Am I getting too old but is the new content too difficult to access?

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Flimley said:
I stopped trying to access the new content after acquiring some of the guardian stuff. That was just supremely aggravating To accomplish. And after many years of jumping through the required hoops for engineers, and guardians. The thought of essentially going through that again for the combined blue/green gear.... forget it. I'm out.
I view this as identical content resulting in the exact same end result. ...Get new weapons (at great annoyance) to enable shooting of slightly different enemies. The exact same format exists currently within odyssey on foot play. And that will continue most likely with blue/green weapons on foot. Tired of it now. game uninstalled.


Flimley
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Can I haz yer stuffs?
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
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tolm

tolm
Pville_Piper said:
Worked on the Glaive combat again tonight... But was difficult to find them, and when I did, they came in threes. I brough my Mamba over, the extra speed seems to make a small difference, still doesn't outrun the Glaives at 600. It's not well engineered, and I didn't think the speed made enough of a difference, so after a couple of rebuys I gave up, got in my FAS for the rest of the evening. This was much better and more fun. Plus, no more rebuys.

I started with all AX Azimuth multies and then dropped down to 3 with a long-range beam with thermal vent. This made the heat more manageable and combat as well, took on one Glaive and killed it with 75% hull left. This meant I was still combat viable, and I ended up doing an extended combat patrol but other than the big boys and the scouts (pay isn't worth it), I didn't run into any hunters. My experience seems to show that the long range, thermal vent beam makes a noticeable difference in fighting the Glaives.

I really enjoy combat in the FAS, the Krait II is good, but the FAS just seems to be more fun and better able to take hits and dish it out. Could just be me, I have a soft spot for the FAS, we go way back. She was the first ship that really allowed me to play the way I liked without limiting me.

I plan to return to the Krait II and try 4 Azimuth multies with the beam and see how that feels. I was running 2 large and 2 mediums with a medium thermal vent beam, this is what I was running when I went against the Scythe, Glaive and 4 scouts, we'll see.
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FAS was my first “AX viable” ship and I had a great little run in it until they added Glaives and the number of hardpoints / utility slots became simply too small to carry the required combination of weapons to handle planned (Scout / Cyclops) and unplanned (Glaive) encounters.

Just getting to the previously fun surface AX CZs became problematic, never mind that multiple Glaives could jump in and render you entire build irrelevant at any moment.

Whole thing ceased to be fun. Sadly, this post does nothing to make me think things have improved.
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
tolm said:
FAS was my first “AX viable” ship and I had a great little run in it until they added Glaives and the number of hardpoints / utility slots became simply too small to carry the required combination of weapons to handle planned (Scout / Cyclops) and unplanned (Glaive) encounters.

Just getting to the previously fun surface AX CZs became problematic, never mind that multiple Glaives could jump in and render you entire build irrelevant at any moment.

Whole thing ceased to be fun. Sadly, this post does nothing to make me think things have improved.
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I haven't done multiple Glaives with the FAS, but not looking forward to that. I had three attack my Corvette, I can't afford those rebuys.
 

BeyondAeon

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Build a Ship with NO GUARDIAN modules or weapons ....

This is apparently the Intended Game-play of the New Thargoid war.

Of course they didn't say this , and everyone wants to use Gauss and Shards to Kill Them ... making everyone frustrated and not have fun.
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
BeyondAeon said:
Build a Ship with NO GUARDIAN modules or weapons ....

This is apparently the Intended Game-play of the New Thargoid war.

Of course they didn't say this , and everyone wants to use Gauss and Shards to Kill Them ... making everyone frustrated and not have fun.
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Define "everyone"?
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
BeyondAeon said:
How about "Everyone I know who does/did AX on the regular before the invasion"
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Maybe "everyone" should be replaced by "those"?
Granted, the use of such an inclusive might make your complaint appear to carry more weight...

BeyondAeon said:
Build a Ship with NO GUARDIAN modules or weapons ....
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The team I play with have been doing just that and taking care of Orthrus / scouts at the Spire sites.
 

Ned Flandalorian

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You can use guardian weapons at the spire sites. Just make sure the Orthrus is busy (scanning something) before you attack it, and it forgets to use its shutdown wave/activate the melty field.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Ned Flandalorian said:
You can use guardian weapons at the spire sites. Just make sure the Orthrus is busy (scanning something) before you attack it, and it forgets to use its shutdown wave/activate the melty field.
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I did initially, but the number of times I was 'caught' and all weapons zeroed persuaded me to go back to Enhanced AX Multis - with others in the team using those & lasers. Worked quite well..
 

XenoZera

XenoZera
BeyondAeon said:
It's just not Fun to fail over and over with such a High Cost to entry .....

and If a game is not fun people don't play it.

My Issue with this game-play is , if you fail any point you basically have to start over
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I am constantly dying, i have over 1bn in rebuys almost exclusively from 2023.

Failure does not mean completely starting over at all
 

XenoZera

XenoZera
Flimley said:
I stopped trying to access the new content after acquiring some of the guardian stuff. That was just supremely aggravating To accomplish. And after many years of jumping through the required hoops for engineers, and guardians. The thought of essentially going through that again for the combined blue/green gear.... forget it. I'm out.
I view this as identical content resulting in the exact same end result. ...Get new weapons (at great annoyance) to enable shooting of slightly different enemies. The exact same format exists currently within odyssey on foot play. And that will continue most likely with blue/green weapons on foot. Tired of it now. game uninstalled.


Flimley
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IF the guardian grind for 2 weapon blueprints and a FSD booster was too much, Elite may not be the game for you- unfortunately.
I cannot wait for the predicted thargoid-guardian hybrid weapons, and the grind to get them wont be an issue for me most likely.

Odyssey content still sucks yes i will concede that, but the game is still supremely fun for me. If you know of any other game with a near-newtonian flight model and a near 1:1 scale galaxy, let me know :)
 
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