Newcomer / Intro Where to begin.. This is by far the most frustrating but beautiful game Ive ever played.. but frustrating. So so insanely frustrating.

[Atomwar]

I agree, don't play whatever game that the OP is playing. Elite Dangerous, on the other hand, is a pretty cool game (bugs notwithstanding) that I get much enjoyment from.

Yeah cause I paid for bugs that prevent me from landing.. completing missions.. enjoying the game in the least. So much fun. NOT

 

[Atomwar]

I play on PC amd I've just started, so the more experienced can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's a setting to change how the chat window behave to stop it opening all the time.

You shouldn't blow up unless you made a mistake or got attacked (by pirates or authority for doing something illegal).

Chat window: now that you mention it I think I saw that setting before.. thanks I will look into it some more.

Yes attacked by some random enemy for no reason. He has no storyline or no rhyme just keeps finding me over and over for the first time in his life so he can steal from me. No back story.. no reason.. also no way to defeat him as my target keeps jumping to some random place in the galaxy so while im shooting at random moons hes killing me.. yay so much fun.

 

[Atomwar]

..and oh yeah...

MY email has Roberts Space Industries in it...

Quite a lot in fact, but I'm not allowed to say why.

Yeah because bugs and glitches that prevent me from landing.. completing missions.. fighting back.. is random nonsense and a good reason to still enjoy the game. I want my money back.. call me when it works. Until then its a beautiful pile of garbage like you comment.

 

[Atomwar]

Have a go at this. It was done in the previous version, so the first bit up to leaving the station will have changed, but the rest is still valid and the same. Go to LTT 15574 to do it. You'll have loads of fun and excitement without having to waste time jumping all the time.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlg8qZqpvGY&t=743s

Thanks for the info. I will keep trying but im getting to a point where im just sick of it. Ive tried everything I really want to love this game but the glitches and the bugs are killing it for me.

 

[Atomwar]

..and oh yeah...

MY email has Roberts Space Industries in it...

Quite a lot in fact, but I'm not allowed to say why.

P.S "a zero account" I've owned this game for 4 years. I bought it to play solo not to be your friend. Its unplayable in its current form. Packed full of bugs and glitches that prevent me from experiencing the game in any way. SO be an elite edgelord all you want its not going to help me or fix the problem :/

 

[Atomwar]

Unless you are fired upon, only way your ship can be destroyed in planetary landings is usually tied with too much speed, or too deep angle. When your HUD turns red, you are having too deep angle and too much speed. When you drop from supercruise and glide phase ends, check what is local gravity. That number is in low right corner of HUD. Anything over 1g means that you need to be extra carefull. Now if you are trying to land on base, you need landing permission. Once you are inside 7km radius of base, ask for landing permission. And then head towards appointed landing platform. Not having permission or trying to land on wrong pad eventually leads to you being blasted to pieces. When doing terrain landing key to success is level terrain with no obstructions AND low speed&carefull flying. Ham fisted manouvers lead to collisions with terrain and those can be fatal. On high G worlds they can be instantly fatal.

One trick in landing, while you have reached right spot, over pad or hud tells you terrain is landable set throttle to zero, check that landing gear is lowered, then toggle flight assist off/on in short bursts so that gravity pulls you lower and lower, do not use thrusters to force you lower, that can be fatal in high g worlds.

Planetary landings can be tricky but after you master some trick I mentioned those should be easy in most worlds. Off course some oddball places which have very high G are very very dangerous still, any error can lead to fiery destruction.

Thank you for taking the time to try and help much appreciated./

 

[Atomwar]

TLDR

Congrats on longest thread title ever

MP

congrats on the most useless response ever

 

[Sensei Jacksama]

So why are you here then? You've had 4 years to figure out this game on your own and you haven't. You're not here to ask for help or advice. I play this game every day. It's working fine. The problem is on your end. Have you even finished the tutorials?

 

[Star Ferret]

Yeah because bugs and glitches that prevent me from landing.. completing missions.. fighting back.. is random nonsense and a good reason to still enjoy the game. I want my money back.. call me when it works. Until then its a beautiful pile of garbage like you comment.

What bug prevented you from landing?
I've owned the game for 3 years, but only just started playing again a couple months ago...
I too got frustrated when I first started and thought "a bug" had prevented me from landing..
Turned out it was just my own ignorance in not knowing how to use the Comm's to request permission to land; turned out what "blew me up" was the sations turrets shooting at me for trying to land without permission.
...and what does your response have to do with my post you quoted? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a zero account" .. or did you qoute the wrong post to reply too, as you quoted me twice, so I think perhaps you meant to quote someone several posts above me?

 

[Atomwar]

What bug prevented you from landing?
I've owned the game for 3 years, but only just started playing again a couple months ago...
I too got frustrated when I first started and thought "a bug" had prevented me from landing..
Turned out it was just my own ignorance in not knowing how to use the Comm's to request permission to land; turned out what "blew me up" was the sations turrets shooting at me for trying to land without permission.
...and what does your response have to do with my post you quoted? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a zero account" .. or did you qoute the wrong post to reply too, as you quoted me twice, so I think perhaps you meant to quote someone several posts above me?

Im talking about landing on planets. The game says I "need horizons" every time I approach the planet I need to land on. Yes I have it.. no its not ignorance to something I missed. Its a bug! I must have quoted the wrong post sorry about that. Some guy came on calling me a zero account.. I thought I replied to him.

So why are you here then? You've had 4 years to figure out this game on your own and you haven't. You're not here to ask for help or advice. I play this game every day. It's working fine. The problem is on your end. Have you even finished the tutorials?

Why am I here? I paid for this game so Im going to rant and review it if I want. And no you are completely wrong. I am on xbox one idk about you but the problem is with the game not on my end. Just read the fb page everyone else is experiencing the same bugs.

 

[Atomwar]

Im talking about landing on planets. The game says I "need horizons" every time I approach the planet I need to land on. Yes I have it.. no its not ignorance to something I missed. Its a bug! I must have quoted the wrong post sorry about that. Some guy came on calling me a zero account.. I thought I replied to him.


Why am I here? I paid for this game so Im going to rant and review it if I want. And no you are completely wrong. I am on xbox one idk about you but the problem is with the game not on my end. Just read the fb page everyone else is experiencing the same bugs.

How will a tutorial fix the server and make it download the mission list? How will a tutorial allow me to land on a planet when the game fails to recognize that I have horizons and tells me I still need it.. maybe you should read before commenting. :/

 

[Atomwar]

So - a zero-day account pops up and pours a complete pile of worthless nonsense about stuff they have no idea about and suggests that people should not play the game.

Let me guess - their email has Robert's Space Industries in it?

What a lot of drivel.

EDIT: If they spent the time that they took writing that post in just learning a bit about the game then they wouldn't have been so clueless.

I replied to the wrong person. Ive had the game for 4 years.. so tell me mister elite edgelord who has the nerdest account on the internet.. how can I learn to bypass the bugs preventing me from landing on planets? How can I bypass the bugs preventing me from downloading missions from the server in time to complete a mission? How can I bypass my waypoint/target moving from the enemy to some random moon everytime I fire a weapon? You are obviously ignorant or just a troll so I dont expect much form you. I said it quite clearly.. the UI is amazing.. I love it. Its beautiful and so smooth for such a complex game.. the Ux SUCKS! The game play experience is completely ruined by the bugs and glitches that make it impossible to play. So go ahead defend your life (this game) I understand I really wanted to love this game but its just not possible to play it on xbox in its current state. Never was.. its been 4 years. I want my money back.

 

[Sensei Jacksama]

maybe you should read before commenting. :/

Maybee you should comment so we can read. Littleraly none of that has been mentioned before but hey its whatever. I paid for the game too so if I want to at your complaining then that's what I'm going to do. A tutorial will help you dock at a station without getting blown up.

 

[Star Ferret]

Ah, the Horizon's bug.
I got that one the other day.
I just logged out to the game menu, and then logged back in... and the bug was gone, and I went down and landed.
But yeah, I can understand it can be frustrating. If the bug is persisting for you, perhaps call customer service about it? There lots of reports on google about it happening in the past and people calling up CS and them fixing the account.

 

[Atomwar]

The part about being blown up for no reason when trying to go to a "base" that "has everything he needs to do mining"...

He didn't specify anything about accessing the Comm's and "requesting permission to land" so the Stations automated defenses likely attacked him for "loitering" for to long without permission.

That was one of the intitial reasons I gave up when I first bought the game back in 2017... the learning curve was just, a bit much... and when the "tutorials" had me visit a Coriolis Station for the first time (Dahan Gateway) - I had absolutely no F'ing clue how to "enter" the station because I had exited Supercruise behind the Station and couldn't find an entrance.

I also didn't know anything about requesting landing permission on the Comms and so when I finally did figure out how to enter the Station, I got shot down by the automated defenses because I had entered without permission and just sat there "loitering" while I tried to identify a landing pad that I could use... got mad and closed the game and went back to playing Skyrim or Fallout 4 or whatever else I had in my Steam Library at the time that I knew how to play. LOL

But then I came back to ED a couple months ago, when I decided to clean out and delete a bunch of older games in my Steam Library that I didn't play anymore, ED was one of them and I decided "what the heck, I'll give it another try!" - didn't delete it, and loaded it up and set out in my little starter Sidewinder again...

Two months later I'm flying around in an engineered Anaconda with a 79.71 ly jump range!

I was the same way at first.. I know what you mean.. IM not new though. Ive had the game for 4 years. I meant I cant fight back against enemies cause my target keeps shifting to some random place in the galaxy.. but I was specifically talking about how when the enemy comes to steal your cargo.. why? whats the back story.. its just so repetitive like everything else.. I was frustrated because no matter what I do I end up with -credits I cant complete mission cause of bugs and glitches. Its insanely frustrating. Otherwise I would vote this the best game ever made. If it worked.

 

[Atomwar]

Maybee you should comment so we can read. Littleraly none of that has been mentioned before but hey its whatever. I paid for the game too so if I want to at your complaining then that's what I'm going to do. A tutorial will help you dock at a station without getting blown up.

I have no issues with landing at stations. The horizons doesnt work 90% of the time. Trying to land on planets is like I dont even have horizons.. but only when I get close to where I need to land. After traveling so far its all for nothing. Just like every other mission I try to complete.. server issues.. horizon issues.. The problem is not on my end. thats why im ranting here!

 

[Atomwar]

Ah, the Horizon's bug.
I got that one the other day.
I just logged out to the game menu, and then logged back in... and the bug was gone, and I went down and landed.
But yeah, I can understand it can be frustrating. If the bug is persisting for you, perhaps call customer service about it? There lots of reports on google about it happening in the past and people calling up CS and them fixing the account.

Im on xbox one. From what I can see most people using a console are having the same issue rn.

 

[Sensei Jacksama]

I have no issues with landing at stations. The horizons doesnt work 90% of the time. Trying to land on planets is like I dont even have horizons.. but only when I get close to where I need to land. After traveling so far its all for nothing. Just like every other mission I try to complete.. server issues.. horizon issues.. The problem is not on my end. thats why im ranting here!

Littleraly none of that you ever mentioned in your OP before you edited it. All you talked about was the chat window popping up then started talking about UX which considering you were literally talking about the chat window in the previous sentence it was logical you meant UI but I guess that is beyond you're reading comprehension as you apparently don't read what you actually write. Maybee you should study comunication skills? Idk if that would help you. Frankly I hope you never do play this game because you're a pompous ass with such a low reading comprehension that when people do respond to your post who are genuinely trying to help, you get triggered when they arent magically able to read your mind and guess you are having a problem with the horizons dlc after having read about your inability to figure out how to turn off the chat bar after "having the game for 4 years". You're reading deficiency is why you cant figure out why you're getting blown up. It tells you why in the upper right hand corner. So either quit being a y and ask for help the right way or and go play COD. I'm on xbox also and if I ever run across you in open I'm going to straight up destroy whatever pos you're attempting to fly and use the debris for engineering materials.

 

[Sensei Jacksama]

I have to admit the cursing filter is quite hilarious...

 

[aRJay]

Elite is basically a sandbox game, make up your own reasons why NPCs attack you I put them coming after me on a mission because someone in the mission office sold them my ship ID and the dialogue down to them being oxygen deprived too many times.

Almost everything in the game can be done without bothering with the mission board, stuff like ranking will take longer but by the time that’s an issue the problem will have been fixed.

If you were on a PC I would be thinking the landing problem would be down to launching the wrong version of the game but I don’t know that is even possible on a console, I wouldn’t think it would be the sort of server issue that mission board failures can be.