It's finally starting to feel dangerous out there
I'm loving the new, survive and cash in your bounties mechanic. I just encountered this new feature about an hour ago.
I bought one ton of expensive cargo for ~2000c, at Azeban city. My intention was to sell it for e ~800c profit. I also decided to accept the Eranin bounty mission to kill 5x Federal fighters at Eranin 2. After getting maybe 7 or 8 kills, I hightailed it out of there with 87% hull and Hyperspaced to Asselus Primus to sell my cargoe. On my way to space dock at Asselus I got interdicted by a single Cobra. My instant thought was this should be easy, but boy was I wrong. He kept extending and doing head-ons and with far more fire-power than me it was clear he was going to win eventually. I couldn't even escape as I was mass locked. After around 10 minutes of cat and mouse, trying to keep close and avoid head-ons, he finally got me.
All those bounties lost.
My 1 ton off precious cargo.
Both gone because of a single NPC Cobra. I felt very angry, but not at the game because I felt cheated, I was angry at myself for allowing myself to get cocky.
With this new feature, and the removal of the CTRL+DEL end task cheat to simply reset your last instance with all cargo etc intact. It is finally starting to feel that death in Elite: Dangerous has some truly negative consequences.
Well done FD on a very nice feature.
I'm loving the new, survive and cash in your bounties mechanic. I just encountered this new feature about an hour ago.
I bought one ton of expensive cargo for ~2000c, at Azeban city. My intention was to sell it for e ~800c profit. I also decided to accept the Eranin bounty mission to kill 5x Federal fighters at Eranin 2. After getting maybe 7 or 8 kills, I hightailed it out of there with 87% hull and Hyperspaced to Asselus Primus to sell my cargoe. On my way to space dock at Asselus I got interdicted by a single Cobra. My instant thought was this should be easy, but boy was I wrong. He kept extending and doing head-ons and with far more fire-power than me it was clear he was going to win eventually. I couldn't even escape as I was mass locked. After around 10 minutes of cat and mouse, trying to keep close and avoid head-ons, he finally got me.
All those bounties lost.
My 1 ton off precious cargo.
Both gone because of a single NPC Cobra. I felt very angry, but not at the game because I felt cheated, I was angry at myself for allowing myself to get cocky.
With this new feature, and the removal of the CTRL+DEL end task cheat to simply reset your last instance with all cargo etc intact. It is finally starting to feel that death in Elite: Dangerous has some truly negative consequences.
Well done FD on a very nice feature.
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