For me, I enjoyed Elite Dangerous way more than Freelancer. Freelancer was too much arcadey for me, and I was never able to properly immerse into it.
Elite, on the other way, thanks to it being a MMO where I got a pretty nice semi-RP guild, along with stunning visuals and VR support, was one of the first games I was able to immerse into and just chill, exploring around. Which surprised me, since I usually get bored easily without a fast progress or a goal in mind, due to my short attention span, but this game completely captured me and it was first game that I just simply spent time in.
Of course, it’s just my subjective experience. But there is something Elite must be doing extremely well, because this has not happened to me in any other game to this extent.
My issue with Elite…is probably that I’m dumb. My character is locked to my epic account, my character is also soft locked with no money and a busted ship, pretty sure stranded in space somewhere. I’d like to just start from scratch, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out…as I said…kinda dumb.
It has been a while since I played, but afaik ypu can always just self-destruct the ship through one of the side menus or keybinds, and then you can either pay insurace cost to get the same ship repaired, or abandon it for the default ship, which should also respawn you somewhere sensible.
I don’t recall if there’s any story or anything else ypu’d want reset, the tutorial is standalone and since it’s a sandbox I don’t think there’s much else to reset.
Very good point, “best space sim” is somewhat subjective, as some people consider the best one to be the most accurate physics wise. We’re as I considered freelancer to be the best based of my enjoyment of the experience.
Play freelancer, and see if that statement still holds true to you.
For me, I enjoyed Elite Dangerous way more than Freelancer. Freelancer was too much arcadey for me, and I was never able to properly immerse into it.
Elite, on the other way, thanks to it being a MMO where I got a pretty nice semi-RP guild, along with stunning visuals and VR support, was one of the first games I was able to immerse into and just chill, exploring around. Which surprised me, since I usually get bored easily without a fast progress or a goal in mind, due to my short attention span, but this game completely captured me and it was first game that I just simply spent time in.
Of course, it’s just my subjective experience. But there is something Elite must be doing extremely well, because this has not happened to me in any other game to this extent.
My issue with Elite…is probably that I’m dumb. My character is locked to my epic account, my character is also soft locked with no money and a busted ship, pretty sure stranded in space somewhere. I’d like to just start from scratch, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out…as I said…kinda dumb.
It has been a while since I played, but afaik ypu can always just self-destruct the ship through one of the side menus or keybinds, and then you can either pay insurace cost to get the same ship repaired, or abandon it for the default ship, which should also respawn you somewhere sensible.
I don’t recall if there’s any story or anything else ypu’d want reset, the tutorial is standalone and since it’s a sandbox I don’t think there’s much else to reset.
Been a few years since I had a stab at it, maybe I’ll have a look and see if I can figure it out
I think the way ships feel in Elite is better than Freelancer, but also KSP has the best space flight physics in any game.
Very good point, “best space sim” is somewhat subjective, as some people consider the best one to be the most accurate physics wise. We’re as I considered freelancer to be the best based of my enjoyment of the experience.
Never played it but if it’s comparable then I’ll check it out.
Fair warning it is a bit old, so it may not run well on newer os, but there are fan made patches to help with that.