ELITE Dangerous

[ryoken]

It's because it got released prematurely. At this stage, it's already after 2 decent expansions, but it's still far from what it should have been on release day.

It will take time for it to gain the much needed depth. In the meantime, it looks and sounds fantastic, but just about all the jobs available are repetitive and lack sophistication.

How are the missions and jobs in Freelancer or Discovery better? or less repetitive? Also it was just released 8 days ago. Before that it was still Beta, so like any Beta it needed work. I have played 40 hours so far, and have not even dented the surface, or explored 1/1000th of the systems. Freelancer I finished start to finish in 12 hours. Discovery I pretty much explored entire map in about 20 hours.
Sure it still needs some work, but IMO Discovery also needs work, and it has been around for how many years?
Biggest diff I find in the 2 is PvP combat. In Disco any VHF with full load out is the same as any other VHF with full load out. So you spend an hour 1 on 1 and sometimes still no one wins a fight. BUT in Elite I can take a light fighter with basic load out, and crush a VHF 1 on 1 in a few minutes if I get on his blind side, and stay there. Or vice versa. If I use bigger ships fire power and armour/shields and keep light in my gun arcs I can crush him. All ships have goods and bads, and diff play styles where pilot skill means more then anything else. In disco 1 lucky torp hit can win fight and most fights are just jousts where first lucky hit wins. Gets very old real fast.
As for RP? I find the AI in Elite has better RP then 90% of disco player base these days. You get the same ole "2 mil or dai" as a trader. "I police you pirate you dai" from police. " you enemy, and I navy"from just about any dam navy player meeting his opposite. It has gotten very stale as of late.

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