/scg/edg/ Star Citizen Elite Dangerous General #249

I wish these games had crazy shit like this.

>makes thread after splitfag
>still fucks it up
e;d fags everyone

o I don't play E:D, didn't look at the bottom links
sry

can we go to the other planets in the system in 3.0? or are we confined to the gas giant for now?
i can mark the planets as targets for QT but the avengers QT range is like 850k KM with OlisarDaymar being like 840k KM

yeah, can only go to the 4 moons right now
nice to see the scale when you zoom out though

there is a chance the planets are actually there and visitable, remember the dude that got telepoted to the sun, 19 fucking million KM

Is Sothis/Ceos still a good way of ranking up with Sirius Corp? I've been fucking about in Procyon but they give shit missions over there.

i got tp'd somewhere earlier and was too new to think about doing something with it
oh well

they aren't
a few videos (originating from reddit) of people on top of where the planets should be but nuttin there

>be derek
>be this mad about someone walking back into game development after 20+ years and putting out something better in every way than he could ever do
>spend the entire holiday break calling a handful of autists on a image board cultists instead of being with family
sometimes i just feel pity for you derek but then you shitpost here and then i remember what a useless black cunt you always were.

what fucking issue? making fun of Smart was the starting point of this conversation. you can be as mad as you like, but don't pretend we were deflecting anything.

how do you target those derelict sites that are way the fuck out past delamar anyway? the only way I have figured out to make QT beacons is to click on a planet or station in the ship's HUD map, so I can't even find those out there.

Thats concept art for Star Citizen

Concept art isn't always implemented.

>when you fall through the anus of the planet

I thought all non-moon mission objectives were targetable.

happened to me too, you don't fall out the other side, because it has gravity too. you just get stuck falling eternally in the core of the planet. you can't even bring up the mobi to take off your helmet and suicide

I honestly fear for Spider, they had a bunch of awesome lore and concept art for it, but then they made Nyx next door as a different pirate hub that was taking Spider's market share. it makes me wonder if they didn't decide it was too much technical difficulty to make in game with the added scope.

perhaps they are, but how? you still have to set up a quantum point, you can't just Q-target anything you see like you could in 2.6

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Star citizen looks so dark, grim and low lit, like it's constantly night, or there's no decent interior lighting, have they spoke abit this changing?

Also will ships be customisation in appearance and interior s they don't look so copy paste?

what about the outfits, the fashion is a bit shit, too rl modern, not enough futuristic, inspired designs,

so far these are big gripes of mine

From what they've done so far with ArcCorp and the Shubin station, it doesn't look that far out. I'd expect to to be implemented looking pretty close to the design.

Star citizen is going to happen..

It's not just me right? Closing the launcher kills the game immediately

it's space user, there's no light other than what's made artificially. and at that point you're not connected to a massive power grid servicing hundreds of miles of dense power consumption.
honestly long as theres sunlight hitting something it's pretty bright, i've got no gripes about dimly lit ship and station interiors

as for fashion it's literally 1960s era militaria and b movie scifi, that is the stylistic theme of the game.
personalization and cosmetics are the last thing on their to-do list, check back in 2-3 years when theres a game large enough for personal snowflake fashion or NPC clothing variety to matter on the same level as "will getting out of my ship kill me" "i'm falling through this moon and being compressed in it's gravitational center"

Lighting seems realistic to me. They could give the ship lights more power though when visiting dark surfaces.
I was just thinking they could create a station with a bunch of mirrors littered around so it's lit up everywhere whenever the star is shining on it.

You guys don't understand,

CGI bought cryengine and VOIP to fake squadron 42 within the 32bit sandbox they hired a Indian company to make, they had mark hamil double a random character using a 10000$ camera (bought with backers money even after they demonstrated it worked with any webcam) but after that they don't truly hire actors, they only paid them to appear on the mocap. The truth is they are using 3D mocap by janitor ever since they sold the right of SC to a publisher through a bank loan trick.

The Homestead demo was just GO PRO footage made in a desert with a 3D filter and badly fused 3D model of ship and worms. They prerendered everything, the sight from space, the looping terrain that act as a loading screen while they load the ground-map, even the space station seen from the ground is prerendered.
You can see how railroaded and constrained it really is when the Constellation try to move out of the flight corridor and fake turbulence force it back to the landing pad. Without it you would notice the 2D sprite scenery just like the landing at Levski.

It's all smoke and mirror, you've another example of it it in the S42 slice, they literally created volumetric cloud to hide the blatant skybox!

3.0 don't even have gameplay yet, flying ship, walking on ground, moving box, every game can do that!
You can trust me I have a source in Concierge's private group.

I just saw a guy dressed like Altair on Olisar. He had the sandman cape and all

I was hoping he'd have like 20K+ posts.
disappointed

guess I will then, because without it i might as well play elite dangerous and pretty much any fps and get the same shit -boarding parties

Yeah they give you lots of boom data delivery missions atm, got to allied in like a half hour.
Still need to get the permit near sirius though.

>tfw E:D reminds me of Spore's space stage
>suddenly all the potential that game had fills me with sadness all over again
>E:D will probably go down the same path
I'm autistic

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you can do this on command by hopping behind the trade counter at levski

star citizen is neat

yea

I just want Star Citizen to get its shit together so Braben has to start making good content for Elite.

I have a lighter balanced on my w key running across yela because fuck night landing. They need headlights that go more tham 5 meters

another happy landing

That thing puts off a lot of light

this game takes a lot from swg doesnt it

I'm like 50 feet from an ore facility

What Steam controller setup do you guys use for Elite: Dangerous?

The default setup is awful, and I'm surprised the game doesn't even recognize that I have a controller plugged in. Half the buttons are still on the keyboard.
I got gifted the game a few days ago, but because I haven't really played space combat games before I don't really know what to look for in a good controller setup.

>he fell for the steam controller meme

this game is pretty when it wants to be

also fuck night landings

I don't know about the steam controller's specific functions, but does the PC version let you combine keys? Because I'd suggest looking into how the console versions map controls.

I play on PS4, and a lot of less urgent functions are combinations. Stuff like

>X is target closest to cross hairs; X + left is next target, X + down is previous, X + up is target subsystem

Etc.

Hey I have one and its great. Its hell for sc but in ed it should be a good fit

Can you seriously not make the cargo elevator go back up in the constellation without already being inside the ship?

C O M F Y

I just want my 40K mod with extreme fidelity.

HAHAHAHAHA Fucking splitfag
HAHAHAHAHAHA 8 IPs
How many times we gotta teach you this lesson old man?

You should be able to, it's probably bugged.

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Can I have a passenger ride in the deployed constellation cargo elevator if I quantum travel?

I want to pick up this stranded guy but dont want to be executed

No, it's outside the physics grid when it's deployed.

oh no where did my pistol go why is my pistol gone this isnt funny

>tfw just passed 450 million credits in ED

The fuck do I even buy with all this

How bad are the Hull E guys gonna be when they die trying to do the most profitable route that happens to be risky?

You are less than halfway to a fully equipped murder conda. You have just now started to get real money, you haven't arrived at shit.

>find an empty server for the first time
>grab my Aurora LN and accept a black box mission
>go to the wreckage and bring the black box back to my ship
>can't go up the ladder while carrying the box
>manage to glitch myself inside the ship by standing on a ladder, closing it, and spamming crouch
>put down the box, everything seems to work as usual
>box disappears
>waypoint appears
>Black Box 293km

All the ships, and besides, 450m ain't shit, you shouldn't stop grinding until you have like 2 - 3 billion.
>tfw at 1 billion

Redpill me on the Type-10 Defender.
Everything about it says its a piece of shit, but FDev wouldn't waste all that time developing a ship to make it shit, right?

Save it for the Krait or the Panther coming soon

I do like it. I wouldn't be using it over my keyboard if I didn't think it had the potential to be better.
If feels like it can be great, it's just that that the default controls are arse.

Yup, it's totally programmable. directions, clicks, even hard or soft presses are all programmable to stuff.
I'd just make a custom profile and set it all up by hand, but the problem is I don't yet know what I want. I'm still too new at this genre.
Eventually I'll get used to it and fine tune it to my liking, but for right now I need something that will actually let me fly.

There is surprisingly little controller support in this game. The ingame options, the forums, even google itself barely has anything on Steam Controller + Elite: Dangerous.

Anyway, given the crappy information in the game's options menu, I've resorted to drawing a picture of my controller on a piece of paper and writing down what each button does at the moment.

>eva with blackbox
>fly into Cutlass
>"fall" down
>box vanishes
>no new marker

>How bad are the [truckerfags] guys gonna be
fucking entitled retards, if history is a guide. This has been beat to death, but if someone takes a risky route for a high payout without escort, you get what you deserve.
Most of us are banking on that part of the game to work like that. It's one of the aspects of eve that would be good to have, if all the insufferable cunts that actually consider eve a game didn't come with it.
>he figured out how to get in the ship with the box
You are a wagon toting, injun shootin pioneer, user.
>FDev wouldn't waste all that time
Let me just stop you right there. They would. They do. They will continue to do so.

It's way overpriced

this game is fucking gorgeous

>will probably
has already

>EDG still no content after 3 years
>SC provides a barebones build that's barely playable after 5 years of development

Will X4 be our savior?

I can't believe X will finally be good

It is. That's what makes the fps bugs so infuriating. You can watch your gpu percentage be so low from waiting around for updates, and just know it would be that pretty and high fps.
It's unrealistic to say, but if we got hangar fps in the PU, there would be nothing more critical to say looking forward other than what the next game feature to be added will be.

I know nothing of X. Why should I care? Not being sarcastic, serious question.

which is how much in world measurements?

this is what you need to know about X
it's made by germans for germans

that is fascinating and frightening at the same time

It's more focused on empire building and an very in-depth trading system
and gets really autistic when you start modding it. You start off in a single ship and before you know it you're managing fleets of ships, training an army and building new stations across the universe.

uh roughly 15m

We'll find out in March user. I think that's going to be the highlight of 3.1, as I don't think it's likely we'll see a new planet or profession that soon. Hopefully the little updates they'll push out when they come back should help in the meantime.

i wish we could get some flood lights on ship bottoms if they're not going to enable night vision

Use inner thoughts to place it in from outside.

>finally go through all the crap with Sirius Corp needed to unlock Marco Qwent
>"I see you've got the invite to see me, now give me 25 of this rare item that only drops in small amounts as a mission reward"

I guess I didn't really want to mod my power plant anyway

RELEASE
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Youre probably better off doing full keyboard emulation

More interested in the Krait desu

Given how they've described it as a sluggish but well armed fighter part of me hopes they'll do something stupid like stick 1 or more Huge hardpoints on it.

Quick Elite Dangerous question:

Is there any way at all to jettison modules / hardpoints whilst in flight (without visiting a station)?

I'm on a long journey (~40kly round trip) and foolishly didn't realise just how long the journey would be...
Around a 3rd of way to destination (first leg, before return) so way out from any stations.

Could really do with a way of stripping my ship to absolute minimum, as any increase to my jump range would help a lot (...know this should've been done before setting out. I fucked up.)

Got 1700 jumps left. 3 week deadline.

there is not

No.

you dun fucked up

Nah, that'd be interesting. None of that.

Turn around now and eat the distance as a lesson. You will save time in the long run if you can add 5-10ly to your range.