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BMan posted:Personally I find that aggravating because you have to stop your ship from crashing into a star once per minute. Does the tab out to set acceleration to zero thing still work? I don't really use it much.
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Wolfechu posted:Does the tab out to set acceleration to zero thing still work? I don't really use it much. Not as well as it used to, in my experience  Don't think I've changed anything else (drivers or whatever) so I'm inclined to blame a patch since I went to Sag A*.
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Wolfechu posted:Does the tab out to set acceleration to zero thing still work? I don't really use it much. They actually "fixed" that in one of the patches, the bastards 
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Have they managed to make the Galaxy Map usable in VR yet? I'm wanting to get back into the game, but the unusable interface was just ruining it for me.
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I'm waiting for the patch before doing any engineer upgrades because I'm sitting at zero too. What's the Jacques station about and what is out there to get from making the trek?
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Blind Rasputin posted:What's the Jacques station about and what is out there to get from making the trek? Guess what? It's loving nothing!
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If you like mining or exploring and the rp idea behind it, go hog wild. Otherwise best steer clear.
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Have they managed to make the Galaxy Map usable in VR yet? I'm wanting to get back into the game, but the unusable interface was just ruining it for me. Nope, they haven't change anything. It's still possible to use with a stick/controller if you set the key bindings for it, but forget mouse controls.
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Rectus posted:Nope, they haven't change anything. It's still possible to use with a stick/controller if you set the key bindings for it, but forget mouse controls. On the bright side, this pretty much holds true in non-VR as well, since the mouse controls have a hilarious and not-at-all annoying tendency to suddenly focus the wrong system and start zooming your view 3k LY away from where you want to look. …not sure if “bright side” is the right description, but you know.
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Have they managed to make the Galaxy Map usable in VR yet? I'm wanting to get back into the game, but the unusable interface was just ruining it for me. It's still pretty garbage but at least being able to bookmark systems helps a lot.
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Wolfechu posted:Been there, done it, got the tshirt at Sag A Try mining, if you haven't. It's hella space chill mode. Basically Elite's fishing.
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It's actually fairly soothing if youre catching up on TV shows in the background. At least I think so. But then, I'm the guy who liked fishing jn Wow.
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Rectus posted:Nope, they haven't change anything. It's still possible to use with a stick/controller if you set the key bindings for it, but forget mouse controls. How do people have problems with this? Are you not setting the cursor to render as an object within the 3d space? If you're having trouble selecting the right system, you can either use the mouse and keyboard to zoom in closer, or just use the keyboard to move the center point of the map to align with the system you want and hit space by default, then select your option as normal. Or you use system search and type in the system directly like pretty much everybody does in the first place.
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Stupid newbie question, but how do I set a bookmark in the galaxy view? I did one by accident but don't know what I did.
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Exploring is really good if you like podcasts. Just engaging enough to feel like you're doing something, but mindless enough that you can listen to the podcast or music or watch a video or whatever and pay attention to both.
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Olesh posted:How do people have problems with this? Are you not setting the cursor to render as an object within the 3d space? If you're having trouble selecting the right system, you can either use the mouse and keyboard to zoom in closer, or just use the keyboard to move the center point of the map to align with the system you want and hit space by default, then select your option as normal. Or you use system search and type in the system directly like pretty much everybody does in the first place. Because sometimes the game decides that, no, nothing of the stuff that's on-screen is actually selected or in focus and instead, let's interpret this mouse click as “oh, let's zoom to this system waaaaaaay over there.” Joystick/gamepad controls are a bit more reliable, but still suffers from sticky-system syndrome, where the map refuses to unfocus a previously selected system. Either way, bad timing (because there's no way of determining beforehand when the map will randomly refocus on something else) can easily completely screw up your simple attempt at just looking at the map. The map is a mess. There's no two ways about it, and mouse control is second only to VR in being unreliable and unusable (but more due to UI bugs than to UX design failure).
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rev.justin posted:Stupid newbie question, but how do I set a bookmark in the galaxy view? I did one by accident but don't know what I did. Button between plot route and system view. Looks like a bookmark (or a banner) with a cross in the center.
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"Oh sweet, the Engineers stuff might hit a point I'd want to actually do. Maybe I'll finally also-" Promptly gets hand issue that joysticks in particular do no favors to. Hmm, Dejavu.
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Going space mad. Dropped 250M Cr for the 8A scoop for the cutter  Let's do this CG!
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Nicetalga4Meltdown posted:Going space mad. Dropped 250M Cr for the 8A scoop for the cutter Holy hell, 7A scoop already devours stars whole in a conda, I can't imagine what an 8A would do.
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Olesh posted:How do people have problems with this? Are you not setting the cursor to render as an object within the 3d space? If you're having trouble selecting the right system, you can either use the mouse and keyboard to zoom in closer, or just use the keyboard to move the center point of the map to align with the system you want and hit space by default, then select your option as normal. Or you use system search and type in the system directly like pretty much everybody does in the first place. Be happy that this doesn't happen to you non-stop like it does me. https://gfycat.com/NeighboringLiquidChickadee Elite really wants you to see that other system, over there, that you don't want to go to! Hey! Hey! Look at me! I'm a system 10 LY from where you want to go! Look here! HERE! NOT THERE, HERE
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Mike the TV posted:Be happy that this doesn't happen to you non-stop like it does me. https://gfycat.com/NeighboringLiquidChickadee I have a weirder issue. If I go to locate a system, then press space to 'activate' it, it just goes to my current system. No I don't want to route to where I currently am, I know how to get there. Any good places to head to as my first real exploration exodus? I am feeling a bit space mad.
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IAmTheRad posted:I have a weirder issue. If I go to locate a system, then press space to 'activate' it, it just goes to my current system. No I don't want to route to where I currently am, I know how to get there. Skull and crossbones nebula.
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3 posted:Holy hell, 7A scoop already devours stars whole in a conda, I can't imagine what an 8A would do. Tops off in 38 seconds -- the Cutter is a 64T tank.
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Shine posted:Try mining, if you haven't. It's hella space chill mode. Basically Elite's fishing. Yep, mining's super chill, and feels like money for almost nothing. If it weren't for the occasional random space rear end in a top hat (NPC or PC), I wouldn't even arm my ships, I'd just be mining, exploring, and trucking.
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... Jaques has a large landing pad, right? I can't even describe how mad I'd be if I got there and it's an outpost like sothis.
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Finally made it back from Sag A*! After ~10 months in the black, I returned to the bubble and rank 5'd Martuuk with 15M in data! Saving the rest for faction and Palin.  After selling ~750/2200 systems, I've made ~22M, gotten ~2000 first discoveries, and >82k level 3 scans, and gone from 0 to Ranger! I was gone so long my paintjob changed.  Round trip was ~62kly, water worlds seemed suprisingly common (even around neutron stars), and plotting a route to the core isn't nearly as challenging or fraught with perils as the Brown Sea would have you believe. Honestly, if you stay in the plane of the galactic ecliptic, you could easily make it if you can jump >20ly. A scoopable star should never be further than 10ly away. Some trip highlights:             What's the easiest way to find the materials for the rank 5 fsd? I kind of want to go to Jacques... Nicetalga4Meltdown posted:Going space mad. Dropped 250M Cr for the 8A scoop for the cutter Goonspeed. 
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How the hell does obsidianant get graphics like this. Just look at those planets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7hVsXycE68 Those pictures above are incredible man. Did it take ten months of like an hour a day? If a person shot out there an hour or two a day of scanning only close planets in a system how long would it take to get to sag A and back you think? (Assuming asp w/ 25ly jump range).
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Blind Rasputin posted:How the hell does obsidianant get graphics like this. Just look at those planets? Yeah, I'm just slow. Some buckyball guy got to sag a in 8 hours or something. Witcher expansions and Stellaris didn't help. I could reasonably do 1000ly/hour or so, so I'm guessing 60-70 hours of gametime if you take your time and scan things.
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Blind Rasputin posted:How the hell does obsidianant get graphics like this. Just look at those planets? I believe ObsidianAnt uses SweetFX, ReShade, and GemFX.
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All at once? Wouldn't they mostly overwrite each other? I use EDFX which doesn't seem nearly as good, and IMO the real problem is that there are almost no custom profiles being released by anyone.
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So here's another probably dumb question: If I visit the engineer and have a shitload of materials on me, can I just keep doing upgrades onto the same module to rank it up, or do I have to bring a new one every time?
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Truga posted:So here's another probably dumb question: You don't have to apply any upgrades you make. You can dump your materials into crafting junk upgrades freely without overwriting any of your existing upgrades, and they still count for progression.
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IAmTheRad posted:I believe ObsidianAnt uses SweetFX, ReShade, and GemFX. Does anyone know a concise, updated/current guide for these? I've installed both SweetFX and reshade on other games before but of course it seems like reshade immediately crashes when I launch the game and the guide I was reading was like two years old, so probably had bad versions of everything. I also would like to know, don't these overwrite each other?
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Wolfechu posted:Yep, mining's super chill, and feels like money for almost nothing. If it weren't for the occasional random space rear end in a top hat (NPC or PC), I wouldn't even arm my ships, I'd just be mining, exploring, and trucking. Unless I'm specifically loaded out for combat, I never arm any of the ships I use for mining, exploring, or trucking. Easier and less time consuming to just jump away, and less risk to my cargo. Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Finally made it back from Sag A*! After ~10 months in the black, I returned to the bubble and rank 5'd Martuuk with 15M in data! Saving the rest for faction and Palin. Congrats on making it back! That's a lot of first discoveries, very cool.
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I'm guessing this is more of a personal "workflow" question than an absolute better or worse, but is there any real advantage to scooping every several stars than every single one? I usually honk, set up a flyby of the star that will top me off, and then quickly check the system map to see if there's anything I want to check out. Coming out of that I'm usually out of the scooping corona and can hit witch space or run off to scan stuff. Seems to be the quickest way to check out a system for stuff while still traveling with some kind of destination in mind. Even if I'm not honking and inspecting it still seems like a quick flyby of the star to top off the tanks is quicker than a big refueling once every 3 stars, but maybe that's just mental and not really true.
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Panch posted:I'm guessing this is more of a personal "workflow" question than an absolute better or worse, but is there any real advantage to scooping every several stars than every single one? You're a braver man than I if you go into the system map while flying toward a star, though. I've burned up in deep space scooping from a star and trying to plot a course near the center of the galaxy.
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