Elite dangerous

[Plazus]

To give you guys a sense of scale on how big this game really is, I've supplied a few screenshots from in the game, particularly from the galaxy map. The galaxy map can be used to plot your routes to wherever you want to go in the Milky Way. From my current location to the center of the galaxy, the distance is about 26,000 light years. My Cobra has a jump range of about ~10 light years. This means it would take AT LEAST 2,600 consecutive jumps to get to the center from where I'm at, assuming I don't have to take lengthy detours.


- The blue triangle represents my current location within the galaxy.


- A closer look at my current location.


and

- The two pictures above is when zoomed up close to the core of the galaxy, where the highest concentration of starts are collected. Each dot you see in the night sky is a unique star system that you can presumably fly to. Can you count how many stars are in just one picture?


- This is the Orion Neblua, with the Horsehead and Bernard's Loop nebulae in the backdrop.


- Witchhead Neblua

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friggen insane

[Nathan60]

friggen insane

and one guy took 5 weeks to fly across the galaxy https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103513

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Just a small insight as to how small we really are.

[zack1234]

I am massive

[Mar]

Zach rules.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

This if anything should end the 'map size vs graphics quality' argument. It can be done.

[mechanic]

tiny pockets of graphics separated by blackness, not sure if it is quite the same

[Nathan60]

tiny pockets of graphics separated by blackness, not sure if it is quite the same

also each time you jump to a new system the 'jump' is actually a loading screen or so I've read makes sense to me

[PR3D4TOR]

Any comparison is just idiotic.

[Plazus]

The loading screen between each jump is correct. The nice thing the developers did is disguise the loading screen with an animation of traveling through hyperspace, which helps with immersion. Each new system you jump into, a new skybox is rendered- distant nebulae moves closer/further depending on which direction you travel to.

[DubiousKB]

checked it out last night...  How long is the download process!?  First time the launcher reached it's limit I hit play to find tutorial missions but nothing else... quit the game, launched game again and back to downloading...

Any tips on using a joystick to make the ship go zoom? needed key bindings etc? any help would be appreciated..

[Nathan60]

checked it out last night...  How long is the download process!?  First time the launcher reached it's limit I hit play to find tutorial missions but nothing else... quit the game, launched game again and back to downloading...

Any tips on using a joystick to make the ship go zoom? needed key bindings etc? any help would be appreciated..

it was quick to me for how big the game is its pretty gentle on computers, you will have to set up the controls how ya like it The game is set up so that your right hand is on the stick and you use the interface with keys on your left hand you can modify tho. I would advise you do the tutorials and start ioff in solo play til you get confident, and to learn how to fly without flight assist at least a little bit.

[Nathan60]

Any comparison is just idiotic.

comparison to what?

[PR3D4TOR]

Between AH and ED.