Elite Dangerous - The LONG AWAITED Changes to Engineering

Engineering is being re-balanced in the upcoming patch for Elite Dangerous. Frontier's goal is to make Engineering less random, less time consuming and generally more player friendly. This will be released as a part of the update called "Type-8".

Any support is massively appreciated!

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[hellscorpio]

Took them all this time to figure out that players aren't looking for a 2nd job!

[cmdkaboom]

This is one of the reasons why I left elite dangerous.

[silverburn]

I didn't do any foot-based engineering at all - I just couldn't face the grind.

[jtejada]

it took them 7, 8 years to figure this out? holy shit guys.

[juseppe]

Nice to see that frontier woke up from coma, but sadly, way too late.

[NFawc]

My ships are buried under 4-5 years of dust due to the poor lackluster development and additions over (& before) that time. It would have to be something truly significant to make me dust those ships (& the game) off.

[Andrei]

And when it came out we looted randomly, upgrade outcomes were random, we looted three times less materials per pickup, and had very few materials per location.
And still, we had tryhards telling us it was perfectly balanced and not grindy. Absolutely insane. I for one, am very pleased the "old" game designers are no longer at the wheel. Elite always has been an incredible game for us scifi nerds, but some time sinks always drove me crazy.

2:57, Ant has finally slipped. After a decade, he finally slipped and showed us a shot being set up.

[alanwebster]

Just let players pay the engineers for the upgrades, ok it will cost millions but what's the point of amassing huge wealth when you run out of ships to buy

[Droogie]

Remember way back when they increased it from 1 to 3 mats? They were originally gonna do 5, but the masochists on the forums flipped out, and they lowered it to 3.

[elliott]

if they had done this 5 years ago I would have been excited

[R_T_Ralph]

I do miss having access to everything by having the lifetime backers pass. who would have thought the lifetime pass would run out.

[treycox]

Too late for me. It’s been so long I forget some of my voice commands and controls.

[karrde]

… given how simple the changes to engineering are, literally just some numbers, makes you wonder why the didn’t do this in the first months / years after the feature was launched. Honestly stunning.

[agentmith]

I’m sure this is appreciated and all, but it’s not exactly the engineering system rework I was imagining. This just sounds like they pushed some sliders to the right and called it a day. It’s low effort enough to kind of be insulting if you think hard on it… like they could have done this years ago had they cared about player feedback. Makes me wonder why they’re doing this now, after digging their heels in for this long.

[ruorick]

It is very much like FDev not to innovate on problems, but instead to bandaid them in the simplest way requiring the least effort.

[Devon]

IF they can nail this down AND fix VR, I might just come back. I really do miss Elite dangerous and it used to be my main game but I just couldn’t anymore. I’d love to come back.

[alain_sans_c]

Nothing here that makes me want to go back to ED unfortunately. 😢

[ledoynier]

Wooo Frontier hired a Fun manager that's in charge of determining what's fun and what's not fun, and to tune down the things that aren't fun :)

[gurtbadger]

Anyone think they might look at exploration game play? This is the only thing that would get me back.

[akifmetebirer]

The engineering changes in Elite Dangerous are great news for me because after doing engineering for a while, I realized how much grinding it involved, and I had largely lost interest in the game. After the update, I plan to try it again with my friends. I hope I can recapture the excitement I had when I first started playing.