CMDR X'fire
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:26 pm
Greetings! Totally new player here and sent the join request to MOBIUS PVE group last night in game. I've had my eye on Elite Dangerous for a few weeks now and took the plunge last night when the sale hit. A brief background is that I've been online gaming since around 2000 with games such as Quake and Diablo before getting sucked into mmorpgs around 2004. Nothing like the feeling of being a first time WoW player during vanilla and going into the BC expansion with friends to discover it with. The magic was strong for 4 or 5 good years. Since then and over the past few years I've kept up with the WoW expansions and dabbled around with other mmo titles but it's felt like a dying genre that hasn't held my interest in a long time.
I recently picked up a new PC along with the HTC Vive to experience the world of VR (fantastic experience) and noticed Elite Dangerous for the first time. I've never really tried out any sort of space exploration or flight sim although I am very interested in space itself. After researching ED and watching some tutorials videos over the past few weeks my interest grew especially after I saw the massive size of the galaxy. Knowing that there is so little of it explored is even more exciting. I ordered the Thrustmaster HOTAS X and tried out the free combat tutorial not in VR. Took me some time to get the button mappings and flying down but after a few hours I was able to breeze through all of the tutorial missions except the final one with multiple waves, I was stumped on the 5th wave I believe.
Last night I purchased the commander deluxe edition and tried it out in VR with the Vive.. holy crap! Totally worth it. I spent about 2 hours going back through some combat tutorials to get used to the scale of everything in VR then I did the landing and travel tutorials. I plan on jumping into it for real tonight although I'm definitely a little nervous and won't have any clue as of what I should do initially but this is definitely bringing back that magical feeling (that I haven't had in years since WoW back in the day) of first discovering something on this leveling again.
I recently picked up a new PC along with the HTC Vive to experience the world of VR (fantastic experience) and noticed Elite Dangerous for the first time. I've never really tried out any sort of space exploration or flight sim although I am very interested in space itself. After researching ED and watching some tutorials videos over the past few weeks my interest grew especially after I saw the massive size of the galaxy. Knowing that there is so little of it explored is even more exciting. I ordered the Thrustmaster HOTAS X and tried out the free combat tutorial not in VR. Took me some time to get the button mappings and flying down but after a few hours I was able to breeze through all of the tutorial missions except the final one with multiple waves, I was stumped on the 5th wave I believe.
Last night I purchased the commander deluxe edition and tried it out in VR with the Vive.. holy crap! Totally worth it. I spent about 2 hours going back through some combat tutorials to get used to the scale of everything in VR then I did the landing and travel tutorials. I plan on jumping into it for real tonight although I'm definitely a little nervous and won't have any clue as of what I should do initially but this is definitely bringing back that magical feeling (that I haven't had in years since WoW back in the day) of first discovering something on this leveling again.
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