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Elite: Dangerous docking on Mac, beta in progress

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Elite: Dangerous is like an interplanetary, extremely beautiful space trucker sim. You fly from planet to planet, avoiding stars, asteroids and space pirates in equal measure as you trade anything from minerals to human slaves. It’s a niche but interesting experience that’s been exclusive to PC for sometime now. That’s changing very soon for all you Apple folk out there.

Frontier Developments has announced that a Mac version of their kickstarted sequel is out now, and available to anyone who participated in the Alpha or Beta phases of testing last year. If you have a powerful enough Mac (or some nuclear powered Macbook Pro), you can look forward to the retail launch fairly soon – although there is no exact date as of yet.

Elite: Dangerous is a gorgeous game, and unsurprisingly requires a fair amount of juice in the tank to start hitting light speed travel. It runs super smoothly on my desktop, but I can’t imagine anything other than the main menu loading on my Macbook Pro. In fact, I think if I had to try, the entire thing might just turn into a fiery mass of gas and heat – similar to the suns I occasionally accidentally fly into when I’m not paying attention in-game.

Regardless, if you have a powerful Mac lying around and haven’t had a chance to jump in yet, this is your lucky day. So that makes all seven of you, right?

Last Updated: April 2, 2015

21 Comments

  1. RinceThis

    April 2, 2015 at 14:48

    Well that’s nice. Apple now has like 2 games.

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    • Dutch Matrix

      April 2, 2015 at 14:52

      Now this article got two comments.

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    • Spathi

      April 2, 2015 at 14:53

      What’s the other?

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      • RinceThis

        April 2, 2015 at 14:54

        Apple pie?

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        • Hammersteyn

          April 2, 2015 at 14:55

          Where’s @ToshZA:disqus we need PIE!

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    • Hammersteyn

      April 2, 2015 at 14:53

      So happy that you can play games now.

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    • z1n

      April 7, 2015 at 11:14

      I have to admit, I’ve got more games on my Mac’s Steam then Windows’ Steam. But that’s probably because DotA has secret DRM that stops you from installing any other games.

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  2. Hammersteyn

    April 2, 2015 at 14:54

    It looks like there are banner adds on the station…. a true mark of apple games.

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  3. Captain JJ the flash noob

    April 2, 2015 at 14:54

    I hope it has itunes on it, otherwise you won’t be able to get the music over.

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  4. Wyzak

    April 2, 2015 at 14:57

    Don’t forget the creative decision controversy…

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  5. Hammersteyn

    April 2, 2015 at 14:58

    Fun fact. Azeban (also spelled Azban, Asban or Azaban) is a Raccoon in Abenaki mythology. So that ship is on it’s way to Racoon city O_o

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    • Dutch Matrix

      April 2, 2015 at 14:58

      Half Life 3 confirmed!

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      • Captain JJ the flash noob

        April 2, 2015 at 15:04

        Wait, what?

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    • HairyEwok

      April 8, 2015 at 08:48

      Just think of the lulz if a zombie outbreak happens on that city.

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  6. GooseZA

    April 2, 2015 at 15:16

    Yes, yes, but when is the XB1 version coming out? The wait is killing me!

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  7. BacchusZA

    April 3, 2015 at 07:02

    And you may be interested to know that it landed on Steam yesterday.

    To much whining from some existing customers of “WHERE’S MY STEAM KEY?!?!?! I’M ENTITLED TO IT!! I DEMAND YOU GIVE IT TO ME!!!”, seemingly forgetting that not all licensing agreements are created equally……

    This is something FDev are evidently talking to Valve about, if there’s enough community interest – bit of a no-brainer there tbh – so maybe we’ll be recieving Steam keys at some point. I’m not too fussed tbh, though I would be interested to see what achievements they come up with for the game, as there’s scope to create some extra content for the game there, & encourage people to try different things. “Trade XX amount of cargo / Kill YY no of pirates / Explore ZZ systems in a Wing”, “First discovery of an Earthlike Planet”, that kind of thing.

    Somewhat more on topic – Allesandro, I have a shitty little Toshiba Satellite W30t, which is one of those tablet/notebook hybrid things with an i3 1.5 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, and only an HD4200 pushing the pixels.

    And surprisingly enough, if you turn everything down, I got playable FPS out of it when I tried ED on it for shits & giggles. Nothing great, maxed at 40 or so, and crawled inside stations, but it managed. So it might run better on your MacBook Pro than you’d think…..

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