Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)

Cool that this is free on Epic launcher because if you scroll a page back it was my first Steam refund ever. A game that I want to support, in theory, but after an hour I was like "fuck this" and refunded it. Willing to give another chance though ...

Obsidian said:

Flying the ship was fine after changing the mouse x axis from roll to pitch or whatever, that's not what I'm saying is bad (although that being the default is incredibly dumb). The interface controls are bad, I have a mouse, why can't I navigate menus with the mouse instead of using 1 set of keys to scroll through tabs and another set of keys to scroll through selections? Why are there a billion different functions in your ship that do not even have a button mapped by default (I'll probably get the names wrong since I'm not playing, FSS or something, and others)? The scanners are not by default mapped to anything either. Despite working during the tutorial in a certain way, once you're free playing the controls are no longer mapped? Why is this the case? Hypothetically let's say there's 15 functions in the ship that need to be mapped, by default 7 of them are not mapped (again, hypothetical). I'm sure once you're seasoned and accustomed to the game it's no problem, but as a total newb it's ridiculous for a game to be like this

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depends on what scanner you are talking about. Most scanners are actually mapped to a firegroup so your primary / secondary attack uses those. other scanners are passive. I can't think of one that needs its own button.

As for your inflight menus, those are designed to work for everyone, controller, HOTAS, VR and KBM players. Only one of those groups actually has a mouse though. Everyone has buttons. I'm more of a hotkey player myself, so I found the adjustment pretty easy. Friendship drive doesn't needs its own key, it's semiredundant as you can just use hyperjump without a target system to initiate regular supacrooz

The main issue with this game for me is that it's still fun to play with people, but there's nothing to do with people besides combat. So usually every time I played it with someone, we did a few sessions of bounty hunting, then they tried to do something different and we found out that you basically can't play stuff together, you can only play along each other. Anything other than combat was like that. So they quit shortly thereafter. Even hunting might get boring after a while because there's really not much variety in combat. Most loadouts are just so much worse than the one true way of lasers and MCs. So even if you enjoy the fighting aspect unreasonably much, it will eventually wear off. The game does not incentivize playing together, they even gave it a very stupid shot with multicrew (one of the features I was talking about, spent half a year developing, released it half-assed, never touched it again and now no one is using the feature at all. There is no content for coop play.

Ronaan said:

I decided to head back to the bubble for now, stopping at a few nebulae along the path and putting the Asp in front of things.

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I dropped the game shortly after I wrote this. Haven't made it back to Deciat yet. Still on my way though, picked it back up and I'm only 147 jumps away now!

I think I'll try to change my route so I detour through uncharted terrain. Currently I seem to be on the beaten path, where everything has already been discovered.

I bought it but have yet to install it. Trying to get home and deliver my scan data before taking that step. Sounds nice tho, space legs.

ED is a space flight sim, Chorus/Everspace are arcade space shooters.

I play it occasionally on my Oculus.