I initially read and thought this meant it had a 6 degrees of freedom cockpit but after I read it I realized thats not what I'm thinking about.

Anyone know if it will or does have such a feature? 6DOF cockpits that is. I'm a trackIR user and any mention of 6DOF gets my attention.

You're welcome.

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Whereas SC is going "look, rainbows and unicorns!" E:D is sticking to the "baby steps first and build from there" method. So apart from being an Elite fan (C64 ftw) I like Braben's factual and down to earth approach a whole lot more.

Alpha 4 is now available from the Frontier Store, make sure that you have the latest client. Here's a high level change log and as with previous phases please make sure to log any bugs you find through the support tickets.

Travel

Navigation panel improvements
Systems, stellar bodies and GÇ£points of interestGÇ¥ are now sorted in a hierarchy, with location type indicated by different icons.
Players can initiate hyperspace directly from the Navigation panel by selecting a system in the hierarchy

Hyperspace

Players will now see the full hyperspace sequence when choosing to jump between locations
As well as using the navigation panel to hyperspace, the player can also initiate a jump by using a keyboard command, default mapped to GÇ£JGÇ¥
Players need to retract hardpoints/landing gear/cargo scoop, align to the destination target and throttle up to finalize the jump
Arriving from a hyperspace jump will leave the ship in super cruise

Super Cruise

Super cruise allows players to travel across a system at superluminal speeds
While in super cruise, players can see and lock onto markers for stellar bodies and GÇ£points of interestGÇ¥ in the system
Entering and exiting super cruise is mapped by default to GÇ£CGÇ¥ on the keyboard
Players need to retract hardpoints/landing gear/cargo scoop and throttle up engage super cruise
When coming into range of a locked super cruise target, the display in the bottom left of the cockpit display will indicate when itGÇÖs safe to disengage
Approaching too close to a stellar body will mass-lock the player, dropping their ship from super cruise
To escape mass-lock from a stellar body players should point their ship away from it when engaging super cruise

Interdiction

Players may be intercepted and pulled out of super cruise by AI ships.
Ships met after interdiction may or may not be hostile

Galaxy Map

Players can now explore the entire galaxy via the Galaxy Map, accessed from the in-game navigation panel.
View data on each system including Allegiance, economy, star type, etc.
Search for star systems by name
Colour map by population, government, faction and economy
Options to show trade routes and star constellations

Trading

Each Star Port now has a commodities market where you can trade a selection of goods.
Prices in each market are influenced by the local economy and reflect current supply and demand.

New Locations

5 Star Ports from 3 different factions
Federation GÇôI Bootis, Dahan
Independent GÇô Asellus Primus, Eranin
Anarchy GÇô LP 98-132
Numerous new scenarios scattered around the Alpha 4.0 systems which demonstrate a variety of possible gameplay situations

Night Sky

Added suns, gas giants and planet rings
Space background now generated from real galaxy map data

New Playable Ships

Anaconda
Eagle
Lakon Type 9
Some ships only available in certain locations

New equipment

Class 8 Plasma Accelerator
Class 6 Burst Laser Turret
Class 6 Fixed Cannon
Class 6 Fixed Beam Laser
The equipment available is now dependent on the current Star Port, so certain items will only be available in certain locations

Other improvements

Turret weapons can now operate in multiple different modes, and can also defend against incoming missiles
Various AI improvements including ability to collect cargo, fleeing into hyperspace, etc.

All I want to know is:

Can you dial in a system to system hyperspace jump or do you have to content with "gates" (gank pipelines, bubble camps, ROFLSTOMPing, etc.).

I just might make a move to E:D for that one difference.

Looks great. I wish eve's solar system map looked like their art concepts.

If you ask me, elite dangerous is a bigger threat to eve than star citizen. I'm only in eve because it was the closest thing to elite I could find in an mmo when I joined. I played elite in the 80s, happy memories..

That is actually some really impressive FA OFF flying!
I switch mine on and off to out maneuver other players in real PVP, I wonder how he would fair?

don't they have their own forums ?

Oh ****... thats really awesome.


I love the realistic approach to celestial bodies. Does stuff actually orbit planets and stars too?

2.05 patch enabled online mode for me (there were a lot of crashes after hyperjump before 2.05) and it turned out I'm not interesting in it as much as I've expected: due to lack of depth in this gameplay (do 2 kinds of stuff - hauling and fighting - to buy better ships to do 2 kinds of stuff faster) I already did everything I could during 10 days passed since 2.0 beta release.

And it seems I'm not alone - there is thread on Reddit about lack of long-term goals and interest to the game. Unless Frontier will add some RPG elements and building gameplay (planetary bases for example) game will be nearly empty in few weeks after release. Gameplay which was fine 30 years ago on empty computer games market is turned out to be pretty trivial, banal today (even in procedural environment) when there are many MMO(RPG) alternatives available.

Perhaps CCP should consider ditching Valkyrie right now: if Elite cannot hold most players for more than two weeks - then what future is awaiting even less deep Valkyrie?