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Personally I have both a tflight X hotas setup plus an Xbox controller and prefer the controller as it allows me to sit back in my seat and I don't find it offers any improvement in control or accuracy. If anything I find the controller better so you'll definitely be fine with that. It might be better for immersion as I don't have VR though.

Reminds me I need to put my tflight x on eBay
 
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Bought the game today for £17.50 thought was a good price

I only need to get a couple of hours out a game for it to be worth that money so I'm sure I can sink many in with VR

Downloading now.
 
It plays with an xbox pad and lots of people like it (it's on XBox console..)

However for total immersion the HOTAS is king.

Next however: This isn't arcady in any way. It's space trucking/flight simulation with world war 2 style dogfighting (although unluss you go looking for it the fighting can be avoided).
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Greatly summarized, so I can't play this game with Xbox pad?

Sounds ideal to me, part of the reason I got VR was to escape a bit sometimes.
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You can, play with a pad as others have said. There are a lot of functions so you'll find yourself having a "shift" key so you can have multiple functions on each button. I find this a bit more manageable on a hotas as you have more buttons to start with. In VR the last thing you want is to have to use your keyboard because you can't see it!

The key bindings can be overwhelming at first, but there are plenty of good mapping suggestions out there for pretty much any controller. You may want to have it on screen or printed out while you're learning the ropes so you can peek at it if needed

Voice attack is the next level and very handy in VR (eg you say "computer, deploy landing gear" instead of having to map it or find it in your functions menu)
 
One Vision said:
Looks nice but there will be nothing to do on them, just same as now. Exploring needs a massive amount of work.
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Which will be part of Season 3 along with a Codex to record the new phenomena and discoveries in. I got the sense from the presentation, well Ed Lewis' reaction, that the devs on stage had undersold it somewhat. But the future will tell as always.
 
Have to agree. It will be good to see improved planets. Things like the barnacle forest were good because of localised mist, something new.
But, planets looking good won't mean there'll be anything on them other than the odd dead satellite or worse, cargo light years from anywhere that is illegal :p

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One of the guys I work with was at the expo and spoke with DB, and he got the impression that they really regretted tying themselves to the deliverables last year, so they are keeping their cards a bit closer to their chests to allow for more flexibility.
 
According to The Yamiks (youtuber) when he asked devs about the engineers in the update mentioned at the expo, the results will be "either the same or an upgrade" to what you already have.
 
As long as whatever the change, it is retrospectively applied to any upgrades that you have already done.

The quest for MEF and the rng nature of drops has been killing the game for me. **** it, i was wanting to roll 25 times on each MC I have but I think I need to roll 5 times each and just be done with adequate instead of God rolls. Does it really make that much difference anyway, I mean I have a G5 fsd with a 52% roll and one with a 40% (I think) and the difference between the two in the same ship? 4 LY. Time to get back to doing something that rewards the time I'm putting in (cos it isn't looking for MEF).
 
Played 90 mins tonight not sure wtf I was doing but it's epic in VR.

I am still working out where to go for the mission and how to lock on just generally confused LOL. I'm sure I'll get it...
 
Spent the last couple of days reliving some engerneering. My combat Anaconda now boosts to 342.. Quite pleased with that.

Back to fed missions now though and some more passenger trucking. I will get that a corvette yet.
 
I might jump onto the VR bandwagon when the next wave of Microsoft mixed reality headsets hit the market later this year if they're decent and not too costly!
 
SirJinks said:
As long as whatever the change, it is retrospectively applied to any upgrades that you have already done.

The quest for MEF and the rng nature of drops has been killing the game for me. **** it, i was wanting to roll 25 times on each MC I have but I think I need to roll 5 times each and just be done with adequate instead of God rolls. Does it really make that much difference anyway, I mean I have a G5 fsd with a 52% roll and one with a 40% (I think) and the difference between the two in the same ship? 4 LY. Time to get back to doing something that rewards the time I'm putting in (cos it isn't looking for MEF).
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I've been playing Elite for over two years and I can't decipher half of what you said:D:rolleyes: What is RNG and MEF oh and MC ?
 
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