Elite: Game talk

Kasumi Goto
today, 5:57pm
AHThe idea to "D everything" originated from one of you. LOL.

You probably read Thinder's 'advice' which seem obsessively focused on min-maxing, and not even in a good way. Like stripping FSDs down to a size where the ship (with a combat focus) literally cannot jump to another system, all for a few extra decimals of turn rate or meters of speed and whatnot, or using "stripped down" as an experimental for the FSD when there is no benefit to speed and negligible increase in maneuverability. I tried to provide some improvements to a build and was just repeatedly told I was "enforcing my viewpoint" despite simply pointing out how the build could be made better without it getting turned into something it was not supposed to be (and not actually losing anything, only making it better).

The only time a D rated FSD - as I have heard - is actually beneficial is with the SCO drives where on smaller ships (like the Imperial Courier) get more range out of a 3D due to its lower weight while retaining the same base jump range as a regular A rated FSD. But you lose out on overcharge performance with that.
Emily Valefor
today, 6:14pm
Shg56Kasumi, you claimed that you were one of the Thargoids' abductees so you should be also connected to their hive mind like Seo Jin-ae.

Ok, so to this point, I'm betting Thargoid mind control makes a thargoid faction that's as lazily done as possible by it being normal human who are "mind controlled" what are the other theories?
Kasumi Goto
today, 6:24pm
Emily ValeforOk, so to this point, I'm betting Thargoid mind control makes a thargoid faction that's as lazily done as possible by it being normal human who are "mind controlled" what are the other theories?

Thargoid-ified human “zombies” has actually been pretty high up the speculation list ever since the abductions were introduced into the story. Some people are more pessimistic than others in what it will end up looking like (in terms of their visual appearance) but a lot think that would be what is given as the on-foot AX experience (but I doubt it would be unless they find some way to make it significantly different from the regular Odyssey combat feature against humans… and even then it would get flak for not being real Thargoids).

Not that I’d have any actual expectation that we are going to see live Thargoid drones walking around in this game, but maybe they’ll surprise us.

And in response to Shg - yes, my RP for my character does include a connection to the Thargoid hivemind, which is why I am paying close attention to these recent developments. I already have ideas but the realities of the world mean I’m a bit behind on the writing when it comes to logbook entries. (Which is not a subject particularly for the game talk thread)
Emily Valefor
today, 6:32pm
Kasumi Goto
Emily ValeforOk, so to this point, I'm betting Thargoid mind control makes a thargoid faction that's as lazily done as possible by it being normal human who are "mind controlled" what are the other theories?


Thargoid-ified human “zombies” has actually been pretty high up the speculation list ever since the abductions were introduced into the story. Some people are more pessimistic than others in what it will end up looking like (in terms of their visual appearance) but a lot think that would be what is given as the on-foot AX experience (but I doubt it would be unless they find some way to make it significantly different from the regular Odyssey combat feature against humans… and even then it would get flak for not being real Thargoids).

Not that I’d have any actual expectation that we are going to see live Thargoid drones walking around in this game, but maybe they’ll surprise us.

And in response to Shg - yes, my RP for my character does include a connection to the Thargoid hivemind, which is why I am paying close attention to these recent developments. I already have ideas but the realities of the world mean I’m a bit behind on the writing when it comes to logbook entries. (Which is not a subject particularly for the game talk thread)

Oh im expecting the exact same ai, same missions, same everything with npcs still named like "Biff Strongman, Commando" but it's got a thargoid icon on the mission logo
Meowers
today, 6:38pm
They only have to change the skin tone of those NPCs to make them look like Thargoidised zombies. No scripting required. They're already frackin stupid.
Vasil Vasilescu
today, 7:39pm
Emily Valefor...that looks like a copypasta out of the crazy general's diary from Dr. Strangelove


"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
-General Jack Ripper
Kasumi Goto
today, 8:01pm
Why does it feel like Frontier has no clue how to balance Titans to not be squishy <2 day kills (if people try hard enough) but also not make them take an entire week to kill if they want them cleared within that time (with days to spare). Right now Raijin has gone back to basically getting obliterated in 2-3 days pace instead of taking most of the weekly cycle to bring down, and that is not very subtle about their manual tweaking of the ‘difficulty’.
AH
today, 8:05pm
Is she complaining about posts she is not supposed to see? LOL
Indy
today, 8:12pm
Emily Valefor Ok, so to this point, I'm betting Thargoid mind control makes a thargoid faction that's as lazily done as possible by it being normal human who are "mind controlled" what are the other theories?


If it gives me the ground AX that I really really wish for, then I'd be all about it.
I don't care if it's "lazily done"; it'll be cool to have yet another way of immersing myself into the game.

I'm bummed I couldn't get my hands on the new ship today, but I'm pleasantly content to wait patiently for a more stable release.
Emily Valefor
today, 8:18pm
Indy
Emily Valefor Ok, so to this point, I'm betting Thargoid mind control makes a thargoid faction that's as lazily done as possible by it being normal human who are "mind controlled" what are the other theories?



If it gives me the ground AX that I really really wish for, then I'd be all about it.
I don't care if it's "lazily done"; it'll be cool to have yet another way of immersing myself into the game.

I'm bummed I couldn't get my hands on the new ship today, but I'm pleasantly content to wait patiently for a more stable release.

AX Ground content would involve fighting thargoids for me. If it's reskinned human shooting it's not feature complete.

What I'd WANT is to be able to board and face the Thargoids upon their stuff, understand what the point of the war is, and perhaps even learn about the factions of them, where we as humans went wrong, where they did, and actually have like, a plot happen but I understand that's not really game scope.
As to the delay again, maybe they're actually taking this next update seriously? Who knows, it'd be nice to see though.
Glial2
today, 8:21pm
AH
The idea to "D everything" originated from one of you. LOL.


Doubt anyone would suggest to D-rate everything ... D modules are the lightest out of A-E; so it makes sense to use them for exploration ships
Have a look at the in-game stats for things, then you won't get caught out (?again?) when it comes to shield boosters
Indy
today, 8:38pm
Emily Valefor AX Ground content would involve fighting thargoids for me. If it's reskinned human shooting it's not feature complete.

What I'd WANT is to be able to board and face the Thargoids upon their stuff, understand what the point of the war is, and perhaps even learn about the factions of them, where we as humans went wrong, where they did, and actually have like, a plot happen but I understand that's not really game scope.


Agreed, but if they want to put in some higher-payout ground CZs with more challenging NPCs, I'm for it. I do want the ACTUAL thargoids, but it'd be fun to engage with NPCs that are beyond challenging. (Rumor has it that Frontier had to "turn down" the AI on the human ground CZs after the release of Odyssey because people were getting wrecked. I'd want THAT again, but wrecking even players with G5 gear.)

Emily Valefor As to the delay again, maybe they're actually taking this next update seriously? Who knows, it'd be nice to see though.


Yep. I'd be fine with it either way, honestly. I play games that do the release-fast-and-patch-later method and I just know to expect some bugs in my new fun. Other times, I play games that do the release-slow-with-careful-QA and I just play other things while waiting for the new content.

It's all just a game, after all.
Emily Valefor
today, 9:02pm
Indy
Yep. I'd be fine with it either way, honestly. I play games that do the release-fast-and-patch-later method and I just know to expect some bugs in my new fun. Other times, I play games that do the release-slow-with-careful-QA and I just play other things while waiting for the new content.

It's all just a game, after all.

And with Frontier, you can get both!

But in all seriousness, it's not a bad thing to have a baseline set of fair expectations for any title you plan to spend possibly hundreds of hours in, it is a game after all.
Shg56
today, 9:16pm
Kasumi GotoAnd in response to Shg - yes, my RP for my character does include a connection to the Thargoid hivemind, which is why I am paying close attention to these recent developments. I already have ideas but the realities of the world mean I’m a bit behind on the writing when it comes to logbook entries. (Which is not a subject particularly for the game talk thread)

Let us know when you will transform into a spider
Emily Valefor
today, 9:22pm
Shg56
Kasumi GotoAnd in response to Shg - yes, my RP for my character does include a connection to the Thargoid hivemind, which is why I am paying close attention to these recent developments. I already have ideas but the realities of the world mean I’m a bit behind on the writing when it comes to logbook entries. (Which is not a subject particularly for the game talk thread)


Let us know when you will transform into a spider

Lore question...

how does one inform others they've become a giant spider? Is it a "Two screeches for yes" kind of affair?

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