr experience, a shame they didn't make odyssey for it.. stopped playing because of it.
I reinstalled it earlier this year, but the stars looked blurry. Did the graphics get worse?
head to graphics, set your upscaling to normal, and supersampling to 1.25x or higher if you can
Ok let me add bc I felt silly bc I started with nitpicking: Indigo this video is a must seen for people who are interested in ED. Thank you for making this. I love how the story of ED is the history what we live through. With a lot of immersive events, news segments...
Have they added VR support for the expansions? I stopped playing when one of the expansions came out with no VR support.
Fun video, but the ships are not using newtonian physics. Each ship has it's own speed limit. If it was newtonian, one could boost over and over and just keep going faster and faster.
@k.s.7919 I can explain how carpet works in a vacuum.
The one thing had prevented me from playing this game still in 2024 is a mouse useable UI within the ship. Why can't we have a simple toggle button to toggle a mouse pointer on / off for use with the ship menus? I hate navigating the menus with the keyboard. So unintuitive when the same controls are used to fly the ship.
This game would rule over all other space games if it had some more interesting planets and ship interiors.
Love this video - have already shared it several times because I have not found another vid like this, explaning what I like the most about Elite: Dangerous (ODY)
Me and my friends played ED for years, were it prior to THAT news. I'd recommend this game to everyone. But after abandoning their entire console playerbase after promising us Odyssey and then not giving it, i can't recommend it to any console players. PC, yeah. But if you are on console, we were completely abandoned, don't even get events anymore. Went from being my favourite game to a massive disappointment.
I picked it up on Xbox around four years ago. The controls were very overwhelming. Is there a guide you can recommend for playing on controller or is it just not worth? I just don’t have the kind of money to build out a crazy pc to run this and I might not like it
I wholeheartedly agree. I started with Elite in 2017 on the PS4 and moved to PC Odyssey about a year or so ago. 2500+ hours combined and I still find reasons to play every week.
Give me some reasons
Honestly, the player community is the best reason. I’ve been involved in Squadron play since 2020 with a very active in-game squadron and it’s 100% the reason I keep coming back.
@@JosephLinares But, what have to do with all of it? Just drive a spaceship?
I mostly focus on bounty hunting wanted ships and trading for profit in furtherance of my squadron’s goals set out by the leadership.
But you can play any way you want. Explorer. Pirate, power player, miner. Best is to try a little of everything and then focus on what you like best.
@@EuOctane you have NO IDEA
i stopped playing around 2018 when i got triple elite, never got the chance to do engineering as the material gathering was just too much for me, even with enough mats it was just gambling on results. i understand that it's end game thing but still it felt like taking forever just to unlock an engineer and level up to upgrade a heat sink. is it better now?
I heard they fixed engineering.
Completely agree with everything you said. It's a fair and balanced synopsis of the game. I also agree regarding the cost/value equation of ED; it's a bargain.
Beyond that, dude, awesome voice-over and presentation skills. Your audio is immaculate, including the oft missed compression, voice EQ, and excellent mix which makes for very easy listening. Your projection and articulation into the mic is also topnotch, pro level. Nicely done!
Thank you! o7
DMAN that was the greatest comment I’ve read in a while, explained why I was immediately sucked in, the voice made it very easy to listen and watch through. Props!
I just wanna know one thing: it’s the console version up to date? Meaning if the console version has the space legs? That’s what holding me back from getting back to the game, since I don’t have the computer to run this game.
The console versions have been abandoned; FDev decided that it wasn't worth putting the effort in to optimise the engine after Odyssey released.
"We need to be able to move forward with the story of the game" was the official line, which is baffling considering that E:D's story so far has only really been delivered via pre-rendered cutscenes, text / voice logs, and external media dumps.
@@tehPete. ☹️ Ground control to Mayor Tom…
One thing that must be said about Elite's story is that it is told in the most realistic and /immersive/ manner. You learn about events either by participating in them or reading about them in the news, some episodes can take months to reach their conclusions, alternatively you can ignore everything and do what you like far away from trouble... and it's the same in Elite.
I'm very much liking the change to the narration of your videos. I think you nailed it in this one. GG
Imma comment my own comment... I think this might be one of your best videos yet. totally loving the mix of narration and in-game footage!
I really hate that I can’t play odyssey on console
I loved this game for years and would love to come back and play it…but Frontier lost me when they dropped console support for Elite. I can’t afford gaming pc prices these days, and so I can no longer play the game with any of the new story content. It really sucks.
Can buy a pc for a bargain also
@ not spending hundreds of dollars more to play a single game in less comfort. I’ve got bills to pay and shit to do.
They dropped console support so I haven't played it in a while
That really pissed me off as I was the type who gladly supported them with my wallet through multiple cash-shop purchases.
I want to get into this game. But like most massive sandbox games like this, I have no idea what to do.
I don't blame you, the new player experience is BRUTAL. but if its your thing, you wont find it anywhere else. try for it on sale maybe. the deluxe edition goes for like 12 usd when its on sale, easiest 12 bucks ever imo.
Subbed for positive ED content
As long as its not pvp, right?
whenever I see someone use "ED" as an acronym for elite dangerous I need to remind myself what they meant.
@@Sir-Complains-a-Lot Still looking for a friend, eh?
playing this game in VR with flight control sticks is absolutely insane 10/10
This just ISN'T a balanced look at elite as a game... sorry but no. The game is incredibly grindy.. there's no obvious story AT ALL, there are TONS of gamebreaking bugs, the amount of time you spend doing basically nothing and the amount of wasted time due to bugs is infuriating, and the game is so unbelievably empty only the biggest nerds will be able to get any actual gameplay out of it. It's the kind of game where if you love being a space dude and are OK with it being incredibly empty most of the time and don't really care about any real progression besides getting a new spaceship every now and then, then yeah it's for you. Otherwise, go play sth like Star Citizen or some other space game.
Thank you for this comment
wow he said there is no story :/ 😅😐🥱 guess what there is no story
@@BenyParty yes I know that...
Well, you’ve just given an optimistic description of Star Citizen while suggesting to play it instead so not sure what your point is. Don’t get me wrong, I bounce off ED before long every time I play it because I do need more story and progression to keep me around personally, but Star Citizen has every problem you mentioned but worse.
@@RocketSurgn_ Yes I gave a positive opinion on SC and suggested playing it or something else. You said you get over elite quickly, which yes, we all do because it's empty af. SC has a huge amount of depth and the devs are showing they're doing everything they promised and much more, albeit at a snails pace. At least they're doing that. FDev have all but given up on this dinosaur of a "game" and rightly so - they're simply unable to deliver even a fraction of what was promised, hence the unhappiness of the majority of the fanbase. So yes, I suggest a game other than elite. Clear?
I have 2003 hours in that Dangerously Elite game. Ive been to Beagle Point and I've seen the center of the Galaxy. I've seen the largest star and some of the most breathtaking nebulas. I have only 4 more leaders to serve in the powerplay and have mined Void Opals, LTD, Painite, you name it, just to pay for a fleet of ships. I have won a free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital that came with a pretty cool mug from the gift shop. and i'm so close to my own carrier... and with this short video, you have shown me how little ive played this game. wow.
P.S Please Frontier update the ship HUD omg... it did not age well.
ship hud i still think is pretty sick but in terms of QOL yea it could use some looking at. and to be honest, there are things out there thatll make me feel the same way, even after hundreds or even over a thousand hours somehow elite can still make me feel like im new lol, its insane.
Used to play on console and loved it. Never will forgive them for shutting down further support…
My biggest issue was the fact they didn't tell us they were going to charge us for the features promised during early access. A paid for DLC just for the ability to land of very few planets. Then another paid for DLC that gives the feature to get out of your ship. Both of these were listed as future features coming to the game.
There are many competing games that already have these features and do a better job of it. And they didn't charge me anything extra to use them. This is basically the horse armor DLC all over again. At least in the case of the horse armor, the DLC didn't cost as much as the base game.
Like I mentioned in the video the game is way cheaper now, 25 usd for the whole deal, odyssey and all. on sale its like 12 usd. Insanely good price imo. and yes there are a few really strong competitors, none of them actually pull off the simulation part, either the galaxy, or the bubble civilization thing. the sim is just too cool, and i cant really get it anywhere else ive found.
Also for those interested in Elite Dangeous:
The game has a MASSIVE "go here and there and over there" collection grind to it, and you will be spending at least a month straight of hard play to get the ship you want, and then engineered to a viable state. The introduction of new features and continuing development is very slow, and often disappointing compared to the expectations set by the dev's communications and marketing. For example, it's been 10 years and you STILL can't walk around the interior of your ship. You could stop playing the game for 3 years, come back, and there will be MAYBE a new ship, or a gameplay loop that you have to pay 50% of the base game price to "enjoy".
Believe me, I'm trying to stick to things that will matter to a prospective customer and leaving out the plethora of frustrations that have caused me to uninstall the game 3 times in the last decade. I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours in the game and I can confidently say the ONLY part that is worth it is the experience of flying your own ships to pretty much any world in the Milky Way Galaxy. No other game quite captures that feeling as well as E:D, but man is there a huge price to pay.
Depends how you play. Many people don't focus on getting one ship, or fully engineered modules. They just play, take materials rewards when they do missions, deploy collector limpets after destroying an enemy ship.
If you decide you want a fully engineered Corvette in the first couple of weeks, that's on the player. The game doesn't force you to do it.
idk I dont think its quite all that, the grind is very annoying and a kill joy at times 100%, but considering how much game you can get without even really touching i think it is still worth it, and now that the fdev side of things is looking pretty lively, maybe itll get addressed. a few thousand hours says to me though you got some worth at least right?
The only time that "grind" is annoying, is when people want instant gratification, watch those "get rich quick" videos and burn themselves out. There is NO endgame, no goal to E:D. You do what you want, you set your own goals. It's a sandbox and you don't have to rush it. Just play at your own pace and have fun the way you like. I just can't understand the obsession with getting the "best" ship in game, fully engineered, etc... you don't need it. Must be a generational thing :P Playing the game for the sake of playing it and having fun, not being told how to play and what to do and being hand held, it seems to be a dying art.
@@scorpion29a My issue with that is the amount of people who've rather disingenuously told me that 'you make your own fun.' Which I'm absolutely okay with, except it's really difficult when it's just a big sandbox with very little to actually interact with, at least with any semblance of depth. I was hoping Odyssey would give a breath of fresh air to the game I felt it had been needing for so long, but the fake gameplay trailers they showed and the absolutely lackluster features it added only frustrated me all the more. I don't care about 'instant gratification', I'm more than happy to play the long game, I just wish the journey to get there was actually fun.
Also when it comes to engineering, you say you don't need it...but let's be honest, the difference between an engineered and a ship without engineering is so vast that whilst in the strictest, most technical sense you don't need it, I think we both know the reality is that yeah...you kind of do.
@@scorpion29a My issue is that what I WANT to do is combat missions and/or easy courier trading missions. After a month of playing basically only Elite Dangerous as my game of choice, I still couldn't afford a combat ship. So I outfitted my starter ship with the best I could afford and.... yeah, I wasn't even putting a dent on the easiest of combat missions. The grind DOES exist. You can mitigate it if you enjoy playing the economy game, but I don't want to interact with the economy. At all. So progress is extremely slow.
Awesome vid!! Great that people are noticing how good Elite is, its not the usual game, its a cool environment you can play in and has the best community. Playing with people makes Elite amazing!
If you like spinning your ship around in space uncontrollably until you run out of fuel and then have to delete your save to start over then this is the game for you.
Ill say the same thing to the developers, who basically told the console players this same sentence.
thanks for the memories, but pluck off on the pointy end of a dry wooden spoon carried sideways up Niagara falls on sewage appreciation week.
Was great game while it lasted on console.
Miss the friends i made.
I only abandoned playing this because I cant afford to get a new PC still, used to be on the Xbox side of the game, but the devs abandoned Console before the Series models were announced(?), way back when Odyssey was about to come out.
I got this game from a giveaway but i havent touched it yet. It looks intimidating, any recommendations for getting started or finding a community to join to learn from?
Avoid new player guides, they're just about how to do everything as fast as possible and kill the all fun out of it.
I started after watching some new account playthrough. That really helps
play the tutorials, and just play the game and enjoy it.
Bought this game quite awhile ago and forgot about it. Just start it these 2 days. Play the the tutoroil once and then auto launch my sidewinder, absoultely my mistake, totally panic at the space. What an experience ! Just like car broke down on nobody land. Clear the scave, run tutorial 3 more times. Done around a bunch ultra low risk delivery jobs and got a bit kowning of the control and the on screen display. It is a good game.
Thank you for the video Indigo ! It's nice to see something nice about ED after all this time of toxicity. Have a good one my friend ! ~Mu
PLaying Elite Dangerous with VR/HOTAS + HCS Voice Packs+Voice Attack is honestly the closest to flying in space you will ever get. Just a next level experience.
5 hour set up to wait in quantum travel
I'm still waiting to come back... when space legs make it in.
This is a great game. The only problem is the people running it. The updates are too grinding and its hard for new players to get into it. They threw out new game play without flushing out it so it's a shell of a game
I remember the event of Titan tirranis, i was there on hip 22460, we had two dozen ships or so in the instance dicking around until the cutscene kicked in, truly amazing. I've been playing for a little over 3 years now, and its truly a masterpiece of a game
Lets thank our lucky stars FRONTIER doesn't fall under the SONY banner, otherwise it would be Adios Amigos
Game is amazing. A lot of people talk about the grind but it is as grindy as you want it to be. Our crew has old and freshies and they all manage just fine. You mostly hear this from the people who have to have everything maxed out.
Was great until they abandoned console release
Two things the minds at frontier need to implement, and this is really geared to those that want to branch out to the furthest reaches of the galaxy:
1)Jump gates. With a jump gate you would be about to traverse across the galaxy not in a few hundred but thousands if not as much as ten thousand light years in one jump. But, the explorers would have to reach the star system they wanted a jump gate to be at.
2) Starports. Be able to aid in the construction of Starports throughout the galaxy. They wouldn't generally have much more function than a simple stop to refuel, trade resources, etc. It wouldn't be much different than lone gas stations dotted all over an otherwise unassuming desert.
In both the Starports and jump gates, you would have to aggressively map all the planets in a system to ensure that all the necessary materials would be there to build either of the two massive structures. Once all that was established, you might have to pay a nominal fee of say 100 million to a billion credits per structure. Then deploy a medley of autonomous drones in a system that would then go about and mine and construct these structures while you go off and find other potential systems to construct in. The total actual build might take months even as much as a year of real time. But once completed, everyone in the game would be notified of the new structures and where.
I would suggest that to go to a jump gate, you would have to originate from another jump gate. So if all there was was one jump gate, no one could really use it.
Thoughts?
Oh jump gates would be very cool, could do some CGs to build them too. Whats funny is star port repair is a fully fledged feature. Players technically built Colonia after a failed jump to Beagle Point. The tools are already there, just no way for players to do it by themselves.
I feel like you deserve much more subs than you have. You have great voice and pacing, pleasure to watch!
How powerful of a pc should i have? The specs on steam seem minimal. I want to try but not confident in my 5 year old gaming laptop
Elite's optimization is very here and there, the most intensive it will get on your system is probably a High Intensity On Foot Conflict Zone. Space is pretty light and can run well on a lot of systems, I would also try Supersampling on Normal at 1.25x as elites anti aliasing is like... either not working right or broken and makes the game look way worse than it can.
I’m a brand new player about a week in and I have to say where has this game been all my life!! Exploring the community a bit I can see how some veteran players have been wronged in the past, and may feel bitter. But as a completely fresh player I have nothing but great things to say about the game and I’ve convinced some of my other friends to play too :)
a good thing to mention would be the average player count, because it will have something to say if a player is looking for a space sim with lots of ppl to interact with, otherwise very good vid, almost made me wanna play the game again
"Its been years since Odessey launched" And still no fucking ship interiors. Fucking destroys the immersion.
From the tone of your comment I'd hazard a guess that your attitude is the problem.
@GETMEASTRAITJACKET your mom taking a hot load is the problem.
Which outfit pack is that helmet in?
Just bought my third account, why would I do thant if the game was bad? :)
Because you're weird. Why tf would you buy 3 accounts? Just play on 1.
@@spankyjeffro5320 I have five accounts and I have fleet carriers on four of them. Various reasons.
Can you own a huge carrier and land and park your ships on it like nms?
I've spent 1000s of hours in elite, trading, exploring, mining and bounty hunting in asteroid fields.
It's a great game but it's really missiing out on a much bigger player base by not including more systems like ship building/design/modularity and base building like Starfield.
I look forward to Elite Dangerous 2, hopefully they'll improve and innovate based on the best of what the current space games have on offer .
One of the best space games I’ve ever played.
Feels like a dev account trying to market the game
Hah, I wouldn't be surprised tbh.
So don't fall for it? Because he's doing a good job...
I was always curious but never tried it. Had a lot of fun with No mans Sky though if that's an indicator?
@@tydendurler9574i think if you never played it its worth it to try. You would need at least 50hrs to fall in love with the game and its world.
However for me after 600 hrs the game doesn’t feel alive anymore. My squadron closed down, there are not many people online (not that you could meet any when there were people playing it). I still love the game and have fond memories exploring the universe. I might go back to it one day, but not sure.
@@tydendurler9574 absolutely no indicator. These games are so different to eachother that it almost feels like they don't even belong to the same genre. Elite is ultra hard game for a newbie. It has it's beauty and undeniable massive potential, that is sadly being neglected by developers. And the devs very often feel like they are trying to make everything they can to discourage people not only to the game but also to themselves. If you are planning to try Elite out, be aware that it's almost a full time job, if you are even remotely serious about diving into it.
Great video, excited to start my Elite Dangerous journey very soon
Excellent summary of this game. I've been playing since late 2022 and have over 2500 hours in it. Even taking into account that I bought it before the price drop, it's been totally worth it in my opinion.
2021 myself, although the odyssey launch basically pushed me out for a year until i finally really got into it, and im so glad i did, i cant believe i almost missed out on it.
Hi mate
Thanks for the video!
Can you please share and upload your keybinds settings files?
I want to come back to the game and I really hate rebinding everything
Thanks❤
Elite is the kind of game I want to exist and do well and for lots of people to play, but I don't really want to play. If I had a lot more time, I would, but there are just different things I want to do.
Ay fair is fair, that new price isn’t going anywhere I assume, so if you change your mind the elite community is ready with open arms.
@@indigointoblack Oh, I've played it for years. And I'm sure if I ever reinstall it, I'll spend a few more hundred hours on it. And I'd LIKE to... if I had more hours in the day.
That makes no sense. You're an adult, make time to game. Why come on a video of a game you don't want to play, just don't play it and stay silent.
@@spankyjeffro5320 No.
Definitely the best VR game I own. I just wish they would finish the on foot portion, but still it's incredibly immersive feeling like you're actually in a ship.
This lives up to its reputation of being complex to the point of hostility towards new players
yea…
Imagine you are live at this event in VR Mode with a friend who is also in VR and you both are completelly stoned listening to Space Rock music.
Would be epic! I think I must try this game out on my Meta Quest 3
Not if you’re a console player, cause FDev screwed us all over
Just starting with this amazing experience.thx Great video new subscriptot❤
L take. Do not recommend channel
Excellent video!
Stop trying to resurect a dead game.
I've Owned ED and Odyssey for years now and have never played it. Your video has me downloading it now and jumping in. Thank you! c:
something i regret not pressing on this video is how brutal the game is to new people, you will be tested lol. but if you make it through its an insane video game not yet done anywhere else as far as ive known.
@@indigointoblack There are a ton of mechanics that I need to learn for sure! Flying is a little hard coming from No Mans Sky but with practice I can see becoming an amazing pilot! Thanks again for making this video!
just play star citizen
This game isn't a glorified tech demo though
How? Are the servers stable yet?
@@kiddz06969 yes
I want to play elite again but it just such a let down that they didnt continue with it on console. it be a while before i can get a good enough computer to run this game but maybe one day ill return
I bought this game for $5 over a year ago, played it for 10 minutes, and haven't jumped back into the game since.
6:00 sold me. Nice job
Downloading it now. I can’t imagine how good that will look on the 4090 49” super ultrawide. Installing a 2nd 34” 4k above when the arm comes tomorrow.
What would you consider to be a decent system to run Odyssey? I just happen to have a 2700X with a 3060 that has yet to get a taste of the Odyssey DLC.
VR Headset + HOTAS + Voice Attack also makes this the coolest VR experience I have played so far. I last played a couple years ago though and didn't get to check out the FPS gameplay with this setup so not sure how it translates.
VR is no longer supported
@@Mike-yv9qs whaaaaaaaaaat!? That makes me sad even though I don't have a PC or headset to play it anymore. Others not being able to experience how cool this was sucks
@@CH-hp6ow You can still use it, but it's unsupported now, so any VR issues/bugs may not get resolved.
Finally a positive ED video! I am completely new to this game and love it. I actually don't mind the grind because I love to explore all the systems and you get lots of money from exploring alone! The lore you can read in the codex about humanity's progress is cool. I also like the combat, although I am not very good at it.
The game is not very beginner-friendly tho....had to watch a bunch of tutorials😅
100% agreed with everything in the video I am starting to come back to elite myself after taking a break and cant wait for the new content to come