Wait is this game not long range driving?

[ᶜᵃᵗCATᶜᵃᵗ]

Can somebody let me know how the flying in this work. From what I thought, you would fly through space on super long roads, just chilling through space like ED, ETS2 and ATS, but from what i've seen it's just you flying in hubs and then going to gates and you skip the whole flying part? Granted I haven't looked that much into the game, but kind of disappointed if there are not longer range flying :(

[Mo0on]

Publicado originalmente por Fabe:

Publicado originalmente por Mo0on:

Imho elite dangerous will never be a good game because of how you have to refuel.

Just my two cents...

dock at a station or fuel scoop? what is so bad about that?

If you limit yourself to only refueling at stations then like 3/4ths of the game don't exist for you since you literally can't explore at all, no deep space. Literally easier to play a different space game than to deal with that, huge reason it died imo.

[TheLastSeeker]

Basically they need the egosoft map size with this game, cause at least in the X universes you can jump or travel through like 18 sectors to deliver with bad guys and all the excess debris and such, even setup your own transport company. Only downside is without mods the main swarm enemies take over everything which as said mods fix.

Overall if you want long haul stuff go to egosoft games, you'll even find a stray ship or so to take if they abandoned it in a fight and you can sell that.

Also they do have the little fly around in a suit repair work so kinda the same but no internal storage or little cab management at all

[Fabe]

Publicado originalmente por Mo0on:

Publicado originalmente por Fabe:

dock at a station or fuel scoop? what is so bad about that?

If you limit yourself to only refueling at stations then like 3/4ths of the game don't exist for you since you literally can't explore at all, no deep space. Literally easier to play a different space game than to deal with that, huge reason it died imo.

that is why a fuel scoop is one of the first things you should buy for your ship. also if you do run out of fuel all you have to do is call the fuel rats.

[Hauler Bob]

Hopefully, they add long hauling. I will pass for now, but this game looks very promising.

[Magnus Aurelius, Bright Lord]

Publicado originalmente por Mo0on:

Imho elite dangerous will never be a good game because of how you have to refuel.

Just my two cents... Love Star citizen, No mans sky, x2, stellaris, ext.

But elite dangerous I could never get into or enjoy because of plasma scooping is such a stupid mechanic, literally ruined the whole game for me.

Elite Dangerous is just so beautiful tho. I put my VR headset on and I just roam space without doing anything. Thats how good it look.

[Friedrich I.]

Publicado originalmente por Mo0on:

Publicado originalmente por Fabe:

dock at a station or fuel scoop? what is so bad about that?

If you limit yourself to only refueling at stations then like 3/4ths of the game don't exist for you since you literally can't explore at all, no deep space. Literally easier to play a different space game than to deal with that, huge reason it died imo.

It died because of its horrendous space legs implementation dlc and the garbage optimization that came with it. Nothing to do, at all, with fuel managenent. You just seem to be pretty bad at it, no offense.

[AdvancedFollower]

Publicado originalmente por Friedrich I.:

Publicado originalmente por Mo0on:

If you limit yourself to only refueling at stations then like 3/4ths of the game don't exist for you since you literally can't explore at all, no deep space. Literally easier to play a different space game than to deal with that, huge reason it died imo.

It died because of its horrendous space legs implementation dlc and the garbage optimization that came with it. Nothing to do, at all, with fuel managenent. You just seem to be pretty bad at it, no offense.

The game is also poorly balanced and the gameplay loops are repetitive and lacking in depth. You grind for literally hundreds of real-life hours to afford a new ship, and when you finally get it you realize all it does is allow you to grind for credits slightly faster. It's a dead-end job simulator.
At least they've added pay-2-win mechanics now so you can just buy a better ship with real money.

[aaphebus]

Publicado originalmente por ᶜᵃᵗCATᶜᵃᵗ:

I thought it would be a better Elite Dangerous, with no space battles and just transporting cargo :(

Yeah me too, Elite Dangerous + Trucks + No combat + cool graphics and few other things.. but .. this is the way it is

[DangerNewdle]

The flying itself is pretty bad. You have thrusters on every side of your "truck", but you don't have up/down or left/right strafing. So you're in a vacuum, and have to be very careful about docking to stations and hitching trailers, because if your angle is off, you'll have to move forward and restart your approach. You can't just fix it by strafing a little down, or a little to the left or whatever, even though there are literally thrusters on your truck that would enable you to do so. Just arbitrary limits on flying imposed by the devs probably because they thought it would make it feel more like "trucks in space". But it's just ANNOYING.

[aaphebus]

Publicado originalmente por DangerNewdle:

Just arbitrary limits on flying imposed by the devs probably because they thought it would make it feel more like "trucks in space". But it's just ANNOYING.

If it's really the case then it's a very bad idea... First thing I think when speaking about space is void and three dimentional move. I don't expect realism like in KSP but directional thrusters are a minimum, especially if you can see those things on the truck.