*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

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From what I can gather... the original physics was just made up nice lovely physics that made combat work well. The physics used in Frontier: Elite 2 was much more true to life, in that you would zoom past an enemy, both turn around, take ages to stop, then zoom back at each other repeatedly until one of you hit the other enough times to destroy them. I remember thinking I was just stupid as a kid with this game... but now I know why I was getting so confused! You would be flying at each other so fast that you'd have only a split second when you could actually see them properly to aim and fire. Apart from that you would just vaguely fire at the marker on your screen hoping to hit them, relying on missiles all the time which got pretty boring.

:Edit: I am by no means an Elite geek, I have next to no idea really as I was a bit too young for it at the time!
 
How I hope this will be a great success but there are two things that are really itching my teeth at the moment.

1. I didnt read through the entire thread but did anyone forget about the 3rd Elite? (First Encounters was it?) Wasnt that really bugged to buggery? Hope this will not be the same.

2. Also.. the name.. Elite: Dangerous? Dangerous.... really? :\

On a positive note... naming a station after you.. in Elite... too cool :cool:
 
Cavallino said:
How I hope this will be a great success but there are two things that are really itching my teeth at the moment.

1. I didnt read through the entire thread but did anyone forget about the 3rd Elite? (First Encounters was it?) Wasnt that really bugged to buggery? Hope this will not be the same.

2. Also.. the name.. Elite: Dangerous? Dangerous.... really? :\

On a positive note... naming a station after you.. in Elite... too cool :cool:
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First Encounters was a better game than Frontier once it was patched. It was released by the publisher before it was ready. Im in for £50, i did briefly consider the £500 tier to have a Space Station named after me :)
 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous

You can chip in to help ;)


If you don't get the name then you never played the original! I was a huge fan of Elite the original on the BBC model Band I hope they push on a give us Elite 2 ( never played any of the more modern versions that to me look lacking.

David has to make it Hacker proof these days that was not an issue in days past. But how great would it be to fire up a Modern Elite. They have to make it the one massive permanent playing universe. I'm Sure OC here could sponsor a space station ;)

I think I'll chip in a cheeky £20
 
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melchy said:
First Encounters was a better game than Frontier once it was patched. It was released by the publisher before it was ready.
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First Encounters? Better than Frontier? Elite III better than Elite II? Really?
Man I spent endless hours on Elite II and when I played it and when I played III I was thoroughly dissapointed :( Hope to be corrected for this one.


Space station... named after you.... that would be awesome...
 
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And no... not if they're both already funded!
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For both games the funding is not the end of the story. if there are going to be persistent universes then they are going to have to have an ongoing commitment in some way, shape or form - whether thats DLC or more likely whats shaping up in Star Citizen and has been proven to work in ROF and the like, selling ships, designs etc.

Either way i have no doubt these games will both be funded but will of necessity compete against each other for continued support and spending.
 
I'm in two minds about multiplayer in Elite. If it's like Freelancer's open world it has the potential to be amazing. My only sore point is that it will change Frontier's hyperspace mechanic whereby if you had a small and fast enough ship you could follow a vessel through hyperspace, arrive there before your target and lie in wait for it to emerge.

Totally mind-blowing news though!
 
Newtonian physics!

Just need to decide what to pledge. The space station name would be cool, but having an NPC named after you would be awesome & cheaper too :P
 
At the rate they are going i think they'll see at least £250,000 by the end of today. In my opinion, Elite flight mechanics with the rich galaxy of Frontier is the best of both worlds.

http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

The image on the above site would make a fairly epic wallpaper if they released it.

I'd like to see it reach its target quickly, even if funding slows down to a crawl for the remainder. I see they have hedged their bets a little with the 60 day kickstarter.
 
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Newtonian physics!

Just need to decide what to pledge. The space station name would be cool, but having an NPC named after you would be awesome & cheaper too :P
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Not Newtonian physics! Star Citizen newtonian physics would be fine (not really newtonian physics because theyre going to counteract that with 'thrusters') but please god no Frontier newtonian physics... which he has already said.
 
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Treebiter said:
I'm in two minds about multiplayer in Elite. If it's like Freelancer's open world it has the potential to be amazing. My only sore point is that it will change Frontier's hyperspace mechanic whereby if you had a small and fast enough ship you could follow a vessel through hyperspace, arrive there before your target and lie in wait for it to emerge.

Totally mind-blowing news though!
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Yea, I'm not sure how multiplayer is going to work. You also had the time adjustment controls in Frontier so you didn't have to wait several hours after leaving hyperspace to get to a planet or flying between planets in the same system. They will have to redesign that.
 
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