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[PC] Free - Elite Dangerous, The World Next Door @ Epic Games
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Elite Dangerous is my favourite game. Been playing it off and on for four years. I think you're all luckier than most of you will ever know to be offered something of this calibre for free, and I hope many of you enjoy it as I have.
Nice one, have wanted to try this over the years and this is the first game that will prompt me to sign up to the epic store.
Thanks for posting.
So Elite Dangerous it's the full game? Full update support ect?
Yes it will be the full game.
Wasn't Wargame going to be the next freebie?
I bought Elite Dangerous for full price and it's one of my most regretted game purchases. It's cool as a VR "experience" but as a game it's super grindy.
A lot of the design decisions made to work around the way the game is networked suck. For example, lots of things like mission targets only spawn when you enter cruise mode.
Also travel takes ages. Lots of my "gameplay" was watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts while waiting to get to another station.For free, though, it could be good for a couple of hours of mucking around.
I think there's a lot of people out there who would disagree on the couple of hours content but I for one have never played so I'll give it a couple. I recently tried DCS and gave it 1.5hrs before deciding I didn't have a hundred hours for guides, YouTube videos and instructions on every single detail of the plane I wanted to fly. 1.5hrs in and I still couldn't figure out why I couldn't for a weapon off, even when I switched it from simulation to game mode.
For sure. There's heaps of people who really dig into the community event things but for me it felt really thin. Exploring can be fun but it takes so long to travel anywhere. I think No Man's Sky is a better space exploration game at this point and no small part of that is because there's less staring at empty space and more seeing interesting things.
Combat is really cool but not very rewarding. Mining and trading is the most rewarding thing but is boring as hell, involving shooting rocks or looking at spreadsheets/trade route websites while you spend hours travelling, buying and selling, and repeating. Then you upgrade your ship finally and get to grind out engineering too.
The galaxy doesn't really feel immersive to me because everything just spawns when you enter supercruise. Missions are just pseudorandom fluff with no real impact. There are factions in each star system but their influence amounts to a name and a generated avatar.
I didn't play the original Elite games so maybe this is how they played and would be good for those who did play it. It didn't hold any lasting hook for me.
Ok so I think I lost interest when you said that you need to research trade routes etc. I have zero interest in doing that.
@[Deactivated]: I say give it a go, shoot a few guys and then drop it once you start having to grind to the next tier of combat ship. When it was active, the PVP arena style mode was actually pretty fun since it focused on one of the strongest aspects of the game - the combat. Think something like rounds of Unreal Tournament but with space ships instead of guys. But it didn't really take off and I think most players left are people who play in VR for the spectacle, people who like exploring the vast galaxy, or hardcore trade/mining grinders.
@Diji: I heard some people say, the game shouldnt be played without all the DLCs due to some of the DLCs really making the game a lot better , fixing stuff… Not sure which DLCs they were, but i remember people were saying playing the complete edition compared to the standard version was a big difference. Is that because they fixed some of the grinding aspects to it? I loved the original elite back on my XT with monochrome monitor. And it was grindy too but it didnt take as long to get anywhere as it sounds like it does in this game. That is the one thing i have noticed everyone complain about, that it takes ages to get anywhere.
@lonewolf: To my knowledge the only expansion released is Horizons which really adds more grind in the form of engineering. It's now included in the game for everyone so there's nothing extra to buy.
Some of the more recent updates in the Horizons expansion/"season" did make a huge difference but the core game is still largely the same.
As for travel, the developers are against speeding up travel from system to system and from station to station for some reason or another. My gut feeling is something to do with the engine of the game rather than any sort of commitment to realism (which is often cited by fans of the game as why long travel times are a good thing).
I agree. I bought it for VR when I got my Vive thinking it was going to be awesome as most people say it is. I didn't realise it was a full on simulator where 90% is of the 'game' is monotonous and tedious, basically doing a full on job, rather than fun.
I then got House of the Dying Sun which was exactly what I was after in a VR space fighter game. If only they would make a sequel as that game is actually fun and full of challenging and rewarding combat along with some Homeworld like real time strategy management in ordering capital ships around, rather than flicking 1000 switches in a specific order to get the ore, then 1000 switches to get the ore back.
This comment will be controversial but I prefer to use a controller rather than HOTAS for VR flying. I find I have significantly more accurate fine movement control with a thumb on a controller joystick than my whole hand with a HOTAS.
How's No Man's Sky in VR? Fun or tedious?
I don't have VR at the moment so I can't tell you how NMS is VR unfortunately. I only tried it in Elite Dangerous ages ago. Rift DK1 IIRC.
It's part of game pass though so if you have that, there's not much barrier to trying it out.
and i just sold my HOTAS.
i dont know why the urge of free games to get alway, ALWAYS wins me over. i have so many that i forgot the type of games i enjoy playing.
thanks for another game to add to my list of no play.
I'm adding all these free games to my library knowing I will most likely not play them. This is becoming more of an addiction rather than true interest in playing the game 😆
Still, thanks OP
I already have the steam version which I bought but have not as yet got around to playing. Any point getting this, any differences? Thanks.
Well, (profanity) that. I can't be assed having to setup every single control binding. Who has time for that BS, I just want to plug and play. FS2020 recognises every input device I have and gives me a great control method automatically. DCS and now Elite Dangerous have lost me from the get go because of lazy development.
Cheers, I just finished downloading them just before I saw your post, still very annoying and lazy. I've got a dozen racing simulators that recognise everything I throw at them but most flight stuff is just crap in comparison.
Yeah it's pretty glaring when it's a game still under active development. Not like we're talking about Freespace 2 or something which is ancient.
@Diji: And they didn't work unfortunately, back to star wars squadrons until I find something better I guess. Cheers
Cheers DB!
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Because that's the name of the genre. Like how very few RPGs these days involve role playing.