Elite Dangerous Overview
Elite Dangerous Free Download for PC is a space adventure, trading, and combat simulation video game developed and published by Frontier Developments. Piloting a spaceship, the player explores a realistic 1:1 scale open world galaxy based on the real Milky Way, with the gameplay being open-ended. The game is the first in the series to attempt to feature massively multiplayer gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's persistent universe, while also retaining single player options. Elite: Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters, released in 1995.
Having been unable to agree to a funding deal with a publisher for many years, the developer began its Kickstarter campaign in November 2012. Pre-release test versions of the game had been available to backers since December 2013, and the final game was released for Windows in December 2014, with the OS X version later released in May 2015. A «preview» version of the game for Xbox One was later released via the Xbox Game Preview Program in June 2015 during Microsoft's briefing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015, and was fully released in October 2015, with a PlayStation 4 version coming later after the timed exclusivity deal for Xbox One expires. Elite: Dangerous supports virtual reality devices, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. By the end of April 2015, Elite: Dangerous had sold over 500,000 copies, with Frontier Developments expected to generate £22 million from sales.
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Gameplay
Starting in the year 3300 in 2014, Elite: Dangerous is currently set in the year 3302 and has been running in sync with UTC +1286 years, around 45 years after Frontier: First Encounters, the previous game in the series. Elite: Dangerous retains the basic premise of previous games — players start with a spaceship and a small amount of money and have to make their own way in an open galaxy, furthering themselves either legally or illegally, through trading, mining, bounty-hunting, piracy and assassination. Elite Dangerous Download free Full Version.
The game is the first in the series to feature online multiplayer, with players having access to a massively multiplayer persistent world, as well as an online-only single player mode. Open Play gameplay is similar to EvE Online in that many actions which would be considered griefing in other multiplayer games are generally permitted here, so long as a valid roleplaying reason is attached. Examples include (but are not limited to) stealing from other players, extortion, and blocking off star systems via blockade or similar means. However, some actions, like «mob mentality» persecution, abusing exploits (such as «combat logging») and cursing are still not allowed, and could eventually result in a shadow ban, meaning to lose access to the main server.
The player is able to explore the game's galaxy of some 400 billion star systems, complete with planets and moons that rotate and orbit in real-time, resulting in dynamic day/night cycles. Around 150,000 of the game's star systems are taken from real-world astronomical data, while the remainder are procedurally generated according to scientific models. Throughout the galaxy, the player is able to dock with space stations and outposts to trade goods, purchase new spacecraft, re-arm their ship, effect repairs and to seek or complete missions from text-based station «bulletin boards». The player may also find cargo or encounter other ships while in flight by investigating 'Unidentified Signal Sources'. Elite Dangerous Game free Download Full Version.
Factions
There are three major factions, the Empire, the Federation, and the Alliance. Patch 1.3, which launched in June 2015, featured the Power Play extension, for competitive galaxy-wide faction challenges. Players can now pick from various in-game factions and contribute by completing mission goals and earn various rewards. The outcome determines faction powers, territorial control, and what each faction does next.
Player status and rank
There are four player status levels, for combat, CQC Championship, exploration and trading, depending on accomplishments. On March 15, 2015, the first player reached triple elite status, the highest status, and won £10,000. Certain status or rank can grant access to a number of systems which require a permit. Benefits of some systems include ship discount prices.
Development
Starting in 2012, Elite: Dangerous was developed using Frontier Development's own in-house COBRA game development engine. Frontier had been working on the game as a «skunk-works» background activity for some time prior to its Kickstarter launch, with other projects being prioritised.
On 14 November 2014, one month before launch, David Braben announced the removal of the game's offline single player mode, the developers having decided that they could not deliver an acceptable offline-only experience based on the original design. The Windows version of the game was released on 16 December 2014. Elite Dangerous Free Download Torrent.
On 4 March 2015, Microsoft announced at the Game Developers Conference that Elite: Dangerous would be released on Xbox One. A version is also planned for PlayStation 4. On 2 April 2015, the game was made available on Steam with support for cross buy between the Windows version and the Mac version, the latter being released in May 2015. Although there are no plans for a Linux version of the game, Braben stated in 2014 that «There is no reason why COBRA cannot run on Linux, running through OpenGL.»
Braben has said that Thargoids, the warlike, insectoid aliens from the original games, would make an appearance in some capacity. Mission objectives introduced in May 2015 about ancient specimens fueled speculation of the coming introduction of the Thargoid species.
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