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Topic: Elite: Dangerous (Read 668819 times)
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Tebonas
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Is that a blue Cobra on the Landing Pad? Fuck Star Citizen, I wish I would have backed this one, it really tickles my nostalgia bone.
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Lucas
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Nice! And... Do want!!
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Ironwood
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HOW DOES MAN GET OUT OF SHIP ??
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Falconeer
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Not to brag, but I have this! I cried when I put it on for the first time.. (Girl is tattoo artist friend, not lover/partner/girlfriend)
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DraconianOne
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Falconeer
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« Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 07:33:13 AM by Falconeer »
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DraconianOne
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Bad link... But I worked it out anyway and OMG!!!
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I'm generally not a fan of space sims, but that looked awesome.
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Ironwood
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People with docking computers are wasting money. Same as it ever was.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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DraconianOne
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People with docking computers are wasting money. Same as it ever was.
I disconcur. Time is money, friend!
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Ironwood
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It never saved any time when I was a lad, mate. There was non of this 'instant docking' shite. You switched on the computer and it did it for you, but BY FUCK you WILL watch it dock.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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DraconianOne
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I seem to recall that some of the 8-bit versions let you dock instantly. I remember doing both - and yes, I remember the countless times the docking computer would crash into the station. And if you were lucky enough to survive, you then had to deal with a swarm of Vipers because it was considered a hostile act. Anyway... HOW DOES MAN GET OUT OF SHIP ??
Go to 8:50 on this video for the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFsinf9YyN8
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« Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 02:11:39 PM by DraconianOne »
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Lucas
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It never saved any time when I was a lad, mate. There was non of this 'instant docking' shite. You switched on the computer and it did it for you, but BY FUCK you WILL watch it dock.
I have an inside scoop: an exclusive image of the grumpy old bastard Ironwood while typing the quoted message:
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Ironwood
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I seem to recall that some of the 8-bit versions let you dock instantly. I remember doing both - and yes, I remember the countless times the docking computer would crash into the station. And if you were lucky enough to survive, you then had to deal with a swarm of Vipers because it was considered a hostile act. Anyway... HOW DOES MAN GET OUT OF SHIP ??
Go to 8:50 on this video for the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFsinf9YyN8Fuck, it's beautiful.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Lucas
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*whistles the 'Blue Danube' while watching the video*
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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If you pledged/purchased a "premium beta" tier, you might be happy to know that it's now available for download: http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04/10/elites-premium-beta-starts-today-expands-may-30/#continuedSo, in reality, the "real" premium beta starts on May 30th, complete with combat, docking, trading and traveling; what is now available is more of a "gift", with just the single-player dogfight scenarios (so, basically, premium beta backers are getting Alpha 1.0, for now) . Ok, off to download, now
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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murdoc
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ugggh - this is tough not to throw a bunch of money at. It looks awesome.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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DraconianOne
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They've also announced details of Alpha 4.0 which will feature more inter-system travel and "200 cubic light year volume of space" to explore. No date as of yet. And here's the full galactic map of the 400,000,000,000 star systems.
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A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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VainEldritch
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ugggh - this is tough not to throw a bunch of money at. It looks awesome.
Yup it surely is... I buckled and upgraded 1st round beta (kick starter pledge) to Alpha. The game play is fucking amazing. And it's Elite. After a 30-year odyssey through video gaming from the BBC B and 12" black'n'white television and tape recorder, to 8-core CPU, giga-net and LCD flat screen; from Elite and Wizardry through Eve Online, UO, SWG, WoW and SWTOR... I am finally coming home to the place it all started on a rainy Friday night all those years ago when a guilty absentee father poked his head around my bedroom door and said "Son, I got you a birthday present - something you might like...".
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Falconeer
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You shelled out 240?! Damn, I am so so tempted! And even though I like Braben more than Roberts I can't push myself that high. 240 for an alpha is probably my limit. But I am on fire for this game!
(I loved your little shard of personal history...)
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Ironwood
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ugggh - this is tough not to throw a bunch of money at. It looks awesome.
Yup it surely is... I buckled and upgraded 1st round beta (kick starter pledge) to Alpha. The game play is fucking amazing. And it's Elite. After a 30-year odyssey through video gaming from the BBC B and 12" black'n'white television and tape recorder, to 8-core CPU, giga-net and LCD flat screen; from Elite and Wizardry through Eve Online, UO, SWG, WoW and SWTOR... I am finally coming home to the place it all started on a rainy Friday night all those years ago when a guilty absentee father poked his head around my bedroom door and said "Son, I got you a birthday present - something you might like...". Damn, you're making me think about spending some of my 3k tax rebate here. Are you allowed to throw us some vids of you buggering about ?
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Lucas
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ugggh - this is tough not to throw a bunch of money at. It looks awesome.
Yup it surely is... I buckled and upgraded 1st round beta (kick starter pledge) to Alpha. The game play is fucking amazing. And it's Elite. After a 30-year odyssey through video gaming from the BBC B and 12" black'n'white television and tape recorder, to 8-core CPU, giga-net and LCD flat screen; from Elite and Wizardry through Eve Online, UO, SWG, WoW and SWTOR... I am finally coming home to the place it all started on a rainy Friday night all those years ago when a guilty absentee father poked his head around my bedroom door and said "Son, I got you a birthday present - something you might like...". Damn, you're making me think about spending some of my 3k tax rebate here. Are you allowed to throw us some vids of you buggering about ? E:D Alpha has no NDA. Current stage of testing is Alpha 3.0: put that in the search field on Youtube (plus "multiplayer dogfighting" and other variations you might be interested about) and you should get plenty of results.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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VainEldritch
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Damn, you're making me think about spending some of my 3k tax rebate here.
Are you allowed to throw us some vids of you buggering about ?
Not to be a supreme dick or anything, but I'm an utter technophobe and would need some guidance on making in game videos as I am clueless. Youtube has literally hundreds (soon to be thousands) of Alpha 3+ gameplay footage movies covering all aspects of the current build, from combat to docking and outfitting - and Alpha 4 is due to drop very soon with travel and trading across a "mere" 200 cubic light years of space far from Earth (and as Douglas Adams pointed out, “Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”) Frontier Developments are not some pencil dick hiding their secret shame behind guilty NDA verbage. They are in fact freely exposing themselves, riding rough shod over insecurity and screwing it mercilessly before dismounting to stride manfully over and wave their glistening junk in your face. I wax "enthusiastic" because this is David Braben. This is Elite. This a team that makes games because they love games, not because some physical object marketing team reject tells them what to make. This is THE game they have wanted to make for the past 20 years. Now they are doing it, free from big publisher bullshit. This game will be the end for me - the last game. I have come full circle - and find myself content to walk with this one into the sunset.
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Ironwood
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Um....
I was only asking.
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Falconeer
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VainEldritch
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"Like being in Star Wars but with fewer Ewoks."
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Lucas
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The "expert" AI pilot on the third single-player scenario is totally kicking my ass, can't shake him off once he gets on my tail. BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I WAS GOOD AT THIS KIND OF STUFF IN THE NINETIES, I SWEAR !!
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Ironwood
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Have you tried stopping the throttle dead ?
Have you tried twisting 90 then back as you slow ?
Have you tried regressing your age about 20 years when you weren't such a slow old man with zero reflexes ?
All worth a shot.
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Lucas
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I eventually defeated him after a few more tries . The general flight model is really well done: you can't expect to do sharp turns or other maneuvers at full speed, so it's always a matter of going back and forth with your throttle controller while you keep an eye on the enemy (another hint: follow the trail of his ship's engines!). Plus, depending on the situation, you need to distribute the energy to a particular system (done through the hat switch as the default setting): weapons when you're confident you'll be able to discharge a certain amount of ammunition; engines when you need more speed to run away (or in other situations); systems when you need that damn shield to recharge faster. In addition, there is lateral and vertical thruster maneuvers, which are quite cool. Like other people said, sound effects are pretty nice, and I like the feel of impact when I hit the other ship. Also consider that the single-player portion for premium beta testers is based on a much older build. tl;dr ....... FOREVER YOUNG!!!
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Pennilenko
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Is a joystick a must have sort of thing for this game?
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DraconianOne
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Feedback so far is that the game works well enough with joypad or even with keyboard (using the old classic Elite configuration). Suspect joystick is the way to go though.
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VainEldritch
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Feedback so far is that the game works well enough with joypad or even with keyboard (using the old classic Elite configuration). Suspect joystick is the way to go though.
Confirming your suspicions. KB can indeed work in ye olde Elite mode - but it just feels so much more natural when the AI is on your tail to slam the throttle back into full reverse, yaw on the stick with roll then gun it to come up on his tail (if it works... ).
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Tale
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After a 30-year odyssey through video gaming from the BBC B and 12" black'n'white television and tape recorder, to 8-core CPU, giga-net and LCD flat screen; from Elite and Wizardry through Eve Online, UO, SWG, WoW and SWTOR... I am finally coming home to the place it all started on a rainy Friday night all those years ago when a guilty absentee father poked his head around my bedroom door and said "Son, I got you a birthday present - something you might like...". Oh? My father poked his head around my bedroom door and said "TURN THAT FUCKING THING OFF". I had bought Elite on tape for C64 by second-hand selling the first three AD&D Dragonlance modules to other kids. I played Elite for years. From what you wrote, I'm looking forward to this more than I can express. Thanks.
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WayAbvPar
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Not Dragons of the Autumn Twilight!
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Falconeer
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