Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

You know... as I think about it, I have enough ARX to buy standard versions of the Mandy and the T8.

Just to throw an extra spanner in the works!

EDIT - Went prebuilt Mandy

 

[Rhialto]

Has anyone pledged to a power yet?

I haven't and I'm not sure if I will. I'm trying to weigh up the pros and cons.

I may take a plunge into Mandalay waters today though.

I did in the pp1 time, mainly for the modules, (Prismatics, Pacifiers and Cytoscramblers up until now).
There weren't many drawbacks then.
In pp2 the opposing powers seem to be a bit more aggressive toward you.
I'm going to pledge anyway, it seems the gameplay is more interesting now, and you don't lose half your merits every week.

 

[Simon Templar]

You know... as I think about it, I have enough ARX to buy standard versions of the Mandy and the T8.

Just to throw an extra spanner in the works!

EDIT - Went prebuilt Mandy

I jsut left my Mandalay in primer without the ship kit as neither did much for me and it dropped the price by half. I'm officially a cheapskate. Will paint it once I earn a bit through gameplay. I love the ship without the ship kit so winner winner chicken dinner. Put the ship kit on the T8, though, as I love it's industrial look, real Alien vibes.

 

[Simon Templar]

Enjoy your new ship!

 

[Ryder7]

If you find ships flying banners for a power, check the radar.

Haven't noticed banners yet, but wandering on the floor, there were guards wearing plain green à la '93 doomguy, and random cargo ships that come and go painted full red, or full green,etc. I 'll take a closer look at that

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Enjoy your new ship!

Thanks!

Feels more like a racing car than an exploration ship at the moment. Just at Fe's to get some experimental luvvliness and then some engineering.

I wish they'd fix the outfitting screen though - my jump range stats disappear off the bottom of my monitor.

 

[aRJay]

Thanks!

Feels more like a racing car than an exploration ship at the moment. Just at Fe's to get some experimental luvvliness and then some engineering.

I wish they'd fix the outfitting screen though - my jump range stats disappear off the bottom of my monitor.

Odd.
I haven’t got that on mine, is it just Mandalay or everything.

Perhaps you need to get round the back of your monitor and tweak the vertical hold a bit.

 

[Markov Chaney]

I suppose I could dry dock the Hauler, Added and A.N. Other when the MKV arrives. It's just my OCD wanting keep all my ships in one place

I abandoned that idea years ago; I leave them all over the bleedin' place. Thing is though I quite like the little interludes this forces, when you might have to wait days for your ship to arrive, you can just pootle around doing makework for a while and it's quite relaxing. (Powers dishing out missions directly is going to help with this too!)

 

[]M[]

Odd.
I haven’t got that on mine, is it just Mandalay or everything.

Perhaps you need to get round the back of your monitor and tweak the vertical hold a bit.

Yes, one should also watch out for magnets nearby - possibly a speaker set below is pulling the beam off, distorting/cropping the image?

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Odd.
I haven’t got that on mine, is it just Mandalay or everything.

Perhaps you need to get round the back of your monitor and tweak the vertical hold a bit.

Perhaps the tubes are still warming up.

Thing is, everything else is centralised OK.

EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering if it's to do with screen size and resolution...

 

[aRJay]

Perhaps the tubes are still warming up.

Thing is, everything else is centralised OK.

EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering if it's to do with screen size and resolution...

Quite possibly, especially if your monitor is one of the more letter boxed designs.

Could it be to do with borderless versus windowed display modes as well?

 

[Markov Chaney]

EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering if it's to do with screen size and resolution...

Unfortunately I have no operatives spare to despatch to your property with a spy drone, so you'll have to actually tell us what rez you are running if you want an answer ...

ETA: I think aRJay is suggesting you might be on 16:10 (the oldschool not-quite-16:9) or ultrawide (the shiny new eeeally-not-16:9)

 

[Simon Templar]

I abandoned that idea years ago; I leave them all over the bleedin' place. Thing is though I quite like the little interludes this forces, when you might have to wait days for your ship to arrive, you can just pootle around doing makework for a while and it's quite relaxing. (Powers dishing out missions directly is going to help with this too!)

ALmost the best bit of being in a squadron is that we have a home base, so an obvious place to leave my spare ships!

 

[Simon Templar]

Thanks!

Feels more like a racing car than an exploration ship at the moment. Just at Fe's to get some experimental luvvliness and then some engineering.

I wish they'd fix the outfitting screen though - my jump range stats disappear off the bottom of my monitor.

That;s odd, doesn't do that for me. Although I am playing on a laptop through a 58'' TV, so perhaps not a good comparison.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Quite possibly, especially if your monitor is one of the more letter boxed designs.

Could it be to do with borderless versus windowed display modes as well?

Unfortunately I have no operatives spare to despatch to your property with a spy drone, so you'll have to actually tell us what rez you are running if you want an answer ...

ETA: I think aRJay is suggesting you might be on 16:10 (the oldschool not-quite-16:9) or ultrawide (the shiny new eeeally-not-16:9)

It's one of these running in 4K - 16:9

 

[the100thmonkey]

Perhaps the tubes are still warming up.

Thing is, everything else is centralised OK.

EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering if it's to do with screen size and resolution...

Borderless window mode?

Hit Alt+Enter a couple of times to see if that redraws the screen the right size.

Failing that, unplug the cable then plug it back in.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Borderless window mode?

Hit Alt+Enter a couple of times to see if that redraws the screen the right size.

Failing that, unplug the cable then plug it back in.

Well, that's odd. ALT ENTRT does nothing. Changing from borderless to full screen does nothing. Unplugging the HDMI did nothing. And, to top it all, I can't find the OSD control to move the screen position around. I'm a bit stumped.

I did find out that my case fans are blowing out a lot of hot air when the game is running though

 

[KnezBP]

Life in the Empire is kind of confusing, when I was offered a choice of reputation reward or 1T of slaves.

Isn't the Empire against slavery? That's one of the reasons I joined on my last account. Though it was mostly just to simp for the anime chick.

Has anyone pledged to a power yet?

I haven't and I'm not sure if I will. I'm trying to weigh up the pros and cons.

I may take a plunge into Mandalay waters today though.

Yeah, I'm just gonna wait on feedback. No rush.

And the Mandalay looks great.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

And the Mandalay looks great.

It's nice to fly. And it is quite sexy to look at - maybe even "hotter" than the Mamba...

What I do like is the nice touch of the outside engines angling as directional thrust is applied. Bit sort of Harrier Jump Jet style.

Here's a pR0n short of the rear showing those engines pointing down

 

[]M[]

RaygunWell, that's odd. ALT ENTRT does nothing. Changing from borderless to full screen does nothing. Unplugging the HDMI did nothing. And, to top it all, I can't find the OSD control to move the screen position around. I'm a bit stumped.

I did find out that my case fans are blowing out a lot of hot air when the game is running though

Ok, more seriously [since this display doesn’t seem to be driven by an electron beam ;] it might well be the aspect ratio - check the game output is 16:9, ie: for 4K this would be 3840x2160, or 2560x1440 if you’re sacrificing pixels for frames?

Alternatively, it might have to do with the signal timing - that’s somewhere near the end of this user manual PDF…

https://iiyama.com/f/40aa6596ed3361d56fed782081bd1af3_xb3288uhsu-usermanual-e-reve.pdf