Yeah I saw that. Erimus mentioned one at the basecamp, which is why I checked. Needed to land there anyway for a video I'm making.
[DW2] Distant Worlds 2 - A Journey of Discovery
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Yeah I saw that. Erimus mentioned one at the basecamp, which is why I checked. Needed to land there anyway for a video I'm making.
True.. can always push the boundaries. But I meant going more or less straight. One highlight of my DW1 trip was spending several weeks crossing the Abyss in a 33LY Asp trying to find a more "western" route. Ended up having to use a couple of jumponiums, so failed.
Yep; was wondering whether it was miscommunication/confusion between Erimus and FDev. Would be neat to have an actual signal/waypoint at the Basecamp.
Would be even neater if we could deploy them for our friends/squad/everybody, although I guess the Galaxy would get swamped pretty quickly. At least the popular places.
I initially asked if it could be a surface beacon for BP - at the basecamp, but it looks like FDev couldn't/wouldn't place it there.
Still nice to have a beacon in system for DW2. Would have been really nice to have it the basecamp though. I took a little cryo-nap so I'm still at the basecamp as well. Periodically wake up and take a little spin in the SRV and enjoy the sights.
I'll probably start a slow return journey aiming to reach the bubble around the end of the year.
I'll probably start a slow return journey aiming to reach the bubble around the end of the year.
I'm still at Beagle Point. I could go up for a spin.
Sadly it was not I whom I was referring to. I got half way back, then turned around and escorted a friend out...a friend who had started the expedition with us but had been held up after WP3 due to real life issues. She made it a few days before the closing date
She is camping out there while dealing with other RL issues.As for me, I literally just finally made it back to the bubble about 4 hours ago.
lucky you i know about 3000 others that did see at least one other ship.
I'm going to write a more in depth report in general discussion once the space madness pills have reactivated the sane side of my brain, but I returned last Wednesday from DW2, did a wee tour into Acheron (where the madness kicked in), then into Mare Somnia, then headed back to within a few thousand LYs, then turned round back to Core ("East" side), headed across to Colonia, then returned via '7 o'clock').
I have hundreds of lovely pictures, but probably the most pertinent one to this post is this one..
I have hundreds of lovely pictures, but probably the most pertinent one to this post is this one..
Just found this nice overview of the DW2 pictures: https://dw2expedition.wixsite.com/home/photo-gallery
Is there a way to download the unedited versions (without DW2 logo and cmdr name)? Would like to show the contest winners to some friends and would prefer the ingame version. In the newsletters the unedited versions were used, but perhaps there is a imgur album somewhere... Thanks.
Is there a way to download the unedited versions (without DW2 logo and cmdr name)? Would like to show the contest winners to some friends and would prefer the ingame version. In the newsletters the unedited versions were used, but perhaps there is a imgur album somewhere... Thanks.
Nice montage. Another thread in the discussion subforum to share in-game videos: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/386451-Gameplay-Videos-Share-your-Adventure
Thank you!
I'm still on my way back, just passed Hyiechou AI-J b36-0 (Sisyphos’ Rock) Still charting my journey home, pass by and drop a comment if you wish...
Glad to see people are still arriving back to bubble makes me feel like I'm not a complete lagger
Stay safe cmdrs o7
Glad to see people are still arriving back to bubble makes me feel like I'm not a complete lagger
Stay safe cmdrs o7
Actually, I'm going to have to bump this to say that no one was as far behind as me. A number of real world things came up and, much to my disappointment I was unable to really continue on the DW2 expedition at the time. While I and a friend was there for day one and a few points of interest along the way, I ended up having to basically give up. In fact, for a long time I wasn't even on Elite Dangerous much at all. I've always been kind of upset about that. I'm proud to announce that I finally reached Beagle Point. It took me forever to do it and I ended up completely out of the expedition in my delays, but at last I did finally actually get to Beagle Point. I'm not proud of the lack of playing, but I am proud that I ultimately stuck it out and did get here.
Congrats on reaching the end goal Nazo
If its any comfort, I heard from a guy a few months ago whose still out there from the DW1 days, and hasn't made it back yet from that first expedition! I'm sure there are others still out there too - still following the DW1 or DW2 routes and visiting the POIs and basecamps along the way, after all this time.
Heck, I'd recommend the DW2 route to anyone new to the game who has an interest in extreme-long-range exploration and wants to see some of the more amazing places in the game. I didn't finally get back to Explorer's Anchorage on my exploration account until June 2020...
IMO, the view of the Milky Way from Semotus Beacon is enough to justify the trip. I still have that as my desktop background on my computer.
I hope I could make it on time by the time the Christmas sale starts since I missed the Black Friday one. Good luck to the people that will be joining the event.