Elite : Dangerous

[Lowe]

Anyone tried the beta?

I've not got access but have been looking through some of the threads on the FDev forums, and some of the Avatar shots are (to my eyes) incredible.

[kalniel]

Yikes.. genuine uncanny valley for a moment there.

[cptwhite_uk]

Planning on taking it for a spin tonight.

[Macman]

Still on this. Plotted a 1000ly course last night which is consisting of:-

- Hauler
- 20ly +/- range
- Adv Scan & Surface Scanner
- Expect to be exploring for over 30 days

Wish me luck hah!

[Ttaskmaster]

Anyone tried the beta?

Yes, briefly.
MultiCrew was still down when I did, though.

I've not got access but have been looking through some of the threads on the FDev forums, and some of the Avatar shots are (to my eyes) incredible.

Not the best in a game, and I'm a big fan of Character Creators...
Lots of presets, but without that much variance between them. The best CCs have a few wildly different starting presets that you can then mod to match what you want. Same goes for the components, even with the sliders.
It would take a couple of hours with a mirror to get this thing looking anything like me or my friends.

Would be nice to have adjustable body dimensions too, at least within a certain range as your avatar must still be able to fit in the seat and reach the controls.

**SPOILERS**
I like ship naming and some of the other little add-ins. I didn't see any of the new decal colours and features in the shop yet, though, so I guess those will only appear/be revealed once this goes live.


Some other great-sounding features in the release notes, so will have to take a trip out and see - Hopefully tonight.

[Macman]

Home Base - UTSE

Currently 235.90LY away and counting, not discovered any unexplored as of yet, shall keep you posted

[DanceswithUnix]

Not played for ages so thought I would have a quick play.

I was unsure enough about being able to remember where all the controls are that I bought an Eagle and upgraded it rather than risk an embarrassing insurance claim in the FAS which appears to be what I was flying when I last played, at least it wasn't the Conda .

I stopped playing when Engineers came out, so lots has changed.

One of the first things I did was target a USS which turned out to have an escape pod in it. Now marked as legal salvage, so I scooped it into half of my 2T hold. Did some bounty hunting at a low resource site with the help of police ships to keep things easy, turned out as a nice profitable run.

But I still have that escape pod in my hold. Are you supposed to sell them as slaves? Where I am docked it appears they aren't into that sort of thing so I expect the poor sod is about to get ejected into space.

Edit: Silly me, found them under "salvage". Is a life worth 2.5K? I guess doing a good deed should be reward in itself

[rich835]

Are you supposed to sell them as slaves?

I think they're also useful as mission rewards. I recall picking them up off planet surfaces a while back for mission rewards

[Macman]

Now 1,200ly from home system. Picking up unexplored planets, no uturns until 24 days lol.

Be quaking in me boots on the return lol because I can't see it defending itself too well lol.

[Ttaskmaster]

Edit: Silly me, found them under "salvage". Is a life worth 2.5K? I guess doing a good deed should be reward in itself

No, but you're being paid for your trouble and saving them the expense of sending out a rescue ship to do it instead.

[DanceswithUnix]

Ooh, LHS 304, my first visit to a Neutron Star. Such a pretty game this!

Is it just me that gets a momentary pause in the game at the start and/or end of a jump? From the Windows resource monitor it looks like it is network related as there is a big burst of traffic when it happens.

[Lowe]

That's the instance change. The better your network connection the less stuttery it is.

[DanceswithUnix]

That's the instance change. The better your network connection the less stuttery it is.

Figured it must be something like that, but then I had assumed that covering that was the whole point of the jump animation where the universe whizzes around you.

I am on 68Mb down, 18Mb up which really should be enough!

[Lowe]

True but it's not just about pure bandwidth at your end, it's anyone else you're potentially syncing with and FD's servers who organise all the P2P stuff. As such it'll never be 100% seamless, especially at peak times.

[Ttaskmaster]

Had a quick play in Multicrew and with the new camera suite - Awesome stuff!!!
Bit buggy, mainly due to my naff broadband, but still playable and gives another dimension to the gameplay.

Looking forward to getting a big ship again and having friends play on board!

[Lowe]