Why I Still Love Elite Dangerous (And You Should Too)

Why are you playing Elite in 2024? Here are some of the reasons I'm still loving it. (Also, stay tuned to the end of the video...)
Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see on the channel! I'd love to hear from you!
0:00 Intro
0:44 The Sound Design
2:52 The Community
4:26 The Immersion
7:17 Wrap Up
8:09 LOL

[@dr.chives]

Fuelrat here. Thanks for the praise! It is so much fun helping others in game, learning new things, being a part of the community! I absolutely love the game for that!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank YOU!

[@R0d_1984]

@dr.chives I was pretty new to the game, was doing some exploration, went to far into an area without fuel stars (didn't even know such a thing was a thing)... The FR's rescued me in about 1 hour, thanks alot Cmdr o7

[@dr.chives]

@@R0d_1984 Glad we could help you! Fly safe, commander! o7

[@Spyke114]

Someone in my squad once joked "500 hours in? Okay, so you're almost done with the tutorial then." The real joke is that the tutorial doesn't end; there's always something to learn :P

[@ominoverde5602]

yeah my friends after 500 hours didnt get even 1000 ly travel for engineering, me after 1000 hours get all the ships, with guardian fighters, and grinded off all my will to continue XD 1500 hours got fleet carrier and actually a lot of money stopped for two years.. got no money anymore due to fleet carrier upkeep ahaha

[@Datan0de]

Truer words were never spoken! I've got 4800 hrs and am still regularly discovering new things.

[@HappyCappy69]

HHAHAHAAH TRUE

[@thebagfather4633]

im still learning after nearly ten years love it getting into onfoot combat now

[@CMDRStarshine]

You're absolutely right. And don't forget the incredible camera suite, which helps so much to capture the incredible vistas you can get. I played ED from late 2014 to early 2016, then took a break until, coincidentally, late 2020. I guess a lot of people needed some escapism then.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Totally agree on both points. It would be really interesting to see playtime numbers from 2020. In any case, it hooked me then, and I'm glad it did!

[@CMDRStarshine]

@@Mile13Gaming And you stayed even through 2021, when user numbers dropped because expectations and reality of Odyssey differed. People seemed to forget how good the game already was.

[@thebagfather4633]

been playing elite dangerous since lauch and still love it i dont think there is any other sim(game) that relax me after a days work plus i love the exploration. great vid. o7

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank you so much! o7

[@grandreefer]

I'm well over 200 weeks played between my two accounts. Have both accounts in the top 25 in total progress. I agree with you, I will not be putting it down. Ive been part of every elite game going all the way back to 1984 and they are gonna have to bury me to get me to stop. There has never been anything like elite 40 years ago and there still nothing like it today. I always appreciate coming across another cmdr that really loves the game. O7 and thanks for the video.

[@mortenflaten]

The crackle from the radar in my SRV and the creaking from the ships hull after leaving orbital cruise is some of the most immersive sounds in the game. A while ago I was sitting in my SRV watching a Nebula while wearing my gaming headphones, and the faint sounds from the radar made me feel just as alone as I actually would have been, if I actually was out there. I simply love this game!

[@torquaymouse2236]

I subscribed becuase it's nice to see positive video's about my all time favourite game, looking forward to seeing more from you.

[@caelumincola]

o7 CMDR. It's great to see the love for E:D gaining a little more momentum again in recent months. I started in April 2018 and I've racked up well over 5000hrs across PS4 & PC, trying my hand at pretty much everything it has to offer and thoroughly enjoying my time in the cockpit, although there are one or two things I've not done yet. I first tried it in VR around three years ago too and WOW! You talk about immersion? That takes it to a whole different level. You're spot on regarding the sound design, they consistently knock it out of the park. Were you at the Taranis explosion? Incredible stuff. E:D has managed to scratch an itch like no other since I first felt it probably back in '77 when Star Wars came out and I started to wonder what it might be like to explore the stars in some grand adventure. For me, it has a similar gritty, realistic feel to those original three movies. Lived in somehow. The community though is what's kept me coming back year after year. I've never experienced one like it. Safe travels CMDR, hope to see you out in the black sometime.🙂

[@Mile13Gaming]

Likewise! I wasn't able to make Taranis, but I plan on being at the next one for sure. I need to make a video around the VR experience, but it really is a game changer. o7 CMDR!

[@dragshampc1286]

5000 hours. Over 4 years. I'm an explorer predominantly. In VR. I'll never stop playing this sim. Cos that's what it is. A real space sim. I'm always out in the black mapping tagging and doing exobiology and blowing up deep cores. Rich beyond rich hehe. Fleet carrier is called torgnys revenge. Look me up! I'm always in the open. Fly safe, don't forget limpets and don't fly without a rebuy!

[@schwimmelpuckel8328]

Elite is great! - I played it when it was on a monocrome screen with simple line graphics, then on the Amiga and PC with 16 color awesomness.. I still play it!

[@Mile13Gaming]

I missed it back in the 80's, but I've been meaning to fire up an emulator to experience what it was like. What a technical feat to create something that complex with the technology available at the time! o7

[@CMDRStarshine]

I had it on C64 in the late 80s. But I only had an English copy and didn't speak any English then, so I missed out on that. "Frontier - Elite II" in the 90s though... I spent quite a few hours there. I still miss turning passengers and slaves into fertilizer buy forgetting to install life support. .🤣

[@sennemaa5976]

I felt in love again with elite dangerous 🎉🥰

[@Mile13Gaming]

That's the biggest compliment I could receive. Cheers!

[@BigDaddyWes]

I haven't played in a while, but I'm always thrilled when people give this game the love it deserves. Thank you.

[@thomasj8965]

Yes! Still one of the best VR experiences! I still love ED. But I loved already the first Elite on my C 64 in 1984!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Got a treat for you - I just released a video solely about Elite in VR. :)

[@SineHacker]

C64 Elite was amazing! Waggly joystick, fishbowl CRT monitor and the endless expanse of 8 galaxies 😂

[@ArheIy]

Elite Dangerous is not just a game for me, that's a literal universe. You just feel that it's real, alive. Star Citizen with its deeply simulative mechanics is nowhere near, as despite being realistic, it doesn't feel like an alternative world. There's too little things happening and too much bugs and incosistencies to be a «real» world. EVE online goes somewhere near in terms of being alive, but there's too much P2W and social aspects for me, so Elite is still the best in that field. Also, as I've mentioned EVE and P2W. Elite Dangerous has *SUPERIOR* monetization mechanics, both over EVE and SC. Even with all of the expansions, it's cheaper than 45$ SC (at least in my country, thanks to the Steam's regional prices) and doesn't ask you to pay afterwards as EVE. Arx are easily obtained by just playing the game in any way you want, and they are only for cosmetics. You want a good ship? Well, go and get it. Be a pirate, a merchant, a bounty hunter, a trucker - anything but a credit card warrior. That's unlike EVE, where real money can get you pretty much everywhere. Elite is alive and fair to the player, and that's what makes it the best space sim for me.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Love this.

[@marsMayflower]

elite scratches an itch that no other game can. it's the best space combat simulator out there. everything else it does is a bonus, for me.

[@raymobula]

Playing since ED was release. And no end in sight. And yes, audio is amazing. It’s the details, the different audio played when you arrive at your target system. Every time I fly in super cruise, the game makes me smile. No other game manages to do this.

[@Datan0de]

Like many, many other people, I own way more games on Steam, etc than I've ever actually played. So I sat down and made a list of the games in my backlog that i wanted to actually prioritize and try to play all the way through. That done, I started playing them in the order they were on my list. However, the game I decided to tackle first was Elite Dangerous. I'd loved the original on my C-64 as a kid, and is just gotten into VR, so it was a logical choice. That was in 2018. 5 1/2 years later, I've logged well over 4800 hours in the game, and that list I made was lost in my last move. No regrets. Elite is almost a lifestyle for me as well as a game. If a game were written specifically for me, I can't see how it would be different from Elite Dangerous.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Love this.

[@sandervanderleek5956]

Ive been playing Elite for a little under 2000 hours, 1200 of those in VR. Elite is a marvelous game, the King of its niche but when you experience it in VR, it becomes Epic.

[@support2587]

I just wish I was so violently prone to motion sickness. I tried it using my son’s headset. Last 15 seconds but WOW. Going to have to get some Dramamine

[@Nemoticon]

As much as I respect E:D, it's not for me... I bought it on release and tried to get with it, but I just don't click with the game. I CAN see however why it is such an achievement in game design and why people love it so much. As a VR player, I did give it a go in VR and it is mightily impressive. I hope it sticks around for many years to come for the community who enjoy it so much.

[@kehreazerith3016]

I only play Elite when I need to add more funds into my carrier, but I have hope for the game's future.

[@moonryder203]

I'm still new to ED, I mostly play Start Citizen but ED has a lot of features I really like. I'm taking my time to learn my way around and it's mechanics. I've gotten blown up during a salvage mission twice! so far, LOL! The sound effects are really cool too. I just love games like this that allow you to fly cool ships and explore.

[@Tepnox]

Totally agreed. Having my second spring right now with ED. I started playing again a few weeks ago after a long break. Truly immersive in VR and sometimes very mind blowing to me when you think of the scale of the game universe and the distances between the star systems and celestial bodies. Even with our advanced FSD tech and more than light speed traveling in-game it takes a huge chunk of time getting from point A to B. That is something you need to embrace in this game. Other than that some game-mechanics are just questionable (like the Engineering materials grind for example) and the cumbersome layers over layers with randomness. And I still ask myself why is it still not possible to land on our Earth moon in-game?

[@FirstFamilyCharger]

Dude I still play it on console, so this is me. I still love it. I’m not at all happy with the people that work on it. Not by a long shot. But I STILL love it.

[@dreadrabbit]

Love elite dangerous because it's playable. Unlike other space sims.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Other games that shall remain nameless? 😉

[@CosminNecula]

Yes. Spot on. I have to mention here one of those small details that might not be noticed - and that I noticed by accident and it impressed me. Btw, this is for Odyssey: when landed on the sunny side of a planet, walk in the shadow of your ship then move outside the shadow, into the sun. You will notice a temperature difference of a few degrees. It's funny especially when temp outside is a little above 170 (any temperature under 170 is Unsafe) and every time you walk into the ship's shadow (or any other shadow) you'll get the message "Unsafe temperatures"

[@arnolttbromanskie9733]

Greetings Commander, I love ED too. The sound design is amazing and also funny if I try to dock with my type-9 heavy and the flight controller say „make way for larger vessels“ 😂

[@BekoPharm]

Heh, on immersion I'd like to add that this doesn't stop with e.g. VR for many. My whole set-up is e.g. built around and for games like Elite Dangerous :D cuz for some of us it's not enough that the threat-board lights up in-game but also outside of the screen 🙃

[@TobiasVonBrandt]

Great video and agreed on everything you said! Especially the parts about the community and that "game" is a misnomer. My wife isn't a gamer at all and she doesn't say "play" when referring to my time in Elite, she says "fly." I started in late 2019/early 2020 and, according to Inara, am about 850 hours in. Like you said, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface! There is just so much to do, plus everything the community comes up with. (e.g. I'm heavily involved in racing, totally a community invention!) Hoping to keep going for a long, long time!

[@ChrisM541]

Great upload, and you're 100% correct. As we all know, Elite made a massive impact when it was first released for the BBC Micro in 1984, a truly stunning piece of programming too. It was quickly converted to just about every system around, and every system later and refined into the ED masterpiece we see today. I was lucky enough to be a teen then and remember very well the beginning of the home computer era (I went down the C64/Amiga/PC route), and Elite's influential impact on gaming. I still love playing ED today, giving the old brain some exercise. It's great that FDev are still supporting it, with some exciting new ships etc inbound. Looking forward to your next uploads, commander. Subbed.

[@steventurner197]

I have been playing it since Dec 2020 and clocked up 12,519 hours

[@J_Solo]

O7 commander! Fly safe

[@Mile13Gaming]

O7 Commander! Thanks! You too!

[@Challenger160]

This is one of my all time favourite games for me to live out my sci-fi spaceman fantasy exploring the galaxy. Distant worlds was my all time best gaming experiences with other players seeing what's out there. I just want another Distant Worlds expedition

[@lsswappedcessna]

For all of the problems the game has had recently with stability and the extreme grind, and the lack of non-AX, non-PVP content additions, it's still the best in its genre for good reason. The core gameplay of flying ships and doing things with them (be it exploration, mining, combat, or trading) was very strong for 2014 and even now, 10 years later, it's one of the best designed core simulations out there. The only thing that even comes close is Star Citizen, and it also has some very big problems with Pay to Win and constant account wipes, which will hopefully become less of an issue as the devs progress as I do believe competition would be healthy for Elite. It would encourage the devs to actually do new things with the game beyond just community goals and the Thargoid war, which don't get me wrong is very cool, but I've spent my nearly 400 hours in the game focusing on exploration and a bit of trading, my two combat ships (a Chieftain and an FDL) are not engineered and have a basic PVE loadout. That's nowhere near prepared to take on Thargoids or players, and my engineered Anaconda would likely be sent to the rebuy screen immediately if I went to a Titan, as it's engineered for jump range and deep space survivability rather than blowing up space bugs. I would love to see more to do out in deep space or even for local explorers around the bubble, and the extra content would help with what Sepulcher Geist has dubbed "space madness," where the explorer is tempted to throw their SRV off the nearest cliff while doing stunts in it. Once you scan a planet, scan a few of its flora, there's not much more to do on it except find a nice hill or cliff and get some air and do some flips. Planets need more randomly generated POIs, crashed thargoids, crashed ships from other explorers, Guardian-related things, anything would help add some variability to a normally quite bland activity in which the player is encouraged to find their own fun in it. I really do hope FDev finds a way to make the game offline when they're ready to shut the servers down. I can imagine mods and player-ran servers (i.e. RP servers) would add a lot to the experience, and would keep this legendary game alive for generations to come.

[@scottjensen6990]

Nice love the game as well. In any case VR in ED is just excellent!

[@Mile13Gaming]

Elite in VR is a revelation.

[@lunamaria1048]

I have over 3000k hours and played since release. It was such a privilege to be part of the evolution of this game! I was the third player to see a Thargoid, well before we knew they were going to be in game! I discovered one of the Thargoid structures! I use to cross the galaxy, before engineers. I have sparked civil wars lol. I have fought in AX wars. I have mapped all sorts of hidden gems, like bubble nebula that you can't see from map view, because they are so small. The point I'm trying to make is ED gave me my best gaming memories!😊 I'm happy to see this video😁

[@petersteen2044]

Thank you for expressing my feelings exactly. Though I discovered ED only 4 months ago, I am far above 500 hours because the 'game' is not a game but a simulated version of a galaxy that we will never be able to explore in reality and in such a magnificent way as in Elite Dangerous. I have fully embraced and am immersed into exploring an I love it.

[@andrewmiller4753]

Great game - got 1,500+ hours - and still going!!

[@NatsWright]

A nice video, but I found elite dangerous lost its way. I left the game around 4 years ago, and I do miss it. I play occasionally, but find it hard to get back into a game with so much grind. Back in my heyday, I was one of the biggest streamers of the game on Twitch. I was at Frontier Expo, in the streamers pen, and while I was always quite a small streamer I was a part of the community. I really hope that when the Thargoid war closes, they focus on what made the game great, the exploration and sandbox nature. We used to hurl sidewinders around Slough Orbital in demolition derbies, and had adventures at guardian sites, while playing football with our SRVs. I think I was one of the first commanders to get an SRV into orbit! Yes, we liked to push the games boundaries. Our player group hardly exists now, and the meets in uk hardly happen. I miss it too. But more and more, the game became a grind fest, with everything locked behind a grind wall. The Thargoid war promised so much, but to take part was just such a messy experience and simply not fun. So I hope the game improves in the coming months and i'm glad you are enjoying it, it formed part of my life from 2014 to 2019 when I stopped streaming. Who knows, maybe I may stream the game again one day.

[@Ezmarii997]

Fun times come and go and we move on as we grow! I played around horizons and quit just after horizons and engineers were out because I felt completely lost and overwhelmed by everything. We had just started seeing reports of random thargoid interdictions out of witch space. it was a crazy good time narrative-wise. I just picked up the game again now and am loving it! I don't think the game changed a lot, its just, alot of those experiences you had are first time and fun experiences but there are only so many firsts you can have. Longevity involves having fun with things that aren't "firsts", and that can be difficult! it's ok to move on and still look back fondly! I have a lot of excitement for 2024 and am glad i started playing again this year when I did. I still have many firsts to experience :D

[@cmdrblp]

9000 hours myself and just started my 10th year in Elite. Would love to hear more of your thoughts on Elite Dangerous. Your top 3 was spot on in my opinion. Right on CMDR. See you out in the black. o7

[@timmurphy1250]

My first encounter with elite was 1984, back in the days when a commodore64 was top notch😂, my friends and I spent weekends at each other’s houses playing the game. I didn’t realise there was a new version until a KZbin video popped up on my feed in 2022. My stats now say I’m 20 weeks 6 days and 9 hours in and having a great time.

[@Sir-Complains-a-Lot]

3000 hours in and no end in sight.. see you out there. PSA: If i ask you for cargo, do yourself a favor a just pay 😃 PS: bloppers lmao.

[@TheSometimeAfter]

🤡

[@earthdog2244]

I have over 5700 hrs in ED. When they drop the Python MkII I'll start flying again.

[@valorin5762]

I confirm: You barely scratched the surface. :D

[@buzzbean5090]

3000 hours and just returned ….. amazing game, my frustration was it’s direction or lack of but the recent announcement from frontier brings hope for the future, I love this game and community

[@christocmp]

This is still the finest VR game I own. It was a shame about odyssey expansion and some of the poor gameplay loops like engineering. There is so much potential still here. The recent thargoid event was amazing. Honestly if they did more storyline events with a proper roadmap I would happily subscribe with a small monthly fee to see this thing continue to be developed

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

I still play because it's not really a game I go to (normally) for things like story and video gamey progression, it's a game I play to get lost in, to see how far I can go, to see if I can go places no one has ever been. If rpgs are power fantasies, then for me, Elite is a dream fantasy, letting me, for a little bit in a life that's so out of my control, have an entire galaxy to delve into, no irl stresses, no limitations, just a pure, starry sandbox. It's the fleshed-out version of what I loved about No Man's Sky before it became the more traditional game that everyone wanted it to be. Just me, my ship and endless black, lightly peppered with interesting things to find, do, and people to meet. I really, really hope that when the day comes that servers may halt, that they make the game playable on our own, if the only thing in worried about regarding Elite. As someone who lives the Titanfall series as much as I do, I know how much it hurts to have online based games be abandoned. I dont want that for Elite.

[@Eruthian]

Good to see someone making a vid with all the pros about elite for a change. Yes, it might have flaws, but still. Its a unique gem among the scifi games. And a decade old at that. No other spacesim gave me that realistic feel of immersion yet. I really hope it won't shut down any time soon.

[@vancecollins4634]

Well said cmdr

[@BandoftheTime]

I am 1250 hours in and i am going on tour to the last system in the south of.

[@EiriUesugiKun]

I am pretty sure that they (sound designer) told in one Frame Shift Live that those FSS sounds are actual sounds from gas giants and such.. But could not find any confrimation by a quick google so I may remember it wrong.. But I am pretty sure that at least some sound like stars and gas giants are real sounds of those..

[@justindeen6437]

Yeah I wish I COULD still love elite dangerous.. unfortunately I played it on console, and a couple years ago the developers decided they didnt care about the ED console community anymore and abandoned us.

[@jamesa702]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks for watching!

[@wkcw1]

Was ganked a couple of days ago but as soon as I saw his name Cheeks McClapin I smiled…

[@bennypeeters9631]

Great video, couldn't agree more. o7 CMDR Astohlin

[@ghsrthstrhsrthsthstrh9654]

1800 hours as an explorer and newly exo-biologist. i adore the sights and sounds of this game, and the god-awful progression system has never bothered me. i made enough money to outfit my asp explorer, left the bubble, and i've only returned a few times to farm money via trading. recently got an anaconda and life is good.

[@Mile13Gaming]

LOVE my Anaconda!

[@gthomason9869]

Yeah, you got it. After about 2,000 hours, Elite Dangerous remains the go to for the limited escapism time. Such a community. Looking forward to 2024, hoping for more jump range & reduced timing for fleet carriers, hopes for new & more interesting Power Play for the BGS that is not direct PvP, but PvE. The 1:1 galaxy with reality-based stars make the game most interesting. Visit every major star in the Orion constellation or others. Doable and makes one realize the vastness of our galaxy.

[@BenMossWoodward]

Lovely video, so nice to hear from a "new" commander :)

[@AlexBehemot]

I just get ED two months ago on a Steam offert, and I already did more than 300 hours😅, still learning, I just find the Robigo run and using my Phyton to make money😊, have the Cutther, the Corvette and the permit to Shinrata Dezhra, still let the Colonia trip

[@srgtcolon1493]

Yes. 😊

[@randalthor6872]

instasubbed! Thanks for the encouragement to reinstall Elite. It's been about a year so I've gotta learn it all again lol

[@Djidgy]

Just picked it up the deluxe edition for 10 bucks. I kinda enjoy some of the jankiness makes me really feel like an ignorant space trucker 😂

[@claudegagne2805]

3000 hrs since 2015 and still going.

[@OldManPaxusYT]

Just TOO MANY INSANELY AWESOME things for me to write, right now (need to go to bed). Elite dangerous is more than a game, it's a SIM-Game but it's even more than that... It is so incredibly detailed, immersive, BEAUTIFUL and 1:1 scale of the galaxy!!!!! It's just ... . . unbelievable!

[@lanceobe6801]

I'm 55 and Elite is definitely my escape from reality game, I've only played in VR since 2015 and it's one of the best VR games I own. I also grew up on Atari and thought star raiders was one of the best space games I ever played..lol

[@Mile13Gaming]

OMG I totally played Star Raiders on Atari. I still remember the sounds from that game (one of the best "pew pew" sounds ever), and the extra keypad, which I lost the overlay for, LOL. It was ahead of its time.

[@lanceobe6801]

@@Mile13Gaming I highly recommend getting Atari 50th anniversary from steam, has a lot of history and a lot of games from the arcade, 2600, 5200 Atari 800 etc. It's extremely well done.... Star raiders is on there and it's actually still good.

[@Mile13Gaming]

@@lanceobe6801 Wow, how did I not know this existed? Thanks!

[@lanceobe6801]

@@Mile13Gaming I spent an hour just watching the videos and listening and on all the history... Pretty damn cool. Also, they finished the sword quest series for the Atari 2600 and reimagined Yars revenge, haunted house and breakout

[@TheKnightArch]

5000 hours in the black and counting. Hello from Brazil. Fly dangerously, commander o7

[@tigger4000]

Approaching 5000 hours... ...And I ain't going anywhere o7

[@thelionsam]

Nice upload sir... agree with in every department. I'm over 10,000 hrs in (not boasting) and while there have been pauses... always been deeply connected to the game. Game of my life probably. 50 yr old... 😏 Fly well Cmndr....

[@Star_CitizenYT]

aw, I agree with you, I just played around with Elite, but I bought Star Citizen a few days ago, so I'm mostly there, but, big BUT, I miss everything you described in the video

[@davewills6121]

If FRONTIER showed some passion for the game in 2024, and you had the freedom to walk around, enjoy and interact with your ship, if the game world had a little more setail to its enviroments, i would dump Star Citizen in a heartbeat.......and im Concierge.

[@Star_CitizenYT]

@@davewills6121 I completely agree, in fact I hope that in the last Update 19, which is supposed to arrive next month, what they keep quiet and secret, what is so big in the last update will surprise us all. I was watching a stream of Frontier before Update 18. As you say, I would stop Star Citizen immediately. SC has a lot of bugs, actually what keeps me in the game is that 10--11 of us play together, so it's still more about socializing than the game itself.

[@davewills6121]

Glad your enjoying SC, im waiting on Pyro before i jump back in, i want to explore the new system, which looks to be larger and more diverse, and of course dangerous. PS:Don't forget: ''St Patrick's Day Promotion March 17'' and ''Invictus May 23 - May 24''?, two important events for your diary.

[@Star_CitizenYT]

@@davewills6121 TNX, and thx 4 info ❣

[@thegraybush3824]

I was in love with this game for a long time before I tried it in VR After that it became an obsession

[@Mile13Gaming]

Absolutely. It took a jump up when I got a HOTAS, then took a leap when I started playing in VR. Very underrated VR experience.

[@gthomason9869]

VR only works for Horizons though doesn't it? If it is on Odyseey, that would possibly make me try it. I thought I heard that the dev that did the VR coding left prior to Odyssey? Is that not the case? @@Mile13Gaming

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

I'm playing again myself, having an enjoyable time

[@martinpalmer9662]

Very well observed, thanks. :)

[@CONTINGENCY_sys]

Love me some ELITE

[@wily_rites]

The thing that I love about the sounds are also that they are extremely realistic, those creepy gas giant sounds are not just made up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noirfXZ-q5mDn6s Also, as someone who has spent time at sea, I adore the way that the vessel creaks and moans, much like a ship does at sea.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Ok, that's legitimately awesome. Today I learned. Thanks!

[@wily_rites]

@@Mile13Gaming I'm learning every time I play elite still, hell of a thing. Can't quite fathom how real it all feels, I'm having to avoid all the videos that recommend using the 'exit to game menu' and then respawn all the goodies, as it just breaks the fun and turns it into a routine. Seems to me that we could do with some vids that teach how you need to understand the physics to get over the grind. Seems that there is always a logic as to where to find things, and that the logic is always based in real physics. Love it, learning astronomy and astro physics by playing and having fun!

[@Timberwolf69]

I concur.

[@Cmdr_Virtual_Tonto]

Similar experience and appreciation of the _game_ here too. Sometimes I put the headphones on and realise how much of the sounds I miss without them. That’s when I appreciate the sound of doors closing on the carrier in the moments before a jump - it gives an impression of scale as you hear the doors (bulkheads?) first closing in the distance and then the progressive sound moving closer as doors nearby are shut and sealed for the jump. These are nice details and, to the people who have created these - yep - we do hear and appreciate them, and we are grateful to you. As for community - simply awesome.

[@tommyleisy863]

I'm a console player, myself, and still play often. That said, need reasons to play have become harder. I've even considered starting completely over despite my nearly 2500hrs of play.

[@assassino8518]

Had the game since 2018 and still have not reached 500 hours, and finally have the corvette and made money so far that probably reached over a billion. Still have not learned enough about this game and still confused😅😂

[@daddyg88]

Got the game at xmas just gone. I got a H.O.T.A.S made it awesome! Then I tryed it in VR!!! OMG I fell in love. I spent 1 month in the bubble and the last 2 months out in the black in VR and I smile every night just being there.

[@tobatobania5069]

Great video, im wondering if i should buy oddyssey during the next sale? I liked the horizons version, and the ambience of everything was great, but i still wanted more(i got dissapointed when i found out that on-foot activities were only in oddyssey). The negative reviews on steam have also pushed me away from buying it, so im really in the middle of wether to buy it or not.

[@Storm_.]

Odyssey has been patched multiple times since release and many of the major issues were solved. If Odyssey were released today, in its current state, I think it would do fine. It was just pushed out too early. So I think you'd be fine buying it now. The major deal breaker for many is that it doesn't support VR, but you can still boot into the Horizons instance of the game for VR if you want it.

[@CmdrDjBurp-dr5uy]

o7 cmdr subbed 😎👍

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thank you so much!

[@CmdrDjBurp-dr5uy]

@@Mile13Gaming Very welcome. Always nice to see positivity for this wonderful game imo 😎👍

[@sammorrow8420]

Don't forget the East India Company's trading post for engineer unlock commodities.

[@SgtMajor82]

I'm back after 2 years! Took a little time to assign hot keys again but I'm there. Being alone on a planet way outside the bubble gives a real sense of being alone and it's fab! Still can't understand though why they can't have "jumps remaining" without opening the nav panel. Why not add it to the closed mini nav panel?

[@dallassukerkin6878]

I need to fire this back up again. I rage quit after the Odysee debacle (do not want a second rate FPS!) and the pointless interface changes and galaxy resets (which destroyed all my mining maps and trade data) ... so I'd have to start relearning all the basics again ... which might actually be fun. I have no idea how much game time I have - I have three accounts, each one focussed on a different game aspect (Exploration, Combat, Commerce) and many billons of credits - but I played a *lot* and got to be a pretty good ship handler. I think my favourite test had to be slamming a Beluga through a station slot at full thrust, whilst carrying illegal passengers, and getting to a landing pad alive and un-arrested :) I often wondered why the authorities never thought that was strange :chuckles:

[@Taipan303]

Assuming if we don't want to do the FPS on foot part we can just ignore that and enioy the rest?

[@dallassukerkin6878]

@@Taipan303 You would hope but sadly the game changes percolate through *even* if you don't have the Odyssey. For me the biggest pain, beyond pointless UI rejigging, was the galaxy resets that utterly eradicated my trade routes and mining maps. Having spent two years building those, I was, understandably, less than impressed.

[@Atlantian_official]

Elite is amazing but I’m still a newbie! I need help: I used your directions from your previous video and obtained a rediculous length of jumps from my position I am currently at LHS 3728 and plotting route to Colonia via my Cobra MK IV spansh provides a route with 1730 jumps! Can you help me out here and let me jnow how to get this down to a manageable level to get to colonia much much faster?

[@cmdrDiscoCat]

Colonia is really far away. Even when using neutron stars to boost your jump range it will take a while. The fastest is like 2h and change with the ships that jump the furthest (and that's with using neutron stars, and the ship's being engineered, else it's longer) I went there with a sidewinder, but it took *a long time*.

[@CMDRStarshine]

How many jumps do you get with the galaxy map (with fastest route and jet cone boost)? Maybe spansh is off. I just tried to get a route from there and the progress bar is now over 300% and still going. 1700+ jumps seems a lot. I'm somewhere in the middle between Colonia and Sol at the moment and have around 200 jumps in either direction with my ASPX. So if you've engineered your FSD and otimized everything else, and got a guardian FSD booster, then I'd expect less than 1000 jumps. And if you're a newbie with a Cobra Mk IV - so you too buy games when they're on sale, then let them lie around for years? 😄

[@cmdrDiscoCat]

@@CMDRStarshineColonia is 22 000 ly away from the bubble. If you can jump 22 ly max, it's about 1000 jumps without using the neutron "highway" (assuming star density allows you to do that). So while 1700+ jumps is weird, it depends on the jumprange you have.

[@CMDRStarshine]

@@cmdrDiscoCat Definitely. That's why I was talking about engineering and the guardian booster. I did a quick build on edsy, and a Cobra IV could get to ~46ly per jump, so about 500 jumps to Colonia, depending on how often you have to do shorter jumps to find something scoopable. 22ly would be without engineering. But I think we agree on 1700 being too much. Or could the ship be totally stock, everything E-rated? Then it would be over 2200 jumps, maybe 1700 with boosts? But then again, at least a scope would have to be equipped, why not change other modules then, too?

[@cmdrDiscoCat]

@@CMDRStarshineCan't remember where cause I haven't used it in a while, but you can specify your ship's jumprange to spansh somewhere, before calculating the route. Make sure you entered the jumprange there correctly.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Was curious if my account still actually works. Yet the installer appears to have disappeared. They used to have a client installer, install that then get the game but that appears to have disappeared.

[@XellithUS]

I just want better galaxy generation and more lore items to find and explore. Hell, if they said "We will add 1 new generation ship every month. Good luck finding it" would be enough for me.

[@chocosmoke0208]

Which game would you say is better overall Star Citizen or Elite Dangerous?

[@Tamburello_1994]

SUBBED for content.

[@Mile13Gaming]

Thanks so much!

[@treycox33]

I have about 750 hours and haven’t played in about 1 and a half years. The DLC, engineering grind, nerfing trading, and their focus on alien story (not to mention lack of new content) drove me away. I do think it’s one of the best space games ever, but FDev let it waste away.

[@elmeric7086]

Awesome "game". I spent 3200 hours in this from 2015 to 2019. I can't say enough good about the game at that time. But starting 2018 the development diverged from the original concept of 2014. Horizon was an amazing addition to the game in 2015. The sub patch of Beyond (2016-2017) were ok but subpar compare to Horizon. Odyssey is were things fell apart (trying to mimic StarCitizen?) : CMDR want a space game/sim. Not a pewpew in space.. I got all the ships. Went to Beagles Point and back. Got most of my Rank to Elite. Explored all the ruins, most interesting stations including Jacques before and after it moved. Mastered flight-assist-OFF landings with my HOTAS. Got all the best upgrades for modules. But at some point we need GOOD new content and Oddyssey severely felt short compare to previous iterations. The whole Xbox debacle and duplicates clients for PC. Performance issues for months. A real mess. I don't mind grinding if the reward is worth it. But Oddysey was a lot more grinding with nothing that interested me. And the real waste was the Thargoid storyline : they had one of the best gaming scifi mystery of all time. And IMHO they completely wasted that part with uneven/convoluted story and events. The community still hangs-on but is only a shadow of what it used to be prior to 2020. I can still remember my friend and I jumping to the galatic rim for 6 weeks knowing we were the first ones in most systems. And back then Frontier was telling us that there were some "things" not discovered in the blackness of space... The Thargoid rumors started. It was so interesting and got one of the best emergent gameplay of my life. It's still an awesome space-sim today if you never played it before. But for me the potential that was envisioned by Frontier and Braben in 2014-2013 completely fell short.

[@user-xl4nt8ep8d]

Do you use VR? Camera movement in the game looks weird

[@Mile13Gaming]

In some of these scenes, I was in VR, yes. It's my preferred mode of play. Actually, check this out if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnuUqYyEjZuMZtEsi=v6SnL_7y5sORlJwx

[@user-rt7vl9ky3r]

RNG broke the immersion for me quickly during beta and early release. Some of the mechanics that were not included in ED from the original titles have caused many of the original fans to still call ED just another Elite clone. if you can still find the unedited version of the original interview with both Braben and Roberts discussing their similar titles... Braben talked of many things still that do not exist in game.... which is why it might be impossible to find an unedited version of the interview. The one that was on YT was edited to remove those comments, due to so many people during beta referencing them in posts on the ED forums.

[@v3teran75]

All vids on the kick starter page mate

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I'm still bitter that David lied in the kickstarter, saying it would be DRM free with no forced online play. Then he switched, after the kickstarter finished to "It will now have always online DRM".

[@jonathanbradshaw926]

I've owned this game for years now and just have picked it up and put it back down so many times. I'm not sure even where to start with it, there is so much all at once - where would a new player even start? With the politics and alliances and all the stuff, how does one even begin to get engaged?

[@josephdonais4778]

Ever played Freelancer?

[@CasepbX]

Crazy that the game is 10 years old, it doesn't look it. The main thing it lacks is some good AA.

[@Jacko_486]

The intense grind is basically killing the game, balancing that with everything else in the game is almost keeping it going. Almost!

[@7o7-zoz97]

Completely immersed? except when you need to check external websites for availability of commodities or large landing pad.

[@rafacurtinhascmdrrafacurti480]

You know, we love Elite Dangerous (the problem is the Frontier.. so, we hate Frontier 🤗)

[@bloodwing9597]

Cause they didn't cancel pc development ?

[@BluffMunkey]

Try it in VR......