Oolite Bulletins

another_commander wrote:

As far as I am concerned, the Elite Dangerous trailer is this (fan-made btw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BgvGLptN18

Nice! Could have used a bit more combat footage, but still, very good indeed.

liket it to dizy. thought it would have been a nice touch for the pod to be scooped up at the end... lol

Another fan trailer, this one more combat oriented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh73mdKf1ks

Well,
the count down has begun for the offical start of the game... it may be rather quiet on the forum here while everyone tries out the new kid on the block but lets hear about your exploits... good and bad so we can appreciate Oolite even more.

I doubt I'll bother for a couple of days! In other news, cash prizes for reaching Elite rank - oh dear!

People have found a way to tweak the terrible orange UI. Makes me glad Oolite is so easily moddable!

Cody wrote:

I doubt I'll bother for a couple of days! In other news, cash prizes for reaching Elite rank - oh dear!

+1 to you Cody. Couldn't agree more.

Cody wrote:

In other news, cash prizes for reaching Elite rank - oh dear!

Not so surprising really.. didn't they do that back when the original Elite was released?

Diziet Sma wrote:

.. didn't they do that back when the original Elite was released?

Indeed - but I'd hoped they wouldn't repeat it. There are quite a few things that I dislike about both the game and FD, tbh - ho-hum!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77971

On the plus side, they finally removed the annoying version text in the corner!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost1262252

And Thargoids are on the way! Of course we all know that will be Soon™...

One thing that I really hate is the pilot (me?) regularly flexing his damn hand - drives me crackers, it does!

I try to ignore it but it's hard on my 40" TV not to see it! I don't really want to see the pilot and I'm not looking forward to the whole getting out if the ship thing they have planned.

Landing on planets and flying inside the atmosphere of planets on the other hand does sound good! Was one of the best parts of Frontier and FFE.

I asked my missus to get me the game for xmas, I don't know what she went for (I'm thinking that she went for the downloadable version as this is more prominent on the site) but she said she was worried that she'd not heard anything from E:D, has anyone bought either the downloadable or the disk 'upgrade' and knows what happens next?

I just bought the box upgrade as an add-on to my early backer download and received an order confirmation immediately. That boxed version is only available for pre-order though, so it wouldn't be anything you would be receiving for christmas. I assume once you buy the digital download you just go the shop and download it...

NigelJK wrote:

... knows what happens next?

Log-in to the store and go to My Downloadable Products - if the order has been processed, the game should be available to download. Forget the disk version!