Dubbedinenglish
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Never tried mine launcher, kinda want to try it but on my Clipper now. Definitely a good surprise weapon.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Never tried mine launcher, kinda want to try it but on my Clipper now. Definitely a good surprise weapon.
Holy crap that was exciting to watch!
I made the horrible mistake of scrolling down and reading comments =/
Corleth the Fey
Member
You did target the scan point first, right? I know it sounds silly, but I spent 5 minutes confused in the SRV wondering why it wouldn't scan it and that was the problem.
Between you and another player/NPC controlled ship in normal flight? Drop the cargo (no more than 100 pieces at a time because anything beyond will despawn iirc) and the other has to gobble up. Either by means of manually cargo hatching all the stuff or by means of collector limpets.
Between your own ships? There is no cargo storage function and you can only have what fits in your current ship. You can only transfer by changing to a ship with at least equal cargo capacity. The new ship will autmatically have all the cargo transferred to it. Otherwise you'll be prevented from changing the ship and have to get rid of cargo, until the tonnage is equal or lesser than the cargo capacity of your desired ship.
yikes not even in stations? was hoping it would be like Eve Online, just store stuff in a station and have the other ship get the cargo like stored modules
Peroroncino
Member
Guess I'll need to finally buy that pro.
Storage is limited to ships themselves and - since update 2.2 - modules. If you want to have a reason for facepalming really, really hard, go to Frontier's official forums and suggest that the game could benefit from outright sensible quality of life stuff that's already available in Eve online. Edit: Or any other competent online m ultiplayer game, for that matter.
A certain subgroup of people will effectively tell you to go stick it and play Eve. The fun is in the mental gymnastics people come up with to justify what is essentially lack of features or outright poor design.
Peroroncino
Member
Ok, let's say I want to explore for a bit, maybe do some missions like scanning while I'm at it, what modules are necessary?
Dreams-Visions
Member
Class A Frameshift Drive
Class B/A Fuel Scoop
Advanced Discovery Scanner
Detailed Surface Scanner
Optional: SRV if you want to roam on surfaces.
Optional: Auto Field Maintenance Unit for unexpected repairs.
that is all that is required.
Inkvoterad
Member
Have yall found a ps4 controller preset for pc that perfectly mimics the ps4 controller on the ps4 version? Jumping between controller and keyboard is gonna be a bit annoying in more stressful stages haha. and i mostly wanna be able to lay back and eventually play this on the link too.
Retro Edge
Member
I bought the ASP X now and have a question.
When I try to upgrade the frame shift drive, as example, the standard one had a 5E, should I stay now with 5 or would any other number be better?
When I try to upgrade the frame shift drive, as example, the standard one had a 5E, should I stay now with 5 or would any other number be better?
Peroroncino
Member
alright, thanks.
btw. I had to deliver 30x water to a specific station, I'm at the station and I can't complete the mission, wth? Water is in my inventory [haulage]. The option just isn't there.
Quick question:
I just picked the commander pack with horizons included on PS4 using my US PSN account to buy it. This account is linked with my Japanese PSN account that I use as my main account to play games on. The game boots fine, but it is telling me to buy Horizons? I've booted the game up on the US account and it has horizons activated just fine.
I'm seeing mixed reports online saying it's just a bug and will be fixed, or some that you cannot even share horizons over linked accounts but I've never encountered problems like this before with expansions (such as Destiny for example). Does anyone have any other information or a solution?
I'd rather not play on my US account as it is a hassle.
I just picked the commander pack with horizons included on PS4 using my US PSN account to buy it. This account is linked with my Japanese PSN account that I use as my main account to play games on. The game boots fine, but it is telling me to buy Horizons? I've booted the game up on the US account and it has horizons activated just fine.
I'm seeing mixed reports online saying it's just a bug and will be fixed, or some that you cannot even share horizons over linked accounts but I've never encountered problems like this before with expansions (such as Destiny for example). Does anyone have any other information or a solution?
I'd rather not play on my US account as it is a hassle.
Checked out the Road to Riches web app for exploration. Made 9 million credits after scanning 10 systems. Got to Trailblazer rank from that lol. Going to do more this week for more easy credits and I'll use the data to get Felicity Farseer ranked up too.
It's here in case anyone else wants to make money from exploration: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/6foccy/road_to_riches_improved/
It's here in case anyone else wants to make money from exploration: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/6foccy/road_to_riches_improved/
It isn't some nonsense where they wanted the material mined, right? Can't remember if you can't get water from ice rings or not. Anyway you might want to just log out and back in to see if it's some sort of session issue.
I listened to this in the car, but one thing I might have missed (I'll go watch again later): Do engineers only require materials that can go in the inventory or not? I was never really clear on that. Based on talk I have seen here, there are some mats that go in cargo, but I am unsure.
Just want to say the risk I took was calculated, but damn am i bad at math.
Decided to do a sight seeing mission that was going on for 600,000 credits. It was a illegal passenger... and it had bounties on his head.
Needles to say got BTFO halfway when I engaged and destroyed one of the bounty hunters and the patrols arrived in the scene.
Decided to do a sight seeing mission that was going on for 600,000 credits. It was a illegal passenger... and it had bounties on his head.
Needles to say got BTFO halfway when I engaged and destroyed one of the bounty hunters and the patrols arrived in the scene.
Peroroncino
Member
No, it was a simple courier mission, they provided me with the water and coordinates. I logged out, went solo play, open play, quit the game, jumped to another system and back, nothing, so I abandoned the mission and sold the water to their black market, sucks.
did you check if you had enough space to accept their material rewards if they gave any
If you want to PVP it definitely helps. If you just want PvE play, you can slog through without it, but I'd at least try to engineer your FSD for better jump ranges.
FSD range even when fully modded on an FDL makes me sad.
I really want to get the shield and the shield boosters modded for added survivability but that material grind... it's daunting.
Forerunner
Member
Nah, get the PC version. I have a similar PC. i7-920 and a gtx 980.
In space, I get +144fps (I have a 144hz monitor).
In stations, I get +80fps.
On planets, it fluctuates the most, but it's still +60fps.
Yeah this is something I'm unsure about as well. I scooped up some cargo, and figured I'd sell it, but it wasn't under my cargo inventory, so I assumed that was material that was directly tied to Engineers. So does that mean there is infinite space for those kinds of items?
Nope, it displays your inventory size. 1000 for materials and I think 600 for scan data.
Ah oops, ok minor oversight
Not sure if anyone's answered this yet, but from what I understand, you're probably slowing down due to approaching a large body (e.g. a planet).
Even if you have throttle at max, you'll naturally slow down when you hit the gravity well of such a body, and your max speed will decrease until you distance yourself from it. You can actually leverage this for more efficient landings if you practice, as you can come in pretty hot, then use the gravity well to put the brakes on and position yourself nicely between the planet and the station it's orbiting. (The entrance almost always faces towards the surface.)
Be careful not to get over-zealous, though, as if you're coming in too hot at the wrong angle, you'll either overshoot your target, or your ship will emergency drop you out of FSD to stop you ploughing into the planet at warp speed.
Do any science types know (theoretically) what would happen if you were to keep going, and fly into a planet at several times the speed of light?
Thanks for the clarification!
Retro Edge
Member
Any good ASP X builds that you can recommend?
Smiles and Cries
Member
No one one answered the question about if I lose rank = RP with the mission giver if I abandon it or time runs out.
It is 1:22 AM just woke up so I am about to turn on the PS4 and try again for 6-8 hours
that is not silly at at. I know you are trying to help and I really hope this is my error, On my Sidewinder I have 2 types of scanners one that just works when I press the button without having to lock on anything and the other has the same name as the SRV on Data Link Scanner
So while flying if I deploy them. I can use the Basic Discovery Scanner and it has a little red bar under the name that slowly becomes blue as you press the button
would not allow me to capture a photo while the trigger was being pressed so I can't take a pic of the D SCANNER showing half blue half red while scanning
I press the other button for DATA Link Scanner it also has a nice red bar and nothing happens
so someone please walk me through proper Locking and Scanning I just failed one mission and have 2 hours before time runs out on another
I'll take a video of me on the SRV going to the place I have to scan in an hour or so maybe you guys can see what I might be doing wrong
thanks CMDRs
It is 1:22 AM just woke up so I am about to turn on the PS4 and try again for 6-8 hours
that is not silly at at. I know you are trying to help and I really hope this is my error, On my Sidewinder I have 2 types of scanners one that just works when I press the button without having to lock on anything and the other has the same name as the SRV on Data Link Scanner
So while flying if I deploy them. I can use the Basic Discovery Scanner and it has a little red bar under the name that slowly becomes blue as you press the button
would not allow me to capture a photo while the trigger was being pressed so I can't take a pic of the D SCANNER showing half blue half red while scanning
I press the other button for DATA Link Scanner it also has a nice red bar and nothing happens
so someone please walk me through proper Locking and Scanning I just failed one mission and have 2 hours before time runs out on another
I'll take a video of me on the SRV going to the place I have to scan in an hour or so maybe you guys can see what I might be doing wrong
thanks CMDRs
Forerunner
Member
I totally forgot about pirate players. I spent an hour getting out to the CG system and Im almost there when I get interdicted. I dont have time for this shit, so I just submit. Its some dude in a FDL and he just instantly starts attacking. I just boost away and jump. Almost there again and same guy interdicts me again. I just do the same thing. I make it to the station with like 70% hull strength. I mean its quite obvious he wasnt after my cargo since hes in a FDL that cant carry anything and he didnt even bother to scan me. I mean you have nothing better to do than try to blow up haulers in your dedicated combat ship? Maybe next time hell get me, probably not.
If you're not a fan of pvp don't forget to check out the Mobius group. A private group with PvE focus. So you're safe from other players but not as desperately alone as in solo. It's a huuuuuge group so you'll usually find folks in busy systems. Very friendly bunch.
https://elitepve.com/
https://elitepve.com/
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Hmm these are for surface missions right? Data link scanner in the ship is for scan-able points in space like with some megaships have them.
Now when you are in the SRV, make sure you assign the fire group while in the SRV. The ship data link scanner doesn't transfer to the SRV.
Are you a aligned with a power in powerplay? Maybe he wanted to kill you for merits.
Other than that, based on your description, I don't see a logical reason for him to want to kill you other than him having fun/being a dick.
I won't lie, one week over a year ago I went to an enemy power system and interdicted and killed tons of ships with my FDL, both player and AI. With the player ones I generally left alone anything bigger than a Viper. I wanted quantity, not quality. In that situation though, I had a reason to kill the players other than just random murder because "fuck you"
Forerunner
Member
Nah, I don't bother with PP. People also put the system in lockdown too. Some people just like being dicks.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I am uploading a video now from my latest attempt
I am blind in my right eye maybe I am missing some of the text that pops up on the right side of the screen. Yes surface missions, I am also being rushed because the base is private and I am trespassing
maybe it is my eyes and being rushed making me feel I am not getting it done
So when the video is up please someone tell me if I had my Fire Group and Torrett Mode, and Locking done correctly please point out if I missed something on the screen because of my vision
I want to be able to do these missions, that one trip is 450,000CR I am losing out on and as I get my RP up I could make a lot more per trip.
Smiles and Cries
Member
PS4 totally ignored my video clip have to go redo the mission the try and capture it again not sure what is wrong with this new share system
Edit: Ah never mind I don't have enough credits to even pay rebuy cost for my ship going to go do something else for the next few days
Edit2: Ok 72 Jumps without insurance let's see if this won't end tragically lol
Edit: Ah never mind I don't have enough credits to even pay rebuy cost for my ship going to go do something else for the next few days
Edit2: Ok 72 Jumps without insurance let's see if this won't end tragically lol
Unless the reason is that you've lost all your credits on rebuys already, you'll only have yourself to blame. ;-)
That's one thing which got lamented very, very often in the games's early days: player buys shiny new ship without credits to spare, wrecks it or gets wrecked, goes to the forum and cries. As much flak as I give Frontier for incompetent game design, this one is on the player. There is near zero risk in the game, unless you provoke it. And all you lose if things go wrong, is time. Which can hurt quiet a lot, actually, hence the constant squabble in the community about piracy, unwanted PvP and griefing.
Smiles and Cries
Member
yeah the game just froze on me with 52 jumps left so looks like I have to start over from nothing
I am not saying that it was the smartest move to jump 72 without out it, but the game crashing is not the situation I was hoping to take the blame for lol
Edit: still alive at the last place I froze at I think... MUHAHAHAHA I LEARNED NOTHING!
When you log in again, you should spawn in normal flight in the system where you were registered last. Don't give up, yet!
Edit: Would've been surprised, because disconnects don't normally lead to distruction.
Edit: still alive at the last place I froze at I think... MUHAHAHAHA I LEARNED NOTHING!
Smiles and Cries
Member
I need to play safer can you save in the middle of no where?
I won't see a base for a while
I won't be running out of fuel at least
Darkstorne
Member
Doesn't that defeat the point of exploration if you're following someone else's very specific guide on a very specific route that they've already fully charted..? =P
Though it is nice to see how awesome this community is at creating and sharing resources to help others players get a good start in the game.
Retro Edge
Member
Uhhhhh, how can I do the new delivery community goal if there is martial law ( it's on lockdown) at the station?
It saves pretty regularly, and yes you can save and quit in the middle of nowhere.
You'll still be there when you log back in, give or take a few mega metres
Are you playing in Solo mode? That would make sense if you want to play safer in general.
I've also found I have fewer hangs/disconnects in Solo mode.
It's a shame, but it might provide a smoother play experience until they give the PS4 servers a boost.