Any other kiwis play this?
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Ahhh yes, to say it has a steep learning curve is an understatement. Though I've never found landing as difficult as people claim it was...
I actually have a really sad, really short story about this game. I got a hotas and everything for this game, but when I moved back to my dorm of university a few years back the school's wifi would for some reason not tolerate the game. I gave up after weeks of seeing if it would right itself.
Not difficult, just annoying. I didn't see what is was supposed to contribute to the game. An auto-docking computer was one of the first things I bought.
The problem was that the learning curve made it hard to pursue the plot. I had lots of people try to contact me, and I had no way to contact them back.
I had one of those. Back in 2.0 I did my longest ever exploration trip in one. Right angle triangle to the west, north round the rim to be level with Sgr A*, then back home. 102,000 LY. And that was pre-engineering.
Excellent ship.
Yeah, I'm thinking about getting into mining with it. But considering how broken mining is supposed to be right now, I don't want to ruin my fun. I did bounty hunting and space trucking missions to afford it, and it made it much more satisfying when I bought it. Buying an Anaconda in one day just doesn't sound fun.
Hopefully the new update this year will be good, I can't wait to walk around my ships.
Get an Imperial courier as fighter-smuggling and learn to mailslot the docking ports, you can make ez smuggling money!
Got a Courier. It's stupid fast, and that gorgeous ringed cockpit. I used to bask with it back in 2.0 when Powerplay was still fairly fresh.
The biggest problem there, though, is flipping it over fast enough that you don't impale yourself on the prongs at the far end of the dock...
I've been thinking of getting back into Elite Dangerous. I know Fleet Ships are a thing now, but have there been anything other especially big developments to note? I was hoping for more lore on Thargoids.
Thargoids have been a thing since early 2017 with scripted encounters with their ships that scanned people and buggered off through an unscannable wake. In the winter of 2017 they started showing up and attacking players. Then they started attacking stations and the rescue missions to get people out and repair supplies in to the burning interiors was pretty cool.
Oh yes. Get scanned by a Thargoid of any type while carrying a Guardian item and it drives them nut shit. Put a Guardian relic into a Thargoid planetarium (these were found in mid 2017; they have Thargoid surface drones called Scavengers tending them) and it gives a rather unpleasant response.
There's also two classes of Thargoid - scouts, which are octagonal and compact and work in teams with different skills, and interceptors, which are the big flower-ships that regenerate themselves and send swarms of Thargon drones to wreck you. The latter also come in increasingly dangerous varieties. A community event to have a mega-ship jump into the one system near Barnard's Loop that wasn't permit locked by mistake resulted in the mega-ship being pulled off course and stranded and attacked by "Hydra" class Thargoids.
My personal guess is that Barnard's Loop isn't the Thargoid home systems. I suspect their real homeworld is in hyperspace (they can drag you off course from same) in a bubble of real space ensconced within, like the Arilou in Star Control. All those permit locked regions are probably areas where the boundary between hyperspace and real space is thin enough that they can burst out in big numbers.
Apart from Gamma Velorum. That's the Guardian homeworld. Or it was before they nuked themselves into oblivion.
This year's been very quiet because the devs have been working on fleet carriers (which will be 3.7) And hopefully space legs which will be the paid expansion that kicks off 4.0, we think.
Deep core mining (blamming asteroids open for resources) totally unbalanced the game as well. The obvious solution for the devs to that would be to have news reports in game about a Void Opal Bubble and the bottom falling out the market.
Were you able to try out the Fleet mechanic? Not necessarily buying, but using them as a rest-stop for long trips. I'm hoping to go on a long expedition across the Milky Way, but going outside the Bubble for too long makes me anxious.
Lemurakk
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What are you guys' opinions on fleet carriers and the mysterious 4.0 paid update?
I do think that the upkeep is ridiculous and shouldn't by any means exist, and the overall state of them feels rushed and thoughtless. Though I will admit that if i don't get bored of grinding with my friends we'll probably end up getting one for the squadron.
As for the 4.0 update, I think it'll be the last chance FDev gets to redeem itself, if they somehow fuck it up (which given their track record the chances of it happening are more than zero) the player base will finally end up dying and people will move over to other games. People are already realizing how much the dev has been lacking on updates when comparing it to No Mans Sky, which did a 180 and is now praised for the speed and quality of updates its dev delivered.
I do think that the upkeep is ridiculous and shouldn't by any means exist, and the overall state of them feels rushed and thoughtless. Though I will admit that if i don't get bored of grinding with my friends we'll probably end up getting one for the squadron.
As for the 4.0 update, I think it'll be the last chance FDev gets to redeem itself, if they somehow fuck it up (which given their track record the chances of it happening are more than zero) the player base will finally end up dying and people will move over to other games. People are already realizing how much the dev has been lacking on updates when comparing it to No Mans Sky, which did a 180 and is now praised for the speed and quality of updates its dev delivered.
Rock bursting. Anaconda is good for this (but then the Conda is good at everything). Get yourself a refinery, lots of cargo racks, a mining laser, prospector and collector limpet controllers, a pulse wave analyser, and some displacement missile launchers and seismic charge launchers and abrasion blasters, and find a Low Temperature Diamonds hotspot. Put on some nice synthwave or classical tracks in the background and start scanning and blamming. The noise it makes when you burst an asteroid with a deep core is so satisfying and comfy. Also sub-surface deposits of LTDs are surprisingly lucrative now.
I don't know if there's a Kiwi Squadron.
But yes, the update 4.0 coming next year is apparently going to be atmospheric landings and space legs. But only in stations and gravity wells. No EVAs and boarding actions yet, though those would be sweet.
Is it an expansion or free download? Are they making updates for ps5 or updating graphics?
Grandpa Simpson
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The main things you can do in that game is
1. Fly around scanning planets. The further out from the core systems, the more money you get when you bring the data back.
2. Trading. Euro Space Trucker really
3. Shoot Pirates, or be a Pirate and steal other peoples stuff.
4. Mining, which since the update to it makes any other money making method pale in comparison.
I kinda went off the game when they stopped the Thargoid Space Station attack events. It was somewhat fun timing your heatsinks so you could collect all the junk floating around before your ship overheated. The community events were nice too, because instead of just another billion credits, people organized to get a destroyed station back onto its feet.
I'm still pissed smuggling pays the same as a regular trade mission. Even criminal passengers, the ones if you are scanned are shoot on sight, pay the same as a regular passenger. I engineered a ship to under 10% heat running warm for nothing really.
1. Fly around scanning planets. The further out from the core systems, the more money you get when you bring the data back.
2. Trading. Euro Space Trucker really
3. Shoot Pirates, or be a Pirate and steal other peoples stuff.
4. Mining, which since the update to it makes any other money making method pale in comparison.
I kinda went off the game when they stopped the Thargoid Space Station attack events. It was somewhat fun timing your heatsinks so you could collect all the junk floating around before your ship overheated. The community events were nice too, because instead of just another billion credits, people organized to get a destroyed station back onto its feet.
I'm still pissed smuggling pays the same as a regular trade mission. Even criminal passengers, the ones if you are scanned are shoot on sight, pay the same as a regular passenger. I engineered a ship to under 10% heat running warm for nothing really.
Lemurakk
kiwifarms.net
Iirc they said there were no plans of porting the game to next-gen and not to get our hopes up, also the 4.0 update will not be free. I think this will be the final nail in the coffin for E
, pretty sad considering the potential it had.
Iirc they said there were no plans of porting the game to next-gen and not to get our hopes up, also the 4.0 update will not be free. I think this will be the final nail in the coffin for E
That game was dying from the start, trying to both cater to the autistic Elite 84 crowd who just wanted a single player game, and space sim gamers who wanted something akin to Wing Commander but with exploration, and not being able to please either.
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