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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
If any explorers missed the live stream in 2.1 you'll be awarded a decal if you have signed up and arrived at beagle point.
Yep, I heard about it, WOOT!
That is going on my Asp and probably never coming off! Anton Sugar
Member
That's pretty cool! More unique decals, plz!
Dreams-Visions
Member
Can confirm this is how it feels (the sense of scale). I went from thinking my Courier was tiny to it being like...a fucking ship! And the Cutter...WHEW LAD.
Now, if I can just figure out the resolution issues. Everything is perfect but everything atm is a blocky mess. Haven't tried changing any of the configurations yet. I really hate FDev sometimes. They are really bad about shielding players from the burden of knowledge. Vive and Rift owners shouldn't have to guess at how their headsets should be configured to make the game look right.
Aztechnology
Member
I have the Saitek Rhino and have been using it regularly for over a year. Maybe I just got lucky or I'm just gentle with it.
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
So while waiting for my Vive to arrive next month it looks like Elite Dangerous training is gonna keep me busy
This game really does feel like an MMO I've not felt so overwhelmed when first launching a game since EQ back in 99..but in a good way..like Damn! this is gonna take some commitment to really appreciate and learn.
I get the feeling I'll get 20 to 30 hrs into the solo play to just get things "figured out" .
First night was just trying to rebind keys to suit my preferences and re configuring buttons on my old saitek cyborg evo. that was two days ago..i decided this AM to order the Thrustmaster t-flight Hotas its basic but should be an improvement.
As well I started watching a bunch of tutorial videos and was like man I CANT wait till i get a ship with that Teal color scheme..and get rid of the ugly Bright Amber/Orange... then found out you can change it yourself. HA! Mauve it is..seems less harsh which seems ot be an issue with VR headsets.
Starting bulletin missions seem to be crap shoot and haven't been successful yet..but no one said Space was gonna be easy
This game really does feel like an MMO I've not felt so overwhelmed when first launching a game since EQ back in 99..but in a good way..like Damn! this is gonna take some commitment to really appreciate and learn.
I get the feeling I'll get 20 to 30 hrs into the solo play to just get things "figured out" .
First night was just trying to rebind keys to suit my preferences and re configuring buttons on my old saitek cyborg evo. that was two days ago..i decided this AM to order the Thrustmaster t-flight Hotas
its basic but should be an improvement.As well I started watching a bunch of tutorial videos and was like man I CANT wait till i get a ship with that Teal color scheme..and get rid of the ugly Bright Amber/Orange... then found out you can change it yourself. HA! Mauve it is..seems less harsh which seems ot be an issue with VR headsets.
Starting bulletin missions seem to be crap shoot and haven't been successful yet..but no one said Space was gonna be easy
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
It ain't called Elite Dangerous for nothing!
frontieruk
Member
So while waiting for my Vive to arrive next month it looks like Elite Dangerous training is gonna keep me busy
This game really does feel like an MMO I've not felt so overwhelmed when first launching a game since EQ back in 99..but in a good way..like Damn! this is gonna take some commitment to really appreciate and learn.
I get the feeling I'll get 20 to 30 hrs into the solo play to just get things "figured out" .
First night was just trying to rebind keys to suit my preferences and re configuring buttons on my old saitek cyborg evo. that was two days ago..i decided this AM to order the Thrustmaster t-flight Hotas
As well I started watching a bunch of tutorial videos and was like man I CANT wait till i get a ship with that Teal color scheme..and get rid of the ugly Bright Amber/Orange... then found out you can change it yourself. HA! Mauve it is..seems less harsh which seems ot be an issue with VR headsets.
Starting bulletin missions seem to be crap shoot and haven't been successful yet..but no one said Space was gonna be easy
That's a file hack you can do it now
tweak it here
Depends on what direction you're going. Everybody heads toward the core, so if you're headed that way, that whole path has already been picked clean. It'll pick up once you get a thousand light years out or so.
600ly is nothing, I push 1000ly or so every time I log on, takes about an hour.
I'm heading below the galactic plane, pretty much directly - 1,000ly now though starting to find star density an issue...
Yeah, you just need to get away from the bubble, on the horizontal plane. It's more about going where other players haven't gone over just distance. When I first set out on my current journey, I found an undiscovered Earth-like barely 400ly outside the bubble. I was astounded that no one had found it before, being so close, but I guess I was just headed off in a direction no one ever bothered with before.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Yes. Very, very slowly, but everything is drawn correctly depending on your position in the galaxy.
frontieruk
Member
In the quest it'll allow you to view the galaxy map at the system you need to go to to plot a route, but after that it depends on the type of mission what you have to do once there
frontieruk
Member
What thrusters do you have? If they are A or B, you will probably be fine if anything interdicts you until you get into the bubble. I can't really arm an Asp and have much jump range to go meet you far out, but I could take my FDL. Taking an Asp with little weapons is kind of pointless for this
i wasnt gonna bring a thrusters with me while exploring
you don't have to fight
just have to keep the attention off my ship until I can jump, and then you can jump too
I'm going to say no as I'm pirating ATM which would be a bad mix for you
pirates can have friends too
Some members of SDC and Code ain't gonna attack me cause we buds
Do yourself the favor and ignore the missions. They're all kinds of poor for getting started.
Rather:
I have little hope that this situation will be "fixed" with 2.1, but I seriously hope that they will improve it a little. There's no fun to be had in accepting courier missions for pitiful credits only to find that your starting sidewinder even lacks the jump range to get you to the destination. And that the better jump drive to counter that issue is some 30 of those mission payouts away.
Finally, an Elite in VR comparison. FlyingWaffleED's photos, Porgator's edit:
Looks like I won't be jumping into VR for a while, yikes.
Those photos are pretty terrible, though...
I play Elite on the DK2 and with a UI that isn't red (an issue that AFAIK isn't there anymore on the final VR models) it's great. Using those photos to decide anything is just a bad idea.
It's like if I take a zoomed photo with an iPhone of my monitor playing some game, then post it and having people decide on the quality of the monitor off those pics.
It shows the Rift's glare pretty well, as well as the harder to read text on the Vive. They're also not the only pictures but these were more convenient to post. It's too bad both companies went with Fresnel lenses.
For reference, these are the two imgur albums in full:
Rift - http://imgur.com/a/Kb4I0
Vive - http://imgur.com/a/GMcvR
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yes, very much so depending on your position. Here is how the galaxy looks from 65,427 lys away from Earth:
This is how it looks in a nebula close to the core, center of the galaxy:
When you get either high or low below the galactic plane the galaxy beneath you gets "cloudy" and you can see space dust around the stars in high density areas:
Caesar III
Member
Finally, an Elite in VR comparison. FlyingWaffleED's photos, Porgator's edit:
Looks like I won't be jumping into VR for a while, yikes.
Does not look a lot better than on my DK2 imho. But could be image quality, etc... Need to make some pictures of it that way as well I guess.
A lot of it has to do with trying to take pictures with a camera through the lens, yeah.
For example here is a similar through-lens picture of E
on the DK2.Finally, an Elite in VR comparison. FlyingWaffleED's photos, Porgator's edit:
Looks like I won't be jumping into VR for a while, yikes.
As someone that's tried Elite in Oculus, I wouldn't judge it based on these photos of someone putting a camera in the lens. It really doesn't do it justice at all.
I can outfit an Anaconda and escort you back if you'd like. Would be my first time back in-game in ages.
Ended up jumping back in today to try and grind from Count to Duke for the Cutter... Good fucking lord grinding rank is so damn awful. Really hope the military ranking system gets revamped in the Engineer update. It's just pure garbage right now. In fact everything with the bulletin board is just crap.
That's perfect, send me a PM with your CMDR name and I'll send you mine, so I know who you are when I add you
I wish I didn't complain about the old system
it was heaven compared to this
didn't have to spend a dime and the rank progression came every 3 pro-bono missions
ive spent anywhere from 5-20m on donations to get to r.admiral
and i'd totally do that too if there was an Empire equivalent
I know it's kinda lame to do this but fdev doesn't exactly give much options
Same as GAF name.
I'm completely okay with working for the rank but this...this is like the mother of all grinds. Haha. I'm doing the HIP empire grind and only getting maybe 4% now per stack of 30 or so. It's real rough.
I'm actually already back but you can still add me if you want and we can fly around
Welcome back. Yeah, shoot me your CMDR name and we'll make a date for when multi-crew comes out. Haha.
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
So this game is Crack.
I'm still just puttering around in Newbie land but I got my Eagle all upgraded as best I can with plenty to spare for when things go wrong.
Just been hanging out between a Nav location and a Spacestation doing bounties for now.
Really love this little fighter. A Gimbled Beam Weapon on Top and 2 Gimbled Cannons under the wings. Wish the cannons held more then 100 ammo but Beam to kill the shields and midrange to close range dual cannons seem to really chew up the hulls.
Not sure which ship to get next but want to keep the fighter and try mining next i think..then trading figure a Cobra Mark III is the best choice
good times
I'm still just puttering around in Newbie land but I got my Eagle all upgraded as best I can with plenty to spare for when things go wrong.
Just been hanging out between a Nav location and a Spacestation doing bounties for now.
Really love this little fighter. A Gimbled Beam Weapon on Top and 2 Gimbled Cannons under the wings. Wish the cannons held more then 100 ammo but Beam to kill the shields and midrange to close range dual cannons seem to really chew up the hulls.
Not sure which ship to get next but want to keep the fighter and try mining next i think..then trading figure a Cobra Mark III is the best choice
good times
For me the Viper MK III was like sex with thrusters strapped to it. Loved that ship. Looks great, super fast, great hardpoints. Never got into the Cobra, hardpoints are badly placed but it's a nice multi-role early on.
sent, looking forward to it
thank you all for the reply. I did try out your suggestion. i am very comfortable with flying in general now and i know how to time jumps and dock etc. so there has been improvement. I have been focusing on solo play. However for the last 2 times this is getting very annoying that i am moving towards my target and an enemy will attack me out of nowhere and i m sucking and combat i guess. But things are improving simply flying in the galaxy gives such an amazing interstellar vibes
To make it worse: Other mission types, which have you actually risk some hull, take time and let you travel around, only give negligible major "faction experience" compared to donation missions. Players are implicitely punished for putting in some actual effort - not to mention trying to have some actual fun. D: The donation grind is not a mind numbing and long effort in itself.
Way to kill any fun to be had in working for ship access/system permissions. I hope that they will at least increase the faction experience gained through missions across the board in 2.1. A revamp of the whole military rank progression system doesn't seem to be in the cards for now.
different missions weights would definitely be a step in the right way - I'm sure most people just "buy" their ranks.
HIP empire grind has you stacking the cut the power/performance evaluation generator bombing and and skimmer destruction. I don't feel like I'm being punished by putting in effort, just in the sense of how little it moves the bar.
I want to get a HOTAS; I was looking at either the Trustmaster T-Flight Hotas X http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001CXYMFS/?tag=neogaf0e-20
or Saitek X52
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LQ4HTS/?tag=neogaf0e-20
for its addition of buttons. Plus it looks pretty nice! But then I read some reviews and saw that Saitek is more looks than quality... Anyone point me in the direction for a lightweight user? I play Elite Dangerous casually and might expand it to other Flight sims if the stick works out.
or Saitek X52
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LQ4HTS/?tag=neogaf0e-20
for its addition of buttons. Plus it looks pretty nice! But then I read some reviews and saw that Saitek is more looks than quality... Anyone point me in the direction for a lightweight user? I play Elite Dangerous casually and might expand it to other Flight sims if the stick works out.