*** 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!

 

[silvagti]

I'm going to ask a sacrilegious question here.

What are peoples thoughts about playing with a PS4 controller or similar?

I had a cheap HOTAS setup for a while but sold it and went back to using an Xbox controller. I just find it more relaxing being able to sit back in my chair!

If anything I’m more tempted to upgrade to an Xbox / ps elite controller (with extra triggers being used for yaw control) than going back to HOTAS!

 

[Devrij]

Whole lotta space trucking lately. 45% towards my asteroid station, Fraggle Rock

 

[rgrocott]

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 fly with a PS4 controller, along with Voice Attack when I'm in VR. I don't have a dedicated gaming area so HOTAS/HOSAS would just be too much clutter for me.

Using a control pad lacks the really fine-grained adjustments you can make with sticks or a mouse, which makes combat with fixed weapons and flying with FA off more challenging. It's absolutely fine for general flight, docking/undocking etc.

 

[Noxia]

I'm making my way towards the engineer for the fsd, sold all my mining modules for now.

Something annoying that happens sometimes is I'm aligned with my target to jump and nothing happens, not sure what it is but eventually it decides to do it. I wondered if it was network lag or something.

 

[iron_monkey]

Mass locked? If you're near a large object you need to move further away before it lets you jump.
Fyi i think the guardian fsd is better than the fully engineered fsd and it's easier to get as well.

Edit to say: it's the pre-engineered fsd u want and it's the guardian fsd booster.

 

[Noxia]

I don't believe I was mass locked no, it seems to be quite random. I'll make a conscious effort to check but 99% sure it's not the case.

I don't know what the guardian fsb booster is so will carry on with my route for now

 

[bigmike20vt]

Mass locked? If you're near a large object you need to move further away before it lets you jump.
Fyi i think the guardian fsd is better than the fully engineered fsd and it's easier to get as well.

Edit to say: it's the pre-engineered fsd u want and it's the guardian fsd booster.

make sure any drive you engineer now is an SCO variant. it is better in every respect (for the pedant i will add outside of some incredibly edge case scenarios with iirc v small ships ) . you can buy pre engineered versions of these which are the defacto best FSDs in the game however they have some materials needed to buy them which may be considered too awkward to get for new players.

 

[iron_monkey]

Everything in this game is a massive grind so may as well grind for the best parts right.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Everything in this game is a massive grind so may as well grind for the best parts right.

It is but you can embrace the grind in some respects. I'm a low spare time player and I don't think I would have played as wide as I have without chasing some of the grind items. Getting Ground CZ wins or farming materials at settlement restart missions for instance. I'm the proud owner of some G5 weapons and suits and whilst I had to work hard to get the stuff it did drive me to do things I might not have tried otherwise.

 

[bigmike20vt]

Everything in this game is a massive grind so may as well grind for the best parts right.

grind is in the mind

(to me its just playing the game, tho i will admit some parts could be fleshed out to make more interesting)

 

[Dano]

Everything in this game is a massive grind so may as well grind for the best parts right.

Maybe, but throwing on my quest 3 and chilling out to some tunes while hauling, mining or whatever is really quite relaxing so I don't really notice it.