BeoTeK
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Naah, keep em coming. I need to get back into this. That Corvette looks sexy as fuck! Also, what resolution and graphics settings you playing at?
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Naah, keep em coming. I need to get back into this. That Corvette looks sexy as fuck! Also, what resolution and graphics settings you playing at?
axon1988
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Interesting thing about the corvette, it is rather large but turns much faster than the Cutter. And even though the cutter has better hull / hardpoints it's not as agile. So it seems like the corvette will be the new big boss. Though the Anaconda somehow managed to still keep it's own spot as well and is starting to look more and more like the multirole ship.
I'll try and get more pics tonight. With every beta, graphical settings get reset. And I have not changed them as of yet. But I usually am able to max out the graphics in Elite without too much hassle. Resolution is 1920 x 1080
BeoTeK
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I was also affected by that, and the last I played I think was just after the 1.3 release or so and it seemed to be much better.
axon1988
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Text chat I have not really tried out yet. Mostly played solo. But when I did text friends I did not see any issues except for the usual communication with server issues. If that is what you are talking about?
Supercruise I don't experience any fps drop. And I do remember the fps drop in 1.3, but in 1.4 it's gone for me. So I guess in 1.5 it just gets better.
Yeah, I remember you saying that. But unfortunately more people have reported it since 1.4 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=82748&page=4&p=2960623#post2960623
If you only play solo, you probably wouldn't experience it. When I played solo I had no FPS drop, but when I played in open I had unbearable FPS drop when in Supercruise.
axon1988
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I don't only play solo. I just with the beta quickly loaded up solo to take pics of the ships. I usually play open with a bunch of strange europeans. So maybe tonight I will try that again and report here.
BeoTeK
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yeah, I've always had issues with the chat/message functionality. I always play online/open but I always fly solo (mostly due to not having anyone to wing with).
Most of the time I have no objective and just fly or do my own things, so that suits me fine, dunno if I can conform into what someone else would want to do and be forced into doing that.
axon1988
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I've used teamspeak and steam's voice calling feature through most of my plays in Elite. It makes life a lot easier, and works better. I hate half implemented chat features in games. So I stay away from them. But if you use CTRL + ALT + B you can see network traffic from your side on Elite and then that way see whether the message is being sent or not.
BeoTeK
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Just starting to plan for Horizons and I have noticed something. The expansion is almost double to base game price?
Elite Dangerous £30
Elite Dangerous Horizons £50 (pre-order incentive of £40)
Together equals 70-80 quid.
Converts to around R2000, which is ridiculous.
Though it also seems the Horizons update is more like a season pass?
This is probably the biggest issue I have with the game, and have had, is the stupid pricing model.
Elite Dangerous £30
Elite Dangerous Horizons £50 (pre-order incentive of £40)
Together equals 70-80 quid.
Converts to around R2000, which is ridiculous.
Though it also seems the Horizons update is more like a season pass?
This is probably the biggest issue I have with the game, and have had, is the stupid pricing model.
axon1988
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I've had this debate with so many people. We need to always remember with Elite that the expansions include all the updates for the next year. And the Planetary landings also includes the base game. Not just the expansion. Unfortunately you cannot gift the extra copy though. Which sucks.
But yeah you are not just getting planetary landings. You are also getting the multi-crew expansion and whatever else they plan.
Steam might have a sale on the base game soon enough.
axon1988
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....I'll wait for No Man's Sky then rather
The thing that gets me with No Man's Sky, is that it does not look as varied as they are selling it to be. The planets are also not very big. Or even to true scale which brings me to my second point: It's very arcade like and aimed at younger people it seems. I am not interested in another space shooter / planet walker. There are enough of those. That's why CQC is seperate from Elite's base game. It's for those who want instant action.
I just don't see NMS working for me. The videos all have the same creatures in them. The planets look interesting. I'll consider it a couple of months after release.
axon1988
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Not as far as I can see. But I do vaguely remember reading about them planning that for season 2.
That was also a big bummer for me. The game has so much potential but so little of it is implemented.
They keep on hammering how it's a 1:1 scale representation of our known universe, but whoop dee doo? So what? Does that make it more fun? No, not really. Should we be impressed that they can create so many procedurally generated planets? No, that's how procedural generation works. The depth is seriously lacking, and it really annoys me that the quest timer keeps running even if I log out.
axon1988
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BeoTeK
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I've never had the quest timer running for me when I log out...
It does. If you accept a quest that has say 1 hour remaining. Log out or leave the game and come back in 3 hours, it will have expired.
axon1988
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I'll test this in the beta tonight and report back.
And if you fail a mission, you don't just get zero credit, you are actually penalized.