Elite FFE demonstration

Another demonstration video of Frontier First Encounters. It's a space game that has it all: interplanetary travel, landing on 3D planets without cutscenes, interstellar trading, spacecombat with beamlasers, tons of different ships to buy and sell, planets that rotate around their axis as well as around the central star and which have their own moons and day/night cycles, planetary tradingstations, orbital tradingstations, policeforces, all kinds of missions (civilian and military) that can be taken, 10000's of starsystems to be explored, lots of upgrades that can be bought and damaged and need repairs, different factions that own different sectors in space, hyperdrive engines (in different classes) that let you jump to faraway starsystems without the use of stupid jumpgates, etc. etc.

This game is so detailed it's almost scary. You can buy a hyperspace cloud analyzer so you can see where other ships have jumped to and follow them to that location.

Even though it's a very old game now, it still provides enough depth to keep you playing for weeks if not months.

Best thing is, David Braben, has said development of Elite IV (the sequel to FFE) will start soon and the new game may be released on current gen hardware.

I hope Elite IV will see the light. We really need more games like this one as there are practically no other games that have accomplished what the Elite games have.

Sorry for the boring parts in this video, I'm not a professional editor or something... also note there is a lot of timeacceleration in this vid and it's recorded in widescreen which moviemaker has converted to 4:3 so planets look a bit odd.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Frontier
• First
• Encounters
• FFE
• Elite
• David
• Braben
• spacesim
• simulator
• seamless
• planetary
• landings

[DonMasakoni]

das flugding gewinnt aber schnell an höhe

[KingHaggis]

Yeah, the flugding has a fast engine. Look at the speed: 9000 km/h! And look how fast it accelerates.

[Atlan83]

I just started playing FFE and I still have loads of problems.

First of all I can't figure the hyperdrive. In the manual I read that a small red arrow will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen when the hyperdrive is ready to use. Still I never see any stupid arrow appearing! I am not near a space station or planet so I don't get the problem.

Second: Why do you have such a nice interface? Mine looks aweful...

[KingHaggis]

First make sure you're actually high enough. The hyperspace drive won't work when you're near the surface of a planet. Second, and I think you missed this part, make sure you have a target selected on the starmap and that you have enough fuel to make the jump (available at tradestations). To select a target, use the F keys or the interface icons to get to the starmap screen. Place the crosshair on a nearby star system. Return to the cockpit and a hyperdrive icon will appear bottom left. Push it!

[KingHaggis]

My interface looks so nice because I'm not playing the original version of FFE. There's a version available which enables 3D hardware effects, google for GLFFE. It's actually a modded version of the original. It's exactly the same except for the added glide support and a different interface skin. The good thing about this version is you can play FFE in a higher resolution.

[SineHacker]

by the way, I just got FFE working on Mac OS X 10.5.5 :D

It only runs in a small screen though, about the same size as above!!

[KingHaggis]

That's good news, apart from the small screen. I hope you can get it to run in full screen eventually. Thanks for sharing.

[imperialpod]

MESSGAE TO YOUTUBE.

LEAVE THE FCKIN AUDIO ALONE.

I can watch Pink Floyd,Jackson, ANY FCKIN BODY WITH SOUND so stop removing soundtracks PLEASE, you friggin assholes.

[Username5125415]

This game was incredible, thanks for uploading

[1luarluar1]

amazing art, timeless.....

[6anatolyy4]

love the music...

[hewey999]

@imperialpod good point man!

[Madcr0ws]

Youtube market nazis pooping all over people's fun once again.

GTFO OUT TO ISRAEL YOU BASTARDS!

[purehope20]

what platform is this on? I must have it!

[robjbray]

try looking up how to re enable sound tracks there is a special way to do it.

I remember the golden days of the internet before everything had to be legally censored sigh

[esathegreat]

second that

[Reorte]

Not sure about GLFFE, but FFED3D (which looks positively beautiful at times) has a config file in it with the resolution in it. Try editing that, if there is one in GLFFE.