Frontier Developments announced today the release of Elite Dangerous: Horizons for the PC. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released a new set of screenshots that can be viewed below.
As the press release reads, Elite Dangerous: Horizons is the new season of major gameplay expansions for the award-winning space epic Elite Dangerous, beginning today with Planetary Landings on 1:1 scale worlds throughout the Milky Way.
Elite Dangerous: Horizons will introduce further major gameplay features as the season continues into 2016, enriching the Elite Dangerous experience with new activities and new ways to play.
Frontier has also launched Elite Dangerous 1.5: Ships – a free update for all Elite Dangerous players on PC, Mac and Xbox One – adding over 300 improvements including new spacecraft, new missions and SteamVR support.
Enjoy!
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I thought DSOGaming wouldn’t cover DLC news?
It’s a full traditional expansion, not DLC in the usual sense. It even runs in its own separate executable iirc.
does it have any missions or the pics are utterly misleading?
No missions outside the usual job postings you get in the base game as far as I’m aware.
They actually released an empty shell of a game as the full thing, and now they’re selling the rest of the actual game, bit by bit, 60 bucks a bit.
Don’t get fooled.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have the game and it’s one of the most bland, empty, joyless experiences I’ve ever had whilst piloting a spaceship. I only say it’s not DLC in the usual sense because it’s acually a pretty substantial upgrade from the base game, as opposed to the usual little bits and bobs of content commonly thought of as DLC.
That said, there’s no chance I’m buying it now, especially as the game now forces you to play multiplayer. And yeah, I feel pretty robbed that I got the base game, and they’re rendering it obsolete a year later. Frontier can go screw themselves.
*sigh* as much as I want to love this game, those screenshots are borderline misleading in regards to the amount of fun you will have in E:D. What’s not pictured is the other 99% of the time you will spend in supercruise, gazing at an almost featureless expanse of space as you manage your velocity so as to actually end up where you want.
You will probably be doing so to deliver pizza.
“the new season of major gameplay expansions”
Oh screw off already.
Can anyone recommend a SINGLE player space sim (by space I mean driving ships). I wasn’t interested in this kind of game before but because of the boom lately I played some and liked it but the contents were lacking and only lasted for a few hours and became boring. I can’t play these MMOs coz my country’s net is shi* and my ping is sky high —__—
X3?
x3 or freespace
Freelancer (If you can find it) or X3. Freespace is also good but is not open world.
Did they just do a Planetary Annihilation and abandon their game for a full-priced expansion? I’m adding these devs to my Do Not Buy list.
The expansion costs as much as a full priced game and they charge £10 for a single ship skin. Frontier are greedy and as much as I enjoy playing Elite, this expansion is way overpriced.
Yay Elite Dangerous here! Thank you John! 😉
I like the negativity around a game made with just 2: dollars which is already working with more features than other games.
And no one gets that this is an expansion on its own, if you get it you own the full game and more content is coming through 2016.
They are going to focus in gameplay features for the whole year since a lot of people complain that “there is nothing to do” or “the game is quite repetitive”. And I agree up to some point but…playing the same MP arena shooter on and on for a year or two isn’t it repetitive as well?
If we compare what you can do in Elite which is a game with total freedom in where you can get lost and waste a lot of time (yes travelling as well in where there is also gameplay related features like finding places, interdicting other ships, etc…it is SPACE after all, I rather travel the distances I need to travel than jumping from point A to B on and on like in a regular sandbox game…there is something called immersion…).
I don’t know, this game is getting so much hate and it never asked for you to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a 3D non playable model of a ship.
In the other hand is giving you probably the biggest sandbox ever made, to do whatever you want, also having planetary landings (planets in scale 1:1 with scientific accuracy) so you can mess around with your friends and such…but hey “this game is bad”…like yeah…whatever.
I’m getting tired…but clearly not from the game.
Wow, take your fanboy glasses and leave. ED is a great game … for 10 hours. Then it gets repeating and a complete snoozefest. It’s a literal grindfest in the worst possible way and after hours and hours of grinding, what do you get? More grinding. Your grind for the sake of grinding more effectively. There is no endgame. There is hardly anything to master even, so the comparison to MP arena games (where skill ceiling cannot be achieved before years and years of practice) is quite ridiculous. There is no actual reason for anyone to play ED for more than 20 hours taken the current amount of MEANINGFUL content.
If you get your kicks from looking at your spaceship hyperspeed from one system to another for 15 minutes, doing some trading and looking at screen for another 15 minutes, then all power to you. For normal people that loses it’s shine in a few hours and becomes a chore.
And off with the Star Citizen jokes. SC already has more meaningful content than ED with the 2.0 alpha release, and ED is simply dead in the water due to lack of funding.
They’re making you pay twice for the same game and you’re thanking them for the privilege.
“if you get it you own the full game and more content is coming through 2016.”
And 2017 there’s another “expansion” and you have to buy the game a third time. And you’re going to defend that as well, I’m counting on you.
Checked Steam and found myself very confused.
This is a expansion, “expandalone” or a new game/relaunch? o.O
If It is a expansion of the E:D but it is full price? Or is it a relaunch of E:D but with planets? If I buy this I “own” E:D? Or do I need to have E:D and use the 25% discount to get this?