Elite Dangerous

* TL;DR ED is no longer worth playing in 2026. Frontier lost their way. * If you thought EA was bad for micro-transactions, try ED. On release it was a fairly good improvement over Privateer. It also became pretty stable over the two years after release. However, it took a downhill turn in both stability and gameplay. Then things began to sour. There were random changes to key bindings, flight characteristics switched from the realities of controlling a vehicle space more like flying aeroplane in atmosphere, HOTAS features suddenly stopped working as the game tried to directly talk to controllers rather than use proper HID polling, DLC broke the main game so badly it needs disabling to maintain stability, and micro-transactions took the place of the DLC model and so meant the route to game stability (disable DLC) was no longer available. I stopped playing years ago when an update made it impossible to load saved games created before the update. The only way forward was to start grinding again or pay to bypass the game-loop. Interestingly, the save-game issue was coincident with the added ability to pay to bypass the need to grind again. Quite an interesting coincidence.

Elite Dangerous has been on my radar for quite some time. As someone who is deeply fascinated by space and science fiction, I have played a lot of games in this genre, but I somehow stayed away from Elite until a couple of weeks ago. What always kept me from joining sooner was the perceived structurelessness of the game and the enormous amount of [i]nothing[/i] in between. That changed when I started playing Ace Combat 7 on PC and got myself a flight stick (the WinCtrl Ursa Minor). While playing that, I kept looking for other games where I could use the stick, and I was constantly reminded of Elite Dangerous. Now, I am a few hours into it and I can't stop playing. Even when I am not at my PC, I am constantly thinking about it, a feeling I haven't had in a very long time. To be honest, I really missed being this excited about [b]playing[/b] a game. I am often excited for a game's release and the [i]idea[/i] of playing it, but after a couple of hours, I usually bounce off or venture to the next thing. Elite Dangerous, however, constantly pulls me back in. I truly [b]want[/b] to experience all of it, and I'm happy to take my time doing so.

beware: there is a slight chance you might end up enjoying the game for a moment amidst the constant server issues, infuriating bugs and nonexistent QoL. we wouldn't want that now, would we?

Pathetic buggy mess. Can't even progress through the tutorial due to bugs.

jogo nem abre, 30 min de jogo em puro suco de tela preta.... Reembolsei

A friend gave me this game so I don't plan to abandon it yet, but right away I was met with gamebreaking issues that prevent me from progressing. The only missions I can do in the terminals are on-foot delivery missions and the NPCs I need to deliver packages to do not even spawn into the game, so I'm softlocked from completing any missions. Game looks cool and I like that I can do spaceships or on-foot stuff, but this is just gamebreaking and I'm already beyond the two hours (because the tutorial stuff took that long between a few different things) so I can't refund and get my friend's money back to them.

Worst POS ever the control system is complete trash. They tried to reinvent flying and manage to make it un-flyable DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. A tiny mouse movement to the left or right and your spinning uncontrolably but try to pitch up and it takes 2 days. Don't bother trying to drive and target at the same time because the forward and reverse are on the w and s but to target you have to use a and d along with the mouse while avoiding w and s so not to go out of the 3 inches they provide for a training area which the drone goes directly out of while your forced to reset when it takes control of your ship. 0/10 I want a REFUND.