Elite: Dangerous

[Tamas]

Alright, I have decided to listen to the advice of The Brain. I'll pass

[The Brain]

He chose... wisely.

[Josquius]

uh oh. Huge red light on that bbc article: ' multiplayer title'
I want a successor to frontier, not eve- fucking- online

[Tamas]

uh oh. Huge red light on that bbc article: ' multiplayer title'
I want a successor to frontier, not eve- fucking- online

it is my understanding that you will also be able to play SP, but if I am mistaken, I will send a strongly worded letter 

[Tamas]

Ok, this looks awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VE8B4KptyVI

[Tamas]

So much will an Oculus Rift cost when it will be properly out? I want it for this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey22m463104

[DontSayBanana]

So much will an Oculus Rift cost when it will be properly out? I want it for this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey22m463104

Good question.  They've said they want to put out *another* development version after Crystal Cove before they start talking about opening up pre-orders.

[grumbler]

So much will an Oculus Rift cost when it will be properly out? I want it for this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey22m463104

That looks like a lot of lifespan spent on something not really relevant to the game.  Who would want to play out that sequence over and over and over?

[Razgovory]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the appeal to mandatory parallel parking for space ships.  I guess there is a demand for it, I mean there is a demand for tractor and bus simulators, but I don't see the appeal.

[celedhring]

Docking your ship was an absolute PITA in the Classic Elite, I suppose they decided to follow on the tradition.

I hope at least one of this or Star Citizen comes good, after the latest X title turned out even more disjointed than the previous ones. I want a good trade/combat space sim.

[Warspite]

I'm looking forward to the cargo loading subgame.

[Josquius]

My thoughts too watching that docking sequence. Seems a complete pain.
Yeah, the original Elite's docking was bad enough. This seems to be like that but even more so. Hopefully auto dockers will be cheap and easy.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

for the spacesimmers it seems to be a good few weeks:

first elite that goes to the next stage of beta (or somesuch) and now (finally) the dogfighting module of starcitizen that got released.
Managed to play the second for a bit and it seems decent enough. Looks pretty good.

at some point I'll need to purchase elite too I think.

[Warspite]

I cracked. I dropped £50 on the beta access. It's downloading now. I'm about to regress into myself, aged six. 

[Warspite]

For a beta, it's a lot of fun. I've given it two evenings' play and, because a lot of the gameplay dynamics aren't yet implemented, I've mostly been hauling commodities around.

It's very, very pretty, and the sound is remarkably good, which really helps with the immersion - one thing I always disliked the X series for not doing very well. The virtual cockpit is a real highlight, and apparently it's fantastic with Oculus Rift. Looking around the Galactic Map gives a sense of immense scale. Once the full game is out, I'm in half a mind to collect a few mates and head out in the middle of uncharted space and set up an ultra-libertarian nutcase colony living off fuel scoops and canned food.

There should be a major update tomorrow that adds the exploration dynamics, in which you can make an in-game career surveying uncharted systems for money, as well as adding 400 more worlds.

The model of the game seems to be a good balance of solo and persistent online world. You can play the game completely offline, though you lose the updates from the persistent online universe; you can play the game in private online groups; or you can play completely online in the main game mode, which in practice means you can have either a solo game experience by not interacting with players, or you can muck in with the other players in various ways.

While there's no story line planned for the game, the idea seems to be that players will make their own narratives - as for example the brewing civil war in the Federation indicates. I do hope however a modding facility is introduced to allow story-lines to be created and played in the solo mode.

Most importantly, the game - unlike anything I've played since the original Elite series - feels like Elite.