Elite Dangeorus – Out Tomorrow.

had bout 25 mins going through the tutorials on Monday night (was out til early hours last night) so looking forward to more time tonight and to actually get in the ship and out into the universe!

So far through the limited time I had with it I preferred using a 360 pad for the flying (once I’d remapped)

Am I the only one that thought the original elite was fairly tedious despite being a masterpiece from a tech point of view?

I played it a fair bit as there really was nothing else like it but I didn’t sink hundreds of hours into it like some did. It was definitely a masterpiece of imagination/programming but yeah it was pretty tedious… long periods of very little happening.

It’s virtually unplayable now (except very brief blasts for nostalgia purposes) although that’s no different really to the vast majority of computer games from that time period. For a game to stand the test of time it needs to have been skilfully designed as well as implemented which wasn’t really understood in the days of “bedroom” coding.

Hopefully with ED they won’t have forgotten to include a fun, solid game alongside the technical tour-de-force!

Pawsy_Bear – Member

Northwind – load of rubbish its been running smoothly since release Ive been playing it for hours. Given your system specs I think it maybe your system thats the problem.

I don’t think it’s my system causing the problems on my mates’ machines tbh, that’d imply some really weird coding errors, especially since I don’t own the game.

I used to love playing Elite & Frontier, these days however I don’t know what this

Direct X 11
Quad Core CPU ( 4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)
4 GB System RAM (more is always better)
DX 10 hardware GPU with 1GB video ram Nvidia GTX 260
ATI 4870HD

means so I should probably just go back to reading a book before bed.

A decent gaming system isn’t massively expensive, if you go to somewhere like Scan for a 3xs system then it’s not much more than a PC from one of the high street retailers. As with mountain bikes, there’s a law of diminishing returns. You can spend a few grand on a system with tons of RAM, an i7 processor and a couple of graphics cards daisy-chained together but equally an i5 system with a mid spec card and 8gb of RAM will be just fine.

I bought an Nvidia 780 card for less than £300 back in September just after the 9xx cards were announced…

So Northwind you don’t own the game and can’t play it on your mates machine so you conclude its an’ stable mess’? Maybe better to have some experience of it before posting.

The website for this says there is a mac version to follow. If it does arrive for mainly sentimental reasons it might just get me to buy/play a computer game for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Pawsy_Bear – Member

Maybe better to have some experience of it before posting.

Yeah, see, that’s kind of the problem- none of them can get much experience of playing it, just of it breaking.

Conversly, I’ve been in since the first days of the beta and apart from some problems with a particular Gamma patch (2.02 I think) which broke the game for most everyone for about 6 hours I haven’t had a single issue with it crashing. It’s been a buttery smooth launch and I’m having great fun playing it.

Core i7-4790K @4Ghz, 16GB, nVidia 970 for comparison so I’m comfortably over the ideal spec, still, it looks awesome and plays very well to my mind. The way that Frontier are putting in the work I’m expecting this game to get better and better..

I sounds really negative don’t I… I should say, I’m almost certainly going to get it, I’m just waiting for a few patches down the line. (and it does sound like some of the multiplayer/instancing and social stuff is a bit lacking, for an online game?)

As launches go, it beats that Eve expansion that deleted my boot.ini 😆

I was just reading this and realised that it’s a (real world) friend of mine at the centre of it. What an ace way to play the game!
http://kotaku.com/one-thousand-gamers-embark-to-explore-the-entire-galaxy-1677603818

I’m really interested by im quite …. scared… of the time commitment required – is this a game where I can get progression and see the whole game with a “reasonable” time commitment for the standard adult?

Or is it a bit like EVE, where you need to quit your job and dump your partner to even become OK-ish.

time commitment required

you can play as much or little as you want. Games still running buttery smooth for me too. Remember though its a sandbox bit like Eve only here there is no safe space you can be killed everywhere 😈

There’s no real progression just ship upgrades and new ships just enjoy the journey rather than “grinding” to the next ship and you’ll enjoy it more. Given the size of the sandbox there’s plenty of systems where you won’t see other people just NPCs though if you want PvP keep an eye on the Galnet news for updates of where to find conflict zones.

I’ve just been enjoying exploring, looking out of the windows sometimes can be spectacular, have to get good at avoiding intercepts or fighting with exploring thou.

I got into the Beta too.

I have to say, the game was for Beta, superbly smooth on my system too. Don’t know what Northwinds pc is like, but on one of the other forums I stalk, it was much the same, several people found it ran remarkably smoothly, and one found it stuttery and unplayable.

Does tend to suggest its down to the pc and not the game.