Elite on Kickstarter...

[Muttley]

yay I finally beat mission 3! (Inelegantly and with a cracked canopy).

Shit immediately pushed in by mission 4...

Tried it on the Oculus yet?

[Yak]

Not yet, I think it'd be a pain in the tits trying to fly M&K with the occy. I'm waiting for my HOTAS to (eventually, hopefully) come before I try that. Could even have my DK2 by then. Also if I get a bit of practice in now I'll at least know a bit what I'm doing by the time I do put on the Rift.

My beating the third mission was properly funny. Ended up in a head on joust with the dude, I just pumped power into lasers and kept blasting at him as we approached one another, both spinning around. Got his shields down and then actually finished him off by smashing into him .

Hopefully I'll evolve slightly more elegant techniques as I learn to fly properly .

[Cloudane]

I bet the Dockers have something to say about waiting to see your HOTAS..

Glad it's not just me who uses the "Nemesis / Year of Hell" method of taking down an enemy ship. "Brace for impact!"

[Muttley]

LaveCon? Shame I couldn't go. It's unofficial but at least 3 Frontier bods are going.

In other news. Look at the gorgeous lighting on this video:

Shared that video with the team (I'm not working on Elite before you all start asking lots of questions, they're just upstairs from me) - that's a particularly spectacular example of the lighting :-)

Cheers

Bubba

Nice one. And it's good to see you around again mate.

Hopefully you'll get to work on one of the expansions.

[Darkflame]

LaveCon? Shame I couldn't go. It's unofficial but at least 3 Frontier bods are going.

In other news. Look at the gorgeous lighting on this video:

Shared that video with the team (I'm not working on Elite before you all start asking lots of questions, they're just upstairs from me) - that's a particularly spectacular example of the lighting :-)

Cheers

Bubba

Awesome video.
btw, if your anywhere near Sam (who makes nice city models and often has sort of a "fuck the police" attitude), tell him Tom from portsmouth says hi.

[Muttley]

Newsletter #31 is out: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcb ... 70b7a0178e

It includes this WIP enhancement of the procedural stars; adding solar flares and coronal mass ejections (sped up for the video of course).

[rowan]

Star looks excellent, this game's looking ever more lovely.

Received the ability to download the single player but my old PC can't execute it, waiting until later in the year to upgrade..

[Istar]

Cracked. Just upgraded to Premium Beta, mainly for the free lifetime expansion packs.

Wife-of-Istar will not be pleased.

[Yak]

Up to mission 7 now, finally starting to feel at home in the ship, using power distribution systems and heatsinks and such. Definitely very fun feeling it start to get more comfortable.

Of course I'll have to relearn all my controls when my x52 arrives but at least I'll know roughly what I'm meant to be doing .

[Istar]

Hmm. Does NOT work well with a Wacom Pen/Tablet combo.

Time to dig out my old 360 gamepad...

[Muttley]

Hmm. Does NOT work well with a Wacom Pen/Tablet combo.

Time to dig out my old 360 gamepad...

CMDR Istar by any chance? Will have to keep my eyes peeled.

[Istar]

I didn't notice anywhere inside the game to register a name yet, but I think I used Valarian as my KS-backer name (Valar === Istari, broadly).

Can't seem to find the Backers area from the online store page to check what Commander name I registered.

[Muttley]

I didn't notice anywhere inside the game to register a name yet, but I think I used Valarian as my KS-backer name (Valar === Istari, broadly).

Can't seem to find the Backers area from the online store page to check what Commander name I registered.

Login to the support site at: https://support.orerve.net

There's a Commander Profile tab at the top and you can request a new name there. It's not an automatic process so it may take a few days to update.

[Yak]

So I'm not sure if I had a bug or just failed a mission just now. I was doing the one where you have to take down the Anaconda, after a lengthy pursuit I had the ship down to 16% hull, her shields had been up and down and I'd just taken them down again and was coming close up her arse to paint her with the beam laser. Went a bit *too* close up her arse and smacked into her. Spinning round for a bit, get my bearings again and she's gone, nowhere to be seen. I thought maybe the crash had dealt her a fatal blow but there's no debris and no message telling me she was destroyed, she's just... gone. One of the wingmen caught up to me, and eventually another, but that honking great anaconda had just vanished.

glitch? did she jump to hyperspace and escape? There was no definite end mission, win or fail, just me and the two wingmen and a nav beacon and nothing else.

Some definite "woah" moments during that fight though, getting right up close and seeing my beam laser paint scars on that big ship. This is going to be something else come dk2 and my joystick .

[Tanatoes]

Decided to give the combat missions a try to see what's what. As expected I got pretty handily destroyed very quickly my first few tries on mission 2 and 3. Beat them by flying backward and jousting - not optimal. Just can't seem to find a way to get on somebody's tail an stay there yet. Utterly devastated almost instantly on trying out mission 4.

I am kind of liking the whole "here's a new mechanic - now go figure it out for yourself" attitude of the missions, but it can be frustrating if you're as bad at the game as I clearly am.