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drat I like to imagine in the last few minutes of that dirty drives but video the pilot hit punch it and just splattered his organs all over the back of the chieftan.
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Blind Rasputin posted:drat I like to imagine in the last few minutes of that dirty drives but video the pilot hit punch it and just splattered his organs all over the back of the chieftan. 
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Can anyone recommend a good YT channel for the basics of this game? Also I have the choice for using a 360 controller or keyboard. Is the controller viable?
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Inspector Hound posted:I've never seen a ring on a star. Would there be anything special about that, mining-wise? I personally haven't seen a ring on a main sequence, but I have seen them on brown dwarfs:  (was hunting for terraformable moons. None were  )
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Guavatin posted:Can anyone recommend a good YT channel for the basics of this game? Also I have the choice for using a 360 controller or keyboard. Is the controller viable? use a controller and a keyboard, it's good
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Guavatin posted:Can anyone recommend a good YT channel for the basics of this game? Also I have the choice for using a 360 controller or keyboard. Is the controller viable? Scott Manley has a bunch of videos, and did a couple where he started over from scratch, showing off different activites. (  the videos of him randomly exploring for an hour or two convinced me to buy the game): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYu7z3I8tdEnye22pxwFp2QogI9t76mCNIsinona also has a bunch of  videos flying around FA off doing most activities, but most of his videos are pretty dated so don't look to them for fittings or much Horizons content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgBlzLxsgbVuHfZPe0AeIg
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Scott Manley has a bunch of videos, and did a couple where he started over from scratch, showing off different activites. ( Scott Manley is fantastic and basically required viewing for every space game, space sim or passport customs and border proctection east germany style sim you could ever want to try. I'm a huge fan.
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Inspector Hound posted:I've never seen a ring on a star. Would there be anything special about that, mining-wise? iospace posted:I personally haven't seen a ring on a main sequence, but I have seen them on brown dwarfs:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCWDYkEBaV8 Found it a long, long time ago but yeah, they are out there.
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Every time you drop into a ring, pirates spawn on top of you. Never drop in half-full, always go sell or deposit what you have.
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I play predominantly in solo and I really appreciate whatever algorithm they use to name NPCs.      Also, I saw this place and I did not go there. Heard they were prone to outbreaks. 
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Yeah don’t go there, it’s full of black holes.
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CornHolio posted:I play predominantly in solo and I really appreciate whatever algorithm they use to name NPCs. You may find Chris Roberts and Lowtax in there, too! There was a part of the kickstarter where you could name NPCs, so there are some goofy names out there.
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Lima posted:I put this one out of his misery p fast Lol
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Lima posted:I put this one out of his misery p fast Who's that
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sidewinder: For twelve years, you have been asking, who is John Galt. This is John Galt speaking. me, deploying hardpoints: cool, welcome to
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Lima posted:I put this one out of his misery p fast The big LAWLESS makes this art.
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I just noticed the thread title when did that happen 
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Mr. Crow posted:I just noticed the thread title when did that happen What are you talking about? Is this some mandela effect bs? if so please take it to the supernatural forums, this is a serious thread for discussing the Ellen game series
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CornHolio posted:I play predominantly in solo and I really appreciate whatever algorithm they use to name NPCs. That's why you'll occasionally run into Lowtax or Chris Roberts. It's also technically possible to run into Lowtax and Chris Roberts duking it out. If you run into David Braben though, bare in mind that's not an NPC, that's the man himself. Whether you deploy hardpoints or not in that situation is entirely up to you. edit: what the gently caress, you stole my brain!
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tooterfish posted:The algorithm is kickstarter backers got to name a random NPC each. I have, among others, shot down Twilight Sparkle and Derpy Hooves a couple of times. Freaking ponies need to stay in cartoonland and stop breaking space law.
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tooterfish posted:The algorithm is kickstarter backers got to name a random NPC each. Very disappointed in my lack of encounters with Weedlord Bonerhitler if this is true.
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So unlocked professor Palin on to find out I am like four LYs short of his unlock requirements so back into space madness I go any cool locations to head out to?
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Fojar38 posted:Very disappointed in my lack of encounters with Weedlord Bonerhitler if this is true. Onionheadlord Condahitler. (or Cutterhitler  )
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So I went searching for a good X52 bind setup and I found one. Maybe people already know about it but I thought I would post it. You can get it here for either the X52 Pro or just X52: https://github.com/X52EliteSetup You have to first use a special profile for Logitech's controller software because it uses the three way switch on the joystick to switch between flight, landing, and drive modes. Each mode maps your buttons to new inputs on the keyboard thus the need to use the Logitech software. The whole point is that it virtually eliminates the need for using your keyboard as every command is available on the hotas. So far I have found the layout to be very intuitive. The only annoying thing I found is that when you select focus on your comms the buttons you press will start typing things in the text box since it is using remapped keyboard buttons but you can work around that. jubjub64 fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Sedisp posted:So unlocked professor Palin on to find out I am like four LYs short of his unlock requirements so back into space madness I go any cool locations to head out to? Omega nebula. Bring lots of heat sinks because you'll find yourself wedged between double-B:s every other jump (and occasionally between a B and a black hole… which is not a good place to be at all). Some day, I'll figure out where the dying star field I stumbled across on my way back from there actually was and give that as a tip instead, because it was actually a much neater place — it was shock full of carbon-type stars (of all kinds… an by shock full, I mean there were a couple of dozens of them, which is a lot in relation to how rare they are in general). I'd say the neutron fields ~3kLy “west” of Colonia as well, not just because I claimed half of them, but because there are so many silly earthlikes and terraformables there in positions where you'd never expect to find them, but at that point, you've go so far beyond what Palin needs that you'll end up forgetting why you went there in the first place.
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Sedisp posted:So unlocked professor Palin on to find out I am like four LYs short of his unlock requirements so back into space madness I go any cool locations to head out to? Eta Carinae, Jellyfish Nebula, Crab Pulsar are all well outside the 5k range (well, the middle not so much). iospace fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Sedisp posted:So unlocked professor Palin on to find out I am like four LYs short of his unlock requirements so back into space madness I go any cool locations to head out to? when I was in this situation, i just took a long-range sightseeing passenger mission. they usually have you visiting a cool place, and you can make some extra credits.
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Kaddish posted:Nothing like spending HOURS mining for painite for the engineer, getting to 9 and then striking out of 40 or so prospector limpets, jumping into another ring and getting jumped by 4 NPCs and blown up in 20 seconds. did you ever get your painite?
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jubjub64 posted:So I went searching for a good X52 bind setup and I found one. Maybe people already know about it but I thought I would post it. You can get it here for either the X52 Pro or just X52: One of my favorite things about the X52 is that mode switch: I have mine set to Flight, Combat, and Escape. It deploys/retracts hardpoints automatically with additional macros to reconfigure my power distributor. I feel bad for people that have to manually deploy hardpoints and click arrow buttons. 
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tooterfish posted:The algorithm is kickstarter backers got to name a random NPC each. That's only if you see CMDR Braben. "David Braben" is probably an available NPC name.
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FYI if you want to mess around with a max engineered Chieftan, resetting your beta save and starting with the beta profile gets you 100M Cr and max engineering mats.
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iospace posted:Eta Carinae, Jellyfish Nebula, Crab Pulsar are all well outside the 5k range (well, the middle not so much). I'm on my way back to the bubble from the Jellyfish Nebula now. It was nice to visit, got to see the asteroid base there. There were a couple of neutron stars on the way that I was able to use, too. A++ would charge friendship drive again
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One of the coolest black holes is just about 5k away, in Traikoa fl-p e5-4.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:One of my favorite things about the X52 is that mode switch: I have mine set to Flight, Combat, and Escape. It deploys/retracts hardpoints automatically with additional macros to reconfigure my power distributor. I feel bad for people that have to manually deploy hardpoints and click arrow buttons. Has your calibration had problems where in the middle of a dogfight the stick suddenly is stuck going hard to port/starboard? This happened twice last night and I'm trying to figure out why.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:did you ever get your painite? I did, I went to the system mentioned on the last page - still took me like 1.5 hours but at least its done. Tonight I'm going to start schlepping cigars and tea, then start the 5000ly trek.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:One of my favorite things about the X52 is that mode switch: I have mine set to Flight, Combat, and Escape. It deploys/retracts hardpoints automatically with additional macros to reconfigure my power distributor. I feel bad for people that have to manually deploy hardpoints and click arrow buttons. …so you have one, set, ‘combat’ distributor setting? I don’t think I’ve ever used the 3-way switch on my x55, that and the two dial knobs on the throttle base I could never find a use for.
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Instead of using modes on my X52, I just use the pinky trigger on the stick as a shift button for a few specific things. That's enough to keep everything I need bound on the stick for normal play. However the one thing I use keyboard and mouse for is to drive the external camera around like I'm playing an FPS with noclip enabled. It's very precise and leaves the HOTAS free to fly while using the camera. Using macros for the distributor is a lifesaver though. I have the stick's hat switch set up so that each direction puts 4 pips in the corresponding area and 1 pip in each of the others. It's so much easier to rapidly switch between what you need in the middle of a fight that way.
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