The game is the first in the series to feature online multiplayer with access to a massively multiplayer persistent world called Open Play, as well as an online-only single player mode. These activities include trading, mining, exploration, bounty-hunting, piracy and assassination. Elite Dangerous retains the basic premise of previous games – players start with a spaceship and a small amount of money in an open galaxy and role-play in various activities to acquire more money and merit. The game is set around 45 years after Frontier: First Encounters. Upon its release in 2014, Elite Dangerous began in year 3300 and has been in sync with UTC albeit 1286 years in the future.

By the end of April 2015, Elite Dangerous had sold over 500,000 copies, with Frontier Developments expected to generate £22 million from sales. Pre-release test versions of the game had been available to backers since December 2013, and the final game was released for Windows in December 2014, with the macOS version later released in May 2015.Ī 'preview' version of the game for Xbox One was later released via the Xbox Game Preview Program in June 2015 during Microsoft's briefing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015, and was fully released in October 2015, while a PlayStation 4 version was released on 27 June 2017.Įlite Dangerous supports virtual reality devices, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Having been unable to agree to a funding deal with a publisher for many years, the developer began its Kickstarter campaign in November 2012. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters, released in 1995. The game is the first in the series to attempt to feature massively multiplayer gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's persistent universe, while also retaining single-player options.Įlite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. Piloting a spaceship, the player explores a realistic 1:1 scale open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended. Elite Dangerousa is a space-flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments.

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