Thanks for the reply. I ended up disabling the wake scanner as you advised, and that was enough to put me below 100% so it’s all good. I do have Horizons, but have barely scratched the surface of the Engineers stuff.
BTW, can I just say it can be massively worth it to look for anarchy systems where the controlling faction is in Outbreak? I found one where they’re paying 3000+ per ton for advanced medicines, and even more for basic medicines which can be had for about a third the price of the other ones. Just now I turned around 30k worth of basic meds on one end into more than 10 times that at an anarchy outpost. It’s bananas. This kind of thing could be a real windfall for someone starting out. I don’t know if this applies for non-anarchy systems.
Daagar
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I caved, got it, and haven’t really progressed beyond the tutorials yet because my gamepad skillz are… nil. I did find what seems to be a great set of bindings though, so now it is just a matter of a ton o’ practice.
schurem
6123
perhaps pad&mouse is the way to go for you, or even keyboard&mouse?
or just give in to the dark side and get yourself a true joystick, like they had in the before-times when ties fought in a free space where the wars were independent :P
Finally got my Vulture yesterday, mostly kitted out apart from advanced bulkheads and 5A instead of 4A shields. Now to get started on some engineer upgrades so I can really kick butt. ED is so amazing in VR, especially with the big canopy of the Vulture.
When I used a gamepad, I also used the keyboard for a couple of commands. I didn’t want to overload the gamepad with too many commands. One wrong button press could turn into a costly mistake. :)
Now I use a HOTAS (Saitek x52 Pro) and that made a huge difference. Sooo much more immersive. It’s the way the game was meant to be played.
schurem
6126
It really is. In fact the controls in your cockpit are modeled after the X52.
Daagar
6127
Mouse felt ‘funny’ in this game. It is really just the need to practice - the feel isn’t bad at all, it is merely my old-man reflexes need some shaping up. I’m using the binds from https://github.com/cmdrdahkron/elite-binds which seem to be well done (though missing power distribution I’ve found).
Much as as HOTAS would be fun, I can’t even justify the cheapy $50 Hotas.X, much less the crazy T.16000 or the real crazy X52.
schurem
6128
You dont need to justify them. They will justify themselves in due times.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/4710118/emperor-evil-laugh-o.gif
Also the X52 aint crazy. The thrustmaster warthog is.
Got my Hotas 4 a couple of days ago. It’s actually unexpectedly nice for 50 bucks (now out of stock and marked as $56 at Amazon for some reason). Feels pretty heavy and solid, and doesn’t slide around at all when used on the couch on a lap desk.
The nice thing about this kit for Elite is the arrangement of the buttons on the throttle. If you look here at the square, X and O buttons:
http://www.thrustmaster.com/sites/all/modules/imagemanager/files/TFlightHotas4/1.jpg
There three buttons are great to use as combo buttons, because you can press any of them and reach most of the other buttons on the stick or throttle without any gymnastics. This gives me four potential actions for everything, which makes the relative lack of controls (compared to something like the X52) a non-issue.
Why doesn’t every game allow you to do that, by the way?
Awesome. And encounters happening on PC as well.
As usual, Frontier’s sound design is amazing.
I’ve been burnt out on this game for a spell…might be time to try and return though…
Does that mean they just flipped the switch on the server to enable aliens? Were people searching over the last couple years for nothing?
Daagar
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Indeed. This is why having only a gamepad for the moment doesn’t bother me so much - I can bind everything to it! No awkward gamepad/keyboard nightmare. Requires building some muscle memory, but so do classic rogue games, Dwarf Fortress, and Vim/Emacs.That said, I thought only the older Hotas X was $50, and the Hotas 4 was $75+. That does make it more… reasonable. Maybe.
KevinC
6135
Yes, their sound design makes me giddy. That and Thargoids.
I don’t think many if any people thought Thargoid ships were in the game all this time. Frontier have clearly been building up to this storyline for some time. To the extent people were searching for Thargoids, they were searching for artefacts and things like that, which all seem to have been found pretty shortly after they were each “switched on”.Frontier releases a patch, hints at something mysterious in the newsletter, a few days letter someone finds an abandoned alien outpost.
Daagar
6137
Data mining moreso than the newsletter, sadly. Too bad, I think it would have been really cool if they were there all along and it took this long to find them.
Quick question for the explorers out there: if I’m hundreds or thousands of LY from civilization, I’m cool just dropping out of supercruise with a full tank of gas in a system a few light seconds away from a scoopable star, right? Does it more or less freeze my gameplay state (I know it does not when you’re out of fuel)?
You can drop out of supercruise generally without fear when exploring. Although it is rare you will want to (landing on a planet usually is the reason).
Not sure what you mean by freeze gamestate though? There is no save state beyond logging out, if thats what you mean. Get too close to a star in any mode and you end up dead and back at the last station you were at (assuming insurance) and you lose all your exploration data.
Ooh, this is interesting. Someone on the GAF thread for ED is reporting that the HCS Voice Packs are being updated to pull game state info and automatically trigger voices. Only one implemented so far (Eden) though.
