This game is not friendly to newcomers?

Thrender Grone

Thrender Grone
As others have said, do the tutorials, read the instruction manual, up your google-fu game if you have question about how to do something (answers to almost any question about the game can be found somewhere out there), ask questions here and on Reddit.

Yes, the learning curve is steep but eventually you will get the basics down.
 

UmbraRex

UmbraRex
Others have said this game has a learning curve.

I disagree. It's more like a cliff. With an overhang.

Once you get past that though, it's loads of fun.

They have changed the tutorials since I started so I can't speak to the usefulness of the current ones, but way back when they were marginally useful. Supposedly a great deal of effort went in to updating them, and is also going into a further update.

Play thru each one, and pay attention to what the voice is telling you, I am guessing you may have played thru, but discounted some of what the 'coach' tells you in them.
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
UmbraRex said:
Others have said this game has a learning curve.

I disagree. It's more like a cliff. With an overhang.

Once you get past that though, it's loads of fun.

They have changed the tutorials since I started so I can't speak to the usefulness of the current ones, but way back when they were marginally useful. Supposedly a great deal of effort went in to updating them, and is also going into a further update.

Play thru each one, and pay attention to what the voice is telling you, I am guessing you may have played thru, but discounted some of what the 'coach' tells you in them.
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Part of the fun for me when i first started was the Learning. A cup of tea and a bunch of video guides on youtube. Reading a Wiki page or two while i was taking a dump. These are the precious times enjoyed by anyone who gets involved in a complex video game.

You're investing in a world, so full of detail and complexity that you have no doubt that deep and interesting adventures await.
 

Garbarrage

Garbarrage
Scareth said:
I did tutorials. They do not answer my questions, so dont be rude to me. Trust me I know how to fly. I could land perfectly in this game if it would allow me to. Flying in this game is not very hard. Clearly you implied that Im too incompetent to play this, judging by your condescending reply, but that is not the case, thank you very much.
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Welcome to the Elite forum. It's actually a pretty friendly place provided you don't criticize the game in any way whatsoever. It helps if you imagine that the most condescending posters are basically clones of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

This game is notoriously bad at providing instruction. Rest assured though that it does get easier. It's essentially designed for gamer dads. The thing that will be challenged most is you patience.

I'd suggest checking out YouTube for tutorials. Without knowing exactly what you did, it will be hard to advise you how to prevent it happening again, but I'd be surprised if the answers don't become obvious to you after a time on YouTube. Cmdr Exigious has some really helpful videos on there.
 

Babellon

Babellon
Remember when you were a small child and someone sat you down in a square box filled with dirt? handed you some basic blocks and told you to play? that was great wasn't it? you used your imagination and pretended those basic blocks, sand and such were any number of things. Elite dangerous is a lot like that sandbox. Except you're blindfolded, spun around and thrown off a cliff.
Mind you, its a beautiful sandbox. Like being able to walk through a Rembrandt painting in 3d. So take pictures, play with the blocks and pretend you're playing hide and seek with a blindfold on hunting for that secret treasure.

Everyone on the forums loves blind scavenger hunt in a vacuum and will not tolerate suggestions that imply any of it should change grow or expand. You have to use your imagination and pretend just like that sand box when you were 3. The #1 answer/response you get on this forum is "go play something else." Its up to you to decide if thats a good suggestion or not.
if you stick with it you will eventually learn it but don't expect anyone or anything to give you any motivation to do so. Good luck.
Welcome to elite dangerous the great obfuscation.
 
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zimms

zimms
Scareth said:
[...] A very poorly made game, or so it seems.
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It's certainly not the right game for the "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas" crowd. :p
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
Would love to help, truly, however, really tied up with some FLEET CARRIER stuff right now.

(I would like to apologise to OP for the flagrant disregard I have shown them in this thread)
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Reading this, reminds me of two things:

1 I'd forgotten how difficult it was the first few times to jump out of supercruise at the required destination. Brought back memories. Loop .... loop .... hey wheres the spaceport gone again?

2 How challenged I felt to make my first post in Dangerous Discussion.

The moral is .... stick at it and the game rewards you. Avoid tutorials and advice and it punishes you.
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
The reality of elite is its more of a simulator than a "video game".

From the day i started playing properly, the marketing push that frontier developments do i've always considered a severe misrepresentation, something to still pretend elite is for mainstream action space combat people when its literally a truck simulator.

If you got fooled by some of the trailers you should have a problem with that. As a simulator game elite is amazing!

The game itself is not hard. Every mechanic is elementry, with the core ones apart from exploration having some depth to them as well. The reason it has a reputation as being difficult as there is zero effective instruction on anything in the game (the hud and the keybinds are all you need to know and nothing). If there was a real tutorial elite is a really easy game.
 

Amanojaku

Amanojaku
I was in the same boat when I started playing over a year ago.

Now I can't stop playing, I have bags under my eyes, I have waking nightmares about giant asteroids smashing down on top of me from orbit because I've done so much mining, and every time I unlock a new engineer my a** itches until I pin a blueprint.

Stick with it, and you can become an addict too! :)
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
Welcome aboard Commander, and don't stress yourself!

You are not alone and we have ALL had the same 'what' moment when seeing the near-vertical learning curve as an impenetrable wall. So, just relax, make a nice long drink to your preference and don't panic. Accept that the early stages are confusing/befuddling and just smash your nose into the space station repeatedly whilst trying to leave/dock. Accept that you will blow your ship up a few times, and remember, never fly without the cost of rebuy once you move beyond the (actually excellent) Sidewinder.

Just be assured that it gets easier with repeated blows to the head and, yes, in time it's even fun.

Per ardua ad astra
 
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