Elite: Dangerous: Video Game Overview

Long ago, in the last century, when the trees were big, we are small, and computer games are truly independent and original, two students from Cambridge, David Breiben And Ian Bell (David Braben and Ian Bell), came up with a space simulator, whose name itself later became the designation of a whole genre. Unlike Wing Commander, in Elite The rate was not on the plot, battles and director, but to freedom and independence in the study of the airless space. The game formed a whole genre and its own cult with the army of fans and followers. But she herself, together with two Russian extensions (Elite 2: Frontier And ELITE 3: First Encounters) it seemed to remain a legend from the past.

However, the birth of Kickstarter gave life and project called Elite 4, which, according to Breiben, I got out for years, but could not be carried out because of the then, not too flexible publishing policy. As a result, the continuation of the legendary cosmoshima collected more than one and a half million pounds sterling and after two years of development and a long beta test came to Earth called Elite: Dangerous.Excessively close with the planets and stars can not.
Live your life

Like the original, Elite: Dangerous is not so much space “flying”, how much simulator of life in space. Only here is only more, everything is painful and epicer. The developers kept the word and implemented a huge, procedurally generated world almost on the scale of 1: 1 to our galaxy – it is simply an indecent number of star systems, constellations and planets, and many of them correspond to real prototypes.

So, in principle, it is possible to live in this world forever – especially since the authors promised to constantly replenish and expand the star card, given the new astronomer data. How to live and what role to play is you, as before, decide ourselves. Hunter for heads in the service of the federation or empire, pirate, merchant or romantic researcher of unknown corners of the Galaxy? The starting selection determines on which ship, with what amount of money and in which star system you start. For example, a mercenary turns out to be in a busy system where some clashes are constantly happening, and the researcher, on the contrary, starts in some galactic outfice.

However, no one interferes with the same trader to subscribe to destroy some pirate, and the Space Flibuster, on the contrary, take up the delivery of cargo or engage in trade. It all depends on your capabilities, vehicle and reputation specifications. Initially, everyone is poor, unknown and fly on a cheap ship. Ways to rise well known – to perform missions by browsing the corresponding ads at stations (deliver the cargo, kill such a scoundrel, accompany, save), trade, looking for the most profitable “Silk Roads”, engage in smuggling, hunting heads, saw asteroids for minerals orattack other ships, having previously accessed them for anything valuable in the trum. As a result, after a while it will be possible to modify the transport or buy a new one at all, and also take up missions that were not available because of insufficient fame.Focusing in the cockpit helps a pleasant female voice AI helper. By the way, he can also give commands to voice.
Cosmos as a danger

All your actions are reflected on the reputation and status of the wallet. But not a fact that they are reflected positive. Posted someone else’s cargo or all the more attacked someone in front of the law enforcement or at the chambers of the tracking of some station, caught up for transportation of smuggling, without hiding from the scanner in Silent Running mode, – this will be made by the corresponding entry in galactic protocols. Failed the task, damaged the cargo – the employer may not like it, and even the penalty will have to pay. The award for “heads” is given in the presence of confirmation records on the onboard computer, so if your ship is destroyed in five minutes after successful mission execution, then you will receive not honestly earned money, and account from the insurance company.

Survive in the world Elite: Dangerous It is also difficult because the game is not too hospitable and friendly to beginners. At first, for them, it will seem simulator frustration: how to take off, how to dock, where and how to fly and, in general, what to do? Control complex, it requires addiction and good memory to keep in mind, which buttons and for what they answer. In the flight you need to view different information menus and references, to redistribute energy on time, follow the engine temperature and the amount of fuel. And in battle, it is not enough to fill into a point flashing in a cross-trance: you need to correctly maneuver, go to the tail, to use anti-missile traps in time and take it into account that the weapon also has a property overheat.

Nevertheless, if we are patient and time to get rid of management, the game is able to tighten with your head. Especially if you live not in offline mode, but in open online – after all, in the same time in the world Elite: Dangerous There are thousands of players. Here, of course, much more fun: you can unite with friends in whole squadrons, purposefully destabilize star systems, hunting on others. Yes, and fight with a living person much more interesting than with A9.Docked the station at first a big problem. Even if they were mastered with control, you may be trite not to let, putting players in line.***
However, even on sale sooner or later the question arises: what’s next and for which it’s all? There is not so many content in the game and there is no familiar to modern gamer incentives – the system “pumping”, achievements, tests. And the global story about the confrontation of the empire and the federation, to which the players seem to be able to influence joint actions, fulfills the role of the background. That is, freedom and epicness is at the same time the main plus and minus project. If you are ready to entertain yourself and for days, you simply explore space or fly to the sun from the depths of the galaxy, then Elite: Dangerous, Of course, your choice. If not – better wait on land more dynamic and hospitable spaces.