Elite: Dangerous

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  1. 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...
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. brasd
    Dec 21, 2014
    0
    Virtually unplayable. This game literally expects you to google how to play the game. It is literally impossible to do anything otherwise, unless you expect to search the entire universe for a specific form of cargo. And as of multiplayer? Well, there's no server browser, so in order to play with a friend, I am not joking, you have to restart the game over and over until you are in theVirtually unplayable. This game literally expects you to google how to play the game. It is literally impossible to do anything otherwise, unless you expect to search the entire universe for a specific form of cargo. And as of multiplayer? Well, there's no server browser, so in order to play with a friend, I am not joking, you have to restart the game over and over until you are in the same server. A broken, unplayable, mess.… Expand
  9. deb0
    Mar 19, 2015
    0
    A total ripoff. Engine is full of bugs, support is pathetic, and the community is hostile and unsupportive. I wasted alot of time and money on this as a beta-backer. Not worth half of what I paid.
  10. TekDragon
    Apr 5, 2015
    0
    Extremely disappointed in Frontier for **** on their Kickstarter backers with an inferior product. While others get to enjoy the game in the Steam environment they've cultivated for a decade or more, with an easy to access game library, friends list, and amazing community - those of us who backed have to manage our game through the website of some no-name UK company.

    Had I known this    Extremely disappointed in Frontier for **** on their Kickstarter backers with an inferior product. While others get to enjoy the game in the Steam environment they've cultivated for a decade or more, with an easy to access game library, friends list, and amazing community - those of us who backed have to manage our game through the website of some no-name UK company.

    Had I known this was how Frontier would treat their backers, I would never have supported Elite: Dangerous.    … Expand
  11. Wyzak
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    Have a look at the kickstarter comment feed or the refund page on their forums. Some people have been waiting for more than 27 days for a refund after Frontier broke the promise to make it an offline only game. They have stopped all communication with the customers who have been requesting refunds. Those customers are also being treated like criminals, and like they are trying to abuse theHave a look at the kickstarter comment feed or the refund page on their forums. Some people have been waiting for more than 27 days for a refund after Frontier broke the promise to make it an offline only game. They have stopped all communication with the customers who have been requesting refunds. Those customers are also being treated like criminals, and like they are trying to abuse the system.

    The game is incomplete, it features very little of the actual promised features and everything has a little star next to it saying this will only be added post-release. It took my friend and me 8 hours to reach each other because the game does not allow you to specify your start location and does not offer any fast-travel methods. That's also a post-release "promise".

    Because the game has always-online DRM the future of the game is entirely in their hands and you never actually own the game yourself. If they pull the plug on the servers tomorrow all your money and time is gone. Due to the high cost of the servers I would not be surprised if the game is F2P in 6 months to a year.

    Their EULA also allows them to add in-game advertising...

    It's actually a 7 or a 8 game, but I can't give them a score like that with the way that they are treating their customers. and for the reasons listed above.    … Expand
  12. 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
  13. Legojon
    Dec 19, 2014
    0
    Wow, I supported this game all through beta. Spent £150 on 3 copies, persuaded my friends to buy it. They should have just released it next year when it was done. This is still just beta to me. I didn't want to spoil the release, so haven't played since beta 2. I loved beta 2! Was so excited about the final game. What have they done to it? Its still full of bugs, theres stillWow, I supported this game all through beta. Spent £150 on 3 copies, persuaded my friends to buy it. They should have just released it next year when it was done. This is still just beta to me. I didn't want to spoil the release, so haven't played since beta 2. I loved beta 2! Was so excited about the final game. What have they done to it? Its still full of bugs, theres still little to do.

    The starting space station has no market! WTF Why not? So I have to go somewhere else to begin trading, well how about telling me that. They've slowed the supercruise speed down, so you now spend about 10 minutes starring at nothing happening. I was so bored, I did the laundry and came back! Then, I finally got to my destination to sell the poxy 4 food cartridges to make a measly 60 credit profit, I navigated to the landing pad and the ship wouldn't dock despite being perfectly lined up and landing gear down.

    I retried 3 times to dock, then just repeatedly rammed the landing pad (still perfectly on target). Then quit and uninstalled this rubbish! Save your money. Oh and I'd already given up on the multiplayer by beta 2. So don't expect to play with friends either.    … Expand
  14. JeremyJo
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Grindfest in generic-space. Totally worthless title, bland dull and empty, thrown out to the market to please shareholders, they canceleld offline mode yet their marketing department is in full swing pretending to be awesome. Borderline scam.
  15. Vtrgott
    Dec 29, 2014
    0
    No content, not worth.

    Elite Dangerous is not a good game. It tries to feed off some lingering nostalgia you may have. However, while the playable area is large it feels empty. The player has no palpable impact on the universe.
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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!
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Davido1
    Jan 5, 2015
    0
    This game is a no buy, I am sorry. It is extremely boring with most of your time simply flying through space in super-cruise, which feels downright flaky. The game is empty and devoid of any kind of reason to be there. The missions are basic scripted deliver cargo X to randomly generated station Y.

    The kill missions require you to fly around in super-cruise constantly, you over shoot    This game is a no buy, I am sorry. It is extremely boring with most of your time simply flying through space in super-cruise, which feels downright flaky. The game is empty and devoid of any kind of reason to be there. The missions are basic scripted deliver cargo X to randomly generated station Y.

    The kill missions require you to fly around in super-cruise constantly, you over shoot your destinations...apparently there is no auto pilot assist to prevent this "feature" from occurring. Combat is meh, if you do manage to find it. They might as well take multiplayer out of the game as the only way to interact with others is to randomly shoot them.

    There is the tiniest COMS box you could ever imagine where text comes in. Don't think you will be hailing an enemy ship and seeing a face video comms or voice...not happening. It will be a one liner in the upper left corner of the screen in a tiny chat box that pales in comparison to MMOs 15 years ago.

    The fact this game has such high reviews is an absolute farce. For anyone who is not a DIE HARD...and I mean MUST HAVE space sim fanatic, I would recommend you stay far far away from this game. It is a borefest of epic proportions. 90% of your time will be spent docking and flying in super-cruise.

    I can stand like maybe 30 mins of playing this....absolutely the most boring thing I have ever encountered in my gaming experience. I cannot rate this low enough to be honest.    … Expand
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. WaytoomanyUIDs
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    From what I saw of the game In Beta, it is quite pretty with some great visual design on the spacecraft and excellent sound design. However the flight model is abysmal for a space sim. For some bizarre reason the devs decided that spaceships should handle like aeroplanes, so they turn abysmally slow on the horizontal axis. "No problem" I thought, "I'm sure someone will mod in a sane flightFrom what I saw of the game In Beta, it is quite pretty with some great visual design on the spacecraft and excellent sound design. However the flight model is abysmal for a space sim. For some bizarre reason the devs decided that spaceships should handle like aeroplanes, so they turn abysmally slow on the horizontal axis. "No problem" I thought, "I'm sure someone will mod in a sane flight model when it's released, after all they promised offline and modding support".

    Then on the 14th of November, little more than a month before release and totally out the blue Frontier Developments announce the dropping of offline mode and with it most modding.

    They still have to come up with a satisfactory explanation, and when you consider that the game was going to miss it's Kickstarter goal until they promised offline mode and modding support, "It doesn't fit our creative vision" doesn't cut it as an explanation for dropping offline.

    I didn't test the social features of the online side of game, as I wasn't interested in the multiplayer, but from what I've read they are very limited

    And before you accuse me of reviewing an incomplete game, apart from the complete universe in Gamma and release, there isn't much difference between Beta and Gamma, just a lot of new bugs.

    Also the "customer service" from Frontier Developments is some of the worst I've encountered. I submitted a refund request on the 17th of November, was offered a partial refund on 03 December and today, the 18th of December 2014 have still to receive the promised refund    … Expand
  26. 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?
  27. gjmoss1
    Feb 19, 2015
    0
    Well I am not usually one for sci fi or other space sims but this game has me hooked. I found and still find it a steep learning curve but I don't spend hours and hours a day getting frustrated I usually play it for 2-3 hours a day. I like the fact there is no real rush to do things besides the docking which I don't really like and can be annoying when the are telling you to dock fast orWell I am not usually one for sci fi or other space sims but this game has me hooked. I found and still find it a steep learning curve but I don't spend hours and hours a day getting frustrated I usually play it for 2-3 hours a day. I like the fact there is no real rush to do things besides the docking which I don't really like and can be annoying when the are telling you to dock fast or your ship will be destroyed, besides that it's a good solid game.… Expand
  28. 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!
  29. Indissentient
    Feb 1, 2015
    0
    I would rate the game 6/10, but since there are so many fanboys rating it 10/10, I have no choice but to counter-rate.

    The good: Combat is excellent. It's actually good enough to warrant a game of its own, or at least a game mode. Graphics are fairly good. Sound is actually excellent (yes, sound in space, deal with it). The bad: There's nothing to do in the game at the moment.    I would rate the game 6/10, but since there are so many fanboys rating it 10/10, I have no choice but to counter-rate.

    The good:
    Combat is excellent. It's actually good enough to warrant a game of its own, or at least a game mode.
    Graphics are fairly good.
    Sound is actually excellent (yes, sound in space, deal with it).

    The bad:
    There's nothing to do in the game at the moment. Bounty hunting, trading, exploration and mining are all extremely repetitive and you get bored of that really fast. You can generally expect to get bored of the game within a month.
    Very little player interaction. No corporations, no fleets, no simultaneous FSD jumps, no co-op, no trading. Pretty much the only things you can do to other players is destroying then and sending them text messages.
    You can't actually affect the universe to a significant degree. Sure, you can run missions until dominant faction in a system changes, but it doesn't really affect you as a player.
    That may be subjective, but the amount of time you actually play the enjoyable parts of the game is less than you spend traveling around, and most of the travel (supercruise) is very simplistic and boring. Point your ship at the destination, wait until 7 seconds until destination, press a button, wait until you're there do nothing in between.
    Bugs. The game obviously doesn't get enough testing. There are a lot of bugs still left from the beta (for example, one that causes security ships to attack you even though you are clean). On January 1-2 the game suffered from huge problems with transaction server that makes cargo disappear and reappear, with some people losing their money and some exploiting it for free credits.
    Game is missing even some basic features, for example, handling of disconnections. If you kill the game during combat, you simply disappear from the game world, which allows you to escape any undesirable situation.

    The release was obviously rushed, littered with bugs and features missing, and most importantly, lacking mechanics to actually be enjoyable. I strongly encourage people to wait for at least half a year before buying the game: it's not worth its price in its current state.    … Expand
  30. SE-Apocalypse
    Jan 17, 2015
    0
    RPS called it 'the best unfinished game of 2014', and in the first 50 hours or so you will be entertained and agreeing on that sentence.

    The Problem is in the next 50 hours or so you will realize that it is more like the best 'scam' of 2014. Don´t get me wrong, the game is worth its money, because it is so wonderful in pretenting. It hides it flaws, you just assume stuff is working,    RPS called it 'the best unfinished game of 2014', and in the first 50 hours or so you will be entertained and agreeing on that sentence.

    The Problem is in the next 50 hours or so you will realize that it is more like the best 'scam' of 2014.

    Don´t get me wrong, the game is worth its money, because it is so wonderful in pretenting. It hides it flaws, you just assume stuff is working, because why should it not? But the more play the more you realize that the game is giving you placeholder mechanics everywhere a long the way.

    Persistent universe? Yeah, kind of, except everything runs on p2p without validity checks, because the servers having problems to keep up with the data already.

    Multiplayer? Yeah, kind of, p2p, works sometimes and sometimes not, player communications is giving you often connection errors and other players not in the mood for pvp interactions simply disable p2p in their router and enjoy a carefree solo experience while officially still playing on the big persistent universe.

    Background simulation for the politics, faction standings, system control, etc? Only rudimentary working, but this you might only notice after weeks of playtime into the system.

    The game is of this kind of issues and would be considered by most developers an alpha build, but frontier is charging full price. And they seem to ask us for additional money if we want to test the coming new features like "Wings" witch should include the ability to group with other players, something that is not included in the current version of the game. The beta for that should start in march.

    I wish this game would have been build with more passion, attention to detail and with a real persistent universe in mind, but in its current state you it kind of broken. Most players will reach soon the point when a fun experience turns sour because of bugs and design decisions.    … Expand
  31. init000
    May 26, 2015
    0
    The game is an empty husk of what it could be. The main reasons why I dislike the game is that virtually all the "sandbox" aspects of the game are fake and/or marketing blather devoid of any meaning. The players actions have absolutely NO influence on the game world what so ever. Did you think that trading and item values were influenced by the actions of other players? Guess again - itsThe game is an empty husk of what it could be. The main reasons why I dislike the game is that virtually all the "sandbox" aspects of the game are fake and/or marketing blather devoid of any meaning. The players actions have absolutely NO influence on the game world what so ever. Did you think that trading and item values were influenced by the actions of other players? Guess again - its just a fake economy like in single player freelancer which changes the item prices, not the player-traders. The list goes on. So why exactly should I play a game devoid of any content (in the traditional sense) and instead play a "sandbox" when I actually don't have any influence on the sand in the box? It's basically an over-hyped flight simulator in space with a cheap economy-simulation shoehorned on. The actual gameplay is repetitive and boring without exception. If you want a real sandbox game in space (that isn't just a huge fake and trying to steal your money with the name "Elite") then give EVE Online a try. Elite offers nothing that EVE doesn't except for the flight simulator aspects (but they are basically just a huge time-sink to try and hide the fact that the game is shallow, has no breathing living world and offers virtually no content).

    Really bad game, not worth the money. Play EVE instead - that game actually offers a real sandbox where every action has an influence on the game and not just some cheap excuse like Elite Dangerous.    … Expand
  32. terminatahx
    Mar 19, 2015
    0
    A complete waste of money and time. After grinding hard to a Type9, I could no longer deal with the lack of content, community lack of support, censorship, and rampant bugs. Once the newness of the game wears off, you will find yourself bored to death. The economic engine is the biggest problem for me: larger ships are penalized for being better trade ships, the supply/demand model isA complete waste of money and time. After grinding hard to a Type9, I could no longer deal with the lack of content, community lack of support, censorship, and rampant bugs. Once the newness of the game wears off, you will find yourself bored to death. The economic engine is the biggest problem for me: larger ships are penalized for being better trade ships, the supply/demand model is a disgrace: all prices across the entire universe are within the same narrow price range. Bottom line is that on the service, the game is jaw-dropping gorgeous. Once you learn about the "core" of the engine and it's shortcomings, you feel duped. Don't buy, unless you are desparate for a game where you can fly around in space.… Expand
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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
  36. Lirezh
    Jan 19, 2015
    0
    I thought a while but except for writing a bad review I found nothing is going to reach those developers.
    Let's begin with the reason for 0 stars:
    They have no customer support and no community relationship. They have a support forum but they do not respond to people there (never) and they have a ticket system but they do not respond to tickets. At least not in the first half year. This    I thought a while but except for writing a bad review I found nothing is going to reach those developers.
    Let's begin with the reason for 0 stars:
    They have no customer support and no community relationship. They have a support forum but they do not respond to people there (never) and they have a ticket system but they do not respond to tickets. At least not in the first half year.
    This alone is a reason NOT to buy the game, if something fails, good look getting what you paid for.

    The next reason is that the game is still an early BETA, they just changed it to "release" and act as if it was finished. The promise a few upgrades but area already heavily working on several paid extensions.
    They cheat on the players. It's all about grinding the money our of us instead of delivering high quality.

    The game has many bugs, none of them are handled.
    The existing VR support is nice but there has not been any development toward reducing it's problems since a long time.
    All their development likely was put into the paid extensions, they want to make 300 million USD within 2 years (according to their press releases).
    Would be nice to read that they want to make the best game possible within 2 years, sadly not the case.

    The game itself runs fairly stable but it has no content. You can not play together with other people it's a solo game with random player encounters. You are always in your own instance. (not a true MMO)

    The PVP is simple, you just press the EXIT button you are out of it. You can not lose your ship as long as you log out before it's gone.

    Sadly PVE content is nearly non existent. It works well for the first 2-3 hours but once you have a bigger ship it turns to endless repeated grinding against non existing AIs.
    There is no mission to do except a single one which is very anoying (search a specific ship for one hour, kill it in 2 minutes).
    There is no way to play together with friends, even if you could see them (they are not in your instance mate, sorry) you can not share bounties or transfer them items or money.

    The only missing feature to finish the game off would be the ability to buy ships for real money.

    I was advertising it in the beginning, now I can only give a big STAY AWAY.
    Hope for Star Citizen, hope for one of the other games.
    Frontier is treating their players too bad to give a recommendation.
    If you don't care about all the problems, the game can be quite some fun even with the tiny content it provides.    … Expand
  37. DevilDoc
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Elite Dangerous is not a good game. It tries to feed off some lingering nostalgia you may have. However, while the playable area is large it feels empty. The player has no palpable impact on the universe. It wants to be an MMO but does not give you appropriate tools to interact with other players. In fact, consider yourself lucky, when you manage to get put into the same instance as theElite Dangerous is not a good game. It tries to feed off some lingering nostalgia you may have. However, while the playable area is large it feels empty. The player has no palpable impact on the universe. It wants to be an MMO but does not give you appropriate tools to interact with other players. In fact, consider yourself lucky, when you manage to get put into the same instance as the other players on your friendslist. There are frequent server problems and disconnects. Elite ignores any and all advances that have been made in gameplay and story telling in the last 20 years of the industry. The gameplay is unbalanced so your only viable recourse is MINDLESS GRINDING of trade runs. PVP is non-existent because people rarely meet and if you meet someone that you would like to fight it is a 50% chance that they won't simply alt-f4 and ghost away in solo mode. Ridiculous. The games only redeeming quality is its virtual reality support, which works really well in the smaller ships. However, it breaks in the larger ships like the Type-7, because the cockpits are so large that the edge of it are in the same focal plane as the galaxy background, which makes it feel like you are sitting in a model of a ship that has a screen projecting the galaxy half a meter behind the edge of the cockpit. I have been with the game since alpha, hoping things would get better for the release, however Frontier is not listening to negative feedback and is just powering forward with blinders on. Finally, the customer support is abysmal. People are waiting 6 months to get answers to simple accounting tickets. Abysmal.… Expand
  38. lolgan
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Terrible customer support/service.

    This game started as a Kickstarter project. If you were one of the faithful that backed this game and Offline play was a deciding factor in backing it, then you probably experienced the amazingly shocking customer support/service. Basically the devs did a bait and switch and a few weeks before release they decide to let everyone know that Offline play    Terrible customer support/service.

    This game started as a Kickstarter project. If you were one of the faithful that backed this game and Offline play was a deciding factor in backing it, then you probably experienced the amazingly shocking customer support/service. Basically the devs did a bait and switch and a few weeks before release they decide to let everyone know that Offline play is too hard to implement. So basically this game is now purely an MMO. If you asked for a refund you most likely got denied or offered a small fraction of the money you gave in good faith. There is a solo mode, but an always on internet connection is required (DRM? you decide).

    There was also the revelation that they may implement in-game advertising, which reinforces the need for constantly being online. Also micro-transcations. Yeah that's right, buy your ships awesome skins! Awwww yeah! The stuff that matters (which could have been free btw. Oh wait, no stuff that. We gotta milk the customers right? heheheh). Actually since there is no monthly subscription fee I guess for this MMO to be viable they need to fund the servers through micro-transactions and in-game advertising.

    Judging by the way their customer support/service, you are going to hope you do not have issues with this MMO.    … Expand
  39. kurtheil
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    The support it is terrible, they don't care about players. They break promises and stall even if you are in the right.
    Game seems empty, servers are unrealiable, playing with friends only is not easy. There is no offline mode.
  40. Accipiter
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    As I see it, it is a breach of promise of the worst kind. It's false promises from Mr. Braben and Frontier that allowed them to get this project funded during the kickstarter.

    I would strongly recommend that you to get a refund what you paid if you bought any of their products. Frontier is a very bad company with horrible customer practices. Everybody need to be warned against buying    As I see it, it is a breach of promise of the worst kind. It's false promises from Mr. Braben and Frontier that allowed them to get this project funded during the kickstarter.

    I would strongly recommend that you to get a refund what you paid if you bought any of their products.
    Frontier is a very bad company with horrible customer practices. Everybody need to be warned against buying anything from them.    … Expand
  41. MJack
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    The devs stayed true to the original formula while completely ignoring several most basic requirements of MMOs established in the last 15 years, such as reliable co-op multiplayer functionally or clans. Besides, NPCs encounter feel random and missions arbitrary and generic. In summary, the devs miserably failed to achieve their goal of create a living breathing universe.
  42. Much
    Dec 20, 2014
    0
    Not MMO as promised, more like MSO - massively single-player online. It is very lonely, boring and bad game. The graphics looks good, the gameplay sucks. But seriously, how hard can it be to make a nice graphic to a space sim when there is not much of a content, it's not a Skyrim.

    The game is broken by design and it will never have a good multi-player. You can forget about clan wars and    Not MMO as promised, more like MSO - massively single-player online. It is very lonely, boring and bad game. The graphics looks good, the gameplay sucks. But seriously, how hard can it be to make a nice graphic to a space sim when there is not much of a content, it's not a Skyrim.

    The game is broken by design and it will never have a good multi-player. You can forget about clan wars and pvp, since people can just switch to solo online play or be in a different instance. It does not even have co-op missions or any common multiplayer-features, e.g. chat.
    It is nothing like Freelancer ore EVE, the gameplay is similar to Truck Simulator.

    Broken promises, arrogant community consisted of zealots from 30 years old Elite game, bad game: 0/10. This game is so bad, I had to write my first review ever.    … Expand
  43. Filiber
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    It's not what they promised: no multiplayer, no freedom. You can't play with other players and, given the dimensions of the galaxy and the absence of things to do, you won't even meet anybody. Just pretty graphics and wild grinding: you make money to buy bigger ships. No challenge. You will find online free to play titles that are far better than this game.
  44. cheeseheads86
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    really nice graphics and love space, but after breaking promises from kickstarter about offline mode and other features game is getting launched without id recommend staying away from this game. Cant trust them
  45. YanniHasni
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    What a massive disappointment. If you thought Braben's previous two space games were bad, this beats them hands down. This can barely be called a game. It is a astronomy simulator consisting entirely of pretty graphics, nice sound, and five insultingly boring mini-games. Plus a ton of bugs and crippling server problems. AVOID!
  46. 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
  47. tomphoenix
    Dec 29, 2014
    0
    WAIT on it. Right now it'll give you a few weeks of play time before you're bored with it. Once you figure out how to game it, the grind portion of the game becomes shorter (and it is currently a grind fest). You get into better ships and then what? Nothing. There's very little risk and very little depth to the game.

    It has a VERY promising future and the game's engine, sound, and    WAIT on it. Right now it'll give you a few weeks of play time before you're bored with it. Once you figure out how to game it, the grind portion of the game becomes shorter (and it is currently a grind fest). You get into better ships and then what? Nothing. There's very little risk and very little depth to the game.

    It has a VERY promising future and the game's engine, sound, and graphics were well done. It is enjoyable to dog fight (until you learn how to take out NPCs without risk - but still PvP is enjoyable ... when you see other players that is). It should be a great game worthy of the review you see, but today it simply isn't so.

    Be careful: The reviews you see are based upon promises and the future of what Elite may (and likely will) become. They are not based on the game as it is today. No sane person in their right mind would call the game complete. It shouldn't have been released yet and it shouldn't really be rated yet either.    … Expand
  48. Vulture02
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    This game is simply trash, and this review will be a list of why this is the case.
    -Hundreds of features promised by the devs to be included on release are not in the game, many of which will be expanded upon in my next bullet points. For example, they promised 25 ships on release, and we don't have our 25 ships.
    -Devs have said themselves on the forums that the features they have    This game is simply trash, and this review will be a list of why this is the case.
    -Hundreds of features promised by the devs to be included on release are not in the game, many of which will be expanded upon in my next bullet points. For example, they promised 25 ships on release, and we don't have our 25 ships.
    -Devs have said themselves on the forums that the features they have implemented are the "minimum implementation" of said features. How long should I expect to wait for these features to be fleshed out considering the game has been in development for years, and launches today? This game is basically an alpha in terms of actual features, and yet they are launching it as a full game.
    -Offline mode has been permanently removed, despite the promises of the devs that it would be in the game during the kickstarter phase. This means no modding.
    -The "multiplayer" aspect of this game is simply terrible. There is no local chat, no grouping, no coop missioning, no way to jump between systems with your friends, and no way to actually stay in an instance with your friends so that you can actually play with them. There is nothing to actually do with other players besides kill them and talk to them one at a time if you're locked on to them.
    -Furthermore, the "instancing" in this game is also trash. Even if you're flying right next to a guy talking to him, you'll often find that he will just disappear without a trace because the servers decided to put him into another instance for no reason. Instances are limited to 30 or so players (not that you'd ever even find that many players together at one time), so the MP is actually designed to be completely dead.
    -The "background simulation" running the universe is a complete sham. NPCs jump around with random cargo and never actually dock to sell said cargo. The sole purpose of the existence of NPCs in game right now is to make the universe feel less dead.
    -Nothing happens in game unless the devs "inject an event" to make it happen. For example, "wars" which go on right now consist of ten ships fighting each other in a war zone eternally, until the "war" is ended by the dev team. You can sit in the warzone for hours killing every NPC in sight, but when the war is eventually ended by Frontier, absolutely nothing will change in game. There was no reason for the "war" to ever happen because nothing happened as a result.
    -The universe is completely empty, and not in the good way. You go into supercruise, and there are "unidentified signal sources" which you can drop into to explore a bit, but every USS is just the same 3 events over and over again, so there is no reason to ever stop at them.
    -Super cruise takes forever. Some players report that they spent over 1.5 hours just super cruising to a space station to complete a mission, and that while they do that they will actually play ANOTHER GAME in the mean time so that way they'll be less bored.
    -Everything in game is extremely expensive, and incomes for all "professions" if you can call them that, is non-existent. It would take you many thousands of hours of grinding just to buy the expensive ships.
    -Your ship accrues "wear and tear" meaning that even if you just want to fly around empty space and enjoy looking at the skybox, you can't even do that without grinding to repair your ship.
    -Everything is procedurally generated. 400 billion systems empty systems that are all nearly exactly the same because some algorithm made all of them, who cares. I'd take a few hundred hand crafted systems over this procedurally generated junk any day.
    -Every single in game feature is so shallow that you can master it in seconds. There is nothing in game that takes actual skill.
    -There is no reason to actually do anything in game, because nothing you do changes the universe in any way. You could be the worlds best trader, pirate, bounty hunter, soldier, whatever, but nothing you do matters. All you're doing is grinding for imaginary credits.
    -The devs go out of their way to make features boring or frustrating, such as super cruising as I mentioned above, or even cargo scooping. To scoop cargo, you need to fly up to every single piece and manually scoop it into your ship. Sure, it sounds like fun to do one time, but it becomes massively tedious after the nth time, particularly considering that you need to scoop to pick up other players cargo, or mine asteroids.
    -Equipment for ships stocked at stations is completely randomly generated, and also randomly changes with time. I hope you like flying around the universe for 10 hours just to find a new engine for your ship. The devs are aware of this, and insist it is a feature, not a bug.

    I've run out of room in this mini review, but this game is certainly not worth $50.    … Expand
  49. SpectralShade
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Basicly a tech demo and nothing but promises of for the future (with the reminder for the wary that the developers already gone back on big design decisions).

    Game was wouted originally as an offline/online game. 1 motnh prior to release (after 2 years of development), they let slip that they cancelled offline. People wanted a refund because the game wasn't anymore what they were sold    Basicly a tech demo and nothing but promises of for the future (with the reminder for the wary that the developers already gone back on big design decisions).

    Game was wouted originally as an offline/online game. 1 motnh prior to release (after 2 years of development), they let slip that they cancelled offline. People wanted a refund because the game wasn't anymore what they were sold and Frontier Development Started a dragged out tug-of war with their own customers to delay payments. Game itself is a shell of what it should have been. The old frontier game has more meat on it, which shows where the money to develop this game went (graphics and tying people online). The online requirement is bogus. Most of the time it feels like a singleplayer game anyway and the it has to go down as the most lonesome "MMO" ever.
    Given Frontier Developments finances, chances are that they required servers for the game to be played won't be sustainable for any decent amount of times, so add this to the rushed release of what is essentially a tech demo for the game, my advice is to stay well clear of this game as well as this developer.    … Expand
  50. taiko88
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    The game is a boring and dry adventure into nothingness. The awe will drop off after the first hour and you will be left wondering what else is there to do besides the simplistic combat, the mind numbing trading, or the boring exploration. The multiplayer is broken and doesn't even work, the game itself is just a shell of what the game promised by the developers. Don't worry though allThe game is a boring and dry adventure into nothingness. The awe will drop off after the first hour and you will be left wondering what else is there to do besides the simplistic combat, the mind numbing trading, or the boring exploration. The multiplayer is broken and doesn't even work, the game itself is just a shell of what the game promised by the developers. Don't worry though all these amazing awesome features they keep promising will come.… Expand
  51. Morkha
    Dec 16, 2014
    0
    Launch trailer is a lie,

    ok the game is beautiful buts that's all Repetitive game-play , poor actions, slow actions, poor content , smaller battles , ... Just an other sandbox without tools to build your sandcastle. Example : Quest : get x ... or kill x ... ( no scenarios no script ) Start : jump => cinematic , sun , kill x or get x. jump => same cinematic (yeah always    Launch trailer is a lie,

    ok the game is beautiful buts that's all

    Repetitive game-play , poor actions, slow actions, poor content , smaller battles , ...

    Just an other sandbox without tools to build your sandcastle.
    Example :
    Quest : get x ... or kill x ... ( no scenarios no script )

    Start : jump => cinematic , sun , kill x or get x. jump => same cinematic (yeah always the same, wherever u are) , sun ( always a sun ) , quest complete , do it again .

    Farm credits again and again and again( by mining or travelli.... heu i mean trading or , ... )

    have an other ship for .... i don't know , then repeat .

    Of course tell about huge bugs lags and problems .

    repeat is my definition for that boring game    … Expand
  52. suncokret
    May 15, 2015
    0
    Basically a framework - great graphics, great sound. That's it. Could've been great. But it's not.

    Just tell me, what's the point of 100+ billion star systems if the space feels *empty* as hell, the stations look the same, the stars look the same? Is it really logical and scientific to have the same stations thousands of LY away? How many pilots will go even remotely deep? 0.01%? People    Basically a framework - great graphics, great sound. That's it. Could've been great. But it's not.

    Just tell me, what's the point of 100+ billion star systems if the space feels *empty* as hell, the stations look the same, the stars look the same? Is it really logical and scientific to have the same stations thousands of LY away? How many pilots will go even remotely deep? 0.01%? People in multiplayer are so scarce, the further you get, the less and less real people are encountered. It's EMPTY.

    It's obvious that Braben's main highlight was the "hundreds of billions" star systems. I'd much rather have only 500 stars in total but busy and exciting gameplay, with mystery and suspense. If I need the space atlas, I'll use Stellarium.
    Besides, it's easy to add the stars no one sees and cares and much tougher to build the great gameplay.    … Expand
  53. WhatsaUsername
    Mar 20, 2015
    0
    A very, very boring flight simulator disguised by pretty graphics to make people believe its a real game. At first you'll be impressed by how nice everything looks and how cool it is to fly around in your ship, but then you'll realise that theres absolutely nothing to do but grind the same 3 tasks over and over again ad nauseam.

    I'll say one thing for the developers, they've really    A very, very boring flight simulator disguised by pretty graphics to make people believe its a real game. At first you'll be impressed by how nice everything looks and how cool it is to fly around in your ship, but then you'll realise that theres absolutely nothing to do but grind the same 3 tasks over and over again ad nauseam.

    I'll say one thing for the developers, they've really captured the feeling of empty, lifeless space very well. Too well. I think its a stretch to call this a game - more like a proof of concept for something better (like maybe Star Citizen?).    … Expand
  54. Megalon
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    The slogan you will hear floating around the Elite community is "play YOUR way". Well i am here to tell you, that is only true if your way happens to coincide with the way the developers play. There is a glaring sense of selfishness in the development of the game that has turned out for the worse upon release. It is, as others have said, a shell of a game. There are some great flightThe slogan you will hear floating around the Elite community is "play YOUR way". Well i am here to tell you, that is only true if your way happens to coincide with the way the developers play. There is a glaring sense of selfishness in the development of the game that has turned out for the worse upon release. It is, as others have said, a shell of a game. There are some great flight mechanics and wonderful graphics holding up a flimsy grind fest that lacks any depth or character or content or multiplayer or anything that would make it an actual game. Elite: "Dangerous" is basically a space flight simulator minus the simulation.

    Just to give you some history, i backed the game when it was in closed beta and have played for a few hundred hours and have done everything the "game" has to offer. So i want to try to give you a quick run down of the features they are ADVERTISING without all the marketing fluff to hide what you will really be getting.

    "Play Your Way"- unless you want to be a solo trader, this is the biggest lie you will find in the descriptions of the game on their website. you will not play your way unless your way is- playing alone mostly and almost never seeing another real player while trading and trading and trading and trading again to have any hope of having enough money to "Play Your Way"

    Combat- first the website will make it sound like there is great PvP bounty hunting to be had in tandem with difficult PvE. I can tell you that there mostly certainly is not any of that. What you will get is news updates at stations for bounties on players you will never see. you will probably see Jesus Christ in this game before you take down a player bounty. The AI in the game is terrible and so easy to kill or escape from that they serve as nothing more than a waste of time. However if you do happen to take some damage or lose an engagement in anything but a stock starter ship, the cost is so astronomical that your immersion will be broken the moment your read the total. When you combine this with the extremely poor pay outs for combat, what you get is a fundamentally flawed risk vs reward system in terms of combat roles.

    Exploration- exploration consists of pointing your ship at astral bodies that are "undiscovered" then trying to get to a system as far away from your discovery as possible to sell it. basically it is information trading for sightseers with a small profit margin than standard trading. i will take this time to say that, if your goal is to explore a 1:1 representation of the milky way and nothing more- this game is perfect for you.

    Trading-"your every trade contributes to the dynamic market activity". the trading system is a static, one-note system that equates to little more than "easy win mode". of course there is nothing to WIN in ED, but what you can do is make money and trading is the easiest way (and i mean painfully easy) to do that. there is no economic simulation in place and you will never have a noticeable effect on any market. the worst of it all is that they do not tell you that there were exploits during the "gamma" phase of the game and they did not wipe any players prior to the 1.0 release. so you will be playing with players in 50 million+ credit ships who are multi billionaires. I am not sure how much the last part matters because, again, you will NEVER see them anyway.

    Factions- the faction rep system is broken as far as i know but even when it is working it does not provide any tapestry or color to your world in ED. all factions are just letters on a screen in a station telling you to do more boring stuff for hours so you can gain rep (broken) and do slightly less boring stuff for slightly more money. when i got this game i said "finally, i can be like boba fett and do merc work for the empire", then on Dec 16th i started the game in a turd of a ship deep in Federation space 200 light years away from the empire's capital. it took me 3 hours to fly to the outskirts of imperial space. this is not playing MY way.

    Now, i know what you are thinking- "this has a pretty decent meta score and i totally LOVE space sims". Well, i love space sims and rely heavily on feedback from the pc gaming community when making purchases. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE SEMI POSITIVE REVIEWS HERE. The Elite community is filled with the most blind and relentless fan boys one will ever encounter. If you would like to put what i am saying to the test then simply register for a forum account and attempt to post some useful criticism of the game. Before you know it you will be trampled by the horses of a thousand ED white knights and the keyboard punches of mighty neck bearded fan boys. You can attribute the reviews here to a small portion of those gray bushed and naive super fans. The reality is the game is 1 year away from being complete at best and even then i have little faith in the creator and lead dev and their ability to make this game work for a contemporary community.

    Save your Money    … Expand
  55. gadthrawn
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    I don't care about the potential of a game.
    It was announced as offline game. The offlien mose was cancelled near release.
    If you try to get a refund - the company is slow in replying to emails. A "48 hour" support ticket takes right now over a month. Other bad things form additional account (not refundable as it was already used in beta) Only four types of stations, most missions    I don't care about the potential of a game.
    It was announced as offline game. The offlien mose was cancelled near release.
    If you try to get a refund - the company is slow in replying to emails. A "48 hour" support ticket takes right now over a month.

    Other bad things form additional account (not refundable as it was already used in beta)
    Only four types of stations, most missions are stupid grinding missions. On 99% of the routes theres no profit for trading, price system is far better in other games (do you really want to use a occulus and then note prices on a paper sheet which are wrong next time as even in solo game other players influence the price?), Advertising, ...

    So for me the game is crap.    … Expand
  56. atlblackops
    Dec 19, 2014
    0
    I paid as a beta backer and regret it completely. The game is nothing it was promised to be. What you have is some great graphics with extremely shallow gameplay and features. The majority of your time will be spent traveling to and from systems, wasting money and time trying to make money. Graphics are choppy, support is nonexistent; submitting tickets is a waste of time.
  57. bohemond1944
    Feb 2, 2015
    0
    What a boring, boring, snorefest. This game is the pinnacle of overhyped trash; requiring no brains and no fun. This has all the complexity of staring at a map of the galaxy. A cheaper way to enjoy what this game has to offer: project footage of the galaxy on your wall and get a sawhorse; either way you'll have to imagine your own fun.The game is pretty, but considering the almost completeWhat a boring, boring, snorefest. This game is the pinnacle of overhyped trash; requiring no brains and no fun. This has all the complexity of staring at a map of the galaxy. A cheaper way to enjoy what this game has to offer: project footage of the galaxy on your wall and get a sawhorse; either way you'll have to imagine your own fun.The game is pretty, but considering the almost complete lack of any content, that's not saying much. If you're looking for an engaging space sim then play the X series, Wing Commander series, or wait for the space sim made by the guy who did Freelancer: Star Citizen. This game is for people who like to be told what to like by ads, really it isn't a game.… Expand
  58. Trin
    Dec 23, 2014
    0
    Nothing here but broken promises, overhyped marketing and always on DRM. The game is simplistic, shallow and doesn't deliver, the company are untrustworthy and prone to talking up everything that isn't in the game ... yet. (yeah .. right, lies and marketing)

    Backers are fighting to get refunds. Nuff said.
  59. hazmatt1
    Dec 25, 2014
    0
    Pros: Pretty visuals/Nice sound. Combat is fun for a while if you have a well-equipped ship. That's it.

    Cons: This game is, for the most part, just one long repetitive grind which mainly consists of flying from one destination to another, interspersed with the occasional dog-fight. For a game which is set in the vastness of deep space, it feels decidedly shallow quite quickly. First    Pros: Pretty visuals/Nice sound. Combat is fun for a while if you have a well-equipped ship. That's it.

    Cons: This game is, for the most part, just one long repetitive grind which mainly consists of flying from one destination to another, interspersed with the occasional dog-fight. For a game which is set in the vastness of deep space, it feels decidedly shallow quite quickly. First person Eve-Online this ain't! Scratch beneath the thin veneer and there really isn't all that much of substance underneath....just lots of nothing to 'explore'. Also, it's still till very buggy at this late stage of developmen and an internet connection will be required to play - a last moment decision was made by the developers to drop the off-line play option, despite promising this option to it's backers. Way to repay your loyal fans who enabled you to get your project off the ground in the first place...

    Verdict: Cashing-in on nostalgia (although there are many middle-aged fanboys out there who don't seem to mind) with a half-baked product which promised so much but delivered very little; essentially just a graphically enhanced version of a 30 year old game which was created on a 32 K computer (with multi-player tacked-on). Please stop wearing the rose-tinted spectacles - you're just feeding these greedy corporate monsters...    … Expand
  60. AresDeus
    Jan 1, 2015
    0
    Next to no content and poor menu design. Your engine can handle the vicinity of a black hole but get´s slowed down by a freaking planet. Simple actions like docking permission requires to push a lot of buttons while you have no visibility. Almost anything you do needs to be done by scolling through menues that prevents you from flying. Exploring is a boring joke. Mining is even worse. NoNext to no content and poor menu design. Your engine can handle the vicinity of a black hole but get´s slowed down by a freaking planet. Simple actions like docking permission requires to push a lot of buttons while you have no visibility. Almost anything you do needs to be done by scolling through menues that prevents you from flying. Exploring is a boring joke. Mining is even worse. No risk vs. reward anywhere. If you are not a hardcore fanboy that loves to fall asleep while you´re doing "missions" or trading you better don´t waste your money on this game. But hey they always promise that content will come in future expansions (which you have to pay ofc). The game is a joke imho.… Expand
  61. BlipBlast
    Jan 5, 2015
    0
    What good about this game? The sound, the PR.

    I'd say the graphics are good, except when you've seen one space station 1000 times, you really don't care how polished it is. Bad? Everything else. The gameplay (ha ha), the bugs, the dire support and the dishonesty of the creator David Braben in personally betraying every kickstarter backer by failing to ship the game he promised and    What good about this game? The sound, the PR.

    I'd say the graphics are good, except when you've seen one space station 1000 times, you really don't care how polished it is.

    Bad? Everything else. The gameplay (ha ha), the bugs, the dire support and the dishonesty of the creator David Braben in personally betraying every kickstarter backer by failing to ship the game he promised and then weaseling out of giving the refunds he'd agreed to give under Kickstarter rules.

    If you're thinking of buying this, check the Frontier forums first. An ceaseless flow of complaints, lately about weeks of server fails.

    A sad tarnishing of the great name of Elite...    … Expand
  62. Nexus-gamer
    Jan 11, 2015
    0
    The game (well its not a game really more like a demo with 4 billion stars) is nothing like advertised in trailer or game info there is no multi-player and it is really generic in design which makes it so dull to play. The only real way to make money is repetitive trading as combat often resulted in loss rather that gain of funds. Also support is non existent.

    I have heard there are    The game (well its not a game really more like a demo with 4 billion stars) is nothing like advertised in trailer or game info there is no multi-player and it is really generic in design which makes it so dull to play. The only real way to make money is repetitive trading as combat often resulted in loss rather that gain of funds. Also support is non existent.

    I have heard there are DLC coming out to rectify some of these issues but they will cost extra ££'s which I was not prepared to wait/pay for. Thankfully I sold this game and got my money back. I shall be much more careful what I spend £40 on in the future!    … Expand
  63. mne2holt
    Jan 21, 2015
    0
    Awful, Awful, Awful.

    Don't listen to the fan base hype. More and more negative reviews creeping up now for this. Also If you look at the positive scores more people actually disagree with them rather than agree, this tells you a story. I actually feel sorry for those that have spent hundreds on pre-release backing the game only to be let down come release on a scale that is    Awful, Awful, Awful.

    Don't listen to the fan base hype. More and more negative reviews creeping up now for this. Also If you look at the positive scores more people actually disagree with them rather than agree, this tells you a story.

    I actually feel sorry for those that have spent hundreds on pre-release backing the game only to be let down come release on a scale that is astronomical.

    If you are considering buying this I STRONGLY suggest you don't for at least another year. Remember right now you are only buying a premium BETA, the game is so far from being finished it is more likely to never actually get finished as it runs out of funding. We will know this when the game is on a silly low offer of £15-£20 to try and bring more funding in, sign the game is doomed.

    Sandbox OK, yet this game has no sense of direction at all right now just a grind of Bulletin Board contracts. A lot of the contracts are still widely buggy and you are unable to complete them. You will soon become frustrated with looking for unidentified sources only to warp in and out of them looking for the needed parts of your contracts. The only ones I have found to be flawless so far are Cargo Contracts, so if you just want to be hauling items from place to place then this is the game for you. BORING!!

    Looks nice not really, even the loading screen looks like it is 8bit. Don't believe me? Google search Elite Dangerous Loading Screen and look at the images, you will soon see what I mean. Yet in the game Stations are different and do look very nice. Once you have Docked and Launched you have seen it all, repeated sequence/scene over and over. If you like to just see big suns and little white dots then go for it because that is all this is right now. Don't go off the screenshots those are the few nice things you see for about 30 seconds in total of 2 hours game play.

    Sounds are great though and I am a fan of the in game comms, they have filtered it to make you sound like you are in space though this IMO does need tweaking as even in the main menu there is far to much interference so just reverted back to my usual comm method.

    Controls are nice and seem to be about the only thing right now that is good in the game, you need to use the whole keyboard but there is no need to panic it is a slow paced game leaving you plenty of opportunity to set yourself right. After a few hours play you will find you have worn the 'J' key out since you are constantly warping from place to place just to see the same thing over and over.

    MMO, 9 hours of play and can't recall seeing another player. Instead of focusing on such a huge world more focus was needed on the actual playing experience of this game a smaller Universe could have been expanded at a later date, where as now it is just a Universe of NOTHING. Lets be realistic here though 400 Billion Star Galaxy with a player population of maybe a few 10's of thousands, your going to find it hard to find anyone unless your playing with friends in which even then NPCs is about all you will see.

    You will find all your goals are is to grind for credits chasing the next Big ship you can afford and the price gaps are HUGE.

    The game has such potential but I can't ever seeing this being released. Maybe come 2020 in release v8.0095. Which will be to late as Star Citizen will have released and this will be forgotten since they have another 12 months till release and have the time to analysis this game and make sure there's is right. Though the Russians millionaires seem to have that sealed up already a little like EVE due to it's over excessive ship prices.

    So for now it is back to EVE which I am not a Elite player of maybe only 100 hours of actual game play in BUT at least you have a direction to head in. For the price of this its almost 6 months of EVE. I suggest going to play that for 6 months and come back and see what's happened to this then.

    If we are all honest all we really wanted was a first person version of EVE, the baseline was already made. So ask yourselves this, How did they get it so WRONG???    … Expand
  64. Redqwerty
    Jan 26, 2015
    0
    In an ideal world, I'd have given this maybe a 4, but there are so many completely mental 10's that I can't bring myself to do it.
    Keeping this short, the more negative reviews are spot on. The 10's are probably from people demonstrating extreme post-purchase rationalization cognitive bias in my opinion.
    It LOOKS pretty for a bit. then after a couple of weeks, you realise everything    In an ideal world, I'd have given this maybe a 4, but there are so many completely mental 10's that I can't bring myself to do it.
    Keeping this short, the more negative reviews are spot on. The 10's are probably from people demonstrating extreme post-purchase rationalization cognitive bias in my opinion.
    It LOOKS pretty for a bit. then after a couple of weeks, you realise everything and everywhere looks the same, and there just isn't that much to do. Except grind for a better ship. So that you can earn credits faster to grind for a better ship......
    Ultimately, it's completely boring. There is no rich story - it's just delusional roleplaying.
    Suggest you avoid it for at least a year, and have another look if the servers are still on.
    Wish I could get my money back.    … Expand
  65. WyattDerp
    Jan 30, 2015
    0
    Like others, I bought into the hype some of the reviews and totally false trailers pushed. Seriously wonder if those reviewers actually played the game for more than an hour.
    Well I have, and although I thought it was fantastic for a week, the cracks started to appear dang quick.
    You can't get away from it - the more honest reviews have nailed it. It's a shallow, hollow, soulless game    Like others, I bought into the hype some of the reviews and totally false trailers pushed. Seriously wonder if those reviewers actually played the game for more than an hour.
    Well I have, and although I thought it was fantastic for a week, the cracks started to appear dang quick.
    You can't get away from it - the more honest reviews have nailed it. It's a shallow, hollow, soulless game with little to offer apart from initially pleasing visuals and a good sound treatment.
    And everything DOES start to look the same, as you do the four things that you're allowed to.
    Waste of $60. Avoid guys.    … Expand
  66. Slickums
    Feb 3, 2015
    0
    Really tried to like this, but after 6 weeks giving it a go, me and my friends have given up.
    So overhyped - shame on some of the reviewers. Can't believe we bought it and stumped up $60 for this empty, broken and frustrating game.
    There are lots of promises of future content, but I really don't think it's been designed very well as it stands, and promises are worth spit anyway.
    YMMV.
  67. TravisPerkins
    Feb 6, 2015
    0
    Guy in the other office was raving about this for months, so I bought it when it came out.
    Asked him today if he was still playing - he said nope "It's too boring and fake".
    He's dead right. Wish I'd waited before buying. Oh well, it's only money, right? LoL.
  68. WiggyStardust
    Feb 9, 2015
    0
    Whoa!
    Not what I expected after watching the trailers and reading some of the reviews.
    Firstly you really do need a fancy joystick to play properly. Fair enough bought one. Been playing for a couple of weeks - graphics and sound are good at first. BUT, all the star stations look the same, NPCS are dumb as rocks, so they are either boring or instantly kill you. Missions are crap.    Whoa!
    Not what I expected after watching the trailers and reading some of the reviews.
    Firstly you really do need a fancy joystick to play properly. Fair enough bought one.
    Been playing for a couple of weeks - graphics and sound are good at first.
    BUT, all the star stations look the same, NPCS are dumb as rocks, so they are either boring or instantly kill you.
    Missions are crap. Seriously guys, this isn't 1995 any more.
    Wow, just not worth $60 bucks. Not worth $20 bucks either! lol.
    Yeah, server outages, gankers, can't meet your buddies, crappy comms.
    Get the picture?    … Expand
  69. 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.
  70. RadioShed
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Thought this was supposed to be a rich interactive and believable galaxy simulation.
    WRONG!
    The trading sim is pathetic, the missions are generic fetch quests, I can barely work up the enthusiasm to type a review here.
    Superficial and fake. Instanced, grindy, boring.
    Tedious, punishing, and boring. Absolutely hate it and have deleted it.
    Enjoyed the graphics for the first week though.
  71. waffo
    Feb 12, 2015
    0
    Tragic to see how the grate game Elite has been tarnished by this dire knock-off. Graphics and sound are good but that counts for nothing since everything else about Elite Dangerous stinks. One just has to play it once to discover how little resemblance this has to game David Braben promised. Since the launch, David Braben has gone completely absent from the public eye. You'd think he'd atTragic to see how the grate game Elite has been tarnished by this dire knock-off. Graphics and sound are good but that counts for nothing since everything else about Elite Dangerous stinks. One just has to play it once to discover how little resemblance this has to game David Braben promised. Since the launch, David Braben has gone completely absent from the public eye. You'd think he'd at least deliver some apology like Molyneux, but no. He's got everyone's money, is fighting tooth and nail against legal action from backers entitled to refunds, and still the game is almost complete empty, except for 400 billion bugs.… Expand
  72. WallyGog
    Feb 12, 2015
    0
    Another day, another update released.
    The release does not of course contain much in the way of sorely needed content - just another raft of attempted bug fixes, which will if past experience is anything to go by break twice as much as they mend.
    Other reviewers have already told you how shallow and broken the whole thing is, so I won't repeat their words. All I'll say is that if you're    Another day, another update released.
    The release does not of course contain much in the way of sorely needed content - just another raft of attempted bug fixes, which will if past experience is anything to go by break twice as much as they mend.
    Other reviewers have already told you how shallow and broken the whole thing is, so I won't repeat their words.
    All I'll say is that if you're thinking of purchasing this, have a good look at the negative reviews, and have a good think about it.
    Peace.    … Expand
  73. yuikiyo
    Feb 13, 2015
    0
    The most disappointing game I have played for ages. Empty, boring, unfinished and lots of bugs. This is an early access game being mis-sold as finished. All this talk of "It will get better" is a joke. The first big update just arrived and it is a wreck. Already Frontier have rushed out three emergency patches. They should have got this game in a working sate BEFORE claiming it wasThe most disappointing game I have played for ages. Empty, boring, unfinished and lots of bugs. This is an early access game being mis-sold as finished. All this talk of "It will get better" is a joke. The first big update just arrived and it is a wreck. Already Frontier have rushed out three emergency patches. They should have got this game in a working sate BEFORE claiming it was finished and taking people's money

    And $60 !! Don't buy, instead throw your money down the drain. That's more fun.    … Expand
  74. bukueOner
    Feb 13, 2015
    0
    This game was cool for the first few hours when all the planets and stars were new and exciting, but then you realize there's really not much to do. It felt like GTA: Vice City all over again. Tons of building everywhere and no doors open. It's all about this amazing universe that's meant to feel so alive, yet all you can do is scan, trade or kill. The instanced multiplayer is a joke.This game was cool for the first few hours when all the planets and stars were new and exciting, but then you realize there's really not much to do. It felt like GTA: Vice City all over again. Tons of building everywhere and no doors open. It's all about this amazing universe that's meant to feel so alive, yet all you can do is scan, trade or kill. The instanced multiplayer is a joke. There's basically no tools for players to create their own content. You can't even group yet. This game is a good time killer until something better comes out.… Expand
  75. weatherdog
    Feb 13, 2015
    0
    been playing for about 6 weeks now, didn't know that it was really a roleplaying game rather than a proper simulator or mmo. Done trading, tried mining which was the worst, and bounty hunting. The fighting part just ends up as just endless turning. if you get a good ship setup, the nexxt bugfixing patch cripples it. not enough to do and thats enough for me now. going to playbeen playing for about 6 weeks now, didn't know that it was really a roleplaying game rather than a proper simulator or mmo. Done trading, tried mining which was the worst, and bounty hunting. The fighting part just ends up as just endless turning. if you get a good ship setup, the nexxt bugfixing patch cripples it. not enough to do and thats enough for me now. going to play something more FUN like tetris or checkers with the dog.… Expand
  76. fu8276
    Apr 8, 2015
    0
    Hard to know where to start with this game. The few things that are good about it are overwhelmed by the bad. This game is nowhere near the state that deserves a full price release. It is not even fit for beta. In empty shell.
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. 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
  80. Rowbot
    Jun 12, 2015
    0
    I'm going to keep this really short and sweet, since most of the honest reviews touch on 99% of what I'd tell you, anyways.

    -You will most likely not enjoy this game if you don't have a flight stick/HOTAS setup of some sort. They don't tell you that before buying the game, though. Playing with mouse/keyboard or a gamepad is possibly, but not recommended. -They have lied MULTIPLE    I'm going to keep this really short and sweet, since most of the honest reviews touch on 99% of what I'd tell you, anyways.

    -You will most likely not enjoy this game if you don't have a flight stick/HOTAS setup of some sort. They don't tell you that before buying the game, though. Playing with mouse/keyboard or a gamepad is possibly, but not recommended.

    -They have lied MULTIPLE times before and after release concerning features and broken promises to early adopters and backers.

    -Game is basically a grind and running back'n'forth between stations and planets

    -Pretty game... but a whole lot of pretty EMPTINESS!

    -Users are shadow banned frequently from forums and game for minor or ZERO infractions at all. If you don't agree with them, you better keep it to yourself!

    -This game is a glorified space flight sim. The "MMO" part comes from the grind and lackluster controls/combat. They literally took the worst aspects of the MMO genre and slapped them on a flight sim to make it an "MMO". The combat could actually be good if the controls weren't so horrid, but since combat is so reliant on being able to control your craft... yeah...

    -You'll get hardcore zealots of this game attacking these points, especially the last one, but let's get one thing straight here - they've put hundreds of hours into this game and spent hundreds of dollars on flight sim peripherals, so OF COURSE they're going to defend it with their very lives!!! Yes, competent, engaging, and thrilling combat can be had in this game if you have the hours and the equipment... but do you really want to bother? I sure as Hell don't!    … Expand
  81. 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.
  82. 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
  83. 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
  84. 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
  85. 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
  86. 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.
  87. 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!
  88. 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
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. 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
  93. 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
  94. 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.
  95. Fallos
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    Complete piece of ****
    I can't even describe how much thing there are wrong
  96. 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.
  97. 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
  98. 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
  99. 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
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    0
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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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