Ha, didn't read this until after my session tonight. I jumped one system, bought a Mk3, put a load of cargo in it and a SRV and tried a planet landing. I didn't really have a clue what I was up to down there tbh so need to get some more tips on planets.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Ha, didn't read this until after my session tonight. I jumped one system, bought a Mk3, put a load of cargo in it and a SRV and tried a planet landing. I didn't really have a clue what I was up to down there tbh so need to get some more tips on planets.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
This is going to let people be basically dedicated camera men via multi crew.
I imagine we are going to get some great videos out of this.
Nice! Welcome! Use what exactly?
I CANNOT WAIT for this new camera system. It has been my biggest complaint of all the the things wrong with E
, and has been the one thing I would have changed immediately. I'm very excited to see what people are going to do with it.Nice! Welcome! Use what exactly?
I CANNOT WAIT for this new camera system. It has been my biggest complaint of all the the things wrong with E
Haha, that was extremely poor editing on my part. I was on mobile and I guess I deleted the words 'ship transfer' somehow.
My options menu is behaving weird. I go to scroll to edit control options but it won't follow the cursor beyond the bottom of the screen. If I go to options beyond it, it just gets all jittery.
Trying to find the fricking option to invert headlook on XB pad as I farted about with the config and reset it when it wasn't responding in game at all.
My first take off in the Mk3 after going from an Adder was hilarious. Heading to the letterbox I completely botched it up in a "WHOA. This thing really moves." fashion. Reverse, start again.
Going to hit wiki to actually understand planets. I feel I wasted a big bunch of time farting about in this place with data points and turrets that did nothing...
Trying to find the fricking option to invert headlook on XB pad as I farted about with the config and reset it when it wasn't responding in game at all.
My first take off in the Mk3 after going from an Adder was hilarious. Heading to the letterbox I completely botched it up in a "WHOA. This thing really moves." fashion. Reverse, start again.
Going to hit wiki to actually understand planets. I feel I wasted a big bunch of time farting about in this place with data points and turrets that did nothing...
I CANNOT WAIT for this new camera system. It has been my biggest complaint of all the the things wrong with E
I'm half expecting the immuhrsion defense force to chime in and demand an in-universe lore explanation for the camera. It can't possibly be that we're playing a bloody game that ought to damn well let us oogle at our real life cash payed ship paint jobs in a sensible manner, without doing backflips for it or overconvoluting the whole thing with some lore bullshit that has more holes than a Swiss cheese.
Anton Sugar
Member
Power Play decals are free in the store right now: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd/powerplay-decal-pack.html
Some cool fan art, via reddit:
Some cool fan art, via reddit:
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Giant ships interest me a lot for the new patch. I'm imagining hitching a ride to colonia or some other area.
Ship name confirmed at the top right. Some new chat things going on.
Faces in chat!
Revamped friends list
History tab
Idle state (no role selected)
Session report
Gunner UI
Adding turreted mining lasers
Data Link Scanner in modules (Is available to gunner role as well) - No word on what that is yet
Faces in chat!
Revamped friends list
History tab
Idle state (no role selected)
Session report
Gunner UI
Adding turreted mining lasers
Data Link Scanner in modules (Is available to gunner role as well) - No word on what that is yet
Reckheim
Member
Thanks for this, sucks being at work.
Anton Sugar
Member
Oh shit, Gunner gets a full 360 degree third person camera for turret control. MY IMMERSION...!!!
EDIT: Huh. When the Gunner was targeting someone, the targetted ship's information had the placeholder "SHIP_NAME" which we know is coming, but also had "SHIP_PLATE". Wonder what that is?
Ooooh, mining turrets coming!
EDIT: Huh. When the Gunner was targeting someone, the targetted ship's information had the placeholder "SHIP_NAME" which we know is coming, but also had "SHIP_PLATE". Wonder what that is?
Ooooh, mining turrets coming!
I can already see the salt mines flowing.
Makes too much sense from a game mechanic PoV for them to flow too long.
This starts to look like a cool coop game for a change.
Anton Sugar
Member
Hey, full bounties for all Wing members coming in 2.3! That's nice.
Otherwise, this stream is honestly a little boring. Not that the concepts aren't cool, but I want to see this stuff in action. Show us some combat.
EDIT: Ah, here we go.
Otherwise, this stream is honestly a little boring. Not that the concepts aren't cool, but I want to see this stuff in action. Show us some combat.
EDIT: Ah, here we go.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah :-\ They say this is meant to just be a "drop in and have fun" feature, not necessarily for long missions or stuff like that. But, your ship essentially has to be outfitted *for* Multi Crew if you want to take advantage of the Gunner role via turrets.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
That looks awesome but man is YouTube livestreaming pure shit
Really wish they would do this on Twitch.
Really wish they would do this on Twitch.
Or you just slap fighters in there and two people have stupid fun hurling those around, while the helm uses their usual guns.
Realistically? I think it most likely has something to do with the whole Alien or "The Missing" narration. Multicrew + character creator being the major features of 2.3, I sure as hell don't expect them to pull out an unannounced major game mechanic or feature on the same level of complexity as those.
Or you just slap fighters in there and two people have stupid fun hurling those around, while the helm uses their usual guns.
Realistically? I think it most likely has something to do with the whole Alien or "The Missing" narration. Multicrew + character creator being the major features of 2.3, I sure as hell don't expect them to pull out an unannounced major game mechanic or feature on the same level of complexity as those.
I agree it's most likely something like that. Not expecting a gameplay feature.
Begun, the immurshun wars have.
Anton Sugar
Member
Went ahead and made a thread for 2.3: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=230452415
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/5uhyhx/external_gunner_view_worries/
Jesus christ. I hope that this guy is a real person. I want this to be a real opinion and not a troll so I can feel justified in the irrational hatred I have for their existence.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I'm glad they're looking at shields but man nerfing shield boosters isn't even the proper solution. I think resistances are a major issue when it comes to inflated hp, because getting full omni resistant shields is pretty common place now thanks to being able to mod resists on boosters and then throw in thermal resist on the main shield.
If you're in an FdL for example you have 4-5 boosters fit on your ship in most builds, if you get g5 thermal resist on your main shield and then do 2 g5 resist augment boosters and 2 g5 heavy duty ones it's not exactly difficult to get 1100mj on a bi-weave with an average of 55% resists on thermal and kinetic and over cap on explosive resist.
When you put 4pips to shields that effectively gives you a damage resistance that would equate you to having something like a 5k mj shield. Which is utter insanity, because then you have to consider that it's a bi-weave, which means they're probably sporting a good hull tank under it, and because it's a bi-weave that means it's actually possible for the shields to come back online during combat.
This is why cascade torpedoes are a thing
This is why PAs are everywhere
The best way to "nerf boosters" would be to make it so you can't mod resistances to them. Because raw MJs aren't the real issue here. In fact I think a hard nerf to boosters would ultimately hurt trader shields more than combat ships.
But that's just my interpretation of the situation.
Thanks for the heads up on the decals.
I wish we had a global chat. If Ram Tah can send me messages about the ruins from a dozen systems away then we should have a galactic CB to talk to other CMDRs if we want. It's completely a use it if you want it, ignore it if you don't thing, so I'm sure the community is against it completely.
I wish we had a global chat. If Ram Tah can send me messages about the ruins from a dozen systems away then we should have a galactic CB to talk to other CMDRs if we want. It's completely a use it if you want it, ignore it if you don't thing, so I'm sure the community is against it completely.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I just realized: his ship was named the "Rancarous Bison", but I don't actually see the name anywhere on the ship itself? Maybe the ship names won't actually appear graphically on the ships at all. That would be disappointing.
They'd have to tune it for all available ship paints, determine ship wear around the text, text size scaling based on length of name. Not a super easy thing. Not super hard either. This is FD though. It took 2 years just to get it in the UI.
Caesar III
Member
I have a great idea for 3.0! Add a branch with realism for all those guys! Wanna fly from earth to the moon, ah well, takes a loong time. Wanna shoot in space? ah well, no audio playing, crashed your ship? Too bad, create a new account, dead is dead.
And leave us alone with our GAME!
And leave us alone with our GAME!
The whole ship can be equipped with cameras and the ships board computer is generating the image. Voila! It's nearly 300 years in the future, there should be real time rendering/raytracing improvements
Instant respawns across tens of thousands of lightyears, instant comms, simplified flight mechanics, not losing sensor lock/being able to scan through solid objects, black holes effectively being invisible-walled... but instant ship/module transfers and camera drones are the breaking points of immersion for some people.
Realism = immersion is a plague. Not true in the slightest, either.
Realism = immersion is a plague. Not true in the slightest, either.
Reckheim
Member
Or that ED is a video game. If they want actual realism they should join the Air Force; spend 3 years learning how to fly a jet and then actually have some real realism.
Real suckere for drama with too high an opinion of the games they play themselves.
Little interest in a little "counter thread" of mine:
External gunner camera for driver/gunner is pretty achievable by todays means + a little science fiction
No one wants to engage in non-hyperbolic and topics devoid of melodrama.
Does anyone remember if having two players in the Fighter Con role is possible or if they mentioned it? If not...that's not so good.
They said it will be possible.
Oh good. Maybe they'll make them a bit more durable as well.