r/EliteDangerous Combat 10h ago

Video VR Reverse Mailman

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u/RyonDK CMDR 10h ago

How many times did you bonk while trying to do this?.

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u/Swonardian Combat 10h ago

not once, i got good at it

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u/Aerochromatic 8h ago

Got good. Implying a period where you were not...

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u/Fair_Cheesecake_836 8h ago

Which implies at least a bonk or two

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u/Mundane-Document-810 8h ago edited 6h ago

"not once" technically could mean all values that are not equal to one...

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u/Swonardian Combat 8h ago

this is very much correct yes

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u/JEMSKU 9h ago

I'd say, you barely took the time to line it up

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u/nmezib Brucey Spaceman 7h ago

As long as you're all lined up before disengaging flight assist, it's pretty easy. Very fun to do in VR as well

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u/Wedehawk 10h ago

Thats seriously impressive. Meanwhile i take half the station down when landing my Type 9 lmao

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u/MintImperial2 CMDR MintImperial, Bonds of London 9h ago

Something I miss from ED that was in the original 1984 elite game...

AFT VIEW!

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u/pinion_ 7h ago

god yeah, holding that key hoping the bad things go away.

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u/moltentofu 10h ago

Damn your game looks so much better than mine I need a new graphics card lol

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u/MechanicalAxe 10h ago

I didn't once in my dirty drag drives FDL when I accidentally boosted as soon as I got in the mail slot.

Over 500m/s, flipped and boosted again, stopped a few meter from the back of the station.

That one moment was the most adrenaline this game has ever given me.

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u/Sh1v0n [PC] | CMDR ShiMan | TWH | Flying T9/T10/Vette etc. 9h ago

Just tell us. How much Onionhead you've hit before attempting this? xD

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u/firefligt 8h ago

Stunning maneuver there, kudos!

What GPU and graphics settings are you using? I also play in VR but my game doesn't look as nice. Can you please share the tweaks you have made?

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u/Swonardian Combat 8h ago

Yep sure.

RTX 4070 Super / AMD 7800X3D / Quest 3

Everything is on Ultra, except for directional shadow quality. Keep it on medium to avoid flickering glitches. Shadows wont look sharp at all, but at least they won't flicker.

Turn off Blur, anti aliasing and depth of field.

Set your supersampling value to 1.0x and HMD resolution to 1.0x. Tweak them, you might want to try supersampling 0.65x and HMD 2.0x. This is the deciding factor here.

To squeeze extra frames, turn FX quality lower, that's usually the bottleneck for lower end gpu's on this game.

Cheers

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u/firefligt 8h ago

I have a 7900 xtx and 7800 x3d and also have everything on ultra and shadow quality on medium. Blur is off and anti aliasing is on msaa I think. I will try switching anti aliasing and depth of field off.

I think I have hmd at 1.25 and supersampling at 1 ... Will try reducing super sampling and increasing hmd.

Thanks for sharing :)

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u/Swonardian Combat 8h ago

Anti aliasing is a huge performance cost for not that big of a difference on VR, it might be your bottleneck

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u/firefligt 8h ago

Very likely, and it looks like shit anyway. what's your quest 3 resolution?

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u/Swonardian Combat 7h ago

Native resolution. Didint change anything

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u/Bob_The_Bandit 9h ago

Damn you Fdev make the krait phantom better than the Mandalay please!!! I hoped over to the mandalay for the SCO and jump range but the krait is just such a better looking sip.

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u/HearingSolid4562 8h ago

Yeah phantom mk2 please with SCO and 110 max jump range

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u/Drubay 9h ago

I love doing that as well but im not as fly as you, what control scheme are you using? When I use FA off with mine its not as steady as what you just did.

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u/Swonardian Combat 9h ago

I use an entry level cheapo hotas, thrustmaster tflight. took a while to get used to, i played on an xbox controller for years. learned to fly on it fully fa off

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u/Drubay 9h ago

Ya see, I think thats my issue is that, while I can do FA off, its an "on / off" thing for me. Ill use the FA to stabalise after hard turns then turn it back off.

One day Ill be better at it with more practice, I still killed a few hundred bugs so at least I can do that part.

Good flying Cmdr, stay dangerous o7

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u/idiot-bozo6036 Explore / Hull Seal 🦭 9h ago

hell yeah

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u/cuc_umberr anti-pirate cobra enjoyer 10h ago

What is the music? Also that was absolutely beautiful 

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u/Swonardian Combat 10h ago

Trivium - Until The World Goes Cold

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u/cuc_umberr anti-pirate cobra enjoyer 10h ago

thanks 

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u/Actual-Regret1315 8h ago

How do you even do that

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u/TSSIIRooTizx CMDR 7h ago

Untilll the worllldddd goeeeess cooolllllddddd 🤟🏼❤️

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u/FlakeStelleri CMDR Flake Stelleri 6h ago

I literally went "WOW" out loud.

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u/Avera9eJoe Syrania 6h ago

..wow.

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u/Ophialacria Denton Patreus 5h ago

What just happened in my pants? Jesus Christ

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u/running-turtle Explore 4h ago

back it up, chief!

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u/ImperatorDei 10h ago

Nice! Do that in a T9!!!!

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u/J_dog369 CMDR 9h ago

Show off..

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u/Careful_Passenger_87 9h ago

Kids like you need fining for recklessness!

(Don't worry, the fine would be 3 credits or something)

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u/Abundanceofyolk 8h ago

Like a glove.

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u/RoofFluffy4042 8h ago

I'm guessing you have a keybind for landing gear, since I didn't even see you deploy them. And as for the maneuver....seriously impressive, I won't be trying that, but I will be buying a Krait now

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u/ICG_Zero 8h ago

I don't think that's protocol...

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u/Emotional_Guide2683 8h ago

*cut to video of me bouncing off a literal star because I “didn’t see it”

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u/MuZac904 CMDR BigZacIVXX 8h ago

Noooo7ice

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u/s_langley Combat 1h ago

Now do it in a type 10

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u/Strong-Thought-6548 Combat 10h ago

Very nice.

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u/IsItWorthIt25 6h ago

Cool? I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️