Engineers We all love this game

[palazo]

All the complaining over the flaws of the recent update is showing me one thing... we all love this game more than most titles out there.

Normally, if something bothers me in a game, i move on to the next...
I played the original ELITE back in 1985 on my C64 and David and his crew made my (and many others) childhood dreams came true. I can't and hopefully never will put this game aside.
No Man's Sky: will be nice and i will play it, but i don't think it last as long as ED
Star Citizen: With every month i lose more faith... i backed it early on, but i don't think it would ever feel as good as ED.

I bought a 200€ HOTAS just for ELITE Dangerous. Ordered the Oculus Rift (over 700€) (ships in August) only because of ED and I have to buy a new RIG this summer to make it playable in VR.
I am spending over 2500€ just to play this absolutely brilliant game in the best way possible.

And this love for ED is the reason I am (and i think many of us) complaining so much about the recent flaws came up with the last update.
And we are impatient, i know... i can't stop playing despite of all things that bothers me in the current version.

I know FD is working hard to iron out the most stuff we are whining about... and this need time...

I want you guys to know how much i love your work and can't wait to see what's coming this winter... ...and in the next years.

greetings from Germany [heart]

How much love, how many memories ....

When I was a kid playing mario bros, i never played elite but was a fan of games spaceships. STAR VOYAGER nes, starwars and others, and bla bla bla.

But with this update.

But just as the melancholy happened to me by the balls now and what I want is to fix engineers.

I just think that in the security patch firmware and mercury not find it anywhere damn.

Please do not take this personally, it's just want the problems are solved as soon as possible, in order to continue to enjoy this great game.

 

[encrypted]

I know FD is working hard to iron out the most stuff we are whining about... and this need time...

They just forget to show that sometime. The 2.1 is full of bugs and grind which is over the top, it's released like 2 weeks ago, they released a small patch, fixed a few things on a server, and since then - .... silence.

If they'd at least say they're fixing that in order to make most of the changes in one, large patch, most of the complaints would be gone.

Anyway, we all love the game.

 

[MarcusVatta]

Agree 100% OP.

I do have to check that I don't play too much: sleep and family are both important, but I strap on my Oculus (which I originally bought to play Star Citizen, ironically) as often as I can. It's not perfect: no game can be, but it still gives me the same giddy feeling as it did when I launched my first Sidewinder in 1.0 Gamma.

And I never get tired of the stories that the game teases. Elite games have never had strong story, and that's fine, but they just overflow with story hooks. Those things that you read and go "I bet there's a good story there." A system with a single outpost orbiting a ringed gas giant, an economy of extraction, and a government type of prison colony. Or a nearby system with one outpost and five factions - all pirate. A dead SRV on a frozen moon. A settlement with ATC that says "we don't take kindly to strangers". You could write a novel using any of those as a hook.

Do I want more? of course. I want to fly through thunderstorms on a gas giant, float through the back alleys of an outpost to find the black market, creep through the ancient ruins of a dead civilization buried in an alien jungle. I won't get all of it. And it won't be exactly what I pictured. And there will be other games that I will play because they have some of these things. But I suspect I will always come back to ED.