Oh my...Elite Dangerous:Horizons

[mikeck]

Just to show how realistic the Elite galaxy is in relation to star layout, check out how the player found the first evidence of aliens:

"I triangulated the position of the system using the position of Andromeda, Pleiades Nebula, phakt and epsilon columbae, as they were seen in the trailer," xdeath wrote in a Reddit post (via PC Gamer). "I located the planet by matching the craters as seen on the moon in the tower shot.

[Yskonyn]

Just to show how realistic the Elite galaxy is in relation to star layout, check out how the player found the first evidence of aliens:

"I triangulated the position of the system using the position of Andromeda, Pleiades Nebula, phakt and epsilon columbae, as they were seen in the trailer," xdeath wrote in a Reddit post (via PC Gamer). "I located the planet by matching the craters as seen on the moon in the tower shot.

That was the ruins complex with the runes.
We dont know yet wether they have a direct link to the space vessel that has been spotted when the cmdr got pulled from hyperdrive into the encounter.
Pretty freakin awesome though!

[sandman2575]

Since when can bounty hunters interdict you jumping between star systems? Or did the alien vessel do that? (If so, why does the BH show up ready to attack you? Seems the cmdr's own systems are completely offline in the video.)

[JasonPratt]

I'm guessing the alien did that as part of a scripted reveal event; the BHs happened along by coincidence. Unless they were bots, spawned to keep the player from doing too much in the area yet? -- I haven't really watched yet.

[Dammit Carl!]

Ships only or will there be some sort of fps shooty bits like in Star Citizen?

[Kushan]

Ships only or will there be some sort of fps shooty bits like in Star Citizen?

We will get the ability to walk around stations at some point. IIRC the next few game updates are supposed to start building towards that. They also plan to add landing on planets that have an atmosphere at some point to. I haven't heard what FDevs plans are beyond that. I hope they skip on an fps mode. I want my space games to be about space and space ships, not the gimmiky mess Star Citizen looks like.

[SirAndrewD]

I'm guessing the alien did that as part of a scripted reveal event; the BHs happened along by coincidence. Unless they were bots, spawned to keep the player from doing too much in the area yet? -- I haven't really watched yet.

The alien pulled the player from hyperspace as part of a scripted event, indeed.  The BH popping in was random and is not part of the event.  The scripted event is repeatable, and if you head out to Merope you can get it to happen to you.  There were a few videos on youtube showing exactly how to do this. 

Pretty amazing and atmospheric stuff, and good on FD for just springing it without warning.  Now the question is, are these the dreaded Thargoids, or something else?

The truth is out there.

[bob48]

I'm trying to get back into this after being away from it for some time. I did have to reinstall it after I replaced my HD, and I'm now setting up my X45 combo again. For some reason, I'm having lots of problems in getting this sorted out, although it all worked perfectly well before.

I'm trying to assign free head movement to one of the HAT switches, but nothing I select seems to work - can anyone offer me any advice please?

[bayonetbrant]

you guys have already seen this, no?

http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-aliens/

[undercovergeek]

Here he comes, 5 days late

[bob48]

Yes, we know all about it. What we don't know is if these are Thargoids or something else.

In the meantime - someone please check their key-bindings (if using a joystick) and see what they have set for a HAT freelook please. Its driving me nuts. I'm sure something has changed with the control thingie. I've never had so many issues with a game with regards to setting a joystick up - I'm almost annoyed.

[undercovergeek]

does it have to be a hat?

[bob48]

Well, it worked that way in the past, but I've had to put everything back on after my HD fell over and was replaced. The X45 has 2 HATs on the joystick.

[bayonetbrant]

Here he comes, 5 days late

I don't play it, and I hadn't read the thread.  I didn't even go looking to see if y'all had mentioned it.  I saw the article this morning :)

[undercovergeek]

So you just spammed us here?  :P