News Premium Beta access update

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Fair move opening up the combat build to premium beta players. Its quite exciting to consider the new batch of players who'll be joining the game.

I for one can't wait for beta to drop. We have to consider that there are 40k+ backers and everyone of us has made the game possible and I for one am looking forward to them getting in game, enjoying it, and offering their feedback.

It also opens up the game to a lot more people who will be making videos etc, and with each step we are getting ever closer to the finished game.

:)
 
Do pigs fly too?


Some of the statements on these forums amaze me. You would think we were in primary school.

Is vanity more important than the roll out decisions by the developers? I am pretty sure that the developers are not trying to spite people.

Yes the Alpha came out on time in regards to the proposed date of December.

Yes the Beta was delayed in regards to the proposed date of February. Do you know why? It wasn't ready. Is that an acceptable reason?

How many of us really and truly want the best gaming experience possible as opposed to how many of us want to serve our vanity?

I like to joke around here and there but some of this entitlement mentality really irks me.

When people perceive they have been wronged simply due to the fluidity of developer decisions regarding their testing process. If the devs want to stagger Premium Beta access through an Alpha backer filter for testing what is honestly the problem with that? I'll tell you what the problem is, jealousy, vanity and a sense of self entitlement. That is the problem with all the fluff removed.

Grow up folks. I also hope I am allowed to speak my mind here without having to be too politically correct, God forbid if someone's feelings get hurt.

+1. Totally agree with you. And I think it becomes unbearable, these attacks towards Frontier, by capricious kids, pampered kids
 
Find it damn near impossible to fly with mouse and keyboard.. you just turn so damn slow with a mouse....

Check your settings. Elite is designed to use roll and pitch rather than yaw. Could you be using yaw to turn? It is much slower.
Another thing to experiment with is mouse sensitivity and deadzone.
There are a few videos I will try to find more information when I get home.
I think I have sensitivity around 3/16-1/4ish with deadzone slightly lower still.
See if that helps?
 
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Although the galaxy shown is concept art, it gives you a good idea of how the in-game generated galaxy is going to look and it's mentioned as being in alpha 4.

So in alpha 4 we get to play around with the full galaxy map ?

Will be be able to get the system map up to check out other star systems [ outside of the alpha systems ] in that map ?

I know that we get to explore a small cube of systems in the alpha, but it will still be interesting and fun to play around with the map :smilie:

Seeing that piece of art is really wetting the appetite.
 
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Apologies,

Brother In laws funeral today - peoples petty grips about after all is just a game seem rather pathetic.


Sorry

Sorry to hear about your brother in law, but don't despair at these arguments, meagre expressions of freedom of expression though they be.

Consider that at the highest concious level we are defined by our art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_as_an_art_form

http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/ArtEss.html
That is art. Art is not pleasure, but a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for life and progress towards well-being of individuals and of humanity. Thanks to his capacity to express thoughts by words, every man may know the debt he owes to the past, and be able to hand on what he has acheived to future generations. If humans lacked this capacity, we would be like wild beasts, and if people lacked this capacity for being infected by art, people might be more savage still, and more separated from one another.
 
I wasn't going to do it, have no money to do it, wife wouldn't let me do it.

Just upgraded to premium beta!

Shhh, don't tell anyone!
 
TrackIR doesn't seem to be working properly. All movements are inverted. Front is back, left is right, down is up. And my "head" doesn't stay in the cockpit.
 
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You need to limit the TrackIR movement with the response curves in the TrackIR software, and you'll need to flip some of the axis.

This is fixed in later versions of the Alpha, but it's still borked in the release you have.
 
Today we are happy to announce the start of Premium Beta access, with Beta players able to download a single player combat build of the game.

Will second-round beta players get access to the single player combat (alpha 1.2) build at some future stage? I'm not yet ready to play, so won't be spending the mere extra £15 to upgrade to premium beta, but when second-round beta starts later this year I'd appreciate going through the same process as the alpha backers did to learn to fly in that build rather than starting in the deep end.
 
I can't wait for beta to drop either, really want to get some people on my friends list as well, so expect a thread dor requests :)

I can only assume that Alpha 4.0 must be dropping very very soon. I suppose tomorrow is out of the question?
 
I just "did a jonty" and got access. I thought my days of doing a jonty were behine me. Obviously not. Damn you FD, damn you and your evil crack...I mean Elite. The call was too strong!

I have been to the shop upgraded and downloaded the launcher and ran it.
When I try to login to the launcher, it says "invalid credentials".

I am using the same username and password as I use for the store. Or am I being thick here and there is a different username password for the launcher login?

I even got a password reset, and logged back into store again to make sure the password had been reset.

Any help?

Edit - Nevermind, I was being thick. Was putting in the shop username and password instead of the shop email address and password.
 
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Edit - Nevermind, I was being thick. Was putting in the shop username and password instead of the shop email address and password.

lol. The road to becoming Elite is truly filled with challenges. You have mastered this first quest. Next the challenge of graphics options and controller settings awaits you.
 
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