Now available on Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/app/359320/
That's surprising, they always said they had no plans at all of selling via Steam. I guess it makes sense with Steam's upcoming VR kit and how well Elite will work with it (if Oculus is anything to go by).
The developers have addressed that people who already bought the game may receive steam keys.
Or you know, just run it through steam like a lot of people have been doing since beta.
A recent post on the ED forums points out that if you move over to steam it takes 30 percent of any content you buy (game/future DLC/skins) from them to steam. If you want to support the development of ED then buy from the ED store and not steam. If you want it on steam at least do not buy any skins or DLC there. Steam does nothing and takes 30% profits.
Anyone who plays ED can imagine that money towards development is a good thing. It's already well developed now but I'm sure most can imagine it will take a bit to keep it going into the future.
-Nish
P.S. It's a really good game.
I don't know everything about baseball. Most people don't know 'everything' about baseball. People fall into two two categories. Person A will, when they see I don't know something, try to explain it to me in detail so I understand it. Person B will use their knowledge to make me out to be stupid. Person B is no friend of mine.
I've been playing about a month or so. First I ground the near RES that I was advised to go to by letting police take out ships for the most part then helping finish them off with my sidewinder. I did that so much with a Warrant Scanner I just moved up straight to a vulture. From there I ground more RES pirates till I could buy a clipper which I got the rep from in about a day to a day and a half. I traded with the clipper and made a bit of money till a couple fighting (RES/Combat Zone) community goals came out. Hit top 5 in both of those and sold the clipper bought a discount python from Zaonce and kept the Vulture. I did another two fighting CGs and now I could sell the vulture, strip the python and buy a trading anaconda.
I think I'm going to grind out a few more credits and see what happens with the Power Play patch first, though. Just got done capping my Federation and Empire ranks. A couple more fighting CGs or one with a huge discount on ships/outfitting would be all I needed at this point.
-Nish
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Yeah but just saying for future reference. If you wanna help the development of ED, buy your DLC and skins from the ED store and add the game afterwards.
-Nish
Last edited by Nish77; 2015-06-02 at 02:48 PM.
I don't know everything about baseball. Most people don't know 'everything' about baseball. People fall into two two categories. Person A will, when they see I don't know something, try to explain it to me in detail so I understand it. Person B will use their knowledge to make me out to be stupid. Person B is no friend of mine.
Anyone who buys the game via steam or uses steam's version of the cash shop should expect 30% to go to steam. Any original backer (pre-Steam) who links their accounts should expect 30% to go to Steam when using steam's version of the cash shop.Originally Posted by reddit
What they don't expect is - if they log into Frontier's store via the website, Steam will still get a 30% cut on digital purchases. Bit too close to double-dipping imo.
Beware the AI in patch 1.3, it is vastly improved - quite scary at times.
You mean I can't trick a clipper or a python to roll around trying to face me while I blast away at its powerplant anymore?Beware the AI in patch 1.3, it is vastly improved - quite scary at times.
-Nish
I don't know everything about baseball. Most people don't know 'everything' about baseball. People fall into two two categories. Person A will, when they see I don't know something, try to explain it to me in detail so I understand it. Person B will use their knowledge to make me out to be stupid. Person B is no friend of mine.
Maybe the Novice ranked ones, but the higher ranked NPCs now make good use of boosting, shield cell boosters, pips in SYS, ENG, WEP etc they can be a good challenge tbh.
What I want to see is a video of someone trying a strong signal source containing 3 Elite Anacondas post 1.3
Powerplay has arrived!
But how do you participate in Powerplay?
Who did I choose? Well, let's just say that... Winters is coming.
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Oh, and there's a bunch of sound improvement. hearing your FSD in supercruise... Eargasm.
Sooo I finally caved and bought this game. I've been meaning to for a while, but what tipped the scales is that I finally got my hands on an Oculus Rift. Got a great deal for a DK1 on eBay, only paid like $150. Combining that with my Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X has created something truly amazing. Now all I need to get is one of those chairs that have speakers and vibrate for the ultimate experience.
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I would have needed new underwear after that hyperspace interdiction.
The sound design in this game is just phenomenal.