Is elite dangerous really a full game?
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I consider it a work in progress.Promising.
Which paint job did you get? I have gotten BUNDLES of paint jobs for around $20, but an individual paint job is between $3 and $5.
You could say "its not your type of game" to anybody, no matter how bad a game is; but yet you still recommend star citizen, which is exactly the same genre. This game is nowhere near as entertaining as it looked in the trailers, or as interesting as they described it as in interviews. For a full game it feels very empty. Im not whining, or trying to sound important. I just wanted to know how many people agreed with me.
This seems to be common complaint, and while I do understand where you are coming from, we have problem, Houston. Simply put, this community is divided. The MMO(RPG) content that many want, is exactly what the other half of the community NEVER wants to see. I would be in that half of the community. I never cared for MMO's at all. I bought this game because a friend called me on Christmas Day to tell me that our favorite game in college had been remade with 21st century graphics, but the core of the game had been faithfully reproduced. We're both delighted with the game.
That's the problem in the nutshell. You can't have races, raids, pvp, et al without ruining the original experience.
Other things, like npc's being too easy is a preference thing. My (adult) son and I both play the Arkham games for example: I start on hard the very first time I load the game, because I like the challenge. He's younger and has better reflexes, but plays on easy, because in his view, it makes Batman feel more real when enemies melt in his path. Neither way of playing is correct, just different.
This is Elite: Dangerous...
It is well built and solid. It just needs to be filled out.
I think it will be in time, we just have to be patient.
doesnt look very solid to me all wood..
I just hope the stuff they add to fill out the game is not payed for content. It really does worry me that in a 60$ game just to customize my ship will cost me 3-12 USD per paint job. There are things I think that are basic that seem to be missing from this game.
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It's a solid framework that's designed to grow, but yes-- it's definitely light on content. I think they would've waited another year to launch if Star Citizen wasn't coming out next holiday season.
Launching early let them get in on the holiday season without going up against Star Citizen, and they still have a year to fill things out before SC launches. It was a smart decision, I think, but bound to result in a lot of legitimate cries of 'where's the content?'.
Launching early let them get in on the holiday season without going up against Star Citizen, and they still have a year to fill things out before SC launches. It was a smart decision, I think, but bound to result in a lot of legitimate cries of 'where's the content?'.
Oh don't worry Raptr does that for me... it's horrifying.
Agreed. Look at Star Trek online: 5 years old this Feb and still getting regular (and massive) content updates. EVE: still gets support and I think content and its now 12 years old. WoW still has content added recent and its also 11 years old... ED will be around for at least half a decade, same goes for SC when it's out.
People forget just how long these games have taken to get where they are now.
Well from what you just said I recommend you go to a different game dude. No offence.
But if you "ONLY" find Bounty Hunting enjoyable then... just stick to that. However I would seriously recommend finding something else to slot in between bounty runs otherwise you're likely just gonna keep on posting "whine posts" like this one because the game doesn't give you combat as readily as say CoD or Battlefield would. If you want more fighting go to conflict zones.
Personally I really enjoy trading, any combat, exploring and running elite conda missions if I fancy it. Trading to me isn't a laborious grind and neither does exploring feel pointless - but hey everybody is different. Do what you want and whatever you enjoy... that is the only goal of the game. Not to have the best ship, or the most money, or to be "the best" at one thing.
Unfortunately you seem to want something that rewards you for no effort (come on USS are seriously not that dangerous and pirate kill missions are practically too easy... hell even elite condas are essentially free money with the right set-up on a viper - you can kill a conda in mere seconds with dumbfires and beams and never even lose shields...), you want the ability to not lose mission rewards, ships or bounties... sorry aint gonna happen. I could bore you to death explaining why an "icloud" like feature would (a) be idiotic and (2) be obsolete in space, but I fear you'd simply miss the point.
Lastly if you're having so many problems that you literally need to stay parked to not lose money or your ship then (and I hate to say this) you're doing something seriously wrong... there are only 2 ways I've died so far: being overly aggressive on the throttle/boost while on approach to the station entrance (several times lel XD) and having an allied anaconda collide with my ships (i couldn't see him) moments after my shields got down to 1 bar and I hadn't popped a shield cell to recharge them quickly.
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No.
This is a beta that was rushed out for Christmas to get some more money in and I think the way the offline mode being removed was handled tells you everything you need to know about how FD views their customers. Releasing a decades old game design with half-baked multiplayer bolted on, a persistent environment that is increasingly looking anything but, a reputation mechanism so inane and convoluted that even if it worked as it's meant to (which it doesn't) is absurdly counter-intuitive, generic ships, identi-kit stations, and relying on a random event generator (the USS) to provide what little content there is seems almost inevitable in hindsight.
A mile wide, an inch deep is the best description I've heard for it.
This is a beta that was rushed out for Christmas to get some more money in and I think the way the offline mode being removed was handled tells you everything you need to know about how FD views their customers. Releasing a decades old game design with half-baked multiplayer bolted on, a persistent environment that is increasingly looking anything but, a reputation mechanism so inane and convoluted that even if it worked as it's meant to (which it doesn't) is absurdly counter-intuitive, generic ships, identi-kit stations, and relying on a random event generator (the USS) to provide what little content there is seems almost inevitable in hindsight.
A mile wide, an inch deep is the best description I've heard for it.
I'm still not quite sure if I'm actually supposed to feel bad that you bought something without taking some time to research the product beforehand. A product which, I might add, has been more than transparent about what you are getting.
ED is like those 'Early Access' games on Steam, except that it tries to pretend that it's a finished product and asks full price for it. Well, at least games on Steam are honest about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZeO-4F45WM
Even if you ignore all the missing features, lack of testing is extremely apparent, balance is broken and serious bugs are very common.
If it was transparent, they would call this alpha stage of development, not a release. And also show this trailer on the main page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZeO-4F45WM
Even if you ignore all the missing features, lack of testing is extremely apparent, balance is broken and serious bugs are very common.
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Latest Ubi games crashing on release and buggy, latest EA games buggy and incomplete, many, many more latest releases buggy and irritating, people scream at them, but the size of their corporations the complaints just get lost. Elite is by far a bigger game than anything out there I have played, and I am amazed at how well it plays and how engrossing it is. I have never played any Elite games before this one, and for the first 12 hours or so I did struggle to "get the point" of the game, but having stuck with it and learned the game mechanics I can't stop playing it. So far all I see from people who complain is the games inability to bring them to virtual orgasm in 12 hours instead of 120 hours. It's the difference between driving 6 hours to a holiday camp, or flying to Barbados. You put in, you get out. Same as life really. Put the effort in, get rewards all day long. That's my two cents.
It's actually, "grind, and you will be rewarded with things that grind better".
Define 'full game'. I'm with the crowd that can wait a while for the game to be enriched, instead of singing a swansong on the forums. If you don't have potential/hope for the game then you're spending your time unwisely being here.
When the faction mechanics are running more smoothly I suspect a lot of macro-gameplay can happen there. It seems for many they're more interested in having the quintessential viewpoint of how a game should be developed/marketed/played.
When the faction mechanics are running more smoothly I suspect a lot of macro-gameplay can happen there. It seems for many they're more interested in having the quintessential viewpoint of how a game should be developed/marketed/played.
