I couldn't help but notice the call out to the Burr Pit for its help at the end of FDev's well-produced and very touching Thargoid War Epilogue! Thanks for that!! o7
Elite Dangerous was love at first sight from the moment I launched the demo. I bought it as soon as it became available on Steam and later purchased The Horizons update. Eventually, I switched to PlayStation, and I thought I had become a fan for life after Distant Worlds 2. However, I was deeply disappointed - or rather, very angry - at Frontiers for abandoning consoles with the release of Odyssey. Two years later, I bought a capable gaming laptop with the intention returning to the game. At the time, console transfers were suspended, so I bought another steam copy and started anew, eventually reaching the Top-2000 CMDRs on Inara in just one year. Still, I couldn’t leave my DW2 veteran behind in the stagnating PS4 world, so I transferred him as soon as the option became available. Now, I enjoy playing both CMDRs in VR, having third on The Horizons. Despite Frontier’s grim financial situation, 2024 turned out to be one of the greatest years for the game. I “donated” as much as I could through the ARX shop, and suddenly, new ships were announced and started arriving one after another. Then, colonization was revealed. I’m very excited about the game’s future, and I truly, deeply love this game. The game hasn’t been sold in my country since 2022, and I can’t pay with my native card. So, I traveled across the border to buy another copy and get an international card to financially support the developers.
Thank you for your videos and all the narrative about Elite, your input in this glorious game is essential to keep us updated on what is happening in the universe. Keep it up 07
I am so glad I gave Elite Dangerous a second chance at the end of 2023 - perfect timing and I did not miss one titan bombing. The year 2024 was really a great rollercoaster ride in a positive way regarding Elite. A big thank you to this channel for the continuous Elite coverage throughout the year. You have been my number one go to source for news and weekly summaries. Happy holidays and christmas to you!
Thanks for an amazing year of weekly updates! There is no better source for concise, clever, and flat out entertaining Elite Dangerous news! Happy Holidays to both of you.
Having just started playing Elite in March of this year, this channel has been an indispensable partner in helping me navigate this deep, rich, and complex game. Your Azimuth saga special segment was one of my favorite videos of the year and I've gone back and watched it not once, but twice more as I've started to learn more about the history and lore of Elite. o7 CMDRs Burr and Rheeney! Looking forward to 2025!
Merry Christmas, Everyone o7 December marks my 6th year in Elite and I am looking forward to many more, especially with such a great host of people we have here.
Sincere thanks to you CMDRs Buur and Rheeney for your outstanding contribution to the community ... you're a constant presence as a focal point for news and the universe would feel very empty without you. o7 and enjoy the break.
Guardian logs in the lore indicate the guardians tried everything they could to communicate with the thargoids, eventually succeeded in doing so, and got basically told “haha thargoid interceptors go brrrr”
@@guhak Yep, but we still only have one side of the story. Personally don't think the war is over, I think there is more to come with the Thargs, and the Guardians, especially with Colonisation coming next year, build a base, and then have to defend it from on foot Thargs attacking, now that would be cool
@@philc8703 I think there will be a few months pause for multiple reasons the rl reasons are that FDev will focus on the colonization beta which will take up at least the first half of the year and while there are parts which really enjoyed the whole Thargoid part, there are also parts which are at this point kinda tired of it and well, the war was kinda disruptive to a lot of playstyles (and hey, ED is a sandbox game and because of it shouldn't (try to) push certain playstyles on the players) but there are also lore reasons, the Titans were expensive for the Thargoids because of their size and as far as we know, MetaAlloy production seems to be slow for them; so it could very well be that they are first going to plan out how to proceed (e.g. new tech) since it likely took them at least a few decades to produce the needed MetaAlloys for these Titans (and a single barnacle would likely have needed a few thousand years for a single one) and hey, my personal theory for why they abducted humans is that they try to pull a uno reverse card to us with what we did to them with the Mycoid
Wow, you've given me a lot to watch and read with this report! All the best to The Burr Pit for the remainder of 2024! I look forward to seeing your videos next year.
Wow. Great video! So much happening in a great game. Thankyou for the summary and all of your hard work putting these videos together. May I wish you both a restful break and I look forward to more of your videos next year.
Its definitely not over. All the graveyards are transmitting/receiving a new signal and the proteus explosion aftermath is still active with salvation still AWOL in the guardian network. And there's an entire other faction of goids hanging out in pleides
Watching these recent videos really has me wishing we could trade in all of our "chromed" and "golden" ship skins for what we all wanted all along, the chrome/gold variants. Thanks for another great year of Elite coverage to everyone at the Buur Pit!
I swear, since they released these pre-built ships for Arx Frontier has been doing a lot better now they've actually got some money coming in and so long as they don't get greedy with it, I feel this will breathe new life into the game.
I hope they expand the Arx store offerings! Silly thought, but I was on a Fleet Carrier yesterday called Cat's Resting Place and thought it would be hilarious and awesome if you could buy cats to roam around your fleet carrier as an Arx decoration. 😸
Agreed. I really disliked how much hate was being thrown at FDev for finally doing some smart monetisation. We have gone 10 years and they've kept the game alive with 2 expansions and some ship kits. No wonder there wasn't much push to drive content. I love how alive the game feels now and I think it is largely due to the new reliable income. That being said, FDev also put themselves in that position, this could have come much earlier.
Fantastic year for the game, so looking forward to 2025, I’ll be back in game more often than I have been recently, RL issues. I’ll be very much assisting Operation IDA, as I’m a veteran and need to pick up the work to repair the systems recovering from Thargoid attack, I’ll also be getting my ships sorted out, as I have 4 new additions that I now need to pimp. Wishing you both and the community every success in 2025, Merry Christmas & a Happy & Prosperous New Year and thanks for all the great work on this channel.
Have a wonderfully Merry Christmas and a great New Year, Mr & Mrs Buur Pit! Thank you for the great videos and content throughout this outstanding year for Elite Dangerous! I look forward to what next year brings with colonization among other things. May you continue your well earned success 🫡
I missed EVERYTHING (haven't played in 2.5 years). Glad to see Fdev still pushing content and updates and the community is happy. I'm all ready to get back in come 2025 Edit: HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!
Always enjoy your update videos and the humor, Commander Burr and Rheeney (sp?). I did look through the set of links in the description of this video and I can't quite figure out which one is for my being able to send a request to be sent a email of my history as a commander. Anyway, I think you did a great job summing up the year, and as a fan of elite dangerous, it is exciting time for the game and for us as its players! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and may the best blessings of the Lord go with you in 2025.
I know it's a pipe dream at this point. But man oh man, if we get walkable ship interiors some point in the future, this would probably be my favorite game of all time.
Really hope with the colonization update we start to come across boss level guardian enemies or something else. The thargoid arc was super impressive and added a ton to the game. It’d be cool to start over with something new.
Must admit I was disappointed when I saw you both on the 10yr anniversary video. I was so hoping Renee would bring out the fish on a stick 😁😁miss the live streams
I'm at the Engineer prepping all of my ships now. . . After 5 years I finally messed up and lost 800 million credits and my type 10. I overestimated what was a new ship after buying all the big guys. No re-buy. PSA and reminder. CMDR: S. R. Siege out
You can use the portal to transfer your console cmdr to pc, you get a free copy of the base game for pc with it and you get to keep your console cmdr too. Then you can sign up for g force now and using Edge browser play the live game, including Odyssey if you get that too, on your console. o7
I'm a relatively new cmdr, so I missed the war entirely. Is there any requirement to run haul for the sol repair, or any thargoid remnants around that would be a danger to a newbie like me? Or could I just go and help?
With the end of the war I would love to see a galactic shake up with something along the lines of the Thargoids were distracting us with a two year war and the Pilots Federation having to reveal the reason why a whole section of systems were locked out. A Thargoid foot hold has been built within the locked out systems over the last two years, and the Pilots Federation had to restrict information and access to focus the fight to save humanity. Be it part of the cycle they have when seeding and collecting Metta Alloys or simply it was to establish a strong hold on our doorstep, they are here! . It would be a shame to never face a Titan and see a fantastic part of the game and the AX community fade into memory. Have a great Christmas and new year! o7
Operation Ida stuff, if you mean “anything more to do with respect to the war”. Otherwise, everything else the game has to offer like mining trading exploration power play 2.0 expansion or BGS stuff
I think fdev finally realised they are sitting on a goldmine. It's a shame it took this long and some disastrous launches of other games but hopefully this is a good thing for us and them.
Is it not, upsetting that the war is over? I mean, wars last a long time. All that investment into a ship and learning how to fight the Thargoids only to just have it be over. How long were the Guardians at war with the Thargoids? And yet, we upstarts defeated an ancient race handed??? 😂
I'm hoping that they stir up some political drama and leverage that PP2.0. There's also that photo of Thargoids in Colonia that's still a loose thread.
Best year ever? Best year since the Odyssey botched released for sure, but the game is far from it's best state. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, FDev has a long way to go before they will gain back the trust of their fanbase. If you're not into AX combat there's very little content in the past few years...
If the graphics, particularly on the ships were up to EvE level I would be more inclined to try it again. But a lot of them, and in this presentation, look like drawings in a comic. Yes players are going to scream at me to look beyond that and concentrate on the journey, but as a 14 year EvE player logging on every day, it’s difficult not to compare the look.
pls make a vid asking FDEV to add guardian ships, or even thargoid ships, like ships with thargoid parts on them. i think it's such a missed opportunity
a lot of livery item are on offer
Thank you for everything you've done for the Elite Dangerous community this year. It's a great time to be a Commander o7
I couldn't help but notice the call out to the Burr Pit for its help at the end of FDev's well-produced and very touching Thargoid War Epilogue! Thanks for that!! o7
Elite Dangerous was love at first sight from the moment I launched the demo. I bought it as soon as it became available on Steam and later purchased The Horizons update. Eventually, I switched to PlayStation, and I thought I had become a fan for life after Distant Worlds 2. However, I was deeply disappointed - or rather, very angry - at Frontiers for abandoning consoles with the release of Odyssey.
Two years later, I bought a capable gaming laptop with the intention returning to the game. At the time, console transfers were suspended, so I bought another steam copy and started anew, eventually reaching the Top-2000 CMDRs on Inara in just one year. Still, I couldn’t leave my DW2 veteran behind in the stagnating PS4 world, so I transferred him as soon as the option became available. Now, I enjoy playing both CMDRs in VR, having third on The Horizons.
Despite Frontier’s grim financial situation, 2024 turned out to be one of the greatest years for the game. I “donated” as much as I could through the ARX shop, and suddenly, new ships were announced and started arriving one after another. Then, colonization was revealed. I’m very excited about the game’s future, and I truly, deeply love this game.
The game hasn’t been sold in my country since 2022, and I can’t pay with my native card. So, I traveled across the border to buy another copy and get an international card to financially support the developers.
Thank you for your videos and all the narrative about Elite, your input in this glorious game is essential to keep us updated on what is happening in the universe. Keep it up 07
I am so glad I gave Elite Dangerous a second chance at the end of 2023 - perfect timing and I did not miss one titan bombing. The year 2024 was really a great rollercoaster ride in a positive way regarding Elite. A big thank you to this channel for the continuous Elite coverage throughout the year. You have been my number one go to source for news and weekly summaries. Happy holidays and christmas to you!
That collection of planetary bodies from 14:13 is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in the game.
Agreed, a stunning find.
Thank you two for all your content this year, have a great Christmas!
Thanks for an amazing year of weekly updates! There is no better source for concise, clever, and flat out entertaining Elite Dangerous news! Happy Holidays to both of you.
Thank you for all the news in 2024. Merry Christmas and stay blessed 🙌 in 2025. o7 Cmdr's 🎅👊
Thank you DJ 🎄☃️ o7
You guys are awesome. Truly a dynamic duo. 👍🏼😎
Thank you ❤ o7
Having just started playing Elite in March of this year, this channel has been an indispensable partner in helping me navigate this deep, rich, and complex game. Your Azimuth saga special segment was one of my favorite videos of the year and I've gone back and watched it not once, but twice more as I've started to learn more about the history and lore of Elite. o7 CMDRs Burr and Rheeney! Looking forward to 2025!
thx as always, cmdr, ur content never fails to produce high quality info on the best space game ever, happy holidays and new year o7
Nice content as always, thank you for this incredible year
enjoy the festivities and glad to see you next year for the next level of Elite
Thank you both for all that you do.
See y'all next year and happy holidays to everyone.🎅🤶🎄
Thank you. Happy Christmas 🎄 o7
Merry Christmas, Everyone o7
December marks my 6th year in Elite and I am looking forward to many more, especially with such a great host of people we have here.
Sincere thanks to you CMDRs Buur and Rheeney for your outstanding contribution to the community ... you're a constant presence as a focal point for news and the universe would feel very empty without you. o7 and enjoy the break.
Thank you for the kind words. Happy Christmas 🎄♥️ o7
This channel is amazing immersion wise. I've never bothered to watch a real news channel, but the Buur Pit is a staple! Thanks a lot man!
What if, the Thargoid's were clumsily trying to establish first contact, which morphed into the war, and the Guardians are the real baddies 🤔
Guardian logs in the lore indicate the guardians tried everything they could to communicate with the thargoids, eventually succeeded in doing so, and got basically told “haha thargoid interceptors go brrrr”
@@guhak Yep, but we still only have one side of the story. Personally don't think the war is over, I think there is more to come with the Thargs, and the Guardians, especially with Colonisation coming next year, build a base, and then have to defend it from on foot Thargs attacking, now that would be cool
@@philc8703 I think there will be a few months pause for multiple reasons
the rl reasons are that FDev will focus on the colonization beta which will take up at least the first half of the year and while there are parts which really enjoyed the whole Thargoid part, there are also parts which are at this point kinda tired of it and well, the war was kinda disruptive to a lot of playstyles (and hey, ED is a sandbox game and because of it shouldn't (try to) push certain playstyles on the players)
but there are also lore reasons, the Titans were expensive for the Thargoids because of their size and as far as we know, MetaAlloy production seems to be slow for them; so it could very well be that they are first going to plan out how to proceed (e.g. new tech) since it likely took them at least a few decades to produce the needed MetaAlloys for these Titans (and a single barnacle would likely have needed a few thousand years for a single one)
and hey, my personal theory for why they abducted humans is that they try to pull a uno reverse card to us with what we did to them with the Mycoid
Wow, you've given me a lot to watch and read with this report!
All the best to The Burr Pit for the remainder of 2024! I look forward to seeing your videos next year.
Wow. Great video! So much happening in a great game. Thankyou for the summary and all of your hard work putting these videos together. May I wish you both a restful break and I look forward to more of your videos next year.
Thank you for the ongoing great content, have a great Christmas and Happy New Year in advance both.
Thank you, you too ❤ o7
Its definitely not over. All the graveyards are transmitting/receiving a new signal and the proteus explosion aftermath is still active with salvation still AWOL in the guardian network. And there's an entire other faction of goids hanging out in pleides
It was nice seeing you and the gang name checked inside the frontier video
Happy Christmas Buuuuurs!!
Thank yoooooou ❤ o7
Watching these recent videos really has me wishing we could trade in all of our "chromed" and "golden" ship skins for what we all wanted all along, the chrome/gold variants. Thanks for another great year of Elite coverage to everyone at the Buur Pit!
I don't know, "The War is Over!" sounds an awful lot like "I've only got one day left until retirement."
o7 and Merry New Year!!
o7 😊
The bartender strike is over! Happy new year!
@@Oink-FM so the booze cruise will be back?
What great recap, thanks a lot. Elite doing great!
Where is that amazing looking world as seen in 15:00?
Thank you for all your hard work, a labour of love I’m sure.
My go to for all Elite news.
Have a great Xmas
Thank you 🎄 o7
I swear, since they released these pre-built ships for Arx Frontier has been doing a lot better now they've actually got some money coming in and so long as they don't get greedy with it, I feel this will breathe new life into the game.
I hope they expand the Arx store offerings! Silly thought, but I was on a Fleet Carrier yesterday called Cat's Resting Place and thought it would be hilarious and awesome if you could buy cats to roam around your fleet carrier as an Arx decoration. 😸
Agreed. I really disliked how much hate was being thrown at FDev for finally doing some smart monetisation.
We have gone 10 years and they've kept the game alive with 2 expansions and some ship kits. No wonder there wasn't much push to drive content. I love how alive the game feels now and I think it is largely due to the new reliable income.
That being said, FDev also put themselves in that position, this could have come much earlier.
Goals for the new year:
Don’t leave my alt on a shelf for the entire year 😮
Fantastic year for the game, so looking forward to 2025, I’ll be back in game more often than I have been recently, RL issues. I’ll be very much assisting Operation IDA, as I’m a veteran and need to pick up the work to repair the systems recovering from Thargoid attack, I’ll also be getting my ships sorted out, as I have 4 new additions that I now need to pimp. Wishing you both and the community every success in 2025, Merry Christmas & a Happy & Prosperous New Year and thanks for all the great work on this channel.
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas 🎄 o7
Happy Christmas to all ED commanders 🎉
Part time Op IDA cmdr here, I will be reporting for duty for Sol repairs!
Merry Christmas and thanks for the videos.
o7
Merry Xmas folks.
Have a wonderfully Merry Christmas and a great New Year, Mr & Mrs Buur Pit!
Thank you for the great videos and content throughout this outstanding year for Elite Dangerous!
I look forward to what next year brings with colonization among other things.
May you continue your well earned success 🫡
Wishing you both a gentle Christmas.
I missed EVERYTHING (haven't played in 2.5 years). Glad to see Fdev still pushing content and updates and the community is happy. I'm all ready to get back in come 2025
Edit: HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!
I’ve left the bubble and am in Witch Head conducting my own research/exploration as I look for…anything
@@TheCGA It’s out there.
I logged in for first time 2024 on 10th anniversary
I was way out in black
New stuff
Neat
Fortunately, the trout population proved resilient
Great year for Elite!
you have a great xmas and new year see you in the black and keep up the great work
Always enjoy your update videos and the humor, Commander Burr and Rheeney (sp?). I did look through the set of links in the description of this video and I can't quite figure out which one is for my being able to send a request to be sent a email of my history as a commander. Anyway, I think you did a great job summing up the year, and as a fan of elite dangerous, it is exciting time for the game and for us as its players! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and may the best blessings of the Lord go with you in 2025.
*looking at watch* finally our skins within a reasonable time! Merry Christmas!
o7 Cmdrs
Cya around next year.
Peace
7:43 Intentional Martha Wells reference? Love those books regardless!
I know it's a pipe dream at this point. But man oh man, if we get walkable ship interiors some point in the future, this would probably be my favorite game of all time.
o7 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
11:00 Oh, so that's where it is. I tried looking for it on my account management page, but to no avail. Better late than never, I hope.
Really hope with the colonization update we start to come across boss level guardian enemies or something else. The thargoid arc was super impressive and added a ton to the game. It’d be cool to start over with something new.
Thanks for all the excellent coverage throughout the year!
Most welcome 😊 o7
Must admit I was disappointed when I saw you both on the 10yr anniversary video. I was so hoping Renee would bring out the fish on a stick 😁😁miss the live streams
I was at Mars High to see the explosion but every one of them blew up while I was at work. A little pissed about that.
I'm at the Engineer prepping all of my ships now. . . After 5 years I finally messed up and lost 800 million credits and my type 10. I overestimated what was a new ship after buying all the big guys. No re-buy. PSA and reminder. CMDR: S. R. Siege out
I still love watching Elite news. Man I miss the game. I hope console support comes back.
Port over to PC and rejoin the game
You can use the portal to transfer your console cmdr to pc, you get a free copy of the base game for pc with it and you get to keep your console cmdr too.
Then you can sign up for g force now and using Edge browser play the live game, including Odyssey if you get that too, on your console. o7
I really hope that we get adequate armor and shields against thargoids as a result of reverse engineering the titans
I'm a relatively new cmdr, so I missed the war entirely. Is there any requirement to run haul for the sol repair, or any thargoid remnants around that would be a danger to a newbie like me? Or could I just go and help?
@@jpardoa94 the thargoids have all left the bubble ... You only need to haul for the sol repairs if you want to :)
2 minute's of your time? Two minutes! My video is 3 minutes and 52 seconds! and Toco's is 3 minutes. How very dare you!
With the end of the war I would love to see a galactic shake up with something along the lines of the Thargoids were distracting us with a two year war and the Pilots Federation having to reveal the reason why a whole section of systems were locked out. A Thargoid foot hold has been built within the locked out systems over the last two years, and the Pilots Federation had to restrict information and access to focus the fight to save humanity. Be it part of the cycle they have when seeding and collecting Metta Alloys or simply it was to establish a strong hold on our doorstep, they are here! . It would be a shame to never face a Titan and see a fantastic part of the game and the AX community fade into memory. Have a great Christmas and new year! o7
Getting a break from fight is good, but I hope the war mechanics will return.
is there anything to do now the thargoids are gone?
Rest, rebuild and prepare for colonization?
Operation Ida stuff, if you mean “anything more to do with respect to the war”. Otherwise, everything else the game has to offer like mining trading exploration power play 2.0 expansion or BGS stuff
Yes press the uninstall button you won’t be missed o7
Assuming Fdev still has no plans to return Elite to Series X/PS5? 😔
I think fdev finally realised they are sitting on a goldmine. It's a shame it took this long and some disastrous launches of other games but hopefully this is a good thing for us and them.
You sound full of health again!
I failed to get the FSDs 😥
You can get them with mats just like the old pre engineered fsds!
Is it not, upsetting that the war is over? I mean, wars last a long time. All that investment into a ship and learning how to fight the Thargoids only to just have it be over. How long were the Guardians at war with the Thargoids? And yet, we upstarts defeated an ancient race handed??? 😂
Got hyperdicted and destroyed yesterday.. maybe the dying embers of the war
where is that planetary body with the other 4 & a star in sky?
I'll try and remember to check tomorrow and pin it here for you, o7
Oh bs
I gotta trade for Titan components too?
Ugh
In b4 Guardian invasion.
But is there going to be a new antagonist for war ?
I'm hoping that they stir up some political drama and leverage that PP2.0. There's also that photo of Thargoids in Colonia that's still a loose thread.
Cylons.
Where's my ice planets? Game is continuously a disappointment without that promised tech.
Try landing on the non-atmo ice worlds. They have ice so thick you can see translucent layers of it.
The scaling of the fire effects is off by a factor of 10.
Best year ever? Best year since the Odyssey botched released for sure, but the game is far from it's best state. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, FDev has a long way to go before they will gain back the trust of their fanbase. If you're not into AX combat there's very little content in the past few years...
If the graphics, particularly on the ships were up to EvE level I would be more inclined to try it again.
But a lot of them, and in this presentation, look like drawings in a comic.
Yes players are going to scream at me to look beyond that and concentrate on the journey, but as a 14 year EvE player logging on every day, it’s difficult not to compare the look.
Would you like to cover the theory that Mother Gaia is hiding Raxxla on Titan (one of the moons in Sol system)?
pls make a vid asking FDEV to add guardian ships, or even thargoid ships, like ships with thargoid parts on them. i think it's such a missed opportunity
first!!! thanks for the video
I left because of all the focus on Thargoid combat
Still waiting for them to add something fun to this game. All it currently is is a boring grind.
o7 commanders🫡