*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

[PlacidCasual]

I ended up picking up the Chrome paint job for my Mandalay, and it looks amazing. I've also managed to purchase my fleet carrier today after returning back to the Bubble with Exobiology from four systems to the total of around 900 million credits. Not bad. It's now jumping over to where I ended up with the Exobiology so that I can find more to fund the future of the carrier! Circle of life I guess!

This is my plan too. I'm at about 1.1Bn credits the vast majority of which has come from Exo-Biology but would really like a Fleet Carrier so I can have a mobile base that isn't 70+ jumps from where I'm exploring.

So it's going to take me a while to get the next 4Bn to buy the carrier

 

[PlacidCasual]

I'm going to ask a sacrilegious question here.

What are peoples thoughts about playing with a PS4 controller or similar? When I'm dogfighting I like the joystick but a bit of me is thinking for general non-intense flight and exploring a pad might be more convenient for storage and desk space as I move to the mouse for on foot.

 

[CHokKA]

This is my plan too. I'm at about 1.1Bn credits the vast majority of which has come from Exo-Biology but would really like a Fleet Carrier so I can have a mobile base that isn't 70+ jumps from where I'm exploring.

So it's going to take me a while to get the next 4Bn to buy the carrier

Keep an eye on the Pilot's Trade Network. They often have events on where they pay silly amounts of money for commodities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PilotsTradeNetwork/

In fact it looks like they're running an event now where they're paying 20k per ton profit for Bertrandite.

 

[CHokKA]

I'm going to ask a sacrilegious question here.

What are peoples thoughts about playing with a PS4 controller or similar? When I'm dogfighting I like the joystick but a bit of me is thinking for general non-intense flight and exploring a pad might be more convenient for storage and desk space as I move to the mouse for on foot.

Nothing wrong with that, I spent years playing with an Xbox controller and it worked really well for me. Couldn't be happier with my HOSAS setup and I wouldn't go back to a controller now, but controller was definitely an option that worked well initially.

 

[Dano]

I'm going to ask a sacrilegious question here.

What are peoples thoughts about playing with a PS4 controller or similar? When I'm dogfighting I like the joystick but a bit of me is thinking for general non-intense flight and exploring a pad might be more convenient for storage and desk space as I move to the mouse for on foot.

Use what works for you, I keep meaning to plug my PS4 controller in and see how it works for on foot stuff myself as I use a dedicated seat and hotas for VR sim stuff and as such elite and I don't have a good option for mouse and keyboard with it so I've always ignored the on foot side of the game.

 

[Bubo]

I have spent more actual time on foot just while setting up and testing a custom control setup for my Steamdeck, than doing any actual on foot missions or activities, I just wanted to perfect a control scheme . I think I will eventually get round to doing on foot stuff at some point, maybe when I get the itch to go engineering suits, but certainly not feeling the urge at the moment.

If using a PS4 pad to control the ship, the one thing I would recommend from my experience setting my a Steamdeck for ship flight with the two sticks, is to map Pitch to left stick Y-axis, Yaw to left stick X-axis, Roll to right stick X-Axis and vertical thrusters to right stick Y-Axis. Don't try to put pitch and roll on the same stick as it will not go well, keep them separate. And you will of course have to work out which buttons you want as modifiers to extend the number of possible button combos. However, if you also have a keyboard within reach you'll still be able to map some functions to that as well obviously.

 

[bigmike20vt]

I'm going to ask a sacrilegious question here.

What are peoples thoughts about playing with a PS4 controller or similar? When I'm dogfighting I like the joystick but a bit of me is thinking for general non-intense flight and exploring a pad might be more convenient for storage and desk space as I move to the mouse for on foot.

i use a whole manner of controls for the game... hosas/hotas for ship flight, xbox pad for on foot, controlling the map and the system scanner and then my steamdeck controller when on the steamdeck.

Frontier did a superb job in making the game configurable on all controllers. i will say however if limited to only a pad, the game will be harder in a furball.

 

[Dano]

If using a PS4 pad to control the ship, the one thing I would recommend from my experience setting my a Steamdeck for ship flight with the two sticks, is to map Pitch to left stick Y-axis, Yaw to left stick X-axis, Roll to right stick X-Axis and vertical thrusters to right stick Y-Axis. Don't try to put pitch and roll on the same stick as it will not go well, keep them separate. And you will of course have to work out which buttons you want as modifiers to extend the number of possible button combos. However, if you also have a keyboard within reach you'll still be able to map some functions to that as well obviously.

You absolute heathen

 

[CHokKA]

A few exploration shots from me. I'm back out in the black again but this time I've got backup, my fleet carrier is with me all the way!