If the station itself blew you up, you were definitely in the "No Fire Zone," a safe bubble around stations within which firing your weapons is a crime. You're given a notification when you enter/leave this zone. Hard way to learn!
I ignored missions. Still do. It just wasn't fun flying around in a ship with paper armor and hardly any weaponry, dropping into randomly generated signal sources, hoping that you'll find and kill five pirates and hand in the mission before a two hour timer runs out. With the chance of getting killed while at it, as I didn't knew the controls then or how to act in which situation etc.. Did I mention paper armor?Transport missions were even less attractive in a Sidewinder with four meagre tons of cargo, meaning that I could take all but the least profitable missions. And then find out that the ship's jump range wasn't sufficient to get to the target location while carrying the cargo (iirc I had issues with the Sidwinder's jump range,butmaybe I just hadn't refueled?).
Anyway, I stuck to hanging out at the system's nav beacon trying to steal kills from the system security. Albeit with an Eagle, because I got one having preordered the game. This turned out entertaining and profitable enough to get me into a Viper eventually.
This is also the most important advice to any beginner imo: get out of the starting ship asap (this includes the Eagle imo)!
Ah, that makes more sense. On second thought, I know I've been fined for firing in that zone, but never became wanted. Attacking an innocent ship must have been what did it. Unfortunate!
This week sees a new (and hopefully the last) gamma release for the PC CQC update. The release date is still expected to be October 6th, but well confirm once all the details are in place.
Earlier in the year we updated the mission system to allow us to add more variety and mission related content and that process has progressed throughout the year and will continue into the Horizons season and beyond. There are a number of changes and additions coming in the 1.5 Ships update and so will be available to both season one and two players.
Missions can now be received in space, so theyre not always taken from the Bulletin Board and can be received from encounters with other ships. A variant on this are missions that can be triggered by scooping certain items in space. Timed assassination missions will be available from the Bulletin Boards, similar to the assassination missions in FFE you need to find your target at a certain time and place.
This timing mechanism is also available for other mission types where the mission target can only be found at a specific time. Alongside this, missions can now have multiple stages this applies as sequences of the same mission type, so delivering goods to a station and then bring something else back. Note that this isnt fully chained missions yet (which we define as different missions in a sequence), although these are planned as part of the Horizons season. A specific variant on this are tasks that have to be completed after a successful assassination.
A survival element to missions means that a player will have to survive specific encounters before being able to complete a specific mission, for example delivering secret information to a contact while being hunted. Another aspect for a player to be aware of are those that require them to be completed without being scanned something Im sure skilled smugglers will have an advantage with
There are a couple of other elements too but Ill keep them as a surprise for you!
Edit: beaten.
), they'll probably have ot decide on a common versioning and mark specific added features as season specific content.The scale of this game...
These images are from the Firdaus system. In it, the "Robert Aitken" Coriolis station lazily orbits a gas giant. The last image shows the station at the center, at some 300 Km from the ship taking the pic...
Ridiculously awesome!!!
I thought that was suposed to coincide with the official 1.4 release on 6th October? At least that's also supposed to be the Xbone's "final" release iirc. I'm very much fixated on the PC version, yes.You're forgetting the best feature of 1.5
Our Xbox brethren will be joining our universe!
I thought that was suposed to coincide with the official 1.4 release on 6th October? At least that's also supposed to be the Xbone's "final" release iirc. I'm very much fixated on the PC version, yes.
I am just looking forward to jumping into the horizon beta
Yeah! One of the recent updates gave us extra fuel tank modules that can be equipped to the internal compartments, separate from the ship's main fuel store. Thankfully, the Asp's 32T capacity means it needs nothing extra--any additional fuel will just lower its jump range.
I'm sooo eagerly awaiting my Horizons beta access. As I understand it, we'll only be able to land on planets without atmospheres at first. They've talked about the realistic effects of gravity for the planets where we can land, but I'm wondering how they'll eventually handle the planets with atmospheres--namely the ones whose atmospheric pressure is millions of times that of Earth. Will those with such extremely dense atmospheres be forever off limits? I'm guessing so.
Planetary Approach
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When Elite Dangerous: Horizons launches this year, you'll be touching down on the surface of unexplored worlds, so you'll need some on-screen help to make sure you complete the landing safely. Here's your first glimpse of the on-screen planetary-approach HUD. Click on the pictures to get a closer look at what's coming as part of Elite: Dangerous Horizons.
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A crashed Type 9 with possible spoils?
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Approaching the ground, the surface dust kicks up around your ship
Your HUD will automatically show and hide certain gauges to keep the information relevant. As you approach the planet from a distance, you'll notice the first new thing on the cockpit display - the altimeter (the single vertical line seen to the right in the screenshot above). The altimeter will show you how close you are to the planet's surface, and help you control the speed of your approach.
The pitch gauge can be seen in the very centre of the cockpit display - it will align itself to the planet's gravity. This gauge will help the player to determine which way is 'up' - a brand new concept for Commanders in the Elite Dangerous galaxy! The pitch gauge also contains a horizon line, which will help you determine when you're flying 'flat' to the surface.
When you get very close to the surface, and you're nearing the point where you're ready to land, the heading gauge (seen at the top of the new information in the screenshot) will point towards the poles of the planet and help you orient your direction when landing.
As you can see in the screenshot, your scanner will switch to the landing-assist display, just as it does when you're landing your ship at a starport, but showing you the nearby terrain. The representation of your ship will light up blue when you're okay to put her down.
Now that you're safely down on the surface you're free to explore the entire planet in your SRV - who knows what you might find down there... we'll be revealing more in the coming weeks.
it might loosen up. also, be sure to calibrate.Here they are in all their ugly glory:
Unfortunately, I got the short end of the stick with the throttle replacement again. And I thought Saitek was supposed to have QA issues (my X52 Pro doesn't have any issues, at least not in terms of QA).
Before, the front hat switch on the throttle would only register in three directions. Now, all of the hat switches work most of the time. Sometimes they don't register on the mechanical click, but only after I apply a litte force and push them further against the resistance. The top, bottom and front hat are affected.
It's a subtle issue and I don't want to send the throttle back again. But I might eventually give a damn about the warranty and open it up. See, if a simple dis- and reassembly or a file can fix this.
