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I stopped playing after frontier discontinued console support but someone go look at the big thargoid thing when it stops crashing you to desktop tia
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They had to get rid of console support because there was no desktop to crash to and the players were just dying
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Worf posted:They had to get rid of console support because there was no desktop to crash to and the players were just dying 
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Sep 11, 2022 11:57
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Double post, but is Richard The Brick any of you folks?
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HonorableTB posted:I'm still highly enjoying exploring around the galaxy with my HOTAS setup while streaming Star Trek: TNG on my other monitor I agree. I only have time for a few hours a week these days, but as a very casual player, I still find Elite to be one of the most unique, relaxing experiences available.
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Inspector Hound posted:Born 2 scan
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Inspector Hound posted:Born 2 scan Forced 2 combat log
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mekyabetsu posted:I agree. I only have time for a few hours a week these days, but as a very casual player, I still find Elite to be one of the most unique, relaxing experiences available. Between carrier trading and AFK pirate killing missions, most of my Elite time doesn't involve me actually doing anything these days. But it's still pretty chill to just space truck for an hour or two whenever. There really isn't anything else like it. There's No Man's Sky which has the same relaxing feel, but that's more of a fly around and gawk at funny animals simulator than something with any economy.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Between carrier trading and AFK pirate killing missions, most of my Elite time doesn't involve me actually doing anything these days. But it's still pretty chill to just space truck for an hour or two whenever. There really isn't anything else like it. There's No Man's Sky which has the same relaxing feel, but that's more of a fly around and gawk at funny animals simulator than something with any economy. I really like the idea of NMS but I just hate playing it. The controls and UI are horrible. The basic game loop is not fun (gather materials and craft), and this is probably also mainly due to the controls and UI for me. Every x months I try to get into it again, because I'd like to like it, but never do. In E:D I've been far from the bubble for two years, slowly scanning systems. I don't play E:D often either but it always feels fun when I do.
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lobsterminator posted:I really like the idea of NMS but I just hate playing it. The controls and UI are horrible. The basic game loop is not fun (gather materials and craft), and this is probably also mainly due to the controls and UI for me. Every x months I try to get into it again, because I'd like to like it, but never do Yeah this is my issue as well. NMS looks fantastic and I applaud the amount of work they put in to getting it to match their original promises, but the UI and general feel of playing it moment-to-moment is sluggish and janky (and standing around holding the mouse button down on rocks is incredibly dull and survival games in general just need to give it a rest). I did get a decent amount of enjoyment out of it at one point just because there was so much cool stuff to look at, but all the not-lookin'-at-stuff stuff is pretty much anathema to me. Elite is kind of the opposite, large swathes of the game are appallingly bad but the feel of pointing a spaceship at something and boosting around is fantastic and I will probably keep playing it until Braben himself unplugs the raspberry pi powering the servers.
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NMS does one million things relatively poorly. Elite does ten things very poorly, but one thing (flight model) extremely well. And that's why I will never pick NMS back up but go on a two-week ED spree every couple months and will forever.
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I tend to get space madness every Christmas vacation. Logged out in the black sometime in January well on my way to Elite II explorer 
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I just hope someone figures out some way to get single player working. It's a great "forever game" and I can easily see myself picking it up 20 years from now.
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Marx Headroom posted:I just hope someone figures out some way to get single player working. It's a great "forever game" and I can easily see myself picking it up 20 years from now. Honestly wish that you could also do uhh idk just your friends without having to connect to their shitbag main server ever.
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You want to get really loving disappointed with a grind? Go earn yourself a Crom permit. It's not too hard to do, just grind your rep with the Crom Silver Boys up a bit from one of the systems they own. Then head on over. For maximum disappointment, go there in a large ship.
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I finally did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYbyBLS5j0
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Dabir posted:You want to get really loving disappointed with a grind? Go earn yourself a Crom permit. It's not too hard to do, just grind your rep with the Crom Silver Boys up a bit from one of the systems they own. Then head on over. For maximum disappointment, go there in a large ship. the Crom Silver Boys... I know them well... ground out a permit hauling biowaste and agricultural products in 69 G. Carinae fairly early in my days with the game. earned enough for a Python, but yeah — disappointing permit. gated systems are never as cool as you think they're going to be
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Idgi, why would you need Crom in the first place?
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Unsinkabear posted:Idgi, why would you need Crom in the first place? same reason as any other permit-locked system: just to see what's there in Crom's case, Crom Silver Fesh, a narcotic unique to that system that increases in value the farther you sell it from the system, produced at a lonely outpost. iirc, you can't buy much of it and it's not as profitable as you'd think. literally nothing else special about the system I chased the permit because I was new to the game and fascinated by an anarchy system with such a big economy (69 G. Carinae) and intrasystem complimentary missions. back in those days I just drifted from system to system doing missions for credits and dreaming of what different factions were like
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To be clear: there's nothing, I mean LITERALLY nothing, in that system. It's a class K star and the outpost orbiting it. And you can't even see the star through the window from the outpost bar. I was floored when I saw what it's like.
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Dabir posted:To be clear: there's nothing, I mean LITERALLY nothing, in that system. It's a class K star and the outpost orbiting it. And you can't even see the star through the window from the outpost bar. I was floored when I saw what it's like. 
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Dabir posted:To be clear: there's nothing, I mean LITERALLY nothing, in that system. It's a class K star and the outpost orbiting it. And you can't even see the star through the window from the outpost bar. I was floored when I saw what it's like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQxzdh5kNk
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A planet? Luxury!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Forced 2 combat log I didn't even know there was a name for it at first, it was just the thing I did when I started losing lol
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Looks like 4.0 is in the process of going live.
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Combat log is a surprisingly polite term for that
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Worf posted:Combat log is a surprisingly polite term for that Taking a fight dump
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Greetings Space Goons. I have question: some time ago I recall a game about exploring space in a space ship, except you couldn't see outside your ship. You had to navigate strictly by looking at dials and gauges and levers and knobs. That's probably a terrible description, but doesn't anyone know what game that is? Edit: I think I found it. It's called Objects In Space. Thanks! chaosapiant fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Sep 15, 2022 |
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Are they updating anything or just slowly combining everything into one, uhh, build? I just glanced at the thread you linked and couldn't gleam if it was patching anything
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Ichabod Tane posted:Are they updating anything or just slowly combining everything into one, uhh, build? I just glanced at the thread you linked and couldn't gleam if it was patching anything If anything they fragmented the playerbase more, not combined. This update basically created Horizons 4.0, which is Horizons with Odyssey's worse UI, lighting, and performance, but without the Odyssey foot content. We now have non-Horizons, Horizons 3.8, Horizons 4.0, and Odyssey clients.
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Does this stupid update and downtime have anything added or changed for Odyssey players at all
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Ichabod Tane posted:Are they updating anything or just slowly combining everything into one, uhh, build? I just glanced at the thread you linked and couldn't gleam if it was patching anything
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HonorableTB posted:Does this stupid update and downtime have anything added or changed for Odyssey players at all I think some things broke for existing Odyssey players, if that counts as "added or changed" BlankSystemDaemon posted:This is a complete guess on my part, but it could be that they wanted to unify the playerbase, but simply ran out of time and wanted to push something so it didn't seem like developemnt had stalled? The drum they keep hammering is "letting Horizons players see content that's Odyssey only" in terms of the Thargoid plot crap; I honestly couldn't tell you if my prior understanding of "4.0 will let Horizons and Odyssey players see each other" was my own poor understanding, their miscommunication, or an actual recent (post-console-cancellation) intention that they've since walked back.
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Natsuumi posted:If anything they fragmented the playerbase more, not combined. Lmfao Jesus Christ
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Lmao good thing I literally always play in solo mode and have never seen a Thargoid.
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Hahah ohhh INARA, they still show me having my Explorerconda. I got rid of that thing years ago.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I think some things broke for existing Odyssey players, if that counts as "added or changed" No they definitely originally told us that players would be able to instance together again. Here's proof! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/359320/view/5762897109865216337 This post from May 2021 talk about the split between Horizons and Odyssey. Here's the relevant image.  It clearly states there that Odyssey players were supposed to be able to instance with Horizons players in space. On surfaces was still listed as TBC, due to potential issues with killing humans on-foot affecting game ratings. Of course this post also mentions console launch of Odyssey, which has since been cancelled, but in general it's also referring to the Horizons/Odyssey split and eventual merge. It was only like a month ago when they made an announcement about Horizons 4.0 when they first said that Odyssey players would still not be able to instance with Horizons players, with this news post: https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-15082022. So the whole merging back together again was quietly forgotten or something. HJE-Cobra fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Sep 16, 2022 |
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