Elite Dangerous: Review and Gameplay: Page 5 of 10

Elite Dangerous: Review and Gameplay
Blasting Enemies in Space


Gameplay

Inside a planetary ring

Ever wondered what the rings of Saturn look like up close?

Credits are the in-game currency awarded in Elite Dangerous for completing contracts and missions, selling trade goods, and collecting bounties. Maintaining a ship is costly business; with everything from repairs, to refuelling, and rearming costing a pretty penny, especially as you buy more expensive ships and hardware. If your finances bottom out, and you can’t afford to replace that Imperial Clipper you toiled so hard for, you could find yourself flying around in a ship resembling the old garbage scow you started with.

Risk vs. reward is the law of Elite Dangerous’ universe. Sure, cramming your cargo bay full of the finest gold-pressed latinum could net you a windfall big enough to net you a host of ship upgrades, and perhaps even an armed escort or two; assuming you can get your precious cargo across dozens of light years of space. It’s just as likely, however, that a couple of scurvy pirate types will sniff out your wares and proceed to peel away the tin can of your hull for the sparkly delights inside. In that scenario, the outcome will be less a windfall, and more a destitution.

Close-quarters dogfight

Ship hulls do a great job of displaying the damage inflicted upon them.

Say that you instead happen to be one of the pirates in the above scenario, though; is attacking the poor, defenceless transport for its cargo a risk-free venture? Hardly. Sure, the transport itself might not pose any great threat to you and your buddy, but what if the authorities should happen to show up? And what if you manage to fend off the authorities, only to have your partner decide that he’s not so keen on splitting the loot after all, and decides to unleash a volley of machinegun fire to perforate your ship and carcass alike? Again, you could be well on the way to the poor house.



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