If piracy is more your thing, more power to you: you can hunt down unsuspecting pilots, steal their cargo, and sell it to some shady dealer in a fringe system, risking bounty hunters in every flight. You can become a prolific trader, capitalizing on trade routes between stations and amassing millions of credits with each trip you take. This level of freedom is often teased in open-world games, but with Elite Dangerous it’s fully realized. I suggest searching YouTube for some starter guides, because otherwise Elite Dangerous risks blowing its precious first impression on its deep trading system, or even to learn more about the political struggles which hang over every corner of civilized space. It’s up to you, Commander, to decide how to start. Once you jump into the shared online universe for real, however, you’re thrown into the cockpit of a basic Sidewinder spacecraft, in a space station, orbiting a planet in a random star system with no direction as to how to proceed. Sure, you start off with tutorials teaching everything from basic flight, combat situations, and even landing procedures (the bane of many commanders’ experiences), though those can only go so far. The learning curve is tough, especially when it comes to piloting your craft or simply trying to figure out what the heck to do next. “What’s not easy, however, is learning how to play Elite Dangerous. You can group up and run missions, trade routes, or simply explore together, but the vast majority of human interaction boils down to piracy and bounty hunting. The latter is a persistent online universe where you’re constantly bumping into other players, known as Commanders, but interacting with other players is pretty limited. At least in this version of the 3rd millennium, this is a place rife with political intrigue, trading empires, space fighter combat - all separated by tracts of empty light years.Įlite Dangerous can be played fully solo with just the stars to keep you company, or it can be played online in its Open Play mode. Elite Dangerous is a game full of drastic swings between peaceful, poetic moments like this, others that are full of danger and action, and some of the most boring stretches of empty space I’ve ever navigated.Though this deep and vast space fighter sim has been out (first on PC and then on Xbox One) for a few years now, Elite Dangerous has finally brought its 1:1 scale model recreation of our Milky Way Galaxy to the PlayStation 4. This peaceful moment leaves me awestruck as I take it in, making me hesitant to move on to the next leg of my journey. The purplish light of the star bounces off the dashboard of my spacecraft, filling the area with a melancholy glow. As I drop out of hyperspace flight, the whine of my engines resonating throughout the cockpit of my Cobra Mk III spacecraft as they screech to a halt, a Methane Dwarf star stares back at me.
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