Hello fellow commanders,
Had some time at work today so I thought I would make my first post on my early impressions of this insanely great game. And away we go.
So I had put elite dangerous on my steam wish list a long time ago and just sorta forgot about it. When horizons launched it popped up on an email and I was like, oh yeah I need to buy that. I picked it up a little over a month ago and jumped in to the g deep end. I have many hours in Eve online which has an insane learning curve, But nothing like elite. I work 50 hours a week so for the first week I did nothing but read forums and guides at work and spend 3 hours a night on the tutorials and learning how to fly a damn space ship. The whole time thinking this may be the game I wanted Eve to be. Now mind you, at this point, VR was still a novelty to me. I've seen the commercials for the phone VR but my last experience with it was in the 90s when it was just a gimmick. And About 3 months ago I just got a shinny new 34" badass monitor. I believe it was about 4 or 5 days in that a opened up the wrong sub forum with the unassuming name of ........Elite dangerous virtual reality. Within 2 days of reading that forum I ordered my Oculous Rift with the thought that I'll just send it back to amazon if it's what I imagine it is.
I'll put it simply.....MIND BLOWN!! This is what video games should be like. I then spent a week or 2 going over all the tweaks and settings to get the best experience possible. I am finally getting good with my new thrustmaster 16000 fcm hotas and am thinking I need a pilot chair, ohhh and I'm on a 980ti which until a month ago I thought would be just fine for the next year or 2, but noooo. So now I'm waiting for the 1080ti to drop
. So I'm like a grand into this evil game with no end in sight. And my shinny new Acer 34" g-sync curved monitor is collecting dust.
Anyway I'm 135 hours in and have no idea how I can have so many hours in such a short time with 100s left to go I'm sure. I have been doing assasination missions mostly as they have allowed me to get good at docking and combat and the fundamentals. I got my vulture about a week ago and pimped it out and decided to start on the engineers. So I pack up everything at my home system, Wolf 562, and head to Deciat where Felicity is. Another 2 days of learning SRVs and surface prospecting and hopping around to get the materials needed. Now my ships have lvl 4 jump drives and it's time to head to the Dweller to get my pulse lasers upgraded. This game is just awesome sauce. Been gaming for 30 years and let me tell you, VR is a complete game changer. When I bought my Vulture and got in it the first time I laughed like a loon. The field of view is just epic.
I have especialy enjoyed reading the VR forums and all the first impressions and tips to get everything looking as good as possible, and would like to thank all the posters and tech gurus who have contributed. You have saved me countless hours of frustration. And thank you google. Mercy I remember the interwebs before there were search engines.......don't know if I'd be playing this game if it weren't for google. There is one common tip I have been ignoring. That is When your getting close to your destination, throttle down to 75% when your 7 seconds out so you don't overshoot. I throttle down at 5 seconds just so I WILL overshoot. A, I get to watch the planet zoom past and B, it seems to me you actually get there faster. I may be crazy but there it is.
I am old enough to to remember sitting down at this strange new game called pong and way back then I realized what my life long hobby will be. And up until now I have enjoyed playing games. Now I look forward to being IN games for another 30 years. Fly safe people and I'll see you in deep space......
Had some time at work today so I thought I would make my first post on my early impressions of this insanely great game. And away we go.
So I had put elite dangerous on my steam wish list a long time ago and just sorta forgot about it. When horizons launched it popped up on an email and I was like, oh yeah I need to buy that. I picked it up a little over a month ago and jumped in to the g deep end. I have many hours in Eve online which has an insane learning curve, But nothing like elite. I work 50 hours a week so for the first week I did nothing but read forums and guides at work and spend 3 hours a night on the tutorials and learning how to fly a damn space ship. The whole time thinking this may be the game I wanted Eve to be. Now mind you, at this point, VR was still a novelty to me. I've seen the commercials for the phone VR but my last experience with it was in the 90s when it was just a gimmick. And About 3 months ago I just got a shinny new 34" badass monitor. I believe it was about 4 or 5 days in that a opened up the wrong sub forum with the unassuming name of ........Elite dangerous virtual reality. Within 2 days of reading that forum I ordered my Oculous Rift with the thought that I'll just send it back to amazon if it's what I imagine it is.
I'll put it simply.....MIND BLOWN!! This is what video games should be like. I then spent a week or 2 going over all the tweaks and settings to get the best experience possible. I am finally getting good with my new thrustmaster 16000 fcm hotas and am thinking I need a pilot chair, ohhh and I'm on a 980ti which until a month ago I thought would be just fine for the next year or 2, but noooo. So now I'm waiting for the 1080ti to drop
. So I'm like a grand into this evil game with no end in sight. And my shinny new Acer 34" g-sync curved monitor is collecting dust.Anyway I'm 135 hours in and have no idea how I can have so many hours in such a short time with 100s left to go I'm sure. I have been doing assasination missions mostly as they have allowed me to get good at docking and combat and the fundamentals. I got my vulture about a week ago and pimped it out and decided to start on the engineers. So I pack up everything at my home system, Wolf 562, and head to Deciat where Felicity is. Another 2 days of learning SRVs and surface prospecting and hopping around to get the materials needed. Now my ships have lvl 4 jump drives and it's time to head to the Dweller to get my pulse lasers upgraded. This game is just awesome sauce. Been gaming for 30 years and let me tell you, VR is a complete game changer. When I bought my Vulture and got in it the first time I laughed like a loon. The field of view is just epic.
I have especialy enjoyed reading the VR forums and all the first impressions and tips to get everything looking as good as possible, and would like to thank all the posters and tech gurus who have contributed. You have saved me countless hours of frustration. And thank you google
. Mercy I remember the interwebs before there were search engines.......don't know if I'd be playing this game if it weren't for google. There is one common tip I have been ignoring. That is When your getting close to your destination, throttle down to 75% when your 7 seconds out so you don't overshoot. I throttle down at 5 seconds just so I WILL overshoot. A, I get to watch the planet zoom past and B, it seems to me you actually get there faster. I may be crazy but there it is.I am old enough to to remember sitting down at this strange new game called pong and way back then I realized what my life long hobby will be
. And up until now I have enjoyed playing games. Now I look forward to being IN games for another 30 years. Fly safe people and I'll see you in deep space......