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Raumarik · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:29

Glaucus said:
To begin with yes, docking always got tedious when you've done it several hundred times, docking assist on original was a must for this reason.

You can manually dock fairly quickly in ED though.

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:31

Halfmad said:
You can manually dock fairly quickly in ED though.

I expect it will still get very tedious especially with bigger ships.
You could also dock fairly easily in the others, it still got to a point it was a boring part of the game.
Obviously I haven't played ED. But I doubt I will want to be docking manually for the 150000 time. Unless the auto docking is so gimped you have no choice.

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:33

Huggie86 said:
Anyone got a really good config for the Thrustmaster X, Doesn't seem to be enough buttons for everything.

Be good to see how everyone else has it set up.

I've not tried playing with modifiers but when i used to play DCS A10 on a stick with just 1 hat I had like 5 modifiers for that 1 hat.

Hat = look around
LShift + Hat = weapons
Rshift + Hat = Map
Alt + Shift + hat = sometihng else.

you get the idea, modifiers can really expand a limited supply of buttons into an abundance. I'm not sure how well Elite can map controls in such a complex way but its something worth looking into.

xyphic · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:36

Elite has very good support for modifiers. In the control mapping, when you go to assign a control, just hold the modifier and the target button. IIRC it can support 4 or 5 simultaneous buttons.

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:40

xyphic said:
Elite has very good support for modifiers. In the control mapping, when you go to assign a control, just hold the modifier and the target button. IIRC it can support 4 or 5 simultaneous buttons.

well there you have it, this turns a budget stick into a beast right there.

Raumarik · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:41

Glaucus said:
I expect it will still get very tedious especially with bigger ships.
You could also dock fairly easily in the others, it still got to a point it was a boring part of the game.
Obviously I haven't played ED. But I doubt I will want to be docking manually for the 150000 time. Unless the auto docking is so gimped you have no choice.

It's slow and clearly needing tweaked, flies like a 90 year old trying to smoke his pipe and kicking his slippers off

Docking in the game is more fun than before, space ports are typically busy with the latest update and people can and do bump into each other, imaging coming into a busy supermarket car park at 70MPH and meeting 10 others doing the same.

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:46

Halfmad said:
It's slow and clearly needing tweaked, flies like a 90 year old trying to smoke his pipe and kicking his slippers off

Docking in the game is more fun than before, space ports are typically busy with the latest update and people can and do bump into each other, imaging coming into a busy supermarket car park at 70MPH and meeting 10 others doing the same.

I'd like to see some variation in the dock types, I know there are of course different skins, but layout remains the same. the station doorways are the same too. Some variation in size, or making larger ships dock to some kind of boom like an aeroplane does would be cool.

Huggie86 · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:52

Rroff said:
Beta 1.1 (worked ok before) starts up to the menu screen then I've got the sound as if your selecting a menu option repeated constantly and selecting an option does nothing, happened both times I tried, not got time at the moment to look deeper into it.

Would you let me know when you find a fix for this? I've looked and tried everything. Game is unplayable due to this at the mo. :confused:

kration · 31 Jul 2014 at 16:59

Huggie86 said:
Anyone got a really good config for the Thrustmaster X, Doesn't seem to be enough buttons for everything.

Be good to see how everyone else has it set up.

If you've got a microphone then I'd suggest getting the 'Voice Attack' speech recognition program. I've combined that with my Thrustmaster and it's brilliant...

AWPC · 31 Jul 2014 at 17:12

Am I missing anything here :rolleyes:

https://store.zaonce.net/elite-dangerous-cat.html

£35 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer.
£50 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer & play the beta now.

So they want £15 more for me to help them test/qa the finished product saving them a lot of time/money in the process increasing their profit margin :rolleyes:

Surely less money to buy now & help test not more

Traffic_Warden · 31 Jul 2014 at 17:48

AWPC said:
Am I missing anything here
https://store.zaonce.net/elite-dangerous-cat.html

£35 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer.
£50 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer & play the beta now.

So they want £15 more for me to help them test/qa the finished product saving them a lot of time/money in the process increasing their profit margin

Surely less money to buy now & help test not more

This is the case for 90% of games now? It's nothing new to pay more to play early (in beta/alpha).

Raumarik · 31 Jul 2014 at 18:25

AWPC said:
Am I missing anything here
https://store.zaonce.net/elite-dangerous-cat.html

£35 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer.
£50 to buy the game digitally direct from the developer & play the beta now.

So they want £15 more for me to help them test/qa the finished product saving them a lot of time/money in the process increasing their profit margin

Surely less money to buy now & help test not more

There are additional costs to them if you pay now, yes they get another player theoretically helping test it but you might be playing for a year before release.. not bad value IMO

dirtybeatfreak · 31 Jul 2014 at 18:35

Huggie86 said:
Anyone got a really good config for the Thrustmaster X, Doesn't seem to be enough buttons for everything.

Be good to see how everyone else has it set up.

Here is mine, I think it works perfectly, change the below and leave everything else as it sets it

PRIMARY FIRE - 1
SECONDARY FIRE - 2
TARGET AHEAD - 3
SELECT HIGHEST THREAT - 4
THRUST UP-5
THRUST DOWN -6
UI FOCUS - 7
HEAD LOOK - 8 (buttons for moving around will be automatically set to POV switch)
BOOST - 9
DISABLE FLIGHT ASSIST - 10
CYCLE NEXT FIRE GROUP - 11
CYCLE PREV FIRE GROUP - 12
YAW - TWIST STICK
LATERAL THRUST - PADDLE
POWER TO ENGINE - POV UP
RESET - POV DOWN
POWER TO SYSTEM- POV LEFT
POWER TO WEAPS - POV RIGHT

KEYBOARD KEYS
INCREASE SENSOR RANGE - >
DECREASE SENSOR RANGE - <
SUPERCRUISE - C
HYPERDRIVE - J
HEAT SINK - SPACE
SILENT RUNNING - V
LIGHTS - L
ROTATIONAL CORRECTION - B
LANDING GEAR - INS
CARGO SCOOP - HOME
JETTISON ALL CARGO - END

clungemonkey · 31 Jul 2014 at 18:43

Huggie86 said:
Would you let me know when you find a fix for this? I've looked and tried everything. Game is unplayable due to this at the mo.

I had exactly the same issue, whilst not being particularly scientific, if you alt+tab back to desktop a few times it may help. This works for me.

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 18:56

Took a 16k screenshot using Alt F10 from a 4k screen.

The internet isnt big enough to upload it.

StriderX · 31 Jul 2014 at 19:13

jakspyder said:
Took a 16k screenshot using Alt F10 from a 4k screen.

The internet isnt big enough to upload it.

Do it...

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 19:14

I dont have anything to resize or convert it lol.

its 400mb as a bmp.

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2014 at 19:27

And?
Dropbox, onedrive etc and share file. Post link.
No need to convert it or do anything.

jakspyder · 31 Jul 2014 at 19:39

i live in a remote village with a 0.3mb upload haha. I'll throw it up tonight.

Raumarik · 31 Jul 2014 at 19:45

8 on our teamspeak if anyone wants to hop on and join in, most are on Elite Dangerous and from OCUK anyway

The really huge screenshots look amazing when downsized to 1080P, some examples:

http://imgur.com/a/TaMXF

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