ED Announced For Android, IOS, Horizons 2.1 as wireframe

[Macros Black]

In a bold move, FD has today, april 1, announced that Elite: Dangerous: Horizons 2.1 will be made available for all Andriod and IOS platforms. "Sales must be increased, targeting multiple platforms as we did for the original 1984 Elite, is therefore vital towards that goal" said the CFO of FD. Expected sales is expected to reach 401mill. copies sold in 2016 alone.

"The bad news is that for an uniform gaming platform such as this to be viable for FD, the lowest common denominator must be chosen" said the CTO of FD. "We are therefore happy to announce that the general FPS (Frames per second, a number obsessed by gaming freaks) will skyrocket, but the experience will be wireframe only as in the original 1984 Elite".

A footage of the new (old) experience in Elite: Dangerous : Horizons 2.1 is given here for your viewing pleasure:

Spoiler

[video=youtube;8IYQvxtOlcE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IYQvxtOlcE[/video]

 

[xondk]

To be fair though, that might actually make it an interesting and quite possible thing to do, give Elite: Dangerous a vector graphics mode, which would inherently be extremely light on demand of resources, would allow even lower end people to buy it, and if it was soly vector graphics with planes for shapes and such, it might not look that bad. Throw out the whole shader effects and similar, textures and whatnot, out with those and make it ultra minimalistic.

 

[tarragon]

Haha. Would be funny if the pc version wasn't being stealth nerfed because of consoles. This way..

not funny.

 

[Brett C]

Hey that's some grea......hey wait a minute!!

 

[DefiledDragon]

Yeah, I think the graphics have taken enough of a hit already tbh. That cheque from Microsoft must have been a pretty big one...

 

[xondk]

Hey that's some grea......hey wait a minute!!

*nudgenudge* Wireframe and Polygon graphic modes?

 

[Faybs]

*nudgenudge* Wireframe and Polygon graphic modes?

Yeah, FD missed a chance here with the recent patch. They should have had the game render in low poly with flat shading all of today. Ah well, maybe next year

 

[Shadowdancer]

Yeah, FD missed a chance here with the recent patch. They should have had the game render in low poly with flat shading all of today.)

Dude, we already have two Flat Earthers in this thread. If FD did anything like that, their aneurysms would burst.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I can play FE2 in my Nexus 5 if I want to...
Only issue is lack of input device, and real keyboard. Easily sorted, I just don't want to play FE2 on a 5" screen. Lol

AnDosBox FTW!

I still randomly load it up and watch the intro though. Lol

With the way FD are bending over to kiss MSs behind, ED may eventually look like FE2. Lol