Elite Dangerous

It's great. Here's the thing: it's too big. It's a mile wide and an inch deep. The dev team has so many good ideas, but only rests on any one of them long enough to get something that technically works before moving on to the next thing. Odyssey was a disaster at launch, and even years later it's still a buggy, shallow mess.

I'd like to see the team add some much-needed polish to existing game mechanics. Despite all that, though, it's generally a good experience. The ships feel fast and powerful, combat is generally pretty satisfying (although engineering and the associated grind is basically mandatory), the visuals and audio design are awe-inspiring, and the way they incorporate player actions into storylines genuinely sets a high bar.

IF your in to this type of game, its awesome. The visual effects are beautiful and the sound's the ships make are amazing. Great way to burn through hours of your day. It does get very grindy as you get further in the game, and extreem grind if you want a carrier. but you play it your way. Don't forget your Limpets !

I've been playing Elite Dangerous off and on for nearly 10 years now, with most of my playtime spent on the console version, which was unfortunately abandoned by Frontier Developments. I was able to transfer my account over to the PC version when console support was dropped, but I’ll admit, I’m still a little salty about that. That being said, despite the frustrations, I’d still highly recommend this game—if you know what you're getting into.

Like many MMOs, Elite Dangerous is a grind. Progression can feel slow at times, and some activities can become repetitive, but it’s the kind of grind that’s rewarding for those who enjoy immersion and long-term goals. The beauty of the game lies in its vast, open universe, the depth of its mechanics, and the sheer scale of exploration available. There's really no other game on the market right now that scratches the same itch for a space simulation that is this expansive and this detailed.

Even more so with the Odyssey expansion, which allows players to walk around on planets and inside stations and complete missions on foot. It’s a huge step forward and adds a new layer of immersion, making the universe feel even more alive. There’s something uniquely satisfying about hopping out of your ship and exploring a planet or station on foot, something that was missing for years. However, I will admit that on foot content has its flaws.

While the game is far from perfect and still has its bugs (and some features that could use more attention, like anti-aliasing), the community is solid, and if you enjoy space sims, Elite Dangerous offers a truly unmatched experience in its genre. If you're looking for a game that rewards patience, exploration, and tactical gameplay, then Elite Dangerous will be a really rewarding experience for you.

so after 3000 hours into this game i can confidently say this is one of my favorite games. if you are able to beat the grind and get through the engineering grind. then have at it! if you like a high learning cliff. go at it the galaxy is 1-1 scale so good luck with the short jump ranges. my only gripe is a lack of furry cosmetics for the suits. 10-10 game.

It looks like a massive game with lots of content, I just can't get into it.

One of the tutorials, on mining, has a bug that doesn't let you complete it. That's insanely frustrating.

I got a mission and was trying to go to a destination but I don't seem to be getting any closer and I can't seem to activate the frameshift drive or whatever.

The controls don't seem hard or bad, but figuring out precisely what you need to do is a very, very big part of this game. It seems there are lots of tedious steps you have to take in precise order for every action.

It's almost like having a second job. One you don't get paid for.

So I was expecting to get into this game, have a horrible experience and ask for a refund within 2 hours. But I was pleasantly surprised.

Game offered me a preset of keybinds for the exact hotas I have and so far I had 0 issues with them.

Gameplay loop I still haven't fully figured out but flying simple missions and upgrading the ship has been fun so far.

This game beats out all the rest in the space sim genre. Fully recommend this game for anyone who's longing to live a thousand years in the future.

Worse game I have ever played. Its no longer designed for new players. The devs may have made a large game, but the learning curve is high only because they did not give new players a chance to find their way into this game. Older players exist in this game because they have been gradually adapted as it developed. But now its a complete mess if your just learning to play this game.

It could be that the devs make it hard to pressure you to buy in the in game items which would be the started ships.

The low price when its on sale is to lure you into the pay extra later.

Even if you watch you tubers and have many open wikis you will fail and get very frustrated.

Its like the devs intended to make you suffer if your into that kind of madness.

Even the space ship controls are a disaster. This game is nothing like No Man's Sky. The so called learning curves just destroys the game.

I can't recommend buying this game. The developer is very unprofessional, currently running a beta test of an upcoming "system colonisation" feature in the game's live environment. Yesterday there were lots of crashes and connection errors, and today I can't log in at all. Customer service tells me, "Due to an increase in the volume of support requests we're currently experiencing longer than expected response times."

Alright, it's been fun. I have played this game for a long while now, first on xbox back in 2016 and fell in love with it, I moved to PC when they added the on foot gameplay. I'm quadruple Elite on for the second time now. I've went to Colonia and the center, did a dive into the black, fought the bugs and defeated a Titan, I've spent hours upon hours mining just because I enjoyed the hunt, toppled pirate leaders and flushed the enemies from my Federal systems (Z. Hudsen will forever be my president). This game offers you a lot to do and you can do it all with your friends. Like i said it's been fun, but I'm done. You see things about an influx of players but its just an influx of people who want to grief whatever new content is coming to the game. The newest update is a perfect example, and those of you that play know what I'm talking about. I just cant bring myself personally to play this game anymore. Is it a fun game? Yes. But I'm tiered, the real community is tiered. I'm not saying you shouldn't play this game, this is honestly my favorite space sim. But its time, I've made peace with my last "frameshift drive charging", my last "honk", my last "The rumors were true...", and my last egg cracked. I'm retiring to my new station courtesy of the new update. Fly safe commanders, and don't forget your limpets <3 -o7-

Elite Dangerous is a very cool very in-depth space game that is very fun to play when it's working, unfortunately it is currently being "maintained" by the most incompetent group of people who ever lived and they break the game every 5 fucking minutes

**Buyer beware: If you buy this, link accounts, start the game, but don't actually play, it gets completely busted.**

I set up accounts late at night earlier this week, signed in through the launcher, adjusted gameplay settings, and said "I'll come back fresh tomorrow".

Nooopppeee. Didn't work. Circular, failed login loop, ended up re-purchasing through Frontier. To be fair, it was like $6 on steam sale, so I didn't care much.

But then it gets worse.

I came back to actually play tonight. I'm playing in SOLO MODE. And I get kicked out of the game because of server problems.

SOLO MODE. AND SERVER PROBLEMS.

Bad timing/coincidence on everything. Enough to make me say no thanks. Literally no options to pick region/zone/server, so I'm just SOL.

Was excited. Not anymore.

frontier servers are literally the worst ive ever experienced for connection consistency

Don't play this game.
Never give money the Frontier Development.
FDev can't erect a hard on. They screw up EVERYTHING they touch. I am not sure how they even get out of bed in the morning. The company will try and minitransaction you to death because they have no talent and are run by donkey high on drugs.

It is criminal how little attention this game gets, It is 10 years old and STILL is receiving constant free updates, I can only think of a handful of other games that have that level of dedication and support

The micro transactions are cosmetic based, and are reasonably priced if you're the type to buy them

The games claim to fame is its a "1-1" map of the milky way, literally billions of stars and planets you to explore. If you're a space nerd its fairly accurate to what we have identified stars to be, from mass to luminosity to behaviour. Complete with OBAFGKM stars, neutron stars, black holes etc. Various famous constellations and nebula can be visited, accurate (to a point) with what we'd expect the general scenery of space in those reigons to look like.

There are multiple major game systems you could sink your teeth into, exploration, alien space combat, human space combat, trading, power politics, ground combat, minning, colinization. etc.

The game can seem a little overwhelming at first as the aim is realistic space controls, and complex systems, the good news is you really can go at your own pace and get as into these systems as you want.

I cannot recommend this game enough, especially for the price its set at now.

It's highly difficult to get into and after nearly 4 hours of playing I still know a fraction of what there is to learn but it's really fun. Endless worlds to explore

One of my favorite space games. The graphics are beautiful, gameplay mechanics are fun enough to keep you playing, and while for me I found it a bit hard to get money at first, the more you play the more you really seem to understand the game and your options, and plus even when you earn your first say 200 million and unlock a great ship, there's still much ways to go in terms of improving it or just getting more in the game, it really keeps you going. Overall, 9/10

This is primarily a spaceship simulation. The major difference between this game and other space games, is that this one tries to be closer to "real". The learning curve is steep at first, but there are many sources (websites, 3rd party, etc) of help if you wish. I found that I really enjoyed sinking my teeth into it, learning and figuring out how to do things in game. The planets in this 1:1 representation of the Milky Way galaxy are generated using astronomy data, with a variety of alien flora, gravity, terrain, temps. You cannot yet land on planets with atmospheres (animals, forests, water, etc). They do give the ships faster than light travel, but they show travel times and distances for appreciation of the true scale of space. The primary income sources are trading, mining, exploration and combat. Ships should be outfitted according to their task. There are a large variety of missions. There are many user groups to help and enjoy the game with.

Steep learning curve. Game has more and more layers to it the deeper you look. May be addicting, but I don't think so. I can stop anytime I want to. I think.

If you wanna play Elite Dangerous and have a good time, you gotta chill out and just be in the universe. Don't go in with a goal; find one by accident, one that you enjoy pursuing. The vibes, the flight controls, and the epic moments are immaculate and so rewarding.

Don't seek someone else's happiness.

This game is terrible. Don't waste your time or money on it. Piloting a ship it no fun, counter intuitive, and the graphics are absolutely terrible. Eve looked better in 2004. I can't even get through the tutorial without hating everything about it.

Mind bogglingly boring. Incredibly arcane instructions. Minimal amount of content. Maximum amount of jank. Save your sanity, dont get it.

The flight system is intuitive and deep and at about 20 hours in it seems that I have barely scratched the surface of possible gameplay.

I do wish there were more tutorials, though, but there seems to be plenty of online videos covering every aspect.

i love the concept and the game definitely seems fun, but its just no new player friendly, the tutorial was fine, flying was fine, the dealbreaker for me though was trying to go to a planet for a mission but even having the mission bookmarked and locking onto it the hud doesnt show me where the planet is or where im going, after almost half an hour of flying blind i finally find where to go but the game wont lock onto the planet so i figured i could just supercruise straight to the planet and it would slow me down when i get close to the planet like the tutorial showed, no i flew straight through the planet because when it didnt slow down and i tried to manually stop the game didnt let me because i was going to fast so i had to emergency stop after flying through a planet which should have killed me if the game doesnt automatically force you out of supercruise before you do and when i finally inched my way along by using supercruise for a few seconds at a time and i got the the planet, i was on the opposite side of where my mission was and when i tried to fly around the planet after 5 minutes of flying as fast as you can without supercruise i had barely made it 1/10th around the planet, also nothing is hotkeyed when you start theres 5 hotkeys for the menu but no hotkeys for any maps when you start out, not to mention when you get options for starting equipment there is 1 free option and 10-15 payed options, i know i get the game for cheap but a payed game throwing payed content at you like that is kind of a slap in the face, call it a skill issue if you want that i cant figure out the terrible ui and none existent control setup of this game but i dont feel like spending 10-50 hours just trying to learn how to do basic stuff in the game, like i said the concept of the game is top-teir, but the execution from a starting point is pretty flawed, im sure when you know how to play the game its great and you can overlook stuff like that

First thing you are shown when leaving the tutorial is a page asking you what ship you would like to purchase with real money. You'r then put on the spot to spend more money as they will increase the price of these ships if you choose not to buy premium currency with real money at this point.

This is something i expect from a mobile game, I've not played space games in a while but maybe this is similar to other games in the genre?

This game is like some toxic partner - you can't escape it or you don't want to. You have a Stockholm Syndrome and you just keep playing it, enduring all the suffering, because she's the only one giving you what you really want. Er, I mean the game. Not any X4, not SC or NMS, only Elite Dangerous.

And this is my abusive relationship with ED. It goes back to my ps4 days. Whenever I said "I'm done, I'm not touching this garbage anymore", I kept coming back either after a year or two just to be annoyed at the lack of QoL or the fact that developers are ignoring the players and their requests. Too busy with in game shop I guess.

And yet... here we are... again.

Sure wish I could give it a "neutral" rating.

Easily the best space sim I've ever played. It somehow makes delivering truckload of Agronomic Treatment enjoyable. Cruising into an astroid belt and blowing up some pirates isn't bad either. I've spent several hundred hours in this game and still haven't run out of things to do. Looking forward to seeing what else FDev has in store for the galaxy.

Amazing graphics + extensive sounscape, from the busyness of a station to the weird noises when jumping to the next system or the cracking rock sounds when scanning... a rocky planet.

A helpful community, lot's of community made tools to make stuff like exploration easier.

Many paths to take, choose your focus commander !
Combat?, trade?, exploration?

Trade even gets further defined into commodity trading or passenger hauling.

Mining perhaps?
We got laser mining, sub surface and even core mining where you get to blow up a asteroid.

Or save up to buy your own personal space station sized ship, the fleet carrier.

Is this a slow burn game? Yeah
Are the controls confusing and take time to get used to? Oh yes
Is it a significant time sink? Absolutely

However, ED is basically the greatest sandbox game ever made. I've played EVE Online, Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, etc. and enjoyed my time with each - but nothing compares to the 1:1 scale of the Milky Way galaxy, the level of depth of many of the systems and ships in ED and the level of detail and realism that has went into crafting ED's galaxy. If you have an interest in space, this game is basically your wet dream.

I almost bought this game when it was on sale, but decided against it. A couple of months later, I looked into the game and decided it was for me and went ahead and paid full price and it's worth every single penny I paid. I have been having a blast with this game. It doesn't hold your hand and it has a pretty steep learning curve, but all of that is worth it! Getting into your ship and blazing a trail across the cosmos and learning as you go is such a fun experience! Happy to join other commanders on this journey! o7

"Elite Dangerous" presents itself as an ambitious and evolving title within the space simulation genre. The game offers a vast, open-world experience that allows players to engage in various activities such as trading, exploration, and combat, all set against the backdrop of a realistically rendered Milky Way galaxy.

While "Elite Dangerous" boasts impressive graphics and a deep, immersive universe, it is important to note that the game remains a work in progress. Many players find that the experience is significantly enhanced when playing with friends, as cooperation and teamwork can add layers of strategy and enjoyment that solo play may lack.

Despite its potential, the game still faces some challenges that prevent it from achieving its full promise. Certain aspects of gameplay can feel incomplete or lack the depth expected from a title of this scale. As a result, some players may find that their experience does not fully meet their expectations at this point in its development.

However, it is encouraging to see that the developers are actively working on updates and improvements, indicating a commitment to enhancing the overall experience. The community surrounding "Elite Dangerous" is also robust, with players sharing tips, strategies, and experiences, which can help new players acclimate to the game’s complexities.

In summary, "Elite Dangerous" is a noteworthy endeavour with significant potential that shines brightest when enjoyed in a multiplayer setting. While it may not fully satisfy every player at this stage, it is evident that the game is on a trajectory toward improvement, making it a title worth keeping an eye on as it continues to develop.

I've been playing since it was an Xbox release, and the PC is only better. The graphics are stunning, the different play routes to take are endless, and it is overall just an incredible game. If first person sandbox space exploration /trading /piracy is your thing, this may be the game for you.

It's No Man's Sky! But in reverse!
aka: Elite:Dangerous Devolution DLC

So, I've owned the game for like 10 years. I had stopped playing not long after the Horizons DLC came out since it was game breaking and I didn't want to buy it. Was suppose to add in planetary landing and driving around on beautiful planets and moons with a bunch of vehicles to allow you to do that... can engineer you ship fittings... the engineering thing was a random number generator of what you got, only 1 rover with word of "many more to come" and horrible fps if you tried to land.

Just came back to the game 2 weeks ago and the ship side of things is still the same as it was, fun. They gave me Horizons for free, they changed the engineering stuff a little but otherwise the DLC looks unfinished. Planet side you drive around in a rover that handles badly and shoot rocks (they said there would be multiple types of rovers but only delivered 1 in 10 years). Horrible gameplay that I didn't want to pay for then, and wouldn't pay for now. They never finished the DLC in the 10 years it's been out. Extended vacation for the devs is my only guess on that.

Now the new DLC... you can get out and walk around on those horrible looking planets and take samples of horrible looking "plants." Again, another DLC, 10 years on, that delivers what looks like a discounted Temu pocket console version of No Man's Sky. I won't be buying it either. But they did add another moon rover... a single rover was added that requires you to buy this dlc... what happened to the rovers we were told we'd get with the prior dlc? The plants look like something you'd see in a itch.io tech demo.

For now the only thing keeping the game alive is their selling of ships through their cash shop. Apparently they are experiencing an uptick in players, but like myself... they won't be sticking around due to the lack effort put into the game by the developer.

So the list of the bad:
Planets: walk/drive around in a desert or on a giant ice cube looking at random rocks or really poorly drawn plants. If it was the late 90's this would be acceptable. Devs went on vacation after release of Horizons.
Engineering: completely destroyed any balance in the game. Some changes were made to engineering, then the devs went on vacation. And that leads us to the next problem:
Balancing: Devs went on vacation. It's an unbalanced mess that hasn't been touched since release.
Fighters: destroys FPS, again... Devs went on vacation instead of fixing it.
Multicrew: Have your friends fly with you in your ship, got added and then the devs went on vacation and never finished it.
Ships for IRL money: ok, early access to ships to help beta test... ok, cool with that. But it's turned into a "pay to win" model to help pay for.......... the devs going back on vacation.
The New Ships: some are tied to the Horizons DLC, others tied to the latest DLC. They don't tell you which they are tied to. Most of them are just rehashes of the same model with a few minor changes. They went on vacation before sending out the memo to their customers.

If the devs could come out of retirement and do what Hello Games did with NMS and fix the problems, balance the ships, finish the things they started, make it look like a 2025 title and not some Temu/Itch.io technical demo that would be great! Or just shut down the servers and say "Well boys, we tried and we are giving up... pip pip cheerie oh!" would work as well.

Awesome graphics and endless options.

After flying into the sun 3 times, I have concluded that I might not be elite but I'm certainly dangerous, mostly to myself though

it's... complicated. It feels like a singleplayer game masquerading as an MMO. All forms of communication are basically delegated to third-party apps, but it makes the universe feel like a dead one to me. Joined a max capacity squadron to see if it would liven up the place but it did not: with a limit of 500 players per squadron and the promise of a squadron chat, it seems like nobody wants to use the chatting features in-game. Instead, there are all these clans presenting themselves as roleplay entities, but I do not subscribe to their roleplay. I do not share the vision. I feel crushingly alone in a galaxy that pretends to be full of people

Can the devs put some money into the servers becuse really its so sad how many ppl i know spend 45 min to get into the game then the ARX points you can see it loads , but still cant connect to frontier servers this is scummy practice fix your gamae

Great game if you can figure it out. Think of it as a feature rich software with extremely poor documentation, there's so much depth to this game but it does a HORRIBLE job explaining itself, and good luck looking for information on it via your favorite search engine, you quickly run into 2 problems, 1. This game has gone through a number of iterations so not all info is relevant to the current version, and 2. The community is "touched". You'll notice nobody can seem to answer a question without nonsensical anecdotes, or meandering gibberish, its somewhat maddening.

So if you like trial & error with a bit of punishment then you'll have a great time. The rest of you, you'll have fun, have no doubt about it, but this game will just tick you off because there was something that you would think was important information and it just glosses over it. For example, wait until you get your modules all knocked out and then you don't know how to mitigate for it, in fact it's a side-note in an unrelated tutorial that essentially goes "You can turn your modules on and off sometimes." lol wtf...

After playing this game for some days in a row and having tried mining, trading, exploring and fighting, I had a not-so-nice-experience with the griefing community of this game, which made me lose basically a full day's worth of exploration data after my exploration ship got intercepted and destroyed. So I took a step back from the game and asked myself the question "...did I even have fun these last days and want to return?"

No. Not really.

My first experience with this game, which already brought me 98% to the point of refunding it, was the absolute mess of getting my custom controls saved. Looking in forums this is a...bug/feature(?) which exists for over 5 years now and obviously still hasn't been adressed. This gives me the impression, that the devs doesn't care at all for their players, when not even such elemental functions work properly - in my 30 years of playing video games I've never had to "fight" this hard, to convince a game to please just save my settings. And also wtf is wrong with the complete failing of getting my resolution right? The worst rip off bootleg indie games do a better job in setting my resolution right lol

When I was finally able to play the game it was...eh. I have the impression, that this game took a lot of inspiration from the X(³) series (duh, both being Sci Fi Space Flight Sims), while at the same time doing basically everything worse than the older X games...designs, controls, menus, functions, etc.
Yes, the universe is gigantic...but is that necessarily good? Who cares how big it is, if there's simply not really anything to explore or see? Sure, that's how it is with space, but it seems to me that the sheer size of the map is used as a sales pitch. Other open world games also get (justifiably) criticised for advertising gigantic worlds...which are completely barren and empty. Surface scanning and looking for stuff to scan on planets felt quite tedious to me, like a chore. Mining wasn't much better. But also fighting felt quite clunky and awkward. I don't know each ship, but I found it weird, that all that I saw only had weaponry facing to the front...where are turrets to the side and back? Is it just a death sentence to stick to the enemy's tail?
The music in this game is completely unremarkable. I think I wouldn't remember any song. I couldn't even say, how many there are...too few? Enough? I don't know. Nothing worth noting.

This game simply doesn't feel good to me. It's very big, very empty, very awkward and very forgettable.

a game that trains you to become an amazon prime delivery driver.

thats it, other than that is the game of all time.

The absolute top-tier space sim on the market. It was touch-and-go there for a while post Odyssey, but after a huge 2024 and a 2025 that looks to be even better, we are so back! After playing all the other space sims on the market since Elite's launch, nothing can really match the OG. It's absolutely an acquired taste and definitely not made to please everyone, but if immersive space sims are your jam there's no game that offers this level of fidelity, depth, variety and smooth and stable gameplay. Be who you want, do what you want and go where you want in a giant realistic space sandbox and live out all those Firefly and Cowboy Bebop fantasies; its one of those games you that will make you excited to get up in the morning to play more.

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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

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☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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This game is BIG, hard, beautiful, interesting and just a really good space flight sim. Such a pity they put resources into making the awful Odyssey expansion rather than making customisable ship interiors with optional companion / crew at half the cost!!

One of the best simulators out there. Exploring the Milky Way feels unique. Get a Hotas to get the best experience.

space is fun
space is cool
so much grind and google though
space space space
space

This game is great when it works, but it has serious problems that hamper your time in the name of "realism" or just plain short-sightedness. The insurance system seriously penalizes failure at upper tier play, discouraging people from even using upper tier ships in many cases. There are countless systems and mechanics with zero in-game explanation that not understanding can seriously hamper your gameplay. The squad system is so barely existent, it seems pointless, mostly because there is no function to form up on a squad leader and move with them, so if you want to follow a squadmate into battle, you have to awkwardly fly near them, figure out which point of interest they warped to, and hurry to warp there before they get too deep into things. And many things are quite expensive, leaving boring cargo transportation and commodity trading as the optimal way of making money, especially since most of the pirate hunting missions have grindy, large numbers of targets or involve fighting while outnumbered, making them difficult to achieve without a squad.

I might come back if they seriously overhaul the squad system to allow movement as a team, but the amount of times I've felt stupid for not understanding systems that the game failed to explain to me (the real killer was not realizing that to scan a nav beacon for nearby pirates for bounty hunting contracts, you have to DEPLOY your sensors first after spending an hour and a half searching for a sensor package that would allow me to scan the nav beacon) has become painful.

This is my first (and probably my last) ten year review. I have roughly over 6000 hours in this including console.

I'll start by saying that this game has the potential to be one of the greatest space sims out there. One of the best things that made this game was the players and the fact that (no matter the size of group) could shape the narrative. This was back when David Braben was in charge. You could still feel the game's heart then. It's more corporate now...

So know this, you can blaze a path, but it is the Devs trail you are blazing, not yours.

Man, Eurotruck simulator looks a lot more different than what i was advertised.

Its a good u-haul simulator and apparently there's combat and exploration but i'm too busy playing intergalactic FEDEX

Elite Dangerous doesn't explain a lot and it is a sandbox.
I was watching one or the other YouTube video and joined the Discord channel to ask questions.
The community always kind and helpful, happy about new players.

Mining Platin is crazy... Making millions and just bought myself the Krait Phantom.
Haven't touched the PowerPlay 2.0 (Factions vs factions, fighting for Systems) but man... I enjoy it a lot.
Sounddesign is 10/10

if you are looking for space combat that is thrilling and engaging, give this a crack. If you are looking for a space sim open sandbox game that lets you be what you want to be, this is the game. And with the Odyssey expansion you can run around on stations and/or planets. lots of fun anyway you play.