/scg/edg/ Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous General #33

>>153415740
By making the the alien ship a shitty static object in the game and then making us wait for months until they actually introduce them

>>153415740

By making it so you only ever see them when they pull you out of witch space and buttfuck you to death without giving you even a tiny chance to succeed.

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>>153415424
Being Space FBI is the reason I got so fucking moist over the Cutlass Blue before the ship turned out to be a heaping pile of biowaste. I'm still looking forward to the role and hoping they give you the ability to just straight up sign up as an agent in-universe, but my enthusiasm has somewhat decreased with the utility of the ships that're supposed to be doing the job.

wow the new thrustmaster hotas sounds sick
>In total, this provides gamers with 9 axes, 30 buttons and two 8-way POVs – plus 3 extra axes via the optional TFRP rudder.

but I already have a t.16000m and I can't reach the hat or top buttons comfortably with my thumb. How do I go about extending my thumb? I saw those asian thumb extenders for smart phones but I think they are just a gag gift.

7th for Delta >>>>> Legionnaire
both vie for title of the most heavily armed tiny craft
both die if caught out by anything
Delta can actually dodge

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>>153415740
>Aliens confirmed.
>How will frontier fuck this up?
By forgetting humans used to be a minority before the Empire gassed all the planets with non-humans on them so as to make room for more human colonies?

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>>153416017
>can't reach the hat or top buttons comfortably with my thumb

Are you a baby?

>>153416142
I have short fingers but am otherwise an adult

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Why doesn't the UEE enforce anti-monopoly legislation against Big Benny's? They seem to control the whole ramen market.

>>153416017
Are you a qt 4'11" girl be honest

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>The democratic government changed abruptly to one of strict Imperial rule, and from then on the family assumed leadership. Female children in the family are prevented with genetic techniques such is the vehement hatred of Marlin Duval's principles and vision of a world living in peace.
What went wrong?

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More evidence of the alien genocide coverup.

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>>153416793

>Harmless Rodents
>deadly civil war

>>153416739
Hitler won in ED's timeline.

>>153416248
no I'm a fucking white male
>>153416502
no my peen is 7"

my thumb is only 2.25" from the crease. I am curious how long other people's thumbs are and if they enjoy using the t.16000m

the design seems too long and curved forward to me. The ch joysticks look much shorter and functional so I want to get one of those someday.

>>153416880
Even a harmless race can kill each other. That's something PLANTS do. The harmless adjective comes from the perspective of a human.

>>153416739
this girl is a qt but her basic profile makes her sound like le mother of dragons. Is she that bad in the lore?

>>153417087
Hi Nick!

>>153415989

What's wrong with Blue, and does it affect Red? I thought the idea of space paramedic would be sweet as hell, I love playing medbay in ss13.

>>153416739
If the empire/fed war started because the empire gassed an alien planet to make a new colony - er, "forcibly relocated the population of an alien planet", where did they move the population to? And how come these aliens don't exist 100 years later, to the point that nobody acknowledges that they existed in the first place. What started the empire/fed war then?

>>153416793
>2 billion rodents
>not genociding each other
>"peaceful"
Cover up.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradise-into-a-terrifyin-1687584457

>>153417317
It's less the Blue and more the base hull. I've heard it flies and behaves better in 2.5, but I haven't flown it lately. The variants are still not flyable.

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>>153417087

Holy fuck, all the shit Derek has done finally makes sense. He is still asshurt about Ben's comments from 12 fucking years ago.

>>153415989
Isn't there some kind of nonlethal-focused Avenger variant in the works though? For bringing them in alive?

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How do I get better at flying?

I feel like I can't kill anything in my Avenger

>>153417617

you mean the very first version?

because the first one has prisoner cells

>>153417548
Ben is gone though and Derek sees those type of comments from everyone he ever interacts with.

>>153417617
Avenger Warlock, yes. They need to fix resetting of weapon groups before that one becomes viable. I hate having to reset my bindings every time I get in the cockpit, especially since they really don't like resetting so your EMP generator isn't on primary fire and every single gun on your ship is on secondary. The Stalker has prisoner cells, which is what >>153417771 was talking about, but the Warlock only has EMP in the trunk, so you'd have to stuff your bounty in through the cockpit and lock them in the bed, which isn't exactly going to be fun.

>>153415740

Holy SHIT someone teach this guy how to avoid rocks by boosting over them. Shit is embarassing.

>>153417632
pick a different ship

also do you have strafing and reverse strafe mapped? (I think it's bugged again and you have to actually bind forward strafe to reverse throttle)

>>153417617

I thought non-lethal weaponry for personnel and ships was happening? Ion guns designed to disable ship sections on the ship models, radar lock jamming and all that. Don't know what they'll do for fps, I can see stun shotgun blasts but how are you going to arrest people? Timed self disintegrating plastic cuffs?

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>>153417632
Use the Tigerstreik as a main. It's gimballed so you can aim easily.

>>153417920
>Avoid rocks by boosting over them

Mind explaining real quick? A part of the reason I hate horizons is because of how much of a bitch the SRV is from my experience so far.

>>153417804
>Ben is gone

What?

>>153418072
Put all pips into engines, hit space to jump when you're a few seconds away from smacking a rock and you'll float over it.

You should keep all pips in engines at all times unless fighting.

>>153416142
my thumb is too short to reach the topmost button and hat on my ch fighter stick.

>>153417804

>Ben is gone though

Nah man he was just in the hospital for a while.

>and Derek sees those type of comments from everyone he ever interacts with.

Yeah but none of those people end up a designer on a $120 million crowd funded property that shits all over everything Derek has ever made. Hell, I remember Chris saying that Ben remembers more about Wing Commander than he does. That's one of the reasons he went from Community Manager to having a direct role in the design of new ships.

Wheres guy with connie aquila pic?

>>153418072
>>153418227

Alternatively:

Get into the turret, spin it around to the back and proceed to drive everywhere backwards.

No longer doing donuts and rarely ever hit rocks anymore.

>>153418460
Hopefully him and the avenger poverty craft poster are both dead.

>>153418404

I know Drake Interplanetary was Ben's idea, ""search & rescue"" advertised craft that everyone knows is used for piracy instead, what ships has he helped in the design work of?

>>153418227
How?? Can you not reach all the buttons on the logitech stick?

>>153418547
Someone here mentioned that to me before. Though I'm not too thrilled about the idea of having to drive backwards to get the damn thing to drive decently.

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>>153418557
>avenger
Best ship.

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Who /GoToAVanduulSystemAndKillAsManyAspossibleForAPaycheck/ here?

>>153419124
it would be cool if you could enter through cockpit and the MFDs were actually in front of your face instead of a stupid helmet

right now it makes me want to shoot everyone at port olisar

>>153419170
I can't wait to hijack a Scythe/glaive and slowly snip off those flimsy parts.

>>153418971

The SRV's design is ass-backwards.

Literally.

All the mass is in the back and it has the most clearance, so that's the end that wants to face forward.

>>153419124
>best poverty tier ship
At least get it right.

how do I enable AA in SC and does it make a difference

>>153419283
Boost jumping is funner. And way, way faster.

will the argo be like a forklift simulator within the game?

it looks pretty cool. Has anyone flown it yet?

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>>153419124
Wrong, still.

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>>153419170
I don't have time for that.
I've got to get this load Xi'An C'oors across the Terra Loop for some rich guy's party in Helios. It's a good thing my friend's in his blocker M50

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Will SC have weapon platforms? They were really fun to go up against.

>>153419631
Youre so fucking slow, dude.

>>153419631
S P A C E S U P E R I O R I T Y

>>153419748
You need a Hull C picture to make a Smokey and the Bandit reference work right, Anon.

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>>153419423
>poverty tier ship

>>153420042
Fine then you show me a good wallpaper of a Hull C from in game.

>>153419871
I may be slow, but at least I have best ship.

>>153419978
Not the Aquila. Aquila is for discovering.

>>153418685

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Polaris. I think he sits in on all the ship design meetings now.

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which ship handles the best and why is it the Imperial Clipper?

>>153420207
Handles great at the price of being 75% useless in combat.

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>>153420149

>>153420360
Am I the only one that can't stand external cargo?

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>>153420070

>tank treads

if there's one thing the mediocre ingame implementation got right, it's getting rid of those

literally awful

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>>153420360
>Open loaded
What other kind of fucking loaded does the Hull series have?

>>153420207
FDL with g5 dd.

>>153420360
>>153420042
Hull strikes me more like a Cargo tanker

>>153420482
The tracks were arguably stupid, but considering that it's supposed to operate on like border world military planetary outposts, at least putting wheels on the damn thing might have been a good idea.

>>153420457
Yep. I'm the exact opposite. Give me cargo trailers to haul through asteroids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKwN1YIafo

>>153420624
What's best fit for a semi truck? Freelancer, with the ad, is clearly meant to be a pickup truck.

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>>153420360
can't wait to shoot rockets at that

>>153420707
Freelancer MAX?
Constellation Tarus?

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>>153420630

almost every ship is guilty of having fucking skids unfortunately

it's part of the reason why I like the avenger's design

Will I find more USSs by moving around in a system in SC, or can I just park my ship at 30km/s and still find them at the same rate?

>>153420750
>Destroy convoys of fuel loaded carriers
>Now get stuck in bumfuck nowhere having to travel for six irl weeks just to refuel

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>>153420526
>>153420327
mine's about to get fit for a pleasure cruise exploration role. its supercruise handling is to die for and makes the searching of systems very tolerable.

the fdl does 514m/s heavy duty killfit

Alright anons.

Take your favorite ship from Elite and your favorite ship from SC. Throw them into the arena, which would come out on top? Which game has the better combat ships?

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>>153420707
The Hull series is definitely supposed to be the Semi of Star Citizen. And the delivery truck. And the ice-cream truck. And the cargo tug. And every variety of cargo carrier.

>>153421154
Hull A or B is the Semi.
C is the Cargo Train
E is the Cargo Barge

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>deep south flight control operator.

>>153421154
Would this thing fall if it got too far into atmosphere

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>>153420863
>>153420863

please respond

what if they had cargos full of popcorn kernels and then when you blow them up they shoot popcorn everywhere

>>153421382
Yes.

>>153421000
Post your killfit.

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>>153421294
Meanwhile, the Hull-D is pic related, with MRAP modifications available.

>>153421359
If you try to go into atmosphere in anything larger than a Hull-B while fully laden, you will be unable to land except in water.

>>153419463

You can drive at full speed and boost jump while going backwards just fine. The difference is rocks are even easier to clear and the vehicle doesn't want to spin out every time you touch the ground.

>>153421137
As long as they're the same class, ED will always beat SC ships. Their stats are beyond ridiculous.

>>153421382
Same rate.

>>153421675
Neat

>>153421296
Mind yah speed commandah.

>>153420750

>rats drop in and fire size 3 guns at the "neck" just at the end of the forward compartment to "behead" the hull from it's loot boxes
>accidentally punch holes into the boxes
>the instance is now littered in floating pistols and Ramen boxes at a spectacular 12 frames per second

>>153421296
Station Voice Power Rankings:
Space Scot > Space Brit > Space Texan >>>>> Space Indian

>>153421525
>>153421876

good

well done

however

why

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>>153421602
https://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_lance/2pktfFalfdpsff37r1b1b1b1b0404040404024a5d320125.Iw18aQ==.MwBjEYxAmXfBiTgCxiA=?bn=Hand

is what i have plugged into coriolis as something very baseline, but a fucking insane G5 pp is going to enable me to slap on prismatics in a few days here. i'll check the efficacy of the cell booster at that point and maybe just put a hull reinforcement package in and another booster.

i'll probably lose a few more m/s with the heavier shield, and I've yet to come to a consensus on the lasers, but also need to upgrade the distributor to more accurately judge.

my corvette has been getting most of the love as of late and i've a few ships that are lined up for some more fancy treatment, namely the fdl and my cutter.

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>>153422084
>the noodle boxes are programmed to sing a jingle when they detect motion
>suddenly comms filled with Big Benny theme
>no one can coordinate, chaos ensues
>some pirates start singing along

>>153422213
>not all multis

y tho

>>153421137
Elite ships are fucking indestructible comparatively. You can crash an unshielded Sidewinder headlong into an asteroid and it'll just bounce off with a dent in it.

>>153422107
Space scot is a cheeky cunt

>"Security forces have been dispatched. You'd best take this opportunity to run, Commander."

>grinding HIP 14479 for unknown artifacts/fragments for palin
>enemy npcs keep spawning to interdict me for my precious exhaust manifolds and cooling hose
>all master level vultures

i considered doing this in my unarmed ASP, which in hindsight would have been a bad idea indeed.

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>>153422504
because my corvette already has seven, six incendiary, one corrosive.

it's something i've considered but one of the three ships i've mentioned need to be ammo-less for seriously extended terror raids into the thargoid homeworlds.

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>>153422697
My nigger, working on my ships for the same purpose. Are there any guesses for when we're actually getting thargoids? Wasn't something meant to happen on the 28th a few days back?

>>153422213
>all lasers
>prismatic + all boosters
>overcharged PP
>FDL

I hope you like barbeque.

>>153422697
Not sure how long you plan to be out, but you can get like 30 reloads' worth of materials just by going on an SRV adventure.

>>153422697
Ah, I understand. I plan on stocking up on tons of mats for the same purpose. Though, now that I think about it, maybe it'd be easier to keep 4med/1huge loaded than all the different sizes in a corvette.

>>153422610

cont'd

>see anomaly USS while getting sent precious cargo messages by NPC interdictor
>manage to drop in before he gets me
>wait by the artefact for him to spawn
>he does, we start fighting
>as he's shieldless and trying to get behind me, a second NPC pops in
>doesn't say a word
>doesn't scan me
>can't see him visually because he's too far away
>can't target him because busy with enemy Vulture
>2nd npc leaves immediately after I kill the Vulture

spoopy

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>>153423016
naw just clues which are continuing. no real bugs for me to boil yet.

>>153423045
that's the deal. I may well make both the cutter and FDL laserboats, and keep the corvette as the heavier duty alternative for when energy weapons just won't cut it and i need to do a visceral daytrip right to their home and fuck right back off once i run out

admittedly the iron and vanadium necessary for reloads is pretty negligible, but the fdl would indeed be the better mcannon platform with this in mind.

i'm iffy about the cutter with how agile the goids are supposed top be, though. it's functionally an enormous interceptor, but the shield volume might completely negate any hits to being unable to turn properly.

i want some praetor suit green paintjobs for these craft

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>>153419748
At least post the updated Lancer.

>>153423554
I want olive drab for the corvette, man. At least I got black friday.

>>153421762
don't all E:D's ships yaw like boats?

>>153417501
I quite like the cutlass in 2.5. I wish it was faster, but at least it seems to handle well enough to use with fixed guns and bits don't fly off at the slightest touch.

The flashfire mount is still broken though.

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Hey guys, I've got to go out for a bit, can you watch my image of best ship while I'm gone?

Thanks!

>>153424050
Wouldn't matter, just FAOff and fly backwards.

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>>153424254
>best ship

>>153421762
>Their stats are beyond ridiculous.
I'm kinda impressed that 800m/s ships actually work in the game without glitches. That russian'ed up Imp Eagle going 870m/s must be fun to fly, impractical but fun.

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>>153424254
>>153424396
How can two people both be so wrong?

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>>153423736
I really do think the Freelancer shows promise for multirole vessels, being able to actually be flexible instead of just being shit at everything.
>You can fight
>You can haul
>You can explore
>You can't see shit, though

>>153424691
Wish one of these space games would have a "glass cockpit", seeing through the hull with cameras.

>>153424665
>Picture got compressed somehow
What the shit?

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Courage. Duty. Honor.

https://youtu.be/KIsv1YOFNys

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>>153424396

How can the 300 line even compete with the Mustangs?

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Freelancer MIS reworked and flyable when?

>>153424803
>How
S P E E D
P
E
E
D

>>153424769
Rogue System has them but it is single player, super alpha and requires the high levels of autism achievable.

>>153425170
Speaking of autism Children of a Dead Earth looks interesting.
https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/

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>>153425007
Almost certainly not until sometime after Squadron 42 release, unless they manage to get Militia/Pirate MIS in to missions.

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I keep finding so many systems with absurd numbers of stars. I'm starting to think this isn't a realistic simulation of the Milky Way.

>>153425007
I don't know but I'm sure it will be before the cutlass rework happens.

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>>153424665
>>153424691
>>153424396
>>153424254

I'll wait for my best ship, thanks.

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>>153426146
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR_Cassiopeiae
They do exist it seems but I get the feeling you are right that they are too common.

>>153425170
Why is it though, why do people prefer small windows instead of much larger videoscreens?

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>>153425170
>watching a basic startup sequence video of Rogue System

2hardcore for me but it must be really rewarding to pull off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbTAPDM38lc

F

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the perfect adequacy of those shields tho...

>guy follows my merlin at 500m for like two minutes shooting at me
>does 2% shield damage at the most
>I just ignore him
>he disconnects

LOL it's almost impossible to hit small ships and the TTK is so high anyway

I hope they add like a flak cannon or something cool or else some high rate of fire high spread weapons

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>>153427063
This is why we need to remove private and solo.

https://youtu.be/YgXW-cKI1bw

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>get horizons so I can land on moons
>find a neat moon to land on
>see a crater and fly towards it
>as I get closer I realize how dark it is but think it will light up
>as I pass the horizon of the crater everything goes hyper dark
>fear goes to 100%
>nope the fuck out
>been days since I tried to land on a moon
>finally do it on another moon with more light
>everythings fine and not scary

gif unrelated but I still got spooked when it happened there too

>>153427063

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6v5uieLyI

F

>>153427548
vidya funerals are completely cringe. Write a forum post about the good times you had and leave it at that.

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>>153426813
Seriously, I've found too many 4+ star systems, and so many of those stars are very close each other.

These two pictured are ~20 ls from each other
>hey kid, wanna /ss/?

>>153426146
>>153426813
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2006-11

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>>153427446
they need ballistic versions of the plasma shotguns.

>>153427715
You have nothing to fear until the next patch when they have thargoids run up on your SRV in the dark and punch through the canopy and fuck your oxygen starved corpse

If my friend unmelts an old Aurora LN package and CCU's it to a Mustang Beta, is the package still giftable to me? And will I get 5000 credits for using his referral code even if I never buy anything on my account and just use the gift package?

>>153427893
This is why I'm baffled whenever people are amazed that they discovered another multi star system. Nigga, I used to see those all the time when on my smuggling routes

>>153428283
Yes, as long as he doesn't unmelt with store credits. Yes.

>>153428051
But that's only because red dwarves are so common, and we all know red dwarves aint shit

>>153427893
>>153428292
They do look nice. Improvements to stars will be nice since we see so much of them.

It would be nice if the game didn't adjust jump out point exactly so that every star looks the same size when exiting hyperspace.

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>>153428292
I still think it's neat to see in any case.

>If the coronas touch, it's gay

>>153428431
At least red dwarves are the comfiest stars.

I get spooked whenever I find a brown dwarf, I'm not sure they're supposed to be that common. I can forgive that though, brown dwarfs are kind of hard to detect, they give off basically no light compared to even red dwarves.

>>153428647
Neat to see

For me it's simply become you've seen them once, you've seen them all.

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>Loud sweating

It's so fucking big.
I'm glad I hauled my poor fucking Dropship all the way out here, actually seeing all the shit in this area is fucking cool and like seeing history in the making.

>>153428647
>I can forgive that though, brown dwarfs are kind of hard to detect, they give off basically no light compared to even red dwarves.
The coolest ones should give off no visible light. That would cool, mistake it for a black hole for moment.

Also is there anyway to tell T Tauri's apart from regular stars. I hate those unscoopable bastards.

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>>153428630
>It would be nice if the game didn't adjust jump out point exactly so that every star looks the same size when exiting hyperspace.

Wouldn't be so samey at distance if they modeled the big ones to look more like they actually do in real life.

Pic related.

>>153429409

The big white ones are easy enough to spot. Red/orange, not so much. They usually lack solar prominences, but not always.

>>153425327
>https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/

>Oh jesus that looks like somebody is making atomic rockets pages into a video game. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php

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>>153429604
Betelgeuse actually looks like that, no bullshit?
Looks like some fucking elder god eldritch being

>>153429409
I've seen a couple brown dwarves that were pretty dark.

I've only got 50 hours in the game, so I haven't found a T Tauri yet. What makes them unscoopable?

>>153429604
That's true. Protostars like T Tauri's should probably have some kind of circumstellar disk, though I have no idea if the Cobra engine can handle filling an entire solar system with a disk, or how it would work in-game (can you SC through it? I have no idea how thick they are etc.)

>>153427893
>>153428647
>dropping into a contact binary system
>not even halfway through the drop/decelerate out of witchspace when...
FUEL SCOOPING

>>153429038
so is there only one? how the fuck did people find this? why not put them all over?

>>153429923

Yep. Other giants have been imaged as well.

Giant stars are so big that the upper layers get tenuous and they actually look kind of doughy.

If modeled like the real thing they'd have surface features that make it pretty obvious how big they are even if you're dropped 6000 ls from one.

>>153429762
>The big white ones are easy enough to spot.
Those kind of weird white ones with no prominences yeah?

>Red/orange, not so much.
These ones are the ones that get me.

>>153429923
>Betelgeuse actually looks like that, no bullshit?
Best guess anyway.

>What makes them unscoopable?
I guess they don't produce a proper stellar wind. I'm not sure what stage the T Tauris in Elite are supposed to be at. Near ignition they should produce a good stellar wind for scooping.

>>153429903
>Oh jesus that looks like somebody is making atomic rockets pages into a video game.
It looks interesting and might satisfy my space realism autism. If only there was a way to have massively multiplayer Newtonian space battles without needing the best part of a year to finish up.

>>153429923
>I've only got 50 hours in the game, so I haven't found a T Tauri yet. What makes them unscoopable?

You've probably seen some and didn't even know it. They'll either look like a very inactive red dwarf or a big and smooth white orb with a semi-transparent bright outer shell and slightly darker interior. You'll know it's not a white dwarf because it'll be way too big to be one.

They're unscoopable because they haven't reached the main sequence. They're not burning hydrogen and giving off a solar wind for you to scoop yet.

>>153430885
Ah so they're stars still being forming then. It's neat that we can find protostars, I'd like to find one soon. maybe I'll go searching once i pick up an Asp.

I hope I haven't skipped any over, I like to think I could recognize a proto-star when i see it..

>>153430552
I wouldn't be surprised if Betelgeuse actually looked like that. When a star gets that hueg, something weird is bound to happen to it.

>>153431042
You can just filter out all the other ones in your galaxy map and go check one out right now.

>>153431042
>I like to think I could recognize a proto-star when i see it.
As someone else said the bigger white ones are easy to spot, the red ones not so much. There's no disk in the system which I gather should be a feature of most protostars including Herbig Ae/Be stars.

>>153431042
>I wouldn't be surprised if Betelgeuse actually looked like that. When a star gets that hueg, something weird is bound to happen to it.

It looks very blobby even in stills from direct imaging. The outer layers of the star are barely being held down by its own gravity.

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>>153430401
I read some where on leddit that it's been ingame since 2.0
I imagine there's likely more
The clues from the puzzle pointed to this moon (Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4, Planet 9A) and a commander found it while scouring the surface.
I imagine nobody found it before because there was no reason to visit this moon previously, as barnacles only appear on planets with specific traits and this moon doesn't have them, I don't think.

>>153428057
I just noticed there already is a plasma scattergun in the REC store. Is it good? it's close range so idk if it could catch a merlin

Anyone have advice on how should I fill out the rest of this Corvette?

C4: MC G5 Incendiary x2
C3 MC G5 Corrosive x1
C2 ??? x2
C1 ??? x2

>>153431775
All mc incendiary.

>>153429604
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJn-jmL_hyo

>>153429038

what am I looking at here? are these the barnacles, or have the dads found something new?

>>153431864
Sounds like a lot of fun, but would that require a Low Emissions power plant?

>>153432058
Crashed Thargoid ship by the looks of it.

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>>153429923
>I've only got 50 hours in the game, so I haven't found a T Tauri yet. What makes them unscoopable?
They're a cross between a methane gas giant and a star, cold with just enough fusion to light themselves up slightly.

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>>153432058
They're dropping all sorts of materials on it to see what it reacts to. It's glowing now.

>>153432598
>They're a cross between a methane gas giant and a star, cold with just enough fusion to light themselves up slightly.
T Tauri's are protostars. You're thinking of brown dwarfs (as your picture shows).

>>153433038
>it actually reacts to things
holy moly

>>153433137
It's not actually going to do anything until the 2.2 update.

>>153433038
Did it wake up a little? I don't remember it glowing in other pictures.

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>>153433038
Any idea what they gave it to set it off like that?
I have a unit of meta alloys I was holding onto for my return to the bubble to give to the FSD engie (Still no idea how it all works tho)

>>153433602
You can buy meta alloys at Maia, no need to hold onto them.

>>153431623
Maybe, it chews up vanduul, but I haven't had much luck with them against player ships.

>>153434683

It's shit against players because they aren't ballistics

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>tfw no ballistic shotgun with explosive pellets

>play like shit in EA during battle royale
>get no REC
>wreck face in EA during battle royale
>get no REC

What the hell is up with this?

>>153436248
it's a hot new bug

works on my machine though

>>153416739
She kinda reminds me of Daenerys

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>>153436449
>Daenerys
I wonder why?

>>153436402
It's aight though, I got to really stress test my Gladius loadout.

I replaced the underpowered gimbals on the wings with Badgers and the nose gattling with a mass driver. Ballistics get a different lead anyhow, so having to line up the fixed guns isn't any harder than it was trying to line up the separate lead indicator.

Has a great feel to it I think. I'm experimenting with missiles now. Clusters so far seem pretty idiot proof.

>>153436773
>looks nothing like her
>looks nothing like her
>looks like her at 90% opacity
>looks nothing like her

>>153437067
>looks nothing like her
not those anons but there's a very obvious similarity in facial structure

what's the course plotting limit?

>>153437483
1000 lightyears, you might have to drop to lower figures close to the core because the star density makes processing routes there a bastard.

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>>153436929
Clusters fuck up the servers though. They'll just make people think you're an asshole.

>>153435349
yeah, but he was asking about them against merlins and m50's with their piss weak shields

>>153438082
Do they? Oh shit, I'll swap em out.

For scoopable stars in Elite, remember KGB FOAM. If a star has any on those letters at the start in the galaxy map info, you can scoop.

>>153438082
>Clusters fuck up the servers though.
How so?

>>153438258
Oh
Be
A
Fine
Girl
Kiss
Me

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impervious to projectile fire

>sipping on some famous grouse
>crossing the galaxy
>having a comfy time

>>153432598
They're actually newly-formed stars that just haven't kicked into gear yet

>>153428246
So are thargoids just animals or sentient lifeforms?

Why would they go after you like that?

This is what bothers me about science fiction sometimes. When writers write about "intelligent" life forms from outer space with some kind of technology, they usually make their behavior primitive like wild beasts.

If a lifeform is advanced enough to create structures and technology that gives them the ability to leave their planet and travel light years away from it, it should at least behave like an intelligent species.

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thargoids

what are they?

we just don't know.

>>153417548
And all the shittiness of Star Citizen is explained by Ben hating Freespace 2.

I mean seriously, how is it possible to hate Freespace 2?

>>153440340
Well I don't know their original motives, but I can tell you that they were smart and reasonable enough to reward the Alliance for saving them from genocide. Gave them a truce and one of their biomechanical capital ships.

>>153440536
the power of fanboyism and brand loyalty. another reason to keep NMS out of this general: fertile ground for console warring there.

>>153440603
Of course that also means they do distinguish between Human factions and actually had beef with the Feds and Imps, rather than just slaughtering humans for the hell of it.

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so what now

>>153441139
wah
what are we gonna do on the planet onii-chan?
*pomf*

>>153441139
Fix it

>>153440412
Are you also one of the boys from the dwarf?

I can't do sothis runs any more.
Is there another way of making ez money?
I've given too much of myself to the VISION

Should I make a RSI forum post asking if there will be a circumcision option in character creation?

>>153442039
>I can't do sothis runs any more.
Why not?

>>153442346
It's too fucking boring.

>>153442395
Fair enough. My ship is at Sothis now so I was worried it got UA bombed or something. In other news Ceos is back up apparently.

>>153424254
lower the tail and remove the top turret, then we may say thats the best ship

>>153442284
go ahead "^P_)

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>3.0 this year
>LOL no
The Dads are hilariously optimistic at times.

What's the best way to make money in an un-engineered Federal Dropship with 14.7ly unladen range?

>>153443464
kill

A few quick questions about SC:
1. If I were to buy a package today what can I do in game? I understand it is a long way from completion but I am still interested
2. How does insurance work? I see some packages have 3-6 month insurance, are there packages with lifetime insurance or someway to obtain it via gameplay?
3.Which package would you say is the best "bang for your buck"?

>>153440536
i take it from the tone of his shitpost that he doesn't actually HATE freespace, he just loves wing commander so much he has to jealously guard it and protect it. Y'know, like he does now. A true fanboy

>>153444023
No, he literally thinks Freespace 2 killed space sims, which is retarded; it was really good.

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>>153444023
He legit banned people from WcNews for openly liking Freespace. He's the worst kind of fanboy.

>>153443841
1. You can playtest the game and download a lot of huge patches (hopefully not for long). there's a couple of stations, a few simple repeating missions and a lot of bugs in the "mini-PU", and also an arena mode where you can fight bots or race or whatever. Soon there will be an FPS arena map.

3.0 is planeed for before the end of the year and will add planetary landings, lots of planets and stations (3 planets and a few dozen stations/locations, trading, cargo etc.)
2. Insurance will be cheap, right now it's free and presumably will be until release. You can get "LTI" but that will still only cover your base hull, which will probably be a fraction of the cost of a well equipped ship.

3. Buy the mustang alpha package, and then get sq42/PU for an extra $15, you can add more ships or upgrade your starter ship later if you wish.

I hear you guys like spending money on virtual items

http://poal.me/9azfrm

>>153444175
I haven't played any wing commander games (well, unless starlancer and freelancer count) and freespace 2 is the best by far.

>>153444443
It's funny hearing the WC fanboys calling FS a ripoff when WC is a game all about fighting Kzinti ripoffs.

After having ended famine in 4 different systems I am now an owner of an Imperial Clipper

This thing is sex though the jump range is shit

>>153445645
Man I want a Clipper but I need to grind out 2 more Imp Navy ranks.

>>153445727

I started from Lord yesterday and it took me 2-3 hours

Find a famine system with at least 2 imp factions. Stack 20 data delivery missions. Keep dumbing into 25k and 50k charity

Its over before you know it and not in the least as annoying as it was made out to be in this thread.

what should I stick on muh clipper in terms of guns?

>>153446156
Whatever you want, just be sure to put something gimballed or turreted on the bigass "outer" pylons because they're spread so far out that fixed weapons are basically useless.

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>>153442952
We're at 2.5 pre September though.
But yeah no 3.0 before Jan or Feb for sure.
Unless we get another Christmas disaster.

>>153447000
I was talking about ED, but hope you guys get your 3.0 soon as well.

new to ED still in povertymode

wat do for mone

I have 2mil credits

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I wish there was actual shit to do. The game could be amazing if there was just more depth.

ceos/sothis runs are still a go right?

>>153447823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zREGiwYbb1Y

>>153448317
yes

>>153447823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0ucP28WWg

>>153448028
actual shit like what?
most games like this are just a grind to keep doing whatever youre already doing but better
its a huge e-peen pleaser for all the little dicks desu

>16T fuel tank on a clipper

fucking seriously?

how am I to get places now

>>153448741
At this point you should be fitting a fuel scoop on everything.
Clipper also has space for an extra tank if you really need it.

>clipper
Why the fuck cant the wings fold up and allow us to dock on small/medium pads? This holds them back a good bit vs fed ships

>>153448741
do you feel like a big man in that ship?
you're the huge e-peen type i was talking about earlier

Kong

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>>153433432
that looks like the SRVs shields touching each other. That thargoid ship will be bigger than a cutter/vette when it will be in one piece

>>153448028
Pay $60 a year if you want content, goy.

>>153449046

I dont feel like a big guy

More like a sophisticated cool guy.

>>153449547
>png

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>>153449650
are you on dial-up ?
here i've made one especially for you now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsY-ANcmV3Q

Bensday is up, polaris galore

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>>153448874
Cause that Courier impostor will never replace the original.

>>153450457
>Implying I'm going to give that thing views

>>153450601
FOX DO A BARREL ROLL

Tony Zurovec > David Braben

>>153451234
>Tony Zurovec
>Crusader: No Regret (1996)
Based

>>153449869
I'm on my beach house and still don't have wifi, so I'm using my neighbor's connection which I can only get from one room and that with a wifi repeater.
Thanks

>>153449869
>>153451762
Also, png provides no advantages over jpg in these kind of images

>>153451846
visit an optician.

>>153451846
The human eye also can't see over 24FPS and 480p

>>153450601
lol, I must have sold and rebought my courier like 10 times and I think I'll have to rebuy it again because I am really iffy on this vulture I am using at the moment. I swear my courier was killing much faster

>>153452298
In labs they discovered that you can actually view the world in 1080p60, but its just because the human brain is rendering porn in the background everything ends up being 24fps

>>153452754
Are you saying game runs better if you cut your penis off?

Can you walk around your ship in SC? And is there any character customization?

>>153453401
>Can you walk around your ship in SC?
Yes.
>And is there any character customization?
Not yet, but it is something that they're going to do, once all the actual important stuff is done with.

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>>153453401
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GucYhhLwIxg

and later

>>153438743

That only matters if you need to remember luminosity, which you don't in ED

>>153453401
Yes to the first, not yet to the second

>>153428647

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't their half as many brown dwarfs as there are stars in the milky way?

>>153453515
>>153453503
>>153453495
I am guessing we all share the same model in the fps mode that is out now, any weapon customization or loadouts? Thanks for your time by the way

>>153453909
the extent of customization for the character at this point is any weapon you find (and will lose when you die) along with any space suits or normal clothing you buy.

>>153453401
>>153453909
The game is not out
It's not even steam tier 'early access' where the game is basically done

>>153453998
I am confused, theres clothing and spacesuits that you can find or buy but lose on death? or is that just weapons?

>>153452298
>>153451924
Well meme'd

>>153454204
who knows.
none of it matters, when 2.6 comes around all of that is reset anyway.

>>153454201
I fully understand but if there is some basic elements of the game I can play as sort of a tech demo I can rationalize my purchase a little more

>>153454291
you can fly around and shoot things/investigate a shutdown space station for insurance money/press a button to fix one of nine comm relays/get money for shooting the right people

>>153454291
Nah nigger just wait
The mmo test universe currently limits your framerate because the netcode isn't done yet
Or something

>>153454291
>I can rationalize my purchase a little more

If you need to do that then you probably shouldn't back. Not trying to be a dick but what you're doing will just lead to disappointment later down the line.

>>153454291
Wait for 3.0 anon. It's not far and it will give you much better idea what to expect, both from CIG and SC.

t. KS backer that could play, but prefers to wait to 3.0

>>153451924
>>153452298
Well, no THAT jpg, of course.

2.2 when?

>>153455032
We're already at 2.5 anon :^)

On an unrelated matter, what exactly means

> t. [someone]
What the "t." stands for? I assume it's quote/signature but I can't find the precise meaning.

>>153455245

t is finnish for tervetuloa, which means regards

>>153455245
some thing from sweden or something on /trv/ or whatever.

basically the equivilant of "from..." at the end of a letter in English, a way of signing your name.

now it's a way to mock people by saying who they are.

We're borrowing memes from the Yurops now?

So much for MAGA

>>153455453
>>153455479

Lol, no surprise I had a time finding the meaning. Good to know, thank you anons.

>>153455641
Just turn on your firewall and make your computer great again

>>153455641
It's better than other memes desu

>>153455641
Now tell us about your heritage

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>>153455641

>We're borrowing memes from the Yurops now?
>from the Yurops now?
>Now?

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SPACE SHIPS

>>153455641
>Wait, there are other countries than USA with internet access?!

Is the ASP Explorer capable of bounty hunting or should I stick to smuggling/trading?

>>153458823
My asp was pretty nimble with A thrusters and it packs lots of dakka. Never really fought with it except for the random npcs and then only if they flew slow ships

>>153458823
It would get hairy real quick due to low firepower. You can run away easily but still. AspE is best for long range smuggling or hauling.

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>orrery never

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life support

>>153462115
Vertical ships make me hard.
I want to be a Xi'An fucking shit.

>>153462246
100 meters of unnecessary ship on that one in the middle

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>>153462457
They get pretty weird

http://imgur.com/a/3fvrv#72

>>153462457
Same. Immediately heading to Xi'an space to max rep with them and be a true turtlaboo.

>>153462753
the Vanduul cargo ships don't look too bad either, that whole front blade/prow thing is also really up my alley.

>>153462938
Yeah, but Vanduul can go fuck themselves for being edgy faggots. I'll just claim their ships by force.

>>153463054
I'm really curious how the owning multiple ships thing will work, especially how we can claim a ship we've stolen and how that effects the person who used to own it.

>>153462490
Bruh, that 100 meters is all gun.

>>153463279
Oh neat, didn't know that. I was just staring at that smooth textured portion and wondering why the fuck that was necessary

>>153463262
I think you'll be able to claim hostile NPC ships as your own and insure them, like Vanduul or pirates, but likely not player ships, regardless of friend/foe. Still steal, obviously, but unable to transfer ownership. Also claiming a ship will likely be super expensive.

fuck white dwarves

>>153464013

No fuck you

>>153464118
t. Tyrion Lannister

>>153465539
muuh dick

>>153465539
how many corvettes can the big ass battlecruiser carry?

>>153465539
Capital ships in E:D don't count as real ships

>>153465539

Farraguts are so goddamn sexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_kLXgo4FC8

>>153465539
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_kLXgo4FC8
now if he would have both Elite and SC models in...

>>153465539
>>153465803
>>153465914

It's a damn shame we don't get to see the scale of these ships first hand. We really need to get spacelegs soon.

How do I actually deliver the Lavian Brandy?