katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

As someone who is getting increasingly irritated by videogame violence, here's one thing I really appreciate about Elite Dangerous: for most playstyles, running completely unarmed isn't just feasible, it's mechanically encouraged.

(this fuckin' shitpost has been rattling around in my head for weeks and I finally had to give up and post it.)

Well kids, y'know, it's like that old song always said: you don't see with your eyes, you perceive with your mind.

The plural of "Dan Quale" is "Dan Qualia".

Whee, new phone get. I didn't really want to spend that money right now but my old phone was having an increasing number of issues even before it failed. Upside is, now I have reception inside my house.

Phone screen is no longer responding to touch.

Gonna see if I can get a new one ASAP so I guess that what I'm doing this evening.

starkatt - It's still kind of blowing my mind that the playable area of Elite Dangerous is the entire Milky Way.

Not just "select locations in the Milky Way". All of them. 150,000 real-world surveyed stars and 400 billion procedural ones. And, yeah, most of them have accompanying planets and moons.

Only the local bubble is actually /inhabited/ but that's still a huge number of locations. If you want to hop all the way to the center of the galaxy 20ly at a time, there's nothing to stop you.

The game also seems like the kind of thing that really works best if you sink hundreds of hours into it and I just don't have that kind of time.

I'm trying to decide if the game is fun enough for me to plunk down the thirty bucks, or if I should just abandon the mission and do something else, or just walk away from ED entirely.

It seems like there's a relaxing game in there somewhere but I have to fight a horrible UI to find it. And I don't know if it's so chill I'd just get bored.

After spending like an hour on that mission and a half hour trying to figure out what was wrong, yeah, that really sours me on the whole game.

:( :(

Yeah so Elite Dangerous totally just let me accept a mission that in order to complete I need the $30 DLC, with no warning save a coded icon (and maybe not even that, I can;t remember).

That's not cool.

I really really want to be a fan of this game but bullshit like this is just so frustrating.

This game has some serious UX issues, mostly relating to navigation :/

So I got a mission to drop some goods at a surface base and I cannot figure out how to do so, and haven't been able to find a guide.

I can open the planetary map and see the base, and select it, but my HUD only ever shows a target centered on the planet and displays the whole planet as the target.

Also I can't connect to the server even though the launcher says server status is okay :(

I kinda like to imagine that custom exhaust colors are the Elite Dangerous equivalent of truck nutz.