Ellen Degeneres: Horizons - AI Now Earns More Than Human Crew

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Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Hammer Floyd posted:

(Note: Does it sound like the computer says "Friendship Drive" to anybody else?)

Yeah, that used to be one of the thread titles.

The game was released in a very bare-bones state, but the 1.5 and Horizons look like they're going to introduce a lot more to the game. Don't let yourself get burned out on it before then.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 14:33

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:29

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Hammer Floyd posted:

Bingo! I hated how the Viper handled. Get my rear end into an Eagle and suddenly things start dying.

Unless the ship has something that can shoot behind it, I'm able to blow up pretty much everything.

I haven't thought about using a Chaff launcher. How long does the "Chaff" effect last? I'd hate to start taking on big ships and then get halfway through the fight and have no chaff left...

You'd love the Vulture, then. It's both agile and tough as nails.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 08:49

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Slashrat posted:

the mouse thumbstick on the X52 Pro throttle is pretty sweet for looking around, but obviously a headtracking setup would be better.

There are registry hacks that allow you to assign control axes (ie. your lateral thrusters) to the mouse thumbstick for most Saitek HOTAS products, so long as you're OK with sacrificing the dials on the throttle.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 12:59

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Tom Guycot posted:

When is frontier just going to put a hud colour system in the game? I mean jesus, more than half the people playing seem to run custom ones, just make it official and less finicky with important radar colours.

They know people want it, but it's pretty far down their list of priorities.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2015 09:23

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Libluini posted:

Now I have a dumb question of my own: How do you get back onboard your ship after you leave it in a star port? I've tried locking my ship and following the green arrows on the ground, but they only lead me straight through armored walls. I think I'm now sitting somewhere above my ship, but I'm kind of stumped now.

I guess I could try leaving the star port and calling my ship from the outside, but that sounds like a lame workaround.

I had this exact same problem a few minutes ago. There should be a garage built into the structure underneath your landing pad. Drive into there, come to a complete stop and you should have the option to board your ship on the vehicle control panel.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 14:58

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Astroniomix posted:

Yes, in lore artificial gravity was never invented in the elite universe. IIRC even supercruise is a fairly "recent" creation.

Yeah, IIRC the hyperdrives in the earlier Elite/Frontier games could take a week or more per jump.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 14:59

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

3 posted:

_{(it's a link, click it)}

Featuring a collection of the best Dad Rock in the galaxy, my plans also involve Radio Skvortsov becoming the broadcast mouthpiece for the Diamond Frogs, with news and various station idents, jingles, and interludes written to bring more positive attention to our merry band of outlaws, while remaining entirely in character. Currently, I have a rotation of silly little voice clips and in-universe ads set to play around once every 10 minutes between songs, as well as a ~2-minute GalNet news clip (including a story on our very own Operation Mistle Toad) that plays at the middle of every hour.

INXS is not dad-rock :argh:

_{more Australian stuff please}

# ¿ Dec 28, 2015 15:10

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

I haven't seen any players the last few times I've gone in open. Is there a way to know if I've been shadow banned, or have I just run into some weird instancing glitch?

# ¿ Jan 15, 2016 00:27

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Magmarashi posted:

If I can't name my Cobra 'Flat Snake', I demand a refund

If they ever let me name my stars-and-stripes Cobra, I'm calling it the Gadsen.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 01:08

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

On the plus side, the traffic control voices go a long way towards making the universe feel more alive.

# ¿ May 8, 2016 05:27

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Looks like they've officially renamed CEECKIA ZQ-L C24-0 to Beagle Point in 2.1, too.

If I'm lucky, I'll get there just in time to meet up with Jaques Station.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 01:37

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Feral Integral posted:

So if I'm a huge fan of the X3 series, is this game as it is currently going to sate my open space game sim desire? I don't plan on playing online, just single player - worth it, or wait until the horizons expansion?

Depends what part of X3 you like the most. If you play the X3 series for the business and fleet management portions, you'll be disappointed.

ED's flight model is its biggest strength, just flying your ship is very enjoyable and satisfying. Combat, exploration and trading are fun, but you can't manage a fleet or own stations.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 07:13

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

FronzelNeekburm posted:

"Try learning to fly your ship next time."

Don't tell me what to do, desk jockey. t

"You are entering sovereign IMPERIAL space!"

Yeah, I go where I want numbnuts :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, ED needs more of those little touches.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 10:26

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Looks like my cunning plan to dock at Jaques Station, sell my exploration data, trade in the Asp for a basic Sidewinder, blow it up and insurance-scam my way home isn't going to happen.

# ¿ May 30, 2016 02:40

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

I just reset my save, I'd forgotten how much fun the game is when you're just starting out and barely scraping by.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2016 11:43

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Strategic Tea posted:

Better get to Robigo mate you can make 3mil per hour!

(I just restarted too and it rocks)

Yeah, the early game is where the "Han Solo simulator" aspects of the game really shine.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2016 16:34

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Tippis posted:

Regular stars, I've come to terms with. The outliers still freak me out.

White dwarfs just look wrong. Instead of a big and warm star, it's just a tiny ball of cold-coloured death, contradicted by an oversized exclusion zone of heat death. Giants give that sharp deceleration that makes it feel you're about to be catapulted out through the canopy. And then there are the neutron stars, where you arrive and there's nothing. At least with black holes, there's usually some decent lensing going on, but neutrons have a nasty tendency of not being as apparent and also just hiding against the background. Brrrr�

Stellar remnants of any kind freak me out.

Neutron stars are the worst, just a little pinprick, a yellow circle on the HUD and me frantically pulling up.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 02:15

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Rectus posted:

If they wanted to say "No Thargoids", Braben would probably come out and said it himself.

I seem to remember someone associated with ED, maybe Braben or Brookes, saying that when they do include the Thargoids, players will have absolutely no warning.

Again, :frontear:

, grain of salt and all that.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2016 06:20

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

I'm running dual gimbal multi-cannons.

Effective as all gently caress, until you run out of ammo.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 17:04

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

The more I think about it, the more I think I'd be OK with a delay for ship transport, so long as it's not longer than, say, 5 minutes for anywhere in the bubble.

Any longer than that, and the Anti-Fun Brigade have won.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 02:44

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

3 posted:

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved delayed transfer.

Oh poo poo, they've gotten to me too

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 04:04

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

I'd be OK with a short delay, like no longer than 5-10 minutes from anywhere in the bubble to anywhere else in the bubble, if the cost was reasonable.

I just wish the 84er crowd would stop mistaking tedium for immersion. Immersion is the end result of all the little touches, the slight flicker on the ship's interface, the sense of mass and inertia the ships have, the low rumble when you hit boost, that kind of thing.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 01:57

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Insert name here posted:

While I think 5-10 minutes would be much more tolerable and preferable compared to a longer delay, there's arguably even less of a point to the delay if it was short. At 30-60m you could at least conceivably be like "oh I'll go shoot something or harvest materials for a little bit" or something, but with a short delay it's just a literal time tax of you sitting with your thumb up your rear end. Mind you I think having any sort of delay is stupid and it really should have stayed instant.

In any case, lmbo at people who campaigned for transfer delays then proceeding to complain about the costs

Agreed, but the brown sea has spoken, so we have to work with what we've got.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 07:42

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Beefeater1980 posted:

For me it's Elite:Frontier.

Yeah, that's where I started too. There was something about playing Han Solo in a somewhat realistic simulation of our own galaxy that grabbed my attention as a kid. Its the only game to have had a permanent place on my hard drive for as long as I've had a PC.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2016 08:17

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Efexeye posted:

eh, pulping your soulmate is the price you pay for becoming a prophet and founding a religion

Not even kidding, I would read an Elite Dangerous novel written by Alastair Reynolds.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 02:31

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Mu77ley posted:

It's not Alastair Reynolds, but this is actually very good: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/El...ite+reclamation

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check that out. Didn't Drew Wagar write some decent Oolite / Frontier Elite II fan novels back in the day?

Personally, I enjoyed Docking is Difficult by Gideon Dafoe. I know it wasn't the most popular Elite Dangerous novel, but it hit my sense of humour in a way few other books do. Especially the bit where the protagonists are playing the original Elite on a BBC Microcomputer they were hired to smuggle

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 13:47

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Songbearer posted:

Just bought a Viper on my friend's reccomendation after flying an Adder as my main ship for a while and man is it weird to go from the nice smooth spacebus interior to what looks like the inside of a 90's videogame warehouse. Love the wookie noises and the cool-rear end windows you get up on the roof either side of you though, it's definitely a fun flyer.

It also looks pretty sweet in Canadian flag colours.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 02:53

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Blind Rasputin posted:

When I was new to this game, and got my first Asp explorer. I took it on a multi-k Ly trip out to I think the America Nebulas or something. It took me about a week of casual play hopping around and was great fun. Had a ton of planets I had discovered and named and some good star data.

So I get back to the bubble and aim for the FSD engineer to rank her up by turning in all the exploration data. As I'm breaking orbit and coming in to land, I was a bit new to the whole planetary landing gauges and HUD, and I way way misjudge the planet's gravity. Suddenly realizing the ground is approaching fast as gently caress, trying everything to arrest my descent, I lawn dart so loving hard into the outpost. Ship destroyed, data lost. Respawn like 20 jumps away in some no-name place from a week ago.

Have never forgiven myself for that.

I had something similar to that very nearly happen to me on my first trip out to see the FSD engineer in my shiny new Asp Explorer. On any planet with more than about 1g gravity, I found that I have to pitch around and use the main thrusters and boost to slow down from the glide.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 01:09

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Hooooooooly poo poo I just jumped through a star for the first time in thousands of exploration jumps. Jesus loving christ that's disconcerting.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 12:44

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

did someone say python porn?

i love it, it looks like a PAK-FA or something.

also i can't believe i didn't think to do this sooner

Alastair Reynolds references make me irrationally happy.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 14:46

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Checking out the latest generation ship find only to learn that the mission failed because the ship's previous geneticist hosed up so bad that the ship was eventually overrun by men made me smile a bit.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 01:06

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Buccaneer posted:

This game sucks poo poo lol

Respectfully disagree.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 05:38

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Did the traffic controller just say "oh-seven" to me as I was departing?

# ¿ Dec 25, 2017 21:46

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Mike the TV posted:

Yep.

Well, there goes the fourth wall o7

Also I just got hyperdicted in VR, first time playing with the Vive, holy poo poo this is incredible

# ¿ Dec 26, 2017 01:30

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

I can't imagine playing it any other way, now.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2017 01:39

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

With or without VR I'm still enjoying the game. It's one of those games I'll play obsessively for a week or so, then leave it alone for a month or two.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2017 06:59

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:29

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Blind Rasputin posted:

That�s rad dude. While big ships are heaps of untouchable firepower I still think the most fun this game is is in small ships like a speed tanking courier.

I think the most fun to be had in this game is early on in smaller ships, I love the feeling of being a freelance pilot just kind of scraping by.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2018 13:01

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