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So if I just want to see all the Thargoid content, what's the best way for me to do it?
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Gort posted:So if I just want to see all the Thargoid content, what's the best way for me to do it? YouTube
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Feb 1, 2018 21:52
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NoneMoreNegative posted:…so you have one, set, ‘combat’ distributor setting? No, spacedad, I don't leave my distributor on one setting...  I do change it...honest...just not as much as I should. The macro is just to get it out of "flight" mode with all pips to eng/sys and no weps. And yeah, even on the X52 there are a few dials I just never use/bind. Nostalgia4Infinity posted:YouTube Unless you have VR, this is unironically the best way to see most of the thargoid content. If you want to actually fight thargoids, get on the discord and get some wingmates since it's basically a raid and very difficult to solo.
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Feb 1, 2018 21:57
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I do have VR, so...
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Feb 1, 2018 22:21
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Gort posted:I do have VR, so... Good new then! If you have Oculus you can YouTube Thargoid poo poo in your cockpit! It’s almost the same level of engagement!
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Feb 1, 2018 22:34
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:No, spacedad, I don't leave my distributor on one setting... for serious once you get a big ship with lots of efficiency modded in its easy to get lazy with the pip awareness in combat, then you step back into something smaller/stock fitted and wonder where your laser beams are 
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Feb 1, 2018 23:35
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NoneMoreNegative posted:/unseen, from den HEY! I don't hear those pips changing!! This is me, after pulling my old Eagle out of storage. That C2 power distributor is tiny.
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Feb 2, 2018 00:44
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Gort posted:I do have VR, so... Oh, then what you really want to see is the thargoid base thingie, which requires collecting a few macguffins: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Thargoid_Surface_Site
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Feb 2, 2018 01:20
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I just now got horizons after buying the base game at launch. What cool new poo poo is there for me to do? How do I make lots of spacebucks?
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Feb 2, 2018 08:27
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Sanzuo posted:I just now got horizons after buying the base game at launch. What cool new poo poo is there for me to do? How do I make lots of spacebucks? Land on planets, fine tune your ships with engineers, interact with alien race. As for spacecash most people suggest the "Road to Riches" exploration thingie.
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Sanzuo posted:I just now got horizons after buying the base game at launch. What cool new poo poo is there for me to do? How do I make lots of spacebucks? Road to riches or whatever passenger route is jumping at the time (you'll want to bust up to a bigger ship to make it really worth it but that will happen more sticky than you think), I had luck with Parutis (Evans Station) to Medb (Vela Dock), but that seems to have dried up/been "fixed"
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Feb 2, 2018 14:59
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Really, if you can get max rep with the locals in any two adjacent systems you can get a profitable passenger loop going. It's just a matter of getting two systems with convenient stations, few to no planetary bases, and lots of local factions. Either what I just typed is good advice or I just got really lucky with mine and didn't realize it.
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Feb 2, 2018 16:10
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I have to say, Elite is the first game I've played where alt-tab is one of the main gameplay mechanics. Very bold design *Waits 1 hour and 20 minutes for my self-flying ship to be transported to a station inside a fedex crate*
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the milk machine posted:
I'd like to see them add in the domes from FE2/FFE in more places.
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Feb 2, 2018 17:26
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/404991-Chapter-One-Beta-closure-and-last-weekend-of-the-beta-treatsquote:Chapter One Beta closure and last weekend of the beta treats
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Daztek posted:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/404991-Chapter-One-Beta-closure-and-last-weekend-of-the-beta-treats For anyone who ever wanted to Try-It-Not-Buy-It...
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Been playing around with engineer upgrades in beta and a lot of recipes are significantly better now. Efficient beams are particulary crazy: -60% thermal load, -48% power draw -45% distributer draw, and +24% damage per second. Like holy poo poo. Also with some strategic use of light weight upgrades and experimental effects, I managed to squeeze my corvette's jump range up to about 19.6ly while still being completely loaded with A ranked modules, military armor, hull reinforcements, etc. all engineered for combat. The biggest save is going lightweight on that stupid 160 ton A rank sensor array. It might even be worth swapping to D rank and living with crappy short-range sensors. It would be amazing to be able to use the long-range sensors instead, but +100% mass on that thing murders your jump range.
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timn posted:Been playing around with engineer upgrades in beta and a lot of recipes are significantly better now. Efficient beams are particulary crazy: -60% thermal load, -48% power draw -45% distributer draw, and +24% damage per second. Like holy poo poo.  Looks like my gimmick Corvette just turned into a murderboat with it's non-stop discoball! Also, give up on making the corvette jump and just resign yourself to shipping it everywhere or schlepping 60 jumps.
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I'll be happy if I can hit 20ly without compromising on staying power in a fight. That seems to be about the threshold below which you start to get a double-whammy because you can't get a route plotted without including lots of awkward jumps significantly below your max range.
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timn posted:I'll be happy if I can hit 20ly without compromising on staying power in a fight. That seems to be about the threshold below which you start to get a double-whammy because you can't get a route plotted without including lots of awkward jumps significantly below your max range. Are you talking PVP or PVE? Because if you're doing PVP: what is your fitting because I wanna see. If you are doing PVE: gently caress it dude, just uparmor the basic lightweight, get a fast recharge biweave, and go full dakka with all lightweight MCs! 
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Sometimes you just want to be able to tank through half of the CZ aggro'ing on you at once.
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When AI pirates stick me up while I'm mining, are they wanting me to jettison x tons of whateverite or jettison (abandon) x tons? I'm thinking just paying tax is quicker than fighting every single dude who mugs me, but so far they've just said something like "it's gonna take more than that," so I try to pay in lasers and hot lead and the whole experiment just ends.
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Feb 3, 2018 06:02
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As long as the cargo leaves your ship in the amount they demand they'll scoop it and be on their way.
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Feb 3, 2018 06:28
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I've upgraded to Horizons, now what
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theodop posted:I've upgraded to Horizons, now what Griiiiiiiiiiiiind
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Fojar38 posted:As long as the cargo leaves your ship in the amount they demand they'll scoop it and be on their way. False. It's bugged or not otherwise working as intended; often they'll go 'I'm sure you can do better than that', wait a bit, and start shooting. Even when you have absolutely nothing in your cargo hold. I think it's got to do with pirate wings, so while one goes to scoop the cargo the rest get pissed because they didn't get any.
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theodop posted:I've upgraded to Horizons, now what Land on a planet and do donuts in an SRV.
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theodop posted:I've upgraded to Horizons, now what Visit Achenar 3 and practice your lithobreaking skills.
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theodop posted:I've upgraded to Horizons, now what Unlock fllight assist and see how fast you can spin your ship.
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timn posted:Been playing around with engineer upgrades in beta and a lot of recipes are significantly better now. Efficient beams are particulary crazy: -60% thermal load, -48% power draw -45% distributer draw, and +24% damage per second. Like holy poo poo. The Beta Wheeeee! Bonanza this weekend is good and fun. I made a Cutter with efficient beam turrets and a huge PAC under the nose and took it into combat zones. It was fun. I blew a lot of iron engineering this. I also made an FDL with four gimbaled shock cannons and a huge fixed cannon under the nose and it was fun. I blew the last of my iron on this.
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How are the shock cannons? They seemed like a neat idea but I'm not sure what niche they're supposed to fill between PACs and incendiary multicannons.
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The shock cannons are different but they really feel good to use. They have a lot of jitter, fire one shot per trigger pull, but can fire as quickly as we can pull the trigger, so when we have a good volley, we can put out a LOT of damage in a very short time. They are maybe more like something in between a cannon and a frag cannon?
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Feb 3, 2018 18:33
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So what's the sandrocatch? There's always a sandrocatch.
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They don't have much ammo so won't be "efficient for RES farming"? I bet you could blow your whole load in less than a minute.
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Lima posted:So what's the sandrocatch? There's always a sandrocatch. They all require 10 units of arsenic...each! 
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osirisisdead posted:They don't have much ammo so won't be "efficient for RES farming"? Yup that'll do it. Goodbye interesting weapons. Balance by tedium can go die in a fuckin fire.
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osirisisdead posted:They don't have much ammo so won't be "efficient for RES farming"? As a dedicated pack hound spammer this kills any interest I had in the weapon. Having to go back to reload every three kills is loving stupid.
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Radio call-in of an ammo restock ship, maybe with sensible arrival & cooldown timers, a much higher pricetag per reload and a service fee on top?
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osirisisdead posted:I bet you could blow your whole load in less than a minute. You know me too well  Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:They all require 10 units of arsenic...each! Ouch.
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@Lima, heh  @Dabir, The shock cannons do feel a lot like pack hounds. DatonKallandor posted:Yup that'll do it. Goodbye interesting weapons. Balance by tedium can go die in a fuckin fire. I'm okay with giving assassins or traders who want to go armed tools to do that. It also means that these won't be able to gank everything because they have insane DPS. RES farming is the least of the combat scenarios in this game.
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