Patch Notes Update Beta 2.2 - Update 6
- Thread starter Zac Antonaci
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Agreed I love the variety in modules it makes lore sense and gives me an excuse everytime I'm killed
Just play the game, and you will get multiple materials for any upgrade you want.
Expecting to get a perfect roll from a handful of attempts is lazy.
Search correct signal sources in correct system state, prospect planets, mine asteroids, collect bounties, explore, do missions in stations you rarely visit. Maybe try playing all of these aspects of the game instead of ignoring them and you will have a much better time at the engineers.
For reference, I went to Selene Jean the other day with a moderately-decent 5D HRP and it took 30 attempts to get an improvement on it. Since I know where the materials are for this upgrade, I was able to replenish my entire supply within a day. People just want an 'I win' button without actually playing the game.
The basic design, probably not, but the stat bars banging back and forth and the special effect wheel all look a lot like a gambling machine. The RNG is going to be there anyway and I'm not sure how one would make it look better vs. just handing you the modification and asking if you want to apply it. I guess a short cutscene showing the Engineer making the mods and then asking if you want them would look nice and not show the RNG but it would be a waste of resources. The current graphics remind me of a pachinko machine for some reason but I'm willing to ignore them until such time as FD may replace them; that wouldn't be the first time they made significant UI changes.
Some of them are so rare and/or tied to very specific sources, that you may never stumble upon sufficient amounts, or even not at all. Material and data limits mean sooner rather than later you have to throw out stuff just to keep "playing the game and getting materials". If you are not going in with a plan and looking expressly for some of these and throwing out what you know you won't need, you will be in for a buttload of disappointment.
Hopefully early next week
Take a look at https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/297125-PLEASE-take-a-look-at-NPC-crew and see if you still think that.
surely possible and not a bad idea at all. Only for now I think let us go as it is, there might be impacts that need some thinking before coding.
Finally developers need to have a few things in the backhand to sell as an improvement later on. [praise]
I am pretty sure it will come sometime in a 3.x release as an enhancement to current mechanic.
Regards,
Miklos
Agreed, it would be nice for your suggestions to be taken into consideration for a later detailed rework of torpedoes. Right now, missiles and torpedoes lack that "Oh potatoes!" feeling of the earlier games.
I suggest:
* Missile lock warning for drama. Like the collision warning tone. Distinct warning for torps.
* More variation in missile lock rules, faster lock on more emissive targets, 'fast lock' missiles/eng upgrades, ECM resetting missile lock obtain progress.
Torpedo's were never really meant to be an 'iwin' button? for a single shot they still do massive damage, and yes they can be avoided, but again, they aren't meant to be 'iwin' at best if you ask me they should be and are now a weapon smaller ships can bring when they team up against bigger ships?
You realise you're piloting it via a remote transmission?
Well they didn't do that. The only HUD element that can't be removed.
