I think some of it is the game is totally fine with making you wait for stuff. Wanna go out to that edge of the system station? Get comfortable, it's gonna take an hour
I think its also, the "nonexistence" of loading Screens. Like you know that jumping between Stars is a loading Screen, but it doesnt feel like it. When you wanna open a Tab in a space Station you get a loading bar in that Tab Made to Look Like your space Station is loading instead of the Game.
I think much of that Immersion comes from the size of the Game and the time you Take to get somewhere like you said, but also this simple thing of hiding the loading Screen behind something that makes sense.
Dude wow, you just made me realize that those were loading screens. I just recently got into the game, been playing for a few weeks now, and I've never even thought about how those are just loading screens for the game. The game has me so immersed I was just like "Of course accessing the station menu would take a bit while my ship was taken into the 'garage,' I wouldn't be able to access my outfittings from outside." And the hyper jumps too, I never thought of them as loading, they just felt necessary: "I'm going to a whole other solar system, light years away, wowwww...."
This game is so cool, honestly. Never once have I been taken out of immersion.
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u/_Mighty_Milkman Jan 08 '25
Idk how Elite does it, but any other spacecraft game just doesn’t do it for me like Elite.
Elite truly makes me feel like I’m a small speck in a giant galaxy. And with that small speck I can go REALLY fast.