Mengy
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LOL, I love the intro!!!
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Elite: Dangerous |OT| Every Man's Sky
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LOL, I love the intro!!!
legacyzero
Banned
OK GAF, I finally picked this up.
Just finished training and I'm loving it so far. I dove into the main game, finally, but fuuuuuck am I a noob or what LOL
Just finished training and I'm loving it so far. I dove into the main game, finally, but fuuuuuck am I a noob or what LOL
Gimballed weapons if you want to do bounty missions, or trading rares if you want to do trading. And I found it helps to own a joystick, though others have reported success with gamepads or mouse and keyboard.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Thanks man, had a lot of fun putting it together.
Episode 2for those interested...has a lot more combat.
mitchman
Gold Member
I ran into an interesting bug last night where my Anaconda just blew up for no particular reason. And before you ask, I was not in Open Play.
Finishing my trade run, entered the station without scratching the sides or anything, lined up for the pad and BAM I explode. 10M or so down the drain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpEClo_79w
If you're new to ED, this is the kind of bugs to need to get used to and forget about being reimbursed as that is very rare.
Finishing my trade run, entered the station without scratching the sides or anything, lined up for the pad and BAM I explode. 10M or so down the drain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpEClo_79w
If you're new to ED, this is the kind of bugs to need to get used to and forget about being reimbursed as that is very rare.
Huh, that's super weird. As someone in that thread says: it looks like the game simply triggered selfdestruct because you certainly weren't taking any damage. I hope you manage to get reimbursed since you captured the whole thing. :-/
Can't speak for trackir, as I've never used one. I got edtracker primarily to be able to look at the side menus and track targets above me in dogfights...it does both of these things very well. It does take some tinkering to get it calibrated properly, but there are good video guides on YouTube. I'm pleased with it for the money, but you're talking to a guy who doesn't spend top dollar on peripherals.
If you've go the time? Jump in now and play with mouse or controller. There are enough mechanics to learn that aren't dependent on a joystick.
If it suits you, you can upgrade to the joystick. If not... Depends on whether you'd be using the Joystick for anything else. ;-)
legacyzero
Banned
So I have these credits that I've supposedly stacked up for destroying ships that had bounties on them.
Where can I go to redeem them? I think I've tried all the stations in this system and an option doesn't show up in the port to do so :/
Where can I go to redeem them? I think I've tried all the stations in this system and an option doesn't show up in the port to do so :/
You'll need to go to station or outpost controlled by that faction, Independent Eravate Free, and then select Contacts->Local Security Office.So I have these credits that I've supposedly stacked up for destroying ships that had bounties on them.
Where can I go to redeem them? I think I've tried all the stations in this system and an option doesn't show up in the port to do so :/
mitchman
Gold Member
Yeah, but there is no voice for that in the video so that's not it.
If the name has CMDR in front of it, it's a player, otherwise it's an AI.
Chance Hale
Member
Completely off topic but I figured there might be some people here who would know.
Anyone have advice for getting a Warthog to work properly in Freespace 2? Combined the throttle and joystick via target to create a virtual controller to get around the one controller limit but as for bindings I have no idea.
Anyone have advice for getting a Warthog to work properly in Freespace 2? Combined the throttle and joystick via target to create a virtual controller to get around the one controller limit but as for bindings I have no idea.
Here's the current Slopeys BPC tool thread on the Frontier forum. It's a Windows program you install and leave running while you're playing Elite (it can keep a log of what systems you fly to, which is useful). It also has search functions so you can search for journeys that will bring you a good profit. However all the data is supplied by players so it is not always accurate, but I've usually found it to be pretty good.
I appreciate that it's out there and in its basic form it works. I used it for a while recently. But it slow, and it uses quite a bit of CPU resources at times. Also the default nagging voice, the nagging popups and error messages..so I started using a web based trading tool instead.
Wondering about a bit of the lore/science of it... When traveling in supercruise, which is superluminal, are the planets and stars you see around you supposed to be a CG representation generated on your cockpit view? Cause you shouldn't be able to see much while traveling faster than light, from what I understand.
Veritigo_X
Member
Which one out of curiosity? Most of the trading tools I've seen only trade info on a few systems (none near where I am). I've mainly stuck with bounty hunting, but I feel like I'm missing out on some profits when I'm running between systems with an empty cargo hold.
I want to take my Viper (which I shamelessly bought the American flag livery for) to that February 12th thing at Abraham Lincoln.
But:
A) It's such a dorky thing to do.
B) I feel like some serious ish is going to happen with people trying to crash it.
Anyone else "attending" the festivities?
But:
A) It's such a dorky thing to do.
B) I feel like some serious ish is going to happen with people trying to crash it.
Anyone else "attending" the festivities?
I'm not certain about this but I think you are right: From full stop up to lightspeed and always looking ahead we should see things blueshifting and our field of view should increase. Then at lightspeed you shouldn't be able to see anything.
I'm not sure if these things would happen with a frameshift drive, though: i think they're supposed to to be bending space around us, effetively multiplying the speed of the ship, but the ship never actually moves faster than light.
Whats really messed up is to consider that we are time travelling in a way: if we aproach the pillars of creation, for example, we should see its destruction as we get closer... and its reconstruction as we move away. This would probably be ridiculously hard to implement in game.
There probably is no 100% airtight explanation possible but goddamn I'd love to see some sorta lore to back it up a bit!
What event are you referring to?I want to take my Viper (which I shamelessly bought the American flag livery for) to that February 12th thing at Abraham Lincoln.
But:
A) It's such a dorky thing to do.
B) I feel like some serious ish is going to happen with people trying to crash it.
Anyone else "attending" the festivities?
AFAIK its a player event to celebrate Lincoln's birthday at the station named after him in the Sol system.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I want to take my Viper (which I shamelessly bought the American flag livery for) to that February 12th thing at Abraham Lincoln.
But:
A) It's such a dorky thing to do.
B) I feel like some serious ish is going to happen with people trying to crash it.
Anyone else "attending" the festivities?
What are you talking about?
Ah, okay. I don't have a Sol permit yet, LOL.
Veritigo_X
Member
That's going to be a bloodbath. I wish I had a Sol permit to take part. Do you just do Federation missions to get it? I should get those out of the way.
Anton Sugar
Member
Sounds like a firefight is gonna break out at 1800.
Seriously though, it would be kinda cool if a group was organizing an attack on this event and all warped in at 1800.
http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
But I'm not really a pro-trader, so I don't know the objective value of this site.
Veritigo_X
Member
Thanks! I'm definitely not looking to get into pro trading with a Viper but this seems good enough for my purposes.
It's worth putting in a ticket with a link to the video. It shows the bug clearly and also the cost of the buy back; so they may reimburse.
It's actually a known bug, and they've added extra telemetry logging in the last update to try and pinpoint the cause. Last thing I saw said they think the extra telemetry has helped them track the issue now, but that they're still looking into it.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Welcome to the galaxy, CMDR Legacy!
Everyone starts out as harmless, literally. Best advice is to stay in the Sidewinder for a bit until you get the hang of flying around, docking, dying, flying into stuff by accident, hitting asteroids, etc. Once you feel like a dangerous little badass in that Sidey, then start looking at buying a larger ship.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Finally got my first Asp tonight. And setup my new EDTracker...which is really cool. Very impressed with it. Makes combat way more intuitive and it feels so natural. Very pleased!
How do you get a permit for Sol anyway?
Felix Lighter
Member
Rank up to Midshipman in the Federation by doing the Federation Navy bulletin board missions when they appear.
I'll have to get on that then and hopefully in get there by Monday. It's pretty much guaranteed players will attack each other at this event, and that means bounties.
StonedRider
Member
Hi GAF!
I dreamed about this game since 1988 when I played first Elite on my ZX Spectrum! Everything here is great - visuals, sounds, feeling of huge distances between lonely space objects.
After reading this thread I decided to buy X55 for it. I've got it last week and it's awesome. I actually feel myself controlling massive spaceships now, playing with good HOTAS is so much more immersive than with Dualshock 4.
Next step is Oculus Rift, but I'll wait for consumer version.
See you in space, guys! (mostly play Solo mode now, trying to grind trade routes)
/cmdr StonedRider
I dreamed about this game since 1988 when I played first Elite on my ZX Spectrum! Everything here is great - visuals, sounds, feeling of huge distances between lonely space objects.
After reading this thread I decided to buy X55 for it. I've got it last week and it's awesome. I actually feel myself controlling massive spaceships now, playing with good HOTAS is so much more immersive than with Dualshock 4.
Next step is Oculus Rift, but I'll wait for consumer version.
See you in space, guys! (mostly play Solo mode now, trying to grind trade routes)
/cmdr StonedRider
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Just a heads up by the way, the latest version of this still had some rather nasty bugs in the last Beta which still haven't been corrected and FD haven't clarified whether they're fixed or not for the release.
DO NOT fly anything you can't afford to (insurance/cargo) for certain in the new build until checking out the patch notes. The Beta had some really nasty collision detection issues which if not resolved can easily cause random deaths and even allow players to troll each other by practically staring them to death.
Of course I'd hope these things are sorted first, but FD haven't made any statement to clarify as of yet.
DO NOT fly anything you can't afford to (insurance/cargo) for certain in the new build until checking out the patch notes. The Beta had some really nasty collision detection issues which if not resolved can easily cause random deaths and even allow players to troll each other by practically staring them to death.
Of course I'd hope these things are sorted first, but FD haven't made any statement to clarify as of yet.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
That is rule #1 of E
I know but I think every now and then most people tend to take the risk. I have to admit I was flying a Type 6 without insurance money for a while because of how much faster I could earn it vs bounty hunting. There was a few nasty bugs in the last beta test though so just a heads up to keep an eye out. Particularly with collisions. If you see another player very closely on your tail he's probably about to try a cheap trick if it hasn't been resolved. I'd say beware the lasers but it seems everyone's already covered that.
In about an hour. Should be 3:30 GMT.
I've been playing this on and off since launch but I haven't really interacted much with anyone from GAF.
Sitting on a Viper fully kitted for bounty hunting and a type 6 with 100T of cargo
3 M credits banked. Not sure what I should do next and was wondering what you guys are up to in game. Just running trade routes for creds or?
Sitting on a Viper fully kitted for bounty hunting and a type 6 with 100T of cargo
3 M credits banked. Not sure what I should do next and was wondering what you guys are up to in game. Just running trade routes for creds or?
RadioactiveLobster
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