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Edit to the above. The deed is done and it’s downloading via steam now :).
I have Witcher 3, RDR2, Nier Automata, Bloodbourne, Nioh and a host of others to finish too. Ah well, I’ve more wont hurt!
Anyone about from 7pm tomorrow for some wing based goodness? PS4, RVP @ Dekker base, Rho Cancri.
Was on last night and couldn't locate the Squadron on XBOX.
I think I'll need to create a specific Xbox squadron
Well I've done the training missions. Even on the PC the number of keys mind bending and the mouse is very sensitive for pitch and roll. Takes a bit of getting used to.
Plus I keep hitting W & S for pitch up and pitch down instead of using the mouse. But again just something to get used to. Quite like the overall feel though and well worth the current entry price.
I have Allied status with a couple of factions at Dekker base.
I thought it was 7.30pm? I'm about to head out on a local spin, will try to be back by 7.
@dannybgoode surely there's an option to adjust sensitivity?
Okay, financial advice for the noobs:
You start in the Pilots Federation District, this is a protected area for new flyers only, if you leave and dock with a station from another juristiction you get barred, same if you get promoted whilst flying outside of the District.
Once you get your first promotion inside the District you unlock the Explore the Galaxy mission, this is worth 100K when you complete it BUT means docking outside of the District. It's the games way of forcing you out the nest. HOWEVER, I was in the middle of a trade run when I got mine so I left it. Then I got another, then another and eventually 16 of them (you run out of mission slots eventually), including several multiples for the same system and often the same station. By the time I pulled out of Dromi last night I was in a Cobra Mk3 with maxed core modules and the cargo modules and fuel scoop that I could pull out my Sidewinder flung in where they fitted plus about 350K in the bank.
If you use the galactic map you will be able to plot a good round trip , mine was/is:
Dromi > HR 8061 x2 > Ehecatl x2 > Veroandi x2 > Ay Indi > Nanabozho > Arare > Ehecatl > HR 8526 > Lauma > LHS 3802
That leaves me with Daho Deti x3 > Burojinura to claim at a later date. As you can see my first circuits nets me 1.3M for nothing more than a minimal amount of time jumping before accepting any decent missions along the way (and there are a few).
Just watch out for some of the outposts though, one of the courier missions I accepted for Ehecatl was to an outpost on the far side of nowhere which took about 10 minutes super cruising to hit. In the end it was quicker to jump back to the previous system and return than do that again.
i used to play ed a lot xb1 and ps4 (xb1 am elite status in exploration and trade about 2 levels away in combat but i suck at combat tbh).
i haven't played the game for a while though as i got burned out with it tbh (100 actual days gametime upwards if i remember).
am stationed at founders world and have a few ships ranging from diamondback explorer to imperial cutter and federal corvette (man the grinding i did for those lol).
i have to be honest i have forgotten how to play the game now.
i will definitely return to the game again one day (am waiting fir space legs and able to land on earth like planets (hopefully like star citizen although i have only watched some streams of the game as no pc unfortunately).
Fuelled up, started a courier mission, ran out of fuel before dropping my cargo off, died. 🙁
Is there, like, a level that precedes noob?
Fuel scoop is your friend
Two days without doing something stupid, a record!
I'm mooching round a Nav beacon, as you do. I found a nice target, bigger (slower) ship, higher rank, but clean. I scanned it with my warrant scanner and found it had a ten grand bounty, all good. I lined up a nice shot and opened fire, whoa incoming bounty, what the hell's going on here.
Oh well, what's the worst that could happen.....the fedaralis could join in that's what. This is where we run away, ha ha catch me if you can. FSD out of the system, then dock feeling pretty smug. When I get to the station they offer to make it all go away, I thought I could just pay 200C and be done with it, but I seem to go to prison LYs away and with a new name for the ship!
Not as costly as my previous mistakes but annoying. Does anyone know what happened with the bounty from the warrant scanner?
Matt
No idea Matt.
Had a cracking laugh tonight, fumbling through wing combat.
Went from 2% to 61% in harmless in 1 go, we were stuck at a port with no mid range ships so I went out in an eagle. 5 rival faction fighters to kill.
Rapidly learnt about module priority (no oxygen in the cabin gives the mind a focus) when equipping big energy sapping guns.
V8ninty navigates like a demon - made me realise loads of better ways to fly.
Matt, sounds like your mark had a bounty on his head from a different system, but was not wanted in the system that you were in currently. That means that when you killed him, you committed a crime in the current system. A jurisdiction thing.
Saccades; really enjoyed that session, despite the comms and (my) noob combat issues 😂 getting a little bit more effective in combat now, with a more effective load out. Will be on for a couple of hours tonight and tomorrow night too if anybody is about.
I may get on yet but I bought Doom in the sale so I’ve been getting distracted by that. 😂
Drac; would be good to see you online bud.
Matt; just reread your post; the bounty will be claimable in a system controlled (or at least with a presence of) the faction that issued it. It should show in your ‘transactions’ tab on the left nav box.
Saccades; did you start a squadron in the end? How do I join it, any idea?
Yeah, it's singletrack galaxy (STW1)
I think you use the menu that arrives from the RHS of the touch pad, flip to the tab on the far left and in there is the squadron bit.
Have a vulture nicely outfitted and balanced for combat if we go that way.
I'm still working, so roughly plan to be available for wing stuff at the weekend evenings and then rest of the time I'll be mining and exploring on and off. I did 180ly in 15 mins last night so can meet up pretty quick.
That combat was funny, struggled to keep up with you, finally dropped into the fight, opened up the hardpoints and the oxygen switched off and the weapons wouldn't fire.
After 20 seconds of panic I enjoyed flying something that wasn't a brick for 5 mins then was blown up.
V8ninety knows a lot about the game too I think he's read the whole of Reddit on the subject.
Gonna head up now and try and finish the mission leftovers.
Well that went well. Didn't kill anyone, escaped with 9% hull integrity.
😂 At least you escaped I suppose! I have a new appreciation for the ‘rebuy’ mechanic after last night.
Did the space road truckers mission get finished?
Looks like it.
Oooh, I might join your squadron if you don't mind? A wee bit of company and chat might keep the thought of how far I have to travel at bay. I'm currently a few jumps away from Beagle Point, on my way home in a Diamondback Explorer.
Commander Beagy73 🙂
Your application is likely to be viewed favourably, that's all I can say at this point.
PS we found that wing voice chat in the game didn't really work at all, we ended up creating a PSN party which worked perfectly.
Are you handy with the pew pews? We have two more enemies to kill to complete a wing mission. Oh but wait, we probably cant invite you after the mission's started.
Squadron is for everyone on STW PS4 and your mates if they fancy it 🙂
I think I finished it off v late doors, got distracted.
I'm using a nearby high tech system as my hub because Dekker is a bit lacking.
Everyone is invited, still thinking on fleet rank names, the lowest was easy though.
Fuel scoop is your friend
FTW! 🙂
For variety I've decided to do some mining.
So far I've spent the best part of 1M credits and mined about 20000C of minerals. In some ways it's more frustrating than bounty hunting, but I'm hoping to find a good spot soon.
Report back when I've found the motherlode.
O7
Passenger missions seem lucrative 👍🏼
Yeah they are iirc I when I played back a couple of years ago I was saving up for a bigger passenger capable ship.
Well my wife's watching telly now so I might try playing on the VR headset even though it's not a VR game.
So far the 'go fetch us some....' missions have been most lucrative for me. I think I scooped half a mil for one of them. The promised hostile ships, either weren't sent against me or didn't find me.
Mining has been a challenge so far, god knows how you play this game if you don't have the internet/youtube to rely on for tips and tutorials! I just fired off 6000C of seismic charges at the wrong type of asteroid. I'll be back on the courier missions in no time at this rate.
Matt
Just netted 1.5m for taking someone two stops up the galactic road. Their destination was a fair way from the nav beacon mind you 😳
Boom time at Ross 85 Mohmand station. I've got 3 missions on the go worth 4.5m and I already did 1.5m worth in about 5 mins.
They are selling Federal Dropships for 15m which I'm tempted by, but according to the internet there are better ships for not a lot more.
Yeah they are iirc I when I played back a couple of years ago I was saving up for a bigger passenger capable ship.
I have an Orca. Passenger missions are lucrative. I did consider a Beluga but apparently they’re a bit of a sod getting in and out of the mail slot.
Ha ha, mining mini success!
1.1M credits for 4t of Alexandrite, ship paid for. Whoo and indeed hoo!
One tip is to get some protection from hold robbing limpets, they nicked all my collectors, so I had to scoop it manually.
Matt
I might try passenger missions as a way of getting enough for a proper combat trader.
Something weird happened picking a target out of a combat zone. I quite like my loadout now, I have 1 medium and 1 small beam laser firing together to strip shields, a medium and small burst laser and two small multicannons to damage hull. So I picked this Asp Explorer (same as my ship) out of the crowd and chased him down - but it took absolutely ages... I sat behind him after burning his shields for several minutes just emptying thousands of rounds into his hull before he finally succumbed. I have no idea how he lasted so long - my ship is nowhere near that tough. Is it the high grade military armour maybe? Or are small multicannons that bad?
I haven't taken on anything that big solo, but generally the multicannons seem to be pretty destructive.
I think you want railguns for real damage, but then you need big hardpoints.
Some of the armour can be good from the look of it. When I go back to bounty hunting I am going to get military for my Viper.
Matt
I don’t use my Asp X for combat. In fact I took all the weapons off. Couldn’t get the used to the hard point placement
Use my Python for shooting things. 3 large beam lasers and 2 medium multicannons. Working for me better than the Fer de Lance was
I have no idea how he lasted so long
It might be that NPC ships are aiming at specific points on your ship - eg power plant rather than random potshots
Well I made my first cargo ****up today. Took on a mission to shift 27 units 2 systems over, no problem until I realised the destination was at the arse end of nowhere relative to the nav beacon. Oh well, got there in the end, handed my cargo in only... ...no... ...yup. I'd clicked 27 units but not actually hit the collect button. So jump back in about 2 minutes, load up and spend another age getting back to the station. But got my 480k in the end.
Currently sitting on Coriolis figuring out a refit for my Cobra 3 for exploring and deciding whether I'm going to do some trucking or sightseeing.
I spent the last hour of my session last night repositioning to a new sector. I’m now in the Pleiades area, and have seen (and been shot at by, and run away from) my first Thargoid contact... Running a few missions and keeping my eye out for alien materials. A financially better session too, Passenger trips repaired the damage that my foray into combat caused to my finances.
o7
Woohoo. Just completing my first mission. Right I’d pick perhaps the most important one I could find on the list. Delivering tea...
Pretty straightforward so far, just trying to remember all the steps to actually get somewhere and dock 😀
Early days those kind of missions are great for just getting some money in the bank.
My second mining trip was a complete success. I didn't get my collectors stolen, so once I split the asteroid they ran off and grabbed everything in sight, all I had to do was plink it off the rock with my abrasion blaster.
Two asteroids, about 40-60 minutes, 16t of alexandrite in the hold with another four in the refinery, about 6M credits!
I think i'm a convert!
Matt
@matt_bl. Exactly 30k for delivering some tea with guarantees of no agro. Money in the bank that is 🙂
V8 I may join you at the Pleaides soon but I am saving up for a Federal Assault ship, currently exploiting my high rep in Ross 85 area.
I reckon the best way to help my mate Jon would be to accept the wing missions in a big hard bastard ship, do most of the work and let him finish one off, then he can share the bounty.
Agreed; so long as he can get a couple of shots in. Ditto the hauling missions, which may be safer. I think there’s reasonably lucrative wing passenger missions too. He really needs a slightly more versatile ship though. Heartily recommend the Cobra 👍🏼