the PC Gaming thread

[kaivalagi]

How you guys doing in ED?

I've got my Cobra to mostly B rating stuff (I aint paying for A rating, 1.6mil each item!) and I just bought a Lakon 6 transporter...currently ferrying 80T's but will add another 16T once I visit a high tech for the cargo racks. Not looking forward to the first interdiction!! Got gimballed burst lasers, electronic countermeasures and chaff launcher fitted but the stock shields will be pants no doubt...

[STRAMASHER]

Enjoying my trading in a cobra but had a decision to make either get spendy in real life and buy Metro Redux for some shooty thrills and scares or splodge oot on a Eagle and trick it up...

Well all my real money goes on quality vodka so a got all spendy on doing up an eagle and went looking for trouble. Made my 1st spondoolies righteously boiling some baddies fur bounties. Feels...goood.

[kaivalagi]

lol, flying a Cobra in combat with almost 200K insurance bills looming makes for nervous moments....maybe I should trick out an eagle and you one of those too...I liked the handling when I had one before, they just can't take hits!

What we need is the ability to have multiple commanders so we can choice to be pirates on one login without affecting our rep on the other!

[Redmist]

Currently taking a 10 day period away from my PC.




It sucks.

[kaivalagi]

Working away from home or hols?

I bought a gaming laptop for ED as I'm about to start working away and the evenings will be boring otherwise

Update: now got a T6 for trading and the Cobra...working my way towards an Asp slowly but surely

[Redmist]

Hols.

Friday I'll be back. Will be hitting ED hard!

[kaivalagi]

Just traded my Cobra and T6 in for an Asp and upgraded to D spec 4 cannons, 2 D2 beam lasers and 88t cargo!

[Redmist]

How many hours of playing would you estimate? Or is there a tally somewhere?

[ethariel]

Out of curiosity, what controls setups are you using, mouse and keyboard, gamepad, flight stick and throttles?

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by Redmist

How many hours of playing would you estimate? Or is there a tally somewhere?

There doesn't seem to be an hours played stat anywhere, I've played most days since the release date, some for just an hour but other days like yesterday and today I've maybe put in 4 hours each. It's been interesting though, my ship migration has been: Sidewinder -> Eagle -> Hauler -> Cobra -> Type 6 (keeping Cobra too) -> Asp. I may then go on to Imperial Clipper -> Python and then stay with that but I will be in the Asp for quite a while before moving on again, if at all.

I did a hard graft today to get the necessary funds for my upgrades, did atleast 15 round trips trading and making about 140K for each. A necessary evil of the game if you want to progress in your ships faster. Now I have the Asp I now need a further 20+ million to kit it out as best as can be for combat...good job it's a good trading ship too...I may get a smaller craft like a viper to do combat on the cheap soon though, just to mix it up a bit.

Originally Posted by ethariel

Out of curiosity, what controls setups are you using, mouse and keyboard, gamepad, flight stick and throttles?

I'm just using kb and mouse as I will be paying away from home soon with work and I wont have space for a hotas, it is fine for the most part...I do plan on getting an X52 pro at some point though as combining thrusters with normal flight control is nearly impossible right now, it's like a game of twister on the kb. To be better at combat you really need to be able to use the thrusters to have extra manuvourability

Maybe we should start an Elite Dangerous thread if there's enough of us on here interested in it?