Horizons ARSENIC too hard to find - FD must fix it!!!!! GAME TOO HARD!!! salty tears!!!!!!!!

Henri

Henri
There I was on a moon orbiting a gas giant prospecting for arsenic when I stumbled unto the wreck of an SRV. "Another escape pod!"....I shopped through the wreckage and scooped up some Palladium as well as the escape pod but that one only out of habit. After searching and finding useless deposits I decide to move on as obviously there is no arsenic on this empty rock. My T9 descends and lands really close to my position and why? I do not know but it all seems a little more spectacular than usual.


Now I could go on the forums and cry and complain because I am having a hard time finding the bloody arsenic in the hope Michael Brookes will cave in, change parameters or put it on sale somewhere but that's not what I did....well not the reason I went on the forums.


As I approached my beautiful t9 (of which the bottom decals are not fixed as mentioned in the patch notes AHUM!) to board and dust off, three blips on my scanner catch my attention. "What the frack?!". They turn out to be two eagles and a sidewinder and they are heading straight for me! Really no time passes between me noticing their formation approaching and them ripping into my t9. In a reflex I dismiss my T9 and rev up the scarab's engine and start to flee. My T9 has the biggest baddest shield array credits can buy but from the ground it looks like she is getting hammered pretty hard while moving into orbit.


They then turn around and I have nowhere to go, their vapor trails clearly visible amongst the stars and coming closer. Then system security arrives unto the scene..."ho ho ho peeps what is going on here?" or something in that vein comes over the intercom and the ships that were after me are clearly not amused by that and rip into the system security ship.


Excrement seems to have hit the fan above me as lasers are being fired back and forth and the exhaust trails twirl around eachother like twitly things that twirl and twirl and also twirl around eachother. Explosions, dogfights, they mean business it seems and I am just sitting there...watching....I forgot running and just enjoyed the show. It was like a cross between Buck Rogers and Star Wars and it was awesome! In fact best bit of prospecting that i have done till date and i didn't find ANY arsenic.

So good I just had to post about it.
 
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Celtic Moon

Celtic Moon
iv had a similar experience but i could definitely never tell a story as good as the one you just told.

awesome :) and yeah i didn't find any arsenic ether even after visiting id say close to 20 planets, with one goal.... find that god damn arsenic.
 

Doolittle

D
Awesome. Those are the moments that get you hooked. Everything is a grind. It's those little bits and pieces in between that make it all exciting and worth it. Random out of context interruptions just to provide tension are gimmicky at least. Interruptions such as these are superb examples of excellence in game design. Starting to see the same just from the little flight time I have with this update. Which means.......YEAH!!!!!!!! FD is starting to find that flow. Instead of making it all about the commanders destruction, that gasp of tension with a dramatic switch giving the commander a breath of comfort providing them with an almost emotional necessity to sit back and enjoy what is transpiring due to their involvement is a huge achievement I hope they continue to develop.

As more of this type of interaction is implemented the other aspects needing similar touches will fall into the background as they wait for their own touch-ups.

Now if they can find a flow for some other stuff they'll be back in the direction needed to give Elites name more justice.
 

Henri

Henri
lolwut?! I came from there yesterday looking for artefacts :rolleyes:
that's like 150 jumps away now [blah]

Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in conjunction with sulfur and metals, and also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. Wikipedia
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Bomba Luigi

Bomba Luigi
Actually, Arsenic is only a common material and not a rare one. If you are looking for a specific material one thing is always good to keep in mind: Every planet has 3 common, 2 rare and 1 very rare Material. So if you are looking for Arsenic on a planet and you come across 3 other common ones while doing so you know there won't be any arsenic so you can go to another planet.

And take notes. Even when you don't find the one you need right now, you may have found one you will need later and its always good to know source planet for everything.
 

Cyclop

Cyclop
Bomba Luigi said:
Actually, Arsenic is only a common material and not a rare one. If you are looking for a specific material one thing is always good to keep in mind: Every planet has 3 common, 2 rare and 1 very rare Material. So if you are looking for Arsenic on a planet and you come across 3 other common ones while doing so you know there won't be any arsenic so you can go to another planet.

And take notes. Even when you don't find the one you need right now, you may have found one you will need later and its always good to know source planet for everything.
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i'm on Shinrarta Dezhra A1 right now, and people are saying they find it here, so are the common resources generated on entry to the planet then? do i need to go out and reset the instance or whatever to see if the next entry will generate other common resources? this is the third planet im trying and my second tank of fuel.
 

Cyclop

Cyclop
oh my god, i do not believe my eyes! after another tank of fuel and 4 other planets i finally found A arsenic! so i atleast got one. just a few more tanks of fuel and i might have another one!
 
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