Elite Dangerous: Xbox One Official Thread

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This is a day one for me. Back in the day the original Elite was one of my most played games.
 
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I am excited for this on x1, love space sim games and i am glad they are coming back. Wish star citizen would come to consoles but at least elite:dangerous will be there.
 
I am excited for this on x1, love space sim games and i am glad they are coming back. Wish star citizen would come to consoles but at least elite:dangerous will be there.

I hear that. Star citizen is the only game in the last two decades to even make me consider going back to pc gaming. It still might happen when that game eventually gets released. I'll definitely take this in the mean time
 
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I hope the console version is solid.
 
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Here's more info about the game (which I'm assuming is a console exclusive?).

"At its Game Developers Conference presentation today, Xbox head Phil Spencer said that the game will launch this summer and include all of the content from the PC version will make its way to the console port, including the just announced March Wings expansion."

"By this point you might be asking exactly yourself "Okay, so what's the big deal here?" Well, Elite: Dangerous is a massively multiplayer online simulator that's incredibly open-ended and detailed. Of the game's 400 billion star systems that you can explore, some 150,000 are taken from real-world astronomical data. That's a lot! Sure, that all sounds cool on paper, but a vast universe is kinda meaningless unless there's something to do with all that space. Based on early impressions, you aren't going to lack activities."

"Want to get ahead as a space pirate, doing illegal activities as you see fit? Go for it. You can dock with space stations, buy goods for a low price and sell them elsewhere higher if you'd rather be on the honest side of the law, too."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/elite-dangerous-xbox-one/

 
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Sure.

Here's more info about the game (which I'm assuming is a console exclusive?).

"At its Game Developers Conference presentation today, Xbox head Phil Spencer said that the game will launch this summer and include all of the content from the PC version will make its way to the console port, including the just announced March Wings expansion."

"By this point you might be asking exactly yourself "Okay, so what's the big deal here?" Well, Elite: Dangerous is a massively multiplayer online simulator that's incredibly open-ended and detailed. Of the game's 400 billion star systems that you can explore, some 150,000 are taken from real-world astronomical data. That's a lot! Sure, that all sounds cool on paper, but a vast universe is kinda meaningless unless there's something to do with all that space. Based on early impressions, you aren't going to lack activities."

"Want to get ahead as a space pirate, doing illegal activities as you see fit? Go for it. You can dock with space stations, buy goods for a low price and sell them elsewhere higher if you'd rather be on the honest side of the law, too."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/elite-dangerous-xbox-one/


Wait....So what's appealing about this game? That video made it seem very boring. I grew up on wing commands and xwing vs tie fighter and I would love.something that fills that itch. I hope there's more to it.
 
This is fantastic news. I bought it on PC and it's a stunning game. Absolutely can't wait to play this with my friends.
A summer release is the icing on the cake, will put many hours into this game before I jump across to Star wars Battlefront.
 
I am not yet sure if this game is for me. I was kinda hoping for different planets like No Man's Sky seems to have. I have to agree with Almighty_Bob, it does look a bit boring, very samey too. Some different backdrops, things to see would be cool. Instead of what seems to be nothing but blackness.
 
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As this is an always online game I wonder if they could make use of the cloud. All those asteroids and rocky rings around planets with thousands of rocks could make ideal use of the cloud. I remember at E3 2013 MS were showing the press a demo where the X1 could power 50000 asteroids moving around a solar system in real time. Then when they switched to cloud powered, they could render 300000 asteroids calculating their movement in real time.
They said at the time it would make any other console burn a whole in the ground.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...000-server-cloud-but-what-do-developers-think
 
Very much looking forward to this, although not to sure about the always online.
 
I am not yet sure if this game is for me. I was kinda hoping for different planets like No Man's Sky seems to have. I have to agree with Almighty_Bob, it does look a bit boring, very samey too. Some different backdrops, things to see would be cool. Instead of what seems to be nothing but blackness.

Welcome to space. It's mostly blackness.
 
As this is an always online game I wonder if they could make use of the cloud. All those asteroids and rocky rings around planets with thousands of rocks could make ideal use of the cloud. I remember at E3 2013 MS were showing the press a demo where the X1 could power 50000 asteroids moving around a solar system in real time. Then when they switched to cloud powered, they could render 300000 asteroids calculating their movement in real time.
They said at the time it would make any other console burn a whole in the ground.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...000-server-cloud-but-what-do-developers-think

You'd nearly have to assume that it will be using azure since its a persistent online game with procedural generation.
 
I hear that. Star citizen is the only game in the last two decades to even make me consider going back to pc gaming. It still might happen when that game eventually gets released. I'll definitely take this in the mean time

I wish my pc could handle it but i know it will be too much for it to handle. I am definitely excited for elite:dangerous on the x1 and will take anything i can get in the space sim genre again.
 
Wait....So what's appealing about this game? That video made it seem very boring. I grew up on wing commands and xwing vs tie fighter and I would love.something that fills that itch. I hope there's more to it.

No idea. I don't know too much about the game. From what I can tell, it appeals to people who like more-or-less realistic space sims, flying around, equipping your ship, doing trades, that kind of thing. That's doesn't appeal much to me, personally. I'd be more interested if you could land on planets and explore them, interact with inhabitants in some way, etc., but it looks like that is not a part of the game, and instead you are mostly doing trading, inventory management, and some occasional space combat. There is probably something I'm missing, because some people seem to like it, but I'm not really getting the appeal.
 
It's a space combat/trading/exploration sim. Some small bits like Eve, but you pilot your ship directly and geared towards you as a single pilot against the galaxy, rather than being a cog in a corporation. 400 billion stars in a recreation of the Milky Way, 100,000 of them in their actual positions as documented in public records (the rest having been procedurally generated using a system they created called the "Stellar Forge"). Probably the best sound design you will hear in a game outside of Star Wars. It does have some grindy aspects to it, no doubt- you should have a predisposition to this type of game to be able to stick with it long term, otherwise I think for many people it will be a 4 to 6 week affair before attention starts to wander. I personally have been playing the hell out of it and will likely continue to for a long time (being a fan of the original in 1984 and having a childhood dream to play this game with other people on amazing graphics). If you liked games like the X series games and Privateer you'll like this.
 
The whole game is online. Not sure how Versus or Co op works though.

Co-op on PC wasn't very good. However, I do know that the game was to receive a patch--in March-- that was mainly about co-op. Adding co-op missions, making it easier to group up, etc.
 
Co-op on PC wasn't very good. However, I do know that the game was to receive a patch--in March-- that was mainly about co-op. Adding co-op missions, making it easier to group up, etc.

So is versus done in something like a free fire zone?
 
So is versus done in something like a free fire zone?

Honestly, I do not know.
As far as I can tell anything or anybody is fair game at any time in open play. If that gets too annoying, you can opt to play private or friends only.
 
If this has coop that would be pretty cool, i would defintely try that, not sure about pvp though. I am just glad this is coming to the x1 this summer really excited for it.