[Gaming] Elite: Dangerous

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latest newsletter detailing asteroid combat, the pilot suits - including some zero-G combat, ship cockpit details, and other matters like the Alpha.
more @ Elite: Dangerous Newsletter #14

reminder that pledging will end sometime today (or maybe in the early hours of tomorrow). and a new Store will appear - which will have different products and exclude features that early pledgers will have)
 

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Elite: Dangerous Newsletter #14

To start with, only the following will be available in the store:

Alpha demo access
1st Round Beta access – pre-order
2nd Round Beta access – pre-order
Elite: Dangerous game (digital copy) – pre-order
Each Alpha/Beta access will also allow access to later tests and the full game when released.

PLEASE NOTE These products will NOT be the same as the Backer reward tiers, which include other features such as starting credits, decals etc.

No more:
The extra starting positions
Digital Download Pack - that includes every expansion that will ever be released for the game, such as walking around and seamless freeform landing on planets and more.
Premium Boxed Edition
Founding Member of "The Elite"
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pledging ends in about 2hrs. then a new store will take over.
 

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pledge is still open - guess they will close it when they get to their office. :)

if you're still on the fence - hurry!
 

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strangely i think registration is still open.

well if you ever are on the fence. go pledge! :D
 

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Hi Pyre!


Dunno this one more fun or star citizen....


Btw, now SWTOR just got the galactic starfighter update - jin jiak fun! :s12:
 

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Actually Elite: Dangerous & Star Citizen are two different games. Thus, I can say both of them have their unique features. It is hard to compare both games. :)
 

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Sneak peek for this week
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new store is not up yet though :(
 

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check the shield effects the moment the enemy's was drained.
 

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Deep space. That?s the heart of Elite: Dangerous. As with the original and its two sequels, Frontier Developments? new Kickstarter-funded space exploration game will ask its players to absorb themselves deep within its systems ? not just of stars and galaxies but of navigation, combat and trading. Speaking to Braben about the game recently, he repeatedly returned to the notion that Dangerous was a game whose intricacies must be learned over time.

It has taken time to get a new Elite off the ground, too. It is no secret that Braben has wanted to make this game for years ? perhaps even since the release of Frontier: First Encounters in 1995. Braben says the old publisher-developer relationship would have seen Frontier?s vision of what the game should be compromised. Now, through Kickstarter and Frontier?s own fundraising efforts, the Cambridge studio now has over ?2.2 million with which to make that game a reality.

?Working with a publisher would give a very different end result to the one we have planned ? mainly as there have been few open games like the one we are making in recent years,? Braben tells us. ?We had watched the rise of Kickstarter in the US and went on there with Elite: Dangerous as soon as it came to the UK ? it provided a was a great validation of the interest in the game for us, and the funding helped us move into full production with the game.?

more @ David Braben on the return of Elite, crowdfunded and unsullied by publisher influence | News | Edge Online
 

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wonder how the sys reqs are... more excuse to get a bigger monitor and a better gfx card?
 
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