Elite: Dangerous

racefaceec90

FINALLY us xbox players got horizons and engineers 

the hard as nails a.i from 1.6 update nearly ruined the game for me (got a fair few ships destroyed by the god mode a.i but frontier kindly sent us a refund today (wasn't expecting that tbh,a pleasant surprise as i got my trade conda blown up this morning 16 mill rebuy cost).

i now have an imp clipper and it's bloody great 

have only landed on one planetary body so far (europa moon at jupiter) but it's bloody awesome fun.

i bloody loves this game 

Axe_meister

To be honest I only had a fight against two mostly harmless NPCs but they got dispatched fairly easily.
But my little Viper mk IV is a thought little ship

digitalscream

Axe_meister said:

To be honest I only had a fight against two mostly harmless NPCs but they got dispatched fairly easily.
But my little Viper mk IV is a thought little ship

Heh...yeah, wait until you come up against an Elite FDL. You basically have to fight them like you would a CMDR...I just got one in the face, and it was still using special weapons even after they swore blind they'd got rid of them. Thermal attack + rail guns that never miss + unearthly accuracy with a huge plasma accelerator.

Really quite scary.

fretmeister

Did you see the skynet reaction the npc had today? ED have confirmed the ai was joining weapon stats to get rail guns that can shoot at pulse rates!

ED didn't know the code allowed it!

digitalscream

fretmeister said:

Did you see the skynet reaction the npc had today? ED have confirmed the ai was joining weapon stats to get rail guns that can shoot at pulse rates!

ED didn't know the code allowed it!

Yep. Having encountered a number of those NPCs, it felt like fighting the frigging Terminator, too.

I even saw one of the ones which effectively had a multicannon firing plasma accelerator ammo. Mental...fortunately, it was system security and I'm behaving myself, so it didn't go near me - it reduced everything to slag in seconds.

Sporky

fretmeister said:

Did you see the skynet reaction the npc had today? ED have confirmed the ai was joining weapon stats to get rail guns that can shoot at pulse rates!

So the AI has started to exploit glitches in the code?

digitalscream

Sporky said:

fretmeister said:

Did you see the skynet reaction the npc had today? ED have confirmed the ai was joining weapon stats to get rail guns that can shoot at pulse rates!

So the AI has started to exploit glitches in the code?

Yep. FD were trying to kneecap the AI and remove the ability for them to use the special Engineer weapon modifications; the actual result was slightly reduced AI combat capabilities, but they were creating merged weapons which were impossible to counter.

The truly scary part is that those weapons should have been totally impossible to create.

Sporky

I have installed it and given it a quick go - joystick arrives tomorrow so not much point until then, but it's quite pretty. Decent frame rate at 4K UHD as well, which is nice.

The account and product key registration stuff is very, very clunky.

Sporky

Hmm. I'm going to need a bigger, or at least clearer desk. The Warthog is huge and weighs nearly as much as my car.

fretmeister

digitalscream

Sporky said:

Hmm. I'm going to need a bigger, or at least clearer desk. The Warthog is huge and weighs nearly as much as my car.

You're also going to need a clearer schedule. Apart from the game itself, you're at quite a disadvantage if you don't hop on over to the Frontier forums. Lots of brilliant info there, as well as patch notes and the like.

Sporky

Forums are just full of other peoples' ideas. Just because they've already done something and know effective strategies doesn't mean I'll listen. You've met me.

Erm.

fretmeister

This is quite useful

http://roguey.co.uk/elite-dangerous/trade-helper/mk2/index.php?s1id=eravate&s2id=kremainn

Apparently the market info is a bit knackered at the moment (problem today) but it is usually accurate enough, within a few percent.

Axe_meister

Just downloaded Horizons let see how it goes.
Need a new joystick though my fly 5 is pretty much dead.

fretmeister

One of the EDC guys has spotted an amusing mission...

...Urgently needs 3 tons of Osmium being found and bought to the system.

Reward: 4 tons of Osmium.

Sporky

I have my HOTAS connected and working, and have been working through the training missions. So many buttons. So many weird mappings.

digitalscream

Sporky said:

I have my HOTAS connected and working, and have been working through the training missions. So many buttons. So many weird mappings.

Yeah...I changed all of the default mappings except primary weapons.

Sporky

One of the hats opens a chat window that requires the keyboard to close. :-S

digitalscream

LOL!

Top tip: keep primary and secondary fire buttons on different hands. You quite often need to use them together, but things like boost and FA-off are best kept on the non-throttle stick, for reasons completely unknown to me (yet also completely correct).

fretmeister

Thrustmaster and Frontier are making a HOTAS together

https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/06/elite-dangerous-devs-frontier-developments-partner-with-joystick-makers-thrustmaster/

At a proposed £99 it won't be a Warthog, but it will be interesting to see what they think is a good idea for the game.