Elite dangerous horizons launch date

[Lameduck]

Thanks guys, the Christmas Fairy did a re-install of Horizons and 'File Validation' sorted the 64  bit ED.:yahoo:

[albert]

Exactly what I did Bob, works great now. I have to say I really am liking the planetary landings. It's sort of quite a nervy moment when you come out of super cruise into the Glide state and it says your at too steep a trajectory. I imagine it's scary in a small ship.

I want to master stealth flying to do some of the smuggling missions, 4 million credits reward. Arithon advised me that there is no chance of completing them if you are planning on just doing a dash for the letter box, there's always a ship waiting to scan you.

[Sn00ks]

I want to master stealth flying to do some of the smuggling missions, 4 million credits reward. Arithon advised me that there is no chance of completing them if you are planning on just doing a dash for the letter box, there's always a ship waiting to scan you.

Can't you just do the usual high speed entry to avoid scanning even though they are lurking?

[albert]

That is still possible for normal belt and breeches get into port. But when not getting scanned could earn you 15 mill CR and they drop a cop at your tail when you come out of super cruise at the station, you have to go silent.

They've made it interesting for sure.

[ArithonUK]

The particular mission was smuggling to an outpost, but when you arrive (after a 19,0000 Ls trip) a Viper spawns right behind you. If you get this mission have chaff ready and as soon as the little tike spawns, chaff and boost to the outpost and land before the so-and-so gets another scan lock.

I didn't have chaff equipped on my Asp, so 300Ly + 19,000Ls trip wasted and 3.9M cr lost!

[albert]

The particular mission was smuggling to an outpost, but when you arrive (after a 19,0000 Ls trip) a Viper spawns right behind you. If you get this mission have chaff ready and as soon as the little tike spawns, chaff and boost to the outpost and land before the so-and-so gets another scan lock.

I didn't have chaff equipped on my Asp, so 300Ly + 19,000Ls trip wasted and 3.9M cr lost!

I read a bunch of posts yesterday and everyone stated that chaff has no effect on saving you from a scan, you need to go silent immediately and the non-cargo ships, the smaller the better are more likely to get through.

Anyways, Elite: Dangerous is a tenner https://www.frontierstore.net/eur/games/elite-dangerous-cat.html and there's a tenner discount on the Horizons expansion!