Elite Dangerous doesn’t have a Linux version, and still had significant issues with Wine. I’d never been out that far before, and it would take months to get there, but I just couldn’t pass up that kind of opportunity. It’s the kind of experience that stands proud as the best of what video-games have to offer. In a game so frequently set to a backdrop similar to a mottled night sky, those views, and the immense pilgrimage taken to get there, act as an unparalleled reminder of the scale of the universe and our place in it. The system is named as a memorial to the late dog of the first commander to reach it, but is also a location that holds a special place in many other Elite Dangerous players hearts, partially because it’s very much no mean feat to reach it, but also because in one direction it offers a jaw dropping view of our galaxy, and in the other, the sheer black and empty abyss of what lies beyond. Regardless, it’s a feeling that I like to dip into every once in a while, immerse myself in, and try not to drown.īack in February of 2018 I signed up for Distant Worlds 2, an expedition to cross the whole of our galaxy and meet up with thousands of others on the other side, at a star system known colloquially as Beagle Point.
Yet, when playing Elite, I get the same feeling as when looking up at the stars on a dark and moonless night - my hungry soul is fed.
It’s a game set in a scientifically modelled, full-scale replica of the whole Milky Way galaxy, and as with that setting, the game is truly vast, remarkably cold, and frequently incomprehensible. There’s a certain “je ne sais quoi” about Elite Dangerous that I’ve never been able to put my finger on. What’s the one game keeping you a dual booter? Maybe it’s PUBG, or Rainbow Six: Siege? Maybe it used to be Overwatch? For me, that game was Elite Dangerous, and one year on from Proton’s release, I have a story to tell.
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