You do get limited time only paint jobs.
Chrome was available over the Christmas / New Year break and I grabbed it for my main Krait MKII.
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Chrome was available over the Christmas / New Year break and I grabbed it for my main Krait MKII.
The limited availability paint jobs do get re-released every so often - Black Friday was a popular one and came up every year. There are seasonal ones too, just like seasonal bobbleheads & cockpit lights - the xmas ones I have are quite good (stylised snow flakes) but some looked like wrapping paper. Gold and chrome (or Golden and Chromed) are popular too and come up from time to time as well as being part of the Xmas "advent calendar" / 12 days of Xmas offers.
As well as notices in the launcher there is usually a thread noting availability of these things - they used to be staples of the newsletter but since the "datamining" by FD of the newsletters I don't subscribe to one anymore.
Wow. I noticed today all those modular terminals sold out. The Silver Citadel has moved to another location and has nothing for sale right now
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I got to destroy a little fighter that came out of the belly of an Anaconda, it was extremely fast and was really ing me off, couldn't lock on the targeting scanner. It was like a gnat buzzing around my face, I finally boosted away so I could lock on from a distance (it was at the bottom of my contacts list out of sight, Taipan Fighter). Once I locked it up, it was all over, blew up really quick. Anyway, my first time dealing with one of those.
DONE!!!
On my way to pick up my Vette.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the USS Jolly Rancher.
Powered by watermelon flavored hard candy and hot air.
On my way to pick up my Vette.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the USS Jolly Rancher.
Powered by watermelon flavored hard candy and hot air.
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On my way to pick up my Vette.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the USS Jolly Rancher.
Powered by watermelon flavored hard candy and hot air.
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I reckon mine will come about this time next week in a less colourful but meaningful to me Razor Silver. Not sure on name yet. All my ships in the bubble are Silver {name of a mythical monster}. The Anaconda is dragon, so need something else. Demon or Balrog... maybe. Prefer something less evil.
Well you got to fly it and get to know it a little bit. (..Then you will decide Leviathan, or perhaps Nessie)
I used Hydra for an FDL I rarely use (never really charmed me).
Pixie - Sidewinder
Goblin - Hauler
Centaur - ASPX
Pegasus - Python
Wolf - Cobra III
Fox - DBX
Phoenix - Phantom
Chimera - Krait II
Hydra- FDL
Manticore - Chieftain
Dragon - Anaconda
Mermaid - Orca
Angel - Imperial Courier
Archangel - Cutter
Leviathan and Kraken are interesting, and Leviathan rolls off the tongue with Silver.
Pixie - Sidewinder
Goblin - Hauler
Centaur - ASPX
Pegasus - Python
Wolf - Cobra III
Fox - DBX
Phoenix - Phantom
Chimera - Krait II
Hydra- FDL
Manticore - Chieftain
Dragon - Anaconda
Mermaid - Orca
Angel - Imperial Courier
Archangel - Cutter
Leviathan and Kraken are interesting, and Leviathan rolls off the tongue with Silver.
Yeah. Leviathan is good. Wish I had thought of it.
Phew, been a couple of weeks since last update! Short version, fitted a new PSU and Radeon 6650xt into my PC, and somehow caused The Great Crash of '22. I broke that computer in so many ways it was unusable for days. My cpu overclock, stable for 4 years is still ruined, possibly gone forever. My Windows install completely died, possibly due to file corruption from so many bluescreens. Had to wipe it and start over with basically zero notice. This cost me all my ED control bindings because, naturally, they're stored in AppData... haha, why would you ever store game settings in the game's folder? What kind of madness would that be to keep config files with the program they belong to? Still, not as bad as Eastshade, who's save game file was also in AppData, not on the D drive with the game where it would have survived 
Anyway, I think the last thing I saw before my enforced break was this delightful red hellscape, in a system a ways off east of the bubble, where I'd gotten the first discovery+scans on, so long ago that I don't remember doing it.
Having now rebuilt my PC and sent the 6650xt back because of it's dire OpenGL support, I am now running a 3060. Frankly, both cards were good with EDO, both were running 60fps on planets at 1440p resolution and max details. The 6650xt was able to do 150% superscaling where the 3060 is "only" doing 125% but... I don't feel like I've lost a lot. TLDR, the only reason not to get a 6650xt for this game is because you run above 1440p, or like me, love Minecraft (the one big failing of that card, weirdly). That wasn't really the point of this post, but I felt like I needed the vent. Obviously I don't know how this will perform in settlements; probably not great at 125% resolution, but I will visit those very rarely and can of course... come back to 100%.
Either way, it's nice being able to have decent screenshots without having to F10 them and then go shrink the bitmap and jpg it!
The next moon in "my" system had some very tall and somewhat boney looking bamboo.
And some tussocks.
Finishing up there, I picked a nearby G-type star and jumped out. The first jump, generic M class, undiscovered... I find another bio+geo world. I was ranting about this combination about a month ago because I had literally never seen one before and was so pleased - and now I've had 2 in a short span of time. Like busses, I tells you.
Soul-crushingly, where I had spent a day and a half buzzing around the previous planet in a quest to find both features next to each other, this time, here they both were right as I came in to land. Oh well, maybe next time I will find some properly interesting life instead of just goo pools?
Also it's quite blue here. I will guess at a neon atmosphere, they tend to do this sort of thing.
Anyway, I think the last thing I saw before my enforced break was this delightful red hellscape, in a system a ways off east of the bubble, where I'd gotten the first discovery+scans on, so long ago that I don't remember doing it.
Having now rebuilt my PC and sent the 6650xt back because of it's dire OpenGL support, I am now running a 3060. Frankly, both cards were good with EDO, both were running 60fps on planets at 1440p resolution and max details. The 6650xt was able to do 150% superscaling where the 3060 is "only" doing 125% but... I don't feel like I've lost a lot. TLDR, the only reason not to get a 6650xt for this game is because you run above 1440p, or like me, love Minecraft (the one big failing of that card, weirdly). That wasn't really the point of this post, but I felt like I needed the vent. Obviously I don't know how this will perform in settlements; probably not great at 125% resolution, but I will visit those very rarely and can of course... come back to 100%.
Either way, it's nice being able to have decent screenshots without having to F10 them and then go shrink the bitmap and jpg it!
The next moon in "my" system had some very tall and somewhat boney looking bamboo.
And some tussocks.
Finishing up there, I picked a nearby G-type star and jumped out. The first jump, generic M class, undiscovered... I find another bio+geo world. I was ranting about this combination about a month ago because I had literally never seen one before and was so pleased - and now I've had 2 in a short span of time. Like busses, I tells you.
Soul-crushingly, where I had spent a day and a half buzzing around the previous planet in a quest to find both features next to each other, this time, here they both were right as I came in to land. Oh well, maybe next time I will find some properly interesting life instead of just goo pools?
Also it's quite blue here. I will guess at a neon atmosphere, they tend to do this sort of thing.
Hydra and Basilisk are the names of different types of Thargoid craft so might confuse people as to the loyalty of the commander.
I did not know that.
Amazing pics. Man I've got so much to look forward to.Phew, been a couple of weeks since last update! Short version, fitted a new PSU and Radeon 6650xt into my PC, and somehow caused The Great Crash of '22. I broke that computer in so many ways it was unusable for days. My cpu overclock, stable for 4 years is still ruined, possibly gone forever. My Windows install completely died, possibly due to file corruption from so many bluescreens. Had to wipe it and start over with basically zero notice. This cost me all my ED control bindings because, naturally, they're stored in AppData... haha, why would you ever store game settings in the game's folder? What kind of madness would that be to keep config files with the program they belong to? Still, not as bad as Eastshade, who's save game file was also in AppData, not on the D drive with the game where it would have survived
Anyway, I think the last thing I saw before my enforced break was this delightful red hellscape, in a system a ways off east of the bubble, where I'd gotten the first discovery+scans on, so long ago that I don't remember doing it.
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Having now rebuilt my PC and sent the 6650xt back because of it's dire OpenGL support, I am now running a 3060. Frankly, both cards were good with EDO, both were running 60fps on planets at 1440p resolution and max details. The 6650xt was able to do 150% superscaling where the 3060 is "only" doing 125% but... I don't feel like I've lost a lot. TLDR, the only reason not to get a 6650xt for this game is because you run above 1440p, or like me, love Minecraft (the one big failing of that card, weirdly). That wasn't really the point of this post, but I felt like I needed the vent. Obviously I don't know how this will perform in settlements; probably not great at 125% resolution, but I will visit those very rarely and can of course... come back to 100%.
Either way, it's nice being able to have decent screenshots without having to F10 them and then go shrink the bitmap and jpg it!
The next moon in "my" system had some very tall and somewhat boney looking bamboo.
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And some tussocks.
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Finishing up there, I picked a nearby G-type star and jumped out. The first jump, generic M class, undiscovered... I find another bio+geo world. I was ranting about this combination about a month ago because I had literally never seen one before and was so pleased - and now I've had 2 in a short span of time. Like busses, I tells you.
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Soul-crushingly, where I had spent a day and a half buzzing around the previous planet in a quest to find both features next to each other, this time, here they both were right as I came in to land. Oh well, maybe next time I will find some properly interesting life instead of just goo pools?
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Also it's quite blue here. I will guess at a neon atmosphere, they tend to do this sort of thing.
There are 3 or 4 types of Scout class Thargoids that can be dealt with inefficiently using conventional weapons though a specialist sensor in a utility slot is advisable.
Then there are the Interceptor class Thargoids which include Medusas Hydras and Basilisks which are immune to conventional weapons.
Specialist weapons and other equipment are available.
I was in the process of writing a post here complaining that I couldn't rename my ships because the game* converted all input text to UPPER CASE and so lost the more appealing Title Case that I prefer - however I just noticed that a recent ship purchase and renaming has retained the Title Case I gave it. On investigation it seems that Ship names in Oddy retain the case that you type in. You can see how yukky UPPER CASE names are in the four accounts I have imaged below - my poor little Nereid-named fleet looks awful throughout.
Happily all of those accounts have Oddy access so that is a job for me this week. I shall not be splurging on Oddy for my mucking-about-in-the-noob-zone account so all those Latin and Greek profanities will have to remain in UPPER CASE.
* A rather annoying coding
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Aren't Thargoid ships supposed to be alive and you want to aim at one of their several hearts? I thought I saw a video where the pilot would target one of the hearts in the sub-contacts menu
Yep, i noticed this in ED Discovery, indeed my more recently-bought-ships, like Dropship of Imp Eagle are keeping lower case letters. Not such of annoyance, but i must bring em all to either one, either another, for them to look all the same. It's surely not Odyssey release date related though, more like some autumn patch, i see upper case on those ships i've got already quite far in Odyssey.