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hyperseven said:

OpenVR desktop display portal is your friend you can plonk any window in as an overlay.


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Cool... And if the VR helmet just had a pair of cameras on it, so you could look down, and when you did this, it showed a predefined area where your actual keyboard was... Voila! You'd be able to look down to see a portal in the VR world, to where your keyboard and hands were!
 
Hello,

I've been putting off buying ED until it looked like there was enough single player content for me to get immersed in the game but I see Steam are selling the base game and Horizons for £13.39 each with the Commander Deluxe Edition edition coming in at £26.79.

Although not really bothered about making the ships look pretty I thought I might as well get the Deluxe Edition for 1p extra but was just wondering if someone could please confirm that this is a good price, which it seems to be?

Also could you please give me your opinion on whether the current state of the game was worth taking the plunge now, considering I've waited this long?

Unfortunately I'm the type of person who rarely goes back to a game once I've gotten bored and I really don't want that to happen with Elite.

Thanks for any help.
 
Elite has got better, there is still not enough to do really and it is a korean grind fest add to that the random nature of rolling for your upgrades and you could well be spending hrs upon hrs hunting doing the same thing, spread across mining, prospecting in a buggy, shooting/scanning and traveling if the random nature of it goes against you.

I played for a year gave up and just got back into it month ago. Should top a billion in creds this weekend and then unlock some more Tier upgrades.

Space is very samey and very very big.
 
It's actually MP content that needs a boost, as there is plenty to do as a lone Wolf. I think that's a great price and with passenger missions just around the corner there will be even more for you to get stuck into. The one thing that seems fairly dependable with elite is the continuous addition of new stuff, and there is a lot of lore to get involved with too
 
Personally I think its worth a punt now. The original game release faced much criticism, and in some degree justifiably so for its lack of depth however the current state of the game is much more polished with more features incoming. The little details that Frontier have added (eg; compare the missions system now to what it was like upon release) really make it more like how it should have been upon release (IMHO). I'm like you in so far as I rarely go back to a game however after taking a break from ED I returned upon the Horizons release and its keeping me hooked. Just set your expectation though, this isn't always a heart pumping adrenaline rush of a game but rather a slow burn, you can just chill out a lose a couple of hours easily in ED just doing your own thing, which after a day at work isn't always a bad thing.

PS Join Mobius.
 
I like ED for being able to take a break, come back and there is more to do. I never really got bored either but I like other games and they can take priority of my segmented gaming time. And now the colder weather is coming, I get more time for gaming and I really look forward to playing ED when I get that time and it has taken priority over other games that I also enjoy.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Well the game doesn't do nearly as much as it could, but you have basic bonuses for trading in a group. And you can of course farm bounties in a group/wing.

But other obvious team activities such as mining and exploring are all but ignored.

There are less orchestrated team efforts such as the fuel rats.
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izzop said:
For some of the trade CG's commanders have got together and helped with the loading of much larger ships, who then go off and make the delivery to the CG destination. Especially useful if commodities are in limited supply.

There's even a dedicated group in game for such a thing "TEAKA E A BAGGING CO-OP" aka Tea Bagging if you will :p
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Cheers, I hadn't thought of loading up larger ships, and I'd no idea there was even a small bonus for trading as a group.

In general I agree with the sentiment that it's a shame you can avoid PvP, but at the moment I think it's a good thing, because I think there'd be nothing but griefing otherwise.

I had a first yesterday, I was interdicted (submitted) and destroyed by a Deadly Anaconda, personally I loved it, I was in a Type 9 and it wasn't the best specced, if I had bothered to take a few upgrades I may well have survived, but it did give me a glimpse of what the appalling turn speed of the Cutter might be useful for (well I mean the shield power and straight line speed in exchange for) if submitting to interdictions without dropping cargo becomes dangerous. As it happens even after getting blown up I didn't bother to buy any upgrades, was interdicted by others including a Dangerous Anaconda, were they a bother? Not in the least, and that's kinda sad. I've only played the game since the AI update and it feels like Elite (not very) Dangerous, but I understand there's been a fair bit of discontentment about it.
 
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OMG I forgot how beautiful this game was with EDFX

1. Setup Warthog HOTAS
2. Setup Voice Attack
3. Get rekt by an Elite ASP because I am a newb at fighting again
4. Go back and shrek him once setup
5. Jump to my ASP
6. Awe at the graphics

Roll on getting my Vive
 
Thought it might be fun to try something small again, so bought a Cobra yesterday, spent a couple of hours adding L5 engineering mods (FSD, thrusters, shields, distributor). It might not be able to fight big ships, but with a 500 boost speed, it can almost certainly outrun them. This is first time I've visited engineer basis in VR. Wow.

And whilst visiting Palin, on the way to land, I spot this huge artifact on the ground. Get closer, nope, that's flying. At distance, looked like a huge Corvette. As I'm coming into land, turns out to be a Farragut battlecruiser, which has just stationed itself 3km above Palin's base.
 
Hey SPG, Devrij, SirJinks and Gregster.

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply.

I know it may seem like I'm overthinking when to buy but like many the original Elite was such a huge part of my gaming history.
Found a dusty Sinclair Spectrum+ and a box of audio cassette tapes in the loft when I was a kid and on one of the tapes was Elite.
To date I've not played any game as much as I played Elite, was totally immersed in it for ages and kept going back to it again and again despite the lure of my mates Nintendo and Sega consoles.
Anyway, it sounds like they're not going to finish developing it any time soon so I'm just going to go for it and hope for the best. :)

Thanks again for your opinions guys and will check out Mobius.
 
I doubt you'll regret it. It has a fairly harsh learning curve at first, but that soon levels out so just stick with it.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Thought it might be fun to try something small again, so bought a Cobra yesterday, spent a couple of hours adding L5 engineering mods (FSD, thrusters, shields, distributor). It might not be able to fight big ships, but with a 500 boost speed, it can almost certainly outrun them. This is first time I've visited engineer basis in VR
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I am just back into the game and trying to sort my Eng mods.

Few qns:
1. If you unlock the mods at an Engineer, does it unlock for ALL your ships or just that one that you're in?
2. Do you need to visit the station in a ship to add modules?
3. Any suggestions on how to progress?

Also canne wait to VR
 
1. All your ships
2. Yes visit in the shop you want moded
3. I'd suggest fsd mods first as it makes travel so much easier.

Worth remembering that it is the actual module you have fitted that gets modded. So make sure you have the module you want to keep (a7 shield for example) fitted rather than the current one (c7 shield).
 
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