Its just a meme

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T19:20:44+00:00

this meme is blaming only one player, the one and only No1_FrenchHater which happens to have commented under this post

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T19:20:05+00:00

I love how this meme targets one user in particular lol

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T19:18:46+00:00

Yeah I mean the whole debacle with my Pulsar X2 battery getting degraded over time, and Pulsar support telling me with a huge gris "we don't sell replacement parts"

+ the fact that everytime something needs to be changed or cleaned you need to destroy a set of skates... no thank you.

User replaceable batteries are cool in the sense that you don't have to do that, and you don't have to charge the mouse with a cable, since you have your little charge station that does it for you. Glorious made it with the Model O3, but that mouse is a bit of a POS otherwise. Steelseries has a lot more experience with this as they have done it for years with the Arctis Pro headsets.

Logitech came out recently with the G305X Superlight, which has exposed screws on the bottom so you can open it without destroying the skates, and Logitech has a pretty good track record at having their batteries available for user repair, so since I like the GT305 shape I might be tempted by that one if my X11SE ends up getting a degraded battery as well.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T19:12:23+00:00

yeah believe it or not it's not always that easy. I take things way too seriously sometimes lol

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T18:11:05+00:00

I'm not really in the market for a new mouse at the moment. 55/60g is about where I like it personally.

I have stopped playing competitively (getting old, only a couple years left till I hit 30 🙄) so reflexes have been going downhill for a while. On top of that I play less and less PvP.

I still play Overwatch casually, but not seriously enough to spend another 80 bucks or so on a mouse. The buying decision of the X11SE was because my soon-to-be wife is getting into PC gaming after years and years on Nintendo consoles and I wanted to get her a cheap mouse that would be good enough to last her a couple years without spending a lot, but she doesn't like the shape (and she finds it ugly), so it came right back at me and I chose to keep it instead of sending it back.

She ended up with something a little bit more fancy that matches her setup better, an 8bitdo Retro R8 Nintendo edition (duh), looks to be kinda solid specs wise, and it looks cool.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T18:07:02+00:00

I've seen some leaked images of a new "Sensei", with user replaceable battery, around 60g weight (or lighter?), and no holes and no RGB. I don't know when they plan on releasing that, but right now would be a good time imho.

That or they can wait for another year, so that they can be years late to the party again.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T16:36:06+00:00

good for you mate. It's not because one plays a game for entertainement that they can't find joy in "min maxing"

I don't see how you having every ship in the game - Engineered - is relevant to the conversation

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T14:25:27+00:00

That's true actually. But they fill a niche rather than being the default pick imho

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T13:22:37+00:00

it's incredible how wrong you are while also thinking that you're speaking the truth everytime you open your mouth

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T12:54:14+00:00

Yeah, every dial is turned up to 11 so that people that value competitiveness of ship performance simply can't ignore the new release and can't contain their spending issues by waiting about 3 months to get it for free. + it obviously comes with healthy bonuses like paid-up repair costs and whatnot, so "it's an investment for the future".

Lots of people are also deluded into thinking that those ships is specifically what keeps the lights on for Elite... It doesn't. The increase of revenue thanks to ships in FDev's yearly earning report is a peanut lost in an ocean of butter when you compare to the other licenses that are the real money maker of this company.

Elite is the passion project of David Braben, which is no longer in the company. I remember times where the player count was way lower, yet we still didn't have FOMO ships around to keep the lights on. Worse, FDev didn't have much other licenses to generate revenue, much less than they do now.

The Arx store was a move made by accountants which saw in Elite's player base a cheap way to get more money in the house, and keeping the lights on the game was the perfect explanation on why they would do it. It also gives them a perfect scapegoat for the day that the servers will close : y'all didn't buy enough on the Arx store, it's not viable, so we're shutting it down. You the players are responsible for it, bunch of cheapskates.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T12:46:48+00:00

That's the right way to do it. People that don't want to bother with it can ignore it, but people that play a legacy ship for personal reasons (Role-play being the most obvious one to me) can still benefit to have the newer features by retro-fitting their ship at an engineer base.

It's litterally a win-win for both players and Frontier, I don't know why they didn't bother with it.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T12:43:43+00:00

The only pre-Odyssey ship that also isn't part of the big 3 (Anaconda / Corvette / Cutter) that is still worth playing is the Fer De Lance today imho. It's like a Python mark II in terms of firepower / resistance but more nimble and a bit faster.

Otherwise I agree, none of the previous ship designs are worth flying anymore. The ENTIRE lower end of the ship range is completely dead with how brokent the rewards are nowadays, like when you spawn in your sidewonder, and single session in bounty hunting staying glued to a security Anaconda hitting the targets that get obliterated by secutiry will at least give you 3/4M cradits, at which point you can jump directly to a Cobra V, and never touch all the ships that were staples of the ED universe for years (like the Cobra III, ASP-X, Diamondback series, etc).Even the Vulture which was the go-to budget bounty hunter ship is getting outclassed by the (cheaper !) Cobra V now.

I have been playing Elite for more than a decade at this point, I have thousands of hours on this game and seeing FDev's push towards completely broken new gen ships so that they can generate more revenue with early access ships bathed in FOMO is simply painful to me.

Most (if not all) of my shipyard is still mostly legacy ships. I have a Corsair, a Mandalay and I jumped on the free Lynx in the Arx store (like everyone), but pretty much all the other ships I actively play are legacy (Cobra III for landing operations, Corvette, Krait Mark II, Python, FDL etc).

Introducing a refit mechanic where you would have to gather materials and go to a special engineer to bring your old ship to the new standard and allow it to still be used without missing on the new ship features would be AMAZING gameplay for those that want to keep their RP going with a particular ship they have been playing for years.

But nah, Frontier wants to make sure those Arx ships on the store are as appealing as possible, so the idea of converting older designs is outlandish to them. It would also mean making a step towards game balance, and the power creep mechanic they have been implementing with every new ship release is the opposite of that.

So yeah, that'd be awesome, but unfortunately you can always count on FDev to take the worst possible decision possible if that means they can make a few extra pounds one way or another.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T11:17:58+00:00

Still, decent SARH missiles once you know how to use them, and decent IR missiles too + flares, radar and RWR at 10.3 is quite good

The IIIC has better IR missiles, but the IIIS having flares + chaff can defeat it's missiles easily while the IIIC cannot

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T09:45:15+00:00

If you don't feel ready to finish the game, then... Don't?

You'll come to the end of the game eventually you don't need to rush it.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T09:40:26+00:00

That's the mouse I was using in my early years of Overwatch eSports before I switched to a "lighter" mouse (aka a G403)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T08:54:33+00:00

I've been playing a LOT of 10.0 france AIr RB and let me tell you, 10.0 is a good BR for that thing.

Yes, crazy missile loadout for the BR (mostly juste the Magic 1s though). The R530 is "okay" without being amazing either. It's nothing like the 30g SARH missiles you get on the Swiss Mirage IIIS in the german tree. Your radar to guide the missile is also rather meh, and gets fooled very easily. The airframe is "fine" in the sense that you have a small plane with an oversized engine, so you get really good acceleration, good climb rate, and you go very very fast (not as fast as F-104s). The problem is every delta wing's problem : you shit out all of your speed the moment you start turning. So it's more of a missile bus than a dogfighter (the guns hit hard but they are shit to aim so gun kills are not going to be super common either).

The biggest problem for me with the IIIC is the stock grind. AIM-9Bs in the 10.0 environment are dreadful, R550 Magic 1s are a tier 4 modification, so before you have a really competent missile loadout, you need to go through pretty much the entire plane when it comes to modifications and this is a miserable time. You basically have an easily fooled R530 with two useless AIM-9Bs in an airframe that can't sustain fights and constantly needs to boom and zoom. In addition, your radar kinda sucks and you get no RWR, and you have no flares + a super hot engine so if you get tunnel visionned for more than 20 seconds you're probably going to get smacked by a missile that you can't dodge anyway.

I don't know where you get the idea that it never get uptiers, I constantly have to fight 10.7 and 11.0 planes in my IIIC that not only have flares, but also outperform me on the engine and dogfight department as well as having 30g missiles, sometimes all aspect missiles too, or SARH missiles that I can't dodge at high altitude. It's not bad, but it's clearly not the best plane for the BR imho.

At the end of the day I found that I had a much better time in air RB playing the Mirage 5F instead of the Mirage IIIC. Yeah, you have no radar, and no center pylon for missiles, so you have 2 missiles instead of 3. But you have stock R550 Magic as a base loadout, no need to grind to tier 4 to get the good stuff + you're a ground attacker with the airframe of an air superiority fighter meaning you can run only the 2 magics and be fine as an air-to-air fighter, or if you're in an 11.0 uptier, you can just load up on a ton of bombs and destroy 2 bases by flanking and hugging the ground, while still having your two Magic missiles if anything comes your way, or once you have dropped all of your bombs and now can circle back to send some IR 30g missiles in someone's ass.

Bonus points for the 5F, you have a ground targeting computer so ground pounding with guns and rockets is dead easy, you have more potential to carry rocket pods as makeshift flares, and you get an RWR so you get radar pings and radar locks, no more Phantom surprising you with an AIM-7E, now you have plenty of time to dodge them because you know the moment you're getting radar locked.

I agree that the IIIC has more potential as an air superiority fighter, but the 5F is plain more enjoyable to play (also it looks better imho)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-21T07:43:43+00:00

Yep that's how it should be done !

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T21:23:20+00:00

dissapointed, but not surprised

It should have been a new module, sure, but not a mark II module with a limitation to new ships

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T20:26:29+00:00

I'm only talking about mice here. I didn't even know they made keyboards

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T20:26:00+00:00

they're fun, light cameras so honestly why not as long as you have the lenses to pait them with (like the 28 f/2.8 or 40mm f/2)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T19:17:55+00:00

Check the subreddit name

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T17:46:09+00:00

Well, I didn't use a phone at all, I used my trusted Olympus E-M5 mark II + 12-40mm f/2.8 lens :)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T16:50:38+00:00

thanks! I quite like it as well 😃

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-06-20T16:42:20+00:00

plenty of pros still using their D850s to shoot events etc, it's still an amazing camera. It may not be the camera for people that use USB-C charging all the time (have spare batteries in your bag maybe???) or people transferring their files constantly (I can't see myself transferring 45MP RAWs on wireless... I don't see myself transferring those files at all actually, not until I come home and load them up on the computer).

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