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Is it to late to get the exclusive ship.
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I've been away a bit and see a lot of love for flak cannons here - have they been buffed?
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Dec 20, 2015 17:05
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Aethernet posted:I've been away a bit and see a lot of love for flak cannons here - have they been buffed? Ammo capacity has been tripled.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:11
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Aethernet posted:I've been away a bit and see a lot of love for flak cannons here - have they been buffed?
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Dec 20, 2015 17:11
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cheesetriangles posted:Is it to late to get the exclusive ship. What, the Cobra mk IV? You can have mine if you want, it's poo poo.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:34
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Is it worse than the MK 3?
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Dec 20, 2015 17:44
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Flipswitch posted:Is it worse than the MK 3? That seems to be the general opinion. Are there any problems winging up between 1.5 and Horizons? I have some returning friends, and I'm not sure if there will be a problem. Obv. they can't do planet stuff.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:56
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I think if they had called it the Cobra Freighter it would be better received.
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Dec 20, 2015 17:57
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Mike the TV posted:I'm going to be playing CQC today for a few hours around 2PM EST (7PM GMT) and every time I get killed I'm donating a dollar to SETI. Come kill me if you can. Update: tried to test out CQC and I couldn't get a single game. Stuck in matchmaking hell. Please join me at 2pm est so I can play a game of CQC.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:09
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OB_Juan posted:That seems to be the general opinion. 1.5 and Horizons players share the same server. They can play together. Now, the problem will of course be if the game decides if you are allowed to share the same instance due to their backwards thinking of how they think Players never want to wing up together to blow things up. IAmTheRad fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Dec 20, 2015 18:13
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Flipswitch posted:Is it worse than the MK 3? It's essentially just the MK 3 with an extra class 4 and 2 class 3 internal slots bolted to it. Also the small hardpoints were moved to the top of the hull and a 3rd small was added. But it's got the same thrusters so it's significantly slower and less agile. Actually all of it's equipment is the same as the MK 3. Astroniomix fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Dec 20, 2015 18:16
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EDIT: I'm bad at pressing the edit button
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Dec 20, 2015 18:18
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Flipswitch posted:Is it worse than the MK 3? Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I think if they had called it the Cobra Freighter it would be better received.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:24
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So the CG treasure hunt ended up being completely broken. The last step involved selling illicit materials at a specific station... except that the station didn't have a black market. The black market was quietly activated overnight, so dozens of players who would've solved it Friday wasted hours being unable to solve it and just chasing red herrings instead.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:30
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IAmTheRad posted:Now, the problem will of course be if the game decides if you are allowed to share the same instance due to their backwards thinking of how they think Players never want to wing up together to blow things up. That's the part I'm most worried about. I'll have to test it out.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:32
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There's also a reccuring problem of people suddenly being unable to see people they are winged with. As in: their ship/srv just disappears from view but you can still watch their wing beacon moving around every ~3 seconds.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:34
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24-7 Urkel Cosplay posted:So the CG treasure hunt ended up being completely broken. The last step involved selling illicit materials at a specific station... except that the station didn't have a black market. The black market was quietly activated overnight, so dozens of players who would've solved it Friday wasted hours being unable to solve it and just chasing red herrings instead. Bwahahaha classic. So I guess it's over now and one lucky guy got the prize?
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Dec 20, 2015 18:36
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OB_Juan posted:That's the part I'm most worried about. I'll have to test it out. Winged up with a friend who doesn't have Horizons last night. Played a few hours at the Xihe rez to and from station without any issues, other than having the coms system occasionally go down.
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Dec 20, 2015 18:54
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Helter Skelter posted:It's actually better in most respects, but falls short in one critically important aspect: It's slow as gently caress. The Mk3 is the fastest ship in the game in a straight line, the Mk4 is one of the slowest. Like, "has trouble catching up to bulk transport craft that aren't the Type 9" slow. There are several ships that would handily outrun it even without boosting. Astroniomix posted:It's essentially just the MK 3 with an extra class 4 and 2 class 3 internal slots bolted to it. Also the small hardpoints were moved to the top of the hull and a 3rd small was added. But it's got the same thrusters so it's significantly slower and less agile.
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Dec 20, 2015 19:11
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Mike the TV posted:I'm going to be playing CQC today for a few hours around 2PM EST (7PM GMT) and every time I get killed I'm donating a dollar to SETI. Come kill me if you can. update: starting up the game again and getting ready for some CQC! Starting at 2pm any kills on me counts towards how much I donate. I'm CMDR Meeklo Braca and I'm bad at this game.
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Dec 20, 2015 19:29
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Shine posted:Put basically any guns you want on a Python and go to loving town because it will stomp everything. Most recently I put pulse turrets on the C2 slots, a C3 G/beam, and two C3 G/cannons. You can tear small ships apart with the turrets and beam (which fires basically forever with enough pips), and rip larger ships apart by adding the cannons. I really really like my Clipper but short of ramming I feel like I might be a better killer in a Python tbh I'm on the fence and spacepoor enough I could only do one or the other
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Dec 20, 2015 20:34
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Helter Skelter posted:It's actually better in most respects, but falls short in one critically important aspect: It's slow as gently caress. The Mk3 is the fastest ship in the game in a straight line, the Mk4 is one of the slowest. Like, "has trouble catching up to bulk transport craft that aren't the Type 9" slow. There are several ships that would handily outrun it even without boosting. Has anyone here taken the keelback for a spin yet? On paper, it sounds like 'type 6 with better guns and more maneuverability'. E: nm, I ran the numbers on this, and for what I was thinking of doing, and the spare cash I'd have, the asp Explorer pisses all over it in terms of range and cargo space. At about three times the cost, but hey. General brown sea/reddit consensus seems to be 'might be interesting when fighter bays arrive', with a dash of 'ooh, vtol engines, shiny!' Wolfechu fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 20, 2015 21:13
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devil_doc8404 posted:Winged up with a friend who doesn't have Horizons last night. Played a few hours at the Xihe rez to and from station without any issues, other than having the coms system occasionally go down. Cool! Good to hear.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:19
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Not sure if it's been commented on here but I think the Xihe hazres makes your weapons run very hot.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:32
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This moon has a nice pink glow. 
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Dec 20, 2015 21:36
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Parallelwoody posted:Not sure if it's been commented on here but I think the Xihe hazres makes your weapons run very hot. It orbits a brown dwarf so that makes sense.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:39
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Parallelwoody posted:Not sure if it's been commented on here but I think the Xihe hazres makes your weapons run very hot. Yeah the HazRESes in Xihe are the closest RESes to the star, close enough that if you hang out near them in supercruise you stand a good chance of overheating. In realspace it's not as hot but most ships still sit at 50~55% heat when there. The plus side to this is that it makes a great place to hone your heat management skills, as well as making it easier to spot NPCs because they all have larger heat signatures there.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:49
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Yeah I can easily start cooking my Vulture if I just keep the trigger down on my beam laser. Hit boost? Now it's getting toasty. Xihe is teaching me to keep an ear out for the overheating audible cues, as my dashboard spends most of the time smoking already. Just took the Beam/Frag Vulture out for a spin and it was great. Even after the ammo buff I spent a good half of my flight with the thing empty, it would have been painful to use with only 30 rounds. 90 sounds better but it still doesn't go that far, I found it's best saved for sucker punching big ships right in the power plant, 3 good hits at a few hundred meters did a whopping 33% or something silly to a Conda. Arrath fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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Dec 20, 2015 22:17
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Arrath posted:Yeah I can easily start cooking my Vulture if I just keep the trigger down on my beam laser. Hit boost? Now it's getting toasty. Xihe is teaching me to keep an ear out for the overheating audible cues, as my dashboard spends most of the time smoking already. Yeah, the nice thing about a C3 beam is that it will still wreck small fighters and do fine against mediums, so you can save the frags for burst damage against larger threats or fighting wings. Or for Asps because they are stupid and deserve death by perforation.
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Dec 20, 2015 22:43
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Arrath posted:Yeah I can easily start cooking my Vulture if I just keep the trigger down on my beam laser. Hit boost? Now it's getting toasty. Xihe is teaching me to keep an ear out for the overheating audible cues, as my dashboard spends most of the time smoking already.
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Dec 20, 2015 22:55
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How do you find minerals and whatever that the SRV can interact with on planets? Just drive around aimlessly or is there more to it?
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Dec 20, 2015 23:19
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How do you plan long distance exploration runs? I mean, I know I can select a target somewhere and then just move the map closer until I find a plot, but is there an easier way? Also how do you scan systems doing that, because even though my navigation computer keeps track of my last plotted route I can't find a way to reselect that as a target after switching to scanning stuff in the system I'm in.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:39
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So I took a mission to destroy a surface turret, flew to the system, only to find only gas giants. What am I missing here?
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Dec 20, 2015 23:39
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I had that happen to me the other night. I don't know how it is determined, but it's because there is a planet or moon somewhere in the system that you haven't discovered yet. Get a discovery sensor and go looking around stations and gas giants.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:43
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Amethyst posted:So I took a mission to destroy a surface turret, flew to the system, only to find only gas giants. What am I missing here? Scrree posted:I had that happen to me the other night. I don't know how it is determined, but it's because there is a planet or moon somewhere in the system that you haven't discovered yet. Get a discovery sensor and go looking around stations and gas giants. This, you need a honker aka Discovery Scanner.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:47
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I have a basic discovery scanner and have flown around all of the gas giants, and found nothing. do I just need to upgrade my scanner?
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Dec 20, 2015 23:48
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nessin posted:How do you plan long distance exploration runs? I mean, I know I can select a target somewhere and then just move the map closer until I find a plot, but is there an easier way? nessin posted:Also how do you scan systems doing that, because even though my navigation computer keeps track of my last plotted route I can't find a way to reselect that as a target after switching to scanning stuff in the system I'm in.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:51
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Amethyst posted:I have a basic discovery scanner and have flown around all of the gas giants, and found nothing. do I just need to upgrade my scanner? Potentially, the basic one you have has a limited range, the target planet must be outside it. EDIT You also don't need to assign a hotkey to re-select your route, you can select it manually from the left hand menu, just select it normally (it will have the route icon next to it) and your route will resume when you jump into that system.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:55
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Amethyst posted:I have a basic discovery scanner and have flown around all of the gas giants, and found nothing. do I just need to upgrade my scanner? It's possible there's another star and system a few light minutes away that your basic scanner cannot find, as it can only find things within 500 LS
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KakerMix posted:Potentially, the basic one you have has a limited range, the target planet must be outside it. This also has a keybind, called 'next system in route' or something, defaults to o or 0.
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