Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter Launched

conVurt · 2015-03-10T08:24:19.000Z

Patch notes for 1.2 (long–grab a beverage before reading…)

zx81-Amd64 · 2015-03-10T08:25:46.000Z

40 mins of external views of ED’s ships in the hanger, with class music. I can’t believe they held out so long on this ‘feature’, and that even in a ropey debug mode you can get an idea of what a proper third person camera would do to aid the immersion into the game and your ships!

conVurt · 2015-03-10T11:51:08.000Z

The new ships are pricy…

Fer-de-Lance: 102.5M CR.
Vulture: 22M CR.

Looks like I’ll be sticking to my Asp for a little while longer. Hopefully the upcoming Imperial Courier will be more my style.

KevinC · 2015-03-10T12:27:01.000Z

conVurt:

Imperial Courier

Hubba hubba.

schurem · 2015-03-10T14:29:06.000Z

External views baby, Fuck yea!

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KevinC · 2015-03-10T15:53:21.000Z

Minor quibble, but why the hell does their launcher lack the ability to update itself when needed? It’s 2015, people!

Sam_Jones · 2015-03-10T17:30:49.000Z

KevinC:

Minor quibble, but why the hell does their launcher lack the ability to update itself when needed? It’s 2015, people!

Whenever a launcher update is needed, it tells me and then prompts a download. Are you not getting that?

Rico_Jones · 2015-03-10T18:54:08.000Z

Sam Jones:

Whenever a launcher update is needed, it tells me and then prompts a download. Are you not getting that?

This is the only online game I play that has a launcher that doesn’t update in situ. Every time ED makes me download and run a new installer, my reaction is pretty much “Dammit, what is this, the 20th century?”

conVurt · 2015-03-11T08:42:01.000Z

Looks like ship prices are due for a refit. From a Dev update posted on the Frontier forums:

Michael Brookes:

As with any ongoing development we’re constantly examining balancing and there are some imbalances between the roles – in particular trading is too powerful compared with other play styles. We believe a player shouldn’t feel that they have to indulge in trading to reach the next suitable ship for their preferred way to play, so to make other roles more viable we’ll continue to strengthen the role of combat pilots, miners and explorers in the galaxy, making those paths a more viable option for progression in future updates.

In a minor update released before the end of the week we’ll reduce the price of non-trade ships and abolish the way fuel costs are scaled by ship type. What’s more, some of the smaller ships, like the Sidewinder will gain a powerful new advantage as their reduced profile makes them more effective for smuggling. These are minor changes but ones that dramatically increase the importance and viability of craft less suited to trading.

Also, amusingly, ingame via Galnet:

GalNet:

Rumours coming out of Mars today suggest that a powerful lobbying group, acting on behalf of Admiral Vincent and the Federal Navy, are currently engaged in a massive campaign to lower taxes on combat-capable spacecraft. The aim of the campaign is to encourage Federal pilots to become more battle-ready in these times of heightened tensions.

If the lobbying efforts prove to be successful, the Imperial armament program will doubtless be forced to follow suit or else risk the Empire being undermined by the increased combat capabilities of the Federal Navy.

BrianRubin · 2015-03-11T08:57:02.000Z

Love it, thanks for the link con.

Joe_M · 2015-03-11T09:02:17.000Z

KevinC:

Minor quibble, but why the hell does their launcher lack the ability to update itself when needed? It’s 2015, people!

This is what I came here to post. WHY. I’d forgotten I had to do this last time, too. Ok, you don’t want to give Valve a cut of your sales. I can understand that and I’ll use your launcher. But why the fuck do I have to download a new launcher every time you update the game?

It’s trivial, yes. It is also contrary to what anyone else on this planet is doing.

I’m not unduly angry or anything. Baffled, rather.

I also got my edtracker in. OH BABY. Fun times ahead.

BrianRubin · 2015-03-11T09:11:56.000Z

Joe M.:

I also got my edtracker in. OH BABY. Fun times ahead.

YESSSSSSS! Enjoy it, it’s the best!

KevinC · 2015-03-11T09:45:29.000Z

Joe M.:

This is what I came here to post. WHY. I’d forgotten I had to do this last time, too. Ok, you don’t want to give Valve a cut of your sales. I can understand that and I’ll use your launcher. But why the fuck do I have to download a new launcher every time you update the game?

It’s trivial, yes. It is also contrary to what anyone else on this planet is doing.

I’m not unduly angry or anything. Baffled, rather.

I know what you mean! I mean, when Notepad++ can update itself without requiring the user to download an external EXE and re-installing, you’d think Frontier could pull it off!

Baffling is right. It’s not a huge deal, just odd.

GreasyPig · 2015-03-11T10:38:14.000Z

KevinC:

I know what you mean!

Its weird. At least it remembered my name and password this time.

schurem · 2015-03-11T15:40:00.000Z

So, anybody tried rolling with a wing o’ buddies yet?

I love how they keep improving the small things in the game, like how you now see in the nav panel how many jumps there are left in your route.
I havent found time yet to explore the new signal sources or enjoy the improvements to resource extraction zones. Combat zone kept me busy all last night lol.

And then the little dude decided this night was a wailing night. so he wailed, screamed and wailed some more. Like his fucking comforter animal scared him or the fact that there was no longer the hum of my viper’s engines coming from the computer room. fml.

(really, this shit about a launcher is almost as interesting as the weather in the south-eastern tip of fucking Danmark if you ask me)

KevinC · 2015-03-11T16:51:50.000Z

schurem:

(really, this shit about a launcher is almost as interesting as the weather in the south-eastern tip of fucking Danmark if you ask me)

That’s good, because the rundown of your offspring’s behavior today was absolutely riveting! :) I can’t imagine where he gets his fussiness.

Thrag · 2015-03-11T21:42:31.000Z

Finally got to play a little 1.2. I think my favorite change is how the faction shows now in the target display. Now if they could just put the wanted amount there too.

I only visited a couple of extraction sites to hunt around in and it seems in addition to ships being grouped into wings there is a little more variety of ships at the site.

Razgon · 2015-03-12T06:11:22.000Z

schurem:

(really, this shit about a launcher is almost as interesting as the weather in the south-eastern tip of fucking Danmark if you ask me)

Its fucking chilly these mornings, if you must know. Sometimes even below 0 degrees.

KevinC · 2015-03-12T06:33:24.000Z

Rainy and dreary kind of chilly, or sunny-but-still-too-damn-cold kind of chilly?

Razgon · 2015-03-12T06:34:40.000Z

Well, mostly foggy-but-with-the-promise-of-sunshine-later-in-the-day-kinda-chilly…mostly…