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Siets posted:I know  Everyone loves to pick apart the mechanics of it and whatever but I think it has definitely made the game more interesting overall.
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and all but... I gotta say, I'm impressed with the effect Powerplay has had on the game. I felt the game was always lacking some personality, and now that Powerplay is a thing it's at least at a solid start.
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Mike the TV posted:Yes, you can turn off the specific FA voice over in the audio settings, or be like me and mute the voice entirely. It actually feels way more immersive (more BSG than Star Trek), and the voice is unnecessary after figuring out the game. Yep, I do this too. There are other audible cues for just about everything (god bless Frontier's audio team) so the voice really isn't needed.
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tooterfish posted:I'd rather wait and see what happens than wind myself up over what might happen.
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Space Skeleton posted:Everyone fox for the "fix" option in this poll: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=207962 Things visually popping into existence right next to you after you deploy the SRV is weird and definitely seems like a bug, but I'm fine with them leaving ground stuff off the radar during flight. I was playing with a friend last night, him in his SRV and me in my ship, and we were tag teaming POIs: I'd fly around and find a purple circle, he'd come over while I visually scanned for the wreckage, and once he got close, skimmers/whatever spawned and I killed them so he could grab the loot. Eyud fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Yeah the FAS is a lot of fun, I'm trying one for the first time in the beta. It's pretty fast and has tons of power and wrecks stuff!
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SRV controls are set in the default profiles but I think if you've customized your binds you'll have to set them yourself. If you're using SLI, Eyud fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Gonkish posted:Apparently the game ready driver they just released today (361.43) adds in support for SLI in 64-bit applications (including Elite), or somesuch. Haven't tried it yet. Ah nice, I hadn't seen a notification for that one yet. Looks like that fixes it.
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That one is really nice. I'm about 2,000 ly into my first trip to the core. Horizons really made exploration worth it for me, planetary sightseeing is so great.
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Helter Skelter posted:While I'm sure that's true, I'm pretty sure the scale is more or less correct. I'm told that you get a much better sense of the actual scale from the interior if you're playing in VR. My own fiddling with the 3D anaglyph mode (those cheesy old red/blue glasses) seems to support this. A 2D picture on a monitor simply doesn't convey the necessary depth information to really get a true sense of the scale. Yeah, in VR everything feels so much bigger. The only thing I don't really like about Lakon cockpits is how sterile they are — just metal and glass, very spartan compared to a lot of other ships. I was going to take my Python out on this exploration trip but the view from the Asp is just too good to resist.
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Toadsmash posted:148% of Earth gravity was enough to make me flub a landing just now and crash my Asp hard enough to crack the canopy about 2500 LY from home. Glad I hadn't invested too much time into this trip yet! Whoopsie. I slammed into a canyon wall (not even in high gravity) on the first day of my current trip and went down to 30% hull, but I'm not letting that stop me. Sag A* or bust!
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Amethyst posted:Thanks to the delay, I'm sure the update will be better than ever! Amethyst posted:Discussing the reasons why a game is failing is a thing. That's why gama sutra articles on failed games are popular. It sure beats endless posts about the best way to grind 2 million credits. Amethyst posted:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211990 K.
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DatonKallandor posted:How many times have they claimed that so far? I can remember Missions getting "completely overhauled" after beta, then again with powerplay at the very least. Neither of those times did they do poo poo about the missions paying like poo poo 99% of the time and gating the 1% that pays decently behind Elite rank. I know several people that bought ED and just want to make some money taking missions like they're supposed to (and like the game is telling them to), but they simply can't because the mission system is hosed. The lack of reward for grouping doesn't help either (and the fact that grouping came months after "release"). 
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TomR posted:I love Elite and I think Frontier do a great job.
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I'm about 3k ly from Sag A* at the moment so it's gonna be a long while before I can play with the Engineers stuff. Bookmarks are nice though!
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I finally made it! Flew around a bit, almost overheated when I got too close once, marveled at the gravitational lensing a bit, dropped off some trash:  Time to head home. Oof.  Edit: bonus picture of the Earth-like I stumbled across a few hundred light years from Sag A*:  Eyud fucked around with this message at 02:09 on May 31, 2016 |
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She didn't actually do anything like that, she just wrote an awful story about how she wishes she could.
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Solo mode is great and it was a very good design decision and I'm happy it's never going away.
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Meatsicle posted:This game is far too shallow to be played without other people and I seriously question how anyone can really have fun playing Elite solo past like 15 hours or so. I've played this game well over a thousand hours, the vast majority of it by myself (mostly in open, just not in a wing or PVP).
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Exploits are just game features you don't personally approve of, I guess. I installed Star Citizen again just to see if this 2.4 release is any less awful and well, El Grillo posted:loving lol
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That's fine, I only ever paid the bare minimum for it and I feel like I've gotten my money's worth in entertainment at this point anyway. If there's ever a playable game it'll just be a bonus.
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kedo posted:Is this true, and if so what about it is a nightmare? Is it the setup? Tracking? Elite is easily one of the best VR experiences out there. Dunno why he said it's a nightmare.
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Yeah, I went to the core and back with 30% hull and never used a heatsink. Even without zeroing the throttle you'll almost always be fine. I've seen videos of binaries where you get dropped way too close to one of them but never ran into one myself.
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Tabletops posted:has anyone found any planets with realistic scale surface geography? or is it supposed to be really flattened? I think the deepest canyon I've ever found was ~200 or 300 meters at most. There are definitely large features out there. This was something like a 6 km drop on both sides:  Another planet with similar ridges, although I don't remember how big they were:  Jumping over a ~1 km deep canyon: https://streamable.com/3w16
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Main Paineframe posted:one planet was recently discovered to have a mountain so high that you can ramp your buggy off it into orbit. Rad. Got a link?
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Thanks to the person who posted that Engineers guide; I've started playing again and want to get some sweet upgrades and it's a great help. Can't wait to get those good thrusters on my Python. I've been playing No Man's Sky recently and while I like that game a lot, I had forgotten how satisfying Elite is. The flight model and the sound and the scale of everything is just so good. The other night I was about to get started collecting some materials but ended up just flying around a planet's surface in a Courier for like an hour. Eyud fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Voted for the delay, thanks for the heads up!
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The ridiculous logic goons come up with to rationalize why something doesn't go their way is always so hilarious to me. Keep up the good work everyone!
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oRGy posted:I just find the drama ITT hilarious, myself, it seems really disproportinate. I mean why you guys risking a heart attack considering Nah man everyone in this thread is totally chill and not mad but also 100% right and smarter than all those other people posting on internet forums.
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khwarezm posted:Is Elite: Dangerous a good videogame? Yup, it rules! (It ruled a year ago too.)
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Mr. Crow posted:Gamers are the worst, this thread is no different than "the brown sea". Ain't that the truth.
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FileNotFound posted:EVE is bad Yeah, agreed.
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quote:We’re thrilled to let you know that you’ll be jumping in your ship-launched fighters, taking on passenger missions, piloting the Beluga liner and experiencing the rest of the amazing list of features coming to 2.2 The Guardians this coming Tuesday 20th September. 
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TomR posted:2.2 will be a good update with nothing to complain about.
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Elite betas are really fun because everything is super cheap and people are testing out lots of silly ship setups and fighting right outside stations and such.
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