Visiting Sol for the first time in Elite Dangerous
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It took me over a year to get round to getting a Sol permit... and I finally got one!
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It was a very special moment. Thank you to the Best Cow, Moozipan for editing this. / muhzipan
Music:
Brand New World by Kai Engel @ 7:35
In-game music @ 9:00
Stars and Constellations by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist @ 10:00
I play ED on PC, using keyboard, mouse and pedals.
Originally broadcast on 22nd October 2019.
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Me: loses 3 rings of shields.
Also me: 3 pips to weps
Shoutout to my brain for panic clicking the wrong macro 😂
I was also very excited about visiting sol
This is honestly the most excited that I have ever seen a person playing a video game it's like you were really there lol ..awesome :) Elite Dangerous is a really cool game..
You needn't worry about pips when you're traveling, just combat or when you need some push.
It's so nice to see so much genuine emotion. Let me know if you would like to fly together sometime. Cmdr Hibiscus
Yeah, I did the same thing when I got the permit to SOL as well. It's an amazing thing to be out in space and recognize your home from afar. It's a spectacular feeling and I haven't had that kind of a feeling in a video game in so long. Absolute gorgeous.
Never seen a redhead be that excited about seeing the sun.
I took a suncream bath before we left, don't worry.
🤣😂😂
i know right! i've seen redheads run from getting their picture taken because the person was going to use the flash.
HAHAHAHAHA
juanthestabber you made me spill my drink
I really hope the Devs for Elite Dangerous have seen this vid. This is a big part of why people make games...
247 fucking yes.
@@personmcperson4440 570 in 2022 :D
7:50 - When her position, the camera pan, the sun, and the music all cued up perfectly to make a beautiful moment.
I wanted to cry.
@@saladonpc1823 Good for you, I actually cried 🤣👍
@@deusmachinashirou5044 I did too.
Pepehands so beautiful
@@saladonpc1823 I cried
"Beautiful, isn't she? I don't get to see her often enough. I grew up on New Harmony. Attended Corbulo Military Academy. Never saw Earth in person until I was an adult, but... I still think of her as home." - Thomas Lasky in Halo 4
People hate on that game a lot but it really did have some great moments
HALO 4 AHAA
@@TazyBaby Halo 4 had a great story
@@dom4591 completely agree
WE ARE GOING HOME!
System Map: "Did you know Earth is an Earth-like world?
Me: Wwwwaaaaaaaaa!?
It placed third in the earth-lookalikes contest
@@holonaut then... What was... First
@@thetruetojo5416 Some earth like with triple the mass. Because THICC.
@@Mp57navy got it
I'm a 53 yo man playing ED. On going to Sol: This proved to me that either I'm not crazy or there are people just as crazy as me. I'm happy with both interpretations.
If this is what insanity looks like then I'm better off being crazy.
o7 CMDR!
I'm 59 and i play ED.
@@Grumpy_Cyborg I hear you brother.
@@Grumpy_Cyborg I'm 53....and played Elite on the ZX Spectrum as a kid. Loved it even though saving and loading games was always an exercise in frustration....now it's amazing
"I've never seen Earth... I grew up on a station less than 50 light years from the Sol system, but I've never stood on Terran soil or looked up at the blue sky... hell, I've never been TO the Sol system before now. I grew up learning about what seemed to be another blue and green ball in this galaxy that many said was our 'home'. I learned it's history, geography, lunar cycles and the physics that kept it bound to the sun. I learned about the first moon landings and how we colonized it and then Mars... I learned about the discovery of FTL drives and how it made a lifetime journey only a few seconds from point A to B.
"In fact, being here, right now, is such a surreal feeling. I'm floating above the planet that everyone says I should call home, a planet that I've never set foot on. Is this my home? Is this where my heart should yearn to be? I have no answers to those questions, but I do know that without this blue-green ball of dust and water, I would not be here. For that, I thank you, 'home'. I thank you... Earth."
//Frame Shift Drive Charging//
"Goodbye... I hope to one day set foot upon... my 'home'."
Making me cry
Very well written
You should write a short story!
What a beaut
Wonderful
If we do ever achieve intergalactic travel, I imagine the emotions this individual is going though for a digital representation of our planet in a vast space game will probably be the same emotions that an individual who is from somewhere light years away will have when faced with the world in which their species came from.
Perhaps not.... think of the continents of earth now and the way the continent we all came from and its inhabitants are regarded. I dont mean to be overly negative or to rain on your parade, just making a purely subjective conjecture. Or perhaps i should learn when to keep my mouth shut, sorry.
@cade clark of course thats a lovely thought. I'm just playing devils advocate and pointing out that the human race began in Africa. All the races of men are descendants of those that first migrated from that contienent, but Africa isnt considered by most people as "the homeland" and viewed with nostalgia and affection. The example you gave is true but thats on a very short time-scale in terms of generations.
I'm sorry its a beautiful video, and i was emotional watching it. Now i fear my inability to resist an intellectual excercise or rise to a mental challenge is possibly spoiling it for some people that read my comments. I feel like the Grinch. I apologise if anyones enjoyment of this video is impacted.
@@ravenmasters2467 that is simply not the same effect.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. (...) Carl Sagan
Ha as soon as I saw that first sentence, I recognised Sagan. One of the great scientific orators of the 20th century along with Attenborough, Bronowski, Patrick Moore and Richard Feynman.
@@shugaroony same here
The Pale Blue Dot.
RIP Carl, you are sorely missed
Well, not true in the Elite universe
My eyes welled as I approached Sol, the home system. All that I had ever known had been born of this sun and wet rock. The violent torrents of typhoons and hurricanes, the winds that flood the trees, the thunderous rumbling of volcanoes, the beautiful song and dance of the starlings in the morning dew. These things, were all born of this ancient rock suspended in space.
I, and everyone else had been born of her. Her great open cathedral was of ourselves, and ourselves of her. We lend everything we have ever done and ever will do, to our sacred rock. She sits, processing gracefully across the expanse of her neighbouring planets.
There she sits. Alone, but crowned in love and beauty for all eternity.
This was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read. Someday, when I eventually make my way back home, I will return to this place and record my experience.
Thank you. This made my day.
God damn you i cried
She'll sit here until Sol turns enters red giant phase. 😅
This needs to be written in stone.
This is my go to video when someone asks "How can anyone have fun or feeling anything sitting in front of a monitor playing a game ?" If you dont have a slight case of watery eyes watching this..I dont know what
im still wondering this about people playing it in none-vr XD
Are there aliens in this game? And can you land on Earth and explore? Would we see the same exact scale of real earth or it'll be shortened for the game's sake?
1st time I came across this vid, was like a year back or something......I've played ED for quite some years, had the Sol permit for quite a long while as well, but never got around to actually going there. Went to Sagitarius A...awesome in itself, but after seeing this, I felt emotional like she did, the way she brought it, she made it feel like a homecoming for me as well, certainly didn't keep it dry :) oohhh.....and that sunrise......what a gorgeous game it is, isn't it?? Been a while since I played, but I'm gonna fire it up again this weekend :)
@@belovedtruth3447 I'm most likely really late to this one, but yes there is extraterrestrial life, you'll see it mostly as plants and scanneable stuff in planetary surfaces, but in the lore there is extraterrestrial fauna.
Sadly, you can't land on Earth nor any Earth-like worlds, but you can do it in planets with no atmosphere, or a tiny one (if you own the Odyssey DLC, which also allows for scanning the aforementioned plants)
And I forgot to talk about the Thargoids, but that's for another day
This is one of the most wholesome Elite videos I have ever seen.
And the timing of that sunrise could not have been more perfect.
Earth: Earth-like world
Earth Masses: 1.000
Surface Pressure: 1.00 Atmospheres
Semi Major Axis: 1.00 AU
Orbital Inclination: 0.00 DEG
Rotational Period: 1.0 Days
Description: Outdoor world with a human-breathable atmosphere and indigenous life. The atmosphere is far from chemical equilibrium as a result.
Really... surprising! Who would have thought?
@@polinidream45 I think not!
"1 Earth masses" Wow! Who knew?
It's amazing to see our world reframed in this way. All those ones and zeroes are there because it is literally all we know. It is our reference point for everything in the universe, the meter stick by which we measure all that is. No matter how far we reach, or how much knowledge we attain, or how many new worlds we set foot on, we'll always be comparing them to home... It's a strange feeling, getting to return to a place you've never left.
Earth is such a basic bitch
"It's not healthy to do more than 50 jumps at a time"
"i know that!"
"We're about to do over 700..."
Bah, jumping 22k LY to Colonia and then proceeding to Sagitarius A just take a few hours...
Guardians of the Galaxy Reference Right?
@@TheRealWylieCoyote absolutly
@@Ichinin oof, i went to colonia without any guardian boosters so it took me almost 3 real life days (worth of hours) to get there lmao. i was so happy.
Yep I’m 134 away from Colonia. Then on to Sag A, Phoenix Nebula, and beagle point.
I'm not crying, you're crying. I just recently got my Sol Permit too and I too had a moment when I reached Earth and spent like 10 minutes openly sobbing at the sheer exquisite beauty of home.
“let’s go home” damn that felt awesome
It really did.
@@HelloItsKolo Absolutely
The view of the sunrise and the music, made my black heart grow two sizes. Oh the feels.
seaniam81 ditto, I felt a heart beat for the first time that I can remember.
And it suck I probably won't be alive to travel through the stars but at least I can play games like ED and experience it.
"From up here, you can't see any borders, or countries or armies. All you can see is the earth."
- Planetes
Good show
You know... in all my life, I've never thought about that little fact... however I dwell on the fact that it's always sunny above the clouds...
great anime
Gagarin actually said something similar to that
I love that.
Story time! I have a near and dear friend whom I play this game with. His Gamertag is Icarus........ I need not explain what he did.
Please do, a non-ED player like me would like to know more.
@@f1r3hunt3rz5 Icarus flew too close to the sun.
When you could see the morning light begin to peer over the horizon, and the soft piano melody kicked in I nearly lost it. I just started playing today. Sol, along with 8 other systems was attacked, and now my end game goal has one objective. Return Home. Maybe one day I'll catch the Sun begin to light up California... When it's my time to return to our tiny island among the dark ocean of emptiness, our little lantern named Sol will guide my hands back.
Lol, the gingers got a Sol.
AT LAST
@@HelloItsKolo happy for you. Unfortunately I don't have my permit so I can't be your Sol mate. Sadface. Lol
Hilarious delivery too.
Baha best comment ever
@@elikuykendall4348 baha punny
Our Earth, how it can evoke strong emotions even on screen. And then imagine what an astronaut feels on a real EVA mission... jeez.
I truly believe that if everyone could personally experience the view of Earth from space, we'd be 95% closer to world peace!
@@Hyarmendilcar I agree...
If for no other reason than those who feel nothing could be left there. 😉
@@babybirdhome haha >:)
If you allow me, there is a NASA RUclips channel which broadcast images from ISS where we can see astronauts fixing things, doing their jobs, etc.This is awesome "per se", but what is really mindblowing is seeing the Earth below... recognizing its geography... Please, a "wholeheartedly" suggest the channel. It's incredible, and makes us think again how our petty concerns are stupid before all the wonders of the Universe.
You grabbed me with "a ginger got a soul", lmfao...THEN, your genuine reaction to seeing the earth, the breathtaking visual and atmospheric music and I cant lie, the feels where real here too! I was right there with you. Thanks for that.
7:50 This music is actually in the game?? It's so perfect!
Yeah it is, Elites sound design is actually amazing. One of the best things in the game.
@@shinkicker404 it makes it sound lonelier, ngl
@@SonekR In truth if you were to leave Earth in a ship just by yourself you would feel pretty lonely
i need to know the name of the track ... been trying to click through playlists and cant find it ):
Honestly was the timing of that piano a coincidence? It's too perfect.
To see someone get so genuinely excited just to see the earth in a video game is such a beautiful thing. If only we could all see the earth as you see it in this moment, then maybe we would all be better people.
I like how you allow yourself to be immersed in the game. That's how Elite should be played. That's how i play it.
Great video.
Absolutely!!
@@KarlH1980 Well, by that logic, any game is pointless really. It's all pretend. But of course, we can't all like the same stuff.
@@KarlH1980 if you have to ask why, this game simply isn't made for you!
@@KarlH1980 basically, you're commenting about the pointlessness of playing anything pretend, or doing anything pretend, for pretend reasons, in pretend situations...
... can only assume you don't participate in anything that has any pretend in it... interesting that you took the time out of your non-pretend life to comment about it
@@KarlH1980 all that time? Hmmm, when do you believe I saw your statement about pretending. As for answering, you very clearly stated your view on pretending. Fascinating that you've invested in VR... actually made me believe you were trolling about pretending, while making use of rather costly and most times pretend-immersive VR.
I turned 50 last year and I have to say that visiting earth for the first time was one of many spectacular moments which makes E:D the greatest gaming experience to me! So many touching moments, so many beautiful sceneries!
Your reactions are priceless. You make it possible to imagine what it would really be like should we ever leave Sol Sector and then come back after a really long time. You made my heart happy.
I have no idea what this game is about but the emotional impact is absolutely rewarding. Thank you.
Eurotruck... BE A SPACE TRUCKER.. theres also exploration a lot. The Galaxy is a little smaller then the real one... still around 1000000LY also combat its cool
@@vitor022 i thought it was 1:1 scale
@@KaziKami ok, its been a year... i got now i couple thousand hours on the game... 1.. one thousand....
Its smaller, but thats it just because our estimations on the size of our galaxy changed... and the number 100000ly? I guess its nonsense i have no idea what i had in mind
@@vitor022 oh ok
Thanks for telling me
I have no idea who you are, this just popped up in my feed. But thank you for sharing this with us. Thanks for bringing us home.
dont say it like this T^T
The cradle of humanity
Hey there, just wanted to congratulate you. I think this demonstrates how deeply gaming has becoming part of our thinking. Your reaction to "coming home" in a video game shows just how immersive and involving these pastimes are with those of us who partake. TY for sharing it with us.
Great video.
This is exactly what this game is about!
Not many people “get” it, you clearly do.
I remember my first Sol visit, I landed on Mercury because, you know, you can. Then checked out the rings of Saturn, Jupiter’s red spot and finally on to Earth, via the dark side of the moon.
Once you see Earth for the first time, the sunrise, the daylight, the city lights, it really hits you. I went straight to my continent, my country, then over my home town, and just floated there in space for about an hour looking down. Took my breath away.
By the way, I play in VR with the Oculus Rift and my god, it takes it to a whole new level! The difference between looking at a flat image on a screen and a 3D view in VR is HUGE!!!
I physically stood up out of my chair and actually took a step closer to the front of my ship for a better view. AMAZING!
I've played this game since last June and had a Sol permit since last October and never felt the need to go there. I figure I've lived here my whole life IRL and will almost certainly die here, so why waste time visiting Earth in a game?
Well, you've made me reconsider.
Go visit mars or something
It tells you the history of the past thousand years, the terraforming of Mars...pretty worthwile.
@@zoscarrhoads7741 how do i get this "quest chain"? or where does this story start?
@@dphilipson if you haven't found it yet you have to get your rep up with the federation before you can unlock the sol permit.
Never played Elite Dangerous, But this hit me strait in the feels
play it. it is something else
bit of context:
you need to grind for a solid 2 hours to get to sol
@@goobot829 only two hours? Where do I sign up?
@@lukaszjanusz4230 steam
@@goobot829 I already have the game :)
Sometimes you just really need to see someone be as passionate about something as you are.
Thanks for the feels!
Every time life lures me back to this game for whatever reason, I always go back and watch some old favorite videos. This one usually tops that list.
That was one of the most beautiful things in gaming I’ve ever seen.
same here... definitly agree!
Her: after all this time the ginger has a sol
Me: *subscribes*
Same, 25 seconds in and I'm spitting my coffee out. Subbed.
Same
haha just like that, subscribed right after XD
Ditto.
Yeah that was too clever, I had to sub too
It's not weird to get emotional about it. Shit, I don't even play Elite Dangerous and I got emotional about it
Same, Riley. Same
It was such a great moment.
I totally get the flood of emotions.
And it doesn't stop at Earth either...
There's so many terrifyingly romantic and romantically terrifying things in the Elite Dangerous cosmos...
One that always stuck with me is The Crab Nebula Expedition tourist beacon in the Epsilon Indi system. It's locked in orbit of a tiny moon called Mitterand Hollow, which in turn orbits around an Earth-like planet called New Africa. Landing on that moon is extremely tricky, because it (and thus the beacon too) orbit the planet at a truly insane velocity. It is however most certainly worth the trouble. You'll see why when you get there.
As a huge fan of Alien, I must say I also fancied running into a station called Ridley Scott (in the Zaonce system)...
Right now I'm off to find me a space-whale I saw in my Codex.
I don't remember what system it's in but there's also a Leonard Nemoy station. Not a huge Star Trek fan but do appreciate what it did for the genre and geek culture so it's great to see this homage to one of the most recognizable sci-fi actors ever.
@@titanlykos2897 LHS 3006
It's good to see that there's people that really get this game.
i want to get this but my pc is a fookin potato.
but her joy is just golden
rene ziesig i played this game with a potato (15/20fps) and that had an AMD processor from at least 4/5 years ago. When AMD wasnt that great in either processors or GPUs.
Reconsidering that. That was at least 4 years ago so now the specs might probably be higher.
us space nerds get it
@@TheDutchisGaming sorry for late reply but I remember playing with AMD Phenom x4 960t(4 core processor 3 ghz), 6 GB of RAM and 1GB VRAM NVidia GeForce GT 430 lol. It was like 40-50 fps but you know what, it's WORTH it.
If I ever write a game or a story in my life I wish the person experiencing such piece of art is able to have such a genuine and emotional moment as the one you are having in this video. This has touched me immensely. I have left the video with a lingering bittersweet philosophical mood and I don't even play the game, I fell into this particular video by going through an endless wormhole of videos recomending videos. Completely worth it.
I agree with this 100%.
I started playing Elite when it first came out in 1984. I was just a little kid then, wrestling the controls on my Apply II+ trying to fight pirates and land on a station before I could afford a docking computer. (Trust me! I was hard back then on just a keyboard!) But even though it was just wireframe graphics I could imaging what flying through the cosmos would really look like and often day dreamed of piloting a Cobra Mk III for real, visiting new worlds and seeing the grandeur of the universe.
In 2016, in a fit of nostalgia, I started searching the internet for remakes of games I played as a kid. That is when I found Elite: Dangerous. The game looked how I imaged it back as a young boy and more! I got my permit to Sol a year later. When I first visited Earth I had a similar experience hovering over my home of Alaska. Years earlier I had returned to Alaska for real after living away from home. As the plane broke through the clouds my home city came into view framed by a glittering sea and mountains bathed in the evening glow of the setting sun. It was an emotional moment after having been gone for so long to come home to my home. Hovering over Alaska in-game brought back that memory, and without the necessity of being on a plane that had to land to keep a schedule, in the game I was able to stay and savor the moment.
I am again living far from my home, both in-game and in real life. But I plan to return home again, in-game and in real life. I do not regret my departure and what I have experienced, learned, and given in my travels from my home. But there is something deeply grounding, deeply connecting, about returning to our home.
Thanks for sharing your moment, Kolo!
I really love they way you kept emphasizing "home". It really warmed my heart.
I think you would love the game Homeworld (original release, not the one on Steam).
That beluga coming out of nowhere was hilarious
The largest ownable ship in the game at the time doesn't simply come out of nowhere.
Also *Beep beep*
Kolo: We're going home!
Beluga: Nope...
"Follow the greens on the way out".
@@bunker1213 To be fair, greens or not, that Beluga was taking up the whole slot. It brakes for nobody.
John Hodgetts Have you ever flew through slot with Beluga? As its kinda mandatory for it to use ALL OF IT, as that elephant of a ship is so huge.
@@timppaUT Yes, indeed I have. I always keep the landing gear deployed when passing through the slot, as it also retracts the rear wings, avoiding getting caught in the "toast rack". Nothing can shrink its width, though!
Somehow I just knew that was going to happen because it would have if it were me! But it took a while before I saw inevitability show up so I started to have hope before having it crushed by a giant ship!
Every mother when it's a boy: 2:26
Just discovered your channel, just watched this and when you said "welcome home potatoes" it hit me, our blue marble is amazing
This...….
This is why I play computer games.
The escape from it all.
The world is yours. No... the universe is yours !
Well said
Just the Milky Way Galaxy. The Universe is still a bit beyond human understanding. We're getting there.
@@HiddenPalm Party Pooper! LOL
o3or a man of culture i see.....
@@HiddenPalm to be honest humans will never get to explore anything beyond our backyard.
I love how enthusiastic you are when you do stuff like this - your excitement is contagious. 😃
So enthusiastic, you lost your shields in a collision with that Beluga. Getting Sol Permit is a right of passage in this game and it's always nice to see it in game. Well done.
"We're going home"
Beluga liner: *no u*
I have over 3000 hours in this game, and watching this short video got me in the feels too. There is something magical about Elite: Dangerous. I seriously think the highlights of my time in Elite are making it to Sol, flying to Beagle Point, jumping into Sagittarius A*, facing a Thargoid for the first time, or finding out that Jaques Station went missing before Colonia was formed.. No other game gave me even half of that.
It's people like you who keep Elite Dangerous alive and show the world the best space game of all time, who deserves all the attention and efforts to constantly improve and grow, from the developers! Congrats to your Sol permission!
CMDR Mario Marques it’s an orite game I wouldn’t say it’s the best space game of all time though
@@realWARPIG That's your problem, you gave up within 2 hours. Maybe stick to something a little more simple, like Space Invaders or something.
@@spaceoddity3958 No no hes right. I took the advice of the community and stuck with it. Nothing changed. The controls and mechanics stay jank and have the lowest skill cap I have ever seen. After that you get the "Oh well its about the immersive gameplay anyway". If you call having your can glued to your seat and watching the story roll by as nothing but an errand boy immersive, then maybe the game is for you. Finally after that, you get the ones like this guy above who say "That's your problem, you gave up within 2 hours. Maybe stick to something a little more simple, like Space Invaders or something". -_-
no star citizen will be the best space game EVER, you can land on moons and planets it has realistic graphics and the ships look real not like the bullshit elite dangrous has
@@omar619kamis That game is never releasing. Not even trolling. The studio will run dry before they get a retail version.
This is why Elite is such a good game; that one moment of discovery, that new system with your name on it, that new amazing view or any number of other amazing achievements makes it worthwhile.
Yeah, I know E:D is far from perfect and there is one setback after another just now, and I logged out after DW2 and will wait until the big update next year. In the meantime I finally started No Mans Sky, and its fine for what it is, but for me there is something about Elite that just resonates with me for all its faults, and it will always be a game I will go back to as it can still amaze with the least little thing.
SOOOOOOO, you can't land and explore?? Maybe that's why I'm all excited about Star Citizen.
I've been considering buying this game for a while. I've seen a whole bunch of stuff about it: the space travel, asteroid mining, stations, pirate battles, thargoid hyperdictions, the captivating beauty and scale of the universe and all the kinds of things that can be found in it...
But it's this video that has actually convinced me to go ahead and actually buy it. There's something about your reaction upon finally being able to return from the vast expanse of space to something so familiar and close to all mankind that resonates with me on a certain level I can't quite put a name to. It seems so genuine, to the point that I could actually envision some deep-space explorer in the far future returning from the vast expanse of the cosmos to the cradle of all mankind, and having almost the same reaction to seeing even just the sun for the first time in decades; the joy and awe in witnessing the sunrise over _home_
So, I figure that it's time I set out on my own journey into that great abyss and start blazing my own trail, and I thank you for giving me the inspiration to do so.
EDIT: On a less serious note, I find it absolutely hilarious that the first thing that happens upon you being promoted to a petty officer in the Federal Navy and getting security access to visit the birthplace of humanity... is that you crash into another ship the size of an oil tanker on your way out of the station. Knowing my luck, though, the same thing will happen to me within 5 minutes of starting the game.
With Odyssey coming this year, the possibility of landing on atmospheric worlds such as Earth becomes more possible!
I doubt that Earth will even be on the table. Too much work for this one.
We will most likely get Mass Effect like prefab buildings in the middle of nowhere to play with. Remember horizons?
When the blazing sun hangs low on the western sky
when the wind dies away on the mountain
when the song of the meadow lot sings still
and the sea foams sleeps like a maiden at rest
and twilight touches the shape of the wondering earth
and I came home....
Through the blue shadows and purple woods
I turn home....
I turn to the place I was born
to the mother that bought me
and the father that taught me
long ago, long ago
long ago...
Alone in this mist wandering world
yet still when the blazing sun hangs low
when the wind dies away and the sea foam sleeps
and twilight touches the wandering earth
I turn home...
Lovely to see such excitement from a fellow ginger (well I used to be :D). My strategy for a Sol permit was this :- Federal Combat missions only in 70 Ophiuchi , Altair and Bhritzameno with a tricked out Vulture (best bang and armour for buck) got me lots of cash and a Sol permit in no time. :) Fight lots of 'Harmless' missions first then as you gain dogfight experience go for one or two levels above yours. A bit of a hack, if you're trouble say down to 25% ship damage, hit the reset button on your pc to restart, jump to the nearest system with a station and repair and have another go. If you can't move reboot your ship and it should enable the jump systems. You're welcome! :)
Not gonna lie this just randomly popped up in my recommended but man alive did it hit me with such a surreal feeling of nostalgia... took me back to 6 years ago when I first journeyed back to Sol after acquiring my permit. Made me remember the extremely surreal experience of seeing everything that we are, just there, albeit slightly different but immediately recognizable.
Remembered that people say seeing the Earth like that makes you realize how small we truly are but getting that sight from the perspective of a galactic explorer with memories of a 'home' that he's never seen, sure made me feel quite large. Yes its just a game but it can really send you into some crazy emotional moments. Cheers for this.
Thank you for sharing that. It is so easy for old timers to get jaded about things like this. Time I went back and poked about and saw the sights again. o7
Been dealing whit grief over the past year , this is the 1'st time i am crying of happyness in a long time.. you where in recommended! thank you.
Sorry for your grief, glad for your moment of reconnection. Onwards
for all those ppl who have never played this game!
the thing is, if you play this game for a longer period of time you slightly get an idea of big and vast our galaxy really is. hours on hours travelling from one star system to another, the distances between the planets, stars and everything around you. knowing that you are so extremly far away from home, let alone the next starport, lets one really understand what its like to be alone out there.
coming home after a journey to the supermassive black hole in the middle of our galaxy even if its just a bigger spaceport is an immense relief.
coming home to earth is another level on itself. all those thoughts about the past, who we are as a species, all this time exploring in the galaxy. home is home no matter where you come from
Still to this day one of my all time favorite videos! Every time, without fail, this hits me hard in the feels, the majesty of this game, the realization of this particular moment for every person that plays this game, I am glad that I am not the only one that feels this way.
My heart.
Thank you for this beautiful comment, Paul!
This is one of the most beautiful gameplays I've ever seen
It's so incredible that Elite can bring people experiences like this. My whole life, all I've ever wanted was to go into space. It's something I would easily give my life for. If I knew I would not be able to come back...That I would die out there, with a view like this, I'd do it in a heartbeat. And it's just great that this game gets to bring people moments like this. I understand the emotion completely. The anticipation, the awe, all of it.
This was absolutely beautiful. The pure joy you have, is nothing short of wonderful. Thank you for this
I absolutely love your excitement. About everything. I was blown away too
Congratulations! I remember the excitement of unlocking Sol, and flying through and visiting everything possible (although I was devastated to find that I couldn't drive my SRV on The Moon!) Your enthusiasm is contagious!
Man, good to see other people almost and or did cry when you pulled up to earth. Ill be honest, I cried lol. Glad to see someone with as much enthusiasm for the beauty of this game as I do!
I've never cried playing a video game but i did this and visited sol last night for the first time and although a bit emotional i kept it together. This video made me loose it though lol
5:10 Lowkey gave me chills. The music, the set up, beautiful.
Earth will always be our birth place, maybe not our forever home, but our cradle that has allowed humanity to grow up, stronger, and no longer needing the support of Earth.
That was beautiful. Thank you for this video....now I need to get my Sol permit!!
2:10 "lets go home" that got me😊
Your reaction had me in tears. It's just a privilege to experience this game through your eyes. Thank you :)
why am I getting emotional for a GAME and RUclipsR I've never saw!?
But...damn this made me so speechless and idk why
edit: and Cry... T^T
I can totally relate. I finally got my Sol permit and getting to visit the home was nothing short of a awe inspiring experience. If you don't play the game you can't appreciate it. For the non-players - it takes a good long while to earn your permit to visit home. But it's worth the wait!
I could imagine being a human in the far future flying around space being this excited to coming home
This... Was absolutely amazing to watch. Thank YOU for sharing this moment. I hope to one day experience all of life through this lens of enthusiasm and wonder.
Subbed for the sunrise.
Your enthusiasm is contagious!
That Beluga hurted! XD. By the way, you got me emotional, I found your joy so genuine and true. And that sunrise, beautiful! ^^
Love the view, the music and the emotion.... thank you for the nice video. Best sunrise I've seen in elite 👍🏻
‘After all this time, a ginger has a soul’
I'm so glad this was in my recommended. Seeing this made me cry
Ma'am we need to see your license and registration. We've had a report of a hit and run :p
Moments like this is why many of us started a love affair back in 1984 with the fickle beast that is Elite. Which reminds me.....I really need to get around to unlocking my Sol permit.
Thank you for sharing this moment with us, awesome!
Ain’t weird to be emotional about it. Every spacer in every piece of fiction dreams about seeing home when they can’t normally see home.
Wow.... what a video, you have literally made me want to get back in the cockpit of Elite Dangerous.... I haven't played it for months and I am not far from Sagittarius A, you have given me the enthusiasm to journey back to Sol and do exactly what you did here....Thank you....
Awesome video
Frontier's sound design is Brilliant and makes this game the most bang for the buck I have ever experienced. Subscribed!
Just clicking around and I find this video. The utter joy about the sound of the sun was what kept me watching the rest of the video. Definitely need to check out some more videos here.
This is adorable. I just picked up playing again after a couple years away once I got a flight stick setup and finally got my Corvette. I was a little emotional too so no, it's not weird to be emotionally invested in something that brings you joy regardless of what it is.
That was bizarrely and satisfyingly emotional to watch. My ship is way out toward the core and suddenly I wanna fly back and hover over the south central U.S.
That moment when you panned over to the sunrise... WOW. Tears were rolling down my cheeks. What a beautiful game.
I just discovered your channel and this game, and i have no words to describe how powerfull this video is.
From the joyfull beginning till that end ... just the "look guys, We are home" with that much feels in your voice ... and the view ... and the music.
Thanks for the feelings and i whish you the best for your next explorations.
i just buyed the game and hope i'll see you play it on your Twitch channel too.
Your excitement and elation were palpable... this is one of the best Elite Dangerous vids I've viewed so far! I'm less than two hundred hours in and loving every second... other than getting interdicted twice. I'm still in the Asellus Primus system in my Sidewinder with 100 million, I'm hoping to get into exploration.
I've seen Sol on the charts and found out that it is invite only and no landing available. Shame... heartbreaking news for a Terran.
It's wonderful getting to see your reaction! I felt much the same way in my first visit to Sol. I ended up spending a full day there just exploring and sightseeing. Went back later for another tour, and brought the wife via multicrew (in VR, no less) to show her the sights.
I need to go back at some point. After two tours, I never got further out than Pluto, and there's a bunch of other stuff further out. BTW, there's a crashed Anaconda on Charon. I stumbled across it by chance.
I am so glad you can get to share this with your wife.
That's one of the things that helps make this game awesome. You realize how tiny and insignificant our precious existence is in the face of the galaxy(never mind the universe which is filled with billions maybe trillions of galaxies).
I had the same reaction when I arrived to Earth. I saw the sol permit in the federation branch and thought “that, is going to be mine” and through long hours of grinding I finally obtained my permit and dropped everything I was doing and flew over there. I think as well I took a similar shot of the sunrise there, it was beautiful.
Traveling in a tiny pc-ship,
through a virtual limitless space,
the sunshines at the curve edge
an angel rising up from starts
found it here,
during the longest Sol day.
Congratulations on getting the Sol permit. This was the only faction thing I really worked for and I was damn emotional when I saw HOME for the first time! Seen the Earth in countless games, videos and what not, but the feeling of getting access to it ... you know, working for a way to get back home, and see it in Elite ... made all the efforts worth that moment!
Your reaction brought all those feelings rushing back! Thanks for sharing it with us.