When you consider it, it’s kinda stunning how little expertise you could get behind the wheel of a spaceship nowadays. I don’t keep in mind Frontier ever issuing driving licenses, and it exhibits. Rich children slamming into the partitions of house stations, dashing into black holes. No marvel warp-heads hold happening five-month trips across the galaxy – it’s the one solution to keep away from getting right into a trillion-pound rear-enders. Not to fret. Getting into the cockpit needs to be rather less daunting beginning right now, with Elite Dangerous‘s New Starter Experience.
Frontier government producer Adam Woods and group supervisor Will Flanagan confirmed off the brand new ropes throughout a livestream final week for this month’s replace, which you’ll catch under on the 12-minute mark.
The totally localised and voice-acted New Starter Experience ought to make plunging into the Milky Way somewhat simpler. Driving teacher Theo Acosta has arrived to information you thru the launch and piloting of a Sidewinder, Elite’s chunky dorito of a starter ship, with out even charging you fifty quid a session. His classes additionally cowl typically helpful issues like scanning, hyperdrives, docking and fight. It’s startlingly hand-holdy for a game that’s infamous for dropping you within the deep finish, however finally it’s in all probability fairly helpful.
What it doesn’t cowl is discovering the very best podcasts for killing hours spent on a 20,000 light-year journey throughout the galaxy for cool screenshots. For disgrace.
“Ultimately, it’s because we want more players to enjoy the world that we – and current players – have created together,” Flanagan defined. “We do understand the complexity and the richness and the depth can be quite daunting, so we try to toe the line not to hand-hold too much, but at the same time there are some basic fundamentals that everyone could do with knowing.”
The New Starter Experience may also be dropped into the coaching simulations listing for present gamers. Handy should you’ve taken a break from house and forgotten deploy touchdown gear.
This month’s replace additionally provides a brand new premium foreign money for purchasing beauty outfits, ship components and paint jobs, Arx. These space-bucks change straight-up money purchases for Elite extras and do this annoying premium foreign money factor the place you may solely buy it in bulk, by no means in precisely the quantity you want.
But hey, at the very least you may grind it out in-game, although doing so caps you at a meagre 400 Arx per week. For comparability, 5000 Arx will set you again £2.99/€3.49/$3.99.
Frontier have additionally overhauled their Livery system for ship paint-jobs. If you’ve gone and acquired a pleasant banana yellow to your fighter, you may apply it there after which in deep house – no extra ready hours to discover a station to use your buy. There’s a bunch of minor adjustments as ordinary, with the complete rundown accessible over in the patch notes.
Elite Dangerous’s September Update goes reside later right now.
