Dubbedinenglish
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
- Thread starter Anton Sugar
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Reckheim
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first Alliance ship I believe based on the art book that was released.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Just keep in mind that changes (or additions) are not always for the best
Whatever they are, they'll still be better than NMS
Reckheim
Member
link to the art book is below, lots of awesome stuff (future stuff as well) in there.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6KEY4QJTmolV3Zid1F2bzRmZ3M/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6KEY4QJTmolV3Zid1F2bzRmZ3M/view?usp=sharing
Felix Lighter
Member
If I'm in one of those new liners and feel that I'm out gunned, I can't picture a situation where I feel like I'm better off launching a little fighter and standing my ground instead of just trying to escape. If I'm mass locked and just can't get away, I don't see the little fighter tipping the scales in my favor. Maybe if you have 5.
Anton Sugar
Member
From the video
Looks like that's in the art book, too.
Art book may have some secrets in it... (via reddit)
I am hoping they use the Engineers in a way that makes small fighters useful. A small AI fighter could be useful in harassing an enemy as you try to get away, particularly if it has hardpoints equipped with disruptive weapons.
Reckheim
Member
Looks like that's in the art book, too.
Art book may have some secrets in it...
I had a quick glance at it cause I am at work but there seems to be all kinds of secrets in there, cant wait to get some free time to have a good look at it.
wesleyshark
Banned
Looks really cool
From the video
Felix Lighter
Member
Yeah something like that would make sense. Something that temporarily disabled or at least slowed down a pursuer would be helpful for escape and the fighter would just be abandoned I guess. If you fly it yourself I hope that means that it's flown remotely.
Felix Lighter
Member
I use my Anaconda for mining. It would be cool if I could use the secondary fighter for more than just combat but I'm not sure what they would do. I like the ideas brought up earlier by Dubbedinenglish, basically a fast, nimble alternative to the SRV for some planet surface stuff.
I think the keelback, federal corvette, imperial cutter, and the passenger liners all have fighter bays. With the corvette and cutter having space for 2 bays.
Probably 2.3.
wesleyshark
Banned
Nadda. Probably won't be in this update. That'll come out with multicrew maybe.
wesleyshark
Banned
Crew tab?
Also looks like he's in a Federal Corvette.
New fighter looks interesting. Kinda Osprey-like in the way it looks to fold up. Ugly but neat. Definitely curious how they're going to balance these fighters to not be paper airplanes in combat. I'd imagine for your main ship, the AI level associated with your combat rank takes over when you deploy in a fighter. So if you're Elite, your ship is now an Elite AI etc.
New interiors look nice. Externals I hope are equally modular and varied. Hopefully they're pushing more life into the game and not just more framework.
New interiors look nice. Externals I hope are equally modular and varied. Hopefully they're pushing more life into the game and not just more framework.
Reckheim
Member
no space legs were confirmed for this season.
Yeah, conflated multicrew and character creating with being able to move around your ship
Reckheim
Member
http://spacesim.net/elite/artbook/
a pretty sweet album with some 'concept art' for stuff that isn't in the game yet.
a pretty sweet album with some 'concept art' for stuff that isn't in the game yet.
Anton Sugar
Member
I like this.
It would be super fucking cool to have your own little ~10 fighter private AI army.
It would be super fucking cool to have your own little ~10 fighter private AI army.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yup. Looking closer, it may actually be asymmetrical, so it "only" carries five fighters. Would be a great addition with Multicrew.
Caesar III
Member
Yep, that's why I was thinking about them adding a invicibility or something like this
Let's hope not.No way in hell. They will never do something like that.Yep, that's why I was thinking about them adding a invicibility or something like this
wesleyshark
Banned
Highly doubt that.Yep, that's why I was thinking about them adding a invicibility or something like this
Caesar III
Member
Let's hope you guys are right! They need to do something for the fighters to be worthwhile.
Anton Sugar
Member
Thought y'all may be interested in these images from the "Future of ED" section of the art book.
joecanada
Member
Hey I just started too but I can help you out a bit... I found the easiest way to make money initially is just use your crappy sidewinder and run the best boom data missions as close to you (or close to the star to limit travel lol) as you can, you can easily make your first few hundred grand this way....
Then you could do one of two things... I bought an eagle because its cheap and versatile, however you really want to get better at flying as its a paper plane (little armour), this way you can continue to make boom data or small cargo runs plus do some fighting.
by far the easiest fights are at nav beacons, go there and hang out with federation "police" and see who they shoot at, and help them out. or find a wanted ship and start shooting them, the federation pilots will help you out but be sure to stay defensive as the wanted may focus on you first if you do this.... you will then get some decent wanted bounties...
I then bought a viper MKIII, which is a beast.... I would have skipped the eagle if I had tried this one first... its got more firepower, more armor, more everything.... you can get about 10ly jump drive on it which is sufficient .... with this thing I run rare data missions or salvage, but now I can do 100k bounties or just hang out and blast people at nav beacons.
remember though more expensive ships = more insurance money!!!
or a cheap alternative if you can bear down and run cargo is just to grab a cheap ass hauler and just do cargo missions for a few days and bring that bank up.... I still have one for the odd times I want to do something long range... it goes 20 ly jumps and costs like 3k to replace ! love that piece of junk, just take the weapons right off lol and try not to be interdicted.
hint - if you go this route always check the "penalty" for failing a mission, as if you are interdicted you will generally fail it.
as for coop play I believe you can but haven't tried yet.
Krappadizzle
Member
I can't wait till we're able to just walk around a space station and see players coming in to dock. I hope it has a nice smokey space bar.
wesleyshark
Banned
That storm.... Hnnngg.
Either this or SC is going to give us that. Huge promises... but I sitll believe in it. Someday... some day. *dreams*
Reckheim
Member
I personally have more faith in Frontier, they might be taking it slow but they are delivering on pretty much everything they said would be in the game eventually.
Cabbagehead
Member
I have faith in both. Literally the only two games with the backing and man power to pull this off sooner rather then later.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
As someone who is in both Frontier can actually build around good gameplay. Outside of the technical aspect I don't think Roberts and co. know how to make a good game. Frontier is actually building from the core outward, while CIG is adding everything they can think of and wondering how they fit later.
After enjoying time in No Man's Sky, I wanted to come back to Elite Dangerous on my Vive but I'm getting this weird bug where graphic stuff just disappears depending on angle I look. Even the distant stars in the galaxy disappear and it's completely black. When I look an inch to the right it appears then back it disappears again.
This happens for everything besides the ship cockpit, I crashed into a huge asteroid that was literally invisible. Also I tried visiting a planet and I couldn't see it till I was basically on it, all I saw was space. Pretty annoying I reinstalled but it still happens. Guess I'll have to go back to monitor if I want to play this again.
This happens for everything besides the ship cockpit, I crashed into a huge asteroid that was literally invisible. Also I tried visiting a planet and I couldn't see it till I was basically on it, all I saw was space. Pretty annoying I reinstalled but it still happens. Guess I'll have to go back to monitor if I want to play this again.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Thanks for the advice! I have sunk like 18hrs so far into it because just flying the ship is a total dream. The sim aspects of the game are just awesome. I did actually start just doing tons of data hauling missions in federation space. I tried a pirate killing mission but none showed up at the nav point, do i need to wait more or use an interdiction tool to pull em out of supercruise?
I am just really exploring all aspects of the game, I noticed in the system map it tells you what the stations are importing so i made sure to grab those items before departing on a data delivery mission for a few extra bux.
Next I think ill try mining.
joecanada
Member
The bounties and rare data recovery are a bit weird . You have to note the time they are around. Thankfully they sometimes show up early ... I Haven't had to pull them out of super cruise yet actually just go to nav beacon and scan it and they should update you with a location. Say a planet ... Then you go there and scan again and it will say mission data received and you get the blue update location.... Sometimes you may have to circle a planet ... But the times I supercruised there and came out he was there just waiting basically. I think some missions make you scan or wait for updates repeatedly because last night I did a data recovery in which I had to scan nav beacon for location, then scan planet orbit for location, then scan data ... It was only partial. Then I waited got another update , had to go to another planet, scan and pick up illicit data cargo.
So yeah when in doubt scan and wait for updates ... I dogfight at nav beacon while waiting sometimes but don't die mid mission!
wesleyshark
Banned
Holy shit I just got a 5B fuel scoop and it's beyond obnoxious. Can't even imagine how fast the next one up must be.
65% heat
494.00/s
65% heat
494.00/s
Wow, I scoop at 75/s and I thought that was good. I need to get my ass to a system with better tech and buy me some upgrades.
wesleyshark
Banned
Well that was short lived lol. Found a 5A on one of my Obsidian Orbital runs (I'm sorry I forget the name the of station it was) and it scoops at
63%
577.00/s
Unfuckingreal. Trading in my 5B left it at just over a 4mil purchase. But I'd say worth it.
63%
577.00/s
Unfuckingreal. Trading in my 5B left it at just over a 4mil purchase. But I'd say worth it.
joecanada
Member
holy shit. is it worth it for the weight though or is it weigh not much? I gotta get my ass to a better system. holed up in 42 Aquilae, Seliancien too long.
can anyone give a brief overview how pledging allegiance to a faction works? I did it but have no idea why lol
wesleyshark
Banned
No difference in weight between the 5b and 5a. Just the massive price differential. I'm currently in an aspE doing delivery runs. After one jump I can refill in about 4 seconds lol.
My current jump range is 28.68LY/35.66LY
(48/72 cargo slots filled atm).
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Finally sold all the exploration data from my trip to Beagle Point.
49,036,037 Credits total and that's with only bonging most systems. I only detail scanned Earth Likes, Water Worlds, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and stuff that was worth it.
Averaged about 55 seconds per system when I was just jumping through. Jump in, Fuel Scoop, Jump out.
It was enough to get me to Grade 5 Unlocks with BOTH Farseer and Martuuk.
49,036,037 Credits total and that's with only bonging most systems. I only detail scanned Earth Likes, Water Worlds, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and stuff that was worth it.
Averaged about 55 seconds per system when I was just jumping through. Jump in, Fuel Scoop, Jump out.
It was enough to get me to Grade 5 Unlocks with BOTH Farseer and Martuuk.
wesleyshark
Banned
Whheewwwww. Well done!
TharpDaddy
Member
So i'm currently rocking a Viper MK3, but I also have my Sidewinder in storage. If I wanted to try out mining or exploration, could I outfit my Viper for that? Or would I be better served by saving up for a ship that suits those activities better?
That storm looks like how I would imagine gas giants like Jupiter being. Would love for that to be in the game, and to have some super high risk / high reward reason for going into that craziness.
I'd personally use the sidewinder, with some upgrades it is pretty decent for exploration and trading. I used it to get an Asp pretty quickly. In fact I kind of regret switching so fast, I was able to make a lot of money with the sidewinder and the insurance costs were tiny.
Edit: Sorry I was wrong, it was the Cobra mk3 I used to get the asp. I grinded with the sidewinder to get that and went from there.