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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
- Thread starter Anton Sugar
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wesleyshark
Banned
I play on a 40" HDTV. Text is fine, and I'm on a couch about ten feet away.
Reckheim
Member
Its a great ship, ASP explorer lite but can definitely hold its own.
I'm on a 32 inch TV, text is fine from a reasonable distance.
wesleyshark
Banned
New space station interiors do look nice for sure.
I got some Mass Effect vibes from that last one.
wesleyshark
Banned
Very citadel.
StonedRider
Member
New interiors are great, but I could never imagine metal refinery or vegetables growing right in the spaceport.
wesleyshark
Banned
Obviously this stuff is coming to Xbox also, but he didn't specifically say if it's coming to both platforms the same day. 🤔
Felix Lighter
Member
How much money do you have at the moment? As for weapons, for a Cobra MK III I would go with 2 size 1 fixed/gimbaled pulse lasers and 2 size 2 gimbaled multicannons.
This is what I would work towards eventually for a trading/bounty hunter Cobra MK III
https://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk...717000m03034501012o.Iw1-kA==.EwBjEYU8di2EA===
If I sell my ship I should be at around 2 million right now.
StonedRider
Member
Wow, we will see magnetic fields and relativistic jets? Its pretty cool
wesleyshark
Banned
I'm really excited about that
Felix Lighter
Member
You could start out with something like this:
https://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk...717000m03034701012r.Iw1-kA==.EwBjEYU8di2EA===
and work toward
https://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk...717000m03034501012o.Iw1-kA==.EwBjEYU8di2EA===
You can make money quicker in the Cobra so it will go pretty fast.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
lmfaoo i was wondering why conflict zones were so hard and it was because I kept forgetting to pick a faction
wesleyshark
Banned
I could listen to Braben talk all day
DouglasteR
Member
Hoping for the Vive fix announcement !
Thanks. I think I'll try that.
wesleyshark
Banned
Ship-laughed fighters will be talked about tomorrow on the livestream. Three more Braben interview parts are going to be shown between tomorrow and Sunday, also.
I missed it. Will ALL ships be able to equip those modules?
wesleyshark
Banned
They aren't talking about anything regarding fighters until tomorrow. I'm going to safely assume that the smaller ships won't be able to support a hanger bay.
Hmm would be weird since all of them support a vehicle hangar module iirc. Will wait for tomorrow!
Isn't that different from what we get? Confused...
Reckheim
Member
Only some of the bigger ships have a fighter bay slot on the bottom of them, I don't even thing a Python has one.
wesleyshark
Banned
Keelback will probably be the smallest to have one, yeah?
Reckheim
Member
I believe so, yes.
Below is an album with all the ships that currently have it. Not to say they wont add it to more ships upon release.
https://imgur.com/a/GiNUq#upGqPTw
wesleyshark
Banned
Right on. Tomorrow will hopefully provide a lot of details.
wesleyshark
Banned
Darn haha. Part 4 is no doubt about the Thargoids.
Anton Sugar
Member
Was just about to post this!
reddit dump
New station UI
Note "Crew Lounge". Speculation is this isn't confirmation of multicrew in 2.2 but likely an area you can go to browse and hire AI pilots...which is cool, nonetheless.
New harvestable structures on planet surfaces
New clips so far:
Beluga
Passenger missions (bulk)
Passenger missions (VIP)
Route plotter
Port variant: refinery
Port variant: tourism
wesleyshark
Banned
Fuck yes!!!!!
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
New stuff is looking great.
Dreams-Visions
Member
filtering by star class. damn, great news for explorers.
Anton Sugar
Member
Gorechylde
Member
Can someone link to a good primer for players experienced in vanilla, but not Horizons?
I played a bit back at launch, but took a break right after arena launched. Wife and I had a kid.
Looking to get back in the saddle and want a good write-up of the new features from a player's perspective.
I played a bit back at launch, but took a break right after arena launched. Wife and I had a kid.
Looking to get back in the saddle and want a good write-up of the new features from a player's perspective.
Dreams-Visions
Member
setting that groundwork for player-own capital ships in some future patch i see. :3
wesleyshark
Banned
That'll be 100 billion credits pls
Dreams-Visions
Member
good. we need a credit sink anyway.
It depends on what you want in a space game.
Also someone already solved the new mystery.
Memnoch
Member
Looking for a narrative to start, and maybe some quests to go along with the wonder of exploration.
joecanada
Member
it depends what you are looking for. I haven't played NMS but I would say elite is pretty wide but not incredibly deep ... it has a lot to do but its not like you are going to walk around a space station interacting with npc's..... its based around being in your ship. exploring in your ship, fighting in your ship, trading in your ship, etc... which is what I like best.
also the missions can be kind of repetitive but not worse than other video games.... say you want to do a bounty mission, they are mostly quite similar.... but variation is in the pilot, his ship, skill, etc....
I give it a 8.5/10 but hey I played wing commander over probably 10 times so.....
No narrative in game and quests are generated from a list in each station.
There is a global narrative in the game, but you have to read Galnet and see whats happening around the universe. Its not really fed into the player as a normal storyline.
Same content problems in a nicer coat of paint. The space combat in Elite is much better by comparison and imo what makes it worth the purchase right now. If you enjoy it enough you might not need anything else.
