Elite on Kickstarter...

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Dio wrote:Scan have the X52 on under a ton, with a 14th July stock date. Even the £280 Thrustmaster insane option is sold out there too, as are most of the less capable HOTAS setups. You can still get a separate stick though.
Scan are saying tomorrow for the X52 pro, overclockers today. So they are all waiting and expecting (or at least hoping for) stock soon.

So fingers crossed.

/edit. Oops. Missed defsdoor's post prior to mine. I agree, it's probably all lies. But let's stay positive! Saitek surely want to meet some of this demand.
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I've edged my bets and also placed an order with Scan. If I get two I'll sell one at cost to anyone that wants it.
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Stopped ordering from Dabs about 5-7 years ago when I had no end of problems and there was no easy way (at the time) to contact them because they "prided themselves" on being fully automated. Doesn't sound like they've changed much. Scan are good :)
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Word on the tweets is that "everywhere has been out of stock for months" :/.
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Struggling straight away with the offline tutorials :lol:

The Black Widow seems fine as a basic controller, just not many buttons really so a lot of thinking to do in terms of what to assign!
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Maybe someone wants to ask them? They have a postal address, email & telephone numbers, for both distributor & technical support.
Not often you see that these days.

http://www.saitek.com/uk/info2/contact.php
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Fuck it, looking around there just are no x52 pros ANYWHERE. I'm not holding out any hope of receiving my order in a timely fashion, and I can't play with mouse and kbd and use the Rift, so I'm going to cancel my Dabs order. I've ordered a standard x52 (non pro) from the bay. From Germany so I may have to wait a week but hay, better than nowt.

Played the first two scenarios, I am shit so far but I expected that. I'll just spend the time practicing while I wait for the stick so at least I will know what I am doing to some extent by the time I put my rift on.
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Okay so pro tip: maybe request docking clearance before flying into a base. Is this a mistake all rookies make on the first try or is it just that I have this "figure it out as I go" thing and didn't bother to look at any play-throughs or read any readmes?
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I am not giving out any tips about 'space docking'.
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I spent five minutes scraping against a pad before I realised I had to lower landing gear when I first started playing :)

The 360 pad makes for a pretty good flight controller, though!
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Tanatoes wrote:Okay so pro tip: maybe request docking clearance before flying into a base. Is this a mistake all rookies make on the first try or is it just that I have this "figure it out as I go" thing and didn't bother to look at any play-throughs or read any readmes?
Far from the only one I think! If it wasn't for the benefit of parental tuition (dad being sat 4ft away and having joined all this yonks ago) then yeah, I'd have flown straight in, been destroyed, landed without the gear etc etc :)

Even the single player missions (apparently more of a legacy from older versions than an actual tutorial per se) are very much "in at the deep end". I'm that used to being spoonfed everything step by step click by click. I don't know if that's the eventual plan, but I actually find it quite refreshing to learn the old fashioned way :lol:
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Here's a docking tutorial they released around Alpha 3:

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Cloudane wrote:Even the single player missions (apparently more of a legacy from older versions than an actual tutorial per se) are very much "in at the deep end". I'm that used to being spoonfed everything step by step click by click. I don't know if that's the eventual plan, but I actually find it quite refreshing to learn the old fashioned way :lol:
From interviews they've done, they very much don't want to go down the tutorial route if they can help it.

The goal seems to be make the basic controls intuitive and easy to use to start, with a lot of optional hidden depth you can uncover and learn as you go (like the power system, flight-assist off, etc.) which will improve your performance and give you a slight edge.

Whether this ends up being feasible or not is another matter. There have been a few n00bs throwing their toys out of the pram within the first couple of hours because the "interface is too confusing", or the "mouse control is unplayable".

It seems modern gaming has dumbed things down so much that people don't like engaging their brains any more. It really makes me despair sometimes. ;)
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Cheers :)

A noble goal! I think the same, you do realise this makes us elitists though....
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