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FAQs

What should I do early in Elite Dangerous? ›

Players can disembark from their ships after docking and take a lift directly to the local Concourse.

Both Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen are space simulation games that give players access to either single-player or multiplayer mode. Elite Dangerous offers players a dynamic society and economy where they can freely choose what to do and what stories they'll write as their game progresses.

The Cobra MkIII is the best multipurpose ship in Elite Dangerous: Horizons for beginner players with limited budgets. This small spaceship will set you back 349,718 credits, which makes it a real bargain.

Not all planets are landable, and landing procedures will vary based on a planets' mass, gravity, and orbit. To see if a planet is landable, check the system map and look for the desired planet. If it has a light blue arc around the left of the planet, then it is landable.

Its headline feature is being able to leave your ship and explore planets on foot. You can also land your ship on planets with thin atmospheres, wander around inside starports and bases, take space taxis between locations, and equip a bunch of new gear—including suits and weapons designed for first-person combat.

The Type-9 Heavy is the largest dedicated trading ship in Elite Dangerous. It's an absolute monster, with a cargo capacity of 300t as default and the potential to be upgraded to 700t. That puts it just behind the Imperial Cutter for the largest cargo capacity in the game, though it's a minimal difference.

The game has about 400 Billion Star systems (Not sure if they confused this with planetary systems) but no mans sky has 18.4 Quintillion planets (and unlike elite dangerous each and every one is visitable meaning you can land and explore these life sized planets). The size is much larger.

What is better no mans sky or Elite Dangerous? ›

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the combat in No Man's Sky is fun, engaging, and fairly arcadey. If you're looking for realistic space combat, or a more hard sci-fi experience during your space combat, then Elite Dangerous may be more of what you're looking for.

Is Star Citizen Pay-to-Win? Currently people can purchase ships, weapons, and equipment for real money.

Diamond Explorer's most impressive specification is undoubtedly its outstanding 41.61 ly maximum jump range. That jump range makes it one of the very best ships in the game for jumping between the stars.

But yes, the Orca is a very fine ship and a good explorer.

The download on Frontier's site is a standalone one, so you won't need any existing PC launcher. According to the site, the download package includes a "disk image of the original Elite for BBC Micro B". There's also BeebEm, a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator, so you can actually play the thing.

As far as I've seen, Odyssey appears to have a FPS mode that Horizons doesn't and also a better graphics quality.

In combat, the Scout is rather poor. It has awful shields and armour for its price range and its hardpoints are not very good; even the Cobra MkIII boasts comparable stats. The upside the ship has is its manoeuvrability, at an impressive 5 it can evade fire very easily and keep fixed mounts on targets easily.

As of January 20, 2022, only 0.05% of the galaxy, or exactly 222,083,678 unique star systems, had been explored.

Elite Dangerous developed by Frontier Developments is a first person spaceship MMORPG. The galaxy is yours to explore with billions of star systems, planets, moons, and more awaiting your exploration.

No, Elite Dangerous is not cross-platform between Xbox One and PC. In other words, players using Xbox One and PC cannot play Elite Dangerous together. So, one will not be able to play with friends owning a different console.

What is the fastest way to land on planets in Elite Dangerous? ›

To land at a Surface Port, request docking permission as with an orbital station, then dock as usual. To land directly on the surface of a planet/moon, decrease altitude and extend landing gear when the HUD radar begins displaying the terrain. Look for a relatively smooth, flat area large enough for the ship.

Yes, but you need the Sol permit, which is locked behind the Petty Officer rank of the Federation.

You can't land on Earth like worlds. Because reason. Actually it is because 80% of the planets in the game don't have atmosphere so enabling landing on those makes the more sense it is for the best of the game. No it's not "because reason".

Yes, you can store as many ships as you want. They'll be stored in the station you buy your new ship in.

The Camera Suite is a fully functional third-person camera suite in Elite Dangerous. It allows players to take sophisticated screenshots, make cinematic videos, and even fly their ships in third-person.

can you walk around your ship? No.

The corvette has arguablly less DPS than the anaconda, because it has to be built around 2 Huge slots, and there are not that many huge weapons. The anaconda has it beat in slot versatility, range, hardpoints and paintjobs.

In supercruise, speeds are typically measured in multiples of the speed of light, represented as c or in megameters per second, represented as Mm/s (1c = 300Mm/s). A ship that is traveling at 1c is therefore traveling at the speed of light.

And seeing as you can easily refit a Type-7 to carry 200 tons of cargo at once – your frameshift range can become very restricted indeed, unless you know what you're doing.

Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion won't include base building or VR compatibility at launch.

Is Elite Dangerous better than EVE Online? ›

Elite Dangerous is even more immersive in VR, which Eve Online does not support. Eve Online focuses more on player-interaction. While both are MMOs, Elite Dangerous involves smaller groups of players and ships than Eve Online.

The game will be ready in 2027, but this is not certain. Honorable long-term Star Citizen has already raised more than $500 million from 4,096,856 users, but when the game itself will be released is still unknown. Maybe in 2027, but it's not certain. Star Citizen has been in development since 2010.

Elite Dangerous contains over 400 Billion star systems to explore, each with their own stars, planets and moons that you can land on and explore. What you're seeing here is only a tiny part of an otherwise enormous game map that is a 1:1 scale recreation of the Milky Way Galaxy.

From there, we take a huge leap in size to Minecraft's unfathomably large 4,096,000,000 km2 map, before going straight up cosmic with No Man's Sky's galactic sandbox of 18 Quintillion planets tallying up to 31,7000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km2.

The universe of “No Man's Sky” is gigantic with over 18 quintillion – or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 – possible planets to visit. People can travel through the universe, upgrading weapons and spaceships, discovering new plant species, animals or even planets then naming them.

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It can be a monthly-recurring payment or an annually (12 month) recurring one. Every time a payment is processed, your subscription is automatically expanded by one period (month or year, depending on the plan). A Pass is a one-off payment that grants you Subscriber access for a limited time.

The download on Frontier's site is a standalone one, so you won't need any existing PC launcher. According to the site, the download package includes a "disk image of the original Elite for BBC Micro B". There's also BeebEm, a BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator, so you can actually play the thing.

Elite Dangerous is a game that demands much, but rewards more. It's not a space fighter game, but a space simulator. It sets the lofty goal of recreating the Milky Way Galaxy in a 1:1 ratio, and then setting the player loose to explore it in any way that they see fit.

Is the ASP scout any good? ›

In combat, the Scout is rather poor. It has awful shields and armour for its price range and its hardpoints are not very good; even the Cobra MkIII boasts comparable stats. The upside the ship has is its manoeuvrability, at an impressive 5 it can evade fire very easily and keep fixed mounts on targets easily.

As far as I've seen, Odyssey appears to have a FPS mode that Horizons doesn't and also a better graphics quality.

The first open-world game was SEGA's Jet Rocket (1970), followed by Taito's Western Gun (1975) and Interceptor (1975). The first 3D open-world game was SEGA's combat flight simulator Heli-Shooter (1977). The first top-down scrolling open-world game was Namco's Rally-X (1980).

SAVING ON TAPE

While docked with a space station, you may save your game position on tape so that, by reloading, you can begin a game in the same system with the same ship equipment etc.. To save a position, press the @ key.

"Elite" set many firsts, and was the first genuine 3D game on home computers. Even many years after its release it is fondly remembered.

Yes, but you need the Sol permit, which is locked behind the Petty Officer rank of the Federation.

"Elite Dangerous" became popular as an MMO for the freedom it offered players with pilot-based space exploration. Its expansion "Elite Dangerous: Horizons" then grew that freedom with the ability to explore planets using land rovers.

Its headline feature is being able to leave your ship and explore planets on foot. You can also land your ship on planets with thin atmospheres, wander around inside starports and bases, take space taxis between locations, and equip a bunch of new gear—including suits and weapons designed for first-person combat.

In a press release announcing the ship's debut, Faulcon DeLacy stated, "The Krait Phantom offers true multi-role capability, allowing it to be customised for combat, mining or trading. And for explorers, its impressive jump range means you really can reach out to the stars. This is a ship that can handle it all."

The Keelback has one role it shines in: mining. With its two medium hardpoints, large cargo space, fighter bay for protection and smaller size the Keelback is one of the best ships available for the job and is by far the cheapest ship that is extremely effective in the role.

Is the Cobra Mk III good? ›

Overview. The Cobra MkIII is an exceedingly popular ship for good reason: it is a small, low-cost multipurpose vessel capable of performing very well in any role, and essentially serves as a much cheaper Python, making it a good stepping stone for every kind of pilot. In combat the Cobra MkIII is quite potent.

Players in Horizons will not be able to form wings or crews with players in Odyssey and vice versa. The CQC matchmaker and crew finders will not place Horizons and Odyssey players together.

Odyssey also introduces a multi-layered tactical environment in which commanders (on foot), SRVs, and ships can engage in combat with each other simultaneously. With Multicrew, multiple commanders aboard the same ship can deploy on foot, in an SRV, and in a Ship-Launched Fighter all at the same time.

Elite Dangerous is available now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and playable via backward compatibility on Xbox Series X/S and PS5. The Odyssey expansion touches down on PC (via Steam and Epic) on May 19 and on consoles in autumn 2021.