The Scorpion is even better at climbing than the Scarab, FWIW. Mighta made it to the top!
Great pix!
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Great pix!
I like Scorpion but not for exporing. It's... so... bloody... sloooow.
btw. the green bits are green even up close. Shocking.
But I'm gonna have to return to orbit and check the heatmap again to try and find that last biosignal.
I spent a couple of months on my Horizons alter-ego.
Stupid question but... can we switch the heatmap overlay on and off already? I'm starting to remember a couple of things that originally convinced me to take a break from EDO.
I concur.
It's what I use - albeit rarely - when I know that idiot exo sample is going to be hard to get to
Not so great for whizzing around large plains' areas though and the difference in scanner matters a lot to me too.
You can turn the heatless map overlay off by switching to combat mode. (it’s not a heat map anymore just to be clear).
Boy, did I get schooled today, I took a black box salvage mission and as soon as the first cannister touched my ship 4 bad guys popped out of super cruise and started shooting at me. It did say that ships could be sent to attack me but almost all missions say that.
All I figured I needed to do was take out as many of the smaller, faster ships (2 Eagles, 1 Imperial Cutter) as I could until the NPC cops got there. By the time they arrived, my shields were gone but my hull and modules were at 75%, so I think I could have finished off the Anaconda. I had to use all 4 of my shield boosters and had to make more heatsinks.
All I figured I needed to do was take out as many of the smaller, faster ships (2 Eagles, 1 Imperial Cutter) as I could until the NPC cops got there. By the time they arrived, my shields were gone but my hull and modules were at 75%, so I think I could have finished off the Anaconda. I had to use all 4 of my shield boosters and had to make more heatsinks.
in between.
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It is good to know that some things haven’t changed.
Black box salvage missions were almost always an ambush waiting to pounce when your ship is at its slowest. I seem to remember that if you defeated them a second wave arrived pretty quickly. A recommended technique was to target one box then launch a collector limpet which would be in high speed one shot mode, as soon as it was back jump to cruise and start over until you had retrieved all the boxes needed one at a time
Well, I wish I had known, I felt like a deer caught in the headlights. I snagged the second one while the NPC cops were still there. I only needed the two and both were in the same area.
This?*
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* I know it's The Sun but time was short... at least it wasn't written by Moist Von Lipwig or CMOT Dibbler.
I often wonder how Pratchett is considered outside of the UK - to my mind, the humour is very British and therefore may not be "got" by other countries.
I suppose I should exercise my Google-Fu one day and see. Although I try to avoid that company wherever possible.
In ye olden days there was a particular ambush we often found. Dropping in to a signal source to find ten or so cannisters of gold, as soon as you scooped one a horde of pirates would suddenly unmask (seemingly) to pounce on you. "I can't believe that worked" was the accompanying NPC spam message in local. Such fun...
Ok, get the guardian site in route finally and moving on slowly
I actually prefer the old 3d map route in EDDiscoery.... the new one looks like a bunch of broken rippons.....
I actually prefer the old 3d map route in EDDiscoery.... the new one looks like a bunch of broken rippons.....
Well done!
I just chilled out and built my rep with local factions before heading back on a carrier. Although that was before Odyssey so there may be more engineers out there now.
You're braver than me. I tend to only use the Cobra for salvage missions because my plan of attack is to quickly grab each target individually using limpets before running like hell as my shields are vapourised. It usually works but there's often sweat streaming down my face as I make my escape.
That's another thing I look out for. If I see cops around, I might go back and laser beam people in the back while they're distracted. You can get some decent bounties.
Right.
One short-term goal down...
Next, it's the explorer rank with luck.
One short-term goal down...
Next, it's the explorer rank with luck.
I do a lot of those missions for inf+++ for the faction I support. For me the goal is to get the inf++ as fast as possible. I use alight weight Imperial Courier that boosts to 800m/s+
It's possible to collect all 4 canisters before they start shooting. Pop a heatsink and chaff to disrupt targeting if needed and boost away with the shields barely touched is my strategy. Then make a jump.
Of course, you might prefer the challenge of engaging in the combat
No Good. Ody turned me into a Kleptomaniac Murder Hobo.
Aggrieved comments about this in the forums often generated replies including the Star Wars meme featuring Admiral Akbar.
Which to be honest is how I tend to look at many things in this game