Elite Dangerous

At first I adored this game, the freedom to travel around and to take part in whatever I wanted. Even went so far as to buy a HOTAS just for playing. But over time the shine wore off. The grinds became longer, like I was doing more for less. The most useful things in the game require a lot of grinding to get them in the first place, and in the case of the fleet carrier, even more grinding to keep it. It starts to feel less like a game you can have fun in and more like a second job to get to the fun parts. Most recently the game has been filled with bugs, I've came across several myself and it's just not fun anymore. Some of these bugs have caused me to have to get rid of my carrier and stopped progression in some aspects of the game completely.

This game is not for everyone. It is largely devoid of story, the action generally takes up less than 10% of game time, even if you're specifically aiming for combat. As for me, was born at least 200-500 years to early to make my living diving into the black, so having the option to live as a trader, a saboteur, a pirate, or just go hang out at bars across the galaxy is fantastic. It is surprisingly buggy (well, crashes about 0.7x per play session) for a game that's around a decade old, but it has such breadth that it's hard to complain. Again, not for everyone. If you're looking for action or simplicity, this isn't the one. Imagine if EVE put you in the cockpit directly, and lost some portion of its "Massively Multiplayer Excel" gameplay style. It may not do either game justice, but that's more or less Elite: Dangerous.

Самый ужасный космический симулятор, который я играл. -Ужасно много гринда и затягивания прогрессии -Ужасные механики управления кораблем -Отсутствия адекватного бортового компьютера( даже в реальной жизни есть автопилоты и поиск в гугле, в этом симуляторе вы вроде как в космической эре но с технологиями каменного века) Дошло до того, что пользователи вынуждены обращаться к сторонним ресурсам, таким как Inara, чтобы хоть что-то узнать — настоящий каменный век, а не космическая эра. Удивительно, как люди тратят здесь сотни часов, называя этот «продукт» идеалом. Похоже, это предел для тех, кто привык страдать и называть это «хардкором». Если хотите нормальный космосим, где можно строить свою империю или просто наслаждаться исследованием без «игры в нескольких окнах» — проходите мимо. X4: Foundations или No Man's Sky в десятки раз лучше, современнее и, главное, интереснее.

Owned the game long before Frontier account was required, getting it to link with my steam account required 15 different activation emails to launch a game I have the CD-Key for and have owned for over 10 years. This is rockstar level of retardation

This game used to be one of my favorite games, then the devs kept nerfing payouts and focusing on aspects of the game that just weren't fun. This game had so much potential.

One of those games I wish I could give a mediocre rating. Flying around in your spaceship is really cool. Great sound design. But the game is literally a universe wide and an inch deep. Missions (at least in my 15 hours) consist of flying to this place, pick up something or kill something, then flying to another place and turn the mission in. That's the game. From what I can tell, the game is all grind to work towards goals that let you grind a little bit faster. There's no story, no feeling that I'm really doing anything to influence the universe. My biggest complaint is the UI is absolutely atrocious. Everything is behind multiple button clicks for zero reason. People say that you get used to it. It's hard to get used to having to do 8 button presses just to turn in a mission. And for a game with hundreds of keybind options, there is no search function. Absolutely mindboggling.

Ever since Odyssey released we've been taking so many steps back. Performance: Awful. Feels like it was made on UE5 minus the graphics, compared to legacy horizons where you get 200+ fps everywhere, Odyssey struggles to meet 60 fps in so many areas on high end hardware from the era it released and after. It feels like the developers are actively neglecting optimizations and are crutching on newer hardware brute-forcing the performance problems they refuse to address after 5+ years. Visuals: Downgraded. Sure, they added PBR, but at the cost of the removal of excellent lighting and visual design language that Legacy Horizons had. Starlight is no longer coloured and is a dull lifeless grey after travelling far enough away from a star, and the ones that do get coloured don't even match the colour of light the star emits. Anti Aliasing has been broken since Odyssey released, and Frontier has been vocal in their refusal to fix it. Textures still do not have parity to Legacy Horizons, and many suits, and ships are missing emissive effects, or feature effects that are not accurate to their pre-Odyssey versions, which is a problem since the images that they show in the in-game store are not accurate to the actual thing you're getting. Gameplay: Borderline unplayable. There are so many bugs that have been introduced in new updates that they are innumerable, bugs that wipe player progress, bugs that delete items from the players inventory, bugs that make key gameplay features unusable, bugs that break background simulation, bugs that make hud elements invisible, bugs that break shadows, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Every single time they add a new gameplay feature, or overhaul, something gets so broken to the point that we'll be lucky to even see a bandaid fix put out for it, which can take upwards to a year (shadow flickering), does Frontier even have testers for these updates? What is the point on these updates if they're just going to break everything else in the process, it just puts everything back to square one. All in all, as a long time player, I've been very disappointed with the path that Elite Dangerous has taken, and I hope one day that the game is able to free itself of these problems in the near future, it's very disheartening to see Elite Dangerous in the state it is in.

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