/scg/edg star citizen elite dangerous space general #100: REEEEEE Edition

You'd need a bigger ship attached to it to even power such a thing. At which point you're just some capship's gun.

you would only use the left side since the cockpit sits on the right and no one would want it facing any form of fire anyways.

The hole idea is stupid despite being fun.

Anybody know a good Hotas brand to buy?

>'Member when Caterpillar owners saw "undergunned pirate salvage vessel that needs an escort and isn't a bulldog" and read "specialized ship destroying broadsider that is fine in combat"

depends on how much your willing to spend

be ready for 150+ for anything worth while

Was thinking of the 130 dollar for the Thrustmaster t.1600m Hotas on newegg.

If it was up to the Star Citizen community every ship would have zero fucking cargo space, ten layers of shields, be covered in guns and have a bubble cockpit 30 yards away from the actual ship for maximum visibility.

>apologetics and dev-can-do-no-wrong gets you where Elite is now
Braben is how you get Elite. But we have Chris user, and he shall deliver us from evil, say it with me now

Our Father in RSI,
Chris be your name
your game come
your will be done
on SQ42 as it is in PU
give us this day, our daily jpeg,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgive our
reckless spending
and lead us into temptation
but deliver us from forumdads
forever and ever

amen

I don't even know whos baiting whom anymore.

All you need to know is SC will be 'done' in 202? and we are too far in the deep end to get out now

How do you explain to your housemates when you get your big "thrustmaster" package in the mail though? Keep in mind that when you take it out to show it to them and prove it isn't a sex machine, none of them have seen a joystick, part of it looks like a cyberpunk dragon dildo and the other part looks like the next generation of sybian.

Thrustmaster's new hotas is quite nice.

please remove half your flight keybinds from the game for the sake of immersion

-sincerely, the m/kb user pirate community

No, we would expect a sizable cargo hold as well. Basically a constellation Andromeda that had a canopy designed by someone besides a half blind retard

If it was up to the community every ship would most likely be superiority fighters with outrageous black hole cargo space.

what 3rd world soviet era slum do you live in where you share living space?

Bitch please, half my hats are still unbound because I'm waiting for them to add enough functions to actually fill them. Seriously though, when is the missile selection feature coming?

-CH Products hotas user

>not using leak images in the OP

Can you set it up to have a fuck ton of fighter bays

no

Can you physically jam some piloted Merlins in and then, with significant effort and probably extra help, force them out during flight anyway?

you can stuff it with dragonflies and supposedly fit a few m50s

only one way to find out m8
i'll see you on crusader when 2.6 launches

>slow-crash an avenger into a bay
>close both doors and hope for the best

That's mad gay.
I only play high skill: deadly at the moment, but was thinking about maybe shekeling up for SC recently.

I'm so happy were getting more big ships.

Well if the structural damage model of Star Citizen is as good as they hope it'll be, getting a merlin through a space too small shouldn't explode the ship but instead just take off a wing.

So this master plan will require a repair ship or really fucking good pilots capable of flying at handicap.

y no herald leaks? ;_;

So i have this big module idea..

I ordered some star wars ship models and some extra thin tamiya glue for them once and the cheeky fuck labled the two packages "figures" and "body cream".

That's the vandaluur mod. To be flown together with a swarm of scythes.

How would you fix it /scg/?

Because they took a neat little goofy niche ship and turned it into a big fat lumpy uninteresting ship.

Will SC eventually have any homages to 70's Sci Fi?

If you go Hotas, make sure your throttle has an analog stick on it. I think dual stick or hojam would be better.

What is hojam?

hands on junk and mouse
the only way to fly really

Left hand joystick, right hand mouse.

You can either set it up so that the joystick replaces keyboard directly and have analog strafe thrusters, with roll on the twist, allowing more fine grained maneuvering, or leave the left stick as yaw pitch roll, using a slider for main thruster and hat for strafing. This lets you fly the ship totally decoupled from your gimbal/turret gun aim.

I like that asymmetry.

dead thread

too bad faggot, they changed it

That's okay.

Space and stuff

youtube.com/watch?v=-txg9TmZYj8

how are people playing 2.6 offline?

Mo' space. Also Cryo Chamber is what happens when someone listens to Sleep Chamber and doesn't know latin.
youtube.com/watch?v=X_JAvVjKeWI

>not waiting for 2.6 to go live so it's bug free and populated.

>bug free
>Star Citizen
I don't think that will ever be an achievable goal after any amount of money and any amount of time.

got nothing else to do tonight lad

I wonder if we get one of these stars that are casually 800 times bigger than ours in SC

fuck muh dick

The only thing I want in SC is scale portrayed properly. Stars in ED are lackluster because of our perspective and how we view the scale of objects, that and the distance you're allowed to be to them

>The only thing I want in SC is scale portrayed properly.

We know for a fact it isn't going to be real scale and never was going to be

No, you don't understand. I want large objects and bodies to look large to me. If I warp in next to a star, I want that star to wow me with its sheer magnitude. If I get near a capital ship, I want it to seem like a colossal vehicle compared to me.

>See a catepiller with its bays open with a bunch of smaller ships around it in the distance
>Decide that I'm going to fly through one of the bays at full burn
>Aim and rocket in
>Suddenly realize I'm in an Avenger and not my mini fighter
>At least 3 other ships were destroyed in the blast

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826280080&cm_re=hotas-_-26-280-080-_-Product this is what I was planning on getting, yay or nay?

You get a better sense of scale in ED with VR but even then it's subtle with something as large as a star.

The one change they could make to huge stars, without letting you get unsurvivably close to them, would be to model them more accurately. Our current understanding is that giant stars have very uneven surfaces due to factors like the distance of the outer layers from center of mass. They are not smooth spheres like our sun. Direct imaging of Betelgeuse in particular by Hubble revealed that it has a doughy appearance.

If you were to jump to such a thing the surface features would make its size pretty clear even though you're 6000ls out.

I hate how SE did this years before ED even came out and yet they couldn't manage it.

Space is for dual stick silly

I've decided to get it, watched a review on it and the guy said that the throttle has a controller analog joystick thingy that was similar to having a second joystick.

what is the time period on this gif? an hour?

Up to you, I'd rather use a mouse than either anyways

More like a year. There is no way currents can shift across a surface that immense in a matter of hours.

use two mice

I assume you're saying that because you know there are broadside modules and you can affix all slots to it.

ABLOOBLOO

literally videos or images covering every square inch of it

hope you didnt expect any of it's ewar features or l33t hacker stuff to be in 2.6 lol. it's a very fast armored aurora til at least whenever the major exploration mechanics come in

youre saying that like its a fact.
why do so many cockpit models in the game have a hotas

>I hate how SE did this years before ED even came out and yet they couldn't manage it.
Can't manage things that you don't even try.

whens the next update? i thought it was either around now or the 8th?

i cant seem to find anything on it

...

thanks

Make the floors solid.

has anyone actually taken this thing into crusader with a full crew and proved it's too weak? maybe it's just weak in that full crew are required for anything close to full effectiveness. might be a good way to balance the capital cracker.

I just saw the flight model changes and boost/afterburn refactor. What does /scg/ think?

When I heard that they were going to slow shit down again I instinctively thought they were going to fuck it up worse than it was, but after showing some of the stuff off I think I really like it. It changes the dynamics of maneuverability dramatically.

Afterburn ignites your main engines so you can make it to cruse speeds and only affects your main engines. This finally gives them a more solid purpose thanks to how powerful most maneuvering thrusters were. It feels better than the arbitrary SCM/Cruise toggle and puts cruise speeds under an energy/fuel limitation if you do it too often. Racing will now actually be interesting. It opens the door for speedy ship niches where building a ship around using afterburn often may be advantageous in some situations where a more weapon or armor oriented ship would struggle.

Boosting only increasing maneuvering thruster output also ties into all of the Afterburn stuff and adds another layer of maneuvering depth to the game.

I admit I was a bit worried it'd just turn me into an easy(ier) target, but after seeing the atv footage it may not be too bad.

One man in a gladiator can deliver 8 S5 torpedoes.
Seven men in a Tally can deliver 6 s9 torpedoes.

For its size it does not comparatively offer much of an increase in punching power, while being a much larger much slower target than its alternatives. It's use of internal space is abysmal, literally more than 50% of the internals are functionless corridors.

Thats not even the primary issue though, the primary issue is the combination of realtively weak turrets compared to what they are supposed to defend against and abysmal turret placement preventing more than a a couple of the turrets from reliably focusing fire on a given target, Its a fairly small ship with 5 turret gunners, but the turret are place so poorly that most of them cannot focus fire at all, most of them have extremely limited fire arcs and perhaps worst of all its least defended arc is directly behind, the area it is most likely to be attacked from.

I do not expect CIG to rework the base hull, at all frankly, but I don't want to just accept that its going to be second rate in terms of efficient use of the hull, so I'm fishing for ideas. Also I want to keep beating the drum of it being a sub par ship right now in hopes that it staying on radar of both players and devs keeps it in mind as a ship that needs some love. It ios one of SCs most iconic ships and it should be a viable choice for both its intended bombing role and also its advertised civilian refit role.

Also this for fucks sake. the cramped spaces and glitchy everything mean you bug through the model literally every time you fly it and every tally play session ends with me being ejected into space and having to suicide.

live

bump

The Tally turrets loadout is actually quite good. You can have between 2 and 3 turrets facing any direction at any time, including the rear just by modifying a little the firearc.
All their weapons are on par with what the fighters hardpoint are being rebalanced to be, at worst you make the front turret gain a size so they double as (pilot-linked) front firing guns to match Connie (assuming you don't blow up connie with torpedo already)

There is no need to cry because it's not an dedicated anti-fighter gunship. It will be fast and stealthy and they'll probably be forced to redesign it anyway because they now have a definite size of missiles and the Talli can only carry so much.

But I agree entirely with the rest of the criticism, the space wasted, the pointless corridors, the lack of internal bay for small missile and I'll add "too many landing gear".

Saved. Every time an user uploads some sexy scifi I keep it for future thread.

Do the changes make it less or more impossible for an Aurora LN to barely participate in a fight?

In my Aurora, I flew near some pirates at a comms relay, and they blew apart my engines before I could even land a shot. Auroras are space Reliant Robins.

>Aurora, I flew near some pirates at a comms relay, and they blew apart my engines before I could even land a shot
Well, i got any pirats on my LX, aurora not bad at all even in pvp.

I think you were the problem, not the Aurora. Those NPC pirates shouldn't be a problem in any ship.

Where's the cat pictures and footage coming from? Is it evocati leaks or is ptu out?

someone please post sandi + roberts expressive hand getures webm, I need a laugh

>that face
it gets me everytime

Evo content is publicly available to download because the patch team is incompetent

>A retaliator needs a full crew complement to be effective

loving this meme!

It is a great meme, I give it 7/8 meme points

im not sure how you managed to fuck up
i couldnt get 2.6 to work properly but i was able to try out the survival mode with a mustang alpha
i did pretty well but the shitty guns it has made anything take forever to kill. wasnt damaged too badly after a few waves
you just gotta learn to handle the boost button a little so you can avoid absorbing all the damage
by the 4th round my right engine was scratched up but still did alright