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So, my current system is built on a mobo I bought in Nov 2010, so maybe it's time I looked at an upgrade.

I like my systems to be upgradable, rather than be the best of the best out of the gate, so I'm thinking........

ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS (No WiFi)
Ryzen 3600 (Stock Cooler)
G.Skill Trident Z Neo (2x16 DDR4-PC3600 CAS16)
Sabrent Rocket HTSK 4.0 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME

and maybe a second drive

Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME

There will need to be a case, something not too flashy and I will be transplanting my RX570-8gb initially, I also have a CX750M PSU sat waiting.

A hoodie sounds good.

Are we assuming zip fronted jacket ones and not over the head, I don't like raising my arms above the height required to neck a pint.

Damnit, I meant to click on the "And the horse you rode in on" button and hit the wrong one.

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Yes. I miss your company :crying:

Seek help!

Ow much....... £28 for an expansion pass, I had no idea it would cost that much, I won't pay.

Do I have to buy this then....... or should I just find some other way to stress myself out and feed my anger issues.

Argos seem to have an offer of at the moment.

G920, G29 and a racing stand for £200.

Currently on offer at Currys with code.

£13 today on CDKeys

https://www.cdkeys.com/xbox-live/games/sea-of-thieves-xbox-one

Less than £15 today on special, so grabbed it just in case.

CD-Keys

Still on 1803, not been offered any updates yet.

I'm just playing solo to blow out the cobwebs and get use to Queeg again. I need to look into the new scanner modes and the mining. Looks, like they've at least redone the signals and component collection.

I also wasn't present during the Thargoid fun, I last played during the ruin scanning runs and crashed relics.

Apparently can take you a good 6 months to earn enough to buy some of the skins.

Limit on ARX earning per week (refreshed Thursdays) is 400. I managed to earn 10 just by firing the game up, then you just play normally and earn it as an additional reward, looks like ARX is added on your next session login.

Frontier are giving away the original Elite again for PC and MAC.

Available from the store

They also have a ship bobblehead available in their new ARX in-game store for 1 ARX. It's a hologram of the original retro Thargoid mothership.

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Not sure what it takes to earn ARX, but I logged in to find I have an initial balance of 0.

I tend to play the releases and liked doing a few missions.

But hover mode stopped me playing, in its latest release it's overly sensitive and sends you spinning off into structures or the ground, in its first iteration it took you minutes to land as vertical thrust in a Reliant was a few feet a minute.

The first release of the police had the ED209 bug, they stopped you for search and told you to halt. So you halt, "Warning stop now or we will open fire", Erm.... I'm stopped, "right this is your final warning", do I need to take the keys out or open a window?, "That's it your going down", wait, what, Boom!

Once they ditch Hover Mode I'll be back in again.

Some pics.

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Both ships anchored to the station.

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Sunburst

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Floating outside the cargo bay of the big ship.

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Main flight deck of the big ship.

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Cargo bay in the big ship, can be de-pressurised to open up the front ramp door.

First thoughts after a week or so of playing the single player.

It's not ready yet, massively buggy in single player and I can imagine it's a game killer in multiplayer........

That being said it's actually really good fun, but the bugs just make it a constant pain. Constant freezing and crashing, storyline triggers requiring relogging and poorly optimised code. Luckily the single player game does do autosaves periodically.

The poor optimisation is what has stopped me at the moment, I've got myself a medium sized station built and a couple of ships but the game seems to hate playing with more than 9 or 10 modules in the area. Lots of complaints on the forums about this as well.

So whenever I undock from the base and attempt to align to the next warp point in the storyline the game goes into stop motion and then freezes. Tried it in both ships and it's like 2fps then freeze. CPU, memory and GPU are fine it looks like something in the code is having a fit, in EVA mode you can move around quite smoothly. So I'm trapped at my base at the moment.

Hopefully they will get it all sorted because I'd say it's akin to "Subnautica" in space otherwise. A bit of resource gathering and mining to get basic building items, pilfer a few modules from derelict space stations to build your own base. Use your fabricator to de-construct items to learn the blueprint and then you can replicate them yourself. Oxygen isn't really a problem for too long, there's no food to worry about, so survival wise it's pretty simple. Once you can make carbon filters for your ship and base it purifies and recycles the air for a long time.

Probably the hardest thing to get at the moment is Nitrogen, which you need to create the base atmosphere to pressurise the ships and base modules, although I have started finding objects that require other metals and elements to build, which I assume or on asteroids I've not visited yet.