April 25, 20179 yr https://bigboy.eurogamer.net/2017/articles/1/8/9/6/8/7/9/a-three-year-old-elite-dangerous-mystery-is-finally-unravelling-1493040554125.jpg :: Eurogamer's Wesley Yin-Poole has word that a three-year-old Elite Dangerous mystery is finally unravelling, as reported here.
April 26, 20179 yr Author Don't care, I'm on my way to the galactic core. I like the mysteries and all but really, they don't affect the game in any significant way. It is like reading a news about a car crash on the other side of the globe...
May 1, 20179 yr :: Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson reports how an Elite: Dangerous community event was cleverly sabotaged.
May 2, 20179 yr :: Polygon's Charlie Hall too writes about Elite: Dangerous' 3000-player battle royale.
May 11, 20179 yr Author Now that the so called "Salami event" (the killing of Salomé by one of her defenders, CMDR Harry Potter) has calmed down a bit, Obsidian Ant threw a description of alien encounters in Elite. I might go to Maya system and try the alien interdictions when I return from the galactic core. I'm about half way back from Sagittarius A* and if I don't crash I might have enough cash to buy an Anaconda, one of the three big ships. Well, I already have enough but just buying a ship is far from comfortably using it. The stock ship is usually pretty much crap and you need to upgrade the modules and weapons and then go for some engineering to get a decent ship. I'm still uncertain whether to equip it in a firepower or exploration direction, but I don't see a huge benefit from another exploration ship as Anaconda can't do anything my current ship couldn't do already. Such is the sad state of exploration where you can't find anything worth picking up. Oh, I need to upload some pics. And post them just to tease you guys.
May 11, 20179 yr @SV: tease away. Alien hunting with an Anaconda - now that sounds like a plan! :: By the way: https://images.eurogamer.net/2017/articles/1/8/9/9/9/1/6/the-state-of-elite-dangerous-149450566225.jpg Eurogamer's Wesley Yin-Poole got some of the most prominent Elite Dangerous players to speak about the state of the game as reported here.
May 11, 20179 yr Author The response of Elite community is interesting though as nobody ever heard of these "most prominent players"...
May 11, 20179 yr Well, then, the community has surely heard of them now, right? :: Self-aggrandizement for the win!
June 2, 20179 yr https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hkQJwSmutZCoFMcWVhQ4fD-970-80.jpg :: PC Gamer's Tom Sykes reports Elite: Dangerous' second alien encounter has been discovered.
June 5, 20178 yr Author Bah. I can't be impressed by the scenes that have absolutely no gameplay value whatsoever.
June 13, 20178 yr Author 52 minutes of seemingly useless crap on a community goal. When the length is too much to handle, I take a peek at the comments. Nothing to see here, no new announcements. Just another CG time sink to string us along, most likely to blue ball us in the end. Suspense can only last so long Frontier, we are very much well past that point now. Thank you for wasting my fucking time I won't post the obscene ones.
June 13, 20178 yr Author Oh, but this one is just phenomenal. Fan made, nice (start of a) story, show off the power of the new camera system and the prowess of the vid maker.
June 13, 20178 yr Always be prepared - and looking good! :: As for that Community Special, SV, it seems made to test people's tolerance to the void. Mandatory training for those who explore space after all!
June 14, 20178 yr Author Community goal being met, FD did make an interesting announcement. One has to wonder whether there would be no announcement if players didn't participate... Probably Braben himself would be running missions to get this out at E3. Anyway, Thargoids are back and there is talk about a story.
June 23, 20178 yr Author Oh, also interesting, Frontier FINALLY did something about exploits. Exploits were known all along and mostly they were about money. This time it was about module engineering and this seems to have gone over the line. I don't see a huge difference between the two but I'm glad they did something about either.
June 27, 20178 yr https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jt8Epv5cjFERKXpvCZcuC6-650-80.jpg :: PC Gamer's Joe Donnelly reports the finding of a Thargoid machine.
June 29, 20178 yr Author Ok, I admit this is all somewhat exciting and all. Yet it bothers me that there are no clues given to a player that would guide you to experience all this in a way that would at least seem as a personal experience. People are wildly experimenting with different stuff like taking each version of artefacts into a machine or into space etc. and this is just not my kind of gameplay. As most players I have to except that most of what I'll see in the game is found by chance by players with extreme time to play and extreme will to try thing out with very little chance of success, they will post how to get to it and then the rest of us flock to recreate what we've already seen on Youtube. Naturally, this is effectively just how it happens in real life. If FD set out to just create a living universe, they are on a good path and the fact that each of players can recreate what others have done is practically a bonus as in real life, one would do the research (of a one-time nature) and interested others would only read about it. Bah, I don't know, I do want a somewhat more personal experience in games, I have enough of that "you're not the first one to arrive" in life already.
August 17, 20178 yr Author I still can't stop playing this story-less game, dammit. Now I'm trying out some combinations with alien objects like redoing what we've all seen in last posted Obsidian Ant's vid. Anyway, CMDR Skoomer is still out there and recording the voyages.
August 17, 20178 yr It's fairly easy to see just why you keep playing, SV - so much beauty out there. :: Those asteroid fields sure are dangerous though, apparently even more so if you're not flying solo.
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