Elite Dangerous: Is Titan Mining Worth it? Spaceship Aerodynamics
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- Elite Dangerous: Is Titan Mining Worth it? Spaceship Aerodynamics
📰 In Elite Dangerous News this week…
🚀 An in depth analysis of the aerodynamic qualities of Elite Dangerous ships
⛏️ And as the sub-surface extraction missile is released we look at just what it takes to go Titan mining. o7 CMDRs
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Now that we've had a few days to assess the impact of rescued pods on the course of the war, it's safe to say that this new mechanic is a game changer. If I understand it correctly, pod rescues contribute to progress in every Counter-Strike system (or is actually every Controlled system?) within a certain range of a particular Titan. In just this first weekly tick with the new mechanic, the Goids are set to lose control of over 20 systems, four of which were previously untouchable barnacle matrix systems. That's huge! I do wish the monetary reward for pod rescue was correspondingly high and the bar for doing rescues a bit lower. Given the enormous effect it has on the war, however, maybe it makes sense for pod rescue to be "end-gamey" in its level of access and difficulty.
My bad - meant to say "the Goids are set to lose control of over 20 systems AROUND THE INDRA MAELSTROM ALONE, four of which were previously untouchable barnacle matrix systems." In fact, with about 6 hours left in the tick it's looking like 24 control systems cleared around Indra. Apologies for leaving out that little detail!
@paulreckner1806 not at all. Thanks so much for the heads up on it.
This is huge news o7
Updated thoughts. Previously I have commented (and I stand by those comments) where I said this was a very fair assessment of Titan ‘mining’. But, I also said I would have a go (there’s nothing worse than someone who just criticises something and then follows up with- nothing new for me so I’m not going to bother trying. Actually there are worse comments but let’s not go there!)So, I have had a go and thanks to the build of another commander’s suggestion (a Tanky, shielded, engineered for heat imperial cutter). And it was very successful. Was it hard? Yes. Did I have to engineer? Yes. Was it relaxing like normal mining? No. Not one bit. But it was fun. And here’s my last thought about this: can new players do this? No. No they can’t. You need a tanky ship (an anaconda would also do and there are other successful builds out there). You do need to engineer (I don’t mind collecting materials and doing this but I know others loathe engineering). But, fighting thargoids has always been the end game content. And fdev did make that easier and more accessible for new players- I loved that and didn’t have to fight thargoids with an especially meta build and my chieftain isn’t even engineered very much. So that became quite easy (and yes I probably should now engineer and go fight thargoids in traditional places). So the Titan is a new meta for fighting thargoids; and for mining. I know there are miners who have tanky mining vessels and enjoy the has Rez fights and mining combo- this is a new level for that. So, ultimately what am I saying: yes, a lot of the player base is excluded from this content. But, perhaps like a game should be, you need to level up in some way to get to the big, bad boss at the end of it. I don’t think this is the very end game though. I don’t think titans are going to be exploded out the galaxy. I think there is more on foot gameplay and thargoids coming (it may not be aboard the titans but it could be at the matrix sites). And that will be the new end game content for on foot- fighting thargoids. I should also say by end game content I do not mean it’s the end of the game- I just mean it is the most challenging aspect…. Before anyone comments I think that the game is ending! And if you read all the way to the end of the message… bravo! Please like and subscribe to the Buurpit channel as it really is the most honest, thoughtful and best channel for elite.
Great comment... (And not just for the end bit ;) ).
I get what FDev are doing here I think... You're right, it's endgame content and rightfully so. I really really hope they do more with the Titans. I'd hate for this mining mechanic to be the end of the epic Titan arc.... For the build up, HIP 22460 incident, the Stargoids and then the hunter vessels etc. to all culminate in an already established "mining mechanic but there's Thargoids" would be a tragic waste.
I agree. If all content was new-player friendly there'd be nothing challenging for experienced players.
The matrix sites look like they'll be softer targets (or at least, they're easier to get to).
This is by far, the most professional, accurate and really interesting report, explanation and guide for this strategy so far. The explanation and perspective was quite accurate and so professionally delivered to the viewer. You’re doing an excellent work, I wish I could support you more. Thanks so much for keeping the game alive. I’m not a Thargoid fan, but I do my best to keep up with this difficult and not rewarding task. Thanks again and keep the good content, it is really appreciated Commander. Lv, Cmdr Frozen Kombat
It became more dangerous - almost impossible to stay undetected while doing something - near a titan. Previously I could reach a titan, get it alerted once (never could avoid it detecting me once soon after my arrival), sit in some trench on its surface until things calmed down, and then collect 80 tissue samples without further detection, unless some stray glaive came too close (and that didn't happen often). Now I get detected all the time, I think scythes do that. I hear their creepy clicking. After extraction of the pods, soon it comes to who collects them faster: me or them. Alerted titan does his special blue forcefield attack. So it's no longer a pure stealth operation.
Oh, and it seems that the human pods are not caustic. The only good news for a solo Krait. :)
~ CMDR VitalyNcr
Yes, I confirmed it too. I was almost never detected before with a cold ship (
I extracted a ton of tissue samples, but ultimately stopped, because I no longer had anything to do with them. Not much of a market, nor any unlock requiring them.
Well done CMDR Buur, super informative as always!
A pass for me was thinking of getting more into the Thargoid side of things with the Titan but at the end of the day I'm more of a explorer at heart and it's about time I made the trip to Colonia anyways and probably to the Center. I just got a 2nd copy of Elite on Steam so might build that up for local stuff while I'm away in deep space...
Yup,got elite by exploration. Did few rescues, got pissed with the game when even that got dicey to impossible as Im in a un guardian modified ship. In fact,just doing that now.
4% of the galaxy explored by all, and they do a thargoid war. How about powerplays affecting remote bases so the carrier cool kids jusr dont leave the sports car parked in the garage.
If they make it 'collect 500 pods and earn a new player-controlled thargoid ship' you won't be able to move for cmdrs queueing up to do this.
As you say, it's all in the rewards.
If I did this, I'd be hoarding the rescued pods on my fleet carrier, until a use or reward made it worth handing them in.
Maybe they could pilot a future hybrid Thargoid/Human tech SLF?
@@GaryMillerUK This. My carrier is fat with pods.
That wouldn't incentivize me to play it. Don't really care about anything thargoid related in elite.
I can't say for sure, but during my first (and so far only) Titan rescue mission today I had a feeling that whatever I was doing is a huge mistake later on. I mean, us "rescuing" those people is clearly or at least likely a way to infiltrate humanity on a massive scale. Whatever is in those pods might look like a human or register as such in sensors before the pods are opened, but I have my suspicions...
Yes. Take them back to a human planetary settlement and a few weeks later... it's LV426 all over again.
great video, classic FDev making something really hard and pay nothing, such a shame, imagine the thrill if you did it and got 60 mill per pod! The excitement would be amazing.
I get that, but with tens of billions of credits I'm less worried about rewards and more about rewarding gameplay. As per the pinned comment above, it seems turning in pods is giving the thargoids a hiding in the war, so there's that for people who are into the bigger picture.
It would just be so funny if we manage to convert all the matrix sites back to human owned systems before update 17 launches ...
@@Sighman yeah I have dipped under a billion after having 10!! So i was getting greedy, I have had an explore and am ready to try the rescue loop, should be epic!!
Wow, you made it all look so easy...like a Sunday stroll around the Titan.
I concur with the Buur... while it IS interesting to outfit my cool running Orca to go scoop up a few of these pods for the experience of it, and to look at an listen to the pod (and spectrogram analyse to see if there's anything hidden) the ability to save many of them with the current ships is outweighed by the likelihood you're not going to make it. Key is you need FAST to get in and out (and to escape the glaives), cool running, capable of taking a beating AND have plenty of module slots for all the things plus limpet collectors AND cargo space... none of the current big ships really offer this, the closest I've found is an Orca but one in two attempts will end very badly depending on how much agro I get from hunter glaives hyper/interdictions getting in, and then around the Titan itself. Managed to manually scoop 9 pods from this and barely got out alive. To have any feeling of being much use to the war effort or feeling like I'm actually rescuing more than just a handful of those that end up floating away, I think we need something more.
As much as I am not a 'we need more ships' just for the sake of it, this feels like an ideal opportunity to add a new ship that is geared to fill this niche challenge. Something with all those requirements, especially fast, cold, and lots of module and cargo slots. A stealthy, clandestine, fast sprinting, capable, catlike cargo ship, a Panther Clipper!!!
"Plenty of credits but not plenty of time and AX skill" CMDR here, I'm sure there are many alike. It's really too bad FDev create contents that most will never see other than through content creator's video, which I very much appreciate Burr! FDev should implement "in-game P2W" mechanics, no? I just don't understand FDev's strategy, firmly planting ED's demise themselves, such a wasted opportunity.
The Cutter works fine. Cold running (15%), 520 m/s boost, 8 utility slots and space to hold 200+ cargo. Plus enough firepower to destroy annoying glaives and scythes.
Regarding aerodynamics: that is why I love ED ships, especially those which retained (vaguely) their characteristic geometric shapes from early Elite games. In space they don't need to be aerodynamic. But! Supposedly they can all take us down on fully atmospheric planets. These papers into their flight characteristic in a dense atmospheric medium is extremely interesting (and I hope CMDR SovereignWinter will produce some more on our spaceplanes, like Adder, FDL). Although I am fairly certain these magically strong thrusters could keep our ships in the air (after all they work flawlessly in high-gravity environments), I would love that if in the future when new ships could arrive, then they would be tied together with the development of planets with dense atmospheres , thus we could see the return of Airfighter ships from Frontier Elite II and First Encounters.
It does really sound ridiculous when you lay out everything that is required to go and rescue the pods like Buur just did.
This sounds like so much fun! I've really enjoyed the terror of poking Titans (especially in VR - oh my god), but this added rescue loop should be amazing.
Well, if I can learn to pull it off without getting killed.
Let us know how you get on and what works.
Classig FDev, making something really hard and pay dirt for it. Never understood this mentality, even their hardcore playerbase mock them because of this. I do this once from curiosity, and never do again.
EDIT: so done this by curiosity, and it pays 150k each pod, which is very low coniderating the very high risk. The other task was able to be done in stealth mode, but when you get one pod onboard, a hunter immidetly start to attack.
Significant mistake in the video!! (A rather rare occurrence on this channel)
The thargoid pulse neutralizer cannot just be bought at a rescue megaship. It has to be unlocked via a tech broker, same as the caustic sink. It is a considerable task to acquire the materials needed for unlock. While it is not difficult, it is quite time consuming.
Also, I am the person this gameplay loop is made for. I have been poking at the Titan with my AXI branded ship for some time and look forward to having at least a moral reason to continue doing so.
Exploration isn't for everyone; neither is trading or painite mining. I think it's good to have a bunch of unique gameplay loops available to players. It creates a diverse game that can cater to many people.
They really just need to make something like a new SRV whose gameplay can be included in this but more, i've always talked about how cool a SLF that could enter ground mode and do SRV things would be cool, literally anything thats pretty much not a 5 hour experience JUST to prepare, fly there, and explode because you get ganked by aliens
And yes it perhaps may be OVER a 5 hour prep time for those without engineering mats or even without the engineers, this game REALLY REALLY REALLY needs to shift into a more "new player friendly" orientation for obvious reasons.
they need to rebuild elite dangerous, look at "star citizen" still alpha but you can have fun by anyway!! imagine we here use ground vehicles like tanks or other vehicles vs ships? yes we do, star citizen literally the most game you should try if want realty space game style and high details lvl, ships interior never makes me get boring! there a lot if i said i would create 20 page!
there a lot to do, also go watch ships review like "esperia prowler or talon" animations and interiors yes it's light fighters but i'm sure this ships gonna stole your mind, and yes you can buy any ship by in game credit faster with salvage missions 1/1.5 million every mission.
A fair assessment of the Titan mining I feel. I will be attempting it and have enjoyed the Titan in the past. That said I am not an expert flyer and I feel this is the current end game content to challenge people and aim for. But we shall see what comes in the next update… maybe something to help us!
Maybe the lack of material incentives (rewards) to surface mine Titans for these capsules is in fact a sign that their contents will turn against us - humans. So maybe Frontier doesn't want to make us feel betrayed later when they will ultimately do the twist. And collecting the pods can be done for roleplaying purposes for now.. :)
I'm having a blast with all the names for the sub-surface recovery missiles. And so are those rescued people.
Rewards is cool and all, but most people missing the point of purpose, but still rewards is a nice candy to get motivated for sure :D
outstanding report as usual, cheers
Once again, a very well made video. I went straight to Titan after receiving the rocketramps. It's not exactly easy mode, what the biocapsules bring, I'm curious if they produce a newly bred life form from humanoid and targhoid would be exciting, until then I collect the capsules on my carrier, maybe I get 500 together and there is as requested in a post, a targhoid ship as a reward, I'm still missing in my collection. Fly safe o7 😉
That's a big nope from me. Killed some scouts at the beginning, but when they introduced the Scythe and Glaive I headed for deep space. Never managed to kill an interceptor, even. Going to sit out here till it's over, or go find a different game to play. Can't muster the energy for further engineering that I'd need to mess with Thargoids. As far as I'm concerned, they can have the bubble.
Money does not matter - i'm in!
Just need to get my Titan ship up to speed (and my skills)
I will probably do it a few times?
But as you say. It is just copy/pasted subsurface mining.
It's not really what I was hoping for.
Thanks good vid ; )
Here's the issue - this Thargoid titan stuff is super end-game. The rewards should be something pretty clever - maybe a voucher that can handed in for rare materials? Bonus arx?
I will have a go at the pods, transfer to carrier.... they will be used for something
That pod looks creepy as hell. I expected use to access the titan to shoot our way out with captured humans
So my guess is, the "rescue" is essentially Thargoid's scheme of humans bringing demise to ourselves. These pods I'm sure contain "zombies".
First of all, great video as always. Secondly, I haven't been playing the game for the last two months or so for reasons not related to the game. However, what Frontier has done in that time has not created any urgencey for me to find time and get back into it. No FOMO whatsoever. I'll guess it'll be "just ordinary" BGS which at least give me purpose once I can play again.
I look forward to these! Thank you!
I already have a ship set up for titan farming (loved it when it was about sampling its surface), however the concept of sub-surface mining is so underwhelming that I might try it once, because that's what I do in ED (try everything), but I'm not sure it will make it to my top 50 activities 🤔
Love the game, but this loop is not for me, Ive had a shotgun run into a titan and that was very cool, but not enough to gather all the mats to build a maelstrom diver to go coffin mining purely for the spectacle. I never played elite to get stressed, I play it to forget about irl and wander the cosmos
Put about 2k hours in this game over the last 10 years or so and ive got no idea what anything in the thumbnail is talking about lol. Okay i watch now :P
At 7:11 we can hear something other than breathing, I really hope the quarantine is good enough... Or else things are going to get very, very messed up xD
They created odyssey which caused a rift in the community but have focused on adding more ship based gameplay and not on foot gameplay. If this thread of updates is a slow timed release lead up to on foot odyssey content then this makes sense but if it doesn’t I am confused why they invested so much time into creating odyssey in the first place. People are correct in saying the devs are just repurposing already in the game tech instead of adding something entirely new. I like the challenging end game ship content and I will enjoy trying it but I would like to see odyssey gameplay increased and it could be as simple as randomly generated exploration targets you discover and explore on remote planets
Didn't they hire a new programmer from the FPS world? Seems like that was right before this all took a sharp turn.
@@freudianslip19 no idea but if they did they could still add alien fps to the game. Did they fire him? Since the fps is pretty much the same as it has been since the start except for a couple new scenarios
Also these pods are blinking, not just glowing. I think blinking is a heart pulses. And heart rate is pretty slow so I might think that creature inside is in anabiosis.
I’ve heard tell that every pod returned to a rescue ship has a progress bar impact on every control-counter strike system around that Titan.
So, breaking news, but if it turns out to be true this would be the single largest impact we can have on the war by a pretty significant margin, eh?
Let's be honest.... It would need to be. Still not convinced it's a compelling enough proposition for me personally tbh. But that's ok! ....I don't think it's aimed at "me" :)
We agree and I think I’d file this under winning the war (still) has nothing to do with combat.
@@jntracksgaming I mean...I don't mind personally that winning the war might not necessarily be combat based... Same as irl some folks are fighting and some folks are making sure they have bullets to fire. I'm ok with that, they're both both valid. I'm just not convinced that the (quite clearly under used and therefore repurposed in order to add value for Fdev) mechanic of subsurface mining is compelling enough of a gameplay loop to go through all that pain to get to.
Hell.... it's the 2nd cousin thats avoided by all the other mining techniques at mining technique family reunions so it has no place in the AX loop ... For me anyway... Others results may of course vary :)
@@TheBuurPit ok I don’t mind the subsurface missile as much as I hear others do. I sort of like bringing it back since it wasn’t very used.
But I feel the scale is tipped a bit too far off combat. The points are weighted so toward tissue samples that combat is a waste of time, if you care about war points!
All the nuance is getting in the way of my ability to yell salt at the internet…
@@jntracksgaming yeah, agreed. I'm glad that doing science-y things is meaningful to the war. I am not glad that it is the thing that is _completely winning the war and negating all other effort._ Especially since much of the "science-y" crowd and the "we want content other than Thargoids" crowd seems to have a whole lot of overlap.
I suspect that I am not alone in thinking that the direction Fdev have gone with the Thargoid war has left me a little cold. The extra grind to obtain new goodies to participate in said conflict has left me thinking Nah! Don't think I'll bother. I have done rescue missions from stations and engaged in conflict as I already had ships geared up for this but to grind again for another bit of tech just to engage in the latest action has left me thinking maybe I'll take that long ago promised trip back to Beagle point I always said I'd do. I am sure there are plenty of Cmdrs who lap this up but it's not for me I'm afraid.
Right behind you! Maybe I'll see ya there. Have to get my FC stocked ready.
Nice video, as always.
Still can’t be bothered to jump through the hoops to get to a titan - sorry, pod-people.
Glad there is other stuff in the game to do.
It’s time that holds me back.
I love mining humans from titans. It's exciting and scary.. When i fly home with my 32 rescued humans i feel quite proud!
Have you thought you might be bringing "zombies" home and Thargoids are planning a coordinated on-foot attack?!
@@galactictrucker Yes I have. Fortunately, this is a game. So if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. Even more fun gameplay!
Fair comment Cmdr…. Titan mining not my thing. Plenty of other things to enjoy in the game.
I wonder if it's such a good idea to bring these xeno-pods back to the rescue ships without really knowing what's inside them.
The rescue ships could find themselves invaded by xeno-humans and then, who will be called upon to eliminate them? The commanders?
Ghostbusters! 👻
Yeah completely agree... I'm kinda hoping that's going to happen tbh.
But those ships weren't designed to go on hyper sonic speeds at all! They travel quickly by engaging the hyperdrive which doesn't make the ship affected by air particles around it
I’ve been kinda “meh” on the whole Thargoid War to begin with, and adding needlessly complicated mechanics just seals the deal.
Not.
Interested.
If there's a caustic cloud, but you can get a caustic sink, then there was no point in the caustic cloud. Caustic cloud is a barrier to gameplay, not gameplay itself. It just excludes small ships without the necessary number of internal slots. Why isn't there caustic plating, like there is reflective plating?
So i did the CG for no reason has everyone got access to the new missles....
Another excellent video Burr !! well mining humans is above my paygrade and if not cash or reward ,nah i wont bother..but ..but if the pods hatch in some bases and our "human"friend eats the base and makes more "humans "then yes boots on the ground Aliens style and screaming "Lets roooock!"but till and if this happens i will be doing other stuff...i suffer from medium thargoid fatigue and i wish we could see other things than that.Always good reports from you mate keep em coming.
Yeah I'm with you. Time for the feety pew pew!
All My NOPES. Those pods are a creepfest. Whatever is in them isn't going to be human anymore, I'd bet money on that. It'll either be a Thargoid controlled zombie, _or_ , and here's a scary thought, a virus-infected plague spreader.
I'd love to participate but I've only gotten as far as getting the caustic sinks.....and I'm unsure I can bothered going further with it.....catching up seems more effort than it's worth.
If you've already got the caustic sinks, you can literally buy everything else you need at a rescue megaship for credits. None of the other modules require an unlock.
@@MarkZeroGaming That is a lie. You need to grind for the pulse neutralizer and the caustic sinks and unlock them both from a tech broker before you can buy them.
Could this be a way of getting these people into our population, They may look human but are they. Then I have issue with the credits, not enough for the risk involved. and it's my credits for rebuy. Three strikes I've washed my hands of it and go mining or trading.
It’s extremely half baked gameplay and I would rather see the rescued humans kept in passenger cabins rather than a cargo bay, with random rewards from wealthy grateful relatives to bump it up to at least 1-2m per pod on average.
I can get to the Titan no issues but mining those things are a real ball ache. The missiles either bounce off into space or impact so destroy the site. Must be doing something wrong but then I've not done much mining. 🤷♂
Thargoid content, hmmmm I knew there was a reason I headed toward Sag A.....Its a big NO fro me!
Let us ally with the thargoids. I want to fight with the bugs for some bug technology and a thargoid caustic rifle.
When lessening to the pods.. I don't think there human anymore...
Oay, okay. So, I'm supposed to do the equivalent of running through a radiation field with limited shielding against the radiation carrying a shoulder mounted 1.2 kiloton atomic weapon while avoiding zombies armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers all to try and rescue some sorry sacks that couldn't run fast enough? No thanks, I'm calling natural selection on this one.
What do you think would happen to Elite dangerous if they allowed players to be thargoids?
A bloodbath in Open, followed by a lot of forum complaining.
Destruction of the Bubble, a good story to shutdown Elite Dangerous altogether. Maybe FDev will like it.
bonus laughs. thank you., hilarious
More Ships ffs I want more ships!!!
"the gameplay reward isn't worth it"? Unless you're the sort that likes to roleplay. Or someone that wants to help with the war effort.
Save me Salvo...🤣🤣🤣
It does feel like a lazy mining hack unfortunately. But I'm sure more is to come.
ED ships don't need aerodynamics; they use anti-gravity for landing and lift off. There's no way those thrusters could heave that mass into orbit otherwise.
Exactly... I said earlier that these ships aren't designed to go hypersonic speeds... They use the hyperdrive and they're not affected by particles around them
tl;dr first, because you might wanna skip my rant:
I am not going Titan-mining because.
Reason: TiMe? I hAs iT nOt. o_0
Now on to a ~ little ~ happy rant. :D
I think Frontier does not realize how diverse their community is.
Between the hardcore
"I play Elite every free minute of time I have"-type of player
and the softcore
"I just play the fun*-bits"-type of player (*fun in this case means what is fun for THEM!)
there are plenty of players in between.
Also Frontier forgets that all type of players have not all the same amount of time available.
Some might have 5 hours a day and 30 at a weekend, while others might not even have 5 hours in total PER WEEK available**.
(** If you think this is unfair: it is! They might have a to care for an elderly parent and 5 hours is all the can spare. Think about this before you call them "lazy freeloaders".)
Now create a four quarter graph with the 2 axis "intensity" for hard core to soft core - and "time" for how long they can play...
... and place all the players in there.
How would that look like?
And where are you?
If you want all types of player engaged, you have to cater to them in different ways.
The hardcore players might have a lot of time to grind and figure things out.
"Use" them to pioneer new tech and methods.
The softcore players might just want to grab their ship and go on an adventure.
For those you need to have all the fancy bits to be easily accessible.
(Which should not be a problem if the hardcore players have cleared the path already.)
I know this sound unfair - so, reward the players according to their effort.
Example, Community Goal, hauling Gold.
Do NOT reward the players by how much cargo they have hauled.
Reward them by how often the delivered cargo.
A player with a Cutter can deliver more then a newer player with only a Type 7.
But both put in the same amount of TIME into the CG (per delivery).
Now if you have achieved at least 10 deliveries, you qualify for the reward of the CG.
Everyone gets the same reward, no "Top 1 % gets this fancy paintjob, the remaining 99% gets 10 tons of bio waste."
(Well, fine: you can hand out ARX in accordance with how much one player has delivered, if you really have to.)
For bounty hunting CG's just let the amount of kills be the relevant qualifier.
If you think that is sending the wrong signal:
Let the reward scale with the Tier of the CG.
So everyone has an incentive to push the Tiers as high up as possible.
Heck, the Newbie might even think "Oh Boy, I should re-invest my money into a bigger ship to help push this CG!"
If you now make sure the CG does not finish when the last Tier has been reached... everyone can participate. Even the ones who can only play the day before the CG finishes... for what ever reason.
So, now your CG is:
- motivating
- inclusive
- engaging
The current CG's with their "if you are in the lower 25% you get Nada"-Logic are exclusive and ultimately promote competition... instead of COMMUNITY.
We should really call them "Competitive Goals".
Because in order to make it into the "75%+ area", you need to push someone else out into the "25% and below area".
That is competition, not cooperation.
This idea is coming from an old CG (I forgot which one; doesn't matter anyway) where you had to haul Rare Goods... and the first Tier was not reached 2 days before the end.
Players in Cutters and Type 9's where waiting outside the Littering-Zone of the Station and other players came up to them to feed them the rare goods (because you can only buy like 12 items per 15 minutes).
Once I saw this, I became one of them.
This was not only ingenious.
It was the FIRST TIME EVER where I felt "this is really a community working together to achieve a common goal".
And NEVER BEFORE NOR AFTER have I felt more part of the Elite community.
(Well, other then Expeditions, but that is a different story.)
I miss that. -_-
Well, there's my rant.
Sorry.
(No, I am not Canadian, I am sorry nonetheless.)
I'm back to Deep Rock Galactic.
Where cooperation is key AND fun.
ROCK ON!
So we still can’t land on titans? I figured by now that would have been implemented in the game. Still playing starfield and at this rate, I probably won’t ever go back to elite… if they put in VR for on foot (at least make it a 360 experience) then maybe I’ll come back, but for now my immersion in VR is ruined whenever I need to get out of my vehicle to scan plants or go on a station. I hate their half implemented game modes. They need to finish things before moving on to the next thing and I’m tired of it. Adding life scanners on the SRV would be good too… it’s just annoying how we can’t get the simple things…
FDEV are throttling the life out of ED, I cannot fathom the reasoning behind this as the drop in player numbers speaks for itself. The bar for entry is way too high without the added cost of multiple rebuys.
It's never worth it. Any of these crazy things they add are never worth the risk of the time sink for the reward they offer
I think ED is dying because players can’t be bothered anymore. Too much like hard work…
Had enough of grinding No more fdev you can stick that game loop
You literally buy everything you need to do this except for the Caustic Sink Launcher for credits.
@@MarkZeroGaming Why are you lying? The pulse wave neutraliser alone requires hours upon hours of grind.
@@deyan.angelov8061 I literally flew to a rescue ship and bought one. For credits. Yesterday.
@@MarkZeroGaming That means you unlocked it first from a tech broker after providing a list of bullshit grind items. That is the only way you can purchase the Pulse Neutralizer for credits. So again, STOP LYING. And on top of that, players have to grind for the caustic sink launcher too And that is the same story.
@@deyan.angelov8061 fair. I've had the Thargoid Pulse Neutralizer for so long that I forgot it needed an unlock. I thought you were talking about the Pulse Wave Scanner thing to find the pods.
But calling it a "grind" is also pretty disingenuous. Bounce off the Malestrom knockback a few times, shoot a few caustic generators or scouts and scoop up the bits, make one unclassified relic. Not really the mind numbing chore of driving around and relogging at Dav's hope, is it? I got it done in about two sessions at a combined total of about 3 hours of play time.
But fair enough. Two of the modules need an unlock, the other two plus however many weapons you want to have are all for sale for credits. Better?
It's great that we can go and save people from the titan and all....but can we get some new space ships in our space ship simulator soon? 😂 I'm not sure what fdev have added to the game that isn't entirely thargoid based for years.
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What the hell even is this gameplay???
C'mon fdev!
You read my mind! Now I want an Elite Dangerous movie starring Jason Statham. I think it will be more successful than the game itself.
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