Elite Dangerous

[LaWey]

VR flying is beatiful, but if you dont like FLYING as it - there is nothing to do.

The lore could have been cool and good.

They started to put some efforts last months. Though almost always it feels like "some news, have nothing with my business". Kinda, you doesn't feel involvement.

PVP combat is a game of whoever has put the most millions into engineering their ship to have massive bonuses that you wont have without the same insane time/money investment.

At least for last 2-3 years - engineering system itself doesnt require money, like at all. Time investments are colossal, yes.
Money very irrelevant and even redunant if you arent into powerplay or really big ships. Economy? What the economy? Probably there should be some carrier-based player baasars, but i didnt interested.

Has anybody tried the multricrew function?

You just use ship together, now with 4.0 its works as proper party system, allows to combine up to 4 players in any variations (my accent on this could sound weird, but its just multicrew had alot of limitations before odyssey). About possible fun applications - turrets gunner, fighter/srv pilot, marines.

so walking around on ships can enhance the immersion of storytelling

Nah, its dont work like in SC, you just fill available seats in cockpit and use it as battlestations, controlling some systems, or piloting carried vehicles, if there anything meaningful installed. Or just sitting as a potato, if not.