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Title: New Update for Elite Dangerous
Post by: est1895 on December 15, 2013, 02:20:24 pm

Remember that old game Elite (1984)?  Its back!!

Check this trailer out.  :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X88vvPDpVc

Update: Alpha 2.0 release
Final release in March

Here is the Alpha 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDWnBJYTFgs

 :yes: :cool: :yes:

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: headdie on December 15, 2013, 04:48:59 pm

wasnt there a mention in the kickstarter thread about this?

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: MetalDestroyer on December 15, 2013, 06:00:51 pm

You should put some gameplay instead since the Alpha has been released :

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Phantom Hoover on December 15, 2013, 06:46:18 pm

sadly my own laziness prevents me from watching these videos to tell you how everything in them is probably overhyped **** and to moan inarticulately about procedural generation. i leave you instead with this picture, and a question: can you truly put your trust in a jaw this huge?

(http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/11/Elite-David-Braben.jpg)

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Rodo on December 15, 2013, 06:56:38 pm

It's got tons of commands, just like freespace. You could actually consider this one of those 'too complex to be sold' games, is it a kickstarter or something like that?

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: est1895 on December 15, 2013, 07:00:10 pm

Yes....Its beening developed in the UK.  Here is the website and kickstarter:  http://elite.frontier.co.uk/   :cool: :nod: :cool:

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Beskargam on December 15, 2013, 07:19:25 pm

So since I missed the original elite way back when, what was it? Space Sim I see...

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: crizza on December 15, 2013, 07:25:03 pm

I read it had newtonian physics and the like.
A later incarnation had the game actually settled in our known universe, with distances etc as we know them. Just imagine a fly by to Jupiter or one of these freaking huge stars.
Or doing dogfights at 160m/s...the framerate...

Well, but I guess it is to early to say how this turns out and I won't pay 200...pounds or Euro to play the Alpha^^

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Mito [PL] on December 16, 2013, 06:46:00 am

Yet another space sim? Nice. The Freespace should be upgraded someday like that :).

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Mikes on December 16, 2013, 09:55:37 am

I got Beta access quite a while ago...

... now wondering if there is a way to upgrade my pledge to Alpha access, didn t find it yet :( meh.

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: yuezhi on December 16, 2013, 10:53:12 am

Quote from: MitoPL on December 16, 2013, 06:46:00 am

Yet another space sim? Nice. The Freespace should be upgraded someday like that :).

I dread what atrocities interplay might do.

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Luis Dias on December 16, 2013, 11:31:56 am

Quote from: Phantom Hoover on December 15, 2013, 06:46:18 pm

can you truly put your trust in a jaw this huge?

That's slightly dip****ty stuff to say but I might be wrong. Let me see your own jaw so that I can judge whether or not I should take you seriously!

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Phantom Hoover on December 16, 2013, 01:13:46 pm

both my jaw and myself are deeply untrustworthy

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: BritishShivans on December 16, 2013, 01:26:07 pm

is your jaw a separate bodily organism of it's own

Title: Re: Elite has Returned!!
Post by: Nakura on December 20, 2013, 06:05:51 pm

If this gets Early Access on Steam, I will definitely pick it up.