Anton Sugar
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
The character creator is a lot more fun than I expected
Same with the new camera options (though finding bindings for them was a pain)
Same with the new camera options (though finding bindings for them was a pain)
wesleyshark
Banned
I spent a good 30min fiddling about. Will definitely go a bit deeper later on. There's a lot of options!
Felix Lighter
Member
So as I continue my extremely slow push through unlocking engineers, what is a good PvE build for the FDL at this point after all the balance stuff? Has the shield balance hurt the FDL?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
They didn't go through with the shield balance
FdL is still beefy, if you really wanna tear it up with the FdL in pve and be able to hold your own if some one tries to gank you try this out.
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/fer...e040404040400B22b2b2o66.Iw18aQ==.IwBj4yuYg===.
You're gonna have to get used to firing the PAs since they're fixed weapons after all but this is incredibly fun to fly, you're fast, pretty tanky and you don't need to rely on shield cell banks since even if they manage to chew through your bi-weave (which you should mod for thermal resist and half your booster should be resist all and the other half should be heavy duty) which is basically resistant to all damage types, you've got your hull which should be more than enough to hold for your shields to come back up.
You really need the PA efficiency engineer available though for this to really shine, other wise you're gonna get a bit spicy in combat.
The main weakness of the build is that it's got low ammo count so you're not gonna be staying in RES and CZs for terribly long periods of time.
Felix Lighter
Member
I used to run with the huge Plasma Accelerator. I've always used fixed weapons for everything except multi-cannons. That build does look like it would be a lot fun. I also used to love the huge fixed cannon. That cannon did such massive damage to components. Just 2 hits and a few fixed medium pulse laser shots disabled a Anaconda power plant.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah it's a very up close and personal build, so you really just orbit around your target within 500m and just deal massive damage quickly.
I've taken out NPC federal assault ships in ~30 seconds before, soooo satisfying.
I've taken out NPC federal assault ships in ~30 seconds before, soooo satisfying.
Michael Armbrust
Member
So far this is my favorite update of the season. Really happy with how fleshed out the commander creator is. Haven't even tried out multi-crew.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Rail guns improved this patch? Been having some fun on my speedy Clipper with two med rails.
Damn cute CMDR you have there.
Lol. Anton, pls.
wesleyshark
Banned
It's very comprehensive. I'm impressed.
So I leave the computer all damn day to update, and it doesn't start downloading the update until I hit the play elite button.
war not a thing anymore? gaf faction done for? apam napat a thing of the past?
war not a thing anymore? gaf faction done for? apam napat a thing of the past?
Anton Sugar
Member
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The factions just don't matter since you can't actually sign up with them or have any meaningful changes. We've attempted to raise influence before but people always give up.
I just think of Sean Bean raising that copy of Yeats to his face and getting unloaded on.
Anton Sugar
Member
Ffffuuuuuck at these multicrew payout nerfs: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/64v4ta/combat_bondbounty_payouts_for_crew_members/
Helm got 179k
Gunner got almost 9k
Helm got 179k
Gunner got almost 9k
Thanks Sandro.
Rhomega Beta
Member
Yeah, I suppose this looks like me.
Also bought a Diamondback Explorer, named Little Wyvern (Serial code F-0 10):
Also bought a Diamondback Explorer, named Little Wyvern (Serial code F-0 10):
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Thanks! I tried lmao, I wanna do a thing where if I die I'll give myself scars.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Well, spent more time than I should have messing about in the commander creator. For now I'm just gonna stick with this guy, he looks a bit like a more rugged version of me, lol:
Then I spent some time playing and configuring the new camera. It's pretty nice, gonna take a lot of getting used to though, but yeah it's nice. Damn fun to fly the ship from a 3rd person exterior view!
And speaking of ships, here is my new and improved DBX all modded out. The mod rolls aren't perfect, but they aren't too bad either.
My DBX makes 58.78 lys on a full 16T tank, and 60.86 lys on fumes!!! And there's room for improvement on that yet too!!!!!
Yeah, my Asp X will be taking a rest for a bit....
Then I spent some time playing and configuring the new camera. It's pretty nice, gonna take a lot of getting used to though, but yeah it's nice. Damn fun to fly the ship from a 3rd person exterior view!
And speaking of ships, here is my new and improved DBX all modded out. The mod rolls aren't perfect, but they aren't too bad either.
My DBX makes 58.78 lys on a full 16T tank, and 60.86 lys on fumes!!! And there's room for improvement on that yet too!!!!!
Yeah, my Asp X will be taking a rest for a bit....
Are you the guy that streams in VR with the googly eyes on his headset?
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Surprised how good the creator is at making decent looking humans
Little disappointing I couldn't make my space Rasta with some dreads. That and the return of the struggle braids for hair.
Little disappointing I couldn't make my space Rasta with some dreads. That and the return of the struggle braids for hair.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I'll creep over there.
yo what the fuck
lmao
I wouldn't have given him more than $25k. wanna get more money from combat? go do some combat and rank up.
Now limited to a stack of three iirc, in order to prevent players from making money too quickly.
Frontier Game Design.
Is that for real? LOL.
I just stacked four massacre missions, maybe it only counts kills for three of them? At least they didn't go through with nerfing shields so I can sit in a conflict zone for an hour and still make some credits.
Making sure again, so I'm not telling bs, but I remembered correctly:
2.3 changelog said:
To be fair, those stacking schemes made everything else in terms of effort/payout pretty much obsolete, so it's in theory reasonable to reduce effectiveness. But there's balancing and then there's butchering things. Idk if they're the only stackable mission types, but now there's an arbitrary limit on two mission types. Utterly counter intuitive. But probably the cheapest way in terms of dev effort to put a hard limit on the schemes' effectiveness.
Everything else, like for example tackling the actual root of the issue, being that taking up separately RNGenerated missions is an insult to player time for advanced players, would've probably overtaxed Frontier's resources for fixing the issue.
Commander Haulsalot and their 400t cargo ship have come to help a faction transport things. 'Great!' , says the faction representative. 'Here's a mission to haul twelve tons of cargo. Come back in ten minutes, we might just give you another one then. Or log out and back in in our parallel universes called "Open", "Group" and "Solo", they might have more of this type of mission for you there.'
This shit needs to be fixed. Not by doubling down on fucking up player effectiveness, but by giving players things that are worth a damn. One approach is building mission board refreshing into the game, which is really overdue. Make it cost credits if you must. An approach for stackable missions, which are just a design crutch, is to limit these missions revolving around one specific target type/ware at the same destination to one mission per faction and per player. But allow a player to scale them according to their rank and standing with the faction, e.g. by means of a slider. They feel they can massacre ten ships? Let them. They feel they can take up 400? Let them. Scale mission payout and time limit accordingly. That'd utterly do away with multiplying payouts by means of stacking missions and give Frontier far tighter control over how effective this is, while also not continuing to insult players by requiring them to do the mode-locking game to even fill their mission capacity.
Few things I've noticed from the XBO version.
It now runs (and looks?) much better, a lot smoother framerate in more areas.
I keep getting a verbal message that "your FSD drive is running over capacity" or something like that, I've never heard that before, and not sure what it denotes.
In nearly 300hrs, I've never seen this, poor civilians.......
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Danowat32/video/29532055
It now runs (and looks?) much better, a lot smoother framerate in more areas.
I keep getting a verbal message that "your FSD drive is running over capacity" or something like that, I've never heard that before, and not sure what it denotes.
In nearly 300hrs, I've never seen this, poor civilians.......
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Danowat32/video/29532055
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I don't know if I am getting really awful luck or if the patch did something to the power play ships AI but my god they keep running away as soon as I interdict them!
If I can't kill the fed logistic ships within 30 seconds they fly away really fast and then jump out 5 seconds later.
If I can't kill the fed logistic ships within 30 seconds they fly away really fast and then jump out 5 seconds later.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
I can see a bit of Willem Dafoe in there too, the idea of Willem Dafoe being a space trucker pleases me greatly.
My Cobra MKIII and I were doing our tiny bit for the cause through to the wee hours of the morning. The fun finally ended when I fell asleep at the helm with my docking computer activated.
Xbox performance has definately improved with the latest 2.3 update. Framerate is significantly smoother, transitions are quicker and planetary textures seem clearer. Whatever optimisations the team at Frontier have made, they have worked wonders.
wesleyshark
Banned
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Hah, yeah he kind of does! After showing my commander to my girlfriend she said it looked nothing like me, so lol. I like him though so Im keeping him for now. Ill play around with it some more later, its nice how you can change your look pretty easily, that was a good decision.
As for performance, yeah the game seems to run better overall, but there are some pretty bad bugs too:
- Star texture pop in on system jump in is horrible, its far more laggy now than it used to be. That has to be fixed, the stars look like ass for the first 8 seconds or so.
- The galaxy map is broken for most people who run high resolutions or downsample. I had to switch down to 1X SS just to get my galaxy map working, that needs fixing too.
However, FSD jumps seem faster for me now, and both the galaxy map and system map open faster too.
Ragnar Blackmane
Member
Sounds to me like they are advancing the Thargoid story line christmas first contact event style.Patchnotes said:
Also much better character creator than Andromeda, kek.
wesleyshark
Banned
The vast difference in quality is hilariously sad lol
Just need a ship with more than one seat and to have them on your friend's list AFAIK. Should be an option when you select their name.
Thebullfrog
Member
I was in a Conflict Zone in my Annie last night and took a few hits from an accelerator. Every time I got hit, the computer would announce that I had increased shield regeneration and my shields would jump back up to full like I was getting hit with healing beams from a wingmate (I was in solo). So I just kept jumping in front of PA rounds and was unstoppable lol.
How do you deal with the slow fuel scoop speed on the DBX? I just engineered one and I'm already thinking of getting rid of it since it takes forever to scoop.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I was getting this too but from a random vulture.
Felix Lighter
Member
I was just about to post about these. Thank you. Using the mouse in a lot of the UX is broken at the moment. I didn't realize it was associated with resolution. I'm at 1440p with 1.5 SS.
Also, I opened the Galaxy Map from the Engineers menu to go straight to their system and I plotted a course. It plotted a single 154 ly jump that I obviously could not make.
I use to have a mouse and keyboard setup, crab something. Anybody know of where I can find it?
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Found it but no KBM download =(
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Xbox-360-and-Keyboard-Mouse-(Reference-sheets)
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Found it but no KBM download =(
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Xbox-360-and-Keyboard-Mouse-(Reference-sheets)
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah the 4A scoop is very slow, however, I did some time trials and in reality the difference in traveling speed between the Asp X and the 2.3 DBX is not that great, as long as you take advantage of the DBXs longer jump range and better heat management by charging the FSD while fuel scooping. See my thread on it here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/340119-The-DBX-vs-Asp-X-A-tale-of-two-fuel-scoops…
So while scooping in the DBX is slow, and it feels so very slow, its longer jump range can actually make up a lot of that lost speed as long as you overlap FSD charging and fuel scooping. This is only really important when in traveling mode of course, when actually taking the time to explore the slower scoop doesnt matter much, but man that greater jump range certainly does matter! Especially out on the fringe or high/low on the galactic plane.
Felix Lighter
Member
Man, jumping to a new system and having the star suddenly dominate your entire field of view is one of the iconic and most impressive moments in the game and to have a partially loaded star texture completely ruins that.
Looks like you're going with a smaller fuel tank, hadn't thought of that. I'll definitely be giving it another go tomorrow, thanks.