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Elite: Dangerous

Being able to get up out of you seat, and walk around the cockpit of your spacecraft, in VR really is cool....even if you do end up leaving your decapitated body sitting in your chair. Very immersive.
 
ED peeps - 80-strong expedition leaving The Bubble November 19th. It's a biggie - 106,000 light years up the 'Eastern' side of the galaxy to 12 o clock then straight down the Colonia. 16 weeks, weekly Sunday evening meetups with SRV nonsense. From previous experience the meetups are the best bit. Always good to meet other explorers. Understand if it's not for any of you as it's a huge trip - it'll be the third biggest I've done - but thought I ought to invite you in case you fancied it.
 
S☼I said:
ED peeps - 80-strong expedition leaving The Bubble November 19th. It's a biggie - 106,000 light years up the 'Eastern' side of the galaxy to 12 o clock then straight down the Colonia. 16 weeks, weekly Sunday evening meetups with SRV nonsense. From previous experience the meetups are the best bit. Always good to meet other explorers. Understand if it's not for any of you as it's a huge trip - it'll be the third biggest I've done - but thought I ought to invite you in case you fancied it.
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Is it doable in a cobra?
 
S☼I said:
Yeah, there won't be anywhere where the star density requires big jumps. Only trouble with a Cobra is its range. What can yours do? It's like 6500 light years a week. Only 120 jumps for me at 55 light years each jump.
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I'll check later. Not played in a while to be honest. PUBG is firmly holding my interest at the moment.
 
souljacker said:
I'll check later. Not played in a while to be honest. PUBG is firmly holding my interest at the moment.
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Ok. A trip like this is a big commitment. I think you'd love it mind. You need any help with anything let me know. Money no object, I'm happy to drop you off Palladium by the metric fucktonne if it helps you get a ship with longer legs.
 
iamwithnail said:
I kind of fell out with Dangerous, it felt very... 'what's the point'? I miss the story driven aspects of Elite 2 or whatever, feel like I'm missing something big with the gameplay.
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Yeah, I get that some peeps prefer a story. Frontier are lacking in this regard. The introduction of aliens has-been disappointing. I never expected anything though, I don't like missions. "You" are the story. And the players you meet in-game. Frontier never organised or incorporated canyon racing, SRV Destruction Derbies, ship limbo, mass jumping, expeditions with hundreds of others including weekly meetups, mapping projects, etc etc. I've done all those cos it was simply possible. It's not for everyone I know, and I've had my burnout periods where I couldn't bring myself to log in. But today I leave on a four month expedition with over 100 others...and it will be marvelous.
 
For anyone interested Frontier are releasing a whole year of free updates for the game. Some are for the base version of the game, others Horizons. The PC Beta for Chapter 1 of the content starts on Thursday!

You can read what's known about it here: Beyond: Chapter One

There will also be some dlc at some point. At present, no comment on what it is.
 
I do like Beyond, and would have done today if Oculus hadn't managed to find a way to take everyone's headset offline.
 
Someone did a video recording all the exploration that has gone on since launch:



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ps: also it is fantastic in VR
 
I do remember playing this for hours on the ZX Spectrum when I was a kid. Started an OU degree and surprised myself by rembering how much actual programing I did then (not worked on either this game or the original game that I am talking about.


A bit of an elephant.
 
I tried playing this again the other day, it wasn't doing it for me. I'm sticking with Eve Online, very steep learning curve but so much more to do :)
 
Kanda said:
I tried playing this again the other day, it wasn't doing it for me. I'm sticking with Eve Online, very steep learning curve but so much more to do :)
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Thanks for that Kanda :D
I've been playing Elite again after a five month break. It takes some sticking with at the beginning for sure. If only you'd given me a shout. Still can if you ever fancy it, I'd be happy to assist. I've literally more money than I can spend and love helping newbies.

EVE - I did the training missions then stopped. I found it far too complicated to do simple things.
 
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