I think that's the price while it's in preview. It might be more expensive if you wait until it's released. It's implied from the latest newsletter, and there's a small offer on as well:
Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)
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I found Exploring was the best solution when you don't have much time to spare. You can just hop between systems as and when you get chance, and there's still plenty left to explore (although these days you may have to travel a long way before you go where no man has gone before)
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Anyone playing without a joystick? In war thunder I had no problems tracking a target in a loop with just mouse. With Elite I'm finding trouble getting a good setting for mouse, it just flies different. I tried xbox controller but again playing with sensitivity the little sticks are just too imprecise (vs rc flyers who use longer sticks so you have more precision). I've hated joysticks in the past though so leery of buying one,.
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If you have not adjusted the default mouse controls, place Pitch up and Down on the vertical mouse axis, and yaw on the left/right mouse axis. A/D on the keyboard need to be changed to rotation around the center axis. R/F are vertical thrusters from bottom/top and W/S are throttle settings. This should make it fly much more like warthunder, the default for kb/mouse sucks. The game plays well on KB/Mouse with these control adjustments.
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News of the xpac got me playing the game again, where I really didn't play it much before, just got used to the controls.
Went from a sidewinder to a fairly well decked out Viper just assisting NPCs killing bounties at a point of interest near Serebrov Station in Yakabugai.
Not sure what to do next, trying to amass a small fortune, maybe 10 million or so and then go from there.
Went from a sidewinder to a fairly well decked out Viper just assisting NPCs killing bounties at a point of interest near Serebrov Station in Yakabugai.
Not sure what to do next, trying to amass a small fortune, maybe 10 million or so and then go from there.
For "things to do" keep an eye on Community goals to see if there's one that looks appealing (at the moment, there's just one active anyway...). They get mentioned in Galnet but the forum thread is the best place to follow what's going on in practice:
Active Community Goals Thread #2
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Its very grindy but I like it.
That's not to say its not flawed. It could use way more ship variety and quest variety/variety in stuff to do in general, but its very sandboxy, which is a strong point. The universe is the largest in any video game that I'm aware of, even if a lot of it is empty space.
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This is on sale for 40% off currently; worth buying or wait for the expansion? I was looking at their official "flowchart" of how to buy the game/expansion and it was such a fucking trainwreck that it kept me from just impulse buying it so I can do play with space lasers.
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If you're going to buy it with the expansion, might as well get it now and get to grinding cash. Probably won't be 40% off when the xpac comes out, but what the hell do I know? Maybe it will be.
I've enjoyed it for what it is now, but my above post to Araysar still holds true. There's not a lot to do, theres a limited number of ships. I enjoy the game quite a bit, but its not like I play it all the time. I already have the xpac preordered.
I've enjoyed it for what it is now, but my above post to Araysar still holds true. There's not a lot to do, theres a limited number of ships. I enjoy the game quite a bit, but its not like I play it all the time. I already have the xpac preordered.