Elite

DON'T GO TO RIEDQUAT

AND WASTE ANOTHER YEAR

tbf in frontier it would probably take that long to work out how many times you have to jump to get there :(

2 billion Harmless Rodents can't be wrong.

Anyone playing Dangerous?

I just had a look at the main web site. It's £40 for the game, but they also seem to want people to buy additional paint jobs for the ships, at £10 a pack!

Well that's me out.

Tempted, but in these days of steam winter sales, £40 for one game isn't happening.

Great game, pops up in Steam sales these days for you cheapskates

how robust a computer would one need to run this, DG?

Why, Stevie, not a particularly hefty one. Quad-core CPU/4GB RAM/3D card with min 1GB RAM. I might as well whack some links in here

Official site

Player gallery

Ship builder

Trade tool (for cheats booooooooooo)

Thanks DG - I shall def consider it

bought in the steam sale, ticks all the old first encounters/ original elite boxes, really enjoying it.
Stevie, my cpu is not fast, 4GB ram and only a Radeon 6670 1Gb, and it keeps a steady 31/32 FPS.

it is £40 today! yikes! do you have to join steam to get the discounts?

but no planet landings?

It drops down to £25 fairly regularly - I'd expect another sale at the start of August to coincide with Gamescom

Talking of which they have a "big" announcement to make abt Elite there, smart money being on planetary landings which they've been hinting at for a while now

Yep

https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/horizons

cool, but pricey ?

ie, this game with planetary landings would now cost me £70 ?

I'll wait for reviews and such, at the moment this game is beyond my reach

If you buy the game now and the expansion later yeah but if you wait till it comes out £40 gets you the expansion and 'base game' (I agree this is a little confusing)

ah right, but won't original buyers be a little pissed at that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVPOV-aSsg

my memory of this was trying to play it on my Dad's BBC Micro computer as a kid. Everything was white lines on a black background. Every key on the keyboard had a function. I was very good at crashing the thing into the ground.

^^^Elite Plus was the best version, tasty 256 colour MCGA graphics

Still not met a (new) Thargoid

^^^Elite Plus was the best version, tasty 256 colour MCGA graphics

Still not met a (new) Thargoid

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-T6VFGzdK4

that vid makes the game seem fun, is it fun?

Not managed to get into Dangerous because my attention is way too short these days. But I fired it up the other night, sat there listening to my podcasts whilst watching ships flying around the spaceport. In vr it was quite nice.

Eventually bothered to try and learn some stuff, combat trained, figured out all the menus and space navigation. Almost gave up after my first mission to hyper-jump to another system was scuppered because a bloody big moon was in the way of my jump.

All in all, think I'm going to revisit as my interest was tickled.