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OS X Anyone else geeked about Elite Dangerous?
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So wait until it's released and pay the retail price. Those prices were more for people to back the game getting made.
Difficult to say, since the Mac version isn't far along and they haven't even fixed the system requirements for the Windows version. They will definitely go down from what the current beta needs.
However, Mavericks as minimum is a safe guess, since the game definitely will need full OpenGL 4 support.
So excited for this game.
Elite was my favourite game on my Apple IIc, and Elite 2: Frontier was my fave on the Amiga.
I never got Elite status on the first one, but I did reach Dangerous. Elite was a crazy status to hit, I forget the exact score you needed.
My first encounter with a Thargoid invasion vessel is something I will always remember. I was so tough, I figured the game would be easy there after. What a mistake, it was awesome.
I'll probably stick with a Cobra, maybe a Fer de Lance. With as many military lasers as I can bolt onto the ship.
Elite was my favourite game on my Apple IIc, and Elite 2: Frontier was my fave on the Amiga.
I never got Elite status on the first one, but I did reach Dangerous. Elite was a crazy status to hit, I forget the exact score you needed.
My first encounter with a Thargoid invasion vessel is something I will always remember. I was so tough, I figured the game would be easy there after. What a mistake, it was awesome.
I'll probably stick with a Cobra, maybe a Fer de Lance. With as many military lasers as I can bolt onto the ship.
Yes, I skipped backing them on Kickstarter (their prices were $$$ with the pound to dollar conversion), but just did a $50 pre-order, to nail the goodies and a headstart (I can play on my PC, and when the Mac version is released, w00t!).
Between this, Super Smash Brothers, the other upcoming games (Witcher, etc.) and my backlog
I don't know why I even bother trying to keep up.
This should definitely be fun!
Between this, Super Smash Brothers, the other upcoming games (Witcher, etc.) and my backlog
I don't know why I even bother trying to keep up. This should definitely be fun!
I've read the newsletter yesterday and was quite happy that Frontier is still on target for their Mac OS X release. The game is already pretty good fun under windows. But boot-camping to windows (a.k.a. boot-loader for computer games) is really starting to get a little tiresome.
Question for anyone who has played the game already - is it practical to play with mouse and keyboard? How much better is it to play with a controller (I have an xbox wireless controller here I could use). Is it worth buying a joystick just for this game? (And do there exist cheap but decent joysticks?)
I didn't particularly like the keyboard and mouse controls, but your milage may vary. I've seen other people reporting they work fine for them.
An Xbox controller would probably work fine (the game is designed with controllers in mind), but a joystick will probably work best. Since I'm a flight sim buff, I already have a HOTAS flightstick and it's just awesome with that.
And suddenly, I no longer looking forward that much to that game: the developers axed the promised offline mode and the game will now require a constant online connection.
Yep, that just killed it for me. I have no interest in an online-only, always-multiplayer game.
It's online-only but not always-multiplayer. (As I understand it.)
There's still single-player mode that nevertheless requires a connection.
It's because, they say, too much of the game is running server-side to have an offline game or even an offline game with occasional syncing.
I can see where they are coming from. As other players buy and sell, it affects the economy in various star systems and you won't get this effect if it's offline only or occasional syncing. Doing it this way probably saves them having to simulate the same effect in a stand alone game.
I can totally understand that an offline mode would never have offered the same amount of complex dynamics and would have been comparatively limited.
But you know what? I would have been totally fine with that.
Frontier Development has made so much right with this game, but what will anything of this be worth when you can't play it properly because network or server issues will prevent you from it?
And from my experiences with the current beta, you can be sure that there will be server issues, unless Frontier has some bad-ass superserver up in their sleeve that they haven't revealed yet.
What we need is clarification form FD. If they'll let you play offline, only going online to get occasional galaxy updates, I think people would be mostly OK with that. It's the Sim City, always online approach that people will hate.
That is exactly what I don't want. If I leave the game and re-join it 2 months later I want things as they were!
I paid for the public beta, it is awesome! p.s. anyone recommend a HOTAS for me? I'm looking for best price/performance curve.
There was an official statement about that in the Frontier forums, which I can't find at the moment. But it boiled down to this: pretty much every interaction between you and a station, a ship, or another player and every arrival at another location requires a server connection.
So, every time you make a trade, every time you check for missions, every time you engage in combat, every time you drop out of super-cruise, every time you upgrade your ship, you need to be online. That's basically every couple of minutes or even seconds.
And that's consistent with my experiences with the current beta, since these are the times you can get kicked out of the game when the connection fails.
I haven't played it much since the version 2 beta, but the online requirement doesn't bother me.
I find it strange that there are people who've played hundreds of hours of the online-only alpha and beta versions over the last few months but are now saying they're no longer interested in the game because it's online-only.
Some on the official forum want a refund because they might not be able to play the game in 10 or 20 years because of the servers. I have lots of games that won't work when the servers are shut down, but I wouldn't expect to be interested in any of them even one year from now, let alone 20.
Frontier should just remove all the stuff they have residing on the servers and knock out an empty offline version for people to fly around in an empty universe. Problem solved.
I find it strange that there are people who've played hundreds of hours of the online-only alpha and beta versions over the last few months but are now saying they're no longer interested in the game because it's online-only.
Some on the official forum want a refund because they might not be able to play the game in 10 or 20 years because of the servers. I have lots of games that won't work when the servers are shut down, but I wouldn't expect to be interested in any of them even one year from now, let alone 20.
Frontier should just remove all the stuff they have residing on the servers and knock out an empty offline version for people to fly around in an empty universe. Problem solved.
Yeah, me too...anybody have recommendations for a HOTAS?
Re: online mode, the Shroud of the Avatar people had a great explanation for why that was the best way to play. I can't find it at the moment, but it had more advantages than disadvantages...btw, have you ever used Little Snitch? If you have, you would know how much everybody else is tracking you without your knowledge, at least these guys are upfront about what they are using the connection for.