Elite Dangerous Thread

everyone quit the game after odyssey ruined literally fucking everything

>a billion systems
400 billion

>play for months as a space deliveryboy
>make enough cash to buy a larger ship and put weapons on it
>accept a bounty mission
>get obliterated

I'm too dumb for it.

What combat ship did you get? Everyone busts their nuts over the FDL, but I've always had better results with the Vulture. Though I haven't played since before Horizons, so I don't know how things are now.

Not that user, but I kitted out a Fer De Lance, and still there are only two types of combat jobs. Either the enemy is pathetic and they just die out of stupidity, or the enemy is unrelenting and it's impossible to survive. It's also fucked that all bounty targets are actively trying to hunt you down instead of trying to run away from whoever is after them, so all you ever need to do is wait and then kill them when they show up trying to kill you.

Yeah, a solid log is better than a watery shart.

I refuse to play this game without a twin flightstick setup because controller/kbm is awful, but i'm too cheap to invest in sticks.
>t. bought the game forever ago when it was on sale for like $10 and played for an hour

It's because the current version of the game has terrible scaling due to the korean mmo grinding mechanic. An enemy can have the same guns as you, but deal three times the damage you do. The AI randomly gets the extra stats from the grind mechanic even tho the game tells you it's "easy" because they have low tier equipment as base.

My experience with a FDL was pretty dismal, I don't know if I just kitted it out wrong, or I'm a shitter or what.
But I remember being able to go into HazRES and easily trashing everything that got in my way with a Vulture. When I tried that with a FDL, even medium difficulty enemies would leave me with quarter of a hull and a busted cockpit. I also tried a FAS, and I found it worse than a Vulture as well, there's such a small area where all of the weapons can overlap with each other, I had a hard time being able to consistently bring all of it's firepower to bear.

Left, Odyssey fucking tanked the game that was already struggling to stay relevant

ED is a great vase game to go off of, but Fdev is to fucking incompetent to do anything with the IP. Great setting, great potential but being managed by a bunch of retards

>I refuse to play this game without a twin flightstick setup because controller/kbm is awful
KB/M is actually superior with this type of game. Use the same controls as X3 / Warthunder. It's literally more accurate though less immersive.

Anyone have a squadron they suggest joining?
I found this INARA thing which i guess is the third party hub everyone uses
inara.cz/bulletinboard/

Anyone have a suggestion before i join randoms?

What did Odyssey do that destroyed it? Wasn't it just walk around on planets? I dropped off a while ago when I realized that nothing happened and all the players are inconsequential. That, and the fucking multiplayer bugging out constantly so I couldn't wing with my friends.

I'm late to the game, i still have new player goggles on this which i'm sure others wish they had; i wish i could play eve for the first time and not find it boring as hell now.

There's no alternatives. Part of the reason I'm this late. EVE is the alternative and it's a spreadsheet you can turn the graphics clear off and play it with a black background.

>X3/X4
single player
>Star Citizen
obviously but that's a joke.
>EVE
not an actual sim even in an arcade sense, no direct control of the ship

that's it. vendetta online? lol

get a refund while you still can

>Wasn't it just walk around on planets?
That sounds like a massive red flag.
It's a space game.

i posted yesterday; I'm doing this on geforce now and i fucked up; had to install windows instead of linux; lost backups / access to a steam account (only had elite on it), etc;

tldr i bought this fucking game and geforce now twice. i'm playing the game

The fucked up their own game, redid planet surface gen which ended up being a down grade and basically copy pasted sections of a planet over and over.
They can't code for shit and it's optimized like a cart with square wheels. I went from pushing 60+ fps in horizon, in Odyssey I get 40. If I step otta my ship I get like 20.

Odyssey basically added nothing but bugs and issues into the game and broke a lot of shit that they are not fixing.
The problem with ED is as a new player it's great because you have a goal, get the ship you want. But once you reach end game there is fuck all to do.
I got a full G5 engineered vette with prismatic shields and all sorts of shit. It rip roars across the bubble and can 1v1 anything....now I have nothing to do

>KB/M is actually superior with this type of game.
I dunno man, I grabbed my HOTAS from DCS and finally get to feel superior when hearing people talk about their setup.
"Oh man so many commands, I need to set up voice commands to handle everything in the heat of battle"
>Laughs in at least 12 buttons, 6 hats and 10 axes including 2 ministicks

>Odyssey basically added nothing but bugs and issues into the game and broke a lot of shit that they are not fixing.
Lmao

what about the squad / fleet aspect? aren't there carriers you can buy?

ultimitely there was one other alternative i forgot to mention
>star trek online

played that alot because I'm a star trek fan but god is it terrible and the lack of end-game is apparent after 2 days of play. only end game is the cash shop / space Barbie.

I assume there's no player owned stations or any of that.

Do people not hold territory? Can't you get 20 people in and take over an area? With 400 billion systems it's kind of irrelevant i guess. Imagine eve online with 400 billion systems.

fdl requires heavy engineering to go from "good" to "fantastic", and is meant to be more of a shield tank
i know you could say that about any ship but of all the engineered ships ive flown i get the most out of my fdl
also try frag cannons on it, theyre fun
bonus points is you can basically swap everything over to a mamba too if you want to go for more boom and zoom over straight up dogfighting

i've played DCS with hotas, for an actual flight sim it matters but there's no atmosphere or flight effects in elite that i can see.

KB/M is more accurate and easier to use with X3 than full hotas; especially when you don't need that many buttons. I don't see that you really need that many buttons for elite either.

>ZOMG i'm a pro sim player it took 20 hours to learn how to fly in elite and i'm still learning!
i've seen this meme forever, it's a joke. I've been down the DCS - A-10 sinkhole and i'm pretty sure I could hop in one in real life and start it now.

I wish elite was like this, what I really want is DCS in space, but it's still an arcade type sim like star citizen.

I'll try that if I ever get the motivation to play again. I burned out by the time Horizon dropped.

i just want to be a badass space bounty hunter