Elite Dangerous
Confirmed yesterday by David Braben and Frontier, plus also announced at GDC by Phil Spencer.
Elite: Dangerous will be having its "console debut" on Xbox One, with Xbox One the only console it will be available for during 2015.
It will be "the complete and authentic Elite: Dangerous experience", and will include the first three (at the very least?) free content updates the PC version has (or is getting): Community Goals, Wings, and Power Play.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=121383&p=1879446&viewfull=1#post1879446
http://www.elitedangerous.com/xboxone
http://news.xbox.com/2015/03/games-elite-dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwmbvRJkzM
Elite: Dangerous will be having its "console debut" on Xbox One, with Xbox One the only console it will be available for during 2015.
It will be "the complete and authentic Elite: Dangerous experience", and will include the first three (at the very least?) free content updates the PC version has (or is getting): Community Goals, Wings, and Power Play.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=121383&p=1879446&viewfull=1#post1879446
http://www.elitedangerous.com/xboxone
http://news.xbox.com/2015/03/games-elite-dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwmbvRJkzM
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Yeah, seems to be a certain lack of enthusiasm around these parts.
Well I'm excited. At least this, Neverwinter, Fable and World of Tanks mean that there are some interesting Xbox One title on the cards. Certainly more exciting than the campaign to get Modern Warfare 2 remastered for the One.
As for F2P games I might give Neverwinter and World or Tanks a go
If they were to remaster a Modern Warfare game I'd rather it was the first one (CoD4) as that is by far the best!
Still playing WoT and trying to get my tier 8 AT-15!
The AT-2 and AT-8 are the high points, the weak spots just seem to get bigger with the AT-7, AT-15 and the Tortiose. Though all is forgiven once you get the Deathstar!
Its already out
Does the game really have in-game chat all static to make the game more realistic?
Like in this video? https://youtu.be/S9WOm9COijg
I hope they keep this for the Xbox one version, its a fun feature.
Has anyone paid the £25 and downloaded it?
I cant find it via the console, but if i go onto xbox.com it is there but I haven't taken the plunge yet as everywhere else seems to be so quiet on it.
I think it is only available for preview members right now.
It's not only for preview members, and it is there on the console's store. Can't remember where, but it is there as that's where I found it.
The Xbox Game Preview that Elite: Dangerous is part of is a totally different thing to the Xbox One Preview Programme: one is open for all who want to pay for early access to unfinished games (like Steam's early access), the other is restricted membership for access to betas of system updates.
Played it a lot now and although I've had a few glitches and a few game crashes i'm having a lot of fun.
I'm up to 390,000 Cr so far, and I've made that mostly by running illegal substances and slaves for shady people. I've been attacked a few times too, although I've always manged to either escape or win the battle in every case.
My current ship is the Adder, its a big clunky pile of junk, but it was the cheapest ship i could find that has a big enough cargo hold for my drug runs. I've upgraded the guns on her to help us dispose of pirates that come knocking when my cargo hold is full.
Good times.
On the PC you can play it single player with just yourself (human player) in the galaxy, private lobby or online where you might see someone.
I play it online and don't see people, but I play as a bounty hunter killing wanted criminals at resource extraction sites.
I would imagine the Xbox version will be the same.
It is. Ive been playing online as the missions seem to be better.been shot at other players a couple of times. I just got my feeble ass out of there before it got too much.
Did witness a battle between 3 players aswell, but i kept my distance.
Elite: Dangerous (Xbox One) Official Site
Elite: Dangerous (Game Preview) Xbox One Store
Elite: Dangerous Xbox One Game Preview Support and FAQ
Elite: Dangerous Xbox One Game Preview Program Bug Reporting Forum
Elite: Dangerous Guest Blog: Gary Richards Xbox One Producer
Looks a great detailed game but I started getting frustrated by the instructions in the training levels. Some were really straight forward as they specified the buttons as you were given each instruction but there were some that seemed to refer to things but not actually tell you where they are?!?!?
On the travel training I got out of the training station, retracted the landing gear then it was telling me to unbound something to charge up the FSD. I eventually found a reference to the FSD in one of the panels but couldn't see how to unbound anything. Spent 20 minutes and even restarted the level to see if if missed something but was just the same. Then the trial ended.
The trail really should be infinite but bound to a very small part of the Galaxy on solo mode.
Haven't had time to play it, naturally!!
It really helps to watch the videos linked from the training section. Clicking the links opens up the console's IE and takes you to the video on YouTube (from where you can use the proper YouTube app if you want).
Here's a link to the official YouTube channel, which has all the training videos and a lot more:
https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments/videos
The wiki also has a lot of info:
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki
It's just the £25 now, and that's it. Once it ends "preview" you don't need to pay again.
From the "guest blog" link I posted earlier:
Elite: Dangerous Guest Blog: Gary Richards Xbox One Producer