LivingSky wrote:So everybody is loving this game for what I can see. Can some one give me the 101 of what this game is about? I saw the trailer on PSN but it have me very little.
I will try to help you, but it's not the easiest game to explain. The game take place in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Which is absolutely huge, far too big for one person to explore, even with the faster than light travel the game allows us. It's very much a space simulator.
But you have a lot of choices in what you can do and what sort of ship/s you can use. You can be a pirate, a mercenary, an explorer, a taxi driver, a bounty hunter, a scavenger, a trader, a black market trader, you can get into asteroid mining, etc etc. You can even join the fuel rats who help players who have broken down by running out of fuel. And you can engineer your ship to make it unique to your play style.
It's fun to team up and work together for bounty hunting and general combat. Every Thursday they put out community goals that usually last a few days and we try to team up to help each other out if we can. There's also a separate cqc mode with deathmatch, TDM and capture the flag modes.
Well worth trying but a bit of a harsh learning curve on entry so keep that mind. An often repeated line is, it's called Elite Dangerous, not Easy Dangerous. But if you have the patience, it's well worth it.
There's open play where you can bump into randoms, there's solo play so no worries of bumping into trolls there but it's still the same shared universe. And private mode, which is similar to solo but friends can join the session so you can meet up just with them. You can jump between modes whenever and your progress is shared between modes.