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[Prime] Elite Dangerous (gaming.amazon.com)
submitted 7 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/freegames@feddit.uk
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has played ED for a few hundred hours, if you've never played this, don't go in thinking it's going to be No Man's Sky or something. This is a game with lore and factions, but it's ultimately a game of the sort that is what you make of it. It's the Flight Sim of space, and Frontier has a legit astrophysicist on their payroll that has helped with things like planet generation.

When you feel like you've got the hang of things but don't know what else to do, find a community to join. Lots of communities have their own ongoing projects, like the Fuel Rats or the various hunts for Raxxla. Good luck out there, Commanders!

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago

Fuel Rats

can't be overstated. when you run out of fuel for the first time (and you will), don't wait for death silently, call fuel rats. the operation they run is unparalleled to anything i have seen anywhere in gaming world.

https://fuelrats.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h2x6e216c8

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wrote up a short description of it a couple weeks ago:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/15850080

tl;dr: the galaxy offers a lot to do, but nothing pushes you toward any one particular activity. Choose your own space adventure. :)

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My thousands of hours of Elite can vouch that this is still THE best space sim out there. You can try NMS, X, Star Citizen, Everspace but there's nothing that can quite touch it.

If you do get it, remember a few things: it doesn't have a learning curve, it has a learning cliff. You'll learn a lot in the first hours. Also, join a community. There's reddit, or the various discords, or join a squad on inara.cz or even directly in-game. But the community surrounding this game is one of the nicest and most supportive i've ever seen. Oh, and if you're into salt and drama, there's the Frontier elite forums. Fly safe

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Absolute banger of a game

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I own the game but can't play it because I can't complete the tutorial as I am to dumb to complete the landing. Why are landing computers not standard on those ships? No, we let the pilots destroy huge parts of our station when they try to hit the tiny landing pad in the right angle and speed, its for sure better and cheaper that way then loading a program in the autopilot that will perform the landing safe and fast..

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For what it's worth, docking becomes easy with practice (as long as you don't disable Flight Assist). Good thing, because although the docking computer is pretty good with small ships, it's drunk half the time with the largest ones.

I think the free starter ship comes equipped with a docking computer. Have you tried entering the game without completing the docking tutorial?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Flinging yourself safely through the mail slot and then landing without flight assistance is fun as hell though

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

I never found a option to start the game without completing the tutorial, but to be honest I last tried it maybe 3 years ago or so. Since then the PS4 Disk collects dust.

[–] Player2@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Simming the space is a pretty integral part of the space sim. I for one really enjoy those parts of the game

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, but some guidance system that prevents huge damage from a ship hitting your space port or your space station with gigantic amounts of kinetic energy sounds like a great and very logical idea and one should assume that it is mandatory.

But maybe that is what they mean with Dangerous in Elite Dangerous 😜

[–] essell@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I had / have the same issue.

Hilarious to me that I bought the game at launch. Never made it out of the tutorial and now it's free.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have a couple hundred hours in this game, and still have no what I'm doing. Flying a ship, and having the sound all the way up on my stereo system is amazing though.

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Don’t forget to sub to !elitedangerous@lemmy.world

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Absolutely stunning to play on a projection screen...

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This game is impressive not only in scale, but also in its community-built tools. The developers made it easy to get observed data out of the game, and players made tools to automatically send that data to a public database, along with star maps, item finders, route plotters, market watchers, ship build planners, etc.

You don't need these to play, but you might find some of them useful if you end up playing a lot.

https://inara.cz/elite/

https://edastro.com/

https://www.edsm.net/

https://coriolis.io/

https://edsy.org/

https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/wiki

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Might have to check that out. It's been on my Steam wishlist for a while.