Any downside using the Steam client for Elite Dangerous?

Abomination

A
Planning on cleaning the system a little before the Christmas holidays.
Having most games on Steam already, I'm wondering if there's any downside using the Steam client instead of the normal launcher for ED that you know of?
Can I just copy the profile/settings files from the normal installation to the steam version without losing key bindings and such?
 

Knightshark

Knightshark
As i understand if you have the game on steam and buy anything from FD store, steam gets 30%. So if you want to support FD, don't use Steam.
 

Aidan Brooder

Aidan Brooder
I had no issues switching to STEAM. Copy your profile & settings. And you should be fine.
In fact I had issues with the old install under Win 10.
 

son of khzvoltz

son of khzvoltz
unless the post above bothers you and you don't want to give valve any more money, there isn't an downsides, infact as far as I know you also have accses to the steam overlay
Oh and don't forget you can also use the steam app to open ED in steam mode (it says its a non steam game) so you can still use your overlay
 
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bicarbon8

B
if you are using a PS4 controller you can use Steam's Big Picture mode to setup actions on the touchpad as well as to enable controller vibrations. Elite supports the controller by default, but not for those two things.
 

Geist

Geist
Knightshark said:
As i understand if you have the game on steam and buy anything from FD store, steam gets 30%. So if you want to support FD, don't use Steam.
Click to expand...
Although you can circumvent this by having an Frontier shop account and only buy stuff through that. Best of both worlds as it were :)
 

Andovar

Andovar
Been using it on steam for years without issue.
My main reason was so that my friends list would get the "Andovar is now playing Elite: Dangerous" popup every time I played. Was hoping that might entice some of them to check it out and start playing. Unfortunately that didn't happen. :(
 

shadow133

shadow133
YEs, besides the aforementioned, steam is annoying. Mine keeps updating stuff and not launching before I click launch after updates, despite configurations. The frontier launcher is much better in my opinion, but I have not noticed gameplay issues.
 

AbsinthSvK

AbsinthSvK
No downside using steam, only upsides. (except buying 30% for steam)

i used only steam. Simply because its easier to browse all games and downloading, finding information about game in one place.
Year ago i even forgot i have this game, and then i start playing again because po-pup message shows new update. [noob]
 
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Fishy

Fishy
None. Same game, same universe, same everything. You do get the perk that it updates automatically (unless you disable it) without the need to launch the game though. That's handy if you play on and off as it spares you launching the game with a craving after a long break only to find it needs a big download first that will feel like forever. It's the only difference as everything else (screenshot, cloud storage, social overlay...) can already be accessed through simply adding the ED launcher to Steam as a non-Steam game shortcut.
 
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