Ok, so I have had this game less then 24 hours. I am not good at gaming in terms of Elite Skills, but I enjoy it.
Thanks to a recommendation in another thread I am playing this with a Thrustmaster Hotas X.
The first few hours I messed around learning how to fly badly messing around outside the start station and crashing, breaking the ship and generally dying. Then I learnt how to dock, how to take off and do very basic things. I have played Elite before when it was all black and white and keyboards only, I sort of know what I am doing somehow.
It was time to play the game...
Day 1
I decide that I will do a simple mission when I docked, I was to take some Leather to a system two jumps away according to the map. Easy, yes ?
Well I take the cargo and leave the station and just floor the engines so that the station becomes a distant speck and figure the maps out. Finally I can get to the next point on the journey.
I find the Hyperspace button, it's called something else now. It finally works when I put my landing gear away and jesus, I was blown away...
...the sound and graphics are amazing, the effects are incredible and I honestly felt like I was in the Battlestar G. universe that we saw on TV. The sounds and the engines roaring into the headphones were amazing...
...so I come out of hyperspace of whatever it's called and smack bang land into the middle of the sun!!!
Turning the ship around, I floor it again and manage to jump to the next system. I am not sure if I will ever get over this first experience of how good it looks.
So I end up in my destination system, but how do I get to the station ?
No warp to station buttons that I can see, it seems I have to use the supersonic drive.
After skipping past the station twice as it does not appear to auto stop you, I hit the escape key for an emergency stop. I am 27 light years out and *** just happened...
...my screen starts to crack and complaints from the computer and tempatures etc.
I continue to do my mini jumps and end up about 5 light years from the station and my ship is now not very well. What happens ?
This time, the cargo door fails and I lose my mission cargo! :S
Mission over...
...I have to say, that this initial experience of playing is EVERYTHING that any space game should have been up until this point.
The sounds are incredible as is the overall experience.
This game is going to be a huge TIME SINK!
So now that I've played a little, can anyone help me please ?
What am I doing wrong with the jump drive to get to the station ? Is there a method for doing this right ?
Thank you to all and the developers for what is going to be the best space opera game ever...
Thanks to a recommendation in another thread I am playing this with a Thrustmaster Hotas X.
The first few hours I messed around learning how to fly badly messing around outside the start station and crashing, breaking the ship and generally dying. Then I learnt how to dock, how to take off and do very basic things. I have played Elite before when it was all black and white and keyboards only, I sort of know what I am doing somehow.
It was time to play the game...
Day 1
I decide that I will do a simple mission when I docked, I was to take some Leather to a system two jumps away according to the map. Easy, yes ?
Well I take the cargo and leave the station and just floor the engines so that the station becomes a distant speck and figure the maps out. Finally I can get to the next point on the journey.
I find the Hyperspace button, it's called something else now. It finally works when I put my landing gear away and jesus, I was blown away...
...the sound and graphics are amazing, the effects are incredible and I honestly felt like I was in the Battlestar G. universe that we saw on TV. The sounds and the engines roaring into the headphones were amazing...
...so I come out of hyperspace of whatever it's called and smack bang land into the middle of the sun!!!
Turning the ship around, I floor it again and manage to jump to the next system. I am not sure if I will ever get over this first experience of how good it looks.
So I end up in my destination system, but how do I get to the station ?
No warp to station buttons that I can see, it seems I have to use the supersonic drive.
After skipping past the station twice as it does not appear to auto stop you, I hit the escape key for an emergency stop. I am 27 light years out and *** just happened...
...my screen starts to crack and complaints from the computer and tempatures etc.
I continue to do my mini jumps and end up about 5 light years from the station and my ship is now not very well. What happens ?
This time, the cargo door fails and I lose my mission cargo! :S
Mission over...
...I have to say, that this initial experience of playing is EVERYTHING that any space game should have been up until this point.
The sounds are incredible as is the overall experience.
This game is going to be a huge TIME SINK!
So now that I've played a little, can anyone help me please ?
What am I doing wrong with the jump drive to get to the station ? Is there a method for doing this right ?
Thank you to all and the developers for what is going to be the best space opera game ever...
