Frontier Developments today released the launch trailer for Elite: Dangerous. This 90 second trailer is soundtracked by Royal Blood’s ‘Out Of The Black,’ and can be viewed below. In addition, Frontier announced that Gamma 2.00 is available now, and that there will be no wipe of positions or progress on the December 16th launch of Elite: Dangerous 1.0.
Additionally, players’ starting credits are to be increased tenfold and all players starting or restarting the game will receive their new credits allocation.
Players with early access can start honing their flight skills and accumulating credits ready for the December 16th launch, when they will take part in the vicious power struggle to succeed the Emperor – arguably the most powerful human in the 400 billion star-system Milky Way galaxy. This major story event will kick offElite: Dangerous’ ever unfolding, player influenced narrative.
Elite: Dangerous includes ‘out of the box’ support for 4K ultra-high definition, 3D TV, Track IR and Oculus Rift VR for those with appropriate hardware.
There is one week left to pre-order the Elite: Dangerous Mercenary Edition for £35.00 ($50 and €40), which is a £4.99 pre-order discount from the £39.99 launch day retail price. It is available exclusively from the Elite: Dangerous online store and includes:
- A digital download of Elite: Dangerous.
- Your very own additional Eagle fighter ship docked in a secondary location in-game.
- Exclusive pack of ship paint jobs.
- A ‘day one’ ship decal.
- A digital players’ guide.
- A digital concept art book.
All those who pre-order the game get to play the single player combat missions immediately. A new launcher will accompany Gamma 2.00, allowing access to single player combat missions for those with early access to Elite: Dangerous as well as everyone who has pre-ordered.
Enjoy!
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This is my personal GOTY from 2014.
I played a lot of games this year but none comes close to this one for sure. Optimization, graphics, simulation, scale, features, the overall feeling…you are in the middle of the space and you can do what you please with great gameplay mechanics. It just feels natural while flying, the combat is great, the sounds are incredible and physics are awesome.
If you like the space alone for what it is and science fiction, this is the game for you.
I’ll be sure getting Star Citizen and No Man’s Sky as well but for now and for a good amount of time I’ll be playing this great game.
PS: The trailer makes it look arcade and like you are playing in little areas which is not the case, but the graphics are quite like that, the pace of the game is better or as it should, and the space vast as it is.
Does the game have a storyline or objectives? Or do you just wander around doing whatever you want?
You basically do as you please. At first you have some kind of factions to choose or even you can be “free”. If you choose one you become enemy of the others and that can “limit” you in some places which are controlled by ones or others.
There are war zones across the Galaxy in where you can fight for your faction or just be there and get some kills.
If you choose to be free you can be whatever you want…a pirate/assassin (no explanation here, kill someone and then face the consequences), a bounty hunter (you basically search for pirates and kill them for money), trader/carrier (transport things to one place to another to make money), explorer (explore the whole galaxy at will, find new systems and planets and sell the info to others if you want), miner (you can mine asteroids to find minerals and materials and then sell them to places where they need them or pay better). You can even be everything if you want…but have in mind that if you do wrong someone can put a price for your head.
The whole deal is to get better and get better stuff (improvements for your ships, better ships, bigger ships, massive ships…etc).
There are solar systems in where there are tons of security, you are scanned as soon as you appear there and you can be attacked if your record is not good.
In space stations you can upgrade, sell or store ships, sell what you found mining and stuff like that. There are bulletins with info (like missions) so you can choose what to do next and then get the money/credits by coming back.
There is a bank account for you, an insurance for your ships so if you get destroyed you won’t loose it entirely or for ever and stuff like that.
The good thing about this game is not just the way it plays, is that you are free to do whatever for real…if you are “pacifist” and don’t want to kill anyone you can do it and just explore/transport/mine…but with a couple of weapons and upgrades just in case some pirates appear of course. There is danger out there so you need to be prepared, you really feel alone sometimes in the vast space.
I pre-order it and got Mercenary Edition, by now I can play a Combat Training Demo which has 3 planets (one with a massive frozen asteroid belt), and with just that is incredible.
Everything maxed to the top 50/60FPS in the asteroid belt with billions of polygons and everything in motion, and 80/85FPS in the open areas close to planets. (FX8350 using like 40% of it only), 8GBRAM 1866mhz (using like 37% of it), and a GTX560Ti OC 1GB at 1920 x 1080p.
A true PC game that we can enjoy.
Royal Blood^^