Disappointing. I was thinking about picking up a couple of flightsticks and a throttle for flight/space sims but on their website they are always on back order.
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I've been doing a few surface salvage missions to build up my materials for a suit upgrade or two. The suit related stuff is straight forward enough but gosh I hate driving the SRV with keys. You're at full ahead or reverse at the smallest inattention. Also some cargo on the ground is easy enough to scoop but some on ships, rovers or debris seems impossible. Still the variety of the game is great, after you've been grinding one thing you can pick up an entirely different task for a change of pace.
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Yep, that's the joys of digital controls.
Sometimes I pick missions with material rewards instead of just paying cash. Even if I don't really know the value of those materials, I figured I just stockpile them in case they come in handy
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can't you just buy a really cheap control pad. also always use drive assist OFF. drive assist on is terrible where as off I find driving the srv enjoyable and intuitiveI've been doing a few surface salvage missions to build up my materials for a suit upgrade or two. The suit related stuff is straight forward enough but gosh I hate driving the SRV with keys. You're at full ahead or reverse at the smallest inattention. Also some cargo on the ground is easy enough to scoop but some on ships, rovers or debris seems impossible. Still the variety of the game is great, after you've been grinding one thing you can pick up an entirely different task for a change of pace.
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I'm probably going to buy a new HOTAS at some point, I still have my X-45 from my Jumpgate days but I don't even know if I could make it work with Elite Dangerous it's 20 years old and I'm sure some of the pots have given up on some buttons. But I will take you advice on drive assist and see how that goes.
I'm actually getting pretty misty eyed about the X-45 it was a superb piece of kit at a very reasonable price back in the day.
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I use a HOTAS/HOSAS in elite for flying my ship but find an Xbox pad works better for the srv personally. elite allows you to use... 4 I think..... different controllers at the same time
The X45 will work fine in Elite, if your pots are up to it that is.I'm probably going to buy a new HOTAS at some point, I still have my X-45 from my Jumpgate days but I don't even know if I could make it work with Elite Dangerous it's 20 years old and I'm sure some of the pots have given up on some buttons. But I will take you advice on drive assist and see how that goes.
I'm actually getting pretty misty eyed about the X-45 it was a superb piece of kit at a very reasonable price back in the day.
I've seen the future and it involves me digging around in told boxes
I always use the twist function on my stick for SRV steering, works perfectly and you can map the thrusters to the stick itself for full control while airborne
Sounds like you need to turn off drive assist. It's a pain on the SRVs, so much easier to control with it off.I've been doing a few surface salvage missions to build up my materials for a suit upgrade or two. The suit related stuff is straight forward enough but gosh I hate driving the SRV with keys. You're at full ahead or reverse at the smallest inattention. Also some cargo on the ground is easy enough to scoop but some on ships, rovers or debris seems impossible. Still the variety of the game is great, after you've been grinding one thing you can pick up an entirely different task for a change of pace.
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Plug in an Xbox or PS controller if you have one, and map the SRV controls to that instead of you can. Should give you better control as well.
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Drive assist does seem to be a pain in Odyssey. DA off is more controllable without the over-revving that DA on causes. Just make sure you have a 'brake' button mapped.
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Good call, it does annoy me that I seem to have to turn DA off every time I load because I've been farming mats at an abandoned settlement recently. Also when you forget on some salvage mission hit your first big bump and then spin around like a mad thing.
Well, I've been out on my first ever expedition into the black over the last week. Decided it was time to upgrade my Mandalay through engineering and then jump out of the Bubble for some exploration and exo-biology. Jump range is just over 75ly and what a world of difference that makes to just getting away from the Bubble. I don't feel like I've gone that far but I'm far enough away to be hitting systems that haven't been discovered yet, and planets with 6 -7 biological signals. Found one planet that yielded over 450 million credits just from first footfall biological scans. I'll be honest, I've taken my time getting to where I am because I've been scanning using the FSS when entering a lot of systems just for some true exploration experience as well as the exo-biological side.
I'll be honest, starting up with exo-biology was frustrating at first. Learning where all the different types of life exists on a planets surface has been a lengthy and unintuitive process, but I've finally cracked it and can find what I'm looking for pretty quickly now.
So far I reckon I'm up to at least a billion or so in credits, my name's is on a number of systems that were previously undiscovered, and the best bit is I'm actually having a blast just going out and finding new things. Some of the views from the planets I've visited have been truly spectacular. And skimming the planet surface looking for life in my Mandy whilst rocking out to some music is an unmatched experience!
Elite truly is the best of "make your own fun and experience".
I'll be honest, starting up with exo-biology was frustrating at first. Learning where all the different types of life exists on a planets surface has been a lengthy and unintuitive process, but I've finally cracked it and can find what I'm looking for pretty quickly now.
So far I reckon I'm up to at least a billion or so in credits, my name's is on a number of systems that were previously undiscovered, and the best bit is I'm actually having a blast just going out and finding new things. Some of the views from the planets I've visited have been truly spectacular. And skimming the planet surface looking for life in my Mandy whilst rocking out to some music is an unmatched experience!
Elite truly is the best of "make your own fun and experience".
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@CHokKA That does sounbd very cool.
@PlacidCasual It's been great fun to be honest. I put a load of screenshots into the Screenshot thread, but I've got a few more that I took yesterday that I'll put in here:
This planet was amazingly beautiful, the sand on it had this green tint to it and it just looked spectacular!
Another shot of the planet surface, from closer up inside my Mandalay...
The pink-purple backdrop looked so good so I had to get a pic of my Mandy with it!
I presume this is a solar flare in a white sun, which just looked so cool. I watched it coalesce and then dissipate and it was very well rendered.
A shot of me out of my Mandy with the planet's ring in the backdrop. ED really can create some stunning views!
This planet was amazingly beautiful, the sand on it had this green tint to it and it just looked spectacular!
Another shot of the planet surface, from closer up inside my Mandalay...
The pink-purple backdrop looked so good so I had to get a pic of my Mandy with it!
I presume this is a solar flare in a white sun, which just looked so cool. I watched it coalesce and then dissipate and it was very well rendered.
A shot of me out of my Mandy with the planet's ring in the backdrop. ED really can create some stunning views!
Well, got myself safely back to the Bubble. Earned myself a little over 1.3 billion credits for handing in exobiology and exploration data, several exploration and exobiology ranks, and I'm kitted back out again ready for another expedition this week!
So far I've had a blast learning more about exploring and exobiology. The money is a nice bonus too, not gonna lie! I've almost got enough to get myself a.fleet carrier which will hopefully assist exploration expeditions even further.
So far I've had a blast learning more about exploring and exobiology. The money is a nice bonus too, not gonna lie! I've almost got enough to get myself a.fleet carrier which will hopefully assist exploration expeditions even further.
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if you get one of the voice attack profiles (there is a free profile somewhere as well but i cant remember what it is called) you can get a macro for it, which sort of works but its not fool proof and does not always work. generally i just manually request from the left hand panel.
There are numerous control oddities which make little sense to me (for instance there is a keybind option for heatsinks, but isnt one for caustic sinks) if i had to guess it is partly due to it being designed to play purely on a control pad and they have essentially run out of buttons even when using combinations combined with it being designed by multiple different people over the years and there isnt really a consistent design mindset behind it
so some things act 1 what whilst other seemingly v similar things act in another way.
Funnily enough it was when I was setting up some voice attack stuff. I thought to do that one and then thought I was going mad as I couldn't find it in the key binds lol.
It's not really a big deal. I'd rather just do it properly than have a janky solution
I was just hoping to keep some stuff the same as I do on Star citizen just to help remember stuff.With the docking thing not being a key, I guess they may have originally planned in the early design stage days for you to be able to dock at more than one thing around a station, say an external ore barge or something, and therefore wanted to keep you using the target menu to select docking requests to you had to select the right one. Of course, that's probably never going to happen.
They didn't add one as they wanted people to have to use the panel for 'immersion' or some such nonsense, cant remember who said it but I'm pretty sure it was in an interview and I also seem to recall the community response was justifiably harsh pointing out how ridiculous it was given that everything else can be mapped.