Elite : Dangerous

[Ttaskmaster]

You guys seen this?

Yes... and I've seen more "insane" gaming rigs than that. For a number of flight-sim enthu's, that seems par for the course.
Best one I saw was a bloke (in Aus, I think) who built a complete 747 cockpit from authentic parts, with every single control working and mapped to the same function in MSFlightSim. IIRC, the whole thing was inside a 180º projection screen and moved. He hired it out to pilots, but was actually a professional pilot himself too.

I'm an Elite Dangerous backer, and the latest No Wipe on the 16th is the final nail for me. There have been far too many Hacks for credits since gamma started not to wipe the game at gamma end.

There will not be a full wipe. That is certain.
They *may* decide to do a partial wipe, which would counter the hacks and be easily substantiated by in-game plots.

But how does that actually affect you anyway?
There will always be players who have more, got a better start, etc.
Elite is not some kind of competition. There are no rewards for being the first to a billion credits or having the biggest ship (not that it will help you, as I've taken down Anacondas in a starter Sidewinder myself).
It's all about how you play your game.

I also feel FD have lost the way, and changed promised much that in truth I don't think they will ever deliver, as for the game being multiplayer, its not even close.

Multiplayer... or MMO?
You can play online with other people. You cannot all get together in one place, without being split into multiple instances.
It is definitely Multiplayer.

hearing at least 1 big backer has made a formal complaint to kickstarter that this is not the product as advertised and wants kickstarter to close the funding!

Kickstarter is not selling finished products and it was never advertised thus.
Kickstarter funding also closed long ago (4th Jan 2013), as the project was successfully funded.
Kickstarter funding was intended to... well... kick-start the project, which it successfully did. Anything else is down to pre-order payments and merchandise purchases.

a lot of people cancelling pre orders btw on the grounds of it not being a level playing field on launch - a real `pay to play` now.

Not a level playing field?
So the free Eagle ship (one of the most manoeuvrable vessels going) they got with the pre-order would still have been a level playing field then, yeh??

What about those people with previous experience of space-sims?
Those with faster internet connections?
Those with better rigs?
Those with HOTAS instead of basic KB&M?

Are these the same people worried about getting mass-ganked every 5 seconds, in a game where there are 400 billion systems to be in...?


Whatever....
I really don't care. Just means more space for me and less whining over the comms channels!!

[scaryjim]

Was sat in a restaurant with some mates on Saturday. One turns to another and says "Hey, do you know Frontier: Elite?". Other guy looks blank. So he turns to me and asks me if I know it. I'm like - "sweetie, I know the ORIGINAL Elite "

Anyway, it looks like a couple of my mates in Manchester are thinking about getting it, and if they do I guess I might actually think about joining in. Still not happy about the lack of offline single player mind, but I guess I've always got the Original for that....

[Lowe]

Gamma v2.0 at 5.30 guys!

I can't post the changelog, it's that big!

[Ttaskmaster]

New Launcher looks stupid... like a baby webpage.
I liked the old one MUCH better!!

[suedenim]

My Thrustmaster T-Flight arrived yesterday

[KeyboardDemon]

New Launcher looks stupid... like a baby webpage.
I liked the old one MUCH better!!

Looks like a store front if you ask me, almost every link on there seems to be taking you to items you can buy like paint jobs etc...

[Ttaskmaster]

Looks like a store front if you ask me, almost every link on there seems to be taking you to items you can like paint jobs etc...

Pretty much, yeah.
They've gone all Star Citizen on us again...!!

[outwar6010]

[KeyboardDemon]

@erudito87: That looks interesting, I'm going to watch that sometime this morning, launch is this week so it is very topical. Thanks.

[outwar6010]

The dev seems like a nice guy and the alt+f10 super res screenshot seems like an awesome hidden feature. 0

[KeyboardDemon]

The dev seems like a nice guy and the alt+f10 super res screenshot seems like an awesome hidden feature. 0

Though he does make a point of saying that he is not the easiest person to work with.

He also makes a point of talking about how E: D was always intended to be the game the devs wanted from the start and how community interaction has helped the devs drive new developments in the game but each new addition has had to be passed through the, 'does it fit our original plan' filter first.

I thought it was an interesting interview but it wasn't a great interview, just the usual run of the mill standard pre-launch PR event.

[deejayburnout]

Awaiting the 16th. Cannot wait to play. Been doing the combat tutorial to death.

[fazer]

Hmmm no wipe, I have deliberately not played a great deal since gamma because of an expected wipe, when all the time it would have been fine to accumulate game time and credits. PFFFFFF.

[Kanoe]

As we are getting pretty close to launch if anyone wants to add me to friends list commander name is Kurt Hectic, also got a private group going on with a few friends and family in. If anyone fancies joining just give me a shout.

[jimbouk]

Just trying to find out how to reserve my commander name before the general public join in. Might have missed the boat on it though!

Edit: Turns out I did it, Commander Jimbo

Might have an hour or so to play this week...

[Splash]

Ok, since it's launchday today I'll have to see if I can have a tinker tonight for a couple of hours. Been avoiding other than an initial look at the premium beta so as not to spoil the game but...