The controls are a minor problem. Wait until you get good at the mechanic and start using it. That's the real point where your gut sinks.
What have you done FD, exploration is ruined with this garbage.
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I disagree, I love the new system. The old one was not exploration at all.
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New controls are great.
So many buttons to play with! I love it!
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So many buttons to play with! I love it!
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Yeah, flying 500,000 LS to see if that HMC was terraformable isn't exploration, but sitting by the star moving a few sliders around, now that's REAL exploration.
Everyone remembers how Roald Amundsen heroically explored the South Pole by sitting on his couch and turning a globe upside down.
If you could supercruise faster, then zipping around the system scanning planets would be a lot more engaging than fiddling around tunning.
It's the tunning I hate most. Why are we manually tunning signals in the future when we don't even do it anymore in the present?
You don't see people mapping the ocean floor with divers and a pencil and paper do you? No they use radar and technology. It's the year 3300....we have technology.
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Because real life is boring?
Maker forbid we have to press buttons in order to play a video game...
Aye. Beware, that one. She's a sneaky mistress of the night.
Yeah, the new mechanics seem very well suited to world type cherry picking credit farming exploration. But for me, it still isn't how I get my kicks playing the game.
The most fun I've had with it so far is actually not using it and just happening across a couple worlds in a system in supercruise, then DSSing them. The "explorer" and completist aspects of my nature had me park up to FSS the rest of the system and DSS the rest of the worlds. This was a mistake.
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I still have to DSS everything else to complete the system in exploration game mechanic terms, but I'll have to save that for the next session.
And then I DSSed a gas giant! [haha] ← "Famous last words."
Step 1
Game crashed when exiting the DSS view.
Step 1 Round 2
Step 2 (opposite side)
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Hmm...
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Mapping is not the same as exploring.
Given the advances in technology by 3304 you'd think the FSS would be automated so that it produced a schematic diagram of the system with all the images of the planets in the system on it.
Oh, that's right, that's exactly what the ADS did. Technology just took a great leap backwards.
I warned everyone years ago about this.
Exploration was always a fun and Zen experience for me the way it was.
I played in VR on my recliner with an Xbox controller and just enjoyed the way exploration was then.
Now I doubt I'll be exploring the same way let alone on my recliner or using an Xbox controller. Back to sitting on my desk with my HOTAS. The changes make exploration feel like a chore now instead of a relaxing past time.
Exploration was always a fun and Zen experience for me the way it was.
I played in VR on my recliner with an Xbox controller and just enjoyed the way exploration was then.
Now I doubt I'll be exploring the same way let alone on my recliner or using an Xbox controller. Back to sitting on my desk with my HOTAS. The changes make exploration feel like a chore now instead of a relaxing past time.
Vastly better than the garbage that was exboring.
In 3304 they'd automate all ships and humans wouldn't be needed.
Some people consider lying on bed and watching at an imaginary dot on wall as relaxing, other people consider this boring. It’s a matter of taste, isn't it?
Indeed - which is why the 'but technology!' argument is specious.
I started a thread with the X52 default bindings, they work pretty good.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/464655-PSA-X52-FSS-default-bindings-inside
If people really quit because they can't be bothered to bind 5 keys I hope they stay away. You are holding the game back. Imagine what would happen when they release spacelegs? 'Move forward?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FRONTIER!!!'
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And just to be perfectly clear, it doesn't get more pathetic than this thread title. Especially when I consider that it took me less than two minutes figuring out the new controls.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/464655-PSA-X52-FSS-default-bindings-inside
If people really quit because they can't be bothered to bind 5 keys I hope they stay away. You are holding the game back. Imagine what would happen when they release spacelegs? 'Move forward?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FRONTIER!!!'
PS
And just to be perfectly clear, it doesn't get more pathetic than this thread title. Especially when I consider that it took me less than two minutes figuring out the new controls.
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Old people are smart enough to know that all change is not necessarily for the better.
That only applies if you were interested in tagging all the objects in a system, it's objectively slower to access the info the ADS would give you.
Played since Alpha, insane amount of hours sunk into Elite, bought your skins etc. And this latest update is a right royal joke. Have spent an insane amount of hours working to get this pathetic exploration system to something that works decently, I am done.
Most un-intuitive system ever been put into game since day 1, What path are you taking Frontier, cause I sure don't seem to find it enjoyable anymore, controls on top of controls on top of controls.
I will give it 6 - 12 months and drop back and see, but as it stands I not bothering with this keybind insanity any further at this time.
** No you can't has my stuff, I may return late next year
First world problems ...
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I started a thread with the X52 default bindings, they work pretty good.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/464655-PSA-X52-FSS-default-bindings-inside
If people really quit because they can't be bothered to bind 5 keys I hope they stay away. You are holding the game back. Imagine what would happen when they release spacelegs? 'Move forward?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FRONTIER!!!'
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And just to be perfectly clear, it doesn't get more pathetic than this thread title. Especially when I consider that it took me less than two minutes figuring out the new controls.
Is your ambition to play solo even though you're in open?
Frontier marketing must love you, as quickly as they're trying to get people to join the game, you're trying to get them to leave.
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