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Sarsapariller posted:Good god, how do you even get it that high? Surely not by killing ships, you'd have to kill thousands. This. In the last week I've come in and out of Robigo on Open multiple times, totally unchallenged. Not a player in sight. So what the hell did you do?!
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DancingShade posted:Bounty hunting using voice attack with Tom Baker as my ship computer is magical I did not know this was an option.  How much do you earn by defrauding Robigo of 260 tons of palladium?
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:I did not know this was an option. http://hcsvoicepacks.com/collections/voice-packs You'll want the "Midnight" pack for Tom Baker. Incidentally the "Leo + Ship's Cat" pack is Norman Lovett from Red Dwarf  Also you'll want a Voiceattack key if you haven't already got one: http://www.voiceattack.com/ Oh yeah, once you install everything follow these instructions to make sure your keys are setup correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms3bL1wBBFg DancingShade fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Bedshaped posted:I think this is the first worthy screenshot I've taken: drat, insanely beautiful.
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Dev update!quote:"Hi everyone, So, pretty much what most people were hoping for re: missions (i.e. making missions tie into the BGS in a plausible way and the game might actually give you some feedback about poo poo that is happening), nice to see it stated outright, and the first 100% definite confirmation that there will be more huge weapons added.
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I hope their future approach to huge weapons has something substantial to help distinguish the style of combat a bit for ships that mount them. Getting sucked back into an eternity of gimballed lasers because that's the utilitarian path of least resistance would be incredibly meh.
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Edit: got sniped by patch chat. That all looks fantastic! I'm thinking about starting Power Play w/ ALD this weekend, either in a vulture or a federal assault ship, depending on how much dough I stack up before getting bored of space trucking and deciding to do murder. Anyone have experience with either of those ships in PP? I have no clue how to fit for pve and potential pvp at the same time Unsinkabear fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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timn posted:I hope their future approach to huge weapons has something substantial to help distinguish the style of combat a bit for ships that mount them. Getting sucked back into an eternity of gimballed lasers because that's the utilitarian path of least resistance would be incredibly meh. it'll be pulse lasers fixed only
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timn posted:I hope their future approach to huge weapons has something substantial to help distinguish the style of combat a bit for ships that mount them. Getting sucked back into an eternity of gimballed lasers because that's the utilitarian path of least resistance would be incredibly meh.
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Dabir posted:it'll be pulse lasers I would be okay with this. Mercurius posted:I sincerely hope that they take this opportunity to re-introduce the idea of the weapon variants they had leading up to launch (some of which have made their way into CQC). Also this -- RIP high impact multicannons
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Mercurius posted:I sincerely hope that they take this opportunity to re-introduce the idea of the weapon variants they had leading up to launch (some of which have made their way into CQC). I think I mentioned this before but the scatter multicannon loving owns because BRRRRT.
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RabidWeasel posted:So, pretty much what most people were hoping for re: missions Hmmm... I'm a little more pessimistic. It sounds like they are giving us a bunch of pretty text/pictures around what may be basically the same mission system. I don't think anyone was asking for "I really think this station should treat me with the respect I deserve!" but the devs seem like that is the most important thing ever. Well, maybe the grognards in the brown sea were asking for it, but that really is a counterargument for if it should be done. I'd rather hear that they are fixing the broken missions, giving us better control over what missions we can take, adding more interesting mission types, increasing the (non-exploit) rewards, etc.
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JagGator posted:Hmmm... I'm a little more pessimistic. It sounds like they are giving us a bunch of We'll be getting that I reckon. Maybe better money rewards from missions (with a higher rank), 'cause that's a joke right now. JagGator posted:...the grognards in the brown sea were asking for it... Even worse. Someone one Reddit made a mockup of the mission screen with the same sort of faces from the proposed 'character creator', and it was popular, so...
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It looked to me like he just focused on the first item on the list of mission updates for this newsletter and will provide info on the rest on a week-by-week basis? That's my hope anyway. There was nothing about more variety in there for example.
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So I have to ask, is the cobra mk IV worth picking up Horizons for prior to tomorrow? Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask lordofthefishes fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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The MK IV? I wouldn't get Horizons specifically for it, no. They've said it'll remain exclusive forever though, so the real question is will your OCD kick in if you don't get it? ^^^ooh, you edited!^^^
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lordofthefishes posted:So I have to ask, is the cobra worth picking up Horizons for prior to tomorrow? It's a better place to ask than the Star Citizen thread. Where I just replied...but posts there are lost like tears in the rain. And no, it's not worth it, your basic Cobra Mk III is much better. Get Horizons if you're really into landing on planets, but there's no real gameplay/power advantage to it just yet. That may change with the 2.1 crafting stuff, but that can wait, and it'll only get cheaper.
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DancingShade posted:http://hcsvoicepacks.com/collections/voice-packs Oh my god Leonard Nimoy is my ships computer 
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lordofthefishes posted:is the cobra mk IV worth picking up No.
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Annath posted:Oh my god Leonard Nimoy is my ships computer WHAT
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:I did not know this was an option. It's not. You can't. Come to the froggy side. We will teach you. To whoever had the thought about claiming that kind of bounty, Frontier limits collection on player bounties to 1 million per faction.
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Annath posted:Oh my god Leonard Nimoy is my ships computer WHAAAAAAAA
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To which I ask, is indulging my admitted OCD worth $8.00 CAD? Figured I was better off waiting for a sale but better to ask than not, thanks all.
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I'm officially pumped for 2.1, E:D has been missing good gamefeel for a long time, giving npcs faces and generally expanding the way missions work is just the ticket, filling out the weapons variety a bit is also one of those things that's been missing since before I started playing the game. It strikes me that they probably wanted a lot of these features (like more huge weapons to go with the new ships) in the initial release of horizons, but ran out of time to get it as a tandem release with 1.5 before the year was out. I mostly think this is the case because Horizons really felt lackluster in terms of non-essential features and extras right at release, but the promised post-release content kept me interested.
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lordofthefishes posted:To which I ask, is indulging my admitted OCD worth $8.00 CAD? The Cobra Mk. 4 has a VERY niche role. It's a great starting miner ship. But that's about all it's good for. I kept my Cobra Mk. 4 for under a week. It's not worth it.
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Big changes on how they are selling Horizons and future content. quote:Greetings Commanders,
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IAmTheRad posted:The Cobra Mk. 4 has a VERY niche role. It's a great starting miner ship. Best as I can tell is that the Cobra Mk. 4 (if not mining) is also a cheap entry level freighter since you can easily pack on over 50 cargo units without breaking a sweat. It is absolutely NOT a combat ship, despite the highly misleading and very well placed 5 hardpoints. Man, if it had a better power distributor or better turning or better speed (just any one of those) it would be really decent 
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tooterfish posted:Honestly no idea why they didn't just do it like that in the first place. I would say that season 3 will come with season 2, or ED and Horizons will merge to become the new base game and season 3 will be a season pass.
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The problem was it was probably confusing to some people. The way it appeared was that you needed to buy the base game and then buy Horizons. I mean you got a discount if you did so. What the change appears to be is that there won't be two things called Elite: Dangerous on the Steam store. Just one item you need to buy. Sure, the season pass for Horizons gives you access to all the Horizons content too, and the price change makes sure that you get Horizons at a discounted price over what it costs now. The discounted price right now with the loyalty discount is approximately £29.99. It looks like the new system will have Season 3 being standalone. You won't need Horizons for Season 3. The extra £5 is for the Gold Asp Paint.
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IAmTheRad posted:The extra £5 is for the Gold Asp Paint. And the Black Friday paint set if you preordered! I haven't touched any Horizons content yet - I'm assuming that surface stuff is going to be tied in with Engineers at least in some respect so I'm waiting until 2.1 before getting involved with it - and I'm fairly OK with my purchase right now because I basically ended up paying an extra £5 for a ton of cosmetics. Of course all the 2.1 stuff could be total crap but I'm at least a tiny bit optimistic this time 
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Anyone else stuck in an email verification loop? My launcher seems to think I'm running from a new computer and keeps sending me back to the same page. It fixed itself
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DancingShade posted:http://hcsvoicepacks.com/collections/voice-packs Awesome, I'll be using this for sure.
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I wonder how that steam change will effect those people who bought E:D base just for the cheap horizons and then did a refund on steam. Maybe they'll get horizons removed and then somehow have to explain to Frontier why they don't also have the base game in their steam library? oops, haha.
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bsamu posted:I wonder how that steam change will effect those people who bought E:D base just for the cheap horizons and then did a refund on steam. Maybe they'll get horizons removed and then somehow have to explain to Frontier why they don't also have the base game in their steam library? oops, haha. Well before now Horizons always included the base game, indeed it would be possible to own Elite just by having purchased Horizons, no refund shenanigans required.
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