Elite: Dangerous

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  1. WreckWren
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    Utter garbage, literally the worst game on Steam. The devs promised so much, charged so much for lifetime expansions. Barely 1/10th of what was promised was delivered, and what was delivered is broken. If you complain at all on any forum related to the game you are instantly banned because the game has lost nearly all its players and the mods are in full damage control.

    It's rare I    Utter garbage, literally the worst game on Steam. The devs promised so much, charged so much for lifetime expansions. Barely 1/10th of what was promised was delivered, and what was delivered is broken. If you complain at all on any forum related to the game you are instantly banned because the game has lost nearly all its players and the mods are in full damage control.

    It's rare I think a game deserves a full-on ZERO but this is one.    … Expand
  2. PaulGR
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    Abandoned Game Filled with Microtransactions and a Toxic Dev Team

    The game has been left stale for years. I and many others said nothing, but the latest toxic behaviour from their moderators was the last drop for me. Someone asked which E:D DLC to buy/how DLCs work and I suggested they grab Starfield when it releases because it will most probably blow away all sci-fi    Abandoned Game Filled with Microtransactions and a Toxic Dev Team

    The game has been left stale for years. I and many others said nothing, but the latest toxic behaviour from their moderators was the last drop for me.

    Someone asked which E:D DLC to buy/how DLCs work and I suggested they grab Starfield when it releases because it will most probably blow away all sci-fi spaceship-gameplay competition.

    My post was "Buy Starfield. ED is over." Literally 5 words.

    Surprise surprise the hateful E:D moderators issued a ban for this, with the excuse being "Spamming" and nothing more. I suggest you steer clear from toxic teams like that of E:D. The game is abandoned anyway. They only release paid cosmetics.    … Expand
  3. TURJAN
    Aug 17, 2023
    3
    Second job simulator: The Game. There are 5 things you can do in this game.
    >You can be a space truck driver. Buy cheap in one station and sell it in another. Economy is very detailed but it becomes boring very quickly because every star system, space station and planet looks exactly the same.
    >You can be a space taxi driver. The same as above but people in place of copper. It becomes    Second job simulator: The Game. There are 5 things you can do in this game.
    >You can be a space truck driver. Buy cheap in one station and sell it in another. Economy is very detailed but it becomes boring very quickly because every star system, space station and planet looks exactly the same.
    >You can be a space taxi driver. The same as above but people in place of copper. It becomes boring very quickly because every star system, space station and planet looks exactly the same.
    >You can be a miner. Instead of buying minerals in stations just mine it yourself and sell it! It becomes boring very quickly because every star system, space station and planet looks exactly the same.
    >You can go exploring the space! Yeah, well... look above.
    >You can shoot some pirates, hunt aliens and bounty hunt. That one is actually pretty fun with a couple of friends, but its not profitable so you have to do one of the things from the list above to earn money. Also you need to upgrade your ship and that is whole another universe of grind.
    There are some story events but they are all aimed at end-game players so i never actually seen any of that.    … Expand
  4. Xanuviz
    Mar 23, 2023
    3
    I originally started playing this game just when it came out on steam, and I kind of fell in love with it initially, the potential of this game was amazing and I love space games and MMOs so this was a must buy for me. The developers never really achieved anything with the game over the years that it has been out, only adding few new things each major DLC which you have to buy to getI originally started playing this game just when it came out on steam, and I kind of fell in love with it initially, the potential of this game was amazing and I love space games and MMOs so this was a must buy for me. The developers never really achieved anything with the game over the years that it has been out, only adding few new things each major DLC which you have to buy to get access to them. The problem with this game is that it is too grindy, you would have to spend thousands of hours to get some of the better ships and grind out your ranks within this game to actually get anywhere. And the grind isn't even fun, it is extremely repetitive and becomes boring very quickly. Any new content that is released just adds a massive amount of grind into the game instead of some compelling and fun gameplay. And with the fiasco release of the Odyssey DLC the developers just completely cancelled any future console development for this game as well as cancelling that DLC for consoles. The game had a lot of potential but it was completely and entirely wasted by the developers and the game is just a dying waste of time right now.… Expand
  5. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  6. jeffkren
    Aug 26, 2022
    0
    Shouldn't be called multiplayer most encounters with other players result in the game disconnecting, that's if your even lucky enough to run into anyone that isn't just blowing you up on sight... flight mechanics are almost as bad as the driving mechanics. Don't waste your money!

    Update: After not playing for a year almost all bugs still exist, gameplay is still horrible and multiplayer    Shouldn't be called multiplayer most encounters with other players result in the game disconnecting, that's if your even lucky enough to run into anyone that isn't just blowing you up on sight... flight mechanics are almost as bad as the driving mechanics. Don't waste your money!

    Update: After not playing for a year almost all bugs still exist, gameplay is still horrible and multiplayer is even worse with constant disconnects. You can be in the same system with 20 people and see 3 people, jump out then in 3 more new people.. P2P is trash, and this multiplayer is very very limited. Fleet Carriers are a complete joke, im sure the only guy that put more than 2 hours into them was the model designer that could have been done when this game was released as easy as now. They are the only "end game" content, credits are pointless and you cant even share them without a huge hassle of dumping cargo or using a fleet carrier to set prices. Yeah the galaxy is big, but after you've seen the a handful of the models and find out theres nothing actually special to find...

    New update: Now it sucks even harder with the stupid space legs DLC breaking compatibility with Horizons so now even fewer people can play together. The next update will separate everyone running original, horizons and space legs no one will be able to play with each other without matching versions. Nothing has improved still and its plagued by all the worst UI and connection bugs I've ever dealt with. These people hate you    … Expand
  7. JenikMax
    Aug 21, 2022
    0
    Во время обработки вашего запроса произошла ошибка:
    Данный товар недоступен в вашем регионе
    Идите фронтиры туда же куда вы шлете русский корабль
  8. sirveaux
    Apr 27, 2022
    0
    The game just gets worse. On VR, I get flashes that support can't seem to fix. Odyssey is unplayable. I was recently banned from the Steam discussions for criticizing moderation on my first offense.

    Everything about this game gets worse, less communication, more bugs, terrible moderation.
  9. satinlight
    Nov 11, 2021
    4
    In 2021 Elite Dangerous is for you if:

    1) you have no job, no hobby and no life, willing to travel to almost every mission above 10 real-time min; 2) you like to grind, grind and more grind; 3) you can ignore annoying bugs, annoying rules, repetitive and boring gameplay; 4) you are ready to spend more time googling things than actually playing, because this game is THE MOST    In 2021 Elite Dangerous is for you if:

    1) you have no job, no hobby and no life, willing to travel to almost every mission above 10 real-time min;
    2) you like to grind, grind and more grind;
    3) you can ignore annoying bugs, annoying rules, repetitive and boring gameplay;
    4) you are ready to spend more time googling things than actually playing, because this game is THE MOST unintuitive and unnecessarily complicated one I've ever played with no useful tutorial whatsoever;
    5) you are ok with no goal in the game;
    6) you like meditative games;
    7) you like realistic cosmos and starships.

    Advice: just go play No Man's Sky instead.    … Expand
  10. Vanzer0902
    Jun 4, 2021
    1
    Предзаказал odyssey
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    Полетел с другом в корабле в другую систему в роли пассажира @ При гиперпрыжке друган пропал из кресла пилота, бесконечная загрузка @ Перезашёл @ Я вишу в скафандре посреди космопорта! @ Меня сбили другим кораблём, чел который это сделал был уничтожен станцией @ Разрабы выпустили багофикс (в их понимании багофикс - это добавить новые баги не убрав старые)    Предзаказал odyssey
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    Полетел с другом в корабле в другую систему в роли пассажира
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    При гиперпрыжке друган пропал из кресла пилота, бесконечная загрузка
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    Перезашёл
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    Я вишу в скафандре посреди космопорта!
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    Меня сбили другим кораблём, чел который это сделал был уничтожен станцией
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    Разрабы выпустили багофикс (в их понимании багофикс - это добавить новые баги не убрав старые)
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    Лечу в другую систему сдавать груз
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    В прицеле вместо станции выбирается "след крыла другого чела"
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    Пока переключал в цель станцию пролетел её
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    Залетаю на станцию, чтобы сдать груз квестодателю
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    Ехидная игра говорит, что груза нет (хотя я точно его купил)
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    В грузовом отсеке пусто
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    Лечу обратно, не могу ничего купить, так как трюм полон
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    Призывая Бога императора жму "4", грузовой отсек полон
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    Но есть плюсы, мне не нужна дозаправка, чтобы долететь до квестодателя
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    Обновление получает 146 багов из 10

    P.S.
    Я ПОКУПАЛ ПРЕДЗАКАЗ, А НЕ ОТКРЫТУЮ АЛЬФУ!    … Expand
  11. Budget_Security
    Dec 25, 2020
    2
    My first takeoff at the starting station went like this: The autopilot (you can't turn it off first time) stopped working before station exit, resulting in timeout and getting blown up by station defences, and then getting blamed despite having no control over ship. This was also happening to other players in the station. EPIC FAIL.

    Huge potential, ruined by interface and balancing    My first takeoff at the starting station went like this: The autopilot (you can't turn it off first time) stopped working before station exit, resulting in timeout and getting blown up by station defences, and then getting blamed despite having no control over ship. This was also happening to other players in the station. EPIC FAIL.

    Huge potential, ruined by interface and balancing flaws.
    Very bad interface and control schemes. The simplest of actions are made convoluted. Bad tutorials, so you have to spend hours looking at youtube community tutorials instead. This game seems to be optimised for HOTAS and VR, without enough consideration for mouse and keyboard. PvE NPC difficulty balancing is awful, and they cheat. PvP is also broken (engineering etc). I also ran into many serious bugs (my PC runs other games fine). Such a pity, as this game has great potential.    … Expand
  12. d-luX80
    Dec 15, 2020
    1
    Ich spiele das Spiel hauptsächlich im Singleplayer und als Erkunder.
    Allerdings wurde es als Erkunder schnell langweilig weil man immer das Selbe macht und ewig warten muss (Loading Simulator) bis man mal springen kann.
    Also einen Kopfgeldjäger-Auftrag angenommen wo eine Staffel erforderlich ist. Leider steht nirgends dass eine Staffel NICHT im Singleplayer funktioniert und ich somit    Ich spiele das Spiel hauptsächlich im Singleplayer und als Erkunder.
    Allerdings wurde es als Erkunder schnell langweilig weil man immer das Selbe macht und ewig warten muss (Loading Simulator) bis man mal springen kann.
    Also einen Kopfgeldjäger-Auftrag angenommen wo eine Staffel erforderlich ist.
    Leider steht nirgends dass eine Staffel NICHT im Singleplayer funktioniert und ich somit 10.000.000 Credits in den Wind geblasen habe. Tolle Entscheidung. Vom Speichern will ich gar nicht erst reden.
    Grafik ist ziemlich schick.    … Expand
  13. Asteroth
    Nov 28, 2020
    1
    ... игра з кучей багов... От регистрации до подтверждения покупоки через Epic Games, до вылетов игры в процессе самой игры. Баланс вообще ... Квесты не сбалансированные! Коллективное прохождение тупое и не сбалансированное и не интересное. На прохождение квеста крыла (группы) рассчитано на 20 человек??? Есть квесты крыла или баланс для прохождения крыла (групы) из 2 чел? Нет тогда нафига... игра з кучей багов... От регистрации до подтверждения покупоки через Epic Games, до вылетов игры в процессе самой игры. Баланс вообще ... Квесты не сбалансированные! Коллективное прохождение тупое и не сбалансированное и не интересное. На прохождение квеста крыла (группы) рассчитано на 20 человек??? Есть квесты крыла или баланс для прохождения крыла (групы) из 2 чел? Нет тогда нафига такая игра? Какой интерес играть в эту игру в двоим? Ответ НИКАКОЙ!

    Пираты крутиться вокруг станций и сканируют всех и сразу ловят. ... а патрули полиции? А жалобу на пирата не придумано? Я ... ловят сразу перед станицею! Если вас какой-то ... будет убивать толпы других людей перед домом... вы наверно как минимум в полицию позвоните? Как была игра гавном не оправданным цене таким и остался. Управление ебанутое... аква физика в космосе...??? У нас щас беспилотники круче на автопилоте летают чем корабли будущего!!..... Расчёт скорости для приближения к станции вообще песец какойто... 10 раз пролетишь мимо чем сможешь розчитать скорость подлета... А система которая должна вас предупредить "заранее".. предупреждает вас тогда... когда вы уже полюбом пролетели мимо и вы ничего не можете сделать что бы исправить ситуацию...    … Expand
  14. lucaslucas27
    Nov 27, 2020
    0
    Muito ruim, o jogo ja estressa a pessoa no launcher mal feito.. preferi nem perder meu tempo
  15. Nessly1991
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    My god who designed controls for this game?After playing it for 30 min i was feeling so dizzy!Just spinning whole time!It is so hard to control ship.I was so glad when i finally returned to hangar and i didn't want to start another mission how bad controls are.Who ever made controls for this game should just check game Freelancer.That game managed to do controls right 17 yeras ago.HowMy god who designed controls for this game?After playing it for 30 min i was feeling so dizzy!Just spinning whole time!It is so hard to control ship.I was so glad when i finally returned to hangar and i didn't want to start another mission how bad controls are.Who ever made controls for this game should just check game Freelancer.That game managed to do controls right 17 yeras ago.How hard can it be today?… Expand
  16. hornedfiend
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    It's basically a screen saver with some gameplay mechanics. Boring as hell and a tedious grind to get anything done.
  17. Stranik6452
    Nov 20, 2020
    0
    Такого приздеца я не видел в своей жизни такое чувство будто разработки продают доступ от ядерного арсенала анти человеческая система регистрации надо иметь ученую степень чтобы это сделать абсолютное пренебрежение новыми игроками разработчики за 6 лет не смогли нормально сделать систему им положена по праву премия ДарвинаТакого приздеца я не видел в своей жизни такое чувство будто разработки продают доступ от ядерного арсенала анти человеческая система регистрации надо иметь ученую степень чтобы это сделать абсолютное пренебрежение новыми игроками разработчики за 6 лет не смогли нормально сделать систему им положена по праву премия Дарвина
  18. Xiphiqix
    Oct 20, 2020
    3
    Frontier Developments have not delivered what they promised. After years of stringing their community along, ultimately they created a litter box instead of a sandbox. Game breaking, poorly thought out, implemented systems and mechanic's have been introduced but never fixed. The company lacks development discipline and focus. We have heard the game has so much potential but it mostlyFrontier Developments have not delivered what they promised. After years of stringing their community along, ultimately they created a litter box instead of a sandbox. Game breaking, poorly thought out, implemented systems and mechanic's have been introduced but never fixed. The company lacks development discipline and focus. We have heard the game has so much potential but it mostly has grind with a complete lack of direction.… Expand
  19. opor
    Oct 3, 2020
    0
    Convoluted and unplayable.
    The first hour the launcher denied the code it sent me on Email.
    The second hour I played the tutorial.
    And in the thrid hour I was stuck in my first mission because the pirate NPCS didnt spawn in (a known bug since 2 years).
    Verdict:
    Complete Trash
  20. sofoxee
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    beatifull grind simulator, devs cant do dynamic economy so they are nerfing evrything what you can use to make fast money, and this is problem because ships are realy expensive
  21. Fallos
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    Complete piece of ****
    I can't even describe how much thing there are wrong
  22. Bumblepumpkin
    Jul 16, 2020
    0
    There is an expansion for this game called Horizons which is essentially mandatory at this point. It's not just that you don't get the "full" experience without it, but much of the game is fundamentally broken or imbalanced without it. I don't know if I can recommend the full game, either, but the "base game" by itself is so completely nonviable that it doesn't even warrant discussion ofThere is an expansion for this game called Horizons which is essentially mandatory at this point. It's not just that you don't get the "full" experience without it, but much of the game is fundamentally broken or imbalanced without it. I don't know if I can recommend the full game, either, but the "base game" by itself is so completely nonviable that it doesn't even warrant discussion of its merits or flaws. It ought to be pulled from the marketplace and replaced with an all-in-one package bundling itself with Horizons. Until that day, the best we can do it give a negative review.

    AVOID at all costs unless you also have the Horizons expansion.    … Expand
  23. Tanikaze
    Jul 6, 2020
    0
    Completely unplayable if you're not a real NASA expert, 90% of the game is looking in UI trying to understand WHAT is happening. As always, big project with 0 accessibility.
    Refounded.
  24. BernardTheBeast
    Feb 2, 2020
    4
    Don't look at Elite Dangerous as a game. It isn't. Elite Dangerous is a piece of software that wants to be Flight Simulator, Trains Simulator, a space combat simulator, and an MMO, all in one. Does it succeed? In my opinion, no.

    Here's the good stuff you can look forward to: ► A space game where you can choose to play Solo, with a Private Group (friends only), or Open (open online    Don't look at Elite Dangerous as a game. It isn't. Elite Dangerous is a piece of software that wants to be Flight Simulator, Trains Simulator, a space combat simulator, and an MMO, all in one. Does it succeed? In my opinion, no.

    Here's the good stuff you can look forward to:

    ► A space game where you can choose to play Solo, with a Private Group (friends only), or Open (open online multiplayer with instanced maps holding a set number of players at a time). Options!
    ► A space game where you can choose between the space-game trifecta of Combatant/Trader/Explorer or incorporate all three into your play style. Options!
    ► A space game where you can customize the loadout of your spaceship with equipment ranging from a dozen different types of weapons, armors, internal components for offense, defense, bounty hunting, passenger carrying, cargo hauling, planet exploring, etcetera. Options!
    ► A space game where you can fly across a huge, seemingly limitless galaxy, where every dot on your Galaxy Map (and there's millions of them) represents a sector of space you can travel to and explore, possibly for the very first time that anyone has ever gone there...! Options!
    ► A space game with fairly solid graphics, a cool premise, a good simulato-yet-action-focused-yet-exploration-capable feel to it. Especially if you have a good flight control system/joystick, TrackIR, or VR, you'll probably want to buy this just to take advantage of your hardware.

    Here's the bad stuff you can look forward to:

    • Grinding. If you want ranks, money, or to simply explore, prepare to spend months grinding. To get satisfaction from traveling and doing what you want to do, it's going to require money and ranks, so you'll have to grind. This is where MMO syndrome comes in: the infamous "Engineers" system requires you to find components found RNG about the universe, which can take a long time. These Engineering goals are essential in making your ship perform with lower risk of dying due to unfair AI or players who have an Engineered ship and want you dead for some reason.

    • AI with no personality that mostly sends text messages to you (very little voice dialogue/radio chatter) and cheats in combat, their level of cheating determined by their difficulty (AI are immune to certain weapons, techniques and strategies, have accuracy/damage that is disconnected to their ship's actual loadout). The lowest ranked AI will fly stupidly in box patterns without fighting back, while the highest ranked AI will pull J-turns, flank you, shoot you perfectly with 360 degree turreted weapons, and take out your subsystems with flawless accuracy. Cheap.

    • No purpose or overall objective other than what you make for yourself. While there are more interesting missions other than "Kill/Trade/Explore", you might never experience them because you're too busy grinding to get a ship actually capable of doing those complex missions.

    Limited depth & bugs:
    • You can't land on planets unless you buy Horizons DLC; however, they're all slight variations of either a crater-marked orange moon, or a large, rugged and mountainous orange moon anyway

    • Using Multi-Crew, you can jump into the passenger seat of another player's spaceship! But you'll experience lag issues, sudden disconnects, game-crashing errors, and a whole bunch of other bugs. You also can't walk around the ship, or wave to your friend, or anything other than giving the pilot player an extra pip to their power distribution and maybe taking over one of their fighters or turrets.

    • You can land on space stations! But there's only about 6 different looking interiors in the game you'll see most often on average

    • You can buy any ship you want, but customizing the ship's appearance is real-money microtransaction based: $10 from the third-party Frontier store, and only applies to that specific class of ship. This game's out-of-game store is horrendously expensive, and feels like it's one step short of introducing lootboxes and XP boosters due to the excessive grind.

    I honestly like this game. But I literally don't have the time to play this game enough to gain enough money/ranks to do anything fun. I can't do combat/explore/trade for fear of my ship being destroyed and having to spend another 10 hours grinding for money. I can't participate in events because I haven't spent the 1,000 hours grinding to get an Engineered ship capable of not being destroyed. Everything I want to do relies upon grinding to get there, and the grinding itself gets very boring, very quickly.

    The satisfaction from playing with my X52 Joystick, TrackIR, or VR, is worth only an hour or two at most, because afterwards the game goes from 'game' to 'chore' to 'second job'.

    Do I recommend this game? Well, after doing the math, I have to say: "No, unless there's an incredible sale". This game is worth $30 at most, and that's counting cosmetic microtransactions.    … Expand
  25. ujinroth
    Nov 12, 2019
    2
    There's is no immediate satisfaction in Elite Dangerous, the satisfaction comes after 36 months intensive 25h/day without eating, sleeping, washing yourself. If you're near to death, sitting in your own dangerous fluids, congrats you are part of the Elite!!!
  26. XHyuugaNejiX
    Mar 21, 2019
    0
    0/10. Worst. game. Spent an hour trying to figure out how to launch the ship because there is no tutorial. You just have to Guess, and there are 5 billion buttons that all do different things, and none of them seem to be the "select" button. So you can highlight the launch button, but you cant select it. Oh but then I happen to accidentally press some random key to try and now I dont know0/10. Worst. game. Spent an hour trying to figure out how to launch the ship because there is no tutorial. You just have to Guess, and there are 5 billion buttons that all do different things, and none of them seem to be the "select" button. So you can highlight the launch button, but you cant select it. Oh but then I happen to accidentally press some random key to try and now I dont know what that key is, but it brought up a launch sequence. Why was there no tutorial to tell a brand new person hey, you have to do this first. Then maybe I wouldnt have wasted money or my life working on this terrible game. Then It says that your tutorial in in the form of an incomming message, but as far as i can tell, there is no way to actually open the message. Couldnt get that far. For the safety of my computer, I had to quit because I'm an adult, I dont have **** time to figure out which of the billion buttons that are pressable will open my mail so maybe I can learn how to open my mail. **** you elite dangerous. 0/10, would not recomend. Will shoot anybody who decides to do it anyway.… Expand
  27. Raeat
    Feb 12, 2019
    1
    The game might have been tolerable, in a bland to the extremes,in a relentless grind sort of way before Beyond, but the drop of Beyond has been a nightmarish fiasco. Almost nothing works properly now, and there seems to be no effort on Frontier's part to do anything about the monstrous number of bugs Beyond introduced.

    Don't listen to the paid-off pros. They are only telling you what    The game might have been tolerable, in a bland to the extremes,in a relentless grind sort of way before Beyond, but the drop of Beyond has been a nightmarish fiasco. Almost nothing works properly now, and there seems to be no effort on Frontier's part to do anything about the monstrous number of bugs Beyond introduced.

    Don't listen to the paid-off pros. They are only telling you what they are paid to tell you.    … Expand
  28. GuntherUltrabol
    Feb 4, 2019
    2
    How much pain are you willing to go through to enjoy this game?

    The core of this game is hidden behind a frustrating control system that is supported by an even more frustrating tutorial. I think 6 years in, the people who wanted this kind of torment are already bored with it. At this stage, you're probably coming here after No Man's Sky or because you are tired of waiting for Star    How much pain are you willing to go through to enjoy this game?

    The core of this game is hidden behind a frustrating control system that is supported by an even more frustrating tutorial.

    I think 6 years in, the people who wanted this kind of torment are already bored with it. At this stage, you're probably coming here after No Man's Sky or because you are tired of waiting for Star Citizen.

    If you do not have patience in SPADES, you'll be pulling your hair out within 15 minutes.

    Absolutely, the most un-intuitive 5 hours I have ever spent in gaming.    … Expand
  29. Riva
    Dec 30, 2018
    1
    This game is bad. It is simultaneously FRUSTRATINGly difficult, punishing and BORING for a new player, GRINDY, and has NO STORY.

    For first 100 hours do not even think about combat ! (And the game doesn't hint you at that. You have to die in 3 seconds, lose a ship, pay all your savings for new one for 3 times to figure that out) For first 100 hours you will be (trying) to be a space    This game is bad. It is simultaneously FRUSTRATINGly difficult, punishing and BORING for a new player, GRINDY, and has NO STORY.

    For first 100 hours do not even think about combat ! (And the game doesn't hint you at that. You have to die in 3 seconds, lose a ship, pay all your savings for new one for 3 times to figure that out)
    For first 100 hours you will be (trying) to be a space truck driver (wchich is super boring in this game) to hopefuly not die too much to OP pirates, to make money for some semi-decent semi-fighter ship !

    This is basicaly the Flight simulator in space in future.
    Minus any real tutorial. (The 4 short tutorials will tell you nothing you really need to know)
    But with a lot of added classic boring horrible MMO grind, zero explanation of 500 mechanics it has, rogue-like super punishing difficulty and learn yourself with trial-error.

    In one world: FRUSTRATION. In three: FRUSTRATION and NO FUN.

    The game has no story missions. All missions are generated, repetitive, grindy and boring.
    That makes the grind even more obvious and pointess at the same time.

    I was looking for at least some wonderful sites to see. Didn't find any.

    Yes, I knew what game I was buying.
    Still imho it is simply bad, unfinished game and as such I can't recommend it.

    PS. The DLC system is both a theft and a joke.
    For another 25 Eur, to an empty boring space sim, you can add landing on completely empty barrent boring planets !! :D
    What will be next ? Empty boring planets undergrounds ? :D

    PPS This is the first game ever, that I just rage uninstalled and will never play again.    … Expand
  30. gdog
    Dec 11, 2018
    4
    The game looks and sounds great, but after visiting a few systems and doing a few generic missions you realize you've seen it all before. What's the point of simulating an entire galaxy if it is effectively empty of stuff to do. Like a cheerleader this is beautiful but shallow.
  31. TheWaffle
    Nov 26, 2018
    0
    I paid $60 for this game, and played it a bit at first. Now, why the hell do I need to create a "Frontier" account just to play the game now?
  32. Heydan
    Nov 4, 2018
    3
    The game has a strongly bigoted community paired with a staunchly Christian only narrative; but I do believe that there are a couple of open-minded people at the developer's studio. If you do not have an issue being prostylized to by Christans, banned for being a Jew, or can find the hand-full of people at the developer's studio that understand a galaxy might be diverse then its not thatThe game has a strongly bigoted community paired with a staunchly Christian only narrative; but I do believe that there are a couple of open-minded people at the developer's studio. If you do not have an issue being prostylized to by Christans, banned for being a Jew, or can find the hand-full of people at the developer's studio that understand a galaxy might be diverse then its not that bad of a game.

    On the technical side of things the game is quickly becoming dated despite the most recent patch. The developer has failed to meet it's targets or fulfill its backer promises. Although they are constantly overhauling the game to expand on things like mining and exploration they have not provided basic features which other games in the same genre were able to complete over a year ago such as the ability to walk around and landing on more than just non-atmospheric planets.

    All that said it does have some fleeting redeeming qualities and can be fun in short burst if you have friends to play with.    … Expand
  33. Broyax
    Jul 4, 2018
    0
    Décidément c'est pas demain la veille qu'on aura un nouveau Darkening surtout que le Sieur Roberts est plus occupé à mettre au point les micro-transactions et l'hôtel des ventes de son Star Citizen qu'à finir son jeu un jour... tout en étouffant le fric des neuneus et autres ravis de la crêche bien entendu.

    Cela dit, contrairement à Star machin, Elite Dangerous est sorti, lui. On a donc    Décidément c'est pas demain la veille qu'on aura un nouveau Darkening surtout que le Sieur Roberts est plus occupé à mettre au point les micro-transactions et l'hôtel des ventes de son Star Citizen qu'à finir son jeu un jour... tout en étouffant le fric des neuneus et autres ravis de la crêche bien entendu.

    Cela dit, contrairement à Star machin, Elite Dangerous est sorti, lui. On a donc quelque chose de tangible à jouer. Mais un brouillon pas fini. Aucune campagne par exemple, non, juste des missions balancées comme ça sous forme de texte. Pour 40 livres sterlings, what did you expect ? vous répond d'un ton narquois, Frontier Developments. Puis-je jouer en solo non connecté à ce putain d'internet ?... "eat **** vous répond Frontier Developments : même en solo il faut être connecté à leurs serveurs. Alors qu'ils avaient promis un mode hors ligne...

    Le jeu en lui-même n'est pas vilain et a un certain style. Le pilotage est exigeant et plutôt intéressant bien que tout aussi gérable au clavier et souris qu'à la manette 360. Son interface reste hélas peu amène et très perfectible (d'ailleurs même la couleur n'est pas réglable à moins de trifouiller des fichiers de config) et si les premiers amarrages sont amusants, au bout d'une trentaine, on commence à se faire chier : pas moyen de les passer ou de les accélérer. Pas de planètes où se poser non plus et on déplore un gros copié-collé des stations.

    En outre, la difficulté est très mal gérée avec non seulement cette courbe d'apprentissage quasi-inexpugnable sans aucun didacticiel digne de ce nom (ou le minimum syndical avec quelques pauvres missions d'entraînement) mais aussi eu égard au niveau des ennemis très rapidement bien costauds...

    En vérité, le jeu n'est qu'un gros MMO foireux sans abonnement : il faut farmer comme un Chinois 24/7, à faire toujours les mêmes choses et ça prend énormément de temps, car le jeu est très lent... le rafiot s'arrime, j'ai le temps de couler un bronze. Surtout que sans programme tiers pour le commerce, il faut tout noter sur un calepin si on veut gagner le moindre sou...

    Voilà donc un jeu de l'espace bien vide et répétitif, un Privateer connecté de pacotille. Une sorte de beta-test de luxe et une arnaque à 40 livres (52 euros) !    … Expand
  34. dustyribbons
    May 22, 2018
    0
    This is a game that sucks you in and then goes nowhere. The grind is worse than an f2p game and the loadings screens everytime you jump to another system are PTSD inducing. The Elite Dangerous community is filled with insecure fanboys who enjoy filling their days with menial chores.
  35. fitteslim
    Oct 28, 2017
    0
    Give it five-six more years, and David Braben might have put in something like 10% of the content he promised. Which should be enough to play this game for more than 10 hours.

    Right now it's the most boring grind game you can imagine.
  36. Sharpie321
    Jun 5, 2017
    2
    My opinions: a mile wide, an inch deep, spend way too much time interacting with ui, broken background simulation (factions etc.), broken powerplay, no weapon balancing or interesting combat. Every patch has actually been a step back for the game, starting with Engineers relying heavily on random number generation to increase ships abilities, to multicrew being almost void of anythingMy opinions: a mile wide, an inch deep, spend way too much time interacting with ui, broken background simulation (factions etc.), broken powerplay, no weapon balancing or interesting combat. Every patch has actually been a step back for the game, starting with Engineers relying heavily on random number generation to increase ships abilities, to multicrew being almost void of anything they advertised.

    For combat, it's not very deep. You set 4 pips to systems, 2 pips to weapons, and use the latest overpowered weapons that FDev have failed to balance. Multiplayer is an afterthought, since the peer to peer multiplayer system has so many issues putting players together. You will spend about five times more time trying to find enemies because of "Instancing" than actually fighting.

    For trading, there is no economy system. Prices can vary a small amount up or down on items, but that's it. So, you buy low and sell high. Trading gets very stale after about 20 hours.

    Mining is peaceful but dull.

    Exploration is a waste of time, for what? Screenshots? Exploration is 95% this: you fly around the star, scan while scooping fuel for about 10 seconds, engage engines, jump for 40 seconds (loading screen). So, you spend 80% of your time looking at loading screens - what they call "Witch Space". The only thing you can do ingame while in Witch Space (loading screen) is chat, but all other systems are locked, so most people end up watching hours and hours of shows/movies WHILE playing the game. So, you think 80% of your time wasted is not bad? Some of these places you need to go explore are 500-1000 jumps away, which can add up to well over 1000 minutes or 20 hours. So, that's 16 hours of staring at a loading screen but every minute, so you can't leave.

    Finally, the game is full of bugs. It's best to consider this game a beta if you want to play it without getting frustrated with all the bugs.    … Expand
  37. Laethageal
    May 7, 2017
    0
    If you love getting into a game, having a first feeling that is will be one of the deepest experience you had in-game, spend time building up what you own in game, only to realize how shallow the game is in reality, then it's the game for you.
  38. Blackcompany
    May 7, 2017
    3
    Amazing sound. Quality graphical presentation. A large universe. These are the pros of Elite: Dangerous. And they are the only ones.

    On the other hand, flying is amazing difficult. Too many minute facets of fine control to balance at once. Docking is a horrendous pain, as its all in real time with tiny station entrances and a game that makes no effort to help you find your assigned    Amazing sound. Quality graphical presentation. A large universe. These are the pros of Elite: Dangerous. And they are the only ones.

    On the other hand, flying is amazing difficult. Too many minute facets of fine control to balance at once. Docking is a horrendous pain, as its all in real time with tiny station entrances and a game that makes no effort to help you find your assigned dock.

    Activities are the same tired ones that appear in every space sim: trading, pirating, delivery jobs and bounty hunting.

    It must have been easy to refine and polish the existing space sim genre when making Elite. I say this because, judging by the design direction, the first thing they decided against in the beginning was any semblance of actual innovation at all.

    Not recommended.    … Expand
  39. Soopyyy
    Apr 22, 2017
    1
    I have way more hours in this game than I should. But that's not indicative of compelling gameplay. It literally takes hundreds of hours to get ANYTHING. The game does not respect the time of the player at all.
    The gameplay loop its self (the things you do to get anywhere) are shallow and repetitive. Frontier lacks direction and the design team simply don't seem to have the capacity to    I have way more hours in this game than I should. But that's not indicative of compelling gameplay. It literally takes hundreds of hours to get ANYTHING. The game does not respect the time of the player at all.
    The gameplay loop its self (the things you do to get anywhere) are shallow and repetitive. Frontier lacks direction and the design team simply don't seem to have the capacity to put together a game that is fun.
    As of the time of writing, the latest 2.3 patch has added nothing of value despite being 6 months late. There has been no noticeable change or improvement to the game since release in early 2015. It's entirely likely that there won't be.
    If you want a "Space Engine" game with slightly more interactivity than Space Engine, but massively less scientific accuracy, maybe pick up this title if it's $5-10.    … Expand
  40. Scorcher24
    Apr 14, 2017
    3
    The flying model is good, however, that is it. After you have done all the basic missions and activities, it is just the same things over and over until you lose interest. There is a story, however, that is only in form of blog entries and those can be read without actually owning the game. There is not a single non-repeatable mission in this game. Those missions do also not offer any sortThe flying model is good, however, that is it. After you have done all the basic missions and activities, it is just the same things over and over until you lose interest. There is a story, however, that is only in form of blog entries and those can be read without actually owning the game. There is not a single non-repeatable mission in this game. Those missions do also not offer any sort of meaning to the game world. Not even if you do faction wars. The borders move a bit, that is it. But nothing actually happens. The player cannot own anything but a ship. There is also no production, so mining is useless as a money maker since Bounty Hunting is the best earner in the game. The only purpose is when you have Engineers, which require you to mine thousands of tons of ore to unlock them. The sad part is, without Engineers (which are behind an extra 25€ paywall), you are going to have a bad time fighting, since the whole world is balanced towards the Season Pass.

    All in all, it is fun for a few hours and then it becomes rather stale. I'd rather play Eve or X3.    … Expand
  41. Almostpilot
    Apr 7, 2017
    0
    The biggest disappointment I had with such a long awaited game. In addition to the developer lies during the campaign. The game was released on bare bones and still remains so today. Neither the Horizons expansion with the landing on completely empty planets. Also they still can not deliver the content of all season 2, this is completely late. The multicrew will be born dead, because theThe biggest disappointment I had with such a long awaited game. In addition to the developer lies during the campaign. The game was released on bare bones and still remains so today. Neither the Horizons expansion with the landing on completely empty planets. Also they still can not deliver the content of all season 2, this is completely late. The multicrew will be born dead, because the gameplay presented during the beta is ridiculous. Other than that, they added and lost time with unnecessary developments like CQC, PP, Arena, Engineers and the gaming mechanics that needed to be deepened such as exploration, trade, mining still relegated to the background. 400 billion systems with the same planets repeated in all of them plus points of interest completely repeated in each of them.… Expand
  42. Gulskjegg
    Oct 26, 2016
    0
    Horrible game, and will go down in history as such. Would not be worth playing even if it was free. The profound lack of content renders Elite Dangerous more of a tech demo than a playable game. Imagine Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens, but actually having to pay $60 to download it. You can do all that can be done in about an hour. Everything beyond that is an endless, mind-numbing grind forHorrible game, and will go down in history as such. Would not be worth playing even if it was free. The profound lack of content renders Elite Dangerous more of a tech demo than a playable game. Imagine Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens, but actually having to pay $60 to download it. You can do all that can be done in about an hour. Everything beyond that is an endless, mind-numbing grind for kills, rank, or credits. The flight engine is contrived to the point of being morally offensive. What is the point of creating a "realistic" 1:1 galaxy, then adding flight characteristics that are intentionally and willfully designed to both frustrate the player and ignore the laws of physics. Powerful lasers with a range of 2 kilometers? Check! Add weight and gravity effects in space? Check! Allow the AI enemy to completelty ignore all limitations placed on human players? Check! The high marks given to this putrid pile of garbage by "professional" reviewers is a perfect example of why gamers do not trust games journalism, which has devolved into shilling and SJW pearl-clutching. Run, do not walk away from this game, or you be in for some serious buyers remorse.… Expand
  43. Sn0r
    Oct 5, 2016
    0
    It might be realistic, but realistic space travel is just boring. 90% of the time you will just sit in front of your PC doing literaly nothing but staring into the emptyness of space. It's like a screensaver where you have to press your keyboard so it keeps moving.
  44. MartangTheFirst
    Sep 3, 2016
    1
    Nothing meaningful to do in game yet. Lots of pointless grinding, pointless grinding for credits to get better ships (which on the whole are less fun to fly). A broken PVP system. And 12 months later Vive display issues still aren't fixed.

    Come back in a few expansions and hopefully you'll find a great game...
  45. Psyanide
    Aug 24, 2016
    4
    Despite having 400 billion systems Elite falls flat on it's face before even leaving the first. What might at first appear to be a fun space sim, with lush graphics and great sound effects Elite's gameplay soon plummets into a repetitive grind fest with little depth and plenty of built in time sinks designed by he developer to hold back your progress as much as possible.

    Despite what    Despite having 400 billion systems Elite falls flat on it's face before even leaving the first. What might at first appear to be a fun space sim, with lush graphics and great sound effects Elite's gameplay soon plummets into a repetitive grind fest with little depth and plenty of built in time sinks designed by he developer to hold back your progress as much as possible.

    Despite what some people will try to tell you, Elite's flight model is not Newtonian, all ships fly like Jets with a faster pitch than yaw even with flight assist off, a capped speed limit (instead of acceleration limited by mass) and a flawed ''flight assist off'' mode that despite adding a more Newtonian feel still seems to want to add friction where there shouldn't be.... at all in fact.

    Missions are repetitive even after the overhaul that was supposed to add more variation but in fact all it did was allow several of these repetitive missions to be chained together resulting in forcing you to play the repetitiveness out for longer than before.
    Exploration is just as repetitive and boring as trading with even less of a payout, which seems like an insult considering it takes longer than trading.
    Smuggling is a rinse and repeat process every time just involving rushing the docking bay while in silent running mode, there is no variation to these missions not the smuggling mechanic what so ever.

    Trade is about what you would expect, take X from A to B and then preferably Y from B to C or back to A. The markets don't change much and it's not like you can manufacture anything yourself to influence the market either, you're literally just stuck going from A to B.

    ''Populated'' space does not seem very populated at all, you cannot interact with NPC ships aside from shooting them, you cannot trade with other players, you cannot form corporations with other players in fact the whole social aspect of this online game is incredibly lacking.

    Now onto the overall development of Elite since it's early release from Beta back in 2014. First off when Elite was released you couldn't form a group (or a Wing in this case) until 2 MONTHS after release with the Wings update (imagine Wow, the Battlefield series or any other online online game that did that, it's shoddy development), then despite people being annoyed about the lack of depth in the game and the over abundance of repetitive gameplay Frontier released the Powerplay update that adds a PURE grindfest to fill a progress bar for your preferred political party to show your support only for that progress to be removed every week, so keeping your progression is impossible and it actively punishes you for taking a break.
    then, with the Horizons update Frontier gave us barren, lifeless planets to land on, with no variation of things to find. See that planet over there with lush greenery, a bountiful ocean and city lights visible from space? Well you can't land on those kind of planets, no you're only allowed on the barren boring ones because Frontiers team are too lazy to give you anything else other than barren planets.
    Then there is the 2.1 update, the most recent update as of writing this, which (now remember enough people have quite due to the amount of grinding in the game already) added a super grindy random number generation (or RNG for short) crafting system, meaning that you spend 5+ hours grinding resources to upgrade a module or weapon on your ship only to waste all that time because the game decided to give you a rubbish crafting outcome so now you have to go back and grind all those resources again just to try your luck yet again, and this can be something that you repeat 10 times before you even get a favourable crafting outcome let alone the outcome you were aiming for.

    With the 2016 Gamescom over we have been given details of the next 2.2 update which will add deplorable [that was actually a typo, I meant deployable, but I'm sure like most gameplay features in Elite they will be deplorable too) combat drones, hire able NPC crew (who, unlike you, will die perminently if your ship is destroyed wasting all the time and effort you put into levelling and training them up), passenger transporting (exactly the same as transporting cargo, nothing new here, although it will give a use to the Dolphin ship which has been in the game for a year without any use).

    All in all Elite is a rather mediocre space sim, both gameplay wise and development wise, who's only true claim to fame is that it has the biggest play area and the most fanatical fanboy community that can't accept any criticism.    … Expand
  46. loaked
    Aug 16, 2016
    0
    Don't waste your time or money on this one. Its comical in the amount of pointless and mind numbing grinding it takes to get anywhere in the game. When you do finally get some traction going and get a mission that might actually pay you some descent money, enemy ships get sent after you that you can even come close to trying to take down. The ending result is your drained of the last 2Don't waste your time or money on this one. Its comical in the amount of pointless and mind numbing grinding it takes to get anywhere in the game. When you do finally get some traction going and get a mission that might actually pay you some descent money, enemy ships get sent after you that you can even come close to trying to take down. The ending result is your drained of the last 2 hours of money you grinded to get. I found myself in this loop of gaining money and fame, then once I was ahead enemy ships where sent against me that I was no match for. How so many people still play this game I will never understand, but take advice from me and the thousands of other people(look at the reviews on steam) and skip this game!… Expand
  47. Jezior
    Jul 30, 2016
    3
    Elite sounds much better on paper then it is in real life. Massive up to the scale galaxy is empty and lacks any kind of activity, it is really hard to find a player, combat is unbelievably boring. There is only a grind to bigger shop over and over again. Only reason why it receives such a good scores is because there no competition for it at the time in space simulator genre. If you thinkElite sounds much better on paper then it is in real life. Massive up to the scale galaxy is empty and lacks any kind of activity, it is really hard to find a player, combat is unbelievably boring. There is only a grind to bigger shop over and over again. Only reason why it receives such a good scores is because there no competition for it at the time in space simulator genre. If you think about purchase wait for No Man Sky instead. It can be only better.
    What a waste of a fantastic concept. This game has nice moments but the fade really quickly in abyss of boredom.    … Expand
  48. Germane_Riposte
    May 31, 2016
    2
    Do be extremely careful before you decide to hand money over for this one. There are several charges you can level against this game at of this time:

    First it is very grind based: you will have to grind intensely for basically everything wherever it be credits, rank or faction standing, even introducing tiers in the grind, where you can grind up to get the opportunity to spend more time    Do be extremely careful before you decide to hand money over for this one. There are several charges you can level against this game at of this time:

    First it is very grind based: you will have to grind intensely for basically everything wherever it be credits, rank or faction standing, even introducing tiers in the grind, where you can grind up to get the opportunity to spend more time grinding. A continuous series of updates made it clear that this is the direction the developers wish to take the game, with every major update liable to introduce significant grind (Power Play update and Engineer update come to mind). You may be looking at a time investment of 500+ hrs to get to the top tier ships.

    QA doesn't seem to be top priority with Frontier either, you may end up looking at a fair number of bugs you'll have to deal with and/or work around. Ranging from the ships UI locking up and text segments being corrupted to missions ending up as unfinishable. The latter especially compounds badly with the above mentioned grind.

    Content is very, very generic, you'll be looking at the same two station interiors a lot. You'll be looking at the same station exteriors a lot too, but there is a tad bit more variation there, all factions use the same templates, so this one suffers from the EVE syndrome in that regard: Everywhere in the universe everything looks the same; well, not quite, they may use different heraldic devices on their station, and slightly different shade of grey for their paint jobs.
    Planet surfaces may hold your attention for at least a while (if you opt in for horizons), there's more randomness there, though not necessarily more to do.
    Do not look for engaging story- or questlines here, at the time of this writing, they do not exist, and I wouldn't expect any being added for the lifetime of the product.

    Be also aware that Frontier may opt to make very drastic changes to the way combat and gameplay elements work. We are talking about sailing serenely through space one day and getting one-shotted in the same space post update. Considering a total ship loss may set you back a couple of hours grinding you may not be too fond of that.

    There are no things like an ingame auction house/player market, there is no banking or storage space on stations you can use whatsoever. To trade with another player you'd need to exchange the goods in space by jettisoning them and scooping them up, and no, you can't even transfer ingame funds to anyone else, such is life in the fictional universe of the future.

    There are no structures you can place or build, neither in space nor planet side.

    There is a crafting of sorts which you can conduct at a handful of stations distributed around space with the help of the local engineer. Of course you'll first have to grind faction with said engineer. After that you can let him/her have you build upgrades for your ship, as long as you can supply the rare loot and tools for the job, finding those is depending on your luck with the RNG. You'll have a tough time trading any you find with other players (see above). Also you'll have to carry them with you at all times, since you can't store them anywhere but on your ship (see also above).
    Having the engineer actually build you your upgrade, well, that's the next round of RNG for you. I think you can see where this is going.

    I'd strongly advise against buying into Elite Dangerous.

    On a positive note, I found the CS is fairly responsive, at least as far as tickets you file are concerned.    … Expand
  49. eldumloido
    May 29, 2016
    0
    "Game" sucks and is only a way to sell the content as dlc. No way to buy complete edition. b
  50. Xelluse
    Apr 20, 2016
    4
    4 and just cos of great Physics release.
    Gameplay interesting on start, but nothing special, boring and very repetitive in late game.
    Graphics not much better than in EVE. Very shiny, feels wet and looks like Korean MMO more, good for old space games. Nice light effects. Game is stable, but will overlock even good gaming PC. Maybe someone like it - design looks like in scifi movies    4 and just cos of great Physics release.
    Gameplay interesting on start, but nothing special, boring and very repetitive in late game.
    Graphics not much better than in EVE. Very shiny, feels wet and looks like Korean MMO more, good for old space games.
    Nice light effects.
    Game is stable, but will overlock even good gaming PC.
    Maybe someone like it - design looks like in scifi movies from 60s, not bad, but was expecting something realistic, especially for that high system requirements.
    I never played Elite before and after this game 100% will not do that in future, In my opinion game is good to purchase just on huge sales.    … Expand
  51. poppyzzz
    Mar 25, 2016
    0
    First of all I would like to say I like this game what I don't like is them charging us more money for Horizons when the base game is still nowhere near complete. Currently life in ED revolves around grinding credits for a better ship and grinding ranks to be able to fly some of the bigger ships. Horizons was so poor I was debating asking for a refund I mean yes you can land on planets butFirst of all I would like to say I like this game what I don't like is them charging us more money for Horizons when the base game is still nowhere near complete. Currently life in ED revolves around grinding credits for a better ship and grinding ranks to be able to fly some of the bigger ships. Horizons was so poor I was debating asking for a refund I mean yes you can land on planets but that's it. You also can only land on planets with no atmosphere and they usually are just baron rocky places with nothing to do except drive across with your moon buggy.There are new surface missions but they pay so little it's not worth doing them,if the surface missions were interesting then fine but they are not they just plain boaring.I could go on here all day but I won't,my advice is wait until they have fixed the game or wait for Star Citizen.… Expand
  52. koyukon
    Mar 1, 2016
    4
    It looks amazing but it's just tedious to play. 99% of the time is spent traveling and what there is of gameplay is effectively meaningless mindless activities. I'd only return to it for the sake of planetary discovery but I always find myself quitting in deep space due to lack of reward. It seems that it is better to let others play it and follow their discoveries than to play it myself.It looks amazing but it's just tedious to play. 99% of the time is spent traveling and what there is of gameplay is effectively meaningless mindless activities. I'd only return to it for the sake of planetary discovery but I always find myself quitting in deep space due to lack of reward. It seems that it is better to let others play it and follow their discoveries than to play it myself. I really appreciate the touches of science and realism, but it just lacks a lot of content.… Expand
  53. Delling
    Feb 15, 2016
    1
    You'll love this game... for the first month. The flight model is very good, combat is fun.
    Unforunately, the game is also very boring.
    Combat: space combat is fun; unfortunately, Frontier Developments found nothing better to propose you than go to the combat zone, pick your faction, start killings things. Over, and over, again. Oh, wait, there is also a twist, resource extration    You'll love this game... for the first month. The flight model is very good, combat is fun.
    Unforunately, the game is also very boring.

    Combat: space combat is fun; unfortunately, Frontier Developments found nothing better to propose you than go to the combat zone, pick your faction, start killings things. Over, and over, again. Oh, wait, there is also a twist, resource extration zones! It works this way: go to the resource extraction site, target a ship, if it's a miner leave him alone, if it's wanted shoot him. Over, and over, and over again.

    Trading: go to station 1. pick up stuff. go to station 2. sell stuff. buy stuff. go to station 1. sell stuff. buy stuff. What happens while you travel from station 1 to station 2? Nothing. You simply watch the very same hyperjump animation again, and again, and again. And forget any autopilot feature, the game designers want you to do something trivial roughly each 30 seconds to make sure your ship goes where it's supposed to go. An ancient chiniese torture, actually.

    Exploration: you point your ship towards an unexplored planet or star, wait a few seconds, and the planet is now explored. How exiting. Now you turn your ship's nose towards the next planet, wait roughly a minute to reach it, wait a few seconds, great, you've explored it too. Repeat until you start to sing that old Nirvana song "i hate myself i want to die".

    Long story short: you'll love it for the first weeks. Then you'll start to grow bored. You'll keep clinging to hope the devs will turn it into something interesting for another few weeks. Then you'll realize this game will be finished only when star citizen will be released: they just began to take your money earlier.    … Expand
  54. cassius769
    Feb 11, 2016
    2
    Was big fun of Fronier. Now nothing changed apart graphics. It is either where you start qes to dock and if you go somewhere further away from starting point there is empty space. No one. I mean no human players. The sequence of docking is painful when you have to wait these long seconds watching a bit of metal tilting by 30 degrees.

    Boring to tears.
  55. Necron99
    Feb 4, 2016
    2
    This game falls short and by a long way, It looks great has amazing audio and pretty good flight mechanics, Sadly that where it ends! After that its just a truck sim in space with the odd bit of combat thrown in, To make things worse they the add a DLC that add planet landings to the game, This is adds nothing in the way of game-play just more shallow and empty game mechanics with nothingThis game falls short and by a long way, It looks great has amazing audio and pretty good flight mechanics, Sadly that where it ends! After that its just a truck sim in space with the odd bit of combat thrown in, To make things worse they the add a DLC that add planet landings to the game, This is adds nothing in the way of game-play just more shallow and empty game mechanics with nothing to do charged are a premium.… Expand
  56. bw7816253
    Jan 2, 2016
    0
    Frontier Developments' Elite: Dangerous is boring, empty, buggy and unfinished. This extremely poor excuse for a game does not deserve to carry the name Elite.
  57. zitrux
    Dec 27, 2015
    3
    frustrating game. ship controls is really akward and hard to master. Maybe game for some hardcore Space simulator fans but cant recommend for anyone else
  58. Pannon
    Dec 26, 2015
    4
    The gamer site reviews reflect the score, that has hopes and wishful thinking has attached to it.
    If you read them, note the date of the review. They reviewed the game not long after it was released and the game has (had) a huge potential to become something much bigger. The reviewers gave the high scores for high hopes. A year later, the game barely changed, beside a few additional    The gamer site reviews reflect the score, that has hopes and wishful thinking has attached to it.
    If you read them, note the date of the review. They reviewed the game not long after it was released and the game has (had) a huge potential to become something much bigger. The reviewers gave the high scores for high hopes. A year later, the game barely changed, beside a few additional features, which ultimately just gave the game more grind, instead of adding meaningful content.
    If you play it for a few hours you get the vibe, that you may have to do a lot of things to progress anywhere, and perhaps you get excited, just thinking about the endless possibilities and options and choices.
    Give it another 10 hours, and your entire gameplay consist of preparing to start to play the game and waiting for that moment, when you start really playing. Unfortunately, that moment never comes. What you do in your first hour, is what you will do for the rest of the time. Either trade back/forth between stations, which consist of taking off, traveling - loading screen -traveling - landing, or fighting endlessly spawning enemy ships, which change absolutely nothing, whether it comes factions or affiliations of various powers. All the other ships you may see as traffic is nothing else, but background filler. They serve no purpose or function, beside they are giving the illusion of "things happening". You can actually test this by trying to follow a ship, which will end up traveling somewhere infinitely, or landing at an non particular space station, and then taking off and doing over and over, without selling something or fighting.
    You can also test, that whether those ships you blow up makes any difference to their faction or base. They do nothing.
    Eventually, you will realise, that the entire universe is created for you, and outside of your visual radius, nothing really goes on, and everything ceases to exist as soon you leave. Unidentified signals sources pop up for you randomly, if you fly slow and their content isn't determined, until you stop to investigate by dropping out of hyperspace.
    Sound effects is great. That's why I'm giving it a 4. If nobody else, then it's the sound team, that perhaps did their best to make something.
    I see, a lot of people praising graphics. I don't see it that way. It's not hard to draw space and place objects floating in it.It's much harder to create Earth based fantasy worlds or actual locations with buildings, vegetation.
    I can't give more than 4, and if I would not consider the sound and music, this game is maybe a 2.    … Expand
  59. eduardvictor
    Dec 20, 2015
    0
    It would be great if Frontier Developments toned down the completely pointless grind by about 90%.

    Grind is NOT fun in ANY game. There is a reason why only 3000 players are playing this on Steam, meanwhile FD is bragging that they sold over a million copies. I had a ton of fun in the Horizons Beta, because everything costs 10% of what it does on the live server. I actually felt    It would be great if Frontier Developments toned down the completely pointless grind by about 90%.

    Grind is NOT fun in ANY game.

    There is a reason why only 3000 players are playing this on Steam, meanwhile FD is bragging that they sold over a million copies.

    I had a ton of fun in the Horizons Beta, because everything costs 10% of what it does on the live server.

    I actually felt like I was progressing every time I killed someone, sold something, or did a mission.

    Meanwhile, on the live server, I barely scraped together enough money in 4 hours of play just to upgrade my Cobra Mk 3 to a Cobra Mk 4, and I can't equip jack **** on it because everything good costs over half a million for each part, sometimes over 1.5 million.

    At this rate, I will never get into that ship that costs 170 million+ and requires faction rep grind, unless I literally only play this game all day every day for the next 2 years straight.

    Grinding money for years to go through 10 different **** ships in order to get to an actually good one is not my idea of fun, if I wanted that, I'd still be playing Eve Online.

    I do enough grinding IRL, TYVM, when I get into a game, I expect to have fun.

    They should either make the rewards not be complete and utter **** for everything, or lower the prices to beta server levels (10% of live server prices), or double that, hell, even triple, but not **** 10 times more.

    Add to that the fact that it takes ages to get anywhere in this game, because of the much too slow supercruise, and you have a recipe for a game that no one but the most hardcore and unemployed people will want to / have time to play past 2 weeks at a time with 10 month breaks in between.

    Most frustrating, grindy and boring game I've ever played in 20 years, with the possible exception of Archeage.

    Absolutely FRUSTRATING to play, and less fun that Eve Online.

    The developers are making a game that THEY want to play, and they are completely IGNORING every single ♥♥♥♥ing piece of feedback that the community gives them to make this ♥♥♥♥ game more fun and less of a ♥♥♥♥ing chore to play.

    They are not increasing mission rewards or reducing prices, so you don't have to grind an arbitrary number of credits back for half a day in order to get your ship back.

    They are not fixing the completely BROKEN interdiction system, which makes it completely ♥♥♥♥ing impossible to avoid an interdiction every time you take a courier mission.

    Earlier today, I took a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6000 credit reward courier mission and got interdicted 4 times in a ♥♥♥♥ing row (IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID) by a CLIPPER, in my COBRA MK IV, and lost it. There, 900000 worth of ship gone to ♥♥♥♥ in minutes.

    Uninstalled the game after that ♥♥♥♥.

    ♥♥♥♥ Frontier Developments for charging people crap tons of money for this ♥♥♥♥ game, I'd rather return to Eve, which I played from 2004 to 2014.

    Hell, X3 Albion prelude ♥♥♥♥♥ all over this game in terms of fun and properly done progression, this ♥♥♥♥ game is all flash no substance.

    In 2000 hours of playing X3 AP, i never felt frustrated or like i was wasting my ♥♥♥♥ing time grinding.

    I have over 500 hours in Elite Dangerous and a bunch more in Horizons, which did not register on my Steam account, because I played on the separate launcher that beta players get.

    Yeah, don't waste your money, this game is being handled by old farts who don't know a fun game if it ♥♥♥♥ed them in the face.    … Expand
  60. jclaiborne2007
    Dec 20, 2015
    0
    Woohoo! Not buying in on this game is a real win for me. Frontier loves to screw its backers. Please give us your money for an empty game and if we ever do make anything worth playing we will be sure that the backers pay 10x as much as a new player. Paying $100 dollars to fly around in an empty game, gee now that is a great deal!
  61. Basiclife
    Dec 17, 2015
    4
    Promising Game, Idiotic Company

    The game has an awful lot of potential. Playing with the rift is truly f-ing awesome. When I first got hold of E:D I sunk a couple of hundred hours into it and then left it alone for a while to see what came along next. Apparently the answer is ... Nothing. You can buy a whole _new_ game which includes the base game (and some new features like landing    Promising Game, Idiotic Company

    The game has an awful lot of potential. Playing with the rift is truly f-ing awesome. When I first got hold of E:D I sunk a couple of hundred hours into it and then left it alone for a while to see what came along next.

    Apparently the answer is ... Nothing. You can buy a whole _new_ game which includes the base game (and some new features like landing on planets) but there's not much in the way of content (at least, not when compared to MMORPGs as the devs keep trying to do). The new game? More expensive than the original because it includes the base game. Which I already have.

    I don't mind the money, I object to the shady business practices, broken promises and (frankly) half-baked level of implementation for all existing features/content.

    But hey, why finish developing a game when you can add a few new features and charge the same all over again? Ok, they haven't _actually_ added most of the stuff you're paying for but they will. Honest!

    Looking at their track record for keeping promises to date, I'm not optimistic.

    In summary: Really good foundation to make a truly epic game, but it's being used to make a series of half-broken, incomplete, full-priced games, one every year to keep milking you.

    Oh and as an added bonus, you too can have 10 copies of the game in your Steam library to really clutter things up.    … Expand
  62. Saratosa75
    Dec 14, 2015
    1
    Horizons buyers, be aware of a few facts, before you decide to pay $50.00 for an expansion.

    1. Premium Alpha and Beta backers are discarded, not listened to and continually been ignored, since 2014. I paid $75.00 for Premium Beta, and according to Frontier, I do not qualify to own Horizons. There are thousands of us, some paid over $140.00 and left in the ditch by Frontier    Horizons buyers, be aware of a few facts, before you decide to pay $50.00 for an expansion.

    1. Premium Alpha and Beta backers are discarded, not listened to and continually been ignored, since 2014.
    I paid $75.00 for Premium Beta, and according to Frontier, I do not qualify to own Horizons. There are thousands of us, some paid over $140.00 and left in the ditch by Frontier Developments. They are fraudulent and money grabbers with a half baked product of something they call a game, and obviously they are not implementing any meaningful changes to the game, beside adding more places to do nothing (Horizons) for a full price of a new game.
    2. Anyone bought Elite: Dangerous previously and paid for the full product $49.99, must pay another $49.99 to own Horizons. So, they have to buy twice the price, just to land on planets.
    3. Those who only buy Horizons, only have to pay $49.99 and essentially own both Elite:Dangerous and Horizons.
    Let alone the fact, that the base game "Elite:Dangerous" continues to remain just a shell of a game, an empty void with barely any game play, beside auto-generated -spawned AI ships and completely non-functioning economy. Despite the raving reviews a year ago, the game has not evolved, beside a few additional gameplay elements, which has not changed much the game.
    You can kill thousands of ships, it will not make any meaningful (nobody is getting weaker or stronger) changes in the game world.
    You can trade thousands of items all across the systems, nobody is getting richer or poorer, beside you, and your reward is, that you can buy a bigger ship and do the same mindless/meaningless truck driver job or arcade shooter.

    The "Horizons" addon, let's you land on planets with no atmosphere, but not even all.

    Please, tell me if this is a fair business practice.
    Even the most criticized EA Incorp. with its endless addons and expansions to their core games don't do this.
    If you buy - for example - Battlefield 4 (core), for $49.99, your expansion of your pick will not cost another $49.99, and they aren't only adding another rifle to shoot with.
    Following Frontier Developments' money grabber practices of the past- my predictions:
    - You will be able to land on planets with atmospheres (sometime in 2016) for additional $20.00 for Horizon owners. Elite:Dangerous owners (if they still havent deserted this empty shell of nothing) must pay another $70.00 to own Horizons with "Elite: Atmosphere" upgrade.
    -You will be able to land on gas giants for addititional ($20.00) for Horizon owners, or you can get a Gold-Platinum-Game of The Year (no doubt the reviewers will hype it again, with a whole-total of 5 mins of gameplay) full package of Elite:Dangerous Horizons Atmospheric Gas Giant Edition for as little as $95.00.

    Previous Elite:Dangerous owners with no Horizons upgrade must pay an addtional $120.00 to enjoy Horizons+Atmospheric Landing+Gas Giants super package.
    -    … Expand
  63. TDO
    Dec 13, 2015
    0
    I was excited for this game and so when I finally had a proper gaming desktop again I bought it, 20 hours and nothing to show for it. Pirates will attack you at every system and if you have anything of value it's guaranteed to be pirate that kills you before you can run. I want my time and money. Difficult controls, complex systems, learning the hard way. I expected those things and wasI was excited for this game and so when I finally had a proper gaming desktop again I bought it, 20 hours and nothing to show for it. Pirates will attack you at every system and if you have anything of value it's guaranteed to be pirate that kills you before you can run. I want my time and money. Difficult controls, complex systems, learning the hard way. I expected those things and was willing to put the time in to overcome them as an entrance barrier. I system that kills you far to frequently with no recourse to the player, I'm out. I wasted time and money and I hope you don't make the same mistake.… Expand
  64. blackbird1
    Dec 6, 2015
    0
    so much singleplayer features are missing because of only online crap like third person and other things, also compared to games like x3 AP TC (not rebirth crap) this game feels very arcade in terms of ships and weapons. its fun but i hate the missign features because of online crap
  65. Ayreos
    Dec 2, 2015
    3
    A game in which the sounds and the atmosphere of a space science fiction fantasy are lovingly crafted. Unfortunately, that's about the only positive thing i can say about the game. Annoying mechanics, strange design choices, a complete dearth of content(made, if possible, worse by the first "expansion" currently in beta, which simply broadened an already shallow, repetitive experience withA game in which the sounds and the atmosphere of a space science fiction fantasy are lovingly crafted. Unfortunately, that's about the only positive thing i can say about the game. Annoying mechanics, strange design choices, a complete dearth of content(made, if possible, worse by the first "expansion" currently in beta, which simply broadened an already shallow, repetitive experience with yet more shallow content. There are the makings of a fun experience below all the frustration, but it was impossible for me to get at it, and not for the lack of trying. Worst of all: don't hope to be able to play multiplayer comfortably with your friends! Just don't!… Expand
  66. 2fast4u34521
    Nov 13, 2015
    3
    Elite:Boring.

    After 2 weeks of playing it leaves me only bored. You cant earn money as fast as you should and everything looks the same. Its so sleepy...X3 is a much better game, even though it is old. Just think about the traveling in elite: this flying and flying and there is nothing to do. In X3 you can do many thinks just while traveling. Here its only waiting. OMFG I **** hate this    Elite:Boring.

    After 2 weeks of playing it leaves me only bored. You cant earn money as fast as you should and everything looks the same. Its so sleepy...X3 is a much better game, even though it is old. Just think about the traveling in elite: this flying and flying and there is nothing to do. In X3 you can do many thinks just while traveling. Here its only waiting. OMFG I **** hate this **** And I played it 2 weeks.    … Expand
  67. Luke0086
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Whilst the game makes a seemingly good attempt at bringing the old frontier back to life, I feel that the main parts of the original game are the parts that are missing in the new game - the attention to detail and imagination.

    The hyper jump effects are pretty immense, but the game suffers from bugs and design flaws. The trailer on Youtube also might as well have "not actual game    Whilst the game makes a seemingly good attempt at bringing the old frontier back to life, I feel that the main parts of the original game are the parts that are missing in the new game - the attention to detail and imagination.

    The hyper jump effects are pretty immense, but the game suffers from bugs and design flaws. The trailer on Youtube also might as well have "not actual game footage" displayed throughout the entire video, which shows just how bad it is that the game can't even be represented truthfully in an advert.

    The main thing that I didn't like about the game though, is the awful moderators on the forums - which less face it, are a large part of modern games now where people can discuss the game with others. I've had simple comments of mine deleted, and threads locked, for absolutely no reason.

    In the end I took Frontier Developments to court and got a full refund because they refused to give me my money back (which is something that a lot of people have asked for, being that one forum thread dedicated to getting refunds was the largest thread in the entire forum!)

    Being that my love for the Elite games has now been destroyed by Frontier Developments, I just can't bring myself to recommend this unfinished, bug infested game to anyone.    … Expand
  68. Bennrama
    Nov 9, 2015
    3
    Why anyone with any intelligence plays this game instead of say.... X3 is beyond me. The only possible reason would be for the multiplayer, but let's face it, elite: tedious has God awful multiplayer. It is reasonably engaging for the first 20 hours perhaps, which would be fine for a single player game that packed a lot of content into 20 hours and left you feeling like you've accomplishedWhy anyone with any intelligence plays this game instead of say.... X3 is beyond me. The only possible reason would be for the multiplayer, but let's face it, elite: tedious has God awful multiplayer. It is reasonably engaging for the first 20 hours perhaps, which would be fine for a single player game that packed a lot of content into 20 hours and left you feeling like you've accomplished something in that time (like the completion of a decent storyline, for example). Elite left me feeling like I'd wasted a bunch of hours learning the controls and quirks of a game that is in NO WAY ENJOYABLE..... The only way to conceivably enjoy this monster grind of pretty-looking repetition simulator, would be to play with friends. But Elite seems determined to make that as frustrating as possible.… Expand
  69. Generalgameman
    Nov 6, 2015
    0
    Empty, shallow and dead boring!
    You will only grind cash to get better things.
    If you say about it the fanboys of this game will tell you that it's not about cash, it's all about using your imagination. lol.
    The game is dead, 3 days I traded, across a 6 jump journey and didn't see anyone or thing once! No one attacked me in 3 days!!!
    They say space is lonely... it is here!
    Save your money!
  70. Thunderflexx
    Oct 25, 2015
    3
    This game is not at all what I expected from the previews. I was after a game with cool space battles, where finding your enemy is relatively painless, tracking the enemy and getting a gun lock would make sense, then having the ability to actually kill an enemy youve spent all the time tracking, locking, and firing at. I get that this is a simulation, but like...youre in a **** spaceThis game is not at all what I expected from the previews. I was after a game with cool space battles, where finding your enemy is relatively painless, tracking the enemy and getting a gun lock would make sense, then having the ability to actually kill an enemy youve spent all the time tracking, locking, and firing at. I get that this is a simulation, but like...youre in a **** space ship that has hyper drive...and you have lasers that can only shoot straight, can only hit things 3 feet in front of your fricken face, and overheat after a very short amount of shots. Its lame as **** **** this game! If only I could get money back on a ****ty software puchase.… Expand
  71. Tuco_Ramires
    Oct 15, 2015
    1
    At first when I started playing this game it was enjoyable and would have given it a 10 / 10.Fantastic Ideas ,solo play to avoid toxic players and many other good ideas.
    But since release ,the developers have slowly changed the game to a point where it is litteraly unplayable for Pvers and solo play,they nerfed ships and buffed Npcs,interdictions and turned a relaxed gaming experience    At first when I started playing this game it was enjoyable and would have given it a 10 / 10.Fantastic Ideas ,solo play to avoid toxic players and many other good ideas.
    But since release ,the developers have slowly changed the game to a point where it is litteraly unplayable for Pvers and solo play,they nerfed ships and buffed Npcs,interdictions and turned a relaxed gaming experience into a chore.They ruined in a few months what was once a masterpiece    … Expand
  72. jseph1234
    Oct 14, 2015
    2
    This game is a boring, repetitive incomplete game. Its not worth $60 that is currently being charged. More like $25 and it has too much grind in it. The developers are constantly changing their story on coming features and the next expansion is $45.
  73. danunn
    Oct 13, 2015
    1
    I tried REAL hard to make this game work. Took advice to only do delivery missions until you can make some money, but even the delivery missions are hard. You grab something that looks simple, but ends up being 20 star system away and may not even have a route to it, and oh yeah, you only have 30 Earth minutes to get there, and you will run out of gas every three to four star systems. IfI tried REAL hard to make this game work. Took advice to only do delivery missions until you can make some money, but even the delivery missions are hard. You grab something that looks simple, but ends up being 20 star system away and may not even have a route to it, and oh yeah, you only have 30 Earth minutes to get there, and you will run out of gas every three to four star systems. If there's no gas station when you are out of gas, point yourself to the nearest station and leave you xbox on and traveling in that direction FOR THE REST OF YOUR REAL LIFE, I'm not joking! F@#k this so called game.… Expand
  74. Jolt51
    Oct 11, 2015
    1
    So, I bought the game, a Joystick, and a new keyboard to play this game. Not being new to MMO's I expected to be able to get out of the beginning area once I got familiar with the game. Not so. Once I figured out from trial and error how to manually maneuver the ship (Not intuitive at all), I started to explore and almost imediately got blown up by a ship much more advanced than me. SecondSo, I bought the game, a Joystick, and a new keyboard to play this game. Not being new to MMO's I expected to be able to get out of the beginning area once I got familiar with the game. Not so. Once I figured out from trial and error how to manually maneuver the ship (Not intuitive at all), I started to explore and almost imediately got blown up by a ship much more advanced than me. Second try the same thing happened. Griefers are part of any MMO but this was really pathetic. Almost as bad as EVE Online. But in Eve there are consequences for it. After spending 2 days at this I have given up. Not fun at all if you ask me.… Expand
  75. Arlet
    Oct 6, 2015
    2
    In the state it is in I can not recommend it, neither can I recommend it for the future due to the planned dlc they have in store. This game costs $60 and feels like it has $30 worth of content. I bought the game thinking they would provide free updates in the future but that doesn't seem to be the case. The only thing I can say positive about this game is that it really knows how to getIn the state it is in I can not recommend it, neither can I recommend it for the future due to the planned dlc they have in store. This game costs $60 and feels like it has $30 worth of content. I bought the game thinking they would provide free updates in the future but that doesn't seem to be the case. The only thing I can say positive about this game is that it really knows how to get the atmosphere of outer space right; Empty, both in setting and content.… Expand
  76. Landy77
    Oct 2, 2015
    0
    This is a space sim with plane physics. There are lots of locations to travel to, but nothing is there once you arrive. Lots of nothingness. You can't have an unlimited galaxy with a limited player base. You end up being solo playing a multiplayer game.
  77. Squareski
    Oct 2, 2015
    4
    I've given it 18 hours of my life. It's hard to describe. On one hand, it is quite addictive, in that, you're trying to build the funds for all those upgrades and bigger and better ships, and graphically it is very beautiful. On the other, however, the fun, just like the game, is mostly lost in a vast void of space. It has brief moments of excitement, glimpses of game play out of theI've given it 18 hours of my life. It's hard to describe. On one hand, it is quite addictive, in that, you're trying to build the funds for all those upgrades and bigger and better ships, and graphically it is very beautiful. On the other, however, the fun, just like the game, is mostly lost in a vast void of space. It has brief moments of excitement, glimpses of game play out of the corner of your eye...but sadly, it's mostly hours of doing nothing, despite trying not to. This is only part of the story...if you factor in the bizarre game mechanic of real time quest timers in solo mode, that expire while you're out of the game entirely, it just makes matters worse. Ensure you don't have kids, or work, or have a social life as you'll have to sink hours of uninterrupted time into the void that is Elite Dangerous.… Expand
  78. Rantul
    Sep 23, 2015
    0
    Such a waste, this game is so unfinished, incomplete, not a sandbox, limited ships, lame missions. Nothing good about it. Many combat aspects don't even work, a rework of weapons is needed or rework of how ship damage is taken, major pet peeve of mine was how elaborate it could be and yet it wasn't finished when they released the next DLC, For me, it is insulting when developers give usSuch a waste, this game is so unfinished, incomplete, not a sandbox, limited ships, lame missions. Nothing good about it. Many combat aspects don't even work, a rework of weapons is needed or rework of how ship damage is taken, major pet peeve of mine was how elaborate it could be and yet it wasn't finished when they released the next DLC, For me, it is insulting when developers give us garbage, then release more garbage without cleaning up the mess. I hate this game, its shameful to have it in the space sim genre.… Expand
  79. devildead
    Sep 21, 2015
    2
    When I bought this game over a year ago - it was a developing project, with big future, and I really made all my friend to buy it. Today I am sorry about this desision - game became crappier with every new piece of "content", if you really can name this thing "content". Now developers looks like greedy fu...s - they sold this game to me over 4000 rubbles, month after it came to steam forWhen I bought this game over a year ago - it was a developing project, with big future, and I really made all my friend to buy it. Today I am sorry about this desision - game became crappier with every new piece of "content", if you really can name this thing "content". Now developers looks like greedy fu...s - they sold this game to me over 4000 rubbles, month after it came to steam for 3000 rubbles and now they want me to pay MORE 4k for some base game content. They just think it was not enough money for them, so the will became the new EA and sell game multiple time. No, thanks, I am sorry I payed for this project and I hardly recomend not to buy this "game" now - it still lacks a LOT of content but now you need to pay for it. Buy X-series or something like this if you want starship simulator, not this piece of unfinished garbage.… Expand
  80. Nthy
    Sep 18, 2015
    0
    I give this a zero because it alludes nicely to the emptiness of the Elite Dangerous universe. I was waiting patiently for them to add some actual content to the game. Something interesting and non-grindy would be nice. Then to my surprise they launched it! Kicked it out the door in an unfinished state, still with nothing interesting to do and core gameplay that is needlessy grindy inI give this a zero because it alludes nicely to the emptiness of the Elite Dangerous universe. I was waiting patiently for them to add some actual content to the game. Something interesting and non-grindy would be nice. Then to my surprise they launched it! Kicked it out the door in an unfinished state, still with nothing interesting to do and core gameplay that is needlessy grindy in every way imaginable.

    For a while after, I harbored the delusion that they would add something fun to do in a future patch. The day they released news their upcoming paid expansion featuring planetary landing I knew that the dream was dead. There is nothing non-grindy to do in Elite Dangerous, and there never will be; because the developer thinks the game is complete. Complete enough that they've started selling expansions! What a farce. But don't worry... because for only sixty US dollars you can land on planets and be as bored on the surface of a planet as you were in space!    … Expand
  81. sclark13
    Sep 13, 2015
    4
    Played off and on since December 2014. The game added a few ships but is still incredibly unfocused at making any particular activity work as intended. There is no reason to play with people, and no reason to think one's (or a very large group's) actions make any kind of impact on the world. Ships have very little thought put into their design, with several ships just being shunned due toPlayed off and on since December 2014. The game added a few ships but is still incredibly unfocused at making any particular activity work as intended. There is no reason to play with people, and no reason to think one's (or a very large group's) actions make any kind of impact on the world. Ships have very little thought put into their design, with several ships just being shunned due to their lack of role.

    Co-op with wingmen is terrible and penalizes players. Exploring is really boring, especially when there are simulators like space engine that let you visit different planets and stellar phenomena without the **** tedium of managing ship resources. Exploration would be cool, but there is no high reward for it, no satisfaction from seeing one gas giant vs. another, etc.    … Expand
  82. Whasuff
    Sep 11, 2015
    0
    This game is the single most boring space sim out there. You will fly. You will fly some more. You will occassionally get lucky and find a signal source. You'll miss it. You'll never ever have the opportunity to find that signal source again. I cannot believe how boring this game is. Not only is it boring, it is all manual. So not only are you having the time of your life flying throughThis game is the single most boring space sim out there. You will fly. You will fly some more. You will occassionally get lucky and find a signal source. You'll miss it. You'll never ever have the opportunity to find that signal source again. I cannot believe how boring this game is. Not only is it boring, it is all manual. So not only are you having the time of your life flying through yet another system to find yet another point, you have carpal tunnel by the end of it. And don't even get me started on the whole "new content" . E:D is not nearly fleshed out enough to justify the price, even now, and they want me to pay for more? The devs talked such a big game up front (like ALL kickstarter funded projects), then they slopped this steaming pile of monotony & disappointment on us and want us to pay for more. All I can say is, I will no longer be playing games made by or supporting this EA clone.… Expand
  83. Dan_
    Sep 7, 2015
    3
    Olvidaros de las promesas por cumplir y los DLC a un precio accesible. La política de Frontier es simplemente una bofetada a los jugadores que han apostado desde los comienzos por el juego y esperaban verlo crecer y desarrollarse. Además si eres hispanohablante suma un puntapié en la entrepierna, no se han molestado en traducirlo a nuestro idioma, han pasado la pelota a la coumunidad deOlvidaros de las promesas por cumplir y los DLC a un precio accesible. La política de Frontier es simplemente una bofetada a los jugadores que han apostado desde los comienzos por el juego y esperaban verlo crecer y desarrollarse. Además si eres hispanohablante suma un puntapié en la entrepierna, no se han molestado en traducirlo a nuestro idioma, han pasado la pelota a la coumunidad de hispanoparlantes (que era enviadiable... no sé si con la política de Frontier podrá mantenerla)… Expand
  84. suntox
    Aug 30, 2015
    0
    Be careful with this game. The people who preordered this game have still not received an actual game with content. All you got by now is a framework of 400 billion star systems which are just generic and empty (automatically created). Generic missions that are extremely boring with over 90% travel time (hours), everywhere the same. The same 3 station models in every system. Only a fewBe careful with this game. The people who preordered this game have still not received an actual game with content. All you got by now is a framework of 400 billion star systems which are just generic and empty (automatically created). Generic missions that are extremely boring with over 90% travel time (hours), everywhere the same. The same 3 station models in every system. Only a few available ships and little equipment. There is close to no content next to this. So at the moment only dreamers and roleplayers actually find what they want.

    And instead of adding the missing content, they offer you the next big update for the price of a full game!!!

    Plus the forum moderators are very agressive if you talk about that on either steam or frontier forum. They ban you on steam forum for fake reasons if you don't shut up when they tell you to, and remove your valid comments. This is pure fascism.

    The name David Braben now seems to stand for exploitation and fraud. Very saddening.    … Expand
  85. Yomomoto
    Aug 8, 2015
    0
    £130.00 < Too boring
    £130.00 < Empty game
    £130.00 < No hi-end content
    £130.00 < Hopeless multiplayer
    £130.00 < Forget about open world
    £130.00 < Nothing changed in the past 30 years
    £130.00 < Bugs and crashes and server problems
    £130.00 < Unjustified price and greed of developers
    £130.00 < And i want my £40 back!
  86. Phallex
    Aug 7, 2015
    4
    I'd love to love this game. Unfortunately, once you've gotten used to cruising around and looking at stars, docking, dogfights etc it just becomes really boring. There's not really anything to drive you in game. Finding your teammates is very hard to do properly, and even if you do manage to meet up within the hour, you're stuck with the same problem...what shall we do? Shoot some moreI'd love to love this game. Unfortunately, once you've gotten used to cruising around and looking at stars, docking, dogfights etc it just becomes really boring. There's not really anything to drive you in game. Finding your teammates is very hard to do properly, and even if you do manage to meet up within the hour, you're stuck with the same problem...what shall we do? Shoot some more AI...er....ok....??

    If you're looking for a new X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter type game, hold your breath for Valkyrie, just maybe they'll pull it off.. Elite is just a beautiful simulation showing how big space really is, even when you have a really fast ship.    … Expand
  87. PeterCorless
    Jul 29, 2015
    0
    Terrible game play combined with confusing flight controls = wretched experience. I went through the tutorial combat and it was well over an hour of looping back and forth even attempting to see your opponent combined with a few seconds of fly-by-shooting. When I finally got into the game my mission was to collect space junk which it gave little indication for how you'd find it, never mindTerrible game play combined with confusing flight controls = wretched experience. I went through the tutorial combat and it was well over an hour of looping back and forth even attempting to see your opponent combined with a few seconds of fly-by-shooting. When I finally got into the game my mission was to collect space junk which it gave little indication for how you'd find it, never mind how to pick it up. I was so bored, so I tried to commit suicide by flying into a planet, but could never reach it.… Expand
  88. medwyn
    Jul 17, 2015
    3
    After 30 years this return of the classic title looks like a bunch of question marks for me.
    Its values in the extreme - beautiful and immersive graphics and sounds, great piloting features and ship management on one side and a chaotic mess on the other.
    Obviously this game fell into the same trap of the later years' games development trend: it was released very early without making it    After 30 years this return of the classic title looks like a bunch of question marks for me.
    Its values in the extreme - beautiful and immersive graphics and sounds, great piloting features and ship management on one side and a chaotic mess on the other.
    Obviously this game fell into the same trap of the later years' games development trend: it was released very early without making it satisfactory quality. This alienates me completely as I feel tricked for the price rather than satisfied.
    The more hours one puts into the ED universe flying around, the more glitches to be found. Depending on how the player is willing to counterbalance these problmes with "roleplaying" workarounds and other mind techniques, they are there embedded into the very texture of the game.
    After nearly 3 years of development it's still not clear for me what ED wants to be - it's more clear what it doesn't. The P2P system the whole engine is built on renders the possibilites of making a really consistent universe pretty limited (or I can say impossible). So the 400 billion stars represented as the full Milky Way galaxy becomes pretty 2-dimensional, it's like a repeated pattern of small bubbles reacing out to 30 light years distance.
    The release was rushed and it ended up in a seriously unfinished state where instead of game elements we got empty, buggy and non-functional placeholders. Persistency is non-existent, the economy background is static and insignificant, the NPCs are spawning and disappearing just for the player in the very instance, they are not going anywhere and can be farmed like chickens.

    We are now 8 months after this very questionable release and the backbone of the game is still missing but Frontier has been very busy cashing in more money for this quarterly-baked game-skeleton by porting it over to Mac and lately X-Box. The so awaited 1.3 is a meaningless grindfest, the incoming CQC is another firm step towards an unorganic arcade shooter gameplay.

    The community forums are toxic when it comes to crisicism, those rare and lengthy discussions with constructivism are fading away soon without any feedback from the devs.

    I gave 3/10 as a modified review now, big disappointment. I would like to see a great game where there are much more dimensions than just flying from point A to point B and increase a bank balance to buy another ship to do the same. Without proper and consequent interaction with each other and with the universe it's really flat no matter how beautiful it is. ED is an exhibition of stars but not a game.    … Expand
  89. meme1337
    Jul 14, 2015
    0
    This game is empty.
    It is one of the most boring grind I ever endured in a game.
    AI it's really bad, community is toxic (especially on the official forums), there is no way to meet and befriend people, unless relying on external tools like websites or communities on reddit. The game mechanics are broken and flawed due to the fact that developers tried to run with the hare and hunt with    This game is empty.
    It is one of the most boring grind I ever endured in a game.
    AI it's really bad, community is toxic (especially on the official forums), there is no way to meet and befriend people, unless relying on external tools like websites or communities on reddit.
    The game mechanics are broken and flawed due to the fact that developers tried to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: they want pseudo-offline capabilities but they are intertwined with the multiplayer mechanics, leading to a mess.
    Last update was a joke and the next one, which is instanced CQC, will be even more silly.
    Hugely disappointed.    … Expand
  90. Atlars
    Jul 13, 2015
    0
    The game is close to impossible to play with mouse and keyboard. I requested a refund after spending 1 hour trying to complete the first couple of training missions.
    Might be good with a pad or stick - though I am not whilling to test it.
  91. Zenfulmind
    Jul 9, 2015
    0
    The developers are nothing more than criminals at work. They've abused the support of the community by providing a lot of nothing we want and withholding all of the features that are most desirable. Additionally, space travel is tediously boring! How do you get something like that wrong!? How!? I'll tell you how! You get it wrong by deliberately creating a system that will fail so that theThe developers are nothing more than criminals at work. They've abused the support of the community by providing a lot of nothing we want and withholding all of the features that are most desirable. Additionally, space travel is tediously boring! How do you get something like that wrong!? How!? I'll tell you how! You get it wrong by deliberately creating a system that will fail so that the game's popularity is minimal which will allow you, the developer, to take the money from early backers and run with it.

    They are nothing more than scam artist.    … Expand
  92. leopoldfrank
    Jul 9, 2015
    3
    This is possibly the most annoyed I've ever been with a game I've paid money for - the unrealised potential, the fact it feels like an early access game but was sold as a finished product, the annoying fanboys who patronisingly tell you "you don't get it".

    The ship mechanics are excellent and have the basis for a lot of fun however, the game really offers very little. You can do 4    This is possibly the most annoyed I've ever been with a game I've paid money for - the unrealised potential, the fact it feels like an early access game but was sold as a finished product, the annoying fanboys who patronisingly tell you "you don't get it".

    The ship mechanics are excellent and have the basis for a lot of fun however, the game really offers very little. You can do 4 things, all of which are heavily underdeveloped - mine (blast some space rock for a pitiful amount of coin), trade (fly unusable items from point A to point B), explore (fly around millions of identical looking systems) or fight stuff (grind procedural mobs or do bounty mission to kill some noob npc in nearby system). That pretty much raps up Elite's gameplay. All 4 things get tedious very quickly. Interaction with other players is minimal and connection with the gameworld is very thin.

    The game feels like an early access game but Frontier evidently think it's a finished game which makes me feel a little angry and like I've been ripped off. Something that annoys me even more than this is the game's fanboy community of people happy with the game how it is who constantly say annoying things like "the game doesn't hold you hand", "make your own story", "use your imagination". These all too easily pleased people who could happily while away the hours playing with their Star Wars figures, using their *imagination* are probably largely responsible for Frontier saying "that'll do" rather than giving us a more complete game with more depth.

    I've been generous and given it a 3 purely for the large potential and superb shell the game has. Just a pity it has no content, depth, interaction with other players or a connection to the gameworld.    … Expand
  93. 8bitg33k
    Jul 8, 2015
    2
    I really wanted to like this game. Logged 41 hrs and it became increasingly boring. Combat is excruciatingly slow and missions are hit or miss with no apparent way to make them more interesting. Missions are hollow and repetitive. What a waste of time. Uninstalled.
  94. Snai2k
    Jul 8, 2015
    0
    Really dissapointment unfinished buggy game with a dull gameplay. I've backed the Kickstarter campaign and played it back in 80s and what worked back then should not be in in 21st century, if you think the space era will look anything like that then humanity is doomed. Check videos if you even consider to buy it.
  95. King_Hrothgar
    Jul 4, 2015
    2
    I initially gave this a 6/10 when it was released as I thought it had a lot of potential despite shallow initial game play. I no longer believe it has any potential. The reason for this is the series of updates made to it over the last 7 months. The updates themselves aren't spectacularly bad, they just don't fix the core problem of shallow game play. The developers don't seem to realizeI initially gave this a 6/10 when it was released as I thought it had a lot of potential despite shallow initial game play. I no longer believe it has any potential. The reason for this is the series of updates made to it over the last 7 months. The updates themselves aren't spectacularly bad, they just don't fix the core problem of shallow game play. The developers don't seem to realize this is a problem. Going into specifics, here's the break down:

    Combat: The ships are slow and not very nimble. This makes combat fairly slow paced compared to other flying games. Whether you look at something arcade-ish such as War Thunder or the hardest of the hardcore, such as DCS or IL2, the game is just slow and overly easy. Most weapons are turreted, thus removing aiming and when combined with low speed and little maneuvering, there just isn't much to it. It isn't tactical or strategic either, so there really isn't anything going for it.

    Trading is equally simplified. The items a player can trade do not serve any in game purpose other than being trade goods. Trading useful items such as ships, modules and ammo is not possible except at a loss. Additionally, items cannot be traded between players.

    Exploration is basically just a timer when all is said and done. To to exploration, jump to a system that's "unexplored" and fire your scanner. 5 seconds later, point your ship at each object in the system one at a time for 10-30 seconds to get a detailed scan. That's it, the end.

    The various other professions aren't any deeper. The end result is a pretty game that could have been amazing if the developers hadn't been living under a rock for the last 30 years. But they were, and so it's ultimately just a cross between Asteroids and Pac Man. And to make it worse they decided the players are too dumb for that so they simplified it.    … Expand
  96. Deadlock-989
    Jul 3, 2015
    2
    This is one of the shallowest games in this price bracket I have ever played. It has about 20-30 hours of gameplay - enough to get you to what is technically barely midgame - before you are locked into an endless cycle of grind. The only saving graces are the high quality graphics and sound. In terms of game, it's a sandbox that's very very low on sand. Avoid at all costs.
  97. Cidcaldensfey
    Jul 1, 2015
    2
    I played Elite Dangerous when it first came out for about two or three months. I just came back to it and this is the skinny.

    PROS Graphics are fantastic. Absolutely lovely visuals. Audio is great, one of the best in a game in a while. Flight controls feel awesome. I use an X55 Rhino and it works perfectly. Oculus Rift DKII makes this game -absolutely amazing- CONS Graphics    I played Elite Dangerous when it first came out for about two or three months. I just came back to it and this is the skinny.

    PROS
    Graphics are fantastic. Absolutely lovely visuals.
    Audio is great, one of the best in a game in a while.
    Flight controls feel awesome. I use an X55 Rhino and it works perfectly.
    Oculus Rift DKII makes this game -absolutely amazing-

    CONS
    Graphics are getting hammered into the ground with each new patch. FD has said this was due to bugs, but for some reason I think it coincides with the XBox release.

    The game itself is -extremely- boring and very convoluted. Missions are timed, which isn't an issue, but to complete these missions is more of a chance of luck. Random spawn areas in space called 'unidentified signal source' are random spawns, so you are entirely at mercy of a random number generator when it comes to trying to complete missions. Not only this, but the missions are not explained very well. Example, you need to kill three pirates in system X. Okay, so you go to system X but you have no idea what the pirates, who they are, where they are, etc. Everyone says 'the game doesn't spoonfeed you' which is true, but at the same time the game doesn't explain ANYTHING at all to you. It's not fun, just bad/lazy design.

    The game offers the illusion of freedom but in truth Frontier Development controls everything. You are less of a player and more of an NPC. You cannot customize your ships outside of loadouts and pre-defined paint job designed by FD. You cannot form guilds/outfits. You cannot trade credits/items with other players (there is no trade interface for player-to-player trading). You have to follow ingame laws imposed by FD, for instance there are actual SPEEDING LAWS (Yes, the same things as IRL) where you will get fined for speeding while in the process of docking, only if you hit anyone. But still, the game has SPEEDING LAWS.

    Want to play with a friend? The game now allows you to form a three-man wing with two other people. However, the game's instancing issues prevent players from being able to be in the same instance together. So...it kind of defeats itself.

    The game's AI is terrible. And I'm not talking about the aspect of combat, I'm talking about just overall. For instance, if you accidentally bump or hit a system authority vessel (police) you will become wanted and instantly blown up. No chance for forgiveness, no sorry, no 'oh it was an accident'. You can lose hundreds of billions of credits in a split second because an AI cop flew infront of you/bumped into you.

    The community is very bad. The majority of players are masochists and will tell you to git gud or go play something else for complaining about the game in any way. They prefer the game to remain as its 1984 iteration and don't care for anything which may have happened since then in the gaming world/game design and development.

    Powerplay is a new thing they put into the game to get people to play it. While it looks cool, it actually is nothing more than a boardgame played over a course of a week. A lot of players have actually said that the amount of time needed to get anything out of it makes it out to be a second job. If you are a casual gamer, you will not be able to attain the benefits/rewards involved with it.

    All in all, Elite Dangerous is a fantastic piece of technology and audio engingeering, but as a game

    IT
    IS
    NOT
    FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My recommendation is to not play. FD has gone silent with players and a lot of people are becoming disenfranchised with the game. I don't recommend this game at all.    … Expand
  98. Pendra
    Jun 26, 2015
    1
    This "game" can be considered a scam and David Braben acts like a conman. During the kickstarter campaign, he promised Earth and Heaven for the money. Nice videos and images were created. The game looked really good.

    Then the no single player incident happened. DB first refused to give the money back for those who pledged for a DRM free single player game. The case almost went to court.    This "game" can be considered a scam and David Braben acts like a conman. During the kickstarter campaign, he promised Earth and Heaven for the money. Nice videos and images were created. The game looked really good.

    Then the no single player incident happened. DB first refused to give the money back for those who pledged for a DRM free single player game. The case almost went to court.
    Then the "Release" happened. The game was released in a pre-alpha state to secure the kickstarter funds.
    When people pointed out that the game is hollow, the official reaction was: "Use your imaginations!"
    This reaction after you shelled out the 60+ USD, is just ********.
    The so called "Background simulation" (The reason they added DRM) is completely and utterly broken.
    There is no economy.
    The galaxy is static and boring. All you can find are differently colored balls in space. There is no meaningful exploration.
    You can't "build" anything in this so called "sandbox". The ship updates are cookie cutter.
    The missions are meaningless fetch and kill quests. There is no themepark ride.

    I put 100+ hours into it to make sure I didn't miss anything. Stay away from it. The company is amateurish and dishonest. All you get is lip service and tease/hype. The "game" is all flash, no substance.

    If you want a good space game, play X3TC, Kerbal space program or Space engine    … Expand
  99. BigBangerB
    Jun 19, 2015
    0
    The game looks good, ships fly good. Yup that's about it for the positives. The rest of the game is designed purely for people with 0 lives and all the time in the world to throw at it. I don't get why people do it though because you certainly are not rewarded with anything. It's like if you want to go out for a nice jog, and instead you wound up on your grandpa's nordic track in theThe game looks good, ships fly good. Yup that's about it for the positives. The rest of the game is designed purely for people with 0 lives and all the time in the world to throw at it. I don't get why people do it though because you certainly are not rewarded with anything. It's like if you want to go out for a nice jog, and instead you wound up on your grandpa's nordic track in the basement staring at the cement walls. That's the difference between "space sims" and "elite dangerous."

    Elite just isn't that fun unless you have limitless hours to play. There is no variety, and the devs ONLY PROGRESS since the "launch" has been adding more ways to make the game a grind. To boot, they just recently jacked up repair costs for no reason.

    Flight in this game would be good if there was a reason to fly anywhere other than station to station. PVP is so buggy it's pointless. Even if there were no bugs, no abysmal P2P network system that is constantly getting hacked, there's no reason to PVP because it's a battle of shield cells. Once they are down, people can instantly target your ships Power Plant, rendering 100% of your armor 100% useless. There's literally no point to PVP. What about NPC you ask? What about them I say. They are awful. They can't fly straight. They are suicidal. The NPC pilots of the worst ships in the game will constantly harass you by the dozens, and each one will only last for about 5 seconds of firing before you've killed them and collected your pennies.

    What's that? You want DANGER? The most dangerous thing in Elite dangerous is the start menu. Why? Because you have to go in and out of the start menu 1 or 2 dozen times before you get placed in an instance with DECENT ships spawning, instead of just garbage.

    I'm not even going to get in to the fact that literally every one of FD's trailers has been an absolute lie in terms of actual content and gameplay. They make me sick to watch. It's like a completely different game.

    I really REALLY want to say something good about elite, like it is fun to explore or what not, but what GOOD there is in Elite:D is DESTROYED by all the bugs. Exploring was the bees knees, but since the 1.3 patch it's been broken. Every couple of system jumps you will crash out of the game and lose your last 2/3rds of exploration data. FD doesn't even care. Fun fact, it took me TWO WEEKS to return from a trip I spent only 3 days going outbound on. That's how bad the servers are. I contacted support about millions of lost credits and the constant crashes and they basically said they know about the issue but don't care.

    Why should they care when I can just keep slamming my head against a wall, grinding away for the chance to unlock another reason to grind away.    … Expand
  100. TarStone
    Jun 18, 2015
    2
    A shallow, buggy, poorly designed space shooter with limited multiplayer and awesome graphics and sound. Does not resemble the kickstarter pitch, development diaries or the trade show talks. Not in the same league as the previous Elite games. Currently being consolised. YMMV.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 54 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 54
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  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 8, 2015
    80
    First minute the game takes your breath away and then it entertains you for another couple of hours to end up like a meditative tool for hard working individuals. What a waste and shame for a game in such beautiful environment. [Issue#253]
  2. Ragequit.gr
    May 11, 2015
    90
    Everyone who played the original game back in the 80's, should be right at home. It's the 21st Century version of "Elite." But newer, uninitiated players may find it strangely desolate and repetitive. A grand space simulation, aimed at the series' hardcore fans.
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  3. Games.cz
    Apr 23, 2015
    80
    You can focus on the journey, not the destination – even when some "road work" signs will bother you for the time being in the reincarnated Elite. But their numbers are declining with every new update so a thirty-year-old vision becomes more and more complete.
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