OFFICIAL Elite: Dangerous

[TheMailMan78]

So is this game worth buying yet?

 

[Kursah]

Gotta see it to the end lol.

I'm enjoying it @TheMailMan78, but depends on what you want from it. Everything they promised, ready to go? Well...not quite. Solid MP? Dunno...haven't actually done anything beyond shoot or scan other people when I do see them (rarely).

If you like space sims, then yes...it offers a solid experience in a few areas, and the combat is great imho. Each ship flies differently...the options to how you play are your own...within limitations of if you want to buy new ships or upgrades, etc. Some chase for the $$$ for the top ships and trades. I did trades for a while and it got boring...so I am just going random. Some of the things are tedious, but for some reason I enjoy them, like landing on a spinning station, I still enjoy trying to do that as-fast-as possible without incurring infractions or damage.

I still enjoy it much more than SC's AC module (though 1.0 is a decent improvement). This game I can lose hours in, the kids like to fly around, I find it fun. But there's A LOT of people that are bored of it already, or want more guided experiences that this game may never provide. But Frontier also has A LOT yet to implement that they still promise is coming out in various expansions and updates. So far, the experience is pretty damn fun, would be more fun we a few friends and some larger scale battles, owning system(s) and stations. I'm looking forward to battling in the civil war area @erocker announced the other day. I had a 30 minute run last night where I finally made my trip. Looking forward to spending more time in the game. I'm kinda biased because I like the game, but it's also disappointing some of FD's actions, statements and that they didn't really live up to their promise, it is still one of the best games I've been a part of from beta to release ever. That is impressive to me in the era of major disappointments from crowd funding.

Wish there was a demo of it to share...

 

[bubbleawsome]

People usually seem to find that there arrrrrr ways around demos. ()Dunno if elite has one though.
If they could promise me that expansions that were promised on release (Like the 30-40 ships, more planet interaction) would be free I would get it. For now I'm more watching what Frontier does as a company.
Also;

 

[INSTG8R]

I got a X52 Pro today and tried it out with ED... I'm thinking I like using an Xbox controller better. Since they limit control of the ship, a Joystick doesn't seem to make anything "better". The throttle control is much nicer than the gamepad though. Not sure if I'm going to stick with the HOTAS or not. I do like it for Star Citizen so far. I'm thinking I'm going to need to hook up the Track IR.

Anyhoo, the only ship I currently have is a Type 6 and I'm grinding trading runs back and forth. Soon I will have an Asp! Can't wait.. It will be nice to have a more "Jack of all trades" ship.

TrackIR is great in this game. Totally cool. You just look at your screens and they open, neat. Look to targets etc. X52+TrackIR I never even touch my keyboard.

 

[Champ]

So is this game worth buying yet?

The more I watch it on twitch the funnier it looks. I think peeps are wanting a pow pow shoot'em up game and this isn't that. The raiding capital ships looks fun thou. I want a dedicated desk and joy stick setup for this game thou. Maybe triple 4k monitors?

 

[R-T-B]

So is this game worth buying yet?

After trying it myself (ie buying it) I'd say it's most definitely not something I regretted. And more content will only make it better.

 

[R-T-B]

Continuing on my stellar review above (kidding):

I'm beginning to butt up against repetition. I feel like a stellar truck driver working for a living in Elite: Dangerous. It's not that there's not things to advance to, it's that the trader role is terribly boring at times. I still don't regret buying it, but I think I'll be trying a different method of making money soon.

 

[Ahhzz]

So, this weekend, I sold my 6 back, and headed for the fringes. Trading was ok, but I was starting to get the "Daily Quest" feeling.... Then discovered there's no point to heading to the fringes. I got way up in the 284 sector, and there's not an inhabited planet anywhere in sight... I came across a couple of binary stars, a pair of planets in a co-orbital (that was pretty cool), and a lot of empty space... There might be a decent spot to go mining up there, but you'd have to come back a good ways to sell. I thought about heading out to the Witchhead Nebula, or that direction anyway, but decided to look to see if there's any point. Aaaaaand, found myself disappointed. Apparently, unlike the original Elites, we haven't expanded out to all reachable space. So, while we can see 400 billion star systems in the galaxy map, there doesn't appear to be a lot of point in trying to see them first-hand .

Speaking of mining, I decided since I couldn't really do any serious exploring, I'd try my hand at mining. So, stored the MkIII, and bought another (yes, I know, but i have that intermediate scanner, and until they're willing to give the rest of us half a million credits for it, I'll leave it on my MkIII). Grabbed a couple of class 2 mining lasers and a 4 bin refiner, and then remembered stories of pirates and the like settling around asteroid belts. So, grabbed a couple of turreted pulse lasers, and a solid shield. Just in case.

Aimed myself at the nearest "Metallic" belt (remembering that a "Metal Rich" has a lower spawn for the big P's (plat and palladium)), and dug into a youtube vid to figure out what to do. After trying to shoot the asteroids from waaay to far away, I started shooting little chips off into space. Got lucky, and found a palladium rock amidst the gallite and junk. Gathered enough Palladium for 6 tons, and was getting better at "scooping" the little chunks, and realized how late it was (I really don't like how much of a time window you have to make for your self for this game). It's a good way back to my little outpost, so I decided to try out the theory of "What happens if I just logoff in the middle of space?"

So, the next morning, up and at 'em, feed the monsters, and log back in. Hey! I'm not dead! That's pretty cool. Ok, let's head back to turn in the ore, because figuring out which rock I was aiming at is a living nightmare.. they really need to institute some sort of "tagging" system for miners... it's a bloody mess to go scoop up 2 or 3 little chunks, and turn back around, and realize you don't know which one you just finished, or worse, which of the 15 or 20 rocks out there have the Gallite and I've checked already. Anyway, go turn in my almost pure profit, and head back out to play some more, because scooping the little bastards up is almost relaxing.....

I get back out to my little section of empty freaking space, and realize what I've been missing! As I zoom into real space, I notice a couple of extra dots on the screen. I start lasing some rocks, and a few minutes later get a "Scan detected". What? "What's yours is mine!" Seriously?? *sigh* I then spend the next solid hour beating off one bounty after another, which included a small period of time where an Asp wandered by "Dangerous, wanted", but decided I was small fry, which is good because I was taking a good long time to drop these Eagles and Sidewinders with these two little pulses. This melee culminated in a long battle with a sidewinder, joined up by two security forces, who finally decided to check out all the noise and flashes, and promptly got in the way of my little turrets doing their best. *plink-plink-plink* went the 600cr bounty.... *sigh*.. sonnava... finish off the 'winder, and head for the hills (thanks whoever pointed me to mapping the in-system hyper jump to a different key) - aimed my self for somewhere-besides-here, and bounced. Made it back to the outpost, zipped to the landing pad and sold the couple of silver I'd racked up, and pondered... Is it really worth it?? *sigh* went back out, and gathered some more (no more pirates for some reason), and logged out watching the sun spin.....

 

[bpgt64]

I just picked this up, and while the learning curve was a bit steeper than I thought, it has been pretty freaking awesome. Do you all get together to talk about this game? or play together?

 

[Kursah]

I haven't played with any of these folks yet. I am floating around Cemiess in Empire space though. I started in Cosi in Federation space.

There is a high risk conflict zone in CM-51 102 near the only station in that system (I forget the name). Spent some time getting my ass handed to me in it last night.

I have a few TPU-ers on my list but I haven't met any of them in space. Feel free to add me, I am Kursah.



I am trying to find the right mix of gear for my Cobra. I also am thinking I may keep doing trade runs to get a Type-6, and some extra storage in it, so that I can make some good $$ on trades.

There's a decent trade 1.3k one way, and 1.25k back per ton profit from Cemiess to CD-51 102. Gold one way, I think computer parts the other...I'll have to look.

It's slowly going down, was 1.5k one way and 1.3k the other for a short span.

This game does have a steep learning curve in some areas, makes it worth the challenge. It's learning curve isn't as steep as EvoMerc was though imho.

 

[bubbleawsome]

 

[bubbleawsome]

I can't get the game to work after changing to 1080p and fullscreen. Just goes to a black screen and throws 86% CPU usage at me.
I was doing really good though! Even managed to dock first try.

EDIT: Got it working! Ended up jumping away from my starting system (figured nothing good would happen there) to the Erevere? system. Up at a ring. I'm bad at names. If someone can give me a place to pump to I'll try and find you guys! Cmdr bubbleawsome reporting for service!

 

[Kursah]

Nice I totally crashed and burn my first time docking!

Verify you have the newest drivers and reboot, see if the black screen goes away. I had that issue once on my laptop (AMD 8850M), and that's what resolved it iirc.

I would also consider doing fullscreen windowed, makes it easier to get out of the game w/o alt+tabbing...or if you have a second screen you can just move the mouse cursor over w/o issue. Makes doing trade runs nice.

Hoping to get some time on tonight. Feel free to add me to your friends list too! See you out on the frontier commander!

 

[bubbleawsome]

Looks like I missed your post by about 30 seconds. I do have two screens, might bring the 2nd one back into service. It was kicked from my desk to make room for a subwoofer.
Can't seem to figure much out. I'll try and add you guys, but I doubt I'll get much time before school tomorrow. If you do see me I'll be flying aimlessly hoping what I'm carrying makes a profit.

signing off from the Eraveve? system, Something ring.

EDIT: I guess I'm online for a bit. Eravate system, russel ring
EDIT2: Found nothing except an interdiction. survived, got to the LHD 3447 system at yaping enterprises. Haven't made any money.

 

[lyndonguitar]

Along with SC, I've been following the game for a while now and I'm still waiting for it to get cheap(sadly I wasn't able to back it on kickstarter and $60 is too much for me) and for the game to get more content, I've read that there isn't anything much to do in the game right now, A lot of people are getting bored already, although there is a lot of potential on the core game they made, so the foundation is good. but it would require expansions and more $$, not sure if they're going to add free major feature updates to the base game.

I will surely buy it when pretty much the game is feature complete with all the expansions released, maybe there would be a gold edition or something. but not right now. I DO like exploration though, with the game having recreated our own milky way galaxy accurately, I might pick this up soon anyway.

 

[erocker]

Can't wait to team up and make a difference in a system!

Hi everyone,

We’re approaching closer to the beta release of update 1.1 – as you can imagine things are pretty busy here at the moment! In this week’s dev update I will provide some more details of what is upcoming in the 1.1 release as well as a couple of new initiatives we’ve started for the game.

In last week’s newsletter we posted a screenshot of the new gas giant look and as a bit of a space geek I’m enjoying seeing the depth this adds to the atmosphere. We’ll expand the use of this technique to include the cloud layers on the terrestrial planets. As a double bonus not only does it improve the look of the planets but is quicker to render as well.

Each of the major updates will expand features and content and for the 1.1 release the headline addition is community goals. This feature provides a mechanism to allow players to work in conjunction to achieve common goals to affect a specific circumstance within a system. A good example of this is if a system degenerating into anarchy needs help restoring order. We can add two community goals for players to bring much needed supplies and to improve security by claiming bounties. These goals will be on a system level scale so will require concerted efforts from groups of players. We spoke to PC Gamer about this earlier this week and you can read the article here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangero...oals-revealed/

Another addition to the 1.1 update is decals for Pilots Federation ranks – these will be available as you attain ranks. As part of this change support for the Founders level decal will be included.

As I’ve previously mentioned these major updates provide an opportunity for us to include features that are deemed too risky or low priority for the minor releases like this week’s 1.06 release. An example of this is the disappearing holograms on landing pads which will be fixed in 1.1. Fixes and tweaks continue on the online front as well with the stalled queue issue causing updates to system state changes to be delayed has been fixed. Along with regular client releases we’ll continue to monitor and support issues with the online service.

To close this update I have two shout outs for new initiatives started on the forums. The first is the first step in the process of us examining support for third party apps. A thread has been created to capture the wishlist for an API for such apps which has already seen some great input. Join in the discussion here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99437

Player participation having a significant effect in the game universe has always been one of our core goals for the game and the various efforts that we’ve seen to push that system has been invaluable for us in identifying issues and changes that we can make to improve the system in the future. As part of that process we want to increase the integration of selected community news within the GalNet newsfeed. We’re particularly interested in player events. You can submit stories / events for consideration here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101801

Thanks!

Michael.

 

[bpgt64]

If anyone wants to join forces and take care of bidness,....we should get a mumble or something going...

 

[bubbleawsome]

If anyone wants to join forces and take care of bidness,....we should get a mumble or something going...

I'd join in, but the hard part is convincing my family to let me talk to strangers on the internet.
I'm in the brani system right now if anyone's nearby. I'll try and jump over to you guys after school. Haven't had any homework this week. Nice since I just bought the game.

I'm thinking of buying a hauler. It's 52k at this station, I just haven't made that much money yet.

 

[erocker]

If anyone wants to join forces and take care of bidness,....we should get a mumble or something going...

I think Kursah and I are around Achenar. I'm back to grinding/trading for a while so I can buy an Asp again and be able to kit it out while having enough left over for insurance.

TPU has an official Teamspeak www.techpowerup.com

 

[bubbleawsome]

Oh boy. Achenar is 172LY away. I won't be making that in a sidewinder.

 

[Kursah]

Yep I'm not far from Archenar, I'm going to do some trade grinding too. I want to get a type 6 and start earning more than I can in the Cobra, which I want to really hop up now. I figure that'll be a ship I always keep around.

You can make it in a sidey, just gotta plan your route and get a fuel scoop.

My first venture out was in an Eagle, was fun and nerve wrecking as I didn't have said fuel scoop and almost ran out of fuel jumping back to the closest station. Made for one helluva trip though! Now I recommend a fuel scoop! Get that and a good FSD and go for it. Or work some missions, do some trading, and enjoy. I'll probably still be around the area when you get here. No need to rush, too many people doing that in this game and that's not what it's about...have a good experience getting here and you'll enjoy the game more! Do some exploration, hunt a couple of bounties, get good repore in your system now by running local missions, upgrade your ship, do whatever the hell ya want and enjoy!!!

 

[bubbleawsome]

A bit part of what I want to do is more co-op, so I'll make the trip eventually. If I can get a good trade route through those systems I might even make some cash.

First few times with my fuel scoop I got greedy and fell into the star.

For sure upgrading to the hauler though. Sidewinder is nice, but 4 isn't enough to make a lot of money. I also like how the hauler air vents look like the kind you'd see on a chevy hatch.

 

[bubbleawsome]

How do you get a system pass? Planning a trip and google isn't much help.

 

[bubbleawsome]

Who's been grinding? With the recent "seeking luxuries" bug I managed to make a type 6 after a looong grind. It's been relatively easy money though. Over in the tenche system if anyone wants to meet up, though there is a similar bug in Beta Sculptoris as well.

 

[Kursah]

Haven't been able to play recently with school back in session...last semester.

I'm not aware of this bug...haven't hit up FD forums recently...but you've passed me! I haven't owned a type 6 yet! But I did buy an A4 FSD for my Cobra.