Please add more game versions!

[765]

I hate buying and installing a game that only has 1 version, I want multiple versions that split the player base, with no easy explanations of the differences someone new to the game would be capable of understanding!

[__MaX__]

The player base is not divided : )

Everyone plays on the same servers and the same instances, the game version just prevents you to do "features" that are bound to others DLCs.

[HamakiBCN2]

Originally posted by __MaX__:

The player base is not divided : )

Everyone plays on the same servers and the same instances, the game version just prevents you to do "features" that are bound to others DLCs.

I don't think that's entirely true. If i'm not mistaken, those using the Legacy versions are separated from those using the Live Versions.

[Chrithu]

As far as I understand it the legacy versions are in a frozen state from some time before Oddyssey released. The story does not go on there and the economy e.g. prices do not change either.

I also found some threads on the official forum where players speculate that only about 1% of the active PC players play on legacy. So pretty much everyone migrated to the live version.

And why wouldn't they? That is where things move forward and are not stagnant.

I believe the reason it is kept alive is because that is where console players do multiplayer (?) since they did not get oddysssey or any updates thereafter because of hardware resons (?).

If it was not for the console version Leegacy would not exist.

[Inquisitor Aldnir]

Originally posted by 765:

I hate buying and installing a game that only has 1 version, I want multiple versions that split the player base, with no easy explanations of the differences someone new to the game would be capable of understanding!

Why on Earth (no pun intended) would you want more people playing on different versions of a game??

This is an MMO and at least we are all on the same server regardless of open play or a private session.

[Chrithu]

Originally posted by John Wick:

Originally posted by 765:

I hate buying and installing a game that only has 1 version, I want multiple versions that split the player base, with no easy explanations of the differences someone new to the game would be capable of understanding!

Why on Earth (no pun intended) would you want more people playing on different versions of a game??

This is an MMO and at least we are all on the same server regardless of open play or a private session.

The OP is extremely sarcastic bordering on pasive aggressive. His post is an underhandet complaint about the existence of the legacy versions.

[Inquisitor Aldnir]

Originally posted by Chrithu:

Originally posted by John Wick:

Why on Earth (no pun intended) would you want more people playing on different versions of a game??

This is an MMO and at least we are all on the same server regardless of open play or a private session.

The OP is extremely sarcastic bordering on pasive aggressive. His post is an underhandet complaint about the existence of the legacy versions.

Ahh I see ty!

[765]

See not even the people playing this game(s) have a clue what's actually going on, that's the kind of mess Frontier made.
How are they expecting anyone to bother giving the game a chance?

[765]

Originally posted by John Wick:

Originally posted by 765:

I hate buying and installing a game that only has 1 version, I want multiple versions that split the player base, with no easy explanations of the differences someone new to the game would be capable of understanding!

Why on Earth (no pun intended) would you want more people playing on different versions of a game??

This is an MMO and at least we are all on the same server regardless of open play or a private session.

I always have those episodes where I wanna give ED a chance, mainly for exploration and ship customization, but then keep running into one wall after another, like this one.

Which game version do I get? No idea.
Everyone says something different and the official sources only help when you have already been playing for a while so that you know what they are talking about and what exactly the implications are for the player experience.

[Chrithu]

I really don't see what the issue is. It is not as if the game's launcher forces you to choose a version at start. It defaults to the live version of either Elite Dangerous Horizons if you don't own Oddyssey or to the Live Version of Elite Dangerous Oddyssey if you have it. So when a new player hit's play he lands in the intended version of the game.

No one needs to worry about the game versions unless they choose to do so. It is a non issue.

And as I have said above the only people playing the current live version of ED are PC players and of those a mere 1% plays legacy and no one knows if those guys do not also play live.

There is no seperation of the playerbase.

[Chrithu]

Originally posted by 765:

Which game version do I get? No idea.

Foir this question there really is only one choice for you:
Do you want on foot experiences in space Stations and on planets?

If you answer yes: Get Elite Dangerous + Oddyssey DLC

If you answer no: Get just Elite Dangerous

Install the game. And in the launcher press play.

Don't worry about the versions button in the launcher.

The Live version is where you want to be because that is where 99% of the playerbase are.

In the game itself you have the choice everytime you start a session if you want to play solo, in a preset party, or full online.

All three modes connect you to the online servers and the same version of the galaxy. Only difference is whether you see other players or not and if it's only your group or everyone.

The impact of your actions on things like the background simulation are the same in all three variants.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by 765:

I hate buying and installing a game that only has 1 version, I want multiple versions that split the player base, with no easy explanations of the differences someone new to the game would be capable of understanding!

Buy Elite Dangerous, you get all versions except the Odyssey DLC.

Add the Odyssey DLC and you now have everything.

All three modes connect you to the online servers and the same version of the galaxy. Only difference is whether you see other players or not and if it's only your group or everyone.

Nope, Legacy uses the same galaxy servers as console. Live and Odyssey are on their own server together.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by 765:

See not even the people playing this game(s) have a clue what's actually going on, that's the kind of mess Frontier made.
How are they expecting anyone to bother giving the game a chance?

The people who responded aren't long-term players.

I have about 12,000 hours across the different versions. There's a long explanation as to why a ten-year-old game has multiple version, but my post above this one tells you what you need to know.

[Chrithu]

Originally posted by Sighman:

All three modes connect you to the online servers and the same version of the galaxy. Only difference is whether you see other players or not and if it's only your group or everyone.

Nope, Legacy uses the same galaxy servers as console. Live and Odyssey are on their own server together.

Yep I am aware of that. The three versions I refered to are those in the sentence before:

Online, Group or Solo play.

[Inquisitor Aldnir]

Originally posted by 765:

Originally posted by John Wick:

Why on Earth (no pun intended) would you want more people playing on different versions of a game??

This is an MMO and at least we are all on the same server regardless of open play or a private session.

I always have those episodes where I wanna give ED a chance, mainly for exploration and ship customization, but then keep running into one wall after another, like this one.

Which game version do I get? No idea.
Everyone says something different and the official sources only help when you have already been playing for a while so that you know what they are talking about and what exactly the implications are for the player experience.

Dude just get the game onsale. Games like this ALWAYS go onsale due to age. Wait for spring.

[purpl3 h4z3]

Originally posted by Sighman:

I have about 12,000 hours across the different versions.

You really like this game huh? How do you keep up going? The infernal grind kinda keeps me away from it...