Those earned experience points can then be invested to improve the character's abilities by 'spending' them on attributes or skills. Gameplay involves earning experience points ('XP') through a variety of activities, including engaging and defeating monsters in combat, fulfilling quests, and interacting with NPCs. Unlike many other games of the genre characters are not locked into a specific class, and can even reallocate previously selected skills to acquire other skills later in the game. The player allocates a limited number of attribute points (such as 'Strength', 'Coordination', and 'Quickness') and selects skills (such as 'Unarmed Combat', 'War Magic' and 'Melee Defense') for their character, with those base skills starting at a level determined by the character's attributes. There are also a multitude of minor factions, organizations, and corporations that the players will have to interact with at one point or another in their time playing Elite Dangerous.Set in a heroic fantasy world Asheron's Call allows players to create a character, or avatar, from one of six in-game races.

Players are members of the Pilots Federation, but can also be involved with the major galactic factions: the Empire of Achenar, the Galactic Federation, and the Alliance of Independent Systems. 2 additional roles were added with the Odyssey expansion that opened up on-foot ground options, Mercenary and Exobiologist. These roles are combat, trader, and explorer. A player gains experience and rises in ranks based on achieving goals related to their roles. Starting with a small starship and a handful of currency, they can choose their own paths, earning fame and fortune as a miner, a courier, a bounty hunter, trader, and many other roles in the vastness of space.

Some of the star systems from previous Elite games, such as Frontier and First Encounters, were also carried over.Įlite Dangerous players can traverse the entire galaxy as they please.

Set on a virtually precise recreation of the Milky Way galaxy, Elite Dangerous boasts nearly 400 billion star systems, with only 150,000 of it being based on real-world astronomical mapping. Elite Dangerous is one of the largest persistent, open-world exploratory multiplayer online games. With a solid following based on the original 1984 Elite game and its later sequels, Frontier Developments was able to bring the franchise into the 21st Century successfully to a whole new generation of gamers. Elite Dangerous is one of the few crowd-funded massively multiplayer online games that is a qualified success and continues to be a very popular one, at that.

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