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[Megasoum]

Can you refill the SRV ammo when you're planetside without synthisis?

I don't want to have to fly back to a station but I feel like even if I'm getting back into the mothership it is not actually refilling it.

 

[B-Genius]

Chalk up another victory for the Fuel Rats. What an incredible service those folks have going on!

I was in a brand new Vulture last night, got ahead of myself when going module shopping, and ended up stranded. I made my request and immediately got a response. My saviour arrived and I was on my way again in under 10 minutes.

It would have been quicker if I hadn't been so clumsy with IRC on the phone browser (I'd lose connection when the phone locked after putting it down), but they were patient and professional nonetheless.

Just an absolutely stellar performance all round. Thought I'd be waiting much longer for a rescue on PS4, but no. I recommend running out of fuel at least once for the experience alone!

 

[Megasoum]

Chalk up another victory for the Fuel Rats. What an incredible service those folks have going on!

I was in a brand new Vulture last night, got ahead of myself when going module shopping, and ended up stranded. I made my request and immediately got a response. My saviour arrived and I was on my way again in under 10 minutes.

It would have been quicker if I hadn't been so clumsy with IRC on the phone browser (I'd lose connection when the phone locked after putting it down), but they were patient and professional nonetheless.

Just an absolutely stellar performance all round. Thought I'd be waiting much longer for a rescue on PS4, but no. I recommend running out of fuel at least once for the experience alone!

I know of them but how does it work exactly?

 

[Jedi2016]

I know of them but how does it work exactly?

They have a website with a built-in IRC, where you throw the "Rat Signal". They'll collect your information and send someone to your location in-game.

You wing up with them so they can find you, power down everything except life support (for their own safety, they've been ganked before). They drop in and send some fuel limpets your way until you have enough to get to the nearest star (if you have a fuel scoop) or the nearest station (if you don't).

I wish there was a way to transfer money in-game. I'd have happily dumped a few million credits into their account, they saved me a hell of a lot more than that. Only had to use them once (my own stupidity), they're definitely the real deal.

 

[B-Genius]

I know of them but how does it work exactly?

What Jedi2016 said.

If you need fuel, you press the red button on this page.

You then specify your Commander name (in-game ID), current system, platform, and whether or not you're currently on life support. These details then get broadcast automatically in their IRC channel, and dispatch will assign a Rat to you.

On PS4, your assigned Rat will send a friend request so you can wing up with them. (You can activate a wing beacon from the Functions tab in the right-hand panel.)

I saw a bunch of abbreviations and quick messages going back and forth in the chat as they prepared, and literally a minute after I accepted the friend request I heard the "pop" of someone dropping into my instance. He hailed me on voice comms, but I didn't have my mic at the time and had to resort to clumsily using IRC on my phone.

My guy was super friendly over the comms, and provided more than enough fuel for me to make the rest of my journey. I couldn't help staring in awe as he wished me well and sped away. Messaged him later from my friends list to thank him personally.

I wish there was a way to transfer money in-game. I'd have happily dumped a few million credits into their account, they saved me a hell of a lot more than that. Only had to use them once (my own stupidity), they're definitely the real deal.

Absolutely. I only learned it was a free service after the fact. When I asked about payment someone joked about providing a real life bank account to transfer funds to, but then got swiftly reprimanded in the chat, as apparently someone committed fraud along those lines in the past! They clearly take it very seriously and are extremely committed.

I'm a little bit smitten to be honest. I may consider joining their ranks once I have a nice big multi-task ship.

 

[DrBo42]

I really want to get a all multi-cannon build working on my Corvette though. All overcharged with most being incendiary and 1 corrosive? I feel like there's too much jitter in anything I try unless it's decked out grade 5. Whether it be pulse or multis.

What Jedi2016 said.

If you need fuel, you press the red button on this page.

You then specify your Commander name (in-game ID), current system, platform, and whether or not you're currently on life support. These details then get broadcast automatically in their IRC channel, and dispatch will assign a Rat to you.

On PS4, your assigned Rat will send a friend request so you can wing up with them. (You can activate a wing beacon from the Functions tab in the right-hand panel.)

I saw a bunch of abbreviations and quick messages going back and forth in the chat as they prepared, and literally a minute after I accepted the friend request I heard the "pop" of someone dropping into my instance. He hailed me on voice comms, but I didn't have my mic at the time and had to resort to clumsily using IRC on my phone.

My guy was super friendly over the comms, and provided more than enough fuel for me to make the rest of my journey. I couldn't help staring in awe as he wished me well and sped away. Messaged him later from my friend's list to thank him personally.



Absolutely. I only learned it was a free service after the fact. When I asked about payment someone joked about providing a real life bank account to transfer funds to, but then got swiftly reprimanded in the chat, as apparently someone committed fraud along those lines in the past! They clearly take it very seriously and are extremely committed.

I'm a little bit smitten to be honest. I may consider joining their ranks once I have a nice big multi-task ship.

Awesome. Love hearing stories about fuel rat rescues.

 

[DrBo42]

It begins

We wanted to give you a quick heads up on some in-game changes to Holo-Me customisation that will be visible when the beta goes live and help make sure there isn't any confusion when you see it.

The first change to note is that there is now a slot for eyewear! You'll be pleased know that you'll be getting a fresh pair of glasses via the Frontier Store for free once 2.4 launches fully after the beta!

Coming in 2.4 there will be other sets of glasses in a wide range of styles that will be available exclusively via participating in community giveaways, competitions, events and streams.

You'll also notice there are spaces for the ability to swap out the tops, sleeves and legwear of your avatar outfits. In 2.4 there will be the option to purchase a wider range of new suits from the Frontier Store. In this new range of suits, you'll be able to switch between each part of the outfit, based on the full suits that you own.

In 2.4 we've also included an update to the in-game livery store, where you'll be able to preview in-game items before purchasing them!

Also - beta change log is on the way... just waiting on a couple of tweaks.

Thanks,

Ed

Edit: Closed beta is now available to download. Patch notes still pending.

 

[Volimar]

It begins

Eh we all expected the shops to go wild eventually with accessory holo me options.


Enjoy the beta those who are participating! Find those bugs!

 

[DrBo42]

Golden paintjobs

Edit: Patch notes are live.

Hey everyone,

Those who are eligible to download the 2.4 beta will be able to do so now.

If you have access to the closed beta (those who have previously purchased beta or had access to previous closed betas) you should see it available for download in the Elite Dangerous launcher.

Remember - this beta will work slightly differently to previous betas, as outlined here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showth...ta-Information

Claiming your free community decal - accept and take part in the Community Goal on the beta servers to be eligible for the free decal! It's that simple.

The beta forum segments will be opened for feedback as usual, and the designers will be asking for specific types of feedback too. Look out for their posts in the forums.

Thanks!

Here's the changelog (keep in mind much of the content will arrive at launch and has been left out of the beta changelogs to avoid spoilers). There are also further small edits to this changelog related to tweaks and fixes to ships incoming, so keep an eye out for an edit later today:

New Content & Features (Horizons)

• Holo-Me Save Slots - We have added save slots for different Commander appearances in the Holo-Me system
• Holo-Me: Added 12 new hairstyles
• Holo-Me: Added slots for Eyewear and Outfits
• Synthesis can now create heat sinks, chaff, limpets and top up life support
• Additional planetary bases added to the Colonia region for migration winners

New Content & Features (Non-Horizons)

• Ship Rebuy Penalty – When a player commits the crime of murder (PvP only), an additional cost is added if they swap to a less expensive ship before paying legal costs during the rebuy flow
• Pilot's Federation Bounty – When a player commits the crime of murder (PvP only), they receive an additional Pilot's Federation Bounty. This bounty is valid in every jurisdiction except anarchies
• Inbox Revamp - Various quality of life improvements and a new look
• New Chained Missions - Which can be longer than two steps
• Hull/Canopy Repair Limpet controllers are now available
• Preview game extras in outfitting - You will now be able to preview paint jobs and other game extras available for purchase
• Stored ships can now be sold from the rebuy screen to cover the rebuy cost
• Updated route plotting system:
• maximum route plotting range is now 20Kly
• route plotting is much faster
• there is now an option to make use of neutron star boost when plotting routes
• an icon is displayed on the route to show the last scoopable star before running out of fuel
• Additional NPC stations added to support infrastructure and trade routes in Colonia region
• Star systems renamed based on Colonia based on migration winners and new NPC locations
• Additional space stations added to Pleiades region to support civilian expansion narrative
• Mysterious locations added that we're not going to tell you about
• Added search and rescue contacts to stations across the galaxy
• New and improved salvage scenarios added to support search and rescue gameplay
• Made salvage commodities legal to pick up from wreck sites (will still appear illegal if dropped by ships as that is not salvage)

Fixes and Improvements

Audio System Updates

• Audio Collision Re-factor – the way we trigger audio on collisions is different now. Should sound the same as before
• Music system – is completely replaced! Existing music should behave exactly as before. It is now much more maintainable and enjoyable to use
• Radio chatter – The radio chatter system works differently under the hood now, enabling us to do cool magic chatter based things in the future. Existing chatter lines should function the same as before (around star ports and planet ports)
• Flight controllers – This system also works differently now to be far more flexible and pave the way for future awesomes. Again the player experience should be the same as before for now

Controls

• Fixed a responsiveness issue that could occur when using the D-Pad of a controller on the galaxy map
• Fixed an issue where the driving mode switches were not bound in the Classic Context controls preset

Factions

• Encourage factions to not expand into starsystems that require permits

Fighters/Crew

• Restored the missing descriptions for the GU-97 and Taipan Fighter when viewing their details via the Roles panel

Galaxy/System Map

• Updated some textures in the System Map to reduce memory usage (without reducing the quality)
• Fixed an issue whereby you would not get a failed message when plotting an economical route
• Fixed an issue with how the Gemini Constellation was being drawn on the Galaxy Map
• Corrected an issue whereby the completed mission indicators were not updating correctly on the System Map
• Fixed an issue where ships that have been transferred were not displayed at the correct location on the Galaxy Map after logging out

General Fixes & Tweaks

• Fixed datestamps on inbox messages
• Various text fixes
• Various localisation fixes

Holo-Me Creator

• The Escape key will no longer exit the Holo-Me system
• Fixed a rendering issue that could occur when a Commander's hair overlaid certain environmental fog effects

Missions

• Add distance from starsystem entry to mission destinations
• Ship kills, and actions to complete planetary hack and disable missions will now only contribute to a single mission, this will be the earliest mission accepted
• Refactored mission selection to promote a wider selection of missions on a single board.
• Refactored mission selection to promote a better spread of missions across factions
• Refactored mission selection to heavily promote selection of conflict missions for both sides involved
• Refactored mission selection to more reliably generate permit, engineer, and rank missions at eligible stations.
• Slightly rebalanced micro resource reward selection probabilities
• Added an inbox message when passengers alight from the ship
• Follow-on missions can include more data about previous missions in the chain
• Added support for missions allocating additional rewards based on station distance from the jump-in point
• Optimisations to how system data caching for secondary sites is stored and requested
• Significantly improve mission board loading, especially for those on high-latency networks
• Fixed message text when trying to accept missions past the mission limit (No longer says "... of this type" when it means total missions)
• Fixed passengers on tourism missions not realising the player hadn't gone to the right beacon when on multiple-site trips
• Fixed localisation text for certain parts of Ram Tah's ruins mission in languages other than english

NPCs

• Fixed an issue whereby forgetful Military NPCs could sometimes have left their weapons at home
• Shooting a capital ship in a scenario where they are the bad guys no longer lands you with a bounty on your head
• Trigger-happy NPCs will now only shoot missiles once the target's shields have dropped
• Fixed the falling skimmer issue that could occur on planet surfaces

Outfitting

• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented players from selecting stored modules in Outfitting
• Fixed an issue where livery items would not appear the first time they are clicked upon
• Various outfitting items have had their descriptions fixed

Player Journal

• Added "Luminosity" property to "Scan" event for a Star
• Added "MissionRedirected" event
• Added "SearchAndRescue" event
• Added "SellShipOnRebuy" event
• Include Latitude and Longitude info in Screenshot event if appropriate
• Include transfer time to FetchRemoteModule
• Include info about online friends at startup
• The 'Scan" event is generated for all bodies in a system, when scanning a navigation Beacon
• Added "RepairDrone" event
• Added "Music" event

Render

• Fixed an OSX specific issue with asteroid decals having bright textures when mining
• Fixed an OSX specific issue that saw station lights rendering through your ship's geometry
• Made some tweaks to prevent certain landing pads from being visible when using the vanity camera when docked in a hangar on a planet
• Fixed an issue that could lead to other Commanders mysteriously floating around the screen when inspecting a fighter or SRV
• We have made some improvements to the planetary surface textures to prevent it from 'jumping' when driving an SRV
• Improvements made to station LOD (level of detail) when in a Wing

Server

• Fix a cause of stored ships shown on the galaxy map, but were inaccessible from the shipyard
• Fix a transaction server error when transferring stolen cargo between SRVs and Ships
• Fix displaying the wrong language labels for Community Goal reward tiers
• Fix displaying the wrong language in multi-crew session reports
• Fix some incorrect faction superpower allegiance and government types used for the galaxy map, system map, commodities and outfitting services
• Stop displaying 'main menu' as a last location in top bounty local news reports
• Fix some occurrences of Cmdr Validating when displaying xbox commander names
• Fix a transaction server error when passengers leave ship cabins
• Fix a transaction server error in outfitting
• Various reliability and performance improvements

SRV

• Fixed a text overlay issue with the Surface and System map buttons in the Navigation Panel when driving an SRV
• Fixed an issue that caused the mouse direction cursor to not appear when driving an SRV

Stability Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a nearby NPC ship was docking in a station
• Fixed a crash that could occur when saving and exiting back to the main menu
• Fixed a crash that could occur when reviewing Multicannon hardpoints in Outfitting
• Fixed a memory crash that could occur in various situations while playing
• Fixed a memory leak
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering an Unidentified Signal Source
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dropping in to a Civilian Installation
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering Supercruise

Stations and Outposts

• Outpost weapons platform has been completely updated with new art
• All Outposts have had an art pass to fix minor issues and improve visuals
• Outpost schematic rendering is now fixed to show all the extra modules, not just the core outpost
• Modular Stations have had an art pass to fix minor issues and improve visuals in some areas
• Various station schematic models have been updated to improve quality and fix orientation issues
• Physics mesh optimisation in the newer station interiors to improve framerate
• Various updates to station interiors to fix minor art issues and improve LODs

UI

• Fixed an issue where the fuel scooping UI element would overlap with the jump charging element
• Fixed an issue that could cause your inbox to become garbled when deleting messages
• Fixed an issue where gunsights were not rendering correctly
• Fixed some icons that were missing in the Multi-crew role switch panel
• Fixed an issue where the Multi-crew session report could overlay incorrectly and not be closed when opened in the Gunner Cam mode
• The Insurance screen will now show the last ship you were flying by default
• Livery items you own will now be indicated with a tick
• Removed a mysterious invisible button to nowhere from the Station Services menu
• Corrected the Commander portraits appearing at a lower resolution in the Station menu
• We have made some cosmetic improvements to the layout of the Insurance screen
• Fixed an issue where a Wingman's target marker could disappear when they target a subsystem

VR

• We have made some adjustments to mouse behaviour when viewing the Holo-Me menu in VR so that it matches other UI screens
• We have disabled the bloom effect when using the VR graphical presets by default, as it could be a bit hard on the eyes

Weapons

• We have made some improvements to the animations on railgun

 

[Volimar]

• Mysterious locations added that we’re not going to tell you about

lololol

But I thought those wouldn't be in the beta.

 

[DrBo42]

Just synthesized some limpets. Feels good, man. 10 iron and 10 tin for 4. Kinda steep.

Feel like I'm hearing radio chatter I never have before. Kinda static-y in station of random flights communicating.

20kLY plot distance, took 6-8 seconds.

Last scoopable star indicator

Ship we've been seeing is a Thargoid

Spoiler

Interceptor

Spoiler

New livery

 

[Volimar]

Just synthesized some limpets. Feels good, man. 10 iron and 10 tin for 4. Kinda steep.



Feel like I'm hearing radio chatter I never have before. Kinda static-y in station of random flights communicating.

20kLY plot distance, took 6-8 seconds.



Last scoopable star indicator

Oh wow, those QoL exploring updates are nice. Long overdue, but nice.

 

[Moose Biscuits]

• Synthesis can now create heat sinks, chaff, limpets and top up life support
• Hull/Canopy Repair Limpet controllers are now available

Nice, these are some potential gamechangers.

• Holo-Me: Added 12 new hairstyles
• Holo-Me: Added slots for Eyewear and Outfits

YES

Time for turning my qt spacewaifu into a qt megane spacewaifu

 

[DrBo42]

Mission stacking is dead for shared kills. They only count per mission now in chronological order.

 

[Mengy]

So, the best aspect of the 2.4 update for me will most definitely be the galaxy map route plotter improvements. Sure it's just a QoL change, but that's a whole lot of upgrading for the route plotter! The rest of it really seems like low hanging fruit and won't impact the game at all for me. The secret upcoming Thargoid will mostly be combat content, so I doubt I'll ever even see much of it except for youtube videos.

Ah well, at least I'm that much closer to 3.0 and those potential core improvements now. One step closer to some possible exploration mechanics development, someday....

 

[MarionCB]

Repair limpets will be interesting. Great to see heat sinks and chaff will be able to be synthesized. Also, finally on the legal salvage. It never made sense before.

I'm a little worried able the Ship Rebuy Bounty stuff. The bounty system is already frustrating as hell, getting rid of wanted status, and it sounds like it could be made worse.

• Ship kills, and actions to complete planetary hack and disable missions will now only contribute to a single mission, this will be the earliest mission accepted

There goes Quince, and stacking missions for Conflict Zones. Ah, well.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Quince I can understand but combat missions stacking will kill a lot of the money involved. Still had to work to get the kills. Hopefully they boost combat bonds and increase single mission payouts to correspond.

 

[WillyFive]

Still no fix for the Anaglyph 3D I imagine.

 

[StonedRider]

I've just spent billion credits to outfit my newly purchased Cutter. I want to buy second Cutter for trading and desperately need money. I think, I'm going to spend all the time before 2.4 in Quince doing planetary scan missions.

Also, heat sink ammo synthesis is very nice for exploration, I can remove one heat sink launcher from my Asp to save more weight.

 

[zorbsie]

Really wanted to get a chrome livery for my Conda but missed it. I might fold and get the gold though. I'm part of the problem, aren't I?

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Why am I seriously contemplating the gold SRV

 

[Reckheim]

So, the best aspect of the 2.4 update for me will most definitely be the galaxy map route plotter improvements. Sure it's just a QoL change, but that's a whole lot of upgrading for the route plotter! The rest of it really seems like low hanging fruit and won't impact the game at all for me. The secret upcoming Thargoid will mostly be combat content, so I doubt I'll ever even see much of it except for youtube videos.

Ah well, at least I'm that much closer to 3.0 and those potential core improvements now. One step closer to some possible exploration mechanics development, someday....

Honestly, the whole map route plotter QOL update is the best part of the second season for me (besides planetary landings). Which is kind of sad TBH.

 

[Moose Biscuits]

Why am I seriously contemplating the gold SRV

Because it's gold

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

They managed to fuck up Heat Sink synthesizing (not surprising) but having even the basic one use manufactured components.

Good luck finding those when your 15,000 LY away from civilization.

 

[Volimar]

I don't mind a little prep work before a long trip. Stock up!

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Golden paintjobs

I wish the golden eagle skin worked for the imperial eagle
the ieagle is the only ship that brings me joy lately lol

OH MY GOD NO I CAN'T BELIEVE I GLOSSED OVER THIS PART OF THE PATCH NOTES
"Synthesis can now create heat sinks, chaff, limpets and top up life support"
"heatsinks"

NOOOOOO SHIELD CELL BANK CHUGGING IS GOING TO BE BACK IN FULL FORCE
Things were just getting fun with the bi-weave meta.
The ehp on shields is already ridiculous and now they wanna make it easier to spam SCBs? Guhhhhhhhhh
You're gonna need like 3 fucking cascade rails guns to kill anyone in a big ship.

 

[Hylian7]

Why am I seriously contemplating the gold SRV

I mean I bought the Gold Fer-De-Lance skin when it came out. It's nice.

 

[Zepp Twofist]

I've been hanging around in the bubble for a month's time now, but the plotter upgrades might inspire a new expedition once this update hits.

 

[DrBo42]

I wish the golden eagle skin worked for the imperial eagle
the ieagle is the only ship that brings me joy lately lol

OH MY GOD NO I CAN'T BELIEVE I GLOSSED OVER THIS PART OF THE PATCH NOTES
"Synthesis can now create heat sinks, chaff, limpets and top up life support"
"heatsinks"

NOOOOOO SHIELD CELL BANK CHUGGING IS GOING TO BE BACK IN FULL FORCE
Things were just getting fun with the bi-weave meta.
The ehp on shields is already ridiculous and now they wanna make it easier to spam SCBs? Guhhhhhhhhh
You're gonna need like 3 fucking cascade rails guns to kill anyone in a big ship.

I think it depends if you can make heat sinks in combat. If you can, it might be a new meme.

Edit: Type-10 Defender coming. FD confirms it's not the Panther Clipper.

 

[Reckheim]

I think it depends if you can make heat sinks in combat. If you can, it might be a new meme.

Edit: Type-10 Defender coming. FD confirms it's not the Panther Clipper.

Love me self some Lakon designed ships so looking forward to this. Hopefully it has a decent jump range.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

I think it depends if you can make heat sinks in combat. If you can, it might be a new meme.

Edit: Type-10 Defender coming. FD confirms it's not the Panther Clipper.

The fighting space brick gonna be a beast

 

[MrFrankFontaine]

Do we know when 2.4 is going to be released? Thinking that I might want to make some Quince money before it gets nerfed.

 

[DrBo42]

Do we know when 2.4 is going to be released? Thinking that I might want to make some Quince money before it gets nerfed.

Beta CG ends September 3rd. I'd farm the rest of August expecting it to hit live the first week of Sept.

 

[Megasoum]

Is it me or is the Docking Computer just incompetent when used on the Anaconda?

I feel like it misses the door every 2-3 landings haha

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Sigh, I am weak.. 100% weak

 

[DrBo42]

Sigh, I am weak.. 100% weak

It looks really nice on the SRV. Nicer than most of the ships honestly. Their shader or material isn't great for chrome or gold. Or it's a problem with the renderer.

 

[Moose Biscuits]

It looks really nice on the SRV. Nicer than most of the ships honestly. Their shader or material isn't great for chrome or gold. Or it's a problem with the renderer.

I feel like it would suit Imperial ships better. I'm seriously tempted to pick up the skins for the Courier and Cutter, despite only being a Serf so far.

 

[Mengy]

Love me self some Lakon designed ships so looking forward to this. Hopefully it has a decent jump range.

Yep, because the game needs more combat ships.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Just bought this on PS4, but I'm a bit worried I'm not going to be able to dedicate the time to it to enjoy it fully. Ah well.

I seem to be having trouble finding the docking doors on space stations. Am I missing something here? :/

 

[Slayven]

Just bought this on PS4, but I'm a bit worried I'm not going to be able to dedicate the time to it to enjoy it fully. Ah well.

I seem to be having trouble finding the docking doors on space stations. Am I missing something here? :/

Sometimes they don't have door and actually just a pad on the surface, you have to fly around until you see the pulsing glowing square.

I wish they would improve on that

 

[JackAubrey]

Just bought this on PS4, but I'm a bit worried I'm not going to be able to dedicate the time to it to enjoy it fully. Ah well.

I seem to be having trouble finding the docking doors on space stations. Am I missing something here? :/

The targeting holo for the space station shows arrows pointing towards where the slot is.

And the navigation targeting dot points towards where your landing pad is.

 

[mokeyjoe]

The targeting holo for the space station shows arrows pointing towards where the slot is.

And the navigation targeting dot points towards where your landing pad is.

Sure I've seen them. Just takes me ages to find the slot for some reason. Practice I guess

 

[Moose Biscuits]

Sure I've seen them. Just takes me ages to find the slot for some reason. Practice I guess

Here's a good tip: for orbitals and space docks (ie. the ones that aren't the outposts): the mailslot faces towards the surface of the body it orbits.

 

[DrBo42]

They really need to shorten their rollout time for this beta. It's very stable at the moment. Not a whole lot to actually test extensively outside of chained missions and synthesis impact on PvP.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Oh my god I'm gonna rant a bit but I'm gonna spoiler it so I don't spoil the new kid's fun since this rant only really pertains to people who have played for more than 350 hours.

Spoiler

Every time I come back to this game I am reminded instantly why I can only play for a few weeks before quitting for another break. After engineering my ship to grade 4s in most slots I basically just gave up after doing G4 DD on my FdL because I realized "holy shit I can't get anything done in this game that doesn't take the whole fucking day". After the fucking awful material's grind to get what I want so I can at least be functional in pvp which is the only part of the game i actually enjoy because it's the only part of the game that has ANY LEVEL OF DEPTH TO IT I then have to pray for good rolls or i've wasted my materials and therefore hours of farming. But no I can't pray yet my friends! First I have to get in the ship I want to engineer and fly it to the engineer which could take an hour on its own because my FdL only has an 18 ly jump range (modded) and the tank can only do 2 jumps before i have to sit and scoop. I could get in my long distance hauler and make the trip in 5 minutes and then ship over my FdL but that costs a couple million credits and takes longer to arrive than flying it myself. The game won't just let me play it I have to always be doing some bullshit activity to play it.

Spoiler

It's so utterly infuriating when I decide i want to try out a new load out but then realize I don't have the materials to engineer them, or if I do I don't get the experimentals I want and then I have to grind reputation, it's a never ending cycle where I can't actually participate in the activity I want to participate in at the level I want to participate without going through what feels like endless rubbish.

Spoiler

AND THEN THERE IS POWER PLAY. Power play isn't even a grind it's just a waiting game. The dumbest part about power play is that it rewarded me more when i took a break from the game than when i was actually playing it i said to myself "i want pack hounds" so i signed up for that faction then i didn't play for 2 months, came back and because I started playing on a Tuesday I was able to grind the merits within 5ish hours and by thursday I had my pack hounds. That's quite frankly idiotic, that I got my rewards sooner for not playing the game than I would have for playing the game.

Spoiler

The reason this makes me so mad is because I genuinely love this game, I love it so much but looking at what the game wants me to do to get where I want some times makes me want to just never come back. It's aggravating that I paid for horizons just for engineers but they're not even fun they're just monstrous busy work.

Okay now that that's out of my system, this community goal for delivering cargo has been hilarious. I've been flying around the systems near by and interdicting people and telling them to drop a couple tons or I blast them out of the sky. I've never actually played a proper pirate but this is quite fun and i've already ended up delivering enough to get me into the 75% contribution mark lol.

 

[MrFrankFontaine]

Just bought this on PS4, but I'm a bit worried I'm not going to be able to dedicate the time to it to enjoy it fully. Ah well.

I seem to be having trouble finding the docking doors on space stations. Am I missing something here? :/

If you target the orbital stations there'll be arrows on the target hologram showing you which way the slot is. Took me a minute to figure that out.

 

[mokeyjoe]

If you target the orbital stations there'll be arrows on the target hologram showing you which way the slot is. Took me a minute to figure that out.

Awesome, thanks. I'll have to check that out next time. With that said, my docking skills have already improved immensely in the first couple of hours, lol.

 

[MarionCB]

I just had an odd feeling. I was absent-mindedly doing a quick side mission alongside a cargo route when I received an illicit cargo warning and with a flash of annoyance I checked my inventory to see what it was. There I saw tonnes of Liquor, Imperial Slaves, Kamitra Cigars, and Personal Weapons. Oh. Um, huh. Am I the bad guy? It was a strange moment of self-reflection.

Anyway, then I engaged silent running and boosted into the Station.

 

[Camp Freddie]

If you target the orbital stations there'll be arrows on the target hologram showing you which way the slot is. Took me a minute to figure that out.

I've been playing for years and never noticed that!
I use the "right hand rule". Make a fist with your fingers curled in the direction of rotation. The docking port is where your thumb is.

Just did my first has rez in my Anaconda. Had to abort first attempt because I left some metaalloys in my hold from the last CG. Never been chased by so many pirates before!

2nd attempt, I fingers a corvette and wing up. I think we're both G5 engineered. I've never seen pirates die so quickly. We even jumped in fighters for a bit of dogfighting fun, especially when fighting annoying small ships. 4.7 million bounties in less than an hour, not bad! Pity only 1.7m counted towards the CG.

 

[Megasoum]

Man.... The gold skins are really tempting but fuck that point system on PSN... 20CDN$ for 1000 points with each skins costing 300 (I want it for my Conda, Cobra and eventual Cutter)... so because of the suck ass point system I'm already paying too much for it (extra 100 points) but also fuck that 20$ for 3 skins.....arghhh