hello wish ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous following on from the news that
we've received last week the week of the 12th of the third 2022 from david braban in regards to
the cancelling of any future development on console for elite dangerous
on consoles for elite dangerous i thought i'd have a bit of a chat about this
um and in hindsight now look at my thoughts and try and be as delicate as i possibly can
so i'm gonna be as delicate as i possibly can with this this is a very delicate
subject to try and talk about especially with all the console commanders who have put thousands
of hours if not more hundreds of thousands about thousands of hours into elite dangerous
working through the grind going through power play going through the engineering stack
uh only to be told that hey you know we're not going to continue the story for elite dangerous
on consoles it's rough stuff it really is in my household i play on pc and on the xbox one as we
know there's no cross play between um consoles and the pc my kids they play on the consoles as well
and have been enjoying it and it's been a great bonding experience around computer games as some
of the younger ones come up through and say hey dad you know how do you do this on elite and i'm
playing it on my on my console i'm playing it with my friends and you know come over as the sagey
person full of advice but the thing is to remember about this is that elite dangerous on consoles
is not going away it's not going away it's staying in its same elite dangerous horizons
iteration there are still fleet carriers there is still engineering only eight percent of the
elite dangerous galaxy i think at the moment the time of making this video has been explored
there's a lot to do and a lot to see out there i think where it's coming in and where it's biting
deep for the console commanders is that they feel completely let down by frontier developments
they've paid their money elite dangerous odyssey only to be knocked back and knocked back
and knocked back the performance issues we saw on the pc
during the beta and even after the beta and for the past year since it's it's
kind of been released and we're coming up on a year now um around what the full time
those performance issues we've had on the pc have been terrible even to the point on some cases the
game has been quite unplayable with stability crashes and it's being broken in game dynamics
and then you know the hope of it coming to a console even if it wasn't the old last gen
console which if we remember you know the xbox one came on the market in november 22nd 2013
and the playstation picked it to the post on november the 15th 2013 as well so you know
it's been a good nine years give or take the shouting and that's that's old hardware
but even if frontier turned around and said hey sorry console players you're
going to have elite dangerous horizons odyssey's going to be for the new stuff
you've still got to go out and get yourself a brand new playstation 5 or an xbox x
for hardware to even have a go at doing it
like you say a lot of commanders including myself can can run it on an i7 1050 ti graphics card or
even a 770. now that a lot of the optimization has been done in game there have been problems loads
of problems and frontier have been addressing them so their decision now to go to a single code base
and develop that code base into an elite dangerous story a continuation of that story
i can kind of see where they're going for that in regards to development costs however it doesn't
make things any different for elite dangerous console commanders there's this question about
well okay i'll start playing on pc then i like the game so much great how do you transfer all your
commander details from one platform to another now i thought you could just send an email to the
help desk at frontier development and they'd sort that out for you apparently that's not the case
um they will transfer your account and a credit balance but not all your in-game artifacts like
your engineering your ships your fleet carriers so that definitely needs a little bit of work
a lot of work if they're gonna try and retain any community
after let's face it kicking them in the proverbial glowing orbs by this announcement
i mean for pc commanders there's an impact here as well the more people who play a game the
more money is coming into the company's coffers the more development there is
now it doesn't help console commanders at all one bit does it but like i say elite dangerous
horizons is staying in this iteration on the consoles how long for we don't know
if people don't play it what's the provisioning plan that frontier
have got in place for keeping those servers running there's got to be a cost associated
to that if no one's playing on a particular platform and why keep the servers running
it's a difficult thing to talk about
i mean the life of this game i mean elite dangerous came out second december 2014
so you know we've had a good eight years of it so far give or take the shouting yet again but there
are many inherent game problems story arcs for example that haven't been explored they were quite
i would say straight to the point but then vague in some respects in regards to what they mean by
you just gonna get critical updates console commanders or what constitutes as a critical
update i don't know is it the fact that hey it's not running for some reason and therefore we're
gonna patch it or it's hey well you're still gonna get some in-game content like new ships
that panther clipper everyone's been looking about looking for you know a console commander's going
to be getting that unlikely because the rendering of one ship um from odyssey to old hardware say on
the xbox one would be different i'd imagine to what it would be on the newer xboxes
so that's double the work so no new ships what about community goals then a community goal is
going to be applicable across platform and if so you know how why was the game just going to
continue on that lone wolf trading simulation as it originally started out on the original
platforms like the bbc like the spectrum like the commodore and amiga and the atari after it
these are the questions we've we need answering and frontier i think need to draw that line in
the sand and say right announcements come out from david braban great um we realize you have
questions take it on the chin do a session go through all the questions that are in
the news groups and answer them
that's what needs to happen
this horrible taste that's being left in console commander's mouths
i've seen the social forums kick off people saying well i'm not installing this off my
console i'll have the hardware space that disk space for a game that's not gonna betray me
strong words in some respects or right my fleet carrier i'm gonna fly it off to a particular
system but again has been mentioned on the forums we're going to park it there
we're going to fill the systems up with all these fleet carriers that have been grinded for
and we're just going to let them decommission boom done
strong words but like i say elite dangerous for now is not going away in its iteration on the
consoles yes when you're not going to get the odyssey content you're not going to be able to
walk around and i'm not rubbing salt in the wound here but the game as it stands today still works
the ability to do power play attack thyroids the guardian sites trading combat exploration i'm sure
there's loads of other stuff that i haven't seen there's spatial anonymities to go and explore like
i mentioned the beginning of the video only eight percent of the galaxy has been explored so far
but is this enough these days with other games coming around the corner starfield god knows
whatever else on the consoles the new generation consoles that are they gonna steal the crown
both unlikely not is there a crown to steal to be fair a lot of people say the game has been
in drastic decline for many years i myself did a video on this you know hey um just look at the
the unused elements in the game for example the ranks imperial and
federation ranks that's a good example okay so you you claw your way up um to midshipman
or whatever it is and you get yourself a a ship or ensign you get a ship you get an assault ship
um and you claw your way up then to admiral and then hey great brilliant or whatever it is
and then you get yourself a corvette or you get yourself the juke and you can get that imperial
cutter great you get to king so what what you get when you get to king absolutely nothing
you don't get any subjects that are going to be able to follow you around and help you out in
a fight which would be really cool you know you press a button help and your bodyguards zoom in
wouldn't that be cool and a dynamic that could be used in both platforms where's your palace
where's your base in odyssey we've seen all these different blueprints weapons suits
yeah kind of got that we know what we're going with that weapons and suit stuff but what about
what about the vehicles now when the scorpion came into the game on odyssey i thought right
great brilliant we have to use all those um vehicle schematics to go and get that no
best gameplay opportunity buildings do we get all these building schematics so that we could
upgrade our fleet carrier for example or use the ship schematics so we can upgrade
the fleet carrier or collect those schematics and then unlock a ship as opposed to the person
with the most amount of credits in their credit balance just going out and buying three of them
if they've got to elite and they can get into shinrata or a system that sells them
the thyroids yes they're a nuisance and that's kind of all they are really
unless you can't jump from system to system without being interdicted by a thyroid and when
i say being interdicted i mean you know pulled out and physically it's getting on your nerves
that you have to fight them back as opposed to hiding in different systems like colonia
then you know they're quite of a weak protagonist
the guardians what's going on with that oh you can get some you can get some modules oh fab
are they going to turn up anytime soon is there going to be another race discovered coming from
the outer realms what about good old raxla or with a community of console players not
out there searching for it because they've logged off because they're that disenchanted
trying to find that is going to be greatly reduced
but does it all matter in the grand scheme of things technology moves on games move on
perhaps it could be a blessing in disguise for console commanders now hear me out on this
i'm the same on pc i play elite great well what about diablo what about star citizen what about
playing x-wing all these games i've got in my steam catalog haven't spent an awful lot of
time on them i've spent a bit of time on them recently because there's been a bit of a lull
and are you missing out on other great games that are out there subnautica's the no man's skies
because you have been a hardcore elite dangerous fan it's always going to be there it's going to be
a it's going to be a boomerang game for as long as those servers are active like i've mentioned
but more importantly when frontier does release another game
how many of you are gonna buy it all food for thought and i've rambled on a bit and i'm terribly
sorry about that and i hope i haven't upset any console commanders by saying this just my thoughts
if you heard that it's time now for me to go i'll catch you later i'll see you soon
you