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Threadkiller Dog posted:Wow, the Cobra MKIV was a disappointment. No internals upgrades to speak of, essentially a heavier MKIII with shorter legs and an extra small laser. I thought it had an extra C2 hardpoint? That's an extra C1 instead? Dammit, Frontier. I guess I'll be sticking with my Asp Explorer instead.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Wow, the Cobra MKIV was a disappointment. No internals upgrades to speak of, essentially a heavier MKIII with shorter legs and an extra small laser. That disappointing but not surprising. If they made it amazing there would be so much crying.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Wow, the Cobra MKIV was a disappointment. No internals upgrades to speak of, essentially a heavier MKIII with shorter legs and an extra small laser. Well I was expecting it but it still feels bad, it probably has more shields and armour but that still sucks  For some reason they aren't allowed to make any new multi role ships that are actually better than the Cobra => Asp => Clipper => Python progression.
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YellerBill posted:I thought it had an extra C2 hardpoint? That's an extra C1 instead? Dammit, Frontier. I guess I'll be sticking with my Asp Explorer instead. Yeah, 3 small 2 medium hardpoints, but with the same old C3 distributor so no point to it honestly. Better convergence ofc FSD, Thrusters are the same class as MKIII as well, but with some extra tonnage and a gutted max top speed (could be a bug? ~100m/s less seems extreme...). Some extra internals though E: I am distraught, no black friday paintjobs yet Threadkiller Dog fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Looks like the head designer at Lakon ended up going to Faulcon DeLacy and designing the Cobra IV. "What if we took the Cobra's main advantage, and took it away?" - former head designer at Lakon, head of the Type 7 project KakerMix fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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gently caress, I'm still getting "Server hasn't prepared installer: Unavailable"-errors when trying to start the beta-install. That's it, I'm going back to play Dark Souls II instead. 
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I purchased E:D on Steam. Is it possible for me to receive the loyalty discount for Horizons? I don't see a way to actually pull that off.
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Atoramos posted:I purchased E:D on Steam. Is it possible for me to receive the loyalty discount for Horizons? I don't see a way to actually pull that off.
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Atoramos posted:I purchased E:D on Steam. Is it possible for me to receive the loyalty discount for Horizons? I don't see a way to actually pull that off. You have to make a super special Frontier account to play, you log in their store with the same account and it knows you have ED already
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Atoramos posted:I purchased E:D on Steam. Is it possible for me to receive the loyalty discount for Horizons? I don't see a way to actually pull that off.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Is the 64bit client only part of the horizons beta?
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OK, apparently the issue with the server not allowing the installer to run is a bit more problematic then I first thought. Dev posts say they're looking into causes now. Welp, have fun with the Horizons Beta while I steam in envy, you bastards.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Wow, the Cobra MKIV was a disappointment. No internals upgrades to speak of, essentially a heavier MKIII with shorter legs and an extra small laser. I called it. drat, they had a chance to make it interesting, and they just make new ships kinda worse than the old ones. Why can't we have a nice multirole ship that I haven't been flying since the first month? 
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^^ I feel your pain, and the Steam installer is not showing Horizons yet either
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Mercurius posted:Words Thanks. I was wondering if I was doing something wrong when most of the money I was making, outside of some smuggling missions, was from exploration data sales. I knew Frontier made everything grindy as gently caress but I didn't think it would be this bad. I was so confused how to make money trading because my dumb Sidewinder can only hold 4 cargo slots and I made a whopping 700 CR profit on Food Tablets. I've been holding off beelining to goonspace (it was my original goal) until someone talked me into 'enjoy the newbie bullshit levels for a bit' so that when I go bounty hunting with a goonwing I'll enjoy the money slingshot that much more. Drake_263 posted:Factions This clears it up, thanks. I was wondering which faction ranking I needed to work on (Pilot Fed) and was getting confused by all the metagame politicky nonsense.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:You have to make a super special Frontier account to play, you log in their store with the same account and it knows you have ED already Mercurius posted:You're eligible for it, the Frontier web store is badly designed and only shows you the discount once you've put the expansion in your cart and gone to checkout. Thanks, combined these were my issues
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tooterfish posted:I thought Steam just opened Frontier's own launcher? Found out if you go into the game folder for the launcher from steam and manually run the launcher it should show Horizons if your eligible. Edit: So you dont have to download a new launcher
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Hav posted:Test your main memory with memtest86+, not the thing that Windows ships with. - http://www.memtest.org/ Thanks for the advice but I'm more an amateur (even though I do build my PC's) and don't overclock. 
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Nov 30, 2015 22:40
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Well at least the Cobra Mk IV looks cool 
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I could gently caress in this.
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Bastard. Here's my exciting beta screenshot: 
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*creepy voice* seven daaays
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grilldos posted:I could gently caress in this. gently caress, I could gently caress under this. Anyone can give me the internal specs of the new cobra IV? Any different than the Mk III's 4/4/4/2/2/2?
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Rah! posted:Kui 11 seems to be in a sweet spot in terms of distance from LFT 269, so most of the missions that show up on a bulletin board in Kui 11 will send you to LFT 269. So you often get multiple missions of the same kind, to the same place, everytime you refresh the bulletin board. There are other system pairs like that, but this is the best one I've found so far. I prefer Arexe. Every single combat mission will be for neighboring Orrere, and Orrere is an anarchy system so you won't accidentally ring up any bounties and you can take the "kill traders/cops" missions in addition to the pirate ones. Only downside is like LFT 269, Arexe is also Federation. I wish I could find an equivalent system for grinding Empire ranks via combat...
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So now that my hopes of a good Cobra Mk IV are crushed  I'll have to come up with new ideas for a multirole gently caress-around ship... something that can haul a rover, big jump range, decent cargo space and combat capabilities. I'm guessing the Asp is the best suited... it's the only one with enough internals to fit all the stuff I'd want (AFM, rover, 16+ cargo space, fuel scoop) and still be able to somehow fight and jump decent distances. Or the good ol' Cobra mk III ...the thing I look forward to is having 90 ammo on the space shotgun. With the nerfs to energy weapons' ability to gently caress up hulls, the good old twin pulse laser Vulture will need a facelift: I was thinking about c3 beam + c3 cannon as has been suggested many times, but I think that with the Vulture's ability to glue itself to any other ship's rear end, a 90 ammo frag cannon could juuuust be what I need 
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Literally Kermit posted:gently caress, I could gently caress under this. 4/4/3/3/2/2 It’s got a boost to shields and one more small hardpoint, the same armor, and got poo poo on for speed and jump distance.
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TorakFade posted:So now that my hopes of a good Cobra Mk IV are crushed You can squeeze a pretty good setup into an Imperial Courier: http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_courier/14A3A3A1A3A2A3C1b1b1b0m0200040202p5012o2f.Iw18UA==.Aw18UA==?bn=Horizons%20Imp Sure wish I didn't have to waste so much space with a scanner AND the surface scanner, the surface scanner is kinda important now
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A few stills from my space porn where I am loving in the ship.
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Literally Kermit posted:You can squeeze a pretty good setup into an Imperial Courier: http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_courier/14A3A3A1A3A2A3C1b1b1b0m0200040202p5012o2f.Iw18UA==.Aw18UA==?bn=Horizons%20Imp That's nice, except for the 2A prismatic, not going to waste precious time grinding powerplay for that. Even then with a standard 3A shield it can still fit 16 tons of cargo...but 16.6 ly jump range unladen with full tank is kinda lovely. Anyways I already have an Asp, and I'm not that big on long-range exploration anymore (too time consuming), so I'll just A-rank it and see if that's good enough for bumbling around doing whatever, I still have the Vulture when I feel like kicking rear end or my Python cargo ship/mining barge for low risk money making. They really should fill the gap between the 6 million Asp and the 20+ millions other ships though, for being a "do what you want" game there sure is not much choice in multirole ships, the jump from Asp to Clipper/Python is ridiculous (30 millions for a pretty much maxed Asp to 80 millions for a barebones Python / barely decent Clipper is crazy, we really need a multirole that can be maxed out with 50-60 millions...)
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While you lot enjoy your space porn, and I have a progress bar, I...actually went and touched the poop: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=204289 It's a whine of course, and like anything good will probably get nerfed to useless, but loving hell, it would be worth grinding up the rare metals for a +50% damage reload.
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TorakFade posted:That's nice, except for the 2A prismatic, not going to waste precious time grinding powerplay for that. Even then with a standard 3A shield it can still fit 16 tons of cargo...but 16.6 ly jump range unladen with full tank is kinda lovely. You really don't have to grind. You just join her for 4 weeks, gently caress off until the fourth week and grind to rank 3. It honestly doesn't take that long, and you get the only power play module worth a tin gently caress. Prismatics are slightly powerful than if you used a shield a size above it, while freeing up the larger slot at the cost of extra weight and power. And being interdicted by assholes constantly but that happens to me on a regular basis anyway
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Literally Kermit posted:You really don't have to grind. You just join her for 4 weeks, gently caress off until the fourth week and grind to rank 3. It honestly doesn't take that long, and you get the only power play module worth a tin gently caress. I was pledged for a month, being constantly interdicted by assholes, and I couldn't bear it anymore, I left now I just don't care enough to wait another 4 weeks.Anyway why are they making all new ships sidegrades at best, useless at worst? Only exception is the imperial eagle which is a straight upgrade from the normal eagle, and I wish they made the same for Viper and Cobra mk IV. Instead they're just slower than their predecessors, and have kinda minor advantages (1 more hardpoint and better grouping the cobra, less power issues and more space the viper) Why can't we have ships that are BETTER than what we already had? Make them cost more, gate them behind ranks or whatever ... remember that they made hull variants of the Dropship because it was too lovely, slow and unfun and nobody used it, so why are they now taking the good ships and making hull variants ("upgrades"  ) that are shittier? 
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