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bigmike20vt · 1 Dec 2019 at 23:32

Unisol Magic said:
I concur however Skyrim VR is up there also

I haven't tried it myself yet but I hear if you like that kind of game Asguards Wrath is a must buy

Panos · 2 Dec 2019 at 01:43

Unisol Magic said:
I concur however Skyrim VR is up there also

bliah. XR VR yes, Skyrim VR no.

GilesGuthrie · 2 Dec 2019 at 11:34

NeilFawcett said:
It's frankly an astounding representation of the entire Milkyway galaxy, technically and visually, where you can even land & drive on non-atmospheric worlds too... But after those planetary surfaces were added a year after release, little more depth/variation has been added to exploration though sadly, so after a while you risk getting a somewhat "been there and done/seen that" feeling...

Gameplay wise, for a new starter it will be daunting, and balance (both economic and combat) has only got worse (IMHO) over the years. But there still plenty of fun to be had there!

There's supposedly a monstrous update in a years time, so a lot of folks (myself included) have fingers crossed finally for some (more) bar raising content...

I've got a couple of thousand hours in the game. I have enough money that money is now meaningless to me. I'm deputy head of a player group, and chief strategist for that group's minor faction in the game.

There's a lot about E-D that is frustrating because it's only a whisker away from awesomeness. Unfortunately, I think that some of the areas where it needs to be better actually represent significant re-engineering tasks. In particular, the mission-generator seems to be patch upon patch upon patch. It really needs a ground-up rewrite.

But it's beautiful to look at, the sound design is incredible, and there's a lot to really get yourself into. If you like the core mechanics of playing the game, then you'll love it. A lot of the complaints (especially about "grind") stem from the fact that people don't actually like playing the game that much, so the goals feel too hard to achieve.

Malevolence · 3 Dec 2019 at 23:44

Can't argue with that, picked up an Anaconda (with 15% discount) and within an hour it'd already paid for itself.

Malevolence · 25 Dec 2019 at 18:18

Diamond ring anyone?

fantasticCG · 25 Dec 2019 at 23:50

Never played it looks interesting, how steep ia the learning curve? What exactly do you do in this game?

[Death] · 26 Dec 2019 at 05:54

Malevolence said:
Can't argue with that, picked up an Anaconda (with 15% discount) and within an hour it'd already paid for itself.

wow nice! i never seem to make hardly anything lol, still no conda for me!

Unisol Magic · 26 Dec 2019 at 06:43

[Death] said:
wow nice! i never seem to make hardly anything lol, still no conda for me!

Me too unfortunately

Whilst bounty hunting can be fun, it pays out very little and any missions with reasonable payout are just too monotonous for the time sink they require and this is what makes the game no fun for me. It wouldn’t be so bad if there was more chance to drop on some rarer high payout missions.

SPG · 26 Dec 2019 at 07:40

fantasticCG said:
Never played it looks interesting, how steep ia the learning curve? What exactly do you do in this game?

Get credits via a multitude of methods to buy new ships. Rinse and repeat. Great game for 250hrs, 250hrs-500hrs it becomes very grindy.

Dano · 26 Dec 2019 at 10:41

fantasticCG said:
Never played it looks interesting, how steep ia the learning curve? What exactly do you do in this game?

Steep, though if you have any flight sim experience that will help massively. You fly spaceships, trading, mining, bounty hunting, pirating, exploring, upgrading and stuff.

[Death] said:
wow nice! i never seem to make hardly anything lol, still no conda for me!

Credits become increasingly easy to earn the higher ranked and the better quipped you are, though even with basic modules and some core mining you can make millions very easily.

freebooter · 27 Dec 2019 at 01:23

Malevolence said:
Can't argue with that, picked up an Anaconda (with 15% discount) and within an hour it'd already paid for itself.

You should be able to get about 1.1 -1.2 million per ton for painite. Check here for the best prices near you http://edtools.ddns.net/miner

Malevolence · 27 Dec 2019 at 02:33

freebooter said:
You should be able to get about 1.1 -1.2 million per ton for painite. Check here for the best prices near you http://edtools.ddns.net/miner

Painite hasn't been over 800k for quite some months now. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it over a million at all.

Unisol Magic · 27 Dec 2019 at 19:14

Panos said:
bliah. XR VR yes, Skyrim VR no.

What is “bliah”? Sorry it’s not a word I know within the English language

Panos · 27 Dec 2019 at 19:26

Unisol Magic said:
What is “bliah”? Sorry it’s not a word I know within the English language

<sigh>

freebooter · 1 Jan 2020 at 17:14

Malevolence said:
Painite hasn't been over 800k for quite some months now. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it over a million at all.

Sorry, I was having a senior moment. It was LTDs I have been mining not painite

SirJinks · 1 Jan 2020 at 18:44

Are the engineers still a thing in the game? I left after getting burnt out on grinding materials and the terrible drop rates, I’ve never known a grind like it lol.

(And I know I didn’t have to bring for engineered weapons and parts but.....upgrades

)

Dano · 1 Jan 2020 at 21:38

SirJinks said:
Are the engineers still a thing in the game? I left after getting burnt out on grinding materials and the terrible drop rates, I’ve never known a grind like it lol.

(And I know I didn’t have to bring for engineered weapons and parts but.....upgrades )

Yes, however they did go under a revamp so have lesser requirements these days and materials are generally easier to attain, there are even material traders who will swap them for other materials in the same group (natural, manufactured, data) though it does cost if you go outside of the direct material line. They also no longer have any random aspect other than the amount of level gain you acquire for each roll.

SirJinks · 1 Jan 2020 at 22:25

Dano said:
Yes, however they did go under a revamp so have lesser requirements these days and materials are generally easier to attain, there are even material traders who will swap them for other materials in the same group (natural, manufactured, data) though it does cost if you go outside of the direct material line. They also no longer have any random aspect other than the amount of level gain you acquire for each roll.

So are you saying that continued rolls on an item will only improve the stats now and there isn’t a decrease in any aspect?

bigmike20vt · 2 Jan 2020 at 07:38

SirJinks said:
So are you saying that continued rolls on an item will only improve the stats now and there isn’t a decrease in any aspect?

That is correct. The roulette wheel is gone. The argument against it is that this means variation is removed however it is much fairer now and it feels a lot less cheesy now.

I have my issues with engineering (way to much power gain) but they are definitely 10x better in terms of gaining them than at launch

So long as you don't want to PvP however engineering stuff is purely optional and indeed many of them spoil the game imo.

Malevolence · 2 Jan 2020 at 08:01

Engineering is a must for exploration though. Engineered Frame Shift Drive (Lv.5 range) coupled with the Guardian Frame Shift Booster is immense.

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