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peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

A. Beaverhausen posted:

What kind of cut?

Just an all over trim type thing, I've moved house so it's a new barber for me and we hit it off pretty quickly, so that's good.

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Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Sekenr posted:

X52 users - you might want to switch to logitech drivers which are significantly less crap compared to "smart technology" lol. In my case they stopped eating 50 % of processor power when you unplug the stick.

You can also use the generic windows joystick drivers which work flawlessly to the point where I assume someone at Microsoft coded specific X52 drivers better than Saitek out of spite.

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer
I havent been able to use my X52 in a while but i remember installing the drivers and marvelling as my machine displayed a bsod for the first time in years.

I just wanted to be able to put custom stuff on my little screen :(

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
I really like the MadCatz driver which I have never had any issues with besides the LED/MFD issue, but they went under so I'm not even sure you can download that one any more. :shrug:

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos


:smug:

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug
I could never figure out the mode change stuff, but at least my x52 works great! (so long as I always use the same USB)

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro

Mike the TV posted:

I could never figure out the mode change stuff, but at least my x52 works great! (so long as I always use the same USB)

Oh it's great! I have mine set up for three configs: Flight, Combat, and Exploration so that buttons for each task get reassigned to more easily reachable areas (nearest target in combat becomes next system in exploration, for instance). But the best part is you can set up macros for each mode switch, so when I move the joystick to the combat mode, it deploys hardpoints and resets my distributor to it's kill mode.

Parallelwoody
Apr 10, 2008


Do you happen to have that config saved? I would absolutely love a copy if that's possible.

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009



I imagined you flipping through the modes and when you land on that one it immediately starts playing Solsbury Hill.

dsagent
Mar 30, 2017
Can anyone share some cool HUD schemes?

I have been rockin the

<MatrixRed> 0.69, 0, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>

It is a nice purple / blue / white but I am getting bored of it.

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

Anime Store Adventure posted:

I imagined you flipping through the modes and when you land on that one it immediately starts playing Solsbury Hill.

I don't know how but I will make this happen

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
In case you've missed it in the past: https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/midnight-paintjobs.html/

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

I haven't delved into the Commander Customiser much; the page for the Turncoat outfit pack

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/turncoat-outfit-pack.html

says

This outfit pack grants a total of 6 outfits in a variety of colours with interchangeable sleeves, tops and legwear.

If you own more than one outfit pack, can you exchange tops, arms and legs freely or can your commander only mix-and-match from one outfit set at once?

Sultan Tarquin
Jul 29, 2007

and what kind of world would it be? HUH?!

They didn't even make a dolphin one :ohdear:

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

NoneMoreNegative posted:

I haven't delved into the Commander Customiser much; the page for the Turncoat outfit pack

https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/turncoat-outfit-pack.html

says

This outfit pack grants a total of 6 outfits in a variety of colours with interchangeable sleeves, tops and legwear.

If you own more than one outfit pack, can you exchange tops, arms and legs freely or can your commander only mix-and-match from one outfit set at once?

You can mix and match in any way you would like. You can have Scoundrel legwear, with a sleeveless Turncoat jacket overtop of your Raider flightsuit.

3
Aug 26, 2006

The Magic Number


College Slice
Y'know, I recorded this a coupla' days after the patch dropped, I probably should've uploaded it then :v:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ngWdI6s2o

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Hey so... this patch kind of sucks, yeah?

A. Beaverhausen
Nov 11, 2008

by R. Guyovich

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Hey so... this patch kind of sucks, yeah?

If you put this post in any point of the thread it wouldn't be out of place

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

A. Beaverhausen posted:

If you put this post in any point of the thread it wouldn't be out of place

2.0 was a good update.

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Mike the TV posted:

2.0 was a good update.

No, it was the confirmation that they were never going to fix the core gameplay being shallow, they were just going to add more breadth.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Treated myself to a VIVE in the sales, anyone have a good guide to getting the most out of E:D with it? I have an X55 stick/throttle setup already. Is it p. much plug & play or am I going to have to tinker with stuff?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Hey so... this patch kind of sucks, yeah?

I've been doing stuff with Thargoids a whole lot actually but if you don't care about that then yeah, it added basically nothing for you

Less Fat Luke
May 23, 2003

Exciting Lemon

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Treated myself to a VIVE in the sales, anyone have a good guide to getting the most out of E:D with it? I have an X55 stick/throttle setup already. Is it p. much plug & play or am I going to have to tinker with stuff?
OVRDrop is very necessary to watch Netflix or whatever during boring parts. Also wow, Elite is just unreal in VR.

IAmTheRad
Dec 11, 2009

Goddammit this Cello is way out of tune!
Free stuff on the Frontier Store!
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/avatar-metal-framed-glasses.html
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/avatar-plastic-framed-glasses.html
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/military-flight-suit-pack.html
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras/elite-dangerous-game-extras/powerplay-decal-pack.html

vorebane
Feb 2, 2009

"I like Ur and Kavodel and Enki being nice to people for some reason."

Wrong Voter amongst wrong voters
Thank you those are snazzy.

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Doing a charity stream tonight on the Frog Twitch channel

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
Is Steamcharts a accurate way to see how many people are playing the game? If so the playerbase seems very small. I keep waiting for ED to become more interesting, but if the average is ca 4000 people i don't understand how the game can be profitable long enough to warrant putting complicated content into it over the coming years.

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.

Dongattack posted:

Is Steamcharts a accurate way to see how many people are playing the game? If so the playerbase seems very small. I keep waiting for ED to become more interesting, but if the average is ca 4000 people i don't understand how the game can be profitable long enough to warrant putting complicated content into it over the coming years.

It would only show people playing it on Steam, I think.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Dongattack posted:

Is Steamcharts a accurate way to see how many people are playing the game? If so the playerbase seems very small. I keep waiting for ED to become more interesting, but if the average is ca 4000 people i don't understand how the game can be profitable long enough to warrant putting complicated content into it over the coming years.

It's ball-park:ley accurate:ish. Probably the right order of magnitude, at least.

But since running ED through Steam rather than directly through its own launcher (that you can just install no matter where you bought the game) is a bit of a hassle, chances are that Steam's tracking misses out on a lot of people. And of course, console players are completely hidden from that method.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

It's not Steam exclusive (I bought it from Frontier store), so the numbers might be higher.

Edit:

Dongattack posted:

Ah okay, good good. Then there might be hope for more interesting content down the line.
Haha, no.

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 28, 2017

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
Ah okay, good good. Then there might be hope for more interesting content down the line.

Boogalo
Jul 8, 2012

Meep Meep




I bought it on steam originally but switched to the standalone launcher so i could uninstall the 32bit versions.

INTJ Mastermind
Dec 30, 2004

It's a radial!

Boogalo posted:

I bought it on steam originally but switched to the standalone launcher so i could uninstall the 32bit versions.

Is 32-bit ED still supported? How much space did you save? Kind of interested since I’m on a SSD.

Boogalo
Jul 8, 2012

Meep Meep




INTJ Mastermind posted:

Is 32-bit ED still supported? How much space did you save? Kind of interested since I’m on a SSD.

They dumped 32bit sometime this year. It was not insignificant savings, 10-15gb. Check your frontier folder, mine is only 15GB. I think its also harder to do beta stuff through steam.

xiansi
Jan 26, 2012

im judjing all goons cause they have bad leader, so a noral member is associated whith thoose crasy one

Personaly i would quit the goons if i was in cause of thoose crasy ppl
Clapping Larry

Boogalo posted:

They dumped 32bit sometime this year. It was not insignificant savings, 10-15gb. Check your frontier folder, mine is only 15GB. I think its also harder to do beta stuff through steam.

Just updated ED for something to try out new Rift with whilst not having to stand up!

My folder was much more than double 15Gb.

Then I found all sorts of things in products folder that weren't "elite-dangerous-64" (started playing in original beta, never used Steam), deleted them, and it still all works with Horizons stuff - game is very SSD friendly compared to most:



Now I have forgotten everything, have ships scattered everywhere, and no idea what I'm doing. And in VR. This should be fun again for a while.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Just FYI, I bought and installed ED for the first time this week, and my folder is only 16.5GB. The extra space is taken up by COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO.

Game's ok so far under the 10 hour mark. I'm just doing the training and... I assume that the default spacecraft is just intentionally a Ford Gremlin and not very fun to play around with. I'm having trouble just beating the advanced combat training. I have no idea what it'll take to grind to a better ship once I play the real game, hopefully not too punitive.

I figure I'll fiddle around in single player, grind a bit and learn the basics, and sail away from the starting systems to avoid the inevitable players preying on noobs. I'll report back if it's fun enough to keep playing in open, maybe join the Diamond Frogs thread if that's still a thing.

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

xiansi posted:

Just updated ED for something to try out new Rift with whilst not having to stand up!

My folder was much more than double 15Gb.

Then I found all sorts of things in products folder that weren't "elite-dangerous-64" (started playing in original beta, never used Steam), deleted them, and it still all works with Horizons stuff - game is very SSD friendly compared to most:



Now I have forgotten everything, have ships you've had scattered everywhere, and no idea what I'm doing. And in VR. This should be fun again for a while.

There were lots of updates that duplicated game files instead of replacing them, especially around the time horizons came out. If you've had the game since launch and never messed with the files you probably have 50+ GB of wasted space being used.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

doctorfrog posted:

I'm having trouble just beating the advanced combat training.

The advanced combat training has not been updated to keep up with changes to the game and is now severely biased in favor of the AI. If you can beat the basic combat and understand navigation you're good to jump into the main game.

quote:

I have no idea what it'll take to grind to a better ship once I play the real game, hopefully not too punitive.

Getting a *better* ship should come easily, getting a *good* ship will take somewhat longer, getting a top-of-the-line ship will take a stupendous amount of time and/or tedious grinding of carefully optimized routes.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

^ thank you!

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Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


I just bought an oculus on the Amazon cyber Monday sale so I am coming back to this game that, despite my best attempts to hate, I cannot put down.

I’m pretty tech savvy about settings and poo poo like that but also brand new to VR. Any crucial settings or things I need to know for oculus to make it work well? Maybe a link to a guide if anyone knows a quality one for set up?

Or maybe I’m lucky and it just sort of “works” out of the box?

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