Elite frontier
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A flawed masterpiece, and I'm still amazed that it fit on 2 floppies. Please share your best memories, strategies and bugs that hindered one of the greatest space exploration games of all time. Its like the daggerfall of space sims!
im more of an Escape Velocity guy
is this the game you are referring to OP?
is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II
did they fix its hinderances in the sequel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters
pic related
>>3255370
Sometimes I run the game on my Dos computer with MT-32 music.
>never did figure out how to take off and fly into space though.
>>3258496
That looks like ffe or some other upgraded version and no first encounters sucks imho
>>3258593
/vr/ you have failed me
>>3255370
>I'm still amazed that it fit on 2 floppies
procedural generation. Why are people "amazed" by this constantly? It's what computers are for. Games with manually created assets are the stinkers
>>3255370
Yeah I have the amazing memories of occasionally hyping myself up to play this fucking game and explore and shit and not being able to do that because I get fucking totally obliterated the instant I leave the starting system. Every single fucking time. I have seriously never seen anything outside the starting system in any of the Elites. How do I get good?
>>3259772
Jim plays gameavhas a great tutorial. It helped me, also Sharoma is a great website. I'm currently using the original UK version on dosbox. It has a wormhole bug that's pretty well mapped out on Sharoma.
>>3259880
Jim plays games on youtube
>>3259758
Well the guy who made it said its like 22k, so yeah. The physics man
