History YMMV / EliteDangerous

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxZB9ytxQw Unknown Artefact]]. Never mind that it's obvious {{Foreshadowing}} for the Thargoids, the [[HellIsThatNoise sounds it makes]] are absolutely bizarre.
** Some military convoys you can find in Unidentified Signal Sources have unique NPC Chatter mentioning weird things occurring with their cargo bays, such as power fluctuations or making their crews feel uneasy. And if you manage to get their cargo transports to drop their cargo, you get the above-mentioned Unknown Artefact!

** In another example, a young commander had been dealing with his real-life mother dying of natural causes and pinged Frontier Developments with an offer to sell everything that he had and spend all of his ingame credits - or even pay real-life currency - to rename an uninhabited system in Imperial Space to "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest" in honor of her. While Frontier didn't rename an entire system after her, they did choose an uninhabited planet in the BD+26 2184 system (described as "a rather unusual planet" by the devs) to call "Kathy [=MacBrayer=]". You can read about it [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3jdc2t/frontier_helped_me_out_after_mother_passed_away/ here.]]

** In another example, a young commander had been dealing with his real-life mother dying of natural causes and pinged Frontier Developments with an offer to sell everything that he had and spend all of his ingame credits - or even pay real-life currency - to rename an uninhabited system in Imperial Space to "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest" in honor of her. While Frontier didn't rename an entire system after her, they did choose an uninhabited planet in the BD+26 2184 system (described as "a rather unusual planet" by the devs) to call "Kathy [=MacBryer=]". You can read about it [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3jdc2t/frontier_helped_me_out_after_mother_passed_away/ here.]]

** In another example, a young commander had been dealing with his real-life mother dying of natural causes and pinged Frontier Developments with an offer to sell everything that he had and spend all of his ingame credits - or even pay real-life currency - to rename an uninhabited system in Imperial Space to "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest" in honor of her. While Frontier didn't rename an entire system after her, they did choose an uninhabited planet in the BD+26 2184 system (described as "a rather unusual planet" by the devs) to call "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest". You can read about it [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3jdc2t/frontier_helped_me_out_after_mother_passed_away/ here.]]

** "If Frontier confirms x then I'll eat a sock." [[note]]When Frontier said something big was going to be annouced at Gamescom 2015, Website/{{Reddit}} user tfaddy jokingly said that he'd eat a sock if the announcement turned out to be planetary landings. Come Gamescom and the ''Elite: Dangerous - Horizons'' announcement trailer and the statement became synonymous with TemptingFate in the fandom.

** There are some fan works that can be truly freaky in nature, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHvHOtdeKw this fan-made video]] wherein a player in an Adder runs across a distress signal while in Hyperspace before jumping into a system where some truly bizarre noise can be heard [[note]]taken from the movie Film/{{Sunshine}}[[/note]] to give the impression that he ran across the Thargoids (while never actually encountering them!); or [[http://i.imgur.com/VgN6wqc.gif this]] gif which features a rather [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] surprise when you look back in your ship in the Oculus Rift.

** There are some fan works that can be truly freaky in nature, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHvHOtdeKw this fan-made video]] wherein a player in an Adder runs across a distress signal while in Hyperspace before jumping into a system where some truly bizarre noise can be heard[[note]]taken from the movie Film/{{Sunshine}}[[/note]] to give the impression that he ran across the Thargoids (while never actually encountering them!); or [[http://i.imgur.com/VgN6wqc.gif this]] gif which features a rather [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] surprise when you look back in your ship in the Oculus Rift.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The "Bobbleheads" reveal video is a fairly silly clip showcasing the triumphant return of bobbleheads to the game (something that hadn't been seen since the beta), beginning with [[MundaneMadeAwesome "Also Sprach Zathurastra"]] before cutting to a ''mariachi song''. You can view the silliness[=/=]insanity [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNOuEVMobs here.]]

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: The general fan reaction to ''Elite: Dangerous - Horizons'' has been extremely positive, with the EGX stream even winning over players upset over the expansion's pricing model - aside from the expansion featuring the ability to land on rocky and airless planets and use a CoolCar to use to explore their surfaces, it also features players being able to crew other players' starships, the ability to store (and launch) a SpaceFighter in the cargo bays of larger ships, CharacterCustomization, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and bobbleheads]] - a much-requested feature that hadn't been seen since the game's beta.

** In another example, a young commander had been dealing with his real-life mother dying of natural causes and pinged Frontier Developments with an offer to sell everything that he had and spend all of his ingame credits - or even pay real-life currency - to rename an uninhabited system in Imperial Space to "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest" in honor of her passing away. While Frontier didn't rename an entire system after her, they did choose an uninhabited planet in the BD+26 2184 system (described as "a rather unusual planet" by the devs) to call "[=MacBryer=]'s Rest". You can read about it [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3jdc2t/frontier_helped_me_out_after_mother_passed_away/ here.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfHeartwarming

* FriendlyFandom: With ''VideoGame/StarCitizen'' and ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', while also being rivals. David Braben and ''Star Citizen'''s creator, Chris Roberts, have encouraged this attitude, while Sean Murray's basing ''No Man's Sky'' on ''Elite'' has helped in that alley.

* ThatOneLevel: A lot of wide-orbiting binary, trinary, or multiple-star systems get this treatment, as there are often starports in orbit of planets that orbit such systems' 'B', 'C', 'D', etc. stars and thus can be anywhere from 15,000 to 500,000 Light-Seconds away from the jump-in point; however, it's '''Hutton Orbital''' in Alpha Centauri that gets this treatment the most, thanks to being the most remote starport in all of human space (not by distance from Earth, since it orbits Proxima Centauri which is a little over 4 Light-Years from Sol, but rather by distance from the jump-in point, being .22 Light-Years from Alpha Centauri A, or about six ''million'' Light-Seconds).

* ThatOneLevel: A lot of wide-orbiting binary, trinary, or multiple-star systems get this treatment, as there are often starports in orbit of planets that orbit such systems' 'B', 'C', 'D', etc. stars and thus can be anywhere from 15,000 to 500,000 Light-Seconds away from the jump-in point; however, it's '''Hutton Orbital''' in Alpha Centauri that gets this treatment the most, thanks to being the most remote starport in all of human space (not by distance from Earth, since it orbits Proxima Centauri which is a little over 4 Light-Years from Sol, but rather by distance from the jump-in point, being .22 Light-Years from Alpha Centauri A, or about six-''million'' Light-Seconds).

* ThatOneLevel: A lot of wide-orbiting binary, trinary, or multiple-star systems get this treatment, as there are often starports in orbit of planets that orbit such systems' 'B', 'C', 'D', etc. stars and thus can be anywhere from 15,000 to 500,000 Light-Seconds away from the jump-in point; however, it's '''Hutton Orbital''' in Alpha Centauri that gets this treatment the most, thanks to being the most remote starport in all of human space (not by distance from Earth, since it orbits Proxima Centauri which is a little over 4 Light-Years from Sol, but rather by distance from the jump-in point, being .22 Light-Years from Alpha Centauri A. That's about six-''million'' Light-Seconds, which most pilots are familiar with).

* ThatOneLevel: A lot of wide-orbiting binary, trinary, or multiple-star systems get this treatment, as there are often starports in orbit of planets that orbit such systems' 'B', 'C', 'D', etc. stars; however, it's '''Hutton Orbital''' in Alpha Centauri that gets this treatment the most, thanks to being the most remote starport in all of human space (not by distance from Earth, since it orbits Proxima Centauri which is a little over 4 Light-Years from Sol, but rather by distance from the jump-in point, being .22 Light-Years from Alpha Centauri A. That's about six-''million'' Light-Seconds, which most pilots are familiar with).

** There are some fan works that can be truly freaky in nature, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHvHOtdeKw this fan-made video]] wherein a player in an Adder runs across a distress signal while in Hyperspace before jumping into a system where some truly bizarre noise can be heard[[note]]taken from the movie Film/{{Sunshine}}[[/note]] to give the impression that he ran across the Thargoids (while never actually encountering them!); or [[http://i.imgur.com/VgN6wqc.gif this]] gif which features a rather [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] surprise when you look back in your ship in the Oculus Rift.

* AwesomeMusic: The game's music, composed by Erasmus Talbot, has some of the most beautiful melodies and tunes crafted, entirely appropriate for exploring the void of space. For a few examples, try the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFPx1m3luU Main Theme,]] the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va010_fB27c Menu Theme,]] or one of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Na5OGgJwSg Frame-Shift suites.]]

* InternetBackdraft: Fans were '''not''' happy when Frontier Developments pulled the game's offline singleplayer mode and made it online-only. There are still a few that are upset over that.

** Some of the noises you can hear in Hyperspace can be [[HellIsThatNoise unnerving]], to say the least; especially when you take into account the fact that the [[InsectoidAliens the Thargoids]] are definitely in the game (though not implemented yet).

** Some of the noises you can hear in Hyperspace can be [[HellIsThatNoise unnerving]], to say the least; especially when you take into account the fact that the [[InsectoidRace the Thargoids]] are definitely in the game (though not implemented yet).

* InternetBackdraft: Fans were '''not''' happy when Frontier Developments pulled the game's offline singleplayer mode and made it online-only. There are still a few that are upset over that.