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[cyberheater]

I’ve picked this up again to play in vr using a hotas and although I’m enjoying the tutorials I’ve no idea what I’m doing in the solo campaign.

Any newbie guides?

 

[bbeach123]

>Do mission
>make some money
>buy new mining ship
>make money
>bored
>buy Asp
>do some trading /fighting/explorer mission
>make money
>buy python/Krait
>Keep making money
>bored
>Read about engineering
>Do some engineering
>Rage quit .

 

[Hrk69]

www.youtube.com

 

[Fahdis]

I’ve picked this up again to play in vr using a hotas and although I’m enjoying the tutorials I’ve no idea what I’m doing in the solo campaign.

Any newbie guides?

Guide for Newbies: Only play if you like monotony.

 

[Spukc]

Start playing elite…


Play no man sky because they actually fixed that game

 

[StueyDuck]

I’ve picked this up again to play in vr using a hotas and although I’m enjoying the tutorials I’ve no idea what I’m doing in the solo campaign.

Any newbie guides?

There isn't so much a solo campaign,

what you learn in the tutorial should be enough to get you on your way.

The game is dubbed space trucker simulator for a reason, it really is dock at space station, drop-off/pick-up buy or sell, then go to next space station.

you can either hate it or love it. When i was playing it a shit ton (about the time the horizons DLC came out) it was the perfect game for me, i just wanted to sit back, put on music and relax and space and space explorations is one of my guilty pleasures.

Im sure there's some vids online to help but with what the game offers, you should be geared enough to get on with the game without help.

 

[PedicabDriver]

Start playing elite…


Play no man sky because they actually fixed that game

Not comparable to me when it comes to the actual "flying" ........ No Mans Sky is basic.

 

[nemiroff]

Unfortunately I don't think there's a shortcut to get into this game.. It's kind of a slog to get rolling. All the shortcuts.. can be overwhelming. But it can absolutely be worth it.

I used to play EDs in VR, and loved it. And when it comes to comparing, I've enjoyed hundreds of hours of NMS as well but it didn't quite provide me with the same VR presence as ED did. Maybe because the simulation is a more grounded in reality.

 

[Mephisto40]

I found this playlist helpful



It is from 8 years ago, but most of the stuff should still be relevant

 

[King Dazzar]

Be warned this game goes out of its way to abuse the players time. I wish I'd never gone out of my way to become good at it. Avoid.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Play the tutorial…shocking how many new players don’t.

 

[CeeJay]

Have a think about what you want to first specialise in and then work towards builds for that specialty, the ship builds for each specialty are quite different and a jack of all trades is going to be too compromised for any one job so avoid trying to do that if you can. There is a bit of a grind at first to get a footing into making sufficient early cash. I started in a hauler and then aimed for saving enough for the Type 6 Transporter as soon as possible and then kitted that out for trading. After grinding the trading for a bit you soon start to get the money coming in nicely. I would also recommend getting into core mining, this can be very lucrative and was easily the fastest way to make the most money. Once you get the hang of mining and start coming home with a ship full of diamonds and void opals the money really starts to flow in. Finding pristine unmined rings around uncharted gas giants is the cash cow that you need to locate. You will need to travel outside of the bubble though which can take a lot of time and planning even to just get there. To find these sweet core mining locations you are also going to have to have a good explorer ship, the hauler is a pretty cheap explorer ship and you should be able to refit the one you bought for early game trading once you upgrade to the much larger Type 6.

Rule number one though is make sure you always ALWAYS have more than enough money (preferably at least twice or even three times that amount) on hand for paying the insurance on the ship you are currently flying. The last thing you ever want to happen is for you to not be able to rebuy a destroyed ship.

 

[Spukc]

Not comparable to me when it comes to the actual "flying" ........ No Mans Sky is basic.

Damn banned for hating on no man sky

 

[keraj37]

Damn banned for hating on no man sky

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[cyberheater]

Unfortunately I don't think there's a shortcut to get into this game.. It's kind of a slog to get rolling. All the shortcuts.. can be overwhelming. But it can absolutely be worth it.

I used to play EDs in VR, and loved it. And when it comes to comparing, I've enjoyed hundreds of hours of NMS as well but it didn't quite provide me with the same VR presence as ED did. Maybe because the simulation is a more grounded in reality.

Yeah. I've got NMS as well but the physics and realism in ED feels better to me. I used to play it on PC when it first came out but I've managed to forget how to play it. I even played it on 8bit machines back in the day. Now that was a hard slog. Docking without a docking computer!

 

[Spukc]

Is it for that post?

Nobody shits on noman’s sky

Prolly not

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

>Do mission
>make some money
>buy new mining ship
>make money
>bored
>buy Asp
>do some trading /fighting/explorer mission
>make money
>buy python/Krait
>Keep making money
>bored
>Read about engineering
>Do some engineering
>Rage quit .

This. Don't start. You will lose hours of time you could invest in games actually worth your time.

 

[EviLore]

Does Squadrons still have a MP community? If so, that's a cool one for PCVR with actual gameplay.

 

[cyberheater]

Does Squadrons still have a MP community? If so, that's a cool one for PCVR with actual gameplay.

Thanks EviLore. I actually fired up Squadrons the other day (single player) and it plays great in VR and a flight stick.
PSVR2 in space games looks stunning due to true blacks and those popping colours.

 

[ManaByte]

Does Squadrons still have a MP community? If so, that's a cool one for PCVR with actual gameplay.

Even in SP it's amazing in VR.

 

[Thanati]

As weird as it sounds, just explore and have fun. Slowly build up your money to get a better ship and then explore further, take on more powerful enemies etc.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

This. Don't start. You will lose hours of time you could invest in games actually worth your time.

Eh I dropped out, but I know people who still play years and years on…a way to find out if it’s good for them is to grind to a minimal build mining ship: https://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk_iii/04D4D4A3D3D3D4C1a1a2l2l0401030349C51lP4.Iw1-kA==.AwiMIypI?bn=cobra mining

Cheap is good when you think of insurance (you can’t fight back in it anyways)…find a good ring around a gas giant or an asteroid belt and go ham, but yeah look up a video on how to effectively mine cause it’s not as straightforward as it seems..once you’ve gone though a bunch of runs of that you can start buying bigger ships…then its engineers…then it’s faction rep to get more ships

And try joining an active squadron that helps newbies…it’s infinitely easier to teach people while playing in the same instance.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Elite Dangerous is the ocean wide but inch high content.

grind grind grind grind

Absolutely not much else. Want to see the cool aliens and do the quest? Massive grind.

I was a backer on kickstarter and spend a lot of hours in it, even in the beta phase, but sadly, nowadays its also with a big sign at the door that its a dying game. Braben left. Devs don't want to do ship interiors for fans, almost all the team is gone, they are -$25M in the hole financially, they would need to revamp the entire engine from scratch to pull off the original ideas they had in concept art and they don't have the means to it now more than ever after all these years so yea.. Try to have fun but its a dead end.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Elite Dangerous is the ocean wide but inch high content.

grind grind grind grind

Absolutely not much else. Want to see the cool aliens and do the quest? Massive grind.

I was a backer on kickstarter and spend a lot of hours in it, even in the beta phase, but sadly, nowadays its also with a big sign at the door that its a dying game. Braben left. Devs don't want to do ship interiors for fans, almost all the team is gone, they are -$25M in the hole financially, they would need to revamp the entire engine from scratch to pull off the original ideas they had in concept art and they don't have the means to it now more than ever after all these years so yea.. Try to have fun but its a dead end.

This is kinda true…the space-trucker/bounty hunter (and xeno hunting) thing dies out the farther you get, but it has the exploration element still going for it, and honestly it’s the explorer types that seem to be the ones to most enjoy it and get the most out of it.

It’s a near 1:1 scale of our galaxy going on 1:1 time (and they bent over backwards trying to replicate and simulate it) and a fraction of a fraction of 1% has been explored in game, so when you have craziness like seeing two neutron stars close together, or a system with 5 suns, or a moon that rotates a planet every minute and a half, or the one I’ll never forget: orbiting a brown dwarf in the black part of a nebula 5000ly out of settled systems and it being just straight black in every direction, like I just dropped off the charts..…I can kinda see why it’s the explorer types that seem to stick to it like glue.

But yeah for every discovery like that, it was a lot of boring jumps and scans…Spotify is your best friend in this game no matter how you play it. My favourite was to get some good synth/retro wave going:

 

[cyberheater]

Thanks everyone for your help. Have completed my first mission. Time to grind.

 

[DryvBy]

I'm not joking, use ChatGPT. It'll guide you the entire way with what you're stuck with. AI is the best walkthrough for any game.

 

[yurqqa]

So 40 years and several games in series later Raxxla and the plot in Elite games are still just a myth ?