Elite FFE moonlanding

In this video you see the PC game called Frontier First Encounters. It is part three of David Braben's world famous "Elite" series. I didn't edit this movie because I don't have the patience to do that. I just wanted to show what this game is capable of. The video shows me landing on a moon (Io) that is actually orbiting the planet Jupiter. After I speed up time, you can see Io and other moons circling around Jupiter. You can also see a spacestation orbiting the planet.
I miss this kind of depth and detail in today's games and hope this video stimulates other gamers as well as gamedevelopers. There's a short spacecombat sequence at the end. Enjoy.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Elite
• First
• Encounters
• FFE
• spacesimulator
• space
• simulator
• sim
• seamless
• planet
• transition
• David
• Braben

[DLiberator78]

Great vid and a lovely choice of music. I never got the chance to play FFE but I did play the original Elite on the BBC Micro and Frontier on the Amiga. There are no games around like these today. I just wish Elite 4 would get a release or even re-makes of these classics for today's modern consoles.

[KingHaggis]

@DLiberator78 thanks! Then, I'm sure you'll be glad to know there is a FFE remake called Pioneer. Check out my other videos for ingame footage. Pioneer can be downloaded for free, it's an opensource game made by volunteers and it's not finished yet but it's incredibly awesome! If you like FFE I advise you to download the latest Pioneer build and give it a try. It's not for console though, PC only...

[DLiberator78]

@KingHaggis Thank you so much for telling me about Pioneer. I've not heard of this and I will check it out and being opensource is a bonus. I will check out your vids on Pioneer. PC is fine I am going to try it out. Have you heard of Tau Ceti? This is a re-make of Elite also. Check out a channel called 'pidigi' he is the guy developing it and it is looking good. I dont know when it is going to be released though if it ever does get finished but it looks cool.

[KingHaggis]

@DLiberator78 yes! I sometims visit his website to check on his progress. At first, when he mentioned on the Elite forums he would make an Elite tribute, I wouldn't think he'd get this far but the game is actually shaping up very well. I actually have high hopes for his Tau Ceti game :-)

[s00zster]

This reminds me of the time I landed on Jupiter on FE2 on my Amiga 600. Wanted to put my mining machine onto the surface to see what I could get back. Took forever trying to land, constantly correcting because of the ridiculous gravity Jupiter has. Managed it after a couple of hours, chucked out my mining machine and it couldn't find anything. Meh. Happy days!

[KingHaggis]

@s00zster LOL, yeah, especially in FE2, a moonlanding was kinda tricky. In FFE it's easy.

Check out Pioneer if you want to play an excellent Frontier First Encounters remake by the way.

[Lostfaith1980]

In regard to your comment about depth in games, especially this one I completely agree. I miss it also but if another such game was to be made it would have to be with a small independant company or garage geeks company.

Mainstream companies wont take any risks in making games anymore. Thats why theres so few new and good games these days. Most of them are sequals.

Soul Calibur 4, Fallout 3, Diablo 3 etc.

Nothing original or innovative.

Its a sad time for games.

[ironlion45]

Nice choice of music, there. A very skillfull landing as well, particularly challanging out in the bush like that, with unpredictable atmospheric conditions.

Also, might is say that that is a lovely Courrier you're flying there! One of the Ex-Military models, I think? A fine ship to make your career in His Majesty's navy. Wish you could fit a military drive or a fuel scoop though!

[DLiberator78]

@KingHaggis Me too! He has done some amazing work on Tau Ceti and the graphics enghine from Ogre3D is working well. its a shame he doesn't have some other programmers helping out with development as it is a mammoth task for one person but I wish him all the best luck with this project. I would love to see it eventually released even as alpha.

[buka52rus]

ahhh , elite 3 . This is absolutely awesome game. The UNIVERSE , with billion of billions stars , and you can go to every star. Every object spinning on a orbit. Absolutely physics. Galaxy on your PC (or even smartphone/ppc) .

[jedancovek]

oh man... this reminds of the times I spent the whole night playing Frontier... I had a Tiger Trader (the largest ship to use a fuel scoop) and cruised the galaxy from one end to the other... I found a couple of those glitch-systems, located 1000 of lys from Core, and I wanted to go there without using "wormholes"... To bad the Mining Machines never worked...

[KingHaggis]

@quadturbo4 thanks, I completely agree. Check out my video for Pioneer, it's a remake of FFE with awesome graphics!