Development of Elite Dangerous on consoles has been canceled, meaning that players on PlayStation and Xbox will never get to play the latest update, Odyssey. ‘This was not an easy decision to make’ said franchise co-creator David Braben.
The new tutorials are actually good
First things first: Many moons ago, I wrote a big, long getting-started guide. Much of what I wrote in there is still useful, but the good news is that
Elite now features a perfectly acceptable series of tutorials. It also starts players out in a tiny little estuary of star systems, a safe place to get your bearings that keeps high-level players from messing with you. Plus, every ship now comes standard with an autopilot system for both takeoff and landing. Everything else is gravy.
Listen, I sat my kids down in front of the PlayStation late last year and guided them both aged 10 and 7 at the time through the first few hours of