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Dev Tracker (Only works with Spectrum at the moment)
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Heh, it kinda does at the moment.
Not much changed since 4.0 in terms of flight model but an updated version is currently in testing by "secret groups" so who knows when we'll get it. Probably not with 4.3.2 considering how Yogi's comments about the thing sounded when patch notes from the thing leaked recently.
I'm also sticking to just game package for real money purchases, anything else is bought in game. Since I don't really do any cost intensive gameplay nor spend money on things I don't really need or want, buying a Hornet was something I could do on a whim.
What's your starter? I'm curious how expensive a ship would have to be to improve on it.
I'm flying in a Nomad. But I might be kind of special, after I rented a few ships I don't think a Cutlass or C1 are an improvement. Those only have more cargo space but slower pitch, with the same shields. I was testing out different weapons and the ones that are agreeable with me depend a lot on pitch and speed of the ship. To me it seems like (apart from Vulture and Prospector, to unlock other loops) the next ships that would be an improvement are Corsair or Taurus. With outfitting that's 8-9M. And I couldn't get Vaughan to give me missions with nice cargo, even with cheesing his missions. Only once I got a target with valuables. I know that now supposedly one can try to steal the cargo in abandoned hangars in Pyro. But the last time I tried it (few months ago), ship despawned in the middle of QT. I've seen in the comments under YT videos that for some it does the same in current version
So mostly I abandoned the idea of saving for another ship soon. I've been chlling out in Pyro, trying to get rep with Prosperity (Headhunters are not cool in my book), maybe they will have something interesting to offer on higher levels
Welp, I glad I'm sticking with cost efficient ships and play style - 8-9 million sounds like a ridiculous grind (at least the way I play). Do you usually play with friends or go solo? I know you mentioned friends wanting to jump in recently but I'm thinking in general.
Yeah, for me 8M is also unimaginable to reach in a focused way. It will happen in some time but I can't be actively focusing on that
Mainly I play with my buddy we have matching TZs with. I'm playing too late for EU and too early for most of Americas, so while we have an org, my circle of people I can wing up with has always been kind of limited
I can only play at night so that's exactly my experience as well (though in my case there's also my general tendency to play solo). How's the activity among your folks outside of the timing context? Even if I'd like to play with people I've meet in the game in the past most of them haven't been online in months (or years in case of like half of them) - seems like you have better luck with that?
Well, it's hard for me to say ATM. In general our group has always had "RL first" motto, so we don't check up on activity. It's normal and fine to disappear for a year or two for academia or moving states. Our SC group is rather small too and a bunch of them weren't big on chatting on discord. Some members I've seen more often online in-game than writing something on SC channel. So with me and my buddy playing Dune, I've lost visibility on that
For sure one guy is waiting for medical gameplay to be fixed and another one from Dune group started playing SC. But that's all I know for now You want a link to our server? (We started as ED BGS squadron, so we don't do applications without former discord contact)
I have an illogical and personal dislike for discord as a platform as well as extremely case of shyness so joining existing communities is almost an impossible task at this point. I appreciate the offer though.
I feel for your medical buddy. I've been waiting for some progress on that front as well but with bunkers getting medical beds in the next patch I'm less and less sure we'll get to see any significant gameplay for that any time soon. Maybe once NPC rescue missions become a thing or something...
Yeah, I'd prefer something open too. But before I started playing ED I haven't really been using any chat and thats where the community is. And now we have so much custom code around it that moving would be even harder
Bunkers are getting med beds? I'm not big on the whole full-on simulation with drinking and manually moving cargo but even for me that sounds ridiculous
Yup, there are already rooms prepped for that in LIVE right now (without beds) and I've seen PTU screenshots with T1 beds implemented and working. I think there are also some in the smaller shelter POIs though that makes sense at least.
I'm really not sure what their plan for medical gameplay is at this point. On one hand they post a long article detailing what they want to do, on the other they constantly make decisions undermining the need for this loop. Best we can do is wait and see, I guess.
Well, when you are incapacitated, even lying next to the bed won't help you. You still need someone to put you on it. But with med gun not costing insane amount of money (like a ship with a med bed) it does make the medic role kind of redundant. With beds in bunkers anyone passing by could help you Unless they want to get rid of med guns and beds in bunkers are a temporary, "just 2 more years", solution until beds on ships are more available?
I guess that's true. I haven't really died in bunkers in a long time so I honestly forget some people struggle with them (or are just victims of bugs).
I'm really not sure how much more available ship beds could become - we already have multiple medical ships, anything more would probably be something like making ALL ship beds into medical beds which would be completely mental. I really wish they would still post design docs like they used to do in the past, it would make understanding their intentions much easier and cut down on a lot of anger within the community left to guess what's what.
I pretty much moved on to learning how to dogfight again at this point. Haven't seen a med beacon in months so I might as well do other stuff in the meantime. Hopefully there will be something to return to eventually.
Another option is to earn a ship from Contested Zones or Wikelo.
Oh, right. I was thinking of checking out CZs. I am afraid of organized groups farming the cards for "whatever-day-that-was giveway", though. But definitely I'll check those out
Wikelo, to me, was an unbearable grind. Even before it was worth it to try to mine the unobtainium he wants