Official Elite Dangerous Thread

Funny how I read this in Farnsworth's voice :p


b4UblAN.png
 
Yesterday I also installed EDFX and started using it. It's great and all, except for the whole steam overlay getting force disabled. I checked steam's logs and yeah EDFX forces it to be disabled. A bit shit if you ask me.
 
axon1988 said:
Yesterday I also installed EDFX and started using it. It's great and all, except for the whole steam overlay getting force disabled. I checked steam's logs and yeah EDFX forces it to be disabled. A bit shit if you ask me.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I think EDFX (or the like) really changes the sense of immersion you get and just makes your experience that much more awe inspiring. It's just a pity it now forces the overlay off, never used to. Besides, when the screenshot function did work it never captured with the post FX, which was fine I guess. Though you can still take screenshots, using EDFX built in functionality.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, I think EDFX (or the like) really changes the sense of immersion you get and just makes your experience that much more awe inspiring. It's just a pity it now forces the overlay off, never used to. Besides, when the screenshot function did work it never captured with the post FX, which was fine I guess. Though you can still take screenshots, using EDFX built in functionality.
Click to expand...

Not too bothered with whether it does take a screenshot with the overlay on or not. I just want to be able to use the Steam overlay with it. I checked the steam service, gave it administrative rights and it now uses my administrator account with full rights. Soon as I set Elite to run in Administrative mode it just outputs errors. So stopped trying to do that, not really sure what else to try. I'll read up on it today though, perhaps and older version of EDFX might work better.
 
axon1988 said:
Not too bothered with whether it does take a screenshot with the overlay on or not. I just want to be able to use the Steam overlay with it. I checked the steam service, gave it administrative rights and it now uses my administrator account with full rights. Soon as I set Elite to run in Administrative mode it just outputs errors. So stopped trying to do that, not really sure what else to try. I'll read up on it today though, perhaps and older version of EDFX might work better.
Click to expand...

Yeah, thing is, I have been using the same version of EDFX for ages then realised my overlay stopped working. So I don't actually know what changed.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, thing is, I have been using the same version of EDFX for ages then realised my overlay stopped working. So I don't actually know what changed.
Click to expand...

I feel like they need to create a "lite" version which only implements the GFX overlay. And doesn't add all those other unneeded info. But that's the French for you I guess.
I'm actually considering trying out a different overlay just because of this. I hate it when an app changes parameters for other applications without my explicit approval.
 
axon1988 said:
I feel like they need to create a "lite" version which only implements the GFX overlay. And doesn't add all those other unneeded info. But that's the French for you I guess.
I'm actually considering trying out a different overlay just because of this. I hate it when an app changes parameters for other applications without my explicit approval.
Click to expand...

Well that's where SweetFX comes in, just something you install (or copy) into the game directory.
 
BeoTeK said:
Well I guess you have different "moods" for different appearances. And sometimes those bright stars can be somewhat blown out.
Click to expand...

Just sounds like more work to me. There comes a point where constantly having to press buttons to enjoy a game's visuals makes it not enjoyable any more. It's another command to remember.
 
axon1988 said:
Just sounds like more work to me. There comes a point where constantly having to press buttons to enjoy a game's visuals makes it not enjoyable any more. It's another command to remember.
Click to expand...

Which is why I load my chosen EDFX package and just play with it. I find one that is aesthetically pleasing to me and stick with it. I actually enjoy the post fx look. Amazing how richer the game looks with it. Find the right one for you and live with it.
 
BeoTeK said:
Which is why I load my chosen EDFX package and just play with it. I find one that is aesthetically pleasing to me and stick with it. I actually enjoy the post fx look. Amazing how richer the game looks with it. Find the right one for you and live with it.
Click to expand...

I haven't even played around much with it but the default one it gave me was quite nice. Disabled the ugly blur though. Then again, in any game I usually go out of my way to disable blur. It's just something I never experience in real life so I don't want to experience it in a game.

What is your currently set on? And what other settings have you used?
 
axon1988 said:
What is your currently set on? And what other settings have you used?
Click to expand...

Yeah, the DoF (blur) is the first thing I disable. It's just taken too far.

With loading the latest EDFX the other night I see there's a new profile, "EDFX 2.5.0.6 Deep Space Black Edition profile" - I have been using it this week only and finding it rather nice. I have also used GemFX and particularly fond of Insomnias profile.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, the DoF (blur) is the first thing I disable. It's just taken too far.

With loading the latest EDFX the other night I see there's a new profile, "EDFX 2.5.0.6 Deep Space Black Edition profile" - I have been using it this week only and finding it rather nice. I have also used GemFX and particularly fond of Insomnias profile.
Click to expand...

That's the profile I use as well.
 
So let's see, here are some of the changes coming to Elite Dangerous 2.1 patch (1.6 for basegame players (I think)) these changes are the ones that are lesser known, at least to me:

Map revamp, bookmarks and route plotting being 2 main new features.
Then there's the visual icons for community goals that will be visible in the galaxy map and system map, and with that you should be able to join the CG missions from any station IIRC.

Planetary surface improvements and SRV improvements.
SRV being the tracks that will be made while driving your SRV around.
Planetary improvements being better craters and canyons and other visual cues on planets.

Ship Outfitting!
This one is very new and exciting to me, a complete overhaul of outfitting... perhaps even some new visuals for modules? In the one newsletter with the SRV tracks picture we can see the ship has a new visual module on it that looks like a dish of sorts. Perhaps this adds to that?

Exploration
Apparently there are some new things coming our way, and the current form of exploration might change. Whether this will be part of 2.1 is not confirmed but I do have some details on what they meant:
Currently if focusing on exploration we rarely fit weapons on our ships as they are heavy and affect jumprange too much. Well, according to Frontier it's going to become dangerous to explore without some form of defense...

Extra Trivia:
Apparently players have only discovered about 0.0077% of all the systems in the galaxy. And according to Obsidian Ant it would take about 250 years of constant exploring for us to explore a full 1% of the galaxy. (Not sure how he came to this conclusion)
 
Some really great changes, looking forward to it indeed. Any idea when the beta begins?


Also, with now having to add weapons to our exploration ships, what happens if you're already 70k LY out when the update rolls out? I wonder.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top