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Elite Dangerous - Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.Starting with only a small starship and a few credits, players do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge. Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.Starting with only a small st.
. Microsoft Windows16 December 2014. macOS, Xbox One6 October 2015. PlayStation 427 June 2017Mode(s),Elite Dangerous is a developed and published. Piloting a spaceship, the player explores a realistic 1:1 representation of the galaxy, with the gameplay being. The game is the first in the series to attempt to feature gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's, while also retaining single-player options.
Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the video game series, one of. It is the sequel to, released in 1995.Having been unable to agree to a funding deal with a for many years, the developer began its campaign in November 2012. Pre-release test versions of the game had been available to backers since December 2013, and the final game was released for Windows in December 2014, with the version later released in May 2015. A 'preview' version of the game for was later released via the Xbox Game Preview Program in June 2015 during Microsoft's briefing at the, and was fully released in October 2015, while a version was released on 27 June 2017. Elite Dangerous additionally supports all PC virtual reality devices. By the end of April 2015, Elite Dangerous had sold over 500,000 copies, with Frontier Developments expected to generate £22 million from sales.
As of 15 January 2019, cumulative sales of Elite Dangerous exceeded 4.3 million franchise units, composed of 3 million base game units and 1.3 million Horizons expansion units. An Orbis station near a habitable Earth-like planet. Players can dock at stations to trade, obtain ship upgrades or acquire missions.Upon its release in 2014, Elite Dangerous began in year 3300 and has been in sync with albeit 1286 years in the future.
The game is set around 45 years after Frontier: First Encounters. Elite Dangerous retains the basic premise of previous games – players start with a spaceship and a small amount of money in an and role-play in various activities to acquire more money and merit. These activities include trading, mining, exploration, bounty-hunting, piracy and assassination.The game is the first in the series to feature online multiplayer with access to a massively multiplayer persistent world called Open Play, as well as an online-only mode. Open Play gameplay is similar to in that many actions that would be considered in other multiplayer games are generally permitted, as long as there is a valid roleplaying reason (e.g. Robbery, extortion and blocking off star systems). However, some actions, such as ' persecution of players, exploiting mechanics of the game (such as quitting the game in the middle of a fight to avoid death), and swearing are not allowed, and could result in a ban from the main server.Within the virtual galaxy, the player can explore some 400 billion star systems complete with planets and moons that rotate and orbit in real time, reflecting dynamic day-night cycles. Around 150,000 of the game's star systems are taken from real astronomical data, while a few partially fictional planetary systems, which were created in Frontier and First Encounters before a significant number of exoplanets were discovered, are carried over.
For example, none of the gas giants of the system correspond with the detected properties of. A handful of entirely fictional systems named in the original Elite, and also featured in later games, are included (e.g. The original starting system Lave). The remainder are according to scientific models.
Players can dock their ships at space stations and outposts located throughout the galaxy in star systems to trade goods, purchase new spacecrafts, re-arm their ship, effect repairs and do missions from Mission Boards. Players may also find lost cargo or encounter other ships while in flight by investigating Unidentified Signal Sources.Factions There are three major factions, the Empire of Achenar, the Galactic Federation, and the Alliance of Independent Systems. Patch 1.3, which launched in June 2015, featured the Power Play addition which introduced competitive, galactical faction challenges. Players can ally themselves with an in-game faction and contribute to it by completing faction missions while also earning various rewards.
The collective outcome of each faction's achievements determines faction powers, territorial control, and their proceeding objectives. Each faction has their own line of ships that are obtained by acquiring ranks within the respective faction, except Alliance ships which are not locked behind a ranking system. The Federation has four ships made by an in-game federal corporation called Core Dynamics. The Empire has four ships manufactured by Gutamaya, an Imperial corporation. The Alliance has three ships, none of which require rank, manufactured by Lakon Spaceways.Player roles and rank There are three archetypal player roles attached with individual rankings (also known as player status) separate from faction rankings: Combat, Exploration, and Trading.
Players gain experience points and rank in these areas by completing activities that are divided among the three roles. For example, a bounty-hunter destroying pirates will gain Combat experience points and progress in Combat rank. On 15 March 2015, the first player who reached Triple Elite status (Elite rank in Combat, Elite rank in Exploration, and Elite rank in Trading), the highest status, won £10,000. A certain status or rank with a faction can grant access permits to a number of systems that require them.
Benefits also include ship discount prices. Development Starting in 2012, Elite Dangerous was developed using Frontier Development's own in-house COBRA. Frontier had been working on the game as a background activity for some time prior to its Kickstarter launch, with other projects being prioritised.On 14 November 2014, one month before launch, David Braben announced the removal of the game's offline single player mode, the developers having decided that they could not deliver an acceptable offline-only experience based on the original design.
The Windows version of the game was released on 16 December 2014.On 4 March 2015, Microsoft announced at the that Elite Dangerous would be released on and was later launched in early access as part of Microsoft's Game Preview program during E3 in 2015. On 2 April 2015, the game was made available on with support for cross-buy between the Windows version and the Mac version, the latter being released in May 2015. Although there are no plans for a version of the game, Braben stated in 2014 that 'There is no reason why COBRA cannot run on Linux, running through.' A version for was released on 27 June 2017. The support of the OS X Version ended with the update 3.3 on 12 December 2018Braben has said that Thargoids, the warlike, insectoid aliens from the original games, would make an appearance in some capacity. Mission objectives introduced in May 2015 about ancient specimens fueled speculation of the coming introduction of the Thargoid species. On 5 January 2017, the Thargoids were possibly encountered by a player.
The ship encountered was alien in nature. Through an escalation of encounters, it was eventually revealed the encountered race was in fact Thargoids.
While initially Thargoid encounters were non-violent, a number of space stations have since been attacked leading to missions based on investigating, researching, and gathering materials to increase weapon effectiveness against the Thargoids.On 25 October 2016, an extinct alien race, the Guardians, were added, with players allowed to explore the ancient ruins they left behind in order to gather data and materials to unlock special Guardian modules and specialized Human–Guardian hybrid weapons with increased effectiveness against Thargoid ships. Thematically, the Guardians were discovered in the year 3302.As of 4 April 2020, Fleet Carriers will be added to the game, allowing players to own essentially mobile space stations for private use, though they are limited to one per player, and are exorbitantly (though not too prohibitively) expensive. They will be released soon. Funding At the 2011 Game Developers Conference, following a presentation on the development of the original Elite, Braben was asked in a Q&A session if Elite 4 was still on the drawing board. He replied 'yes, it would be a tragedy for it not to be'.
The project had difficulty in attracting sufficient funding, which Braben had attributed to the traditional publishing model, which he saw as being biased against games with no recent comparable predecessors.Braben had previously discussed as a possible solution in April 2012. Public fundraising commenced in November 2012 using the website, the campaign lasting 60 days, with the aim being to raise £1.25m and deliver a finished game by March 2014. Braben described the campaign as a way of 'test-marketing the concept to verify there is broader interest in such a game', in addition to raising the funds.Following the end of the Kickstarter, further public funding was sought through the developer's UK website, via. By April 2014, £1.7m had been raised, and Braben had reacquired the legal rights to the Elite franchise. Although the game's original total development budget had been £8 million, by September 2014 this had, in Braben's words, 'grown by quite a lot'. Testing phase A playable of the game was released to certain Kickstarter backers in December 2013. In May 2014, the game entered the first phase of its test, focusing primarily on testing the systems and servers with a greater number of players.
A pre-release 'gamma' build was released to backers three weeks before launch, to give them a head start on other players. On 2 April 2015, the beta Mac version went live, accessible to all backers.
Horizons season of expansions The first 'season' of expansions for Elite Dangerous, named Horizons, was announced on 5 August 2015 at Gamescom, entered beta on 30 November 2015 and was released on 15 December 2015 for PC, followed by a 3 June 2016 release for Xbox One. Frontier Developments currently has no plans to release the expansion for Mac OS X unless Apple provides support for compute shaders, which Frontier believes are required to render planet surfaces and other objects.
Elite Dangerous: Horizons is a separately priced product. Original customers who also purchased Horizons received exclusive access to the Cobra Mk. IV ship.Horizons adds planetary landings, ground vehicles and bases, synthesis of consumables and temporary ship upgrades, ship-launched fighters, passenger missions, a character creator, and co-op multicrew support for larger ships. Planetary landings feature procedurally generated planets, initially supporting only worlds without an atmosphere.
Players can choose to set down at planetary bases or at any point of their choosing and can deploy a new six-wheeled ground vehicle called the SRV ('Surface Reconnaissance Vehicle'). This vehicle is equipped with weapons, a 'wave scanner' for finding resources, shipwrecks etc., a datalink system for hacking into bases, and thrusters that can lift the vehicle up above the ground for short periods of time. Thrusters in the wheels can be used to affix it to the ground on low-gravity worlds. Materials found on planets can be combined to boost ship jump range, synthesize repair materials, or upgrade weapons. Horizons is billed as a season of five expansions, starting with planetary landings and then followed with a more comprehensive looting and crafting system released in May 2016, ship-launched fighters and passenger missions released in October 2016, and support for multiple players working cooperatively on the same ship planned for a future expansion within the first half of 2017 ahead of PlayStation 4 release and with a 5th expansion to follow after that.
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th expansions were announced originally for spring, summer and autumn 2016 respectively. But the 5th expansion had no reference to 'winter', was not time-scheduled and had no content description, only stating a cryptic 'soon' reference. The ability to walk around and the types of worlds players can land on is expected to be expanded during upcoming seasons, with landing on planets with atmospheres or earthlike worlds not being part of the Horizons season, but due at a later stage. An example of a character on the Holo-Me page in Elite DangerousOn 24 February 2017, due to the new discovery in the system, the 2.3 update would be delayed to put it in the game. The 2.3 update called The Commanders was released on 11 April 2017, five days earlier than originally said. It consists of a 'Commander Creator' (also known as the Holo-Me), Multicrew and various other features. The 2.4 update called 'The Return', with an expanded storyline for the alien Thargoids, was released on 26 September 2017.Beyond Beyond is the official title for the series of updates (3.0 onwards) which followed Horizons.
It focused on improvements to the core gameplay along with improvements to the game's crime and punishment system, better trading data, new wing missions, new ships (including the Alliance Chieftain, Krait, and alien Thargoid scouts), more interaction with megaships and installations, a 'tech broker' offering more advanced weapons, in-game Galnet audio, an overhaul of mining, new astronomical anomalies to discover, and improvements to planetary visuals and more detailed surface environments. An open beta for 3.0 was released on 25 January 2018, with official launch of 'Chapter One' on 27 February 2018.
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