Mike Dunn wrote:Alleghenies wrote:Just wondering if anyone else has been playing this game. It is massive, being on a 1:1 scale with the milky way galaxy. It has 100 billion different systems in it. The first time I was in-game and zoomed out while looking at the galaxy map I almost cried at how small of a speck I was in the universe. It is still in open Beta for all who purchase the game but it feels amazing.
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Daniel, I seriously want this but I don't think my rig can run it. What are you playing it on? Mine is dual core CPU, and I think you need quad core.
Yeah, I think a quad core is the recommend requirement, but my rig is really old in computer terms and the game runs great for me. If you are curious, I built my computer back in October of 2011 and here are the specs and prices:
$99.99 ASUS Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
$59.99 ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard(AM3+)
$119.99 AMD Phenom II X4 955
$46.99 8 GB (2x4) PC3-10666 1333MHz RAM
I pulled those prices from my Tiger Direct order. You could get a much better processor today for the same price or even cheaper.
Here is a combo for $139 and this processor is much better than mine. There are cheaper ones out there if you don't want the FX series processor. I've always build AMD based on their bang per buck. Sure AMD cannot hold a candle to top of the line Intel processors, but the price starts to go up exponentially and in the mid to low range, AMD is still more cost effective than Intel and performs just as well. I've always been extremely happy with AMD and have always been able to play any game I've wanted.
The same story could be told about the video card although I didn't look at prices. My video card is no longer stocked, but a similar one is priced for $45 if you needed an upgrade there also. You wouldn't be able to run the game at max settings(I run Elite at medium without any slowdown), but it still looks pretty.
Warriors wrote:Interesting. I actually starting playing X3: Terran Conflict a few weeks ago. Used to never be into space games, but have been more into sci-fi this year. Haven't checked out Elite: Dangerous yet. Is there a Mac beta version too?
There is not a Mac beta version, but they have said that there will be a Mac version released about 3 months after the final release which is slated for sometime late in 2014 currently.
Funny how you mentioned X3, I started playing X3:Reunion about 2 weeks ago and it inspired me to buy Elite:Dangerous. I have never really been into this type of game either, X3 was actually my first game like this aside from
Homeworld. I was bored(my wife is finishing up the swim season where she is a coach in California before she joins me in Austin, TX at my new job that I started a few months back), surfing on Steam and saw X3 so I started with Reunion with plans to expand to TC once I get bored. Now that I started, I cannot ever see getting bored. I have plans to build several space factories, then several M2 class battleships and then turn against all my allies and blow up everything in the sector on my way towards global domination. I still see myself playing X3 in the future, even after Elite:Dangerous comes live because they are just two different games. Elite, while still sandboxy with very little direction, is still focused about being a pilot first, trying to get the Elite rating, so you can't build space stations yourself because that isn't what the game is about. You can still do mining facilities and still assist in the building of space stations, but as far as politicking and developing your own sector in space, that's only in X3. The reason I love elite so much is the idea that if I get tired of other human players, I can limit my multiplayer aspect to just friends, or at least that is how I understand it will work. To me, the saddest part about X3 is that nobody will ever get to see the empire that you develop, where in Elite, I can just go on a deep space exploration mission with a buddy of mine.
Anyway, sorry about rambling on, I could talk about computer parts and computer games all day.