Lexusbeat wrote:QUOTE (Lexusbeat @ Oct 17 2014, 06:44 AM) Everyone currently playing the game is absolutely terrible and any given allegaince player who can be bothered will wipe the floor with the entire playerbase at the moment. Everyone is jousting.
A freind of mine has set up his oculus rift as a trackIR with better sensors (he wears it like a hat) and is currently has a 20 to 1 kill death ratio, once you factor out that any disconnect is counted as a death and the game crashes all the time.
I actually prefer star citizens flight model to elites, even if the numbers are completely messed up as it doesnt have a ridiculous half arsed planes in space feel.
What I hate about both is that there are gimballed weapons, it forces people into either headtracking (like my friend) or to use a joystick and a mouse, or two mice.
I assume your friend had an M50 or a Hornet. Ships with non gimbaled guns are just cannon fodder.
Elite's flight model has nothing half arsed btw. The fligt model is really well tuned, and was the design goal from the start. Yhe result is a much higher skill ceiling, where you actually have to plan ahead, not just spin your guns towards the enemy. It's fully 6DoF too, where SC still doesn't allow reverse thrust in all modes.
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The comment about gimbals is not true for Elite. You don't control them directly with a mouse, they track a locked target with imperfect automated tracking.
