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Itchytrigg · 13 Jul 2017 at 13:33

I was under the impression there was also a hidden requirement to have a certain number of minor factions at friendly or above perhaps?

nIckEl101 · 13 Jul 2017 at 17:02

Dano said:
Do I buy a Corvette or not? Opinions please

it's a monster.. it just love the sound of it, when taking off and hearing the roar of the engines existing out of the station!

Cavallino · 13 Jul 2017 at 17:49

Folks. Ive got a Rift on preorder, anything I need to prepare prior to its arrival for Elite?

Dano · 13 Jul 2017 at 18:08

Sick Bucket
Towel to mop flop sweat
Camera to record you ducking and rolling out of the way of stuff.
Livestream account so we can laugh at the above

In all seriousness, you're in for a treat. I really need to find £400 for one myself lol.

Cavallino · 13 Jul 2017 at 19:03

Lol. You had me going there for a sec Dano

Well played!

Honestly speaking I don't have high expectations for this but... lets see

Hodders · 13 Jul 2017 at 23:56

Cavallino said:
Folks. Ive got a Rift on preorder, anything I need to prepare prior to its arrival for Elite?

Elite is probably the best single game to show of the potential of VR. The rift in elite is awesome. The scale of everything truly comes to life. Find an asteroid field in an asp and just prepare to be awestruck..... Oh and your ship cockpit is amazing. Stand up and move behind your 'seat' and just have a look around.

That's the good.

Get ready to not be able to see ground stations until you are super close. Get ready to be frustrated in combat that you can't see the enemy until they are closer than usual. Oh and take it easy in the SRV as motion sickness will creep up on you.

In short VR will be amazing - totally game changing. But we need better res and better optics/GPUs to get there.

If you want a glimpse into tomorrow buy one today.

Cavallino · 14 Jul 2017 at 01:30

You work for Facebook

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Bryan Kortez · 14 Jul 2017 at 12:17

I'm really trying to get back into this game, but it seems a bit dull on your own. I feel that it's similar to EVE Online, in the way that it's better playing with a group. What's the best way of going about trying to find a group to play with?

kration · 14 Jul 2017 at 13:07

Cavallino said:
Folks. Ive got a Rift on preorder, anything I need to prepare prior to its arrival for Elite?

1 - Get VoiceAttack software (it's about £5). Set up the voice recognition in Windows first. Map the keyboard buttons to spoken commands.

2 - Install EDProfiler - makes it easier to experiment with graphics.

3 - Use a decent flightstick - the Thrustmaster HOTAS X is a great reasonably priced option (despite the pics you can split up the stick and throttle controls).

4 - I'm not sure what the mic is like on the Rift (I've never used the built in one on my Vive) so you might need a decent headset with a mic.

5 - Lose yourself in the Universe.

kration · 14 Jul 2017 at 13:10

Also, check out the Elite Dangerous thread on the Virtual Reality forum on here - there may be more useful tips in there.

danoliver1 · 14 Jul 2017 at 15:40

Dano said:
Sick Bucket

Towel to mop flop sweat

Camera to record you ducking and rolling out of the way of stuff.

Livestream account so we can laugh at the above

In all seriousness, you're in for a treat. I really need to find £400 for one myself lol.

Hes not joking, the first few months of playing ed in vr made me feel quite motion sick, queezy with cold sweats and i don't usually suffer from motion sickness. But after you get your vr legs its an awesome game. What cpu/gpu do you have?

ttaskmaster · 14 Jul 2017 at 16:04

danoliver1 said:
Hes not joking, the first few months of playing ed in vr made me feel quite motion sick, queezy with cold sweats and i don't usually suffer from motion sickness.

By contrast, I took to it like a seasoned Navy SEAL to water... I did get a touch of sickness from just the SRV, but configuring the headset to my own eyes and tweaking the game settings a touch sorted that out easy! YMMV...

Fishbait · 14 Jul 2017 at 21:53

Not too sure that I'd want to make myself more visible to the pirates in game, but....

Someone already edited images to what I'd imagined

nalla · 16 Jul 2017 at 21:35

hi guys, ok not played elite for 6 months or more, thinking about getting back into to it, so has much changed, wheres the money at, any new missions or things to do.

One Vision · 16 Jul 2017 at 22:17

noted

atomic7431 · 17 Jul 2017 at 10:49

completed the ancient ruins yesterday, took in all the sites and sounds, the atmosphere and sounds are very good.

I did it in my diamond back explorer, no crew on board, but those pesky buggers still took 8 million of my reward while they sat in my crew lounge.....

Dano · 17 Jul 2017 at 11:26

How long did it take you to do that mission?

atomic7431 · 17 Jul 2017 at 11:40

roughly i would say 9 hours, i enjoyed it though, some of the ls to the planets with ruins locations is quite long, 60,000 ls to about 3 locations.

I used this guide - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...UARDIANS-MISSION-GUIDE(Step-by-Step)-201-M-Cr

just a pic i took while at one of the ruins sites yesterday

Fishbait · 17 Jul 2017 at 12:39

Someone made a good music video.

Fishbait · 17 Jul 2017 at 17:40

If you want to attempt alien ruins for some credits, someone's made a guide that apparently gets it done in five hours.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...ancient_ruins_run_optimized_way_5_hours_easy/

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