Elite Dangerous - Yay or Nay?

[Silly Germans]

Elite Dangerous is the next free game on Epic Store, it will be available for free from 19-26 November 2020. I guess i'll give it a try if ever decide to actually install any of the free games that i grab every week ...

 

[Perkel]

Horizons i think now is included with base game as well.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

every day i'm tempted to come back to the game. every time i'm too scared of messing up controls, accidentally firing nearby a station or slightly scratching the paint off a wall by bumping or delaying the landing procedure a second too long, thus provoking the police, being shot to death and lose weeks worth of effort.
best nigga simulator ever.

 

[Stokowski]

As in real life, get rich enough and all those fines and loses become barely noticeable.

 

[Fedora Master]

As in real life, get rich enough and all those fines and loses become barely noticeable.

Unlike real life, it only takes a few hours, too.

Also there's always the docking computer.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i tried the docking computer twice.
the first time, it went through another ship, triggering fines and police everywhere.
the second time got stuck, triggering the "you're taking too long so we'll shred you to bits" fine and police everywhere.
back when i owned a pretty disposable ship, can't remember which one. now that i own an asp explorer i'm not willing to try again. but still, i wish i'd remember how to activate a docking computer.

 

[Fedora Master]

I think the advanced one will just teleport you into the station now, if I recall correctly?
The docking procedure is just another miniscule waste of the players time added to the pile of tiny time wasting mechanics anyway, unless you're smuggling.

 

[DraQ]

Also, this thread's titular question can finally be answered:

[ ] Yay
[ ] Nay
[x] Gay.

 

[Fedora Master]

Imagine paying real life money for a skin you don't even see 90% of the time.

 

[Kev Inkline]

if ever decide to actually install any of the free games that i grab every week ...

I do the same, but it's just locker room talk.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

I think the advanced one will just teleport you into the station now, if I recall correctly?
The docking procedure is just another miniscule waste of the players time added to the pile of tiny time wasting mechanics anyway, unless you're smuggling.

i wouldn't know, i haven't played for two years now. i bought the expansion the first time it went on offer but never managed to try it because of the reasons i explained.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Elite Dangerous will be free on Epic this week. Are freeloaders going to ruin the game?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

how? it's a single player game.

 

[DraQ]

Elite Dangerous will be free on Epic this week. Are freeloaders going to ruin the game?

No.

Spoiler

Frontier already did.

 

[samuraigaiden]

how? it's a single player game.

There's a big multiplayer component too, no?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

that's what (((they))) want you to believe.

 

[Mortmal]

how? it's a single player game.

There's a big multiplayer component too, no?

The only player interaction is meaningless pvp and burning ships and insurance money, really no reasons, no consequences. Nothing you will do will ever affect the universe ever, add a million players and nothing will change still.Maybe with a bit of luck some system npc ownership swap and trade good price change. I highly advise you to not go online if its your first try, you are just going to be ganked at start.

 

[Hellion]

It's free on Epic now, but people can't run it yet because apparently Frontier (or Epic, or both) forgot to update the game's launcher in order to allow linking your Epic account to a Frontier account.

Frontier seems to have uploaded a patch that fixes this, but it hasn't been uploaded to Epic's servers yet.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I got it off Epic for free about 3 days ago and didn't seem to have any issues linking my Epic account with one I created on Frontier. Perhaps I got in just after the patch? Seems worth it for free, especially with the Horizons expansion now part of the base game, though I haven't really played any of it yet. It will probably sit in my launchbox unlaunched until the day i die but I just can't turn down a freebie. I have only a few minutes experience with any of the elite games, first trying it on my c64 many years ago but not really getting into it. I played Space Rogue for C64 around the same time and it was at least much more colorful and elaborate than the C64 version of Elite so I played it longer. I spent a few minutes with the sequels in various emulators and still it never grabbed me. Maybe I have a fear of getting hooked ever since i saw some guy on youtube playing an Elite game looking like the late Tiny Tim's shrunken, emaciated little brother actually crying while playing the game because he was so moved by the graphics and the vastness and beauty of space. Maybe there's a mental block there and I'm afraid of turning into that so I can't enjoy the games.

 

[Kao]

I highly advise you to not go online if its your first try, you are just going to be ganked at start.

New players start off in their own little cordoned off playpen region of the galaxy now. Anyone above starting rank can’t enter. So yeah you might still be ganked, but it’s a lot less likely than before, and it’s gonna be by other new accounts if it happens at all.

 

[J_C]

Or just don't play in the Open Play mode, because then you share the universe with other players. Play just Solo mode. There you are alone, but the universe still updates according the user actions.

 

[Fedora Master]

The chances of getting ganked in open - or even just meeting other players - are virtually zero unless you fart around a system that's hosting a community goal.

 

[Fishy]

The chances of getting ganked in open - or even just meeting other players - are virtually zero unless you fart around a system that's hosting a community goal.

Or you're heading to a popular engineer location. Deciat is a ganking hotspot.

 

[dbx]

Are Engineers still super grindy?
I stopped playing a year ago because of the retardedly uber grinding they required...

 

[Fishy]

They're better than they used to. Some still have the stupid unlocking requirements, no escaping that, but otherwise they changed the systems so that you gradually engineer stuff through the tiers, each roll being a strict upgrade. So there's a random component to how fast you get the biggest stat increase, but you are guaranteed to get there.

I'm not playing it these days though, so can't say anything about how common/rare the drops are for the parts they require, I used some of my old stock when I went back to try out the new mining stuff.