Elite: Dangerous

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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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!!!
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. JenikMax
    Aug 21, 2022
    0
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  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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!
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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.
  31. 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
  32. 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!
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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.
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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.
  39. 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
  40. 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.
  41. 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
  42. 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.
  43. 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
  44. 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.
  45. 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
  46. foddsnbimml
    May 13, 2015
    1
    Klasse Stimmung, nette Grafik, super-Sound - leider den Content und die QS vergessen - so würde ich das Spiel im aktuellen Zustand beschreiben (V 1.2.07). Es fehlt hier absolut an Tiefgang, ein Riesen-Gegrinde, um an größere Schiffe zu kommen, mit denen man nichts, aber auch gar nichts anfangen kann (kleinere Mopeds tuns genauso), der "MMO"-Part des Spiels beschränkt sich auf "Gegrieft undKlasse Stimmung, nette Grafik, super-Sound - leider den Content und die QS vergessen - so würde ich das Spiel im aktuellen Zustand beschreiben (V 1.2.07). Es fehlt hier absolut an Tiefgang, ein Riesen-Gegrinde, um an größere Schiffe zu kommen, mit denen man nichts, aber auch gar nichts anfangen kann (kleinere Mopeds tuns genauso), der "MMO"-Part des Spiels beschränkt sich auf "Gegrieft und Gegankt"-werden (mit zahlreicher Unterstützung der extrem schlecht geführten englischen und deutschen Community). Leider keine Kaufempfehlung, auch wenn es nach fast 30 Jahren sehr in den Fingern gejuckt hat - spart´s Euch das Geld, und macht nicht den gleichen Fehler wie ich - schaut in einem Jahr noch einmal herein, sofern dann noch am Spiel weiterentwickelt wird.… Expand
  47. cryon1cang3l
    Jun 11, 2015
    4
    Its a grind heavy game, even after patch 1.3.02 where PowerPlay was introduced.
    The multiplayer is limited, the game has a pesky peer2peer system (so the server will provide only background information to the client and all interaction happens between clients and it IS bad for an MMO).
    The game has a hard limit of 32 player per instance, but after 10-12 people its almost impossible to    Its a grind heavy game, even after patch 1.3.02 where PowerPlay was introduced.
    The multiplayer is limited, the game has a pesky peer2peer system (so the server will provide only background information to the client and all interaction happens between clients and it IS bad for an MMO).
    The game has a hard limit of 32 player per instance, but after 10-12 people its almost impossible to play in the instance.
    PvP is very limited and most people play this game solo.
    Balancing is poor. PvP works based on how many shield cells you can fit in your ship, not on how good you can fly.
    This game looks nice and will entertain you in the first hours, but the "lategame" is boring, there is nothing that you can do outside of grinding for even more credits and reputation/power.    … Expand
  48. 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.
  49. Bi1iruben
    May 9, 2015
    1
    Learning curve to high. Initial tutorials fail to explain what to do - software so hopeless in its instructions as to need youtube to explain needs its developers fired. Ships too sluggish to turn to be other than target practice, and for the short limited times I can use this, I am never going to improve to get past initial tutorial introduction. That online-only makes prospect of joiningLearning curve to high. Initial tutorials fail to explain what to do - software so hopeless in its instructions as to need youtube to explain needs its developers fired. Ships too sluggish to turn to be other than target practice, and for the short limited times I can use this, I am never going to improve to get past initial tutorial introduction. That online-only makes prospect of joining real game suck. Screen display designed for those with better than 20/20 vision, or monitors larger than 21" - otherwise forget about being able to read ultra-small size text.
    A lot of hype, and little consideration for the casual player.    … Expand
  50. Sirus
    May 9, 2015
    2
    Do you want to fly through the galaxy, become any role you desire, board plants and space stations and walk around your ship as well as being informed on what's what?

    THIS IS NOT THAT GAME. I have played this game, and the developers refuse to fix bugs until the entire community kicks their butts about it and THEY RELEASED AND UNFINISHED GAME. You CANNOT explore the stations, your    Do you want to fly through the galaxy, become any role you desire, board plants and space stations and walk around your ship as well as being informed on what's what?

    THIS IS NOT THAT GAME.

    I have played this game, and the developers refuse to fix bugs until the entire community kicks their butts about it and THEY RELEASED AND UNFINISHED GAME. You CANNOT explore the stations, your ship, nor any planets. There is no real exploring and combat is a joke, you both fly in a circle of eachother and the entire faction galaxy system is not dynamic at all. You will run out of interesting things to do like I have, all the while we were promised a dynamic galaxy, exploration of your ship, planets and stations, but non of that has arrived, nor will it until another space sim game comes out called Star Citizen, which is much more dynamic than this sad excuse of a space sim.

    Do yourself a favor, do not buy this game, wait until either they actually finish this half-made game or wait for a better space sim like Star Citizen, which comes out early 2016.    … Expand
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. FilthyHeathen
    Jun 7, 2015
    2
    Awful awful awful. Any decent game is a combination of a number of factors most of which ED does not have. For a start, it is incredibly user un-friendly. There is absolutely NO in-game guidance on what to do. To get any idea of what to do requires watching lengthy Youtube clips!! Really?? With the amount of time and money spent on developing this game, they couldn't have includedAwful awful awful. Any decent game is a combination of a number of factors most of which ED does not have. For a start, it is incredibly user un-friendly. There is absolutely NO in-game guidance on what to do. To get any idea of what to do requires watching lengthy Youtube clips!! Really?? With the amount of time and money spent on developing this game, they couldn't have included some in-game help?? It seems like a game geared towards those 'hardcore' gamers who like to be dropped into a jungle with just a spoon and their wits and expected to make it back to camp. This will appeal to a small percentage of the gaming community. Not all of us are Rambos or familiar with (or even like) the 'learn as you go' approach. Once word gets out this will affect sales with 1000s either avoiding the game or wanting their money back. This is where I have to address the discrepancy between how the game is advertised and what it actually is. It's marketed as a space sim that's exciting and full of amazing space battles etc. Rubbish. For a start, your ship's maneuverability is pathetic. The 'yaw' is painfully slow. It's like flying a Space-wheelchair! What dog-fights I did have were completely uninspiring and unsatisfying. If you manage to keep your sights aimed on an enemy ship, and manage to track it around, it'll take about five minutes to kill. Nothing like the amazing movement you're shown in the ads. If human beings have the technology to fly between the stars and populate galaxies, why does it take so long to turn your ship 360 degrees on the yaw axis?? It's maddening! You'd think they'd have automatic docking procedures as an option as well, but no. If I'd wanted to play a flight sim I'd have bought a flight sim. And unless you like being continually blown to pieces, space battles are to be avoided for a loooooong time, until you've managed to deck out your ship with decent spec. In order to do this requires trading between star systems. Once the novelty of this has worn off, it's simply BORING! Getting to the next place to dock takes far too long. Even the 'jump' gets boring - same old 'warp-effect' every time - it's fairly unimaginative in this sense. Some of the graphics in this game are impressive, but the UI isn't very imaginative. Lists of options that requires trawling through to get any idea of what is going on and what you're supposed to do. Again, when it's so complex, you'd think a little in-game help would have been provided?! Then, just when you're getting the hang of it, someone in a more advanced ship, blows you up and steals your cargo - cargo you've spent hours trying to acquire. Such things do not inspire one to continue playing.
    But continue I did, because the new update 'Powerplay' arrived this week. Great, I thought, some greater meaning and purpose to the game beyond simply trading goods for cash to up-spec your ship. But again, huge disappointment. You can't pledge yourself to any faction until you've ranked up to a certain level! So once again, I find myself scraping my way through the galaxy trying to rank up and facing the same frustrations as before. Boring boring boring.
    I can understand how this game would appeal to people, but they do not comprise the majority of the gaming community. If this was their plan, then fine - just don't advertise it as something other than what it is.    … Expand
  54. Plixin
    Jun 14, 2015
    2
    Looks great, sounds great, barely any bugs that I have found. BUT>>>>Repetitive, extreme grind, no variety in environments, same few models of stations and docks across 22 thousand + systems. Only 20 ships which relegates you to extremely few choices as you acquire more money and about 10 of those 20 ships are already obsolete to the others. Very little to do and a surprising lack ofLooks great, sounds great, barely any bugs that I have found. BUT>>>>Repetitive, extreme grind, no variety in environments, same few models of stations and docks across 22 thousand + systems. Only 20 ships which relegates you to extremely few choices as you acquire more money and about 10 of those 20 ships are already obsolete to the others. Very little to do and a surprising lack of standard features also make Elite Dangerous simply boring and repetitive and no crafting, omg, no crafting. THIS IS NOT A SANDBOX, at least not for intelligent adults.… Expand
  55. 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.
  56. BearStrangler
    May 23, 2015
    3
    The game is pure junk. Half hashed project, very unfriendly to users. Feels and looks bad. Repetitive. At a lower price point maybe, get this on sale.
  57. hrsr0
    Jun 8, 2015
    1
    Kickstarter stated offline play , frontier then lied and knew about this up until the end of beta period , so that its difficult to get any refunds thereafter knowingly decieving the people who made it possible , and shamefully discarding any responsability as unnaceptably limited if it was offline, absolutely pathetic, moronic and downright unprofessional.

    Gameplay suffers immensly    Kickstarter stated offline play , frontier then lied and knew about this up until the end of beta period , so that its difficult to get any refunds thereafter knowingly decieving the people who made it possible , and shamefully discarding any responsability as unnaceptably limited if it was offline, absolutely pathetic, moronic and downright unprofessional.

    Gameplay suffers immensly from that pathetic attempt to slap this would be awsome singleplayer game mmo mechanics.
    Pathetic attempt to recreate a awsome game wich shares only the name with this disgracefull if not insulting iteration
    Boring, dull, full of grind,devoid of any meaningfull gameplay like in the old elites its nothing like the old games only the name, everything suffers from the fact it requires an online connection all the time to play what a joke.

    graphics 4/10
    sounds/music 6/10
    atmosphere 5/10
    gameplay -2/10
    deceving scum -234/10
    customer support inexistant , an absolute insult to everyone unfortunate enough to require 'assistance' -55/10
    story not applicable

    Not matter what they add to the game with its mmo mechanics, online requirement to play a singleplayer game = dead and buried game nothing will ever change that good riddance.    … Expand
  58. 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
  59. 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.
  60. rpokeefe
    Jun 15, 2015
    2
    Elite:Dangerous is a game for those that enjoy interacting with game forums but try to avoid direct PvP confrontations in game.

    Frontier has decided that player organizations in MMO's are disruptive and unfair to players that like to play MMO"s alone. To this end, Frontier has offered no means for player's to organize in a meaningful way in game. They reluctantly released the Wings    Elite:Dangerous is a game for those that enjoy interacting with game forums but try to avoid direct PvP confrontations in game.

    Frontier has decided that player organizations in MMO's are disruptive and unfair to players that like to play MMO"s alone. To this end, Frontier has offered no means for player's to organize in a meaningful way in game. They reluctantly released the Wings patch simply so that players could form transient groups of four. But that is as far as they are planning to go. All other player organization is done through metagaming and has no presence inside the game.

    Elite:dangerous is also not a sandbox. Regardless of how many fans of the game say it is. There is no user created content other than role-playing and fan fiction. Would you like to capture and control a system? Forget about it. Frontier designed their game in such a way that maintaining any significant control of a system is extremely difficult (if not impossible) and offer no rewards for doing so.

    Elite also is suffering from a lack of meaningful content. Given that player driven drama has been removed from the game, Frontier forgot to add compelling content of their own for players to enjoy. The GalNet feed reads like the script from a bad movie and the in game activities associated are almost entirely a PvE grind. Frontier formalized the Galnet grind into the powerplay release. This release is essentially PvP via PvE grind.

    So if you were looking for a Space sandbox where you could be involved in players truly shaping the galaxy with their own player factions and player conflict. This is not the game for you. In Elite:Dangerous you will be called a griefer if you attack a player without getting permission first. And any attempt to control any system is regarded as mean.    … Expand
  61. 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?
  62. 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
  63. 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...
  64. Fallos
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    Complete piece of ****
    I can't even describe how much thing there are wrong
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. 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
  68. 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
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. 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
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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 54 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 54
  3. Negative: 0 out of 54
  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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