Should You play Elite Dangerous in 2024? 

Elite Dangerous in VR is mind-blowing. Watching an asteroid explode or just passing by a star up close will keep you in the game for hours if you can stand the discomfort of the headset after all that time 😅

My friend asked me to play Elite with him when it came out. Apparently, I had logged about 80 hours, but stepped away due to not having the adequate time to really immerse in the world... 3 years ago, I got it for another pal and we messed around for about a week, but ended up not diving in... Now, in 2024, My kid graduated from college and I've found the time. I've only got about 700 hrs into it and I am Blown Away by the Scope of this Experience. I also have Star Citizen, but Elite just Feels Complete... Out in The Black is Serene and Beautiful to Behold. Cheers, Commanders!

It’s actually a third type of mining, the sub-surface drilling. Very nice summary of the game for new players.

I really adore this game for the Background Simulation and Power Play. I love the idea of being part of something bigger, even if in reality it's maybe not that big of a deal as I like to make out. Really looking forward to the PowerPlay Overhaul they are releasing later this year.

Just started watching, but I had to say, the first 30 seconds opener gave me the chills. Really good way to start a video!

Good summary once again, Cap. And fair. I played it years ago when it first came out and it brought back memories of the 1984 Commodor 64 classic, Starflight. Lots and lots of exploration but the difference was the Starflight was a single player game with a story with a good bit of humor. There wouldn't be an online space game until Stellar Emperor in '85 on CIS. But I digress. I like how you imagine the ideal audience for games. I think you nailed it with this one. I look for social interaction in online games and, thus, I was not the audience for this one 😉

I picked it up again this year, and I've really enjoyed it so far, especially the exploration aspect. Definitely worth it if you out in the time to learn the controls I'd say

Played many space games and sadly there isnt a great deal. I think elite is an awsome game i just wish it was still developed for console but for the price of $38 with the expansion you cant complain.

Still the best online space game available. Jump in, starting learning it, it can keep you busy for years.

Before watching the video I have to comment :p And the answer is YES! This game in VR is awesome, I play Solo only, I don't care about encountering players, so running around, exploring both in VR and on the Steam Deck... I just love the game for what it is. Not grinding, not engineering, just running around and enjoying the 'Cog in the machine' feel in the game. I took a break after Odyssey originally launched. And now being back, I truly enjoy this thing. Take it slow, let it immerse you into it's world and you'll enjoy your time in it :)

You make it sound as though laser mining and deep core mining are mutually exclusive. Can't you laser mine the asteroid first and then blow it up for more resources?

You can actually refuel the ships with the stars around you? Does the ship do that automatically?

after server shut down can play this game or not

I tried pi king it back up this week. Kept crashing for no reason

Only Open, pirates and ganking are some of the best interactions in the game, lots of friends made through these two events!

Nice video 🔥

I can't believe this game is still around.

My all time favorite game.

Just got my pc 7 days ago. Downloaded star citizen and joined the discord and met some great people whom I play with. The bugs and jank turned me away but I still hop on to help my friends enjoy their time with it. We usually get laughs out of the experience but in the back of my mind I would never spend money to continue to play it after free flight is over. It’s just not that good. They’ll never finish the game because they make a lot of money with the incomplete version and that’s ok because that’s their prerogative. Bought elite dangerous for 10 bucks on sale and absolutely fell in love with it. Better tutorial better AI and better combat. And I don’t need multiple people to have fun on it. Also way less bugs. So I spent money on it because it is very much a great game. I do wish elite had a food and thirst mechanic and that I can fly my ship in a better 3rd person mode and I do wish ground combat had leaning but those are just personal things. Other then that I say elite outclasses star citizen in many ways…… thank you

Not worth playing till they put VR in the on foot game not one more thin dime till they do.

Just spent a couple days trying to get back into it but nope. Spent 20 minutes with a thargoid with a billion dollar max grind cutter and did no damage at all with all the Zeno weapons I could cram on the ship. Soooo grinding on to suits and weapons only to get srv (military grade supposably) destroyed by marines on foot because of horrible lazer accuracy . They got me. Spent more money probably the last time on a still broken grindy mess

well for starters elite dangerous is actually a game at all instead of merely a gorgeous tech demo with game-like interactions haphazardly stapled to the side of it. i mean, i love star citizen, i play star citizen even to this day, but I'm not about to kid myself; it would be dishonest of me to try and sell it for anything it's not. Are model trains 'a game'? I submit that they are not. They're a hobby. Star Citizen is model trains in space, except they're ships and you can walk around inside them. There's no REAL goal, and nothing that looks like a story unless you squint, and no sense of progression except money. still fun though, and still gorgeous, but not a game. Elite Dangerous is at least, actually, in fact, a full fledged game.

Hey just want to say this was a very good and helpful video for me. Every video was spitting a bunch of word garbage but this gave me answers in a simple and clear way.

I just fired it back up after two years. Started playing when it first came to Xbox… still just as fun…

I love Elite. I wish they didn't release Odyssey though, it is badly executed and it doesn't fit the franchise at all. The game is like 5 dollars during sale btw. I am surprised you don't play with a controller. I currently use my steam deck to play so I have some 10 additional buttons and a gyro.

Yes.👍🏻

Get in now and claim your own place in history in mankind's historic war over the Thargoid menace!!

Getting ganked in this game is incredibly hard, considering the map size lmao

Yes it is

A once great space sim that is riddled with a game engine that is strapped with technical debt & unscalable for meaningful content DLC. The game has the best 1:1 Galaxy in gaming. Unfortunately , it's completely void of any types of game mechanics to further enhance the experience. Would love to come back & play this game , but the Star Citizen fever is just too hard to leave. My imagination is allowed to do more in that space sim than this one. Do I regret buying ED?? HELL NO!! I like others have outgrown the game & need more. But if you've never played Elite , I suggest you do. It's worth it. But be warned , everything is done at a snails pace on the dev side. o7

ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER MADE IMO!!!!

I only paid five billion for my fleet carrier.

Not played it in over a year done pretty much everything now for what I wanted to do

Hell NO!! You have make billions on this game. It will take up to at least 4-5 years to make one billion Fleet carrier is 5 billion So add that all up!!

Odyssey is a crappy shooter at best. Yes there's lots to do, but Frontier failed to deliver on many promises. They took most of the money they made on Elite, and poured it into their "Foundry" game studio. Which is now gone. At one time one of the best VR titles. Then they dropped VR support. They canceled all console support right after Odyssey came out. Frontier rebirthed the space sim genera, then watched it die.

LOL... No.

This game is dead. Especially on consoles.. I'm in the most popular station that pvp ganks happen at.. nothing! I look up all the guides to find aliens or make money? NOTHING! All the 3rd party tools like EDDB and INARA are abandoned and outdated.. Find NOTHING! mining for hours to make mere fractions of what i used to in 30 minutes. Massacre missions and exploits with wings is t only way too make back make money and its boring.. MADE NOTHING! Oh.. let's not forget that the latest expansion Odyssey divides the players from Horizons the last update... So I can't play with friends, multicrew.. the co-op feature does not work.. and when it does? People only use it for exploits and not to help people or get lost in a game.. The Expansions also have separate planets.. so while everyone is off killing Orthus Aliens for like 80 million per kill ez game I go to the same planet? I can't even land on it to look for spires to kill the aliens... JUST A LOT OF.. you guessed it.. NOTHING! Combat is a joke for both good and bad players.. weapon balance is non-existent engineering breaks the game while making it more grindy.. DLC and future updates.. ONLY AVAILABLE ON PC And honestly.. if I had a PC I would play Star Citizen instead. Mostly because there's stuff to do and they didn't abandon 3/4ths of their playerbase...

Short answer: No.