...you have made an epic game! 
I'm a totally new CMDR as I've been Sony console bound for a while, and despite following the updates on this since the Kickstarter days, I've only just got to play it.
4 hours introduction to it last night and I'm hooked already, you should all be very proud of the work.
My night started with the training missions during which I immediately killed myself by crashing into an asteroid by pressing the wrong button and boosting up not forwards. Take two and I started getting the hang of it, launched and landed in the next mission fine but something just didn't click for me with the controls. Messed about with various things and have settled for now on a HOTAS-esque setup... right stick pitch/roll, left stick yaw/vertical (I might even try putting throttle on the stick tonight so it's literally mini-HOTAS).
Once that was configured I retried the launch/landing mission and found that I could much more confidently throw the ship into the slot and onto the pad without too much hassle and at a better speed. Onto combat training... I died. Then I beat the first Eagle target but got killed by the guys backup. Then I died on the first Eagle again. I decided that I'll come back to combat as I need to learn the fire groups, power management more I think so with 2 hours gone decided to fire up the actual game. Enter CMDR FiveFootNinja...
In my first couple of hours I've been to three systems, done a few basic courier missions, one search and retrieve and now have about 250k cr in the bank, winged up with a friend (and then crashed into him a bit), managed to escape an interdiction without really knowing what I was doing (but hey, I'll take it as I had mission cargo on board). I've not blown up yet in the actual game so I'm taking that as a mini-victory, I've also managed to land at each station/pad with only a couple of minor bumping around moments. All in all a good night's flying.
At 1:30am I remembered it was a work night so begrudgingly drifted off to bed dreaming of tonights adventures.
My plan now is to:
- Go back to combat training and get that sorted
- Decide a plan of action regarding next destination to explore
- Decide plan of action re: ship/upgrades
- Find out how to bounty hunt and do some of that
Fly safe commanders.
o7
I'm a totally new CMDR as I've been Sony console bound for a while, and despite following the updates on this since the Kickstarter days, I've only just got to play it.
4 hours introduction to it last night and I'm hooked already, you should all be very proud of the work.
My night started with the training missions during which I immediately killed myself by crashing into an asteroid by pressing the wrong button and boosting up not forwards. Take two and I started getting the hang of it, launched and landed in the next mission fine but something just didn't click for me with the controls. Messed about with various things and have settled for now on a HOTAS-esque setup... right stick pitch/roll, left stick yaw/vertical (I might even try putting throttle on the stick tonight so it's literally mini-HOTAS).
Once that was configured I retried the launch/landing mission and found that I could much more confidently throw the ship into the slot and onto the pad without too much hassle and at a better speed. Onto combat training... I died. Then I beat the first Eagle target but got killed by the guys backup. Then I died on the first Eagle again. I decided that I'll come back to combat as I need to learn the fire groups, power management more I think so with 2 hours gone decided to fire up the actual game. Enter CMDR FiveFootNinja...
In my first couple of hours I've been to three systems, done a few basic courier missions, one search and retrieve and now have about 250k cr in the bank, winged up with a friend (and then crashed into him a bit), managed to escape an interdiction without really knowing what I was doing (but hey, I'll take it as I had mission cargo on board). I've not blown up yet in the actual game so I'm taking that as a mini-victory, I've also managed to land at each station/pad with only a couple of minor bumping around moments. All in all a good night's flying.
At 1:30am I remembered it was a work night so begrudgingly drifted off to bed dreaming of tonights adventures.
My plan now is to:
- Go back to combat training and get that sorted
- Decide a plan of action regarding next destination to explore
- Decide plan of action re: ship/upgrades
- Find out how to bounty hunt and do some of that
Fly safe commanders.
o7
