Pretty ship in a pretty picture.

A short story about Haul Mules pilot, struggling with his space trucker career.

For this video I chose machinima approach. While ED is quite flexible for general cinematography, this kind of videos is rather tricky given organic nature of major gameplay elements and lack of any creative mode. This means a lot of re-shots, respawns and relogs to get just the right things in the right places at the right time.

The footage for this was recorded in its entirety in about ~3 weeks period, then put together in around 5 days which were also used to record all voice lines.

It's a mixture of cinematic action, drama and horror styles. It features 13 uniquely voiced characters and 5 locations, however brief.

The premise of it is loosely related to the "Bug Killer" story plot and its main protagonist Carl Burrows. It explores the eerie rumours about the true purpose of Thargoid abductions.

Xeno Strike Force community was instrumental in making the combat scenes so intense.

Enjoy it on a big screen, in highest resolution wth HDR on.

When launching from a space station the fastest way to get into super/hyper cruise, especially in a big and heavy ship, is to boost out of the mail slot (may need 2 boosts for some ships) to get that max speed. Next you need to turn flight assist off and position your ship to face your target. As soon as you clear the mass lock zone, re-enable flight assist, hit boost and spool up your FSD - you will be out in no time!

Boosting grants buff to RCS thrusters so initiating FA off flip after boost makes it very responsive - again, especially in chunky ships. The Mass lock ambit is close enough so that ship won't loose too much of the speed by the time it reaches it - and hitting the boost and enabling FA right after puts even the largest ships firmly on track.

I was mesmerised by this small yet very neat detail - when you fire a flak and fly through the explosion area, the fragments will bounce of the hull emitting a distinct metallic clang.

Considering flak is only useful for AX, and that it is almost exclusively used in reverse flight, I would imagine that hardly anyone would ever experience or realise this a thing.

I found it quite fascinating - the sound design team never fails to amaze me in this game.

All is possible. Everything is unknown.

There is no battle like when a Federation's Farragut-class capital ship rolls in

My AX ships carry a theme of having "xeno" in the name. Here we have Cronoxeno - fiercest of them all.

A short story that speculatively explores the time immediately preceding Proteus wave events.

Elite dangerous, humanity, and you and I