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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Mengy
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That won't help. The problem is with FDev's level of detail routines for 2.1. Planet surfaces have much more detail down at SRV level but at altitude planet textures are much worse than they were in 2.0. It's a known issue that was recognized by the devs in beta, but they launched 2.1 anyway without fixing it. There isn't any way to make it better currently, hopefully FDev can get it working right sooner rather than later, but I would not bet money on it.
Reckheim
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Honestly, if they did it to improve the framerate on planets then i'd rather keep it the way it is.
I'm enjoying the performance boost.
David Incorporated Esq.
Member
Yeah, any time I got close to a planet before I'd drop 10-15fps, it was pretty bad.
I'd be okay with it if it looked like that on lower settings but it would be silly of them to downgrade the highest settings just for a few extra frames and worse looking planets.
David Incorporated Esq.
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Yep, as the tiers are completed the payouts increase. The combat CG at Ngolibardu gave me almost 20M for the top 25% rank.
I haven't played since 2.1 hit, but back before then, getting close to a planet's surface with my ship or dropping down in my SRV often had horrible framerates for a minute or two, then eventually got better. Usually I just dropped most of the planet graphic settings to low for framerates though.
Reckheim
Member
Try it now, its a lot better. Its probably my favorite thing from the 2.1 update.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
So Mark Allen, programmer for FDev, made a very detailed post in my thread about the actual nature of the AI super weapon bug and how it happened. Really good read:
Mark's post here
It's also very likely that solo mode is not afflicted by the bug at all due to network handling routines being the cause of it. Interesting.
Mark's post here
It's also very likely that solo mode is not afflicted by the bug at all due to network handling routines being the cause of it. Interesting.
Mark Allen said:
Anton Sugar
Member
Hahaha, I played a lot of solo this past week and didn't notice it at all--just the more advanced/difficult AI.
Reckheim
Member
We had 4.9% influence in apam napat yesterday, today we are at 7.5%. I'm assuming this is because we are in a boom state at the moment.
Now would probably a good time to do some missions for Neo Galactic Adventure Force (don't do any missions for the other factions in the system).
Now would probably a good time to do some missions for Neo Galactic Adventure Force (don't do any missions for the other factions in the system).
In any event, the good news is they know exactly what was causing it, which means they know how to fix it. I also imagine it's a quick server-side fix, wouldn't even require a client patch.
So my ship will actually make it back to Earth once I get back to the bubble.. lol.
Any guides you guys recommend ? I just bought the season pass and I barely bought the main game, but I really want to get into it
Game opens up the sooner you ditch the sidewinder for something better. Viper MkIV has so many slots and options.
Any guides you guys recommend ? I just bought the season pass and I barely bought the main game, but I really want to get into it
Get a Hauler, it is dirt cheap to upgrade. Do courrier missions or join a community goal that you need to trade / ship materials. Don't bother arming it.
It can also make a great explorer!
Once you get better, you can use it for shadow missions. Once you have a couple millions, switch to a Cobra if you want!
Get a Hauler, it is dirt cheap to upgrade. Do courrier missions or join a community goal that you need to trade / ship materials. Don't bother arming it.
It can also make a great explorer!
Once you get better, you can use it for shadow missions. Once you have a couple millions, switch to a Cobra if you want!
It's also the best throwaway ship when moving all your ships to the same station.
Frontier pls give ship transport, just have a "shipping time" of a week or something. It's just really tedious to move every ship to a new station if you wanted to change "home" systems.
That reminds me, I can go sell all those Sidewinders I bought to use as bookmarks and actually bookmark the system. Woo free ~$300k
It's also the best throwaway ship when moving all your ships to the same station.
Frontier pls give ship transport, just have a "shipping time" of a week or something. It's just really tedious to move every ship to a new station if you wanted to change "home" systems.
That reminds me, I can go sell all those Sidewinders I bought to use as bookmarks and actually bookmark the system. Woo free ~$300k
haahaha yes they need some kind of ship transport. Maybe when they will add bigger ships? I'd like to do ship transport missions! They should bring this feature with passenger missions.
Been loving it on XB1. Can't wait to get Horizons tomorrow. The controls need some time to get used to. A flight stick is a better option to play the game, but I feel it plays just fine with the elite controller.
Reckheim
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We are sitting at 8.1% today, the leading faction in the system is going down fairly fast as well, they are now below 70%.
Saw that Boom Time mission issue someone else reported. Deliver cargo to another system and it warns of Civil Unrest for our faction upon delivery. Super weird.
Reckheim
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Yeh, I got that a few times too. Only happens occasionally tho. Maybe once every 20 missions or so.
Onikaan
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Reckheim
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Honestly, that doesn't look the greatest. Especially that texture pop-in.
Does it compare to PC? Depends on which setting you are playing on.
Nope.
That looks awful from space.
Anyone had the game give you a matchmaking error every time you try to land at a planetary base? I've got a mission at Pavlou Depot to turn in and everytime I get within 5km, I get dumped back to the main menu with an error that it can't connect to the matchmaking server.
During the beta there were others that had the same issue apparently, but the fix they were given didn't help.
During the beta there were others that had the same issue apparently, but the fix they were given didn't help.
frontieruk
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Yes sir, it's the same backend for both platforms.
Felix Lighter
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It looks rough but considering the hardware, the CPU and GPU of the Xbox One, I have to imagine it was quite a feat to get it to work in the first place, with the kind of horsepower planetary landings require on PC.
Felix Lighter
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Considering the videos of Imperial Cutters I saw melt in an instant to the bugged weapons, I think that's a nice gesture.
Good choice.
SymbiantXenos
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Anton Sugar
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Hell yeah.
The game isn't that demanding, it is very well optimized now. I'm running Horizons on an Core i3 2100 and a 660... High settings at 1080 never drops under 30, most of the time 45-60. Ultra settings at 720p runs about the same.
Anton Sugar
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save us scorpio
RaySpencer
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Did they make the purchase options less confusing recently? I remember it looking complicated, but now it seems like its just $40 CAD for the base game, or $80 for all the stuff, including all this new Horizons stuff.
Finding firmware from data points is ridiculous, you need to raid dozens of surface bases just to get a chance of getting one of the firmwares you need for a crafting recipe. Most of the other materials I've found relatively easily and in abundance (conflict zones with a capital ship, Type 7/9s in hazardous sites, etc.) but singular firmware drops being tied to non-respawning surface bases is just dumb.
Yeah it's the worst data/material to farm by far IMO.
RadioactiveLobster
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This took a lot longer than it should have but real life got in the way for a while.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Congrats! Is that from Beagle Point?
Can I have some context ? (I'm new to the game). Is it a far away galaxy that you're trying to reach ?
RadioactiveLobster
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Yup. Arrived just a few days short of the deadline to make the Official Roster list for the Distant Worlds Expedition as well.
Was kinda hoping Jaques Station would be there to greet me but it was not to be.
Beagle Point is 65,279 Light Years away from Sol (our Solar System) and is a special system in the history of Elite: Dangerous.
It takes a lot of time and hours to get there. In my 33 LY ASP I can do roughly 2,000 LY an hour in perfect conditions and with no issues and I can say, it's not always that way.
Real Life was the biggest obstacle as I could only play for an hour or two at a time and the past few months haven't afforded me hardly any time. If it wasn't for some unexpected time off the past two days (where I put in about 10 hours flying) I wouldn't have made it in time for the deadline.
I just got a few by relogging and grabbing missions that reward them (one firmware per mission...), not ideal but far better than the USS or base data point lottery.
Caesar III
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grats! Sounds like it wasn't that much fun but it was probably