Hello everyone, brand new commander here. I have just bought and installed the game yesterday and it is really a pleasure and an eye-candy on my 4K monitor. Finished the first training and the first mission in Dromi.
I am playing with mouse and keyboard for now. But cannot exclude buying a flight controller for this and other games in the near future.
Please advise in general on anything that may be useful to a newbie, but here are a few questions:
- How much of a campaign is there? I heard the real pleasure is in getting lost, but it would still be interesting to see if any story is there.
- How much of a multiplayer experience is (left) in there? I could see names that sounded “human-given” in the Ext.Comm. screen but didn’t really understand.
- Am I ruining my experience significantly by playing without a flight stick? I don’t think I will buy a huge HOTAS set, but if I can get an extremely good experience by buying something chill like the Logitech Extreme 3D, please tell me.
There is a lot of story/lore but no campaign, no given storyline. There’s so much given for your imagination https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Timeline tho we mostly only get some galnet articles for everything new.
Can’t say much about multiplayer, I only use solo mode. But you can still see the chat of open play, if you’re in a system. No one will know if you’re solo or open. FDevs also announced to rework the whole squadron thingy
I use a controller with 2 sticks. I love it, don’t even think about getting a joystick because I don’t play on a desk
Thanks for the link and the opinion!
I forgot about my personal multiplayer aspect: it’s the community in forums like here and mainly discord. There are dozens of public discord servers. That’s where people mainly meet and talk. The in game chat is often a lot of shit talk.
Fly safe, CMDR o7