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I have a hotas a rift and a buttkicker sat in my PC gaming throne and I look like a loving tool when I play, but I am OK with this, I have come to terms with it.
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Just lmao if you aren't using an actual replica of a F-16 flight controls in a full motion cage.
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Jul 4, 2017 19:28
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Heaps of Sheeps posted:Just lmao if you aren't using an actual replica of a F-16 flight controls in a full motion cage. I actually go to space irl every time
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Jul 4, 2017 19:37
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Viper4 is hot fat garbage. Wrong
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Jul 4, 2017 20:04
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OxMan posted:I have a HOTAS that i got for warthunder and i still fly controller, devs did a good job on that. Also I've now got mostly B and A rank stuff on my viper 3 but haven't found a station that sells anything better. Viper 4 or this DBS? DBS maneuvers better which is good for not getting hit it's also a bit faster for running away and runs cooler so you get noticed less. Viper 4 can fit a larger shield and has more internal slots, but less utility slots which are the ones you need for combat. Weapons are same class on both, but on the viper 4 are 2 under 2 over so you can struggle to bring everything to bear at once, the DBS has them all center mounted so they can hit above and below the midline. I'm biased though so you should try both, either will bring in enough bounties to buy the other and the modules are mostly transferable.
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Jul 4, 2017 20:06
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The Viper is a fighter jet and the DBS is an attack helicopter. Choose based on which one sounds cooler to you.
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Jul 4, 2017 20:10
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peter gabriel posted:I have a hotas a rift and a buttkicker sat in my PC gaming throne and I look like a loving tool when I play, but I am OK with this, I have come to terms with it. Hey nerd do you have to use Voicemeeter to get your setup working properly? I just got my buttkicker in the mail yesterday and am anxious to try it out!
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Jul 4, 2017 20:48
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Morningwoodpecker posted:DBS maneuvers better which is good for not getting hit it's also a bit faster for running away and runs cooler so you get noticed less. Viper 4 can fit a larger shield and has more internal slots, but less utility slots which are the ones you need for combat. Weapons are same class on both, but on the viper 4 are 2 under 2 over so you can struggle to bring everything to bear at once, the DBS has them all center mounted so they can hit above and below the midline. I think ill try tracking down a DBS then, I'm getting to the point where gimballed stuff is a handicap damagewise but I'm still at the mostly harmless bounty line so I am assuming enemies get a lot faster and more maneuverable.
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Jul 4, 2017 20:59
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I've never heard of a buttkicker and thought you guys were talking about some obscure meme thing or something. I just looked it up. What the hell, why? I'm all for immersion and all but drat.
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Jul 4, 2017 20:59
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Gripping your throttle sticks and vibrating your butts. That's lines crossed, man.
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Jul 4, 2017 21:01
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Man servers are making GBS threads the bed today. Takes 2 minutes to jump between systems and it keeps failing to get mission board data. Best £1 I spent.
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Jul 4, 2017 21:03
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John F Bennett posted:I've never heard of a buttkicker and thought you guys were talking about some obscure meme thing or something. I just looked it up. You're talking about nerds that spend 1000+ on a PC, 500-800 on a VR set, and a 100+ on various accessories. A subwoofer that attaches to a chair is fairly minor.
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Jul 4, 2017 21:07
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John F Bennett posted:I've never heard of a buttkicker and thought you guys were talking about some obscure meme thing or something. I just looked it up. The thing is I went into buying one expecting to think it was a lovely gimmick, but I am 100% sold on them now, I properly love the thing Mike the TV posted:Hey nerd do you have to use Voicemeeter to get your setup working properly? I just got my buttkicker in the mail yesterday and am anxious to try it out! No I just plugged the thing in and away I went, there are pieces of software for it but I'm not that bothered to try them. As long as my booty shakes I'm good I can't begin to tell you how cool it is in Project Cars, it fills in all the feeling from the road, the dips and bumps and kerbs that the wheel misses, really try that if you have it peter gabriel fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Jul 4, 2017 21:29
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peter gabriel posted:The thing is I went into buying one expecting to think it was a lovely gimmick, but I am 100% sold on them now, I properly love the thing what happens if you get hit by a swarm of anime missiles in ED
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Jul 4, 2017 21:48
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The buttkicker is as vital to me using my computer as a keyboard and mouse is and I really mean that. The thing owns, music, games, movies. It's a silent subwoofer.
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Jul 4, 2017 21:54
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OxMan posted:I think ill try tracking down a DBS then, I'm getting to the point where gimballed stuff is a handicap damagewise but I'm still at the mostly harmless bounty line so I am assuming enemies get a lot faster and more maneuverable. The DBS is nice with fixed lasers and gimballed multi-cannon/cannon that way you can hit with everything at once, the bad guys will scale with your rank but are only really dangerous in a wing.
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Jul 4, 2017 21:58
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Viper4 is hot fat garbage. 
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Jul 4, 2017 22:21
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Daztek posted:what happens if you get hit by a swarm of anime missiles in ED Same as without one, pants poo poo
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Jul 4, 2017 22:21
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I'm almost there guys! Couple more questions though. On the HUD mini map I see squares and triangles and they are different colours. What do these all mean?! Also, I went to some combat zone that I found in navigation, and it just seemed like a bunch of federal ships shooting at each other, what's up with that? I've been hunting for bounties at nav points, but sometimes it seems a bit slow between targets, is there any better way to hunt down criminals? Also, is it safe to pick up their loot? I killed a big bounty with the help of the space police and I didn't want to risk the reward I already had by picking up the stuff from the destroyed ship in case it was flagged as stolen or something?
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Jul 4, 2017 23:46
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Dravs posted:I'm almost there guys! Couple more questions though. On the HUD mini map I see squares and triangles and they are different colours. What do these all mean?! Solid Squares are NPC ships Solid Triangles are NPC ships with hardpoints deployed Hollow Squares are human players Hollow Triangles are human players with hardpoints deployed The colours are as follows: Yellow - Standard Red - Hostile Red (Flashing) - Firing at you Green - Belong to faction you are friendly/allied with (or on same side in a conflict zone)
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Jul 4, 2017 23:54
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Dravs posted:Also, I went to some combat zone that I found in navigation, and it just seemed like a bunch of federal ships shooting at each other, what's up with that? Combat Zones are where two minor factions fight it out. You can choose a side (in your right hand system menu panel, under "functions") and then shoot it out. Please note that the ships you find there are VERY tough. Tougher than just about anything else, except maybe cops. They have armor, and good weapons and if a wing of them decides to jump you, you can get wasted real quick and easy. If you're still new to the game, I'd suggest staying out of them and stick to bounty hunting in RESes. You can make a good amount of money in a combat zone if you take on a bunch of "Massacre" missions from the local job boards. These require you to go to a combat zone, and blow up the appropriate faction ships. The ones for lots of ships can pay out lots of credits. Like tens of millions. If you swap from Open to Solo you'll see different boards at the same place, so you can quickly cycle through them and get more of the massacre missions. This is called "Board Scumming". It's boring but it lets you stack missions.
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Jul 5, 2017 00:40
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A little confused about the community goals. There was an Eravate bounty one that stated bounties from the system count towards the goal. Got bounties with targets outside eravate, turned them in, got no credit. Do the bounty targets have to be inside the system too?
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Jul 5, 2017 02:26
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John F Bennett posted:When putting your PS4 in rest mode, the game glitches out when going out of rest while the game was still on. The time skips forward making stations and planets crash into you. Is there a video yet of someone getting the rover, parking it on a high point on a moon facing the planet it's orbiting, then going into sleep mode for a few hours? This is important.
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Jul 5, 2017 03:07
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Suspend handling is definitely busted a little bit. Once I re-entered the game after having left it suspended on the main menu only to find it was running faster than real time- ship maneuvers and animations happened more quickly than they were supposed to and then corrected back after a moment. Also it thinks I've spent 48 hours playing over the past 5 days. I'm not that far gone, I swear.
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Jul 5, 2017 03:14
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OxMan posted:A little confused about the community goals. There was an Eravate bounty one that stated bounties from the system count towards the goal. Got bounties with targets outside eravate, turned them in, got no credit. Do the bounty targets have to be inside the system too? First, you sign up for the community goal. Then you fly to the station and dock(so that if you die you respawn there) and then you bounty hunt in nearby RES/Nav Beacons, and THEN you return to the station where the community goal is located and turn in your bounties. AN DEN AN DEN AN DEN AN DEN
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Jul 5, 2017 03:30
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Libluini posted:Does this mean I will blow peoples mind when I confess that I'm using controller, joystick and keyboard + mouse? Sometimes even multiple things mixed? Here's a pic of my setup, it's pretty pro 
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Jul 5, 2017 08:43
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I've been trying to rank up for the Federation because I want to visit Sol someday, but every special naval mission I've found so far is a shooting mission. And I don't have any combat capabilities. Will I find other kinds of missions if I shop around a bit in factions that are cordial to me?
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Jul 5, 2017 10:44
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OxMan posted:A little confused about the community goals. There was an Eravate bounty one that stated bounties from the system count towards the goal. Got bounties with targets outside eravate, turned them in, got no credit. Do the bounty targets have to be inside the system too? For that particular CG the bounties had to come from the faction Adle's Armada. Don't do that one, do one of the other two identical ones.
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Jul 5, 2017 12:03
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Free Military Flightsuits for your holo-me available at https://www.frontierstore.net/usd/game-extras/military-flight-suit-pack.html Gotta own Horizons.
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Jul 5, 2017 12:10
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I have spent an absolute ton of hours the last several days having an accidental adventure. After logging in at Lave to cash in babby's first CG reward I decided to travel at least 150 LY more to get an invite from my first engineer. Thought maybe a nebula, Coal Sack looked close but was still 500 LY. Then noticed a goonmate was down in the Pleiades, about a similar distance. Figured why not, that's far enough and I'll go look for aliens. It was 40 jumps in a Sidewinder, which I kept cooking on stars along the way because it can't jump more than two systems without a top-up. Utter madness. Had to do my first planet landing 12 jumps into the trip because I was at 50% health in most systems. Down in Merope I bought a Hauler so I can move around easier (omg big fuel tank and scoop thank you Jesus) and carry an SRV. Haven't even seen any alien stuff yet, because rather than just look up the co-ordindates I have been flying around finding listening stations, finding clues in the messages, and basically Scooby Dooing around the region seeing how much I can find organically. And you know what? It loving owns. I've found two audio logs on mysterious giant space installations, then afterwards getting jumped by some spec ops pilots for snooping (got sploded the first time). Got a dead end in one system and just landed on a really far out planet and spent 90 minutes driving down into a massive crater with my '80s playlist on Spotify as my in car stereo, and then I flew over to my first black hole at Maia B and spent like 20 minutes just exploring the lensing effect and squealing over the mic to my mate about how balls trippy it is. I've got 1.5 mill in the bank, still only in my second ship, and I've essentially gone as far towards anti-grinding as it's possible to go in this game, just pootling about gazing at stars and taking things easy. And I am having the best loving time of my life.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:05
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My friend, you are Doing It Right. I've been trying to get back to that kinda playing so I've been giving myself restrictions and goals. I have a "hardcore" cobra 3 that I fly for that stuff. It's really poo poo right now because I'm restricting my bank access until I achieve certain goals. My current job is to find a crashed escape pod on this remote ice moon, at which point I'll "receive" 150K and one rank 2 roll from Farseer. Meanwhile I can't rebuy that ship - if it dies, I'm Dead. And I can't dock at a station in a new system without at least 30K worth of something to sell - bounties, trade, salvage, explo data. It's fun as hell. A bit silly but it's something to do with my big ol money piles and the restrictions have made stuff more tense.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:53
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Are there any systems in this game that have a higher player count than others? Faction wars happening? Actual traffic at the star ports? That sort of thing?
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Jul 5, 2017 16:20
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Community goal systems are a hub for player activity.
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Jul 5, 2017 16:33
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There's a free spacesuit pack on the Frontier store now.
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Jul 5, 2017 16:42
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Bad Llama posted:Actual traffic at the star ports? That sort of thing? The game instances players away from each other so you will never get a traffic jam at a station.
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Jul 5, 2017 17:05
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Speaking of traffic jams at stations, check out these tourists I saw having a really bad day. https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/882640555485806592
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Jul 5, 2017 17:50
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Parkingtigers posted:Speaking of traffic jams at stations, check out these tourists I saw having a really bad day. https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/882640555485806592 That's the exact reason I ditched my Beluga, I really love it and the thought of driving a big dumb space bus but I died like three times in the slot, apparently the fins tuck in or something and there is a knack to it but gently caress that
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Jul 5, 2017 18:09
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Skimmers are spawning in mid air and dropping on people landing on planets, heads up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8ZkVy3378
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Jul 5, 2017 18:14
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John F Bennett posted:Skimmers? Yeah they are like little patrol droids that patrol around planetary bases etc and shoot you and poo poo
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