Elite:Dangerous

[nowhere.elysium]

They've really uprated the combat in this game now. I took a bounty mission to kill a pirate lord, which used to be easy as anything. I finally find the guy (after happening across a couple of NPCs that said "He's over there, but sod taking him on"), only to discover that he's ranked as Elite, and in a fully upgraded Anaconda.

https://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/02/nope.gif
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[lihp]

I aborted my mission when you went boom.
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[nowhere.elysium]

[MarJay]

Pork Lord vs. the Pirate Lord!
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[lihp]

I had a decent night last night, until I got fined for the illegal cargo that I forgot I was carrying.
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[nowhere.elysium]

I had a fair degree of success with random combat today, and I've also managed a fair bit of smuggling too.
Despite the endless reams of bawwwing happening on the frontier forums, I'm really enjoying the way the game has turned out.
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[lihp]

I've avoided the forums, as I'm really enjoying it, and the bawwwwing will put a downer on something that I have never seen.
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[rideslikean00...]

Interesting. Nearly two decades since the release of Frontier First Encounters and it's actually pretty good? Not that I personally have a powerful enough rig to handle it, my last surviving desktop PC is pushing eight years old and has an early dual core processor (Pentium D) with a graphics card that does 1080p HD video decoding and that's about it.

I wonder if it's worth getting a decent machine, big investment for me though. I haven't custom built a PC in a long time but I loved the two Elite sequels. Even with the bugs and gameplay deficiencies, they were captivating.

People with way more experience PC building than me, what's a good minimum spec for playability of Elite: Dangerous - I'm talking a stable frame rate of 30fps at 720p resolution for as little money as possible, ideally with some sort of joystick into the package.

INB4

https://www.laweekly.com/imager/beavis-and-butthead/b/big/4168963/0abf/beavis550.jpg

Huhuhuh, you said "joystick into the package".
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[MarJay]

[nowhere.elysium]

First Encounters was meant to be the worst one, wasn't it?

I have an HD 6770 for sale, if you want. Personally, I'd also put the 35 quid down on a cheap hotas setup: the game is seriously improved by it.
8GB of RAM is more than sufficient: the game is 32 bit, so uses less than 4GB. Quad-core CPUs are listed as being minimum spec. I've got a six-core AMD, and have had no problems thus far.

Ignore MarJay's apparent bitterness: he's still grumpy about docking issues
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[MarJay]

[lihp]

To quote Cansa.

User training issue.
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[metalangel]

I'll actually start playing it properly tomorrow. Fired up for a quick go last night and just did the tutorials to remind myself what the controls were.

Am I being thick, is there an option to padlock your target like in other flight/combat sims?
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[MarJay]

[dabigginger]

[nowhere.elysium]

It's definitely not short of kinks that need ironing out, but my experience of it has been pretty well bug free for the last several point releases.

Solo and private group play increase the stability massively, since it's less prone to server latency in those modes.
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[lihp]

[MarJay]

Turns out I might maybe possibly have an Eagle in addition to my sidewinder...
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[MarJay]

Ok so I had an Eagle. It was given to me as a Kickstarter backer, and I owned it rather than it being loaned like the Sidewinder. I took it out and flew it around for a bit but it didn't seem all that, and had 2 tonnes of cargo space so I sold it.

Now I have a Hauler which Gerry described to me as a Space Transit Van. Seems about right, it even has Ford style air vents in the dash.

I've found some decent trade routes and also have done a few haulage missions from the bulletin board. These are generally more lucrative than trading, and are pretty much guaranteed income. They also increase rapidly in reward, but also get harder and harder in time limit.

I was attacked once whilst in the Hauler last night, and I was just making some headway against the bad guy's Viper when the Space Filth came along and took the kill. Shame, I could have done with a nice bounty.
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[lihp]

Selling the eagle due to 2T cargo space misses the point a little

You could have kept the eagle, and added more space to the sidewinder.

It's meant as a light combat ship, very manouverable, mine has earned me over 250k in bounties, I'm now back in a kitted out Viper
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[nowhere.elysium]

Sold the Cobra in the end. I've now got a fully tricked-out Viper for hunting, and a fairly basic Type 6 for larger-scale hauling. The Cobra was very fun, but I really wanted something a bit more specific to each role.

Protip - ships and modules/weapons are cheaper at Shinrarta Dezhra.
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[MarJay]

[lihp]

[nowhere.elysium]

[lihp]

London Tax
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