Other features include planetary starports and settlements which are guarded by drones as well as regular ships. Planetary Landings include landing on airless planets (doh!) and exploring them in a surface recon vehicle (SRV Scarab). On June 3rd, the first two parts of the Horizons Season Pass were released for Xbox One: Planetary Landings and the Engineers. All activities are balanced, with no specific activity earning significantly more credits than others. If you feel like exploring, you can fit discovery scanners and a fuel scoop on your ship and fly out of human space to discover unknown worlds. As an assassin or bounty hunter, you want to disable a ship's power plant or life support to destroy your target faster. As a pirate, you want to target the cargo hatch of your victim to make them drop their cargo. Advanced combatants will target various ship systems to achieve their goal, something which can give players the edge over their opponent.
Combat is tricky, with some of the higher-ranked NPC's (or players) forcing you to use advanced tactics. The trading system goes very deep, with an ever-evolving economy which reacts on actions from all players, whether they are on Xbox One or PC. Zooming out on the Galaxy Map generally gives a feeling of insignficance and makes us realize that we're just in a small area of space and that there's so much what we haven't explored yet.Īll activities you can do earn you credits (the currency of the game) and those credits can be used for buying and customizing ships and trading goods. The Galaxy Map is a very useful tool when plotting interstellar trips and it can be intimidating at first, particularly when zooming out. Interstellar travel goes through hyperspace, which enables players to jump to a star system which is lightyears away in mere seconds. But thanks to the Frame Shift Drive, faster-than-light travel is possible, with speeds of way above 500 times lightspeed if your FSD can compress enough space in front of you. It would be very tedious, if not impossible to travel anywhere outside a starport or a star system at normal speeds. The game takes place in the Milky Way and distances are vast. Although the game has no storyline at all, it gives players one goal: get the knowledge, skill, power and credits to rise through the ranks and reach the legendary Elite status in whatever path the player wishes to take.Įlite rank symbols - this is the Elitist achievement icon Players can engage in combat against other ships, trade between stations and explore unknown star systems, much like it's iconic predecessor.
Horizons was made free with E:D on October 27th, 2020.Įlite: Dangerous banner (image didn't format well)Įlite: Dangerous is a specialized space simulator/aerial combat light-MMO where players fly in an open Milky Way with the possiblity to travel anywhere they want, as long as they have enough fuel.
October 6th, 2015 marked the definitive release for E:D on Xbox One, with the first season of expansions Horizons released on June 3rd, 2016 after being released on PC December 15th, 2015. On June 15th, 2015, Microsoft announced the so-called Game Preview Program and also announced that E:D would be available through the GPP immediately. Elite: Dangerous was released on PC on December 15th, 2014.
This enabled Frontier to release the game on both PC and Mac and add 10 more ships in the game as well. The campaign turned out to be a success, with well over £1,500,000 raised. In 2012, Frontier took matters in their own hands and started a Kickstarter campaign, with the goal to raise £1,250,000 in order to fund development. Development on Elite: Dangerous was already in progress for a few years under the work title Elite 4, but the project was nearly cancelled because Frontier Developments couldn't find a publisher willing to co-operate. Many games have been influenced by Elite in some way, with a notable example being Grand Theft Auto. Players had the freedom to trade, explore and fight in a massive galaxy, with a narrative of sorts to keep the storyline focusers interested. I'll continue to work on the review, especially when new content releases, but this is the base.Įlite: Dangerous (abbreviated E:D) is the third sequel to the 1984 game Elite, which is considered a revolutionary game because it was the first-ever sandbox game. REVIEW IN PROGRESS: Elite: Dangerous is a massive game and deserves a review which tells something about all aspects of the game.