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Meanwhile, on Steam forums…

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Why 80 bucks? If you’re just jumping into it now, just buy Horizons, which includes everything.

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Horizons is $79.99 CAD, so I assume he’s referring to a non-USD currency.

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Is there a handy beginner’s guide to this expansion? I need to buy an SRV first, right?

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https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/348

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the video posted on the last page, although over an hour long, was an excellent primer.

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What’s the big uproar? The usual ‘I paid full price for this game over a year ago, why are people who buy it now getting it cheaper than I did?’

In some positive news, I think this version is finally updated to work on the latest Oculus SDK!

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So can I uninstall Elite Dangerous from Steam once Horizons is installed?

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Well this worked for me:

  1. Uninstall Elite from Steam.
  2. Go get key from Frontier Store (third party key? I think)
  3. Add key to Steam (as per usual)
  4. Wait for 6GB download (not bad)
  5. Library says ‘Elite Dangerous: Horizons’
  6. Launch that, pretty new blue launcher.
  7. Do the ol’ Frontier login.
  8. There is a Play button with no other options. Pressed it.
  9. Landed on a planet.

Voila.

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It’s $80 Canadian fun bucks :(

I bought it anyway.

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That’s the spirit. Right on commander!

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For those in the same situation as me

Hey folks,

We’ve just discovered an issue with Premium Beta and Alpha accounts not being granted Steam keys. We’ve got a fix ready but it has to be deployed in a build update, which is scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Apologies for the delay and thanks once again for your patience. You’ll still be able to play on the Frontier launcher for now.

CMDR Sticks

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I can tell you I definitely do not like the changes to the mission system. I can’t seem to find any combat missions (kill pirates etc) at all. All the boards just show me a boatload of missions I’m not eligible for. Man, what happened here?

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Do you need missions to kill pirates? I’m not being snarky, by the way, just wondering why not just head off to a RES and go to town on pirates. Is it the supplementary income provided by the missions that is missing, or something else?

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Hmm, are you talking about the mission system since Horizons just dropped or what happened over the past months?

When I came back a couple months ago, I noticed that the mission system was revamped quite a bit. Many times the kill pirate combat missions are tied to your combat rank or allegiance to the station/faction. Other times, there just isn’t any combat pirate missions depending on the luck of the draw. It seems close to half of the time I would have them, though, with allied ranking at Tombaugh/Veloxi in Orcus with a Master combat rank.

Check the requirements on the ones you are not eligible for and see why you are being locked out of them.

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Also seems to depend to the factions and type of system you are picking missions at, a refinary system for example will have more mining missions i think.

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I"m having some technical issues, I hope you guys don’t mind if I inquire here if anyone has some suggestions.

I installed Elite on Monday night in order to get my keybinds set up and everything, in preparation for Horizons (I haven’t played since 1.1). Everything went pretty well, after I figured out the problem with it not detecting my joystick. I played a little training mission just to make sure that my controls matched what remained of my muscle memory. After a few tweaks, everything felt right and I quit out of the game.

Yesterday, I installed Horizons. I was going through the control settings again to make sure that the controls were kept from my work the night before, and also to see what the SRV controls were. While I was in the menu, I was getting these weird hitches that would last for 2-3 seconds. The entire game would freeze up, not accepting any inputs from my keyboard or joystick as I tried to scroll the menu. This 2-3 second hitch kept happening every minute or so. Really annoying.

I decided to try to reboot my machine and see if that worked. Initially it appeared to, but I heard a little “bloop” that let me know someone just sent me a message on Steam (note that I’m NOT playing Horizons through a Steam install, this is through Frontier’s launcher and as such I don’t have a Steam overlay). IMMEDIATELY the game locked up for 2-3 seconds, and kept locking up pretty much every time the steam message window flashed. I alt-tabbed out, closed the window, but it still kept hitching every minute or two. I’m not sure if the message coming through caused it, or if it was just coincidence. The timing was spot on, though.

I also noticed some strange behavior earlier that day. I was playing Heroes of the Storm while Elite was downloading, and I noticed that if the Elite launcher was either up on my 2nd monitor or “behind” the HOTS window on my primary display, it was causing serious performance problems. If I minimized it, it went away entirely. Seems kind of similar to the issue I was having in Elite.

Any ideas what might be going on or what I might try? I should mention that last weekend my computer updated with the big Windows 10 service-pack-that’s-not-called-a-service-pack. I haven’t had any issues until yesterday, but thought I’d mention it.

Any suggestions welcome. I haven’t had a chance to troubleshoot much, but I thought I’d start by a fresh install of the Nvidia drivers after work today. Any other ideas?

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No, I’m talking about changes made for 1.5 and Horizons. There is a dearth of missions everywhere now, and all the mission boards are characterised by a long list of missions I can’t take, with one or two very low value missions I can. Before, even with ranking requirements, there would be quite a few to choose from for various factions within the system and the navy.

The combat missions were valuable, yes, but it’s not really just about the money, it was enjoyable to pick up bounty hunting missions and then go and collect them. You weren’t tied to a RES or combat zone, you could freeform it - hunt in Supercruise for example. I just don’t see how or why such a profound change to the bulletin board system is an improvement.

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Thanks, I’ll read through it. After I installed Horizons last night, I was so excited to play that I immediately flew to a planet to check out planetary landings. After I landed, the game was like, “Uh… you can’t do anything else without a vehicle, stupid”. :)

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Are you doing open play or solo? Frontier’s servers were getting hammered yesterday so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was related to that.