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Elite: Dangerous |OT| Every Man's Sky
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Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
They are either stretching it out or they still have work to do on the stuff they aren't showing yet. I'm not too concerned, what they have shown so far is very promising and looking better than I had hoped. I'm paid up and just waiting at this point, and I've got plenty of things to do in game to more than keep me busy.
Well at the same time, if they show everything at once, there is no way to fuel the hype
Oh yeah, I agree, what they've shown looks fantastic !
But goddamn... give me more
I'm probably just disappointed because I was hoping for a November release date.
Anton Sugar
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I think the livestreams, overall, have been fantastic. I was only really just disappointed by the latest one.
In other news, I made my way to Kaushpoos on my X1 last night and got in on that CG...which is good, because it just completed this morning, apparently! I wonder what the final payouts are. EDIT: NM, found a screen on reddit:
In other news, I made my way to Kaushpoos on my X1 last night and got in on that CG...which is good, because it just completed this morning, apparently! I wonder what the final payouts are. EDIT: NM, found a screen on reddit:
Anton Sugar
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Hahaha yeah, last night, I was about ~20 jumps from Kaushpoos. Said "fuck it" and equipped my Cobra to basically ONLY be a high cargo (for a Cobra
), long-jumping machine and bought the most expensive FSD I can buy (I can always sell it later for full price!). Only took 10 jumps!And with Powerplay cycling, I'll hit rank 1 with ALD and get to work on dat bounty bonus. Don't think I'm gonna go balls-out like Dreams--don't think I could manage the time to maintain or even achieve rank 5.
Interdicting ships/undermining is fun, but interdiction still feels like too much of a roll of the dice to me. I can consistently interdict Cobras, but Type 6s and other big haulers are apparently all piloted by Han fucking Solo and almost always evade me.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Sweet! I'll grab my 8 million when I log on tonight and head back down to Apam Napat to grind some NeoGAF faction rep.
Anton Sugar
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Noticed there seemed to be more NeoGAF missions available at Apam Napat, too!
Matthew Florianz just did a Control Conference 2015 presentation on "Sound in Space", focusing on Elite: Dangerous. Pretty damned cool, and he talks a lot about their decision to not go fully accurate with "no sound in space".
Matthew Florianz just did a Control Conference 2015 presentation on "Sound in Space", focusing on Elite: Dangerous. Pretty damned cool, and he talks a lot about their decision to not go fully accurate with "no sound in space".
Anton Sugar
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Say wha? Spill it. I saw a new X1 CQC trailer but it's really just a 30 second spot version of their full length X1 launch trailer.
Imagine you're going about your daily business, when suddenly, CMDR Robbie Williams pulls you out of supercruise.
The voice coms activate and he sings you this song.
"Let meeeheee interdict you!"
(Terrific cover ^^)
The voice coms activate and he sings you this song.
"Let meeeheee interdict you!"
(Terrific cover ^^)
I just dreamt that I broke the game and managed to land on a civilzed planet, where the whole game turns into a minecraft clone, blocky geometry and all. I recorded everything and stored it into a usb drive, went to a hotel to upload it but was chased down by a super pissed Frontier employee who just kept saying "give me back the data" in a very intimidating, Robert-Patrick-in-Terminator kind of way.
I think I might be playing this game too much...
I think I might be playing this game too much...
I DID IT
ANACONDA SOON
Miss Duval is pretty hot
Anton Sugar
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Pretty cool: sounds like there will be a combat Community Goal for the Kaushpoos starport.
EDIT: Ugh, fucking ALD fell to 4th place, of COURSE--right when I qualify for bounty bonuses. But then again, 20% isn't awful and I'll get to turn them all in at the Kaushpoos goal and reap whatever benefits I can from that.
EDIT: Ugh, fucking ALD fell to 4th place, of COURSE--right when I qualify for bounty bonuses. But then again, 20% isn't awful and I'll get to turn them all in at the Kaushpoos goal and reap whatever benefits I can from that.
Anton Sugar
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Bump for dev update
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Nothing we don't already know. You can find natural resources, ship wrecks, points of interest, encampments, settlements, etc. on the surface of planets. Did you know that some of them might even be protected by automated drones?!?!
Im going to expand on that in this update. On the surface there are many different things to see. Different military bases, research establishments, hideouts, starports, mining complexes, crashed ships and debris to investigate, and perhaps a few other things too. We are collectively calling these things points of interest. There is essentially a scale of items on the surface from starports and settlements, down to interesting mineral finds. Points of interest cover the encounters at the lower end of that scale, so as you travel across the surface you have a chance of encountering one of these points. The nature of the encounter will vary depending on where you are, the type of planet and the local topography and geology.
So for example you could be exploring an old mining world within the human bubble and find old mine workings, or machines. You might find a crashed ship way out beyond the frontier and who knows beyond that?
These points of interest come in a variety of flavours broadly split into two categories: natural and constructed. Natural points of interest are things that occur naturally on the planet such as mineral deposits. These themselves come in a range of elements and compounds and these feed into the new type of resource collection that we are adding as part of the loot system. Some elements of this will be part of the planetary landing release and will allow some specific modifications to your ship and SRV well have more on this coming in the next few weeks.
As well as naturally occurring formations we also have resources that can be found that have arrived from beyond the planet, but still of natural origin. These include items like meteorites that again feed into the new resource system. These will include resources that can only be found on the ground.
Manmade constructs can also be discovered on the planets surface and again these come in a variety of guises ranging from crashed ships to small encampments and other devices. More familiar cargo containers or other scoopable objects can be found at these encounters, so a crashed trading vessel may well have spewed the contents of its cargo hold. Or they might have something that needs scanning or data extracting from. These will tend to be found in the human habited region, but also beyond as tales of The Missing can attest to.
Its often wise to approach these sites with caution as they can be protected by automated systems!
There are points of interest that dont neatly fit into those two groupings, but we can leave them for you to discover for yourselves
How you find these depends on your current transport. While on ships you only get a vague knowledge of whether there are points of interest nearby this is shown as an area on your scanner. You will need to deploy your SRV and with its more specialised equipment locate whatever is there. This new equipment will form the focus for a new stream and update in the next few weeks.
As well as continued development with Horizons were supporting the released game and this week we deployed a server update to tackle the issue we encountered with the servers last Sunday. We are still looking into changes to address issues with the background simulation and player backed factions.
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Nothing we don't already know. You can find natural resources, ship wrecks, points of interest, encampments, settlements, etc. on the surface of planets. Did you know that some of them might even be protected by automated drones?!?!
Dreams-Visions
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Dreams-Visions
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ayyyyy
also,
2 new CGs at Kushapoos
http://imgur.com/a/Cqz5Q
I'd love to bounty hunt there but it's not in ALD space ;_;
also,
2 new CGs at Kushapoos
http://imgur.com/a/Cqz5Q
I'd love to bounty hunt there but it's not in ALD space ;_;
Anton Sugar
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Eh, guess I was hoping for actual details. Knowing the types of settlements is fine (although a lot of those have already been mentioned), but I'm interested in how they *work*--can you access them by docking via ship AND SRV? What types of services or missions can you get? What will they look like/how are they distinguished from one another? Who owns/runs them? Can they be destroyed? etc.
Meteorites were mentioned in the "Building a World" stream--they say that you can see actual ejecta lines from meteorite impacts that spread different materials across the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJv3EXH0yqY
David Braben leaks another video!!!! Holy shit this one looks good!
David Braben leaks another video!!!! Holy shit this one looks good!
Dreams-Visions
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O_____O
epic.
epic.
Anton Sugar
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Braben's 40 second vido > 1 hour livestream
It looks pretty bad because of the low bitrate, I'd love to find it in higher quality.
That a base or a starport? Either way it looks far more interesting than a few ship models strewn about.
Dreams-Visions
Member
awww that's sad.
RadioactiveLobster
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Well, as someone who can only play about 4-5 hours of Elite a week I've come to the conclusion it's best to just ignore Power Play all together.
Unless I am missing something.
Unless I am missing something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfw7ipXJIk
Getting rating 5 with Lavigny-Duval is the most profitable thing in the game right now. Yeah, for once combat is most profitable.
Anton Sugar
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You can easily get the minimum required for ALDs bounty bonuses. You just need 100 merits, and every ship you interdict/destroy during Undermining is worth 30. So you can literally just kill 4 enemy ships and you quality for bounty bonuses, and to maintain that, all you need to do is interdict/kill 2 enemy ships a week.
OR you could go all out, reach rank 5, and get the 100% bounty bonus, but that naturally takes more time.
Anton Sugar
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I don't know that they changed much; rather, the community started to understand it and how profitable it can be.
Plus, I have to admit, sometimes it's fun to stick to your Power's reddit and participate in goals/strategy that the community came up with themselves.
We REALLY need that kind of interaction in-game though. I don't care if it's the equivalent of reddit on a space computer, but there aren't enough in-game tools currently to help with coordinating these large efforts.
Reckheim
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Honestly I am surprised this isn't one of their priorities. Hopefully they do something in one of the future updates to remedy this.
RadioactiveLobster
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Anton Sugar
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When you're undermining, you're mostly interdicting and destroying cargo ships.
Yeah, agreed. Powerplay is already so...inorganic. It shouldn't be made less so by a complete lack of communication options other than in-game chat.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Damnit, I just left that system and headed back to Apam Napat, but that one is a fucking mining CG. A mining CG!!!!
Looks like I'm flying back to Kaushpoos with my Asp Mining ship, lol!
Funky Functionality
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So I'm back in civilization after a couple weeks of fruitful exploration. 4 galactic records: Largest A-class star, S-class star with most bodies, closest C-N star to Sol, and coldest white dwarf. First discoveries include 13 M and K giants, 3 supergiants, 9 carbon stars, 11 black holes, 11 Earth-likes, over 50 terraformable water worlds, 19 ammonia worlds, 2 Wolf-Rayets, and a partridge in a pear tree. Over $50 million for some very enjoyable sight-seeing. Not a bad deal.
Now I want to give this mining thing a shot. Any experienced miners here with recommended loadouts? My budget while being able to afford insurance would be no more than $100 million, so... Python?
Now I want to give this mining thing a shot. Any experienced miners here with recommended loadouts? My budget while being able to afford insurance would be no more than $100 million, so... Python?
ayyy lmao I'm right on time
Dreams-Visions
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welcome back.
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