Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter Launched

Ginger_Yellow · 2015-02-11T13:08:04.000Z

I’m using one of those painting hanging strips. Hurry up and download, 1.1!

Joe_M · 2015-02-11T13:11:33.000Z

Brian Rubin:

Yay! I hope you love yours as much as I love mine. :)

LIKEWISE. Also bonus +1’s for reminding me to get a velcro strip for my USB hub. The Amazon brand hubs are great but very lightweight. Perhaps I should be looking into industrial strength glue instead.

schurem · 2015-02-11T14:23:10.000Z

Trying that exploration lark. This stuff is truly relaxing. Listening to Hardcore history while doing science.

… and I got to put my name on a bunch of planets, including a water world \o/

KevinC · 2015-02-12T10:36:51.000Z

Looks like the 1.2 update will contain two new ships (details forthcoming).

Sam_Jones · 2015-02-12T10:57:13.000Z

KevinC:

Looks like the 1.2 update will contain two new ships (details forthcoming).

Awesome news. That’s more like it!

schurem · 2015-02-12T12:11:21.000Z

Fuck yea! I wonder what those two new ships will be… There’s been talk of something named the Vulture which would have one Large weapon and two small ones iirc. The other one… no idea. Many people are really hot for something called Fer de Lance but I have no idea what that is all about. We’ll see.

I wish I had more gaming time. Being a dad sucks :P I want to play a lot of this, but also tanks and wargame and rome… meh. oh and fucking homeworld drops in two weeks /o\

Profanicus · 2015-02-12T12:32:57.000Z

“Update 1.2 will also contain two new playable ships – there will be more information on these in coming newsletters. These are two of our originally planned ships so aren’t part of the five additional ships mentioned in a previous newsletter.”

Fer de Lance was shown in a previous newsletter so I guess it isn’t one of the two?

krayzkrok · 2015-02-12T14:53:12.000Z

Yes, this is the Fer de Lance:

Sexy, no?

Papageno · 2015-02-12T15:13:16.000Z

krayzkrok:

Yes, this is the Fer de Lance:

Sexy, no?

HAWT.

Ginger_Yellow · 2015-02-12T16:09:41.000Z

Nice to see they cleaned it up from the concept art.

KevinC · 2015-02-12T16:48:39.000Z

Too much bloom.

lordkosc · 2015-02-12T18:46:23.000Z

Does that screenshot have AA disabled?

TundraToad · 2015-02-12T19:19:48.000Z

Damn, looks like another video card upgrade :(

rei · 2015-02-12T20:12:18.000Z

How big in GB is the install footprint of this sucker?

JMR · 2015-02-12T20:33:27.000Z

TundraToad:

Damn, looks like another video card upgrade :(

It’s like Strike Commander all over again.

krayzkrok · 2015-02-12T20:36:41.000Z

I got more mileage out of that joke than I expected.

Profanicus · 2015-02-13T00:15:06.000Z

rei:

How big in GB is the install footprint of this sucker?

About 3.5

sether01 · 2015-02-13T04:08:29.000Z

krayzkrok:

Yes, this is the Fer de Lance:

Sexy, no?

Just a reminder that the consumer version of the rift should be higher resolution!

zx81-Amd64 · 2015-02-13T04:59:29.000Z

That looks like the low res C64 version, the BBC B one was much sharper looking. Although to be honest i don’t think the Fer De Lance will be appearing soon, it was a pretty hardcore extreme performance type of craft, one of the top tier combat craft, so i would expect to see it much later in the ship additions? I think what a number of people would like to see is more Alliance specific ships (as we have zero currently!), but they are also likely a good way off in the horizon. It’s mostly about the Federation and Imperials, so expect more ships for them.

Ginger_Yellow · 2015-02-13T05:18:27.000Z

Don’t know why you guys don’t think it’ll be the Fer De Lance, though I guess it might not be. That’s the ship they shown the most of so far, so it makes sense that it’s closest to release.