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Dunno who said about the thrust and flip manoeuvre but if you read the manual....
Disabling flight assist on the fly allows you to independently fire thrusters (like the slide mode in tachyon if anyone ever played it) so you can maintain velocity in one direction whilst flipping round in another. See P46 in the manual for (vaguely) more info.
And yes @drac, the manual is worth reading, it's updated with the game which is handy to know. I'd recommend reading it if you haven't already as it has already helped massively with figuring out easier ways to do things.
That’s bold of you…
Not really, local search and rescue come along after a while and finish off anyone I'm struggling with. Gimballed Lazer us great, fixed cannon to slow to wind up and aiming is pants
Yeah I'd been keeping a kinetic weapon for when their shields are down, but it didn't seem to be any better than the beam lasers, in fact significantly worse. Doesn't help that you can't really hear the sound it makes so you don't know if the turreted ones are even firing.
Just jumped into a 'system' to be told that my target is 0.28Ly (that's light YEARS) away, but for some reason they consider these stars orbiting a distant planet to be the same system so I can't hyperspace there I have to cruise. Set to take about 90 mins.. FFS.
Also, it's my first massacre mission, I have to kill 5 ships. It was listed as a Harmless mission but I'm sure I'm gonna get instakilled and have wasted an hour and a half cruising over there.
The trip to Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centuri is around 90 minutes. Beware of taking that one too, if it ever comes up.
The Hutton Orbital run is a rite of passage for anyone who wants to be bored out of their minds in a game for 90 minutes.
Best do some course corrections and not fly directly past celestial bodies then. Of course if you've done that already then best find a nice book.
It was 0.28Ly of empty space, not sure what I could have done to help that. No celestial bodies around.
Right, I'm earning enough cash to afford to create a wing.
I presume that the name should have STW in there - anything else?
The Gnarpoons?
Clan?
Etc.
Middle Class Whiney Cockbags?
Do you all have to be in the same locale to work as a wing, or what?
Surely it'd be more of a Whinge than a Wing
Whinge Commander Molgrips. I like it.
Just jumped into a ‘system’ to be told that my target is 0.28Ly (that’s light YEARS) away
I fell for that once. There's a bit on the mission select screen that tells you roughly how far away the target is from your witch-space arrival point. Can't remember if you need to go to the navigation screen from the mission screen but the info is there somewhere.
Lol.
As long as the ship is on loan with a good PCP deal you're sorted.
Empty space huh? Ouch, I take it nothing interesting presented itself on the journey?
Thought I'd got my first kill last night, well a share anyway.
I found a bad man hanging around a Nav Beacon and set about gunning him down. Fortunately, before he could kick my ass a couple of other ships joined in to help. In next to no time the resident villain was reduced to space debris, I swear I got a couple of shots in!
My ship then started to overheat dramatically, getting up to 350%, at which point I blew up. Instead of getting a nice 60000 bounty I ended up with a 20000 repair bill.
Does that mean I got 'shot down' or does that happen differently?
As with every day of playing ED so far it finished up with me reading various wikis to learn how to set something up correctly, in this case module priorities. If I wasn't 'shot down' maybe that will help.
Matt
Right, I've been misusing words here.
I'll create an STW squadron, anyone can join. Then we can use this to link together to make a wing easier.
If we can map where people are roughly we can move towards each other to make an actual ships next to each other flying as wing, wing.
For those on the PS4, you can form a "wing" any old way at any distance to get the trophy to pop (once there is 4 in the wing).
I'm in orion inner spur, gamertag is saccades (oddly enough).
I'll link up to V8ninty tonight.
Matt - I suspect you ended up too close to the local sun (Nav beacons are fairly close) and didn't make it out in time.
There’s a bit on the mission select screen that tells you roughly how far away the target is from your witch-space arrival point.
Ah, yes, but my initial target was the nav beacon.
@matt_bl yes you got too close to the sun - it can be quite hard to figure out where they are and how to fly away.
@saccades did you friend me? I'm molgrips on PSN.
Empty space huh? Ouch, I take it nothing interesting presented itself on the journey?
Nope. I left the room, did some tidying, checked work emails.. nothing. Probably took about an hour in the end. However still only got 3/5 pirates because the bastards scattered to other systems as soon as I started firing, rather than fighting for each other.
I’ll link up to V8ninty tonight.
Excellent! STW Squadron is a great idea.
We should also aim to get one of the new fleet carrier things that are coming soon, and call her the ‘Octavia’.
Re the overheating; it’s also possible that you accidentally toggled ‘silent running’ on, which closes all of your exhausts to reduce your visibility to scans, but quickly becomes unsustainable at high power usage states.
That super long supercruise thing is a bit frustrating; I feel like they should just have put another nav beacon by the B star rather than have you traverse the black slooowly.
What’s everyone flying at the moment? I’m enjoying a Cobra Mk3 at the moment. Got a few kills under my belt now. Really looking forward to getting on my next session in a few days time; quite fancy a bit of deep core mining I think.
I've just got this, Doom 64 and Doom Eternal.
Doom 64 is terrific port on the PS4.
Way more enjoyable than Doom Eternal which has just gone so over the top it's almost a bit boring.
Will dig in on Dangerous when I've finished Doom 64.
We should also aim to get one of the new fleet carrier things that are coming soon
Only 5 billion Cr.
My AspX is basically maxed out, if I go any higher on the beam lasers I'll exceed my 5A power supply rating. Getting more confident in combat now.
What’s everyone flying at the moment?
Diamondback Explorer with..well an exploring setup at the moment. I had an Anaconda, Type 9 and a Vulture also all engineered to some extent but sold them all as I didn't see the point when I was off exploring anyway.
Engineered and unladen gives me a 56ly jump range. It's currently stuck in the outpost at Eagle Point however as I went for a drive and it was taken into the hanger so I now have the ballache of trying to get it back (5km drive in the SRV away from the station to recall the ship should hopefully work)
<blockquoteWhat’s everyone flying at the moment?
Asp X and a Python.
Use the Asp for long range passenger trips and the Python for everything else
What’s everyone flying at the moment? I’m enjoying a Cobra Mk3 at the moment. Got a few kills under my belt now. Really looking forward to getting on my next session in a few days time; quite fancy a bit of deep core mining I think.
An AspX for exploration and resources collection duties. Its heavily engineered and can cover 60ly in a single jump.
An Alliance Cheiftain fitted out for Combat / Bounty hunting - its got engineered Multi Cannons with a mixture of Thermal and Corrosive effect to chew through enemies.
A Python that I've not really decided what its doing. Its well armed but nowhere near as manueverable as the Cheiftain, but its can haul nearly 300 tons of cargo. It's mainly been used for trading. I could fit it out for passenger runs or mining too. I'm not sure if I really enjoy it though.
I've got 350 Million Cr burning a hole in my pocket though so I might get something else. I'll maybe mess around with a dedicated fighter build - like a Vulture
When you did the Farseer engineering did you get asked for meta alloys, and did you just look up their locations on eddb?
When you did the Farseer engineering did you get asked for meta alloys, and did you just look up their locations on eddb?
Yeah you need to give 1 or 2 Meta Alloys to unlock her. I did just use EDDB to find them. Elite Dangerous is grindy at the best of times without using the odd shortcut to help you out.
as I went for a drive and it was taken into the hanger so I now have the ballache of trying to get it back
This may sort you out 👍🏼
This may sort you out
Thanks, really useful link, saves spending too much time driving the SRV around on a low gravity planet.
Ah, noob incompetence, the gift that keeps on giving.
Tonight's episode was based on a bounty mission to kick the ass of some guy called Winger. Got to the system, found the beacon, mooched about while squadrons who would fry me in a heartbeat swarmed around like flies. I thought Winger was a no-show, so was winding up the FSD to head home, when he turned up.
I clearly don't have good firepower/aim as I was getting nowhere and he managed to jump into cruise twice! As we're getting into round 3, I realise I can see less and less of the space outside and more and more of the pilot in the cockpit. Pretty soon I can't steer or fight, knowing I'd toggled something I tried to fire up the laptop to see what it was. Surprise, surprise before I found the right search term, Winger had another victim and I was another 20000 down.
I was expecting the cash to flow in the other direction, but at least I now know you press R3 to toggle 'Headlock'. Oh and it was 'Silent Running' the other night, I toggled it instead of 'Flight Assist'. How many more 'death combos' do I need to look out for?
Matt
How many more ‘death combos’ do I need to look out for?
One that caught me out a few times is overloading the power plant causing your weapons to shut down. Saw me get quite a kicking before I learned about module priority.
Thermal overload is another one if using a lot of energy weapons, can lead to weapons overheating. When they released the Mamba ship a couple of years ago that had a problem with overheating although I think they might have patched it (fun ship, insanely fast)
Oh and don’t do what I did last week docking into a station using auto dock and open the throttle by mistake and punt into the back of the station docking area.
What’s everyone flying at the moment? I’m enjoying a Cobra Mk3 at the moment. Got a few kills under my belt now
I have a mk3 cobra, which I’ll never sell due to nostalgia
I have an alliance challenger which I’ll be using soon for combat rank
I have python which I used for trading rank up
I have an orca which I am using at the moment for explorer rank up. I’m mainly carting passengers around on sight seeing missions to far flung corners of the Milky Way.
I’m on furlough from tomorrow so I should finally get explorer elite over the next couple of weeks, and then I’ll be looking at combat.
AspX set up for mining.
Right, any better suggestions than plain old SingleTrackWorld as the squadron name?
Molgrips has found me too.
SingleTrackGalaxy
Logged on to try and mop up the last of the pirates, got another 1hr supercruise 🙁 ah well, got work to do anyway...
Singletrackgalaxy squadron is born.
Tag is STW1 and open for new members.
Can my mate join too? Not an MTBer but a lovely bloke 🙂
Fine by me, think the limit is 500 and we have had 20 separate posters on here max.
I'm in work as usual today so will approve your request and give you the ability to accept new members this evening.
Are Squadrons cross platform?
I'm stuck on the Xbox, not sure I can use this as justification to go out an buy a PS Pro!
There is the odd one on Xbox on here......
Tag is STW1 and open for new members
Shouldn't it be "gofar enterprises"?
Xbox and/or PC players are welcome to join, I'm just not sure if it's cross platform or not.
In hindsight - gofar enterprises would have worked too.
So what’s the consensus on the game. I have plenty of time sinks to get through but for the price would give this a go 🙂
I like it, about 1001 ways to play the game.
PVP (v limited)
PVE
faction wars (background story)
trading
mining
courier
Pirate
wheeler dealer
Fairly confusing to start, as there appears to be 10 million buttons (I'm on PS4, so the controller does a bit of flipping between button sets - but only when I'm mining) and not a lot of info in-game on how to play.
There are massive amounts of external websites to make things much easier (if it wasn't for them I think I would have given up tbh, as I'd be flying around clueless making 30 credits a run), with the videos probably better than reading as not a lot is PS4 dedicated.
Well I'm into it currently so I think it's worth it. It's more along the realism lines than fantasy (although still some bloopers in it tbh), but nowhere near as complicated to fly as a full on flight sim.
Played a bit with my mate Jon last night (yeah yeah) and turns out he hadn't bought Horizons so he couldn't multi-crew with me. Boo.
Cheers. Will give it a go 🙂
Still haven’t been on my PS4 for a few weeks now I’ve got you friend invites through though, might be on soon.