Hello Bonebreaker, I'm going to try and help you here, because I want you to succeed and enjoy this game. Besides, they don't do refunds, so the best thing you can do is learn to play it. And honestly, it's an awesome game. Well, it's more of a space-sim really. Ok, so let me try and help you, but you have to be willing to try and not just give up in 5 mins because it does require some effort and thinking - it can be quite a cerebral game at times, which is a good thing. If you just wanna blow stuff up, play an FPS shooter. You get to blow stuff up in Elite too, but it's only a part of it.
Hello all,
i realy wanted to Play this game since i have seen the some Trailer this summer, but now after playing it for 2-3 hours i only Thing omg. The Space feals so empty, Docking at Stations is horrible some platforms dont work and even if i land there is no Station menu, miss things like an Autopilot or Autolanding. Getting Close to Locations (with cruise Speed) is a nightmare, when i Switch from curise to normal it often Shows that im to far and i Need 1 year or several days to reach the Point with normal Speed, when i Switch Back to cruise i overfly the Point because it curise Speed he was only 1 o. 2 seconds away. I realy wish there was an Autopilot for this witch flys you with cruise Speed to the Point and autom. Switch to normal Speed once you reachd it.
Ok so firstly, this game simulates the entire Milky Way galaxy, 100,000 light-years across. It IS big and empty, just like the real galaxy we live in. My personal advice to you on control methods btw, is to use a joystick. I know some people love keyboard and mouse or joypads, but this game was designed to be played with a joystick, and it's a LOT easier to fly the ship with one. So, assuming you don't already have one, you really should get one.
Secondly, if you have landed and the platform "doesn't work" or you don't even get a station menu, you have landed at the wrong platform - it's that simple. How you've not been killed by station security doing that is beyond me! When you request docking clearance, you get a message telling you what pad to land on - so when you get in the station, look at your compass - it will point you towards the pad, and you should also see the pad lit-up with the number above it. THAT is the pad you want to land on, no other! Once you're above the correct pad you get a landing guide display and it's smooth sailing from there.
Thirdly, SuperCruise is easy. Target your destination, then go full throttle towards it. When you get to 8 seconds out (7 if you have quick reflexes) immediately drop the throttle to the middle of the blue area. You should slow down nicely to the point where you get the "Safe Disengage" message come up. Then you can drop out of warp and bob's your uncle. By the way, at least you have managed to get inside the station - I've seen quite a few posts where new players can't even manage that! So don't feel too bad.
Or next Thing the Missions, i tried a kill Mission, i got to the System where i Need to go, it sayed there where 2 piratses but i had no marker with enemys on the map, i saw planets, friendly ships and so on but no enemys, i search for 15 minutes but i had realy no idea what i should do, that was realy frustraing. Or other Thing, why i allways land nearly in the sun when i fall of from Hyperspace this happend nearly every time, is it so hard to say the game that you should fall off a bit far away in save distance and not right in front of the sun?
Don't try fighting missions yet. The first thing you want to do is, as others have said, learn the ropes. Do trading missions. Do your own trading - try and find a good trade route by using the galaxy map and the Commodities Market screen to see what is imported and exported between systems. You have to figure it out. Then you can make some money, and upgrade your ship and its equipment. At the same time you'll be improving your flying skills. Also, complete all the training missions. I think all new pilots should do that - call it "Flight School" if you like. Some training missions are hard and you'll fail at first, so do it again and try something different, a different approach. You're not losing anything but time and you're gaining a lot of valuable experience.
The way hyperspace travel works is that the exit of the hyperspace tunnel naturally locks onto the giant gravity well of the destination star, so that's why you always exit near it. All you have to do is once you enter hyperspace, drop the throttle to zero. Then when you exit into normal space, you won't fly into the star. It's not hard at all.
I have search for something like autofire or Focus when fighting other ships because im not the best with aiming but i dint find it, i wish they had something like in starpoint gemini 2 where you can lock on the target and the guns Auto follow and hit the target when you fire them. Also i have searched for something like turrets (because i love turrets in space games) but it seemed that there is nothing like turrets witch you can Mound on ship and fire on the nearest enemy in 360°
No mate, the combat is all about dog-fighting. You have to have some skill. Seriously, especially against other players, because some of them are really good. At the beginning, I suggest playing in Solo mode until you feel more confident and until you really get to grips with the flight mechanics and controls and ship systems, then you can go into Open Play mode and go looking for trouble. You don't have to - you might wanna jump in right away - it's just a suggestion. I'm just reminding you that you have the option. Again, if you do the Tutorials, you can practice combat all you like. You basically rotate, and pull up to get enemies in your sights - use the radar scanner. Yaw is only good for fine-tuning your aim. Once you have some cash you can get gimballed weapons, but even then, you still need to keep them in front of you.
Im realy realy dissapointed, hopped for something like X-rebirth with bigger Space and better gameplay and so on but this... i dont know will try it later again, hope there is something like a refund.
There's other things you can do such as mining, exploration, flying in groups etc. You need to do all the tutorials, watch the youtube tutorials on the Frontier Developments YouTube Channel, watch players' videos on YouTube. Educate yourself. There's pdf manuals I've seen created by players. You have to google "Elite Dangerous Players Guide" and you'll find things like this:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/236560722/Elite-Dangerous-pilots-guide-manual-tutorial#scribd
This is not a game that will play itself for you. You are supposed to be a pilot, it's a sandbox game so you are supposed to think for yourself. It's not a story-driven single-player game. You should also research its lineage and read-up on and play Elite (it's free in the ED store!) and you can also find Frontier: Elite II I'm sure. Which reminds me, they need to put that free on the store also, so new players get where ED is coming from... but that's another post...
Anyway, hopefully this has been of some help. Don't give up, it's an awesome game once you get the hang of the basics.
Good luck Commander!
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