Elite: Dangerous

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Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Utility to create your own controller reference card.
https://edrefcard.info/

I had my first genuine bug (as opposed to simply a game crash) in ages yesterday. Was playing around with AFK Rez farming with in a Type 10. Left it unattended in a Highrez too long and came back to the rebuy screen.

Rebought and all my engineered weapons, utilities and optional internals were gone damnit (including a class 8 prismatic shield. Can't afford to lose those!)

Support ticket raised hopefully ship is fully restored at some point.

Oilchange

8,468 posts

261 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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I had it a few times where i go into the docking menu and it gets stuck, keys wont work for about 5 minutes.
By the time it unlocks either miles away or being vapourised for intruding...

Toltec

7,161 posts

224 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Oilchange said:
So a joystick and a throttle then ? confused
Yes, both of them have plenty of hat switches so I only really need to use the keyboard to enter text in a system search.

kiseca

9,339 posts

220 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Wayoftheflower said:
Looking good, general release in 16 days.
https://youtu.be/WgT2nLbGfdQ
I was looking forward to this getting released soon. I forgot the date and hoped it was this weekend.... went online and realised it's the PC release. I have to wait until Autumn at least to see it on the Xbox.... frown

Toltec

7,161 posts

224 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Wayoftheflower said:
Utility to create your own controller reference card.
https://edrefcard.info/

I had my first genuine bug (as opposed to simply a game crash) in ages yesterday. Was playing around with AFK Rez farming with in a Type 10. Left it unattended in a Highrez too long and came back to the rebuy screen.

Rebought and all my engineered weapons, utilities and optional internals were gone damnit (including a class 8 prismatic shield. Can't afford to lose those!)

Support ticket raised hopefully ship is fully restored at some point.
I keep a copy of the bindings file in another folder too, don't keep a copy in the original folder though, the game will read that one too, but not update it so any changes keep reverting. Guess how I found that out....

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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kiseca said:
Wayoftheflower said:
Looking good, general release in 16 days.
https://youtu.be/WgT2nLbGfdQ
I was looking forward to this getting released soon. I forgot the date and hoped it was this weekend.... went online and realised it's the PC release. I have to wait until Autumn at least to see it on the Xbox.... frown
Apart from missing first footfall tag on maybe a semi famous world or two I think waiting may be beneficial. The PC release at least initially is going to be a Beta in all but name. I'm waiting for at least a couple of patches before buying.

dapprman

2,328 posts

268 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Wayoftheflower said:
Elite has a very annoying habit of overwriting keybinds with major updates.
Best way to sidestep this is with a custom keybinds file name that won't be overwritten.
Guide is here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2...
Think I found out about this through here, possibly you posting this a year or so back. I've realised though that we're still possibly going to have to write down all our key settings for safety before Origins comes out as there's likely to be a new file then due to all the additional key bindings - think it was Down to Earth Astronomy who gave the view they need to completely redo how you configure them as the present definition system is just too cumbersome and space legs adds even more.

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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dapprman said:
Wayoftheflower said:
Elite has a very annoying habit of overwriting keybinds with major updates.
Best way to sidestep this is with a custom keybinds file name that won't be overwritten.
Guide is here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2...
Think I found out about this through here, possibly you posting this a year or so back. I've realised though that we're still possibly going to have to write down all our key settings for safety before Origins comes out as there's likely to be a new file then due to all the additional key bindings - think it was Down to Earth Astronomy who gave the view they need to completely redo how you configure them as the present definition system is just too cumbersome and space legs adds even more.
I'm really hoping for a completely revamped and more coherent control setup for Odyssey, as opposed to another dozen nested menu options...

I love my overlay menus for controls rather than memorising combos and I'll probably be adding another full one for walking.

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Sunday 16th May 2021
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Wayoftheflower said:
I had my first genuine bug (as opposed to simply a game crash) in ages yesterday. Was playing around with AFK Rez farming with in a Type 10. Left it unattended in a Highrez too long and came back to the rebuy screen.

Rebought and all my engineered weapons, utilities and optional internals were gone damnit (including a class 8 prismatic shield. Can't afford to lose those!)

Support ticket raised hopefully ship is fully restored at some point.
Everything returned, most excellent service. They do make it hard to hate them sometimes biggrin

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Monday 17th May 2021
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FDEV's latest exploration figures are 208,000,000 systems have now been explored. 0.052% of the total galactic systems...

AndrewGP

1,988 posts

163 months

Monday 17th May 2021
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Anyone else doing the Station rescue missions right now? I’m in Delphi in the Python and it’s good fun in Open play, loads of other players getting involved too. And whoever did the sound effects for the damaged stations needs a raise, they’re amazing!

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Monday 17th May 2021
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Yeah station rescues are absolutely fantastic and great for Federal rank if you get a federally aligned station.

Elite's sound design is pretty much flawless. Even little music snatches that creel in if you're cruising for a long time or a long drive.

Most of the Alpha testers says Odyssey keeps up the standard too.

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Launch trailer looking good.
https://youtu.be/RAb3nH5Eilo
Ice world's looking good!

Oilchange

8,468 posts

261 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Just be careful playing in 'open' at Delphi. Departing the rescue ship in my Python and I was rammed several times by 'Wingcommanderbob' in an Anaconda then he interdicted me and I had to make a hasty escape before I was vapourised ...
Then he sends a friends request! I wonder why? wink

Wayoftheflower

1,328 posts

236 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Oilchange said:
Just be careful playing in 'open' at Delphi. Departing the rescue ship in my Python and I was rammed several times by 'Wingcommanderbob' in an Anaconda then he interdicted me and I had to make a hasty escape before I was vapourised ...
Then he sends a friends request! I wonder why? wink
Nice work evading the ganker! Bet that got the heart racing. cool
That's the problem with PVP. When it's balanced it's amazing.
Sadly most of it is dudes in fully engineered FDLs and Cutters trying one-shot anything not a PVP spec FDL or Cutter.

AndrewGP

1,988 posts

163 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Oilchange said:
Just be careful playing in 'open' at Delphi. Departing the rescue ship in my Python and I was rammed several times by 'Wingcommanderbob' in an Anaconda then he interdicted me and I had to make a hasty escape before I was vapourised ...
Then he sends a friends request! I wonder why? wink
Thanks for the heads up! I’ve been playing in Open in Delphi the last few nights in my (unarmed!) Python and it’s been great, some people like me doing the rescues, others taking on the Thargoids and no trouble whatsoever despite everyone being allied to different powers and squadrons.

Despite the 11M Cr cost, I might ship transfer my fully engineered FdL over and have a little fun with him later on biggrin

Btw I’m ‘Cmdr Andrew’ if you see me flying about smile

FourWheelDrift

88,557 posts

285 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Today's the day, the base launcher upgraded. Anyone got it yet?

Oilchange

8,468 posts

261 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Mine is loading. Slowly.

Fabric

3,819 posts

193 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Oilchange said:
Mine is loading. Slowly.
Ditto, it's worth the wait to see the glorious "cannot connect to Frontier servers" banner afterwards though. hehe

motorizer

1,498 posts

172 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Yep, did a nice tutorial mission that bugged out at the end and left me stuck in the dropship.
Can't get on my regular save as the servers seem to be down.

Can anyone remember the last time any game had a smooth launch?