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food court bailiff posted:ALSO also, is Horizons cool? It looks cool. I'd shell out $30 for something cool, but I'm worried that they're about to announce another "season pass" or something soon. Horizons is cool. I really enjoy doing planetary landings and driving around with my little dune cruiser. Re: HOTAS stuff, I chucked my HOTAS on a shelf for when I finally decide to dive into VR and I primarily play Elite with an XBox controller.
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can I turn materials into credits in any way? i’m having some major problems actually making money by shooting things. my shitass sidewinder doesn’t feel capable of doing any of these combat missions and I’m not sure what else I can do when trawling low-intensity combat zones still pushes my poo poo in.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Oh, you guys at the CG we’re looking for the Gorilla Channel? 
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One of these days, I'm going to get back to civilization (likely a while), and change my paint on my DBX to green... So I can really call my ship the "SSH DOPEFISH LIVES!".
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toasterwarrior posted:You're the scout unit in a Civilization game that gets promoted all the way to helicopters or whatever, instead of being disbanded when there's no more room to explore. there's always more room to explore  And yeah there's all this fancy newfangled poo poo now that im back. What happened i left and smoked several tons of space weed and forgot about the bubble for a year and now there's freaky bugmen shootin everything up and kidnapping and probing folks holy moly  . It was cool finally seeing the thargoids myself after seeing them so many times in youtube videos.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Oh, you guys at the CG we’re looking for the Gorilla Channel? I could gently caress in that.
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Mr. Crow posted:I could gently caress in that. Lots of bonus positions to try when you don't have spacelegs
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++ Blind Rasputin's rad ship.A 50S RAYGUN posted:can I turn materials into credits in any way? i’m having some major problems actually making money by shooting things. my shitass sidewinder doesn’t feel capable of doing any of these combat missions and I’m not sure what else I can do when trawling low-intensity combat zones still pushes my poo poo in. No. I wouldn't even bother putting guns on a Sidewinder unless I was doing some gimmick rail sidey, but I wouldn't even do that because I have a gimmick rail Eagle! I made my first couple mil by running data courier and light hauling missions so I could afford an ADS for my Adder and then I set off into a few deep space exploration treks. The rest is history, but I hit Elite Explorer while at 99% Mostly Harmless. edit: You don't need to do what I did, but you're the small fish. edit2: Btw, most newbie combat people go to resource extraction sites and tag pirates and let the cops finish them off. It seems like a bullshit move to me, but a lot of what other Elite players do seems like bullshit moves to me. Cyberpunkey Monkey fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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I picked the game up after wanting it for a long time. I'm doing nubby things like courrier missions because it's safe and easy also space UPS is awesome. Is there a Goon Wing? I've been playing in solo but if there is a decent goon presence I wouldn't mind space chatting whole throwing packages on people's door steps...
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Wings are lil groups of up to 4 people. There's no in game "guild" type of chat (yet) because Fdev. The discord is the place to talk about space with goons, mostly.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Oh, you guys at the CG we’re looking for the Gorilla Channel? SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM
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Blind Rasputin posted:Oh, you guys at the CG we’re looking for the Gorilla Channel? This almost looks like the yellowing plastic casing of an old pc which makes me very jealous.
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Oscar Mayer Weinermobile: 3300
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Holy crap that's it. That was the link my mind was trying to make since seeing it.
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Behotti posted:I picked the game up after wanting it for a long time. I'm doing nubby things like courrier missions because it's safe and easy also space UPS is awesome. Is there a Goon Wing? I've been playing in solo but if there is a decent goon presence I wouldn't mind space chatting whole throwing packages on people's door steps... Diamond Frogs is a goon outfit I believe.
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osirisisdead posted:Horizons is cool. How do you do stuff like heatsinks and chaff with an Xbox controller in VR? Just through fire groups? Or did you just learn where your keyboard is and bind them to big keys?
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I use fire groups when it makes sense, but I have most often used the Default Context preset and there are some open spaces for binding other things because many of the functions are bound to button combinations. edit: I had a rollercoaster of a night. I made 15 mil and 15% more through Master rank from 8 legitimately stacked (no board flipping exploit bullshit) planetary scan missions and then got scanned with a bounty on my head while delivering some beer and lost half of that cash to the rebuy. 
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the milk machine posted:I just started playing this again after buying it a year or so ago, playing for 8-10 hours, then never starting it again. Adder is the best upgrade from the sidey. Hauler is cheaper, but adder is nicer and not much more expensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdz8IDIs8vA
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The highly irresponsible VR posting in this thread has put the idea of getting some kind of VR setup up and running for elite dangerous into my head again I am not at all pleased about this development, especially consideirng a new vive might be announced at CES tomorrow.. 
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Bohemian Nights posted:The highly irresponsible VR posting in this thread has put the idea of getting some kind of VR setup up and running for elite dangerous into my head again VR is an expensive toy that you will feel slight embarrassment for buying and using because of its price and absolute frivolity. Also it is the best thing and it’s hard to describe the immense impact it makes specifically with Elite so yes buy one. If price isn’t an option and there’s a new fancy Vive sometime soon, that’s probably the best one. Beyond that, anecdotally I’ve heard that both current headsets are essentially the same in Elite. There is a difference in tracking tech but for seated games the Oculus’s two sensors are absolutely fine. Oculus being dramatically cheaper than Vive makes it a hugely preferable system right now imo.
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Is there any cross-compatibility between stuff life fatshark fpv goggles and VR? If there were a headset that could do both it would seem less frivolous.
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What's the credit amount you need from exploration to get to Elite in it?
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iospace posted:What's the credit amount you need from exploration to get to Elite in it? Wiki says "<307,000,000" as of 2.3.
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Anyone have a good Anaconda build for parking in a haz rez and flying the fighter yourself? Seems like this was asked recently, but I couldn't find the post.
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Seems like a good time to ask, what is the best fighter? I was also under the impression if the fighter died the pilot you hired did too, but it doesn’t seem to work that way anymore. I think the pilot acts like a drone pilot now. The fighter bay just reconstructs the fighter too, which i don’t remember either. Are there repercussions for the pilot from losing a fighter then? Is it using resources in my hold to do this?
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If you lose the ship you lose your fighter crew. The fighters themselves are drones controlled from the mothership.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Seems like a good time to ask, what is the best fighter? I was also under the impression if the fighter died the pilot you hired did too, but it doesn’t seem to work that way anymore. I think the pilot acts like a drone pilot now. The fighter bay just reconstructs the fighter too, which i don’t remember either. Are there repercussions for the pilot from losing a fighter then? Is it using resources in my hold to do this? In term of 'best' fighter I think the Taipan is the most well rounded fighter with the others having niche roles. The flat profile of the Taipan makes it difficult for the NPCs to hit and it has more shields/armour than the others but it's slower (although it boosts well). As a human pilot, the GU-97 is probably my favourite fighter to fly with fixed beams because I love the Gutamaya flight model but it's so twitchy that I find it hard to keep fixed plasma on target. The F-63 Condor is worthless trash that has tiny babby t-rex When you're considering what weapon config to give your NPC pilot you basically need to consider the rank of your pilot and what you're doing. Below Expert they can't hit the broad side of a barn with fixed weapons and they're useless at dodging enemy fire. From Expert onwards they're solid with fixed weapons and once they get to Dangerous they're good at juking shots as well. Elite ranked fighter pilots are an unholy terror on the field and are easily the equivalent of having another huge hardpoint. Don't let them fly your mothership if they're below Master as they will get it killed. For training the NPCs in rank you'll want to use gimballed hitscan weapons (beams or pulses) until they're at Expert. Once they're at Expert I find that the fixed plasma repeater config is probably the best all round combo as it does solid shield and hull damage and comes with chaff as a defensive option. Beam lasers do extremely good thermal damage (and can use the heat sink the fighter has as a 'damage potion' since it stops them building up heat while firing) and reasonable hull damage. Pulse lasers on fighters are about the same as beams (45 dps vs 42 dps) which is unusual but I'm not complaining. Multicannons are really good against hull and okay against shields but up until recently only the Condor could fit them so they effectively weren't used. Speaking of multicannons, I only recently noticed that there are now Taipans available in an Anti-Thargoid config that has multicannons with limited ammo capacity (normally fighters have unlimited weapon ammo) and no defensive module. I haven't tested these yet but given they do a whopping 55 dps (!) they're probably preeeeeetty good for general PVE usage.
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The number of fighters is determined by the size of the fighter bay and is like ammo. If you lose tgem it costs restock. Dont stack similar fighters. The game doesnt get how that works. I prefer fixed beams (gu-97 or taipan doesnt really matter) for small to medium and fixed multicannons for larger ships. The fixed plasma taipan is nice too.
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jubjub64 posted:Ignore the tutorial's difficulty, it hasn't been balanced. Thanks for the binding setup, that works super well and oh man everything is so cool. I ended up getting Horizons because a mission updated to drop something off on a surface station and there was no way I was missing out on that much Space Cash. Is cosmetic stuff cash shop only?
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Cosmetic stuff is mostly cash only. Sometimes there are cosmetics that can be acquired through community goals but that is not very often. For example there was a CQ recently where our very own Diamond Frogs needed beer, coffee and legal narcotics shipped to their home station. If you participated you got a Diamond Frogs emblem to put on your ship (which they haven't gotten around to giving out yet.)
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jubjub64 posted:If you participated you got a Diamond Frogs emblem to put on your ship (which they haven't gotten around to giving out yet.) 
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DatonKallandor posted:To add to that, if you're going for joystick and keyboard I recommend setting up shortcuts for 0% and 50% throttle on something you can easily reach in combat (personally, I've got it on Y and X) and 75% on something not necessarily quick accessible (shift+ one of your other quick throttle settings). You need 0 and 50 in combat constantly to quickly stop and get to the maximum maneuverability points and 75 is really useful for the FSD sweet-spot. Getting to those precise points can be fiddly with just the increase and decrease throttle on keyboard. Just got my joystick, and I'd like to say that that + this advice has really made flying much easier, so thanks!
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Is there a compendium for all of the reference guides people have put together?
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CornHolio posted:Is there a compendium for all of the reference guides people have put together? Think it's called "Discord"
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A few more really dumb questions: Insurance is automatic after you die, right? I don't need to find some insurance broker beforehand or anything? I'm sitting on a few hundred thousand creds already and I'm thinking of grabbing an Adder but don't want to be SOL if I jump into a star or something. For the moment I've been basically sticking around the same cluster of systems, trying to pump some faction rep up and increase my ratings so I can get better-paying gigs. Is that a dumb plan? Should I be jumping out to weirder systems further afield? Finally, playing online seems like it would be fun - am I just going to get ganked absolutely constantly? Is the economy changed enough from having more players to make it worth checking out?
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food court bailiff posted:A few more really dumb questions: Insurance is automatic, the economy doesn't change in online. Sticking in one place is okay to build up reputation with a specific faction but that's about it. Limiting yourself to a specific region can be boring.
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food court bailiff posted:Insurance is automatic after you die, right? I don't need to find some insurance broker beforehand or anything? I'm sitting on a few hundred thousand creds already and I'm thinking of grabbing an Adder but don't want to be SOL if I jump into a star or something. Right, it's all automatic, you just press the "yes, reincarnate my ship" button. You lose cargo, unfinished missions, exploration data, and bounties that were on board your ship at the time. You do not lose materials, equipment (including engineering rolls), or any money beyond the direct cost of rebuy. quote:For the moment I've been basically sticking around the same cluster of systems, trying to pump some faction rep up and increase my ratings so I can get better-paying gigs. Is that a dumb plan? Should I be jumping out to weirder systems further afield? That's a good plan, you need the top-paying gigs to make significant headway in the ship progression. There aren't really any "weird" systems on a level of what you'd see in a softer sci-fi world. Every so often you'll see a megaship or an alien ruin or something but you probably aren't going to find these serendipitously just because of the volumes of space involved. quote:Finally, playing online seems like it would be fun - am I just going to get ganked absolutely constantly? Is the economy changed enough from having more players to make it worth checking out? Not *constantly* but it is an issue you don't get in solo, especially if you frequent community goal systems or other hubs of player activity. You are already participating in the same economy as the online players, solo and open players both contribute to the same background simulation.
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