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[TheChosen]

The third part of the Elite......


Wow.....

to start on mars with a kinda crappy plane:

start, click, hit escape, new game, hit 2 during intro and there you are.

This is how i did it at least.

[Toxik]

Originally posted by stijnelijn@Nov 25 2005, 06:09 PM
to start on mars with a kinda crappy plane:

start, click, hit escape, new game, hit 2 during intro and there you are.

This is how i did it at least.

i think you are talking about elite2 because it had 3 choices of start and the seconf one was on mars with some spaceship equipped with just interplanetary drive

Would be nice if it would run in DOSBox, because I have an Audigy sound card so the SoundBlaster emulation stutters under Windows XP. Creative said they simply weren't going to address that years ago.

[velik_m]

Originally posted by Abi79@Nov 25 2005, 10:35 AM

EDIT: How does one find the sector in which he is, if he scrooled to far away from it ?

there should be a key for it or there is one of the icons. have you searched the manual for that?

how about if you go in the system (map of system with planet orbits) and then pop out again?

[Abi79]

Originally posted by velik_m@Nov 25 2005, 09:32 PM
how about if you go in the system (map of system with planet orbits) and then pop out again?

I tried it. Doesn't work. I'll check the manual

Nevermind, all I had to do to fix the stuttering was reboot. I think I had some kind of memory leak, everything kept getting slower and slowwerrrr.

you can actually find some of the thargoid things without having a mission there. If you already know the coords. Check jades.org if you want more info. They have links to most of what you could want. including walkthroughs, technical readouts, hints, cheats, and anything else for all three elites. And yes, there is a key that centers the map, tho I cant remember if it is on you, or on (0,0) but holding down shift and the arrow keys moves by a whole map square at a time.

If I got the locations wrong, I'm sorry, but that was from memory since I'm currently playing some other games, and I try to limit how many major games I keep installed at one time.

My sugestion is to not attack the thargoids, since if you do attack them, you can't get the last few hardcoded missions, and you can't get thargoid ships and weapons. Which are VERY powerful and VERY good.
Also I seem to remember that FFE doesn't allow the forced mis-jumps that the earlier versions allowed. (in Elite I, you could use that as a way to fight the thargoids in witchspace)

I have the largest "fighter class" ship available, and 10 shield generators but I still can't take 1 second of fire from a ship of the same configuration (4MW Beam Laser). I have no idea why it's so unbalanced. :/

[Eva02Soul]

You're using the largest fighter class ship available and you've only got 10 shields and a 4MW beam? what a waste of an Imperial Explorer.

The thing with the beam laser is it's a continual weapon. So, even though against a pulse laser 10 shield generators would be more that enough, with a beam laser continually trying to punch through them, they get overloaded really quickly. As soon as they're gone, a 4MW beam laser would be enough to kill a smaller ship instantly, and a larger ship in a couple of seconds of continual fire. Combat in FFE usually boils down to 'kill or be killed', and even a comfortable amount of shield generators (50 or so) will only grant you a few seconds thinking time against the larger weaponry. Anything you can use they can too with some exceptions. (I've never been plasma bombed before, luckily)