Elite: Game talk

LordPsymon
26 Jun 2021, 11:59pm
Or if you try to board one when fleeing an angry mob, but the game glitches in the transition screen but still allows the bad guys to shoot you, so by the time the transition screen unfreezes, your SRV is already toast.

True story, happened to me and I was really fucked off.
Sakashiro
27 Jun 2021, 12:18am
The first time I took a SRV to a settlement mission, NPCs hurled grenades at it. Lesson learned. Now I snipe NPCs from a distance while they move towards me.

Once after killing scavengers this way, I was already inside a building when a ship showed up and deployed commandos nearby. I knew I wouldn't stand a chance against them with my unengineered gear, so I ran out to my SRV which was parked in front of the entrance like a getaway car during a bank heist.

Odyssey has its moments. When it works.
Kurakil
27 Jun 2021, 12:43am
Yeah they can still shoot during the screen transition for SRVs and ships. Funny how one of the excuses from FDev for no ship interiors was that you would have to spend the time going through your ship to get to the cockpit and then finally take off while getting shot at. So instead we get to sit through a blank screen for just as long getting shot at.
M. Lehman
27 Jun 2021, 12:49am
Community for six years: "We want ship interiors!"

FDev: "We've decided that you don't. But you know what you do want? Sitting and doing nothing as an NPC flies you somewhere in a game predicated on flying yourself around. There is literally zero gameplay attached to this mechanic. How about that? Eh? Ehhhh?"

Community: ...
Sakashiro
27 Jun 2021, 12:56am
I think we all agree that FDev's excuses for the absence of ship interiors are BS. The problem is simply too difficult for them to solve, and they know it.
LordPsymon
27 Jun 2021, 12:57am
I honestly think rushing to your cockpit to escape an angry mob would be badass.
Sakashiro
27 Jun 2021, 12:59am
LordPsymonI honestly think rushing to your cockpit to escape an angry mob would be badass.

Especially if the mob could follow you into the ship.



Someone should make a parody of this scene with ED ship boarding mechanics.
LordPsymon
27 Jun 2021, 1:05am
I was really hoping you'd be able to explore derelict shipwrecks for loot and stuff. Maybe even find logs to learn what happened to the crew. But alas, that'd be too cool for FDev to implement at this point.
Rapis
27 Jun 2021, 3:33am
Burstar
RapisHello commanders!
I have a problem, sometimes the computer moves from the game screen to the computer desktop. (However, the game continues in the background.) This only happens with ED. Annoying especially in a combat situation. I have turned off the background programs and tried to turn the game mode on and off. The operating system is Windows 10
Does anyone have solutions?



Are you using EDMC? For me, the Overlay plugin will take precedence on load which is annoying but simple to expect and task switch back the one time.
Are you using a Windowed mode, or fullscreen? If windowed your mouse may be moving outside the window area and selecting the desktop. ED's mouse control is bad for this kind of thing.
Do you have more than one monitor/desktop window? Similar to issue above.

Other culprits I've not had an issue with but would suspect are third party overlays like with Steam , or Nvidia's Geforce Experience window.



thanks for the tips
apparently the culprit is the last
Amata Lirein
27 Jun 2021, 7:17am
Sakashiro
LordPsymonI honestly think rushing to your cockpit to escape an angry mob would be badass.


Especially if the mob could follow you into the ship.



Someone should make a parody of this scene with ED ship boarding mechanics.


Sounds like you should ask Yamiks to do so... he likes making fun of the "Armstrong Moment (TM)" at the start of his videos anyway, would be a nice variation
Amata Lirein
27 Jun 2021, 4:35pm
Burstar
27 Jun 2021, 5:58pm
Rapis[quote=Burstar]thanks for the tips
apparently the culprit is the last

quite welcome. glad I helped
User353048
27 Jun 2021, 6:18pm
I'm not sure how many people have picked up on this, but found a rather entertaining means to create some "emergent gameplay" yesterday.

I was at a surface settlement looking for an item for a mission, when another CMDR showed up. I told him that I was not interested in shooting him, as I was just there on a pick-up mission. Fact he turned his shield off said I was in the clear.

Then I noticed that he entered the power building. I followed him, whilst trying to feign an appearance of looking for an item, and when he went into the reactor room and put down his power regulator, I swiped past and grabbed it, having just before called in Apex, and ran like heck.

Think it took him a moment but the fact he started shooting at me indicates he worked I just stole from him, and likely landed him a fine and mission failure.

10/10 would PvP steal again.

I still have the regulator BTW.
Meowers
27 Jun 2021, 6:23pm
Gavin Freeman Think it took him a moment but the fact he started shooting at me indicates he worked I just stole from him, and likely landed him a fine and mission failure.

10/10 would PvP steal again.

I still have the regulator BTW.

Ninjalooting never gets old.
User353048
27 Jun 2021, 6:26pm
Meowers
Gavin Freeman Think it took him a moment but the fact he started shooting at me indicates he worked I just stole from him, and likely landed him a fine and mission failure.

10/10 would PvP steal again.

I still have the regulator BTW.


Ninjalooting never gets old.

Yeah, it was hilarious. Probably a bit cheeky of me but when the taxi was taking off I popped a "LATER LOSER" in the local chat, because my humour is that of a child.

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