Horizons Just got back into it

[KellyR]

I purchased Horizons when it came out and I played it. And no, no remorse. I'm glad I bought it. Well, I got into a new game a shortly before Engineers dropped. I decided to catch up on E again and figured with all the new stuff, I would do a Wipe Save. I know what I'm doing and getting back up to speed isn't that hard. So I wiped and I'm back at Trevethick. No missions at all. Nice graphics on the mission board, but they act like I'm some kind of a total noobie (Which, to them, I guess I am) acting like I'm wasting their time. But then I hear "Important communication incoming." What the heck? So I look and there's a message saying go to Ervate and we'll pay you 10,000 credits. Cool. So I go there to Sylvester City and they pay me the money. Nice. Not quite 11,000 credits in my account. Another faction has a mission to deliver data to a station for 14k. Great! So I'm enroute and when I get to the system I hear, "Incoming mission critical message. So I look at it and they are telling me if I can get the data to them in less than 5 minutes, they'll give me a bonus of 37k. Huh? No problem.

So I get to the station and start hearing voice comms. I ask for docking and it actually tells me audibly that clearance is granted for pad 21. What? That is just too cool. Then when I'm docking I hear "100 meters to touchdown." The upshot is I have a bit over 61k after about 10 minutes of playing.

I knew this game was going to be something special and it's beginning to be. This just blows me away. It was like I was actually in space. And the earnings of in-game credits is great. Much better than when I started in December of 2014.

 

[Stahlkopp]

Glad you enjoyed your experiance. btw - check out what the space traffic controller has to say if you speed around in the no-fire-zone. ;-)

However, you'll find out that there're always some people for who the sky is falling because of some new aspects they do not like.

 

[Bacalao]

Yes, the game is much improved. Sometimes it's hard to see the growth when you're playing all the time but it readily becomes apparent to someone with fresher eyes. Welcome back.

 

[GG7]

2.0 was an EXCELLENT upgrade! I had no complaints personally about any of it.

2.1 on the other hand.... The exact opposite! They screwed up a bunch of the nice things about 2.0 that didn't need to be messed with in the first place, like the highly detailed planet textures that are now reduced to MUD at many different altitudes.

I also get a lot more choppy performance than I ever saw in 2.0. Considering my dedicated gaming PC is a recently built $4500.00 monster, that runs far more demanding games at a locked 60fps with all graphics settings maxed, 2.1's less than impressive fps on this machine remains a head scratcher.

Then there is Engineers... Which I personally have ignored out of complete lack of interest in what it offers in the end.

But...I'm still playing the game and enjoying it overall. I just wish it ran as smoothly as all my other PC games do. Games far more demanding on my hardware than anything I see being generated by Elite Dangerous 2.1.

 

[Zach Hunter]

I just started playing again last week, and let me tell you this, I agree with you wholeheartedly. The first time I heard the docking voice and all the other improved sound effects for various things, it was amazing. Personally its the only game I enjoy at this time.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Yeah, got an alt account recently in steam sale. Similar experience.

2.1 is a world away from 1.0 but many people here don't remember how far the game has come in a year and a half.

 

[Buford T Justice]

I recently returned too, the changes are very immersive amd enjoyable, I even got told I should learn to land after using my docking computer!!!!

 

[Justor]

I knew this game was going to be something special and it's beginning to be. This just blows me away. It was like I was actually in space. And the earnings of in-game credits is great. Much better than when I started in December of 2014.

I agree, between work and other projects, I took a break from Elite, figured I would give Frontier some time to work their magic, and boy I was not disappointed! It is amazing how much this game as changed in a short time. I am so glad I bought the life time pass when it came up the second time. [up]

The game is this cool right now... it makes other Space Games look like crap... because none of them capture " Flying " like Elite does, most just feel like you are floating around but Elite you feel the weigh of the ship, and the momentum that built up due to the mass!

Keep up the great work Frontier! Season 2 is shaping up so well, I can't wait to hear what is in store for season 3!