My first reaction when KZread offered me this video on the homepage was, "Does ED still exist?". Haven't played it in years when Engineering spoiled it big time for me. So it's still there. Amazing. Let me subscribe to your channel!

A mysterious signal from a dea world that drives people to attack everything living around them... sounds like a dead space reference

i would like over a dozen new ships, ability to engineer all modules and weapons, new engineering effects, and more types of weapons armor and modules and sensors

I’m enjoying it just being a vagabond around the bubble

5916 hours doing space trucking bgs , and listening to this video.

"No word on any new ships"... Two weeks later... Oops 😉

I feel like they started with a great base and then just...failed to go anywhere with it. Sure some people enjoy driving between identical stations for hours on end watching their money go up, but it just needs way more to be interesting.

I have been on SC for 3 months now. It's almost a game, I was surprised by the number of things you can do even though it's buggy. I think the writing is on the wall for ED. I think it is years, but those years are shrinking quickly. To fight off SC they would have to plan now. I just don't see them doing that. Odyessy sucks period. The sad thing is it doesn't have to. Ok your fps is crap but at least it's in the game, so go back and work on it... Nope lol... I dunno, just sad.

@KarlBarbosa

6 ай бұрын

ED has not been Frontier's priority for many years now. And it shows.

@casoblantly

6 ай бұрын

SC is waking up and it's a big monster.

@MeoithTheSecond

5 ай бұрын

@@casoblantly SC vs Elite is the classic Hare And Tortoise Story set in space ;)

@christopherdaffron8115

2 ай бұрын

I think ED has been a waiting room for some players more interested in playing SC.

I was a long time ED player, having played since before Horizons. Permanently left just before Odyssey when it became obvious that Frontier just stopped giving a shit, half assing every bit of added content. It's just a grind fest, and the forced Thargoid content just makes it worse. Grind to get a ship. Grind to A rate everything. Grind to max engineer everything. Grind to alien tech upgrade everything so you can defend yourself against Thargoids. Grind grind grind. Kinda sad given that Frontier used to have an amazing relationship with their community. But when community manager Ed and creative lead Sandy left, they took the soul of the game with them and the writing was on the wall.

The game is still fun if you own a really big monitor, a good gaming PC and flight simulator joystick. Problem is, after you've learned to fly like a god it gets repetitive. It will take a lot of time, and it's very satisfying to learn everything, but... there are so many other good games...

The fact that Odyssey still causes issues is why the game is dead. It caused so much damage to the games reputation, and it's far too late to try and save the game.

Till they put VR in the whole game not one more dime for FD, EVER.

Where raxxla?

Can't compare a beta to a game that's been out a decade.

@hawkzulu5671

5 ай бұрын

Tortoise and the Hare

I appreciate your take on it but you fail to realize that elite dangerous is a Milky Way galaxy simulator that’s based on all the advancements in astronomy and cosmology that we have enjoyed over the past several decades. The galaxies billions of years old it is not a matter of elite getting old or becoming irrelevant because once again it’s a galaxy simulator, the same galaxy that we currently live in which I don’t think you would call that irrelevant. I started playing elite years ago and never stopped I’m in my fleet carrier right now as we speak exploring galactic regions it will take me a lifetime if not longer to visit and explore. Like you said the ships are cool the narrative in the bubble and all the activities you can do there with trading combat mining etc are just icing on the cake. Now it must absolutely be said that there are many players that are not cut out for elite because they truly have no scientific curiosity or sense of wonderment or patience to find ways to overcome obstacles in the game. The gamesmanship that you need to make things easier is what many people these days like the focus to be able to do. So because they fail they attack the game they criticize the game when in reality everything can be overcome but once again the gaming attention span in 2024 it has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller

@TheSometimeAfter

6 ай бұрын

What an absolutely ignorant and sanctimonious comment.

@walawala-fo7ds

6 ай бұрын

The simulation is rather poor however. Elite cannot model weather whatsoever of any kind, or oceans, rivers, caves, alien fauna discounting Thargoids. It also cannot even model our own solar system due to technical limitations that prevent access to basic planets like gas giants, or planets with thick atmospheres. So in terms of simulation, space engine long outclassed elite in every way possible other than the ships. Not only that but space engine is far more scientifically accurate as it models phenomena elite cannot, such as accretion disks. In addition, space engine scientifically models all known galaxies, not just one. I think elite used to be a great simulation ten years ago. But it has stagnated so much that it's crowning achievement is held back by its primitive tech. The result is a galaxy only in name, but that is rather the total opposite of our own galaxy. That is, the game can only simulate a tiny amount of experiences, while the full depth of what our own galaxy truly offers, even I our own system, is locked behind outdated tech that cannot render the needed assets. Somewhere in our solar system is raining diamonds. Elite cannot even simulate a drizzling cloud 😂 The demise of expeditions like distant worlds 3, speaks to the fact the audience has woken up to the fact elite is just a mathematical simulation with no real reason to explore as it cannot generate anything new that hasn't been seen before without additional investment from the game developers. No matter how far you go, everything in front is the same as everything behind. You will not find an earth like you can land on. This is commonly referred to as a creative lie and to be fair is common in gaming as infinite diversity of the real world isn't currently achievable in a financially feasible manner. So you'll see tiling all over, repeat textures, assets and what not. Some developers are looking at generative AI to adreess some of those issues, but sure as hell isn't fdev doing it. 😂

@saleseng

6 ай бұрын

@@walawala-fo7ds First of all the reality of our own galaxy is that we only know of life in one spot and that is the Earth, secondly the way the planets/celestial bodies are depicted are modeled closely after what we see visually within our own solar system via ground or space-based telescopes or spacecraft. Its a cold and frozen galaxy out there when it comes to being hospitable to life as we know it..When it comes to the depiction of things you mentioned like rivers or weather those are very poorly executed in similar games that I have seen like star citizen for example, the water tech there is absolutely atrocious looking.. now compare that to the geological tech of elite dangerous with lava spouts geysers vents fumaroles, etc…Where frontier absolutely excels is they put together a complete game putting in as many aspects as possible spreading it out without tearing the edges, this is why the game plays as good as it does. Woken up to a mathematical simulation it’s kind of a dumb argument for you to make. The same physics and elements are present through out the galaxy. It’s not F Dev’s fault that this is a fact and they are showing it that way…galaxy is billions of years old, it was here long before we got here, we are simply depicting it in a video game as it exists in all of its mathematical glory that never gets old. In other words because you get bored doesn’t mean that you can call for F Dev to change the laws of physics to entertain you in a better way. You sound like the crew that decided to stay behind on Columbus‘s first expedition that said it’s all the same blue water, the birds the sky everything is the same, why should we sail and fall off the edge of the Earth🤦🏻‍♂️ The truth about elite is that it’s not for everybody because it requires a keen scientific interest or curiosity when it comes to getting the most out of the game and playing the map, many players do a stint in the bubble get frustrated because of engineering and say this is a dumb game. They don’t get anything out of the game because they’re not bringing anything to it. I don’t need to see a drizzling cloud with raining diamonds🤦🏻‍♂️a lagrange cloud with thunder and lightning and life floating about or a Thargoid maelstrom or surface site beats the crap out of a tired looking cave system any day..

@Litheon11

6 ай бұрын

You are exploring the same copy/paste systems over and over again.. there is nothing unique about the game after 200hrs. That's what stopped me from enjoying the game past 600hrs

@hawkzulu5671

6 ай бұрын

The water tech in SC is atrocious? you must not have seen the new dynamic wave sim and river tech coming from the Star Engine demo. Its still in the process of development but if thats atrocious vs - the engine cant even model or render water at all .. ill take the version that has resources and devs assigned to implement it and improve it. Elite and SC both had their kickstarters in 2012. SC is a long slow road - but CIG is not going to take 'those are very poorly executed in similar games' as an excuse and not devlop those features. - Other space games not having very good water is not a convenience - thats an opportunity to blow everybody else 'out of the water'. - Watch the part when those ships are flying low and kicking up spray and making waves from the thrusters interacting with the water - or the 2 ships crash - land in the water and cause waves. @@saleseng

What's with the need for constant evolution in a game like this? I really enjoy the stability, and I like the feature pace and funding model of selling optional DLC with a packet of new features every couple of years.

Am loving the game, visuals in a thargoid fight ate amazing, the Spire sites have on-foor in ship and in SRV content, getting into a Maelstrom has heen amazing and freeing prisoners is a cool experience. But if people dont like it then dont play?!

The game's been out for nearly a decade and there's still no direction indicator in flight. They say just use the moving space particles, but that's not precise at all. And the flight assist controlling speed AND rotation, not just rotation, makes it unplayable. It's a horrible arcade game that pretends just hard enough to be a simulator that its garbage.

Space..... is empty...... in ED

Why is Elite Dangerous doing?

The current so called story is just more of the same old game loops for the same old weapons grind. This game is sooooo dead

the game has less than 4000 active players every day, a number that is down from 7000 last year. The game is going to be dead by the end of next year