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My HOTAS.4 decided to stop functioning in game. I can access and use the start menu and stuff but as soon as I try to do anything in the cockpit I can’t. I did my normal start up procedure and know to start the game with the stick, so I’m just kinda confused now. Anyone ever experience this? I’m not even really sure how to reset the default controls but I hadn’t changed any bindings, so I don’t know why that would be the case.
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Dogeh posted:Have you joined Frogs yet ? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773251 OP, pls put this in the OP
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Dec 13, 2018 01:29
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nessin posted:I just found out there is going to be a new Distant Stars run. Always kind of regretted not going on the first one so I think I'm going to take my Christmas break opportunity to build up a real exploration ship, versus my cheapo hacked together one I used to have. Last time I played was just shortly after the Horizon's release and that wasn't for very long. Are there any critical grinds I need to accomplish beyond just cash for an exploration ship with high grade gear and a rover slot? I’m real excited for this too, I’ve been to Sag A* twice but still haven’t made it to Beagle Point. I’m gonna load up my ‘Conda and be a fuel/repair bitch. Just working on engineering a few more things for range and gathering materials for whatever I might need to synthesize during the trip. For anyone else interested, general info and signup is here: https://dw2expedition.wixsite.com/home/info-index
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Dec 13, 2018 01:31
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Blimpkin posted:My HOTAS.4 decided to stop functioning in game. I can access and use the start menu and stuff but as soon as I try to do anything in the cockpit I can’t. I did my normal start up procedure and know to start the game with the stick, so I’m just kinda confused now. Anyone ever experience this?  Relogging fixed that for me but I'd guess you've already tried that.
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Dec 13, 2018 01:47
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AttackBacon posted:So I was perusing the Steam store and I saw Elite: Dangerous was on MEGA SALE. I've been feeling space-sim hunger pangs for a little bit now but I had some questions before I made the jump (I have no experience with the Elite series): If you liked Escape Velocity, you'll definitely wanna try Elite Dangerous. EV had better story missions, but if you wanna have fun flying a space ship, this is whats up.
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Dec 13, 2018 01:50
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Helianthus Annuus posted:If you liked Escape Velocity, you'll definitely wanna try Elite Dangerous. Yeah, E:D has no story missions whatsoever. It's all missions that you used to get at the mission board in EV, instead of anything in the bar that has longer term consequences. But if you loved flying around and trading and shooting stuff, that's exactly what this is.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:08
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I just found a planet that is in such a fast orbit that I could see it moving against the stars behind it as I tried to map it. i whipped out my calculator and it's moving at a speed of 94.6 km per second. Just as a check if I move at the minimum supercruise speed the time to arrival keeps going up  edit: The first planet in the system is moving at 105 km/sec but I somehow didn't notice that when I mapped it edit 2: I am going to go see if the planet can crash into me if I sit in its orbit BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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Dec 13, 2018 02:11
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Which planet is it that moves so fast the sun rises and sets like twice in 30 minutes? It took some extremely Malay supercruise moves to land on that thing without straight colliding.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:19
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Lame, when it got within 8.84 million meters of me my ship started moving at 0 m/s relative to it rather than the sun. edit: no poo poo if I could have gotten a planet to crash into me at 105 km/s I would have gladly eaten the ship rebuy fee (though it's a Diamondback Explorer so not really breaking the bank there) BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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Dec 13, 2018 02:27
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iospace posted:In order: Helianthus Annuus posted:If you liked Escape Velocity, you'll definitely wanna try Elite Dangerous. Arcturas posted:Yeah, E:D has no story missions whatsoever. It's all missions that you used to get at the mission board in EV, instead of anything in the bar that has longer term consequences. But if you loved flying around and trading and shooting stuff, that's exactly what this is.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:30
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As I understand it, the new scanning functions are built into the ships now? So what happened with everyone’s 1.5 mil credit advanced discovery scanner and the surface scanner? Are they gone gone gone, whoah oh ooh oh ohhh?
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Dec 13, 2018 02:32
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BattleMaster posted:I just found a planet that is in such a fast orbit that I could see it moving against the stars behind it as I tried to map it. i whipped out my calculator and it's moving at a speed of 94.6 km per second. Just as a check if I move at the minimum supercruise speed the time to arrival keeps going up look up Mitterand Hollow
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Dec 13, 2018 02:32
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Seems like their registration server is dead at the moment. I guess space trucking will have to wait for later.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:33
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chaosapiant posted:As I understand it, the new scanning functions are built into the ships now? So what happened with everyone’s 1.5 mil credit advanced discovery scanner and the surface scanner? Are they gone gone gone, whoah oh ooh oh ohhh?
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Dec 13, 2018 02:34
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:look up Mitterand Hollow 876 km/sec but it's wasted if I can't have it demolish me at that speed
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Dec 13, 2018 02:36
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chaosapiant posted:As I understand it, the new scanning functions are built into the ships now? So what happened with everyone’s 1.5 mil credit advanced discovery scanner and the surface scanner? Are they gone gone gone, whoah oh ooh oh ohhh? Disco scanner is gone and baked in. Surface scanner is still around.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:41
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Dumb question, but any reason I shouldn't get the Commander Deluxe Edition if I was planning on getting Base + Horizons? Price difference is less than a cent.quote:Buy Elite Dangerous: Commander Deluxe Edition /edit: oh, it's just paintjobs? No wonder reviews are Mostly Negative 
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BattleMaster posted:876 km/sec but it's wasted if I can't have it demolish me at that speed Get out of that Newtonian mindset, kiddo. We're in bat country.
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Dec 13, 2018 02:58
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AttackBacon posted:Awesome, thanks. I'll pick it up and derp around a bit, I'm fairly free through the holidays so it should be a good time to sink my teeth into something more meaty like this. Is there a good beginner guide floating around somewhere or is the game approachable enough to just dive in? I wouldn't call the game approachable lol. Plenty has been written about the game, but those guides go out of date pretty quickly. When researching stuff about Elite Dangerous it helps to use the date filter in google's search. There's a bunch of in game training scenarios. The first thing you should do is get into those and make sure you can point the ship and move around OK, dock with a station, drive a moon buggy, etc. I think everyone has slightly different binds in Elite, unless you're using an xbox controller or a ps4. You can and should change your binds during the training missions if the default controls don't feel right to you. The in game training used to be bad, but its fully voice-acted and everything now. Lots of detailed instructions on what to do next, etc. I don't know how new it is, but they've really done a good job with it. In the Docking and Travel training, you might try using the new FSS that was introduced in this update. Try it out after you get to supercruise. I don't think they updated the training missions to include detailed instructions on how to use it, so check your binds for how to start it up. It's under Options -> Controls -> Full Spectrum System Scanner -> Enter FSS Mode. There's an in game tutorial on how to use it, or you could look it up. The FSS is probably my favorite new feature in the update.
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Argh I can't do their dumb bullshit and activate Horizons. I just wanna go get a Krait  
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Helianthus Annuus posted:I wouldn't call the game approachable lol. Plenty has been written about the game, but those guides go out of date pretty quickly. When researching stuff about Elite Dangerous it helps to use the date filter in google's search. Yeah, I caught on to the fact that updates have made a lot of things obsolete. Alright, once it's installed I'll fire it up and check out those training missions.
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Dec 13, 2018 03:51
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Put in op please:
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ShootaBoy posted:Which of the two Kraits is the one that's supposed to be "less noticeable" or whatever the phrasing was? I wanna kind of plan my shopping ahead of time for whenever I get Horizons. I know they said that about the krait mkII, not sure about the phantom though
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Dec 13, 2018 04:40
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can this be in the op https://i.imgur.com/84ksRv4.gifv
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Helianthus Annuus posted:can this be in the op Can my favorite thing be in the OP? Yes. Yes it can.
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drat, a day after I was talking up how great Elite was in the VR thread I run into a bug where I can no longer start it in VR. Also, that edrefcard.info site was working fine this morning when I tried, but this evening when I went to map everything it's throwing up an unknown controller error. Oh well, guess I'll wait a few days for things to settle down.
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Enos Cabell posted:drat, a day after I was talking up how great Elite was in the VR thread I run into a bug where I can no longer start it in VR. might as well hit up support while you wait, maybe you're overlooking a quick fix in the raw XML like changing the device name listed in there to a known-good one from another file e:nvm im probably confused about where that error is coming from Helianthus Annuus fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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I got the vanilla game on sale a while ago for PS4, hoping it would be a modern Privateer. It is not a modern Privateer. And holy hell it isn't designed for a controller. I've been trying to get into it but they make everything so tedious and there's so little automation. I get that it's an old school type game, but little stuff like having to manually stow your hardpoints every time you want to go somewhere, like come on. There's just way too much of that. It's probably a lot easier to deal with on a keyboard, but it's painful on a controller. I guess I didn't realize what kind of game it is, and the sales pitch and pretty graphics certainly didn't highlight it. Ah well, I'll play it a little more at some point to see if I can get something out of it, but it's not a game I'd recommend on console.
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i've tried it on an xbox controller, and its bad. probably ok for space trucking, but i wouldnt be doing any fighting with the controller im sure you can get used to it, but....
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Rah! posted:I know they said that about the krait mkII, not sure about the phantom though Good enough. MKII it is... whenever they unfuck their poo poo so I can actually activate Horizons anyway 
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I play on an Xbox controller, including PvE combat... It took a few rebinds with some creative thinking (using button combinations rather than those given by the defaults), but it works.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:might as well hit up support while you wait, maybe you're overlooking a quick fix in the raw XML like changing the device name listed in there to a known-good one from another file Yeah it looks like a lot of people are running into that error on the edrefcard site now, something on the backend I guess. I can still map controls in game, that just made it so much easier to visualize and keep track of stuff and I'm lazy.
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:I play on an Xbox controller, including PvE combat... sounds cool, post you're binds?
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I would switch it up depending on my build (chaff vs SCBs), but the basic gist was to use B as a meta key instead of boost. B+right shoulder was boost instead. edit: That's harder to do with the new FSS exploration binds, but if you're doing combat poo poo you can ignore it anyway... Cyberpunkey Monkey fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Dec 13, 2018 |
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Dec 13, 2018 05:06
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Just wandering around looking for a good place to wake scan, and found this monster. It's like 4km long.
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This needs to be in OP as well, for the new people learning how to land: https://youtu.be/_OVPOV-aSsg
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So now that they've changed how discovery works, what does honking the scanner do? It looks like my solar system map is already complete when I enter the system and honking the scanner doesn't seem to do anything.
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Dec 13, 2018 05:26
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Blind Rasputin posted:This needs to be in OP as well, for the new people learning how to land: Pro level tutorial this. I thought the PS4 controls were a bit tricky at first but it didn't take too long to learn them. It helps that if you hold the button in it gives you the key for all the different toggle choices.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:can this be in the op Friendship drive charging
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BattleMaster posted:So now that they've changed how discovery works, what does honking the scanner do? Same thing it did before, assuming you aren't in a populated system? If you're in the black it populates the FSS with signals to lock on to.
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