I'm an older guy (52) and fell in love with Elite back in 1986 on the Commodore 64, it kept me up night after night during my A-Levels deep into the early hours hunched in my tiny bedroom over my equally tiny black and white 14" portable TV set!! I reached 'Deadly' status but never Elite but when the C64 finally went to the great gig in the sky and I moved over to PC in the mid 1990's I struggled to find any space sims that held my attention quite like Elite did. Mostly I flew flight simulators and eventually I trained as an airline pilot inspired partly by my Father who was cabin crew and partly by games like Elite and old TV series like Space 1999!
Roll forward to a couple of years ago and I discovered Elite in its modern incarnation. On my original Oculus Rift it was pretty astonishing even if my I7-7700 and GTX1080 struggled to run it smoothly. Work and family life issues like dealing with a difficult teenager prevented me having the time to master it though - it is a steep learning curve. I dived back into flight simulators which due to my training were much easier to master and Elite stayed on the shelf. I've just done a heap of upgrades on my gaming rig - 32GB of high speed RAM, an RX6800XT, HP Reverb G2 VR headset, a set of Thrustmaster TPR rudders to go with my Warthog and a dedicated SSD for my simulation games. Tonight I got around to firing up Elite again and I'm genuinely in awe of the VR experience now. The graphical quality and smoothness on my new rig and the G2 is just astonishing!!! I always knew David Braben was a towering genius in computing but frankly this is his masterpiece and most incredible lifetime achievement, even more so than the original 8 bit Elite. I let the game choose the optimum settings based on my hardware and it's running at 90fps with high graphics so beautifully it makes FS2020 look like an amateur effort!!
I'm really hoping that I can continue to explore this beautiful universe with the rest of you and that the learning curve doesn't prove too steep. I'm going to tweak my HOTAS mappings and will work my way through the in game training modules to get going. If anyone can point to any online or printed training manuals that would be very helpful too!
This isn't a game, it's all my childhood fantasies made real - what a truly awe inspiring experience... Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would be proud.
Birdseed007
Roll forward to a couple of years ago and I discovered Elite in its modern incarnation. On my original Oculus Rift it was pretty astonishing even if my I7-7700 and GTX1080 struggled to run it smoothly. Work and family life issues like dealing with a difficult teenager prevented me having the time to master it though - it is a steep learning curve. I dived back into flight simulators which due to my training were much easier to master and Elite stayed on the shelf. I've just done a heap of upgrades on my gaming rig - 32GB of high speed RAM, an RX6800XT, HP Reverb G2 VR headset, a set of Thrustmaster TPR rudders to go with my Warthog and a dedicated SSD for my simulation games. Tonight I got around to firing up Elite again and I'm genuinely in awe of the VR experience now. The graphical quality and smoothness on my new rig and the G2 is just astonishing!!! I always knew David Braben was a towering genius in computing but frankly this is his masterpiece and most incredible lifetime achievement, even more so than the original 8 bit Elite. I let the game choose the optimum settings based on my hardware and it's running at 90fps with high graphics so beautifully it makes FS2020 look like an amateur effort!!
I'm really hoping that I can continue to explore this beautiful universe with the rest of you and that the learning curve doesn't prove too steep. I'm going to tweak my HOTAS mappings and will work my way through the in game training modules to get going. If anyone can point to any online or printed training manuals that would be very helpful too!
This isn't a game, it's all my childhood fantasies made real - what a truly awe inspiring experience... Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would be proud.
Birdseed007