Elite: Dangerous
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Mogster
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I'm Let's Playing my way through the Tomb Raider series: https://www.youtube.com/c/JevanMoss
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Lex-Man
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Amusement under late capitalism is the prolongation of work.
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Victor Mildew
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Hexx wrote:Ad7 is older and balder than I thought.
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Mogster
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You don't have to have a stick at all. It apparently works great with a 360 pad (David Braben's input of choice, apparently), and plenty of people seem to be managing with a keyboard and mouse. HOTAS all the way for me though!
It's still a beta obviously and has a few bugs and the odd crash, but it's still ace. I love how involved everything is, meaning that you're never left twiddling your thumbs on autopilot like in the X games. It's great!
Also the game was improved immeasurably when I added an "Engage!" voice command for hyperspace.
It's still a beta obviously and has a few bugs and the odd crash, but it's still ace. I love how involved everything is, meaning that you're never left twiddling your thumbs on autopilot like in the X games. It's great!
Also the game was improved immeasurably when I added an "Engage!" voice command for hyperspace.
I'm Let's Playing my way through the Tomb Raider series: https://www.youtube.com/c/JevanMoss
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Cheeky Devlin
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[iup=3522649]Mogster[/iup] wrote:You don't have to have a stick at all. It apparently works great with a 360 pad (David Braben's input of choice, apparently), and plenty of people seem to be managing with a keyboard and mouse. HOTAS all the way for me though!
It's still a beta obviously and has a few bugs and the odd crash, but it's still ace. I love how involved everything is, meaning that you're never left twiddling your thumbs on autopilot like in the X games. It's great!
Also the game was improved immeasurably when I added an "Engage!" voice command for hyperspace.
I've played a wee bit of it today as well. It's pretty lovely. It all feels suitably sci-fi as well. Only played with M&K so far but I'll give my 360 pad a shot tomorrow probably. Controls were fairly simple as well, once you figure out a few things. I really like that the left and right interface panels only become active when you're facing them.
I love the way the Hyperdrive works. Lock target, orient to face it, charge drive, throttle up and just go for it. Nothing earth shattering but it all feels absolutely right.
It's completely, 100% sold me on Oculus Rift as well. This game will be amazing with it.
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Mogster
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Speaking of Voice Attack, there are certain commands you maybe don't want to bind, especially while streaming. 
http://www.twitch.tv/geekdomo/c/4798274
http://www.twitch.tv/geekdomo/c/4798274
I'm Let's Playing my way through the Tomb Raider series: https://www.youtube.com/c/JevanMoss
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HailToTheKingBaby!
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Played a little of this. After my first couple of goes (mouse and keyboard control) ended in disaster (crashing trying to dock at the opening spacestation) I switched to the 360 pad which i'm finding much better. After watching a docking tutorial, have managed to dock, buy some stuff, warp to another stations, dock and sell stuff for profit a few times. Not done any combat stuff yet, though I did get attacked at one point which was quite tense, managed to warp away at the last second (a missile was a second away from hitting me) - waiting for the drive to charge whilst trying to evade the attacker was tense as hell but felt quite satisfying when managed to zip away from trouble then get repaired at a nearby space station. 
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Cheeky Devlin
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Played for about an hour and a half tonight. Really beginning to get to grips with this a bit more. Supercruise makes sense and I know how to work it now. Started using my 360 pad instead of M&KB and it was much better (Not that M&KB was bad). It is extremely open ended so far. Pretty much just dropped in and left to get on with it.
While I'm waiting for the youtube export to go live, here's the twitch stream of my playthrough. At one point I spend ten minutes dogfighting with a pirate who eventually gets chased off by an Authority ship as I just can't seem to finish him off (58:45 onwards).
http://www.twitch.tv/cheekydevlin/b/554270875#
While I'm waiting for the youtube export to go live, here's the twitch stream of my playthrough. At one point I spend ten minutes dogfighting with a pirate who eventually gets chased off by an Authority ship as I just can't seem to finish him off (58:45 onwards).
http://www.twitch.tv/cheekydevlin/b/554270875#
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Mogster
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I'm Let's Playing my way through the Tomb Raider series: https://www.youtube.com/c/JevanMoss
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Cal
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[iup=3521712]Wiggy G32[/iup] wrote:so whos playing then?
I took the plunge today - £50!
Still, the good news is it appears to run fine at 'High' on my PC, the bad news is that this is going to take me ages to get to grips with. But I think that's why I paid such a ridiculous price for the Beta; I want a space sim with depth and detail. I'm thinking about Star Citizen, too, but not yet. For the moment I'm going to take a long while to just explore Elite: Dangerous. Looking forward now to seeing how the game expands and patches over the next months.It sure looks pretty! It even works with a 360 controller.
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Irene Demova
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Cheeky Devlin
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[iup=3528221]Albear[/iup] wrote:I was going to buy this but £50!!
What the hell is with that pricing!
It's currently £35 to pre-order, but I'm not sure if that'll change when it releases. £50 gets you in to it now.
I've really enjoyed it so far. I absolutely suck at the combat, but I'm putting that down to needing practise. Trying to slowly save money for a better ship, but it's tough going at the start.
