Pic related is 75% off on steam. Is it worth it? Is it fun for casual play...

Pic related is 75% off on steam. Is it worth it? Is it fun for casual play? If not what’s another good first person space sim?

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wide as an ocean deep as a puddle. it's enthralling at first but it quickly breaks down into mining/combat/courier jobs (which are fucking boring) and travelling between star systems, turning in jobs and picking whatever the next job will be. you even get to land and traverse planets. then you realise every planet is the same, the factions you can help are just the same people with different flavour texts and honestly it doesn't make a lick of difference which factions has the most points at the end of whatever event they're doing, because it doesn't affect anything. it's comfy for listening to podcast, but they kind of forgot the whole game aspect. it feels like a beta.

honestly just play euro truck simulator 2 if you want something fun for casual play

Go kill a fuel rat, it gets you lots of fuel

from what i can gather, it looks great, feels great, is pretty awesome in vr, but in the end its just grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind grind

Terrible game not worth it.

Audiovisually the best representation of space in any game ever
Too bad there's nothing really to do in it
"Haul shit between planets and get more money" may have been sufficient for content in 1984 but these days I'd really expect a story mode or something

For that price it's definitely worth it. It's not super deep but deep enough to get your money's worth. The audio and visuals are amazing and that will probably carry it well enough because everything else has no depth whatsoever.

>Is it fun for casual play?
Hell no. Yes this game is beautiful and it made well but there is nothing funny to do. Most of the time you are shipping goods, sellling them, fight sometimes and sometimes you are watching on stars/ go into blackholes. You can buy and customize ships.
Also you can buy expencice gears for better experience.

its awesome space trucking simulator. If you love space it's great.

If the game was free I still wouldn't recommend it.

Don't buy it.
Don't play it.

Dead game.

buy starship evo instead, shows more promise and it's space is of same level.
also best ship building of any space game to date, to the point where every other ship building is now garbage.

I tried it and i kept wrestling with the controls, so i dropped it after a few hours.

Wrong. You grind for like a week and if you're not retardo you have nothing left to do

No game quite like it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's fun and enjoyable.

Depends on what you like.
I did it in vr and it was pretty fucking amazing just going stargazing while hauling and watching tv show on a small virtual monitor.
I can see people not enjoying it cause it's choose your own alternate space life kinda game.

I don't think it even does that right. I think people are having fun in spite of Elite: Dangerous's systems and not because of them.

I didn't mind the systems. Travels neat, map and navigation is cool, everythigns easy to use.

Systems are perfectly fine just some areas need more depth for the amount of time you spend doing it, like mining.
It's trucksimulator in space. Trucksimulator doesn't get shit for being shallow, wide as an ocean deep as a puddle and gets raving reviews. ED does it in space and throws on a lot more to do and it gets shat on constantly because it isn't mass effect.

the grind is pretty bad
but when you have a goal for the things you want to do, it's pretty fun.

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Whats the best way to make money?

>want to play
>remember that gay ass cable on the HOTAS X

Mining Painite

Road2Riches is usually a good way.
but there's probably more newer, meta ways now

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holy shit, i haven't played elite in a year and this is still a thing

It came back in to vogue once FD nerfed the shit out of double hotspot void opals and low-temp diamonds

Honestly for the price of a burger you'll get your money's worth out if it. But no one in this thread is lying.

The first couple of hours are actually breathtaking imo, especially if you have VR. The game feels and looks incredible, from the cracky radio voices to the way beam lasers zip-zag across distant battles.

However it's all completely generated and without any real meaning save for what you ascribe to it. Sure you can find a beautiful system and start working for a stub faction, but there's no narrative to any of it so it gels kinda hollow. As user said earlier in the thread, the sort of flat space sim doesn't really cut it alone - even if it's technically amazing. It needs an optional campaign mode, just 20 or so hand crafted and narrative missions to get you invested in the metaverse of multiplayer.

Had a great time playing Elite Dangerous with a dual joystick setup, but the game gets a bit boring after 2500 hours.

Those cubeish stations are the worst, sometimes I can't find the entrance and I end up flying several rounds all around it like a dumbass before I do.

arrows on the targeting model point to the mailslot

Yes and no
It can be casual and comfy if you want. Really comfy and relazing if you are just traveling long distances for hours upon hours.
But the important bit: it has a high learning curve. Once you get over that and learn the controls it can be as casual as you want but you still have to get over that initial shock. Expect to spend some time getting the hang of controlling your ship and its systems and that can feel like work to some players but after you get over that it is smooth sailing

It was pretty overwhelming for everything besides actual driving around, which handles amazingly. Like 100 hours after that to take flight assist off and really get used to flying in space and not a jet

Needs an overhaul for galactic scale warfare and fleet actions

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