Game is now GARBAGE

[Mark Lock]

That's your view. Others, clearly, have different opinions. They are as entitied to their opinions, and to express them, as you are to yours, without being patronised or insulted.

Yes indeed but the forum is getting full of those threads while I notice other types of threads get completely ignored by users, only complaints get tons of replies LOL, also there was a poll recently about the new AI, most users voted the AI is as we speak "just right" while the first 2.1 updated AIs were "too difficult" to the most, so people voted and decided already, I don't see why many users still complain and say stuff like "game is garbage". other gaming companies would ban those users from forums cause they are obviously defaming and stating falsehoods about the game, it's a matter of bad publicity, it is just harming the game and its development.
Those users are not asking for help, they are just begging FD to change the game so that they don't have to change their attitude toward it, they are basically asking for the game to turn into a carebear simulator instead of Elite Dangerous.

 

[JughedJones]

Ya'll are resondin' to a troll thread.

You realize that, right? The problem with the community right now is that these threads get weight.

Not everyone gets deference. A lot of us are so nice that we allow trolls to strawman the community to death.


(yup, I used 'strawman' as a verb)

 

[Melchie]

During approximately 12 hours of play since 2.1 I have been interdicted many times in my cutter. Mostly, immediately submitting, boosting and high waking gets me out of trouble. On two occasions though I had big problems....On instantly submitting to the interdiction I had an FSD failure,now my cool down time was much longer. Tried boosting, chaff etc but to no avail..shields gone ...hull gone..rebuy screen ,ship and cargo twenty million credits a pop.Now I don't mind loosing a fair fight or where I messed it up,but FSD failure after submitting that's not right...I also think FD could have raised the the npc difficulty level incrementally and made it easier for a lot of players to catch up.
To Vindelanos,I am afraid the forums have become quite toxic of late my ignore list is filling up with people who use expressions like git gud ,whiners,care bears,pew pew brigade etc without adding anything useful to their post. We need to keep people in the game not insult them.
I will persevere with Frontier as a trader but I still think the npc difficulty level went up too quickly.

 

[Cmdr Irenicus]

AWESOME.

Removed off topic posts (a third of the thread ) and fixed the filter evasion.

I'm curious, what filter evasion is exactly. I mean spacing out letters to still spell swear words etc right?

So why did I get a warning on another topic, for posting asterisks instead of swearing. I wasn't avoiding the filter, I avoided swearing altogether and still got punished!??? Makes no sense.

 

[Nightbringerx]

Yet another Elite has bruised my ego post?
I am in a Cutter, and I haven't died yet.....
To be honest, I came close once(15%hull), but that was my own stupidity.
Took on two anacondas, one who decided to play bumper tag and dropped my shields.
Out of the thousands who play, you only still see a handful of these kind of posts.
It's not that the game is garbage, or the AI is crap. It is that some people don't know how to play.

 

[Ian Phillips]

Some words are automatically blocked.
Evading the filter is using other characters to avoid having a word blocked, or leaving letter out of a word so that the filter no longer recognises it, or as you say adding spaces so that the filter no longer recognises it.

It is considered a deliberate act to do this and shows intent to post offensive words. We are not mind readers and trying to understand if **** is a swear word or not, an attempt to evade the filter or not is not something we are going to spend time on.

Just don't do it and you'll be fine.

 

[Becks]

Oh another thread opened by someone who couldn't adjust to the new AI. Yeih ...

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I will persevere with Frontier as a trader but I still think the npc difficulty level went up too quickly.

It may be a tad much, but again, I admit that I don't engage in much ship to ship combat. I will someday, but I get more enjoyment out of being a galactic saboteur

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my ignore list is filling up with people...

Mine, too.

 

[sicksuntzu]

This is my current position, I have a Python kitted out for cargo transportation, and it's only 198T, I'd have to lose more cargo space in favor of offensive gear if I wanted to make a stand, my only viable combat ship is a Vulture, but I can't do much with it's limited cargo space, no one chooses to be interdicted, and I understand well it's part of the game, but running away all the time is no fun, I don't even consider doing more dangerous missions such as smuggling illegal goods, it's just not worth seeing the rebuy screen.

check my eariler post video, think its vindicator jones testing mines on a t9, tbh that looks the way to go, iirc he also kills a conda just flying away and dropping mines.

 

[Kaocraft]

OP is bringing up a valid point and nobody addresses it.

Distress Signal Level 2 threat = 2 Master Anacondas and a Dangerous Python. Does this seem correct to you?

 

[Deleted member 115407]

OP is bringing up a valid point and nobody addresses it.

Distress Signal Level 2 threat = 2 Master Anacondas and a Dangerous Python. Does this seem correct to you?

Thanks for pointing that out.

No, it doesn't, and I've experienced the same. I dropped in on a threat 0 USS the other day and it had like 4 very aggressive ships in it. Seems inconsistent.

 

[Jintosh]

While I do personally think the AI has been made a little too hard, mostly due to unforeseen issues such as the NPCs-with-illegal-waepon-types bug, the game isn't Garbage . . . *this* is Garbage ;-)

[video=youtube;GpBFOJ3R0M4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBFOJ3R0M4[/video]

 

[sicksuntzu]

Thing is once you have been jumped in USS you know to expect trouble, so just be ready to run for it, i have jumped into more then a few and seen 4 ships waiting that open up firing straight away, all you have to do is run, and its not like every USS has a trap waiting for you, tbh its very few at threat lvl 0 going on my own experience.

 

[frostypaw]

I fight and kill in my ASP Explorer, very often I earn big bounties while on cargo mission ...

Here too, which makes me feel pretty happy when people start on it being a poor fighter

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Thanks for pointing that out.

No, it doesn't, and I've experienced the same. I dropped in on a threat 0 USS the other day and it had like 4 very aggressive ships in it. Seems inconsistent.

Pirates hide... it's how they pirate

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

OP, have some of this:https://youtu.be/WI5nf1s-8po

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Here too, which makes me feel pretty happy when people start on it being a poor fighter

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Pirates hide... it's how they pirate

True, but the disparity between threat assessment and actual threat was excessive.

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While I do personally think the AI has been made a little too hard, mostly due to unforeseen issues such as the NPCs-with-illegal-waepon-types bug, the game isn't Garbage . . . *this* is Garbage ;-)

lol... and with the new difficulty the song is oddly poignant

 

[Lianachan]

Yes indeed but the forum is getting full of those threads while I notice other types of threads get completely ignored by users, only complaints get tons of replies LOL, also there was a poll recently about the new AI, most users voted the AI is as we speak "just right" while the first 2.1 updated AIs were "too difficult" to the most, so people voted and decided already, I don't see why many users still complain and say stuff like "game is garbage". other gaming companies would ban those users from forums cause they are obviously defaming and stating falsehoods about the game, it's a matter of bad publicity, it is just harming the game and its development.
Those users are not asking for help, they are just begging FD to change the game so that they don't have to change their attitude toward it, they are basically asking for the game to turn into a carebear simulator instead of Elite Dangerous.

The word "carebear" used to be censured here. I guess it's perfectly fine, now. You're grossly misrepresenting those who criticise the game. People have raised a wide range of differing concerns, only some of which have been about an increase in difficulty.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Here you go: https://youtu.be/VMJZe0N06SE (Shudders)

 

[Chrystoph]

AWESOME.

Removed off topic posts (a third of the thread ) and fixed the filter evasion.

I note that earlier comments about professionalism still are not being taken seriously when you cannot just put >censored< into the post and have to be abusive of the content the OP wrote by using <awesome>.

Yes, I realize that I am setting myself up to be censored in my own right, but I believe this needs saying.

 

[Derath]

Slightly off topic but relying on mines as a crutch to beat the AI is probably as daft as thinking pre 2.1 RES farming made you sweet at combat, it will get the job done but you are essentially abusing a hole in the AI to make something easier / bypass mechanics. If you are just saving time this is perfectly legitimate and a great idea but if you genuinely could improve, this is just making the fall greater when they fix the AI's response to mines.