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SDC are now the first to kill a thargoid.
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Mike the TV posted:SDC are now the first to kill a thargoid. That didn't take long.
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Sep 28, 2017 19:31
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Wow way to murder an innocent space whale, a gentle giant of the stars
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Sep 28, 2017 20:14
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What is SDC? Where did Gnosis end up?
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Sep 28, 2017 21:11
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the ship ended up safely at its first destination 
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Sep 28, 2017 21:21
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Anywhere good?
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Sep 28, 2017 21:34
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New anti-thargoid weapons are size 2 dumbfire missile racks in both fixed and turret configurations. Thinking of buying a Fer-De-Lance because it seems that it's the best ship for this; my Corvette has trouble keeping a bead on a Thargoid ship because of how fast they are. Looks like in order to defeat them you need to hit certain points on their ships with missiles so the typical "overpower them with insane firepower" Corvette strategy doesn't seem to apply anyway. Edit: Federal Gunship might be good too because it has 4 medium hardpoints and room for a fighter bay which is key for dealing with the drone swarms.
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Sep 28, 2017 21:36
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People are already taking down bugs. Always count on the poopsockers with the good gear. I hope this isn't the main attack force.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:02
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Anywhere good? it got to hyades sector aq-y d81 which is the place the community already found some baricle forrest. so if you wanted to go check that out I guess it went somewhere good but the ship has no missions so I'm trying to fig out why it even came out here when it's only 250 ly from sol.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:29
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Dishwasher posted:People are already taking down bugs. Always count on the poopsockers with the good gear. I hope this isn't the main attack force. Well they're taking them down by gangbanging them with a dozen ships. Haven't seen anyone manage to solo one yet.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:31
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Dishwasher posted:People are already taking down bugs. Always count on the poopsockers with the good gear. I hope this isn't the main attack force. 
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Sep 28, 2017 22:34
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There's just so much I don't like about how Frontier has poo poo set up and done, but it isn't like options are plentiful until SC comes ouhahahaha
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Sep 28, 2017 22:36
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A. Beaverhausen posted:There's just so much I don't like about how Frontier has poo poo set up and done, but it isn't like options are plentiful until SC comes ouhahahaha Depends on what you're after, I suppose. There are quite a few neat space games out now, so it's more a matter of picking one that does what you want. Waiting for a game that does nothing of that and that will also never come out seems like a less sensible option.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:50
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Tippis posted:Depends on what you're after, I suppose. There are quite a few neat space games out now, so it's more a matter of picking one that does what you want. Waiting for a game that does nothing of that and that will also never come out seems like a less sensible option. Oh in no way did I mean to imply I believed SC was anything else but a fever dream, my apologies. I don't know, everything in Elite Dangerous feels so dead. I've been playing off and on since release, so I do enjoy some things, I just wish it was 'better' in that regard I guess.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:53
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Oh in no way did I mean to imply I believed SC was anything else but a fever dream, my apologies. It's kinda bad when the amount of poo poo you can do in Elite Dangerous has been overtaken by No Man's Sky of all games.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:56
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Ok, I wanna get me a shiny corvette, but I'm not rear admiral rank. Niu Hsing sucks right now... i think. The boards there just had a lot of "mine these rocks" jobs I kept taking and then buying from their market and then turning in the mission. So a little rep and a little profit... but not much. The delivery jobs to COL 285 don't exist, in their place are a ton of delivery missions 22,000 LY away in Colonia. No thanks. Is there anywhere better to grind fed rep right now? Niu Hsing isn't boom right now tho... but it is pending. Should I just tough it out here?
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Sep 29, 2017 06:06
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Syves posted:Ok, I wanna get me a shiny corvette, but I'm not rear admiral rank. Niu Hsing sucks right now... i think. The boards there just had a lot of "mine these rocks" jobs I kept taking and then buying from their market and then turning in the mission. So a little rep and a little profit... but not much. The delivery jobs to COL 285 don't exist, in their place are a ton of delivery missions 22,000 LY away in Colonia. No thanks. Huh, I had the 22,000 credit delivery to Colonia too on the board out in Synteini. Totally not capable of doing it in my type 6.
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Sep 29, 2017 06:38
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Syves posted:Ok, I wanna get me a shiny corvette, but I'm not rear admiral rank. Niu Hsing sucks right now... i think. The boards there just had a lot of "mine these rocks" jobs I kept taking and then buying from their market and then turning in the mission. So a little rep and a little profit... but not much. The delivery jobs to COL 285 don't exist, in their place are a ton of delivery missions 22,000 LY away in Colonia. No thanks. Tun/Tuns Wart is a good place for that, especially after 2.4. You can get tons of data deliveries to HP 535(?) and if you want cash Hyperion apparently has one hell of a party going, you can get multiple 1 mil+ cargo missions just shipping booze there.
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Sep 29, 2017 07:28
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Fitted out an ASP to the gills and headed off on the road to riches as baby's first exploration. Honking and scanning isn't too bad i guess. Having another screen with YouTube and the RtR webapp up helps
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Sep 29, 2017 07:43
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Winged up with some pubs and killed 2 Thargoids tonight. They are essentially raid bosses complete with phase transitions with every subsystem destroyed. In addition to their main gun and their drone swarm they also gain yellow lightning that fucks with your displays and modules, caustic missiles that deal 1% hull damage every 20 seconds or so and can't be removed except by docking, and their EMP which disables your entire group and gives it 20 seconds of free shots on you. Did it with me in a Federal Assault Ship, a Fer-De-Lance, and two Federal Gunships both of which were making GBS threads out fighters at every opportunity. When they die they leave a giant cloud of gas that applies the caustic missile effect which makes retrieving anything they drop a risk. It was loving sick. They added actual substantial combat gameplay and it rules. 2 million credit bounty for first kill, 4 million credit bounty for the second (more difficult) kill Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Sep 29, 2017 08:06
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Okay so it pays like poo poo. I guess I shouldn't have expected better.
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Sep 29, 2017 11:42
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Posadism and You
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Sep 29, 2017 12:38
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Huh, I had the 22,000 credit delivery to Colonia too on the board out in Synteini. Totally not capable of doing it in my type 6. I'm only sort of Cordial and Friendly with the minor factions at my home base of operations, and they're always asking me to mine water, cobalt, and liquid oxygen for them so last night I set out to make them happy. I took the plastic wrap off the console of my never-used Cutter, swapped out everything for cargo racks and headed to the next system over, where they just sell that crap for like 100 credits each. Loaded up with almost 700 tons of stuff I've "mined" and dumped it all back into the mission boards. This is what people grind Cutters for, right? To do one-hop missions carrying almost 100,000 credits worth of cargo? Well some of the profit is used to repair the ship because I scrape the top of the mailslot every drat time. That's when I noticed that every one of the mining missions is Reputation: Low. I'm really glad I am cheesing this instead of actually going out to mine what you want because I can't imagine if it took me a couple hours to go mine a cargo bay full of random crap for a third of the minor faction rep I could get if you just asked me for 25,000 credits. Also gently caress you to the snooty factions who are like "Yes I know we need 2 cobalt but I am sorry I can't give you that contract, it is only for people who are Friendly with us and you are only Cordial."
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Sep 29, 2017 12:56
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Fojar38 posted:Winged up with some pubs and killed 2 Thargoids tonight. This is cool and sounds like fun. But I sure as poo poo hope they didn't spend two years teasing this out with the UA and Barnacle threads to just to throw some poo poo to shoot as us. I genuinely hope there's means to come to terms with them peacefully. Having this giant procedural "scientifically accurate" galaxy only to turn it into Mars Attacks would make me incredibly sad. I mean rationally you just don't have a shooting war with a species that's a few million years of evolution your senior. The whole ideal of a conflict pissing over territory in a galaxy with resources that are for practical purposes infinite few a couple 'o billion years is just utterly ludicrous. The whole situation is like if First Contact was conducted over twitter. Arach fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Sep 29, 2017 13:26
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DatonKallandor posted:Okay so it pays like poo poo. I guess I shouldn't have expected better. shock
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Sep 29, 2017 13:44
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Arach posted:This is cool and sounds like fun. yeah developing an entire in depth game system of diplomacy and bureaucracy to negotiate with these aliens in this space shooter that has like 10 different missions that you repeat ad infinitum sure doesn't sound like the bizarre delusional mentality that led to star citizen earning $140 million for .jpgs of spaceships
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Sep 29, 2017 13:49
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I tried to solo a Thargoid in my Federal Corvette and only just escaped with 30% hull. It looks like you might have to focus those petals down. I blasted one off. Definitely gonna wing up tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LI-aBXB94
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Sep 29, 2017 14:36
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons - Just Utterly Ludicrous That said, trends continue. Set pieces are neat but ultimately your only choice in the game is to 1) Shoot at something, 2) Not shoot at something.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:53
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How in the hell are you even supposed to find all this interesting Thargoid stuff? The game is so opaque. I've played the game enough to get a fully combat fitted and engineered python, but the community goals are mentioning resources I've never even heard of and have no idea how to acquire, and people are talking about fighting aliens that I've never seen and have no idea where to look for or how to encounter. Do I really need to go trawling mountains of posts on forums and Reddit (ugh) just to be able to find the interesting stuff? Is it expected that I rely on the word of some unemployed 40-something who's played the game 12 hours a day, every day, for years? I just don't get it, and it's discouraging.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:02
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Conskill posted:Elite Dangerous: Horizons - Just Utterly Ludicrous Braben posted:Wow the moment something new comes along in Elite and players start shooting at it right away really makes u think
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Sep 29, 2017 16:05
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Katsuma posted:How in the hell are you even supposed to find all this interesting Thargoid stuff? The game is so opaque. I've played the game enough to get a fully combat fitted and engineered python, but the community goals are mentioning resources I've never even heard of and have no idea how to acquire, and people are talking about fighting aliens that I've never seen and have no idea where to look for or how to encounter. Even Reddit is starting to post topics about how it's stupid you have to check Reddit to learn anything, so maybe this will get their attention?
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Katsuma posted:How in the hell are you even supposed to find all this interesting Thargoid stuff? The game is so opaque. I've played the game enough to get a fully combat fitted and engineered python, but the community goals are mentioning resources I've never even heard of and have no idea how to acquire, and people are talking about fighting aliens that I've never seen and have no idea where to look for or how to encounter. This ... along with trying to play in VR and constantly having to remove your headset to Google how to do stuff or find where stuff is. First world problems I know.
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Conskill posted:Elite Dangerous: Horizons - Just Utterly Ludicrous Hey come on, that's not fair. I've been moving places and honking at space objects. And you can also move different text between stations!
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Sep 29, 2017 16:27
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Elite's opaqueness was what I was complaining about with the "cute" patch notes, with such a huge playing area you absolutely have to give your players direction about where they might want to have a look to find the new cool poo poo. I also bet you Frontier were not expecting people to get to the point to killing the Thargs this fast.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:46
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Relevant: Frontier, not everyone follows Reddit.
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Dreadwroth posted:Elite's opaqueness was what I was complaining about with the "cute" patch notes, with such a huge playing area you absolutely have to give your players direction about where they might want to have a look to find the new cool poo poo. I also bet you Frontier were not expecting people to get to the point to killing the Thargs this fast. Frontier will look at this unexpected result and conclude: "Clearly this game requires more grind"
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I don't think they're that surprised, didn't specialized anti-thargoid weapons show up for sale when the patch went live?
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Sep 29, 2017 17:36
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I didn't think the galnet articles were boring  I like lore, and they make it seem like there's a world in Elite
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Sep 29, 2017 18:01
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I didn't think the galnet articles were boring I don't read them very often because I haven't really looked up from my dashboard in general trying to plow cash into my account, but I definitely wish someone would spend an hour typing up some more comms chatter. How many space marriages is that guy going to put himself through before he realizes he's supposed to be space single
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Conskill posted:That said, trends continue. Set pieces are neat but ultimately your only choice in the game is to 1) Shoot at something, 2) Not shoot at something. If there's so much space junk flying around there that I have a non-zero chance of randomly stumbling across what I am looking for in the virtually infinite vastness of space, logic tells us that therefore there must exist an infinite amount of what I am looking for to sparsely populate the infinite space. So why doesn't someone collect it like they do with biowaste and Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses? I mean we live in a golden age where Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses are in some of the stores in the galaxy (but we can't tell which!). I bet some time in the past you had to just fly around open space hoping for a Micro-Weave Cooling Hose to hit you in the windshield (spaceshield?) and someone finally said, "you know what? Why don't I start Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses Nobles and make so many Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses that they can be found in thousands of spaceports, where people buy them with their normal groceries of Water, Tea, and Nerve Gas". Ah crap I just realized that Micro-Weave Cooling Hoses are something you can't buy. Well I am not going back and editing that paragraph because it was a joke anyway.  And thank Glorb I have you guys so I can see all the things I didn't know were going on in the universe. A giant war against alien races?! GalNet: BD+49 2099 would like more Phosphorus. HIP 17732 has entered Expansion. That is all
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