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slidebite posted:Just getting into this again after a 2 month hiatus and see tons of posts and several things in game which I don't know mean. Also, seems like mining might be a thing now? In my experience, shopping around for a better sell price is not worth the time required. Because you'll have to hop around a bunch, you may as well be using that travel time to buy and sell instead.
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CQC is good concept but awful. Gimbaled weapons should be removed. Main game still boring as gently caress, I don't see how planetary landings will change it. Sylink fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 22:35
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wHat isn't elite telling us????? horizon hoax???
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Oct 9, 2015 22:53
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For those that would poo-poo the glorious potato world as a boring height map as a non sphereical dull rock... it's kinda what they're going for... Only suggestion I'd make is let's get a few more goddamn huge crater impacts on there. Buzz is getting ready to punch some fools. Arach fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 23:06
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Mining is a thing. Don't know if it's as profitable as trading or bounty hunting but it's not complete garbage.  Friendly reminder: You should definitely use prospecting drones. It gives you about 5 times more stuff. Using a size 2 laser my mining time per asteroid went from about 20 seconds to over 100 seconds.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:24
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Sylink posted:CQC is good concept but awful. Gimbaled weapons should be removed. actually its good
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Oct 10, 2015 00:07
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He's right about gimbals in CQC though. They really make the whole thing less interesting than it could be.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:09
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holy gently caress i suck at CQC
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Oct 10, 2015 00:20
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DatonKallandor posted:He's right about gimbals in CQC though. They really make the whole thing less interesting than it could be. Use chaff. The sidewinder has gimbals because it's slow.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:41
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This is perfect. Whats the original video anyways?
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Oct 10, 2015 01:28
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Running dual cannons on the eagle in CQC is some silly fun, but I don't know how well it will work against anyone who knows what they're doing.
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Tom Guycot posted:This is perfect. Whats the original video anyways?  It's on Netflix
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The Bacon City Hangover 08 OCT 3301 Last week, the starport of Bacon City played host to the inaugural Bacon Protests anniversary celebrations, which commemorated the repeal of the meat ban that affected citizens of the Carnoeck system in 3288. Revellers from across the galaxy descended on Bacon City to join in the fun, and hundreds of independent pilots ferried animal meat and narcotics to the starport to fuel the festivities. The event was not without problems, however, as the steady stream of traders and party goers attracted pirates and other disruptive elements to Bacon City. At one point, the starport was blockaded by an animal-rights group, who ordered ships carrying animal meat to jettison their cargo at gunpoint. A spokesperson for United Carnoeck for Equality, the event's sponsors, released the following announcement: "For the most part the celebrations have been a huge success, but an event like this is bound to attract a few unsavoury elements. Fortunately we anticipated such an eventuality, and set aside some money for the post-party cleanup. So if you're a bounty hunter and you want to help clear the spaceways around Bacon City, get yourself to the Carnoeck system! We'll make it worth your while."
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Oct 10, 2015 01:33
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I saw at least one person complaining about the mission npcs who follow you to offer you a different job, but if you're doing a combat mission you might be in luck, those npcs can now be mission targets, which as far as I know was never possible before 1.4.
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Oct 10, 2015 01:57
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Tried mining on my Asp with 2x medium lasers. Only annoyance is they run out of juice pretty quick, but they dig faster than 4 drones can collect everything. Anyone have an Asp fit you'd care to share for mining?
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Oct 10, 2015 02:01
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Any idea when we'll be getting 1.5 yet? I know "Holiday 2015" but that's a wide berth. They haven't said anything more specific, have they?
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Crimson Harvest posted:Tried mining on my Asp with 2x medium lasers. Only annoyance is they run out of juice pretty quick, but they dig faster than 4 drones can collect everything. Anyone have an Asp fit you'd care to share for mining? Here's mine. The big FSD is so I can easily swap to trading/smuggling when I don't feel like mining or Vulturing. I use a C3 shield, which doesn't provide much protection for an Asp, but I mine in remote areas so I seldom have to deal with pirates, and using a C3 shield lets me slap a bigger cargo hold onto that 5 slot. I'm too paranoid to go without a shield entirely. I use one C2 mining laser and it still outpaces 3 collectors, so I imagine it would sync pretty well with four. I wouldn't bother with multiple mining lasers unless I was running a bigass ship that could put out like 6 collectors and still have cargo space. I put a C2 pulse laser on the other medium slot just in case I run into a pirate. Four smalls and one medium does fine against small targets. I stopped being lazy and started rerolling the bulletin when I turned in my mining stuff. Got almost $3M from my last run because I scored a few dozen painite and the board kept rolling $300,000 painite missions  .
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"You can boost inside a station and get stuck between pads and blown up for loitering" This message brought to you by half a bottle of bourbon, half a bottle of wine, a few Guinness, and whatever the hell size beers they were serving at the work picnic
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Adult Sword Owner posted:"You can boost inside a station and get stuck between pads and blown up for loitering" Next time quit and then reload, and your ship will be safely outside the station, and you can try again. It saved my rear end one time when a similar thing happened to me. But for me It was caused by an ultra-length stutter that hit a split second after i fired my thrusters on the way to the landing pad. When the stutter was done, I was all the way across the station, and was stuck bouncing around underneath some architectural poo poo, and couldn't escape. 
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Oct 10, 2015 06:18
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Memories off booting up the game, going to the surface, hitting launch and immediately raising gear to fly out of the station LIKE A BOSS and realizing your throttle wasn't at zero and frantically hitting keys to re-lower your gear only to go into silent running and gently caress your poo poo up 
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DatonKallandor posted:There's something off about the LoDing in CQC, especially in the killer cam. If I had to guess I'd say the LoDing system thinks the distance to the killer is from your death location, not from the camera looking at him afterwards, so you get reduced quality for killcam, depending on how far away your killer was from you when he killed you. Thruster FX especially jumps from "huge so you can see it from 1km away" on the killcam (despite being much closer than that) to regular sized when you're back in your cockpit after a respawn. This happens because the killcam is at your death location, and frontier just decreases the FoV to zoom in on your killer. Apparently this is something they'd never been doing in the game before now, because it was messing with the UI at first.
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CQC players: Whats your opinion on plasma repeaters? Yes or no? I can't make up my mind, damage is great but it doesn't seem to be useful at any kind of distance.
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Oct 10, 2015 11:26
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Just tried CQC for the first time and drat it's fun. After flying a python for so long, and now an anaconda, it was amazing to zip around in the condor, especially with flight assist off  I even got the second highest score on my second match, against a bunch of rank 3-14 dudes, which took me from rank 1 to rank 3 and made me feel like space rambo (I probably actually suck though and everyone else was drunk).
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I love the Condor. I can't wait to be able to use it in the main game. Pity it doesn't have a
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I must be the only one rolling around in an Eagle. Is there anything better for straight up shooting dudes? I don't really care for mining or trading.
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Romes128 posted:I must be the only one rolling around in an Eagle. Is there anything better for straight up shooting dudes? I don't really care for mining or trading. Yeah, Viper, then Vulture. Very slightly less manoeuvrable, but much heavier armament and shields/armour.
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Oct 10, 2015 12:43
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Any good locations near bacon city for finding bounties? I've checked out the nav beacon but I can't find much else.
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Raziel Eldwor posted:Use chaff. The sidewinder has gimbals because it's slow. Don't all the ships in cqc have gimbals? They all autotarget
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Don't all the ships in cqc have gimbals? They all autotarget The ones on the sidewinder have a greater range of motion.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else have a bug where your repair is stuck at 10credits, but can't be cleared? Even when you buy a new ship. Also interdictions are suddenly quite harder to pull out of, before it was pretty generous with where you kept your escape heading but now demands you stay pretty bang on to prevent being pulled out of space. I guess that 1.4.1 patch can't come soon enough.
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Don't all the ships in cqc have gimbals? They all autotarget It's not based on the ship, but the weapon - some ships like the sidewinder unlock certain weapons that have no gimbals at all. Sidey unlocks a fixed multicannon at level 14 or so, and a gimbaled at 50, for example. Also, a public service announcement for anyone playing CQC: Be aware that the CQC ship guns have a much, much shorter effective range than the ones in the main game. The standard pulses on the condor and sidey will start petering out at something like 750 meters instead of ~2km we're used to in the main game.
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Sekenr posted:CQC players: Whats your opinion on plasma repeaters? Yes or no? I can't make up my mind, damage is great but it doesn't seem to be useful at any kind of distance. I love them because you only need one pip in weapons to kill a dude with them, freeing your distribution to full engines. Combined with a firepower upgrade they can kill a fully shielded eagle or condor in one pass.
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Ddi they improve the open play missions at all?
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WebDog posted:Is it just me, or does anyone else have a bug where your repair is stuck at 10credits, but can't be cleared? Even when you buy a new ship. Don't expect it to go back to normal, they said that they wanted interdictions by NPCs to be harder for 1.4, but they've conceded that it's perhaps a little too hard now. Seems to go off ship rank from what I saw last night, struggled against dangerous, deadly and elite ships (even type 9s), but anything lower was a breeze.
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Gort posted:Yeah, Viper, then Vulture. Very slightly less manoeuvrable, but much heavier armament and shields/armour. Is the Viper actually better than Cobra? I am currently in Gende where there are 3 RES within short range of a High-Tech station so I figure I'll just stick around until I have enough for a Vulture. I have a Cobra with B-class everything but if Viper is better for combat, I might as well go for that.
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Sekenr posted:CQC players: Whats your opinion on plasma repeaters? Yes or no? I can't make up my mind, damage is great but it doesn't seem to be useful at any kind of distance. I don't like them because of the distance thing, far too easy to just miss everything. Kryopsis posted:Is the Viper actually better than Cobra? I am currently in Gende where there are 3 RES within short range of a High-Tech station so I figure I'll just stick around until I have enough for a Vulture. I have a Cobra with B-class everything but if Viper is better for combat, I might as well go for that. It is much better, on account of being a smaller target with more powerful shields. The armament is the same, but the placement is much better (which, to be fair, doesn't make much of a difference for PVE). Power is tight, so sacrifices will have to be made somewhere. Good opportunity to learn about power management if you haven't already.
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Gonkish posted:Any idea when we'll be getting 1.5 yet? I know "Holiday 2015" but that's a wide berth. They haven't said anything more specific, have they? I'm assuming the day before Christmas.
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Crimson Harvest posted:Tried mining on my Asp with 2x medium lasers. Only annoyance is they run out of juice pretty quick, but they dig faster than 4 drones can collect everything. Anyone have an Asp fit you'd care to share for mining? http://coriolis.io/outfit/asp/05A5D5A4D4A5B5C2m2m181818180404040005041qC040C5P4.Iw18WQ==.CwBhGYCYQRhTIyTBCLnGcQ==?bn=Mining%20Asp This is what I use to mine in. Divert energy to Weapons and it'll be a a bit before the lasers are out of juice, so much so you might have to stop midway to babysit your refinery as not to get any of that non PPPGO into your hole by venting it. I should also add that I do not mine in any RES, less likely to run into NPCs that will attack you there. Robzilla fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Finally. bonus: first Earth-like world that I've discovered. 
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Met posted:Finally. That's the center of the Galaxy, right?
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