Alright Commanders listen up, I think this is Hawkes Gaming 3rd video on how to have the best start in Elite Dangerous so pay attention because he knows his stuff. Been watching him for years and helped me get started when I was very lost years ago. I love this game and thank you Hawkes for your service to my favorite space game. o7 Commanders
This is a great guide for what to do but a terrible guide for how to do it. I need a separate guide to figure out how to do half the stuff in this video.
Nope training use to be basic controls and then throws you to the wolves like Good Luck Commander! May have changed now since Odyssey but game was brutal
@@rubadubdubb but that's half the fun! It's amazing how many times I've had to dig through every second of the first few minutes for the things I missed.... 😅
This should be called "how to win the game" - bought it 7 days ago and have learned everything by working through this video, and searching things when I'm stuck. Almost to the cutter....shuttling metals back and forth for that $1B is the grindiest thing so far...so happy for this guide and LOVE the exploration side of this game.
The information here is all top-notch, however timestamps for important segments, or chapters would be greatly appreciated, as I often can't find the info i'm looking for when scrubbing through the video to the part I need
Ive only been playing this game for 4 days, and your guides have helped me every step of the way, i managed to earn a lot of CR and have made a few of my very own footfall which feels so amazing, and now im driving the asp explorer which is such a great ship. Thank you so much for these videos
@commander_maddogtheog Hi! I started like 3 days ago and spend arround 10...15h for bio-sacns and returned with 250.000.000cr worth of bio-data. since i made a mistake i had to return to the bubble tho. i coulld have made much more if i coulld have stayed. easy to get the first footfalls once you are like 1000ly from the bubble now i just aqirded the fse-booster-blueprint.
I love that you do these every year or so... so helpful. Even for old players there are so many basic things I've forgot over the years. This is really helpful. Thank you for making this!
Just got Elite trader after 3 days from scratch, best tutorial ever, thank you so much man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
I can consider myself an Elite veteran at this point with 5 accounts and all of them with Fleet Carriers and boat load of money but I'm still here watching Hawkes' video, why? because believe me, he freaking now his stuff, how do you think I did all my grinding on all of those accounts? yes, by following Hawkes' tips. Consider this video as a shortcut to mid-game, without this, you will be flying around aimlessly in space, unless that's what you're really going for, then it's fine. o7 commanders, see you in space.
Im a returning Vr commander and since i’ve never played odyssey This is perfect. Thank you commander ! (And for those that are interested they have optmized the game in the last year, and my average laptop can now run odyssey in VR which was far from possible previously)
Elite commander here Hawkes but wanted you to know I watched anyway and liked the video. Even I learned a few new tricks. Thank you for all that you do brother. I can’t be the only one with a Robigo python named Hawkes.
I was sitting at my comp bored. And thought I wonder if Elite Dangerous is still around from being a kick starter back in '14 I'm glad to see the game is still evolving. I'm coming back looks fun still.. Thanks for the video it helped me.
guys disable drive assist on srv. it'll feel much better to drive. man i started loving srv after disabling that shit. and rebind the forward and backwards to w and s just like any other normal vehicles
Just in time for a couple of personal friends interested in playing. I showed them some of your recent stuff too! And some older stuff that helped me explain some of the hidden fun behind the top layer of Elite. Always excited to see an upload brother!!!!
this game looks fun. i want to enjoy it. so far i've yet to complete a mission. no guidance on what to do. gonna try to follow this guide, but it's honestly all just too much for me.
By faaaaar THE best ED tutorials. I've been playing for 2 weeks, and while I got pretty good at dogfights and planet encouters, your ways made me more money in 4 hours than I did in my 80 previous hours. Hats off to you, sir!
Great video as always CMDR. Re the guardian pylons, I learnt very early on that it's easier (for me) to drive around and raise all the pylons first. Then it's easier to find them when you zoom round doing a speed lap to charge each one after against the timer. I always start from the 2 at the alter and zoom round charging all the others. Just calling this out as most guides show each pylon being raised and charged at the same time, and could give new users the impression it HAS to be done this way. o7
I’ve been a console commander for years and I’m using this vid to prepare to finally make the leap to Odyssey, seeing Felicity Farseer in person was a jumpscare lmao
@@theodore7313 your not wrong. You will get there. If I could give a piece of advice. Don't chase high specs, a mid tier pc with say an i7 10700k and a 3060 or the amd equivalent will be very solid for the average gamer
Hello Commander, once again, another excellent and brilliant video for Elite Dangerous. What we will do without YOU. We miss you so much. I hope more videos are coming soon my dear friend. You are an inspiration. No more words than THAT.
What are the chances you can do a more in depth video of expansion farming for the boom trading very interested in this. However have not been able to replicate this.
Thanks for the guide, Commander. Also FYI, had a big brain moment and also forgot the Galvanized Alloys - but, there was a station 1 jump away that solved all my problems. o7
Used play elite on Ps4... Had over 1000 hours in twelve months... Had all the ships i wanted... Corvette, anaconda, python, vulture etc etc... All fitted out to grade five maxed out.. Completed trips to colonia and Sag A*... Not to mention reached triple elite... Absolutely loved the game then got fucked over by Frontier not giving a shit about console so over early Odyssey release played less and less till I couldn't justify putting any more time in... Anyhow long story short bought an x box series x twelve months ago (late to the party, 😂) had a moment of madness and bought elite again... Cant even transfer my progress wtf... Now sitting in my entry level sidewinder... I just cant do it all again... I need therapy 😂😂
@salvagegamer7743 thanks but I already went ahead and bought it lol. It runs fine on high graphics on my laptop lol. Meanwhile x4 foundations barely runs on low graphics. Anyway, I'm loving the game. It better not die anytime soon.
Why wouldn't you give us amounts to buy at the material trader at 19:14? This guide is very helpful but as a new player you are glaring over some very needed explanations.
Great content as always, I followed you regularly few years back. I stopped playing when odyssey came out because my computer was not good enough for it. I thought you had moved also away from elite. Anyway. Couple of questions. 1) why do you select player faction. 2) why select economy as agriculture when in the end you are doing missions like bertrandite that I believe are triggered by the industrial economy and not agriculture. As you can see, I'm confused
I just flew to the HIP 98878 galaxy and I'm at the star. I did the 75% slow down key but I don't see how to find the pirates. It looks like you have an extraction site targeted and are in an asteroid belt, but I don't see that anywhere. What did I do wrong? Trying to find the pirates in the beginning of the video.
Trial and Error'd this one. Look for a planet HIP 98878 2 in the system map and target it. Start heading for it and mouse over the little brown circle contacts as you get close to the rings around it. Those will start showing up as extraction sites, also gives a quality rating. You want High or Hazard for best pirate results. Once you drop out, look for a lot of blinking lines flashing towards a single point, it's usually a target surrounded by the system authority. Oh, and don't ignore the "wait til under 20%" part, I got a little over-confident, and they shaved 22% of my hp off before I learned my lesson there. Once you get the hang of it, kill stealing from the system authority is pretty decent cash.
@@BrianComradovichRadovichGot all that. Found a hazardous and a high. Zero combat at either 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ just tons of ships flying around doing nothing ….. aaaaand this is why I quit playing this game the last time 🫡
@@BrianComradovichRadovich Thanks mate. I was in the same position. Ice Fields in the video but I'm sitting here looking at a star. Great video but would have been nice if he left that part in.
I can't seem to find the right faction. I've tried several times, but each faction only has a few missions for 40-50kk, and once I finish them, they don't appear anymore. How to find the right faction, can you please help me? I'm stuck there.
Just started playing ED for the first time and have no idea how I slept on this game! Playing with a dual joystick setup is so awesome. I imagine playing in VR would be next level.
i REALLY dont understand the entire faction expansion part. Can you make a detailed video about how to do you "research"? all those buzzwords dont help a new player.
Not sure what you mean by buzzwords. When Im explaining exactly what I show on screen. I have an older video on making billions that also does expansion. It'll be the same information but maybe a bit more.
Always a great guide, Just reset my 2nd account and will be looking at following this guide - Will you be updating you material and engineering guide following the new update?
37:23 guys if your local rep isn’t going up after selling cartographics, you need to exit to main menu and go back in just like hawkes did. But he didn’t say anything abt that so i was confused for a few minutes
Im just about to get started on this guide after getting back into the game following a few years off. Given that theres new FSD’s and engineering has been changed, is there anything i should do differently from the guide? Thank you for all the help by the way!!! o7
I usually don’t make comments without finishing a video, so apologies if this was addressed later. It just really stood out to me in the first few minutes and I wasn’t seeing any addendum or correction forthcoming there. Was this filmed a month or two ago? Why are you recommending a 2A FSD instead of the 2A SCO FSD which is outright much stronger than the 2A (SCO size 2’s actually get the strongest relative boost to jump range over standard) and includes the SCO feature which makes exobiology and DSS scanning *much* more engaging (and faster)? For just about 300k total I got a new start friend into a 22-24 (can’t remember the exact number) light year per-jump sidewinder, which was enough for them to easily get the 100k-1mil exploration systems right by chandler’s rest. For some reason it seems some systems near there give exploration data on all planets simply for entering the system (which I don’t get anymore after getting some ranks, so not sure if it’s a bug or some new player help feature) which lets you get the funds for a DSS basically immediately, and an Artemis suit, from which you can DSS the several earthlike or terraformed earthlikes in nearby pilot’s federation systems for additional easy exploration data starting funds. Definitely more than enough for the hauler let alone going straight up to a DBX or Asp (though without doing some extra work wouldn’t recommend it, think you don’t have enough to fully outfit the asp, probably enough for the DBX). The Erravate system is pretty near to the horizon’s starter area and the odyssey one, sort of halfway between them, and has a 1.7m exploration payout from DSS the ELW and HMCs, and has a planet with fonticula (3.7m or something like that) and bacteria (we couldn’t easily find the bacteria though, so didnt spend time gathering it). With SCO the whole process basically just took as long as the DSS mini game takes, which is pretty quick with a tutorial going over the basics, per planet. Aside from the fonticula, which requires doing exobiology. All of this data is from helping a friend learn game mechanics over this last weekend (2024-05-31 range).
I think you're right about the SCO and the filming being done a few months ago. It says supercut, so it seems like this is more of a cut of a "Get a Fleet Carrier ASAP" challenge run - which is also cool. But it's hardly a 2024 beginners guide if it doesn't at least mention SCO. I can't see any drawbacks to it so I was hoping he would address it.
@@EnderGraff1 SCO drives have two incredibly niche drawbacks, three of you count being a little more expensive than the non-SCO class A drive (and even that gets countered by the fact a class *D* SCO drive is usually as strong as a class *A* non-SCO drive, while being significantly cheaper). 1) You can’t undersize an SCO drive, some people have use cases where they extremely want to be as light as possible for real space top speed and so will equip the smallest FSD possible for their use to cut mass as much as possible. You can’t do that with an SCO drive. 2a) The SCO drives are not better than the class 6 and 7 (if a class 7 existed) pre-engineered FSD drives in jump range, ever so slightly. In exchange having the SCO feature though. 2b) Additionally, the SCO drives in jump range are not better than a pre-engineered FSD of *any* size, except the size 2 iirc (which doesn’t have a pre-engineered anyway), for the same amount of fuel. I.e. they’re not as fuel efficient. The only reason they slightly beat out the max jump range for sizes between 3 and 5 is because of being able to use more fuel at max range. So if you really cared about economical plotting, doing a series of as short as possible hops, and had a pre-engineered drive for your ship size, you could choose to use that over the SCO drive technically. They’re all pretty niche though as you can see, and mostly only apply to the double engineered drive which only the class 5 would even be available to a new player, the others being from past CGs only.
Great video, very helpful. I do have a couple of questions though. When researching the player faction how can you tell that they are likely to have the missions for Bertrandite etc. and do they start to appear when Expansion is pending or do you have to wait until they are in Expansion?
Is any of this even relevant if you don't have Odyssey? I haven't played in years so I was looking for a refresher. All of this is completely alien to me, though.
Great guide! I do have a question about the FSD, why not SCO? It seems like its always nice to have the option and I don't see any drawbacks if you just don't use SCO if you're low on fuel.
Hey man thanks for the guide, it's been very helpful so far. Except the part where you have to select a player faction to ally with. Can you elaborate on how to choose them, I tried inara search with the same params, but when I arrive at the station they don't have those fat 50mil missions like you showed. 15 million is the max that I saw. You said "Do the research to make it worth while", how do I do that?
I am brand new to this game. How do I know the person is a pirate, when I scan it says wanted is that it?? And no one else is attacking so how do I wait for the health to go low
You just point your ship at the other ship, target lock on, and let it scan on it's own. With better scanners it goes faster. If no one else is fighting the pirate, you're on your own! Ether try to fight and maybe other friendlies will show up, or just flee. In FSD flight, look for "Weapons Fire" signals. Those are usually good guys fighting a bad guy, so to speak. "Conflict" though is usually two factions fighting, so unless you don't mind getting a bad rep hit with one faction, (picking a side), avoid those signals. Also, if you come out of FSD close to a busy planet/moon, especially one with resources for mining, there is often s little battle or two going on between a pirate and a 'good guy'. Hey I'm a relatively new player too.
Like @yourdonefor4454 said, after scanning them (singular) it will show "wanted". Then you should either fight, or run away. If you're referring to CMDR Hawke's statement to wait for others to bring their >(singular) shields down, if no one else (NPC's) are fighting then you are on your own. If the pirate is not attacking you, as soon as you attack, then they>(singular) will attack back. In a generic sidewinder I would recommend retreating. Remember this, a friendly will show up as green, a neutral as yellow, a hostile enemy as red. I made the mistake early on thinking that ment health, so I was attacking the green. Oops! 😆
In the beginning you said to play in solo mode. Then later you posted on screen that if you run out of gas, call the fuel rats. But the rats can only help you if you play on the live server. Perhaps you need to say that you switched to live server at some point? If you did, i must have missed it. sorry!
Well if you play in solo and run out of gas you just contact the rats, log out to menu, log back into the game in open, then you just wait for the rats to show up.
A rehash of an already great tutorial, great work man. I used your other guides when i first started. Thanks for the info even I didnt know. keep it up :)
I am kinda stuck at the start where i go and have to "wait" before i kill those pirates for bounty... the problem is that they aren't fighting... or if they are... there are 3-4-5 pirates vs. 1 ship....
You know, trying to follow all of this is tough. One part of the video you give an actual list on screen with exact number. another part you just rattle it off quickly with no exact numbers, just this isn't enough so i'm going to get a few more. The material trader part of the game is confusing, being able to trade multiple types of materials for various amounts. I have no idea what's a good deal or a bad deal. I ended up having to go back to HIP 12099 because even though I maxed out what I got there it wasn't enough for the amount you listed on the screen. -- and i'm not even half way though the process.
How do I know when I've scanned enough lifeforms and it's time to go back to civilization? I'm like fifty jumps away from the nearest station and I'd rather not make that whole trip back only to find out I didn't make enough money
So I’ve done everything up to the step where you farm the wake emissions with the limpets in the aspe explorer right before you go to the engineer for the fsd. Due to space greed(and not paying attention) I sold all of my cartographic data so I’ll need to go out and do another big run of scans. But because I did a big run initially I have 250k so I was thinking I could buy an Anaconda since I can and it gets me the best jump range and I’ll have the upgraded fsd. And then with that I’ll grind out a road to riches trip or two in the anaconda with some exobiology. That or I could save my money do it all in the Asp explorer and have a boatload of money for later when I want to rank up in the federation for that corvette. Any ideas on what I should do?
New player trying to follow along with you. Went to system HIP 98878 and I can't find any pirates engaged in battle, I've been going back and forth between locations in the system for a few hours and I'm just wasting my time. Sad times
I went through the same thing when I first did this a year ago. The trick I found was to fly around at medium to high speed and keep an eye on the radar display. Eventually a few triangles would pop up (most times it's miners or a few space cops), and fly towards that vicinity. Then scan every ship nearby which would lead to either me finding a pirate, or continuing my search elsewhere and repeat. Hopefully this helps 👍
Now i just need hawkes to do an up to date vid on fed rank. Been working on mine far too ling and all the methods ive seen or found dont work that well haha
The one I showed a while back is sadly still one of the best options. You mostly have to wait for the system to go into boom though to really make it worth your while doing. If it's not in boom then it is really painfully slow like everything else.
@@HawkesGaming awwhhh man that really blows. I picked up the game again after like 4 years and transfered all my stuff over to PC. Hit elite in trade off your older best start through deep core mining. Was hoping there's new strats for fed rank cause its terribly slow. But oh well, stay on the grind ig haha.
I've heard people mention the bubble so much but I've yet to hear anyone explain it or what areas are outside of it, could you please go into more detail?
Human occupied space with stations and a population of people. Not all system in the bubble will have planets or a space station but for the most part thats the rule. It is a circle area several light years out from Sol in a bubble shape. Everything outside of that besides a few exceptions way far away do not have any stations or people.
The problem with this is that you have to go further and further to find anything unexplored these days. I still prefer the mining methods after the initial High RES thing. Also I find it much more enjoyable than finding life.
Agreed. This is a great method, with the exception you just mentioned. I've been flying around for the last 8 hours and not one "First Footfall". Don't get me wrong, you can still make the 140 million that Hawkes made here, which is a lot. Now you just have to do the drive twice and that is a whole lot of jumping. At this point, what you may as well do is, do all this same stuff going out, changing your return destination, and then do it again coming back. That way, it's only one long trip. There's no cause to do this run more than you have to do.
@@captain_narthex9550 I don't think people understand you get 20 mil per planet right beside where you start. You don't need to go anywhere. It's a waste of time.
Well I mean I went from a sidewinder to a fleet carrier in 7 days as well as the full material grind. A week to beat a game even for me is not that much of a grind. If anything it should take longer to achieve this IMO but alas here we are.
I tried to get the Guardian Module Blueprint for 4 hours, and have no luck. Scanned the Ancient Data Terminal over and over again and got nothing but the codex entry message.
the SIDEWINDER IS A GOOD SHIP!!!! HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A BOX OF CLEANEX?!?!?! I have seen some CRAZY ass builds with that little thing... was kinda funny tho 🤣
this is a great guide but i wish you had more information on how to properly identify systems for the expansion trading.. i've been to 4 different player factions that all meet the criteria you gave (and also to mahlanja for posterity) and I couldnt see any of these extremely high payout missions in any station. do you need to be at least friendly to see ally missions? the biggest payout i saw was like a 6 mil expansion mission
@@ThunderD83 but why is it Hawkes is able to see the 50m boom mission, albeit grayed out, BEFORE he's allied in this video? (38:17) Also I recently allied with some player factions through normal A-B-A trading who were in expansion and never saw these missions either.
It's embarrassing to need an out of game resource within the first 5 minutes of the video :( In Elite Dangerous you can't look at the galaxy map to filter ships or modules. In 2024 you can't look up module/ship availability via in game methods. I wonder why? The data exists otherwise the out of game resources won't exist either so why can't FDEV provide that functionality in game?
It took me from start to finish 7 days to get to this point from a fresh save. You do realize that's not a lot of time to get that deep into Elite right?
@@HawkesGamingi got horizon for the cobra mk4😂 and played 750 hours since and i don't have anything good, only a couple of engineers, always solo and never saw a thargoid. grind broke me
you forgot to say join open and join squadron who are online. i prefer to be with squadron who like to hunt thargoids. when you are a new player all you have to do is show up and hit the bug and ran away, watch from as other players do it. when you get enough money to buy a good ship, thats when you play solo, and learn slowly. not good idea to fly around sidewinder even in solo lmao
Okay completely new... how on earth do I scan ships before I attack them? Whenever I head into scanning mode it says "wrong cockpit mode PRESS M" But i did that to enter scanning mode????
Put cursor on them then look at them with cursor still on them it scans automatically. Stay in combat mode you wont need to change. It's just about targeting the ship and looking at it.
hi, I stugle with this. I spend time on 2 systems where is suposed be expansion. I spend lot of time to get alied from all factions. and I never have same results like you. when you have lot of or full of 50mil missions. what Im doing wrong. its really pain duing reputations and spend time for nothing
He said the half-moons represent a landable surface. Then saying that,"In almost every single case life can be found on a planet or moon that has an atmosphere of some type. This is represented by the blue bubble that completely surrounds the landable surface.". With that information 3c is only one with the bubble and not just the half-moon.
What am I missing with these 50 mil expansion missions? Been flying around for two days looking at systems/factions in expansion and I've yet to see anything over about 18 mil.
If you modify your route settings to have only KGBFOAM stars you will always be able to scoop the star. If you turn off the lights of your SRV in low light conditions actually helps spotting things because the rest of the image on your screen will not be dimmed. What if I don't have any friends?
when i try to fight its always like 5-6 pirates trying to blow up one clean ship. if i attack one hes blowing me up in seconds. where am i supose to find these fights where bunch of clean commanders gang up on pirates
Alright Commanders listen up, I think this is Hawkes Gaming 3rd video on how to have the best start in Elite Dangerous so pay attention because he knows his stuff. Been watching him for years and helped me get started when I was very lost years ago. I love this game and thank you Hawkes for your service to my favorite space game. o7 Commanders
07 Commander.
This is a great guide for what to do but a terrible guide for how to do it. I need a separate guide to figure out how to do half the stuff in this video.
@@rubadubdubb wait so the training doesn't tell you how to do any of this?
Nope training use to be basic controls and then throws you to the wolves like Good Luck Commander!
May have changed now since Odyssey but game was brutal
@@rubadubdubb but that's half the fun! It's amazing how many times I've had to dig through every second of the first few minutes for the things I missed.... 😅
This should be called "how to win the game" - bought it 7 days ago and have learned everything by working through this video, and searching things when I'm stuck. Almost to the cutter....shuttling metals back and forth for that $1B is the grindiest thing so far...so happy for this guide and LOVE the exploration side of this game.
The information here is all top-notch, however timestamps for important segments, or chapters would be greatly appreciated, as I often can't find the info i'm looking for when scrubbing through the video to the part I need
Ive only been playing this game for 4 days, and your guides have helped me every step of the way, i managed to earn a lot of CR and have made a few of my very own footfall which feels so amazing, and now im driving the asp explorer which is such a great ship. Thank you so much for these videos
@commander_maddogtheog Hi! I started like 3 days ago and spend arround 10...15h for bio-sacns and returned with 250.000.000cr worth of bio-data. since i made a mistake i had to return to the bubble tho. i coulld have made much more if i coulld have stayed. easy to get the first footfalls once you are like 1000ly from the bubble
now i just aqirded the fse-booster-blueprint.
I love that you do these every year or so... so helpful. Even for old players there are so many basic things I've forgot over the years. This is really helpful. Thank you for making this!
I would recommend fitting the SCO frame shift drives only from now on, it makes life much easier getting around systems.
Just got Elite trader after 3 days from scratch, best tutorial ever, thank you so much man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
You really are talented at serving up the sweet sweet space cheddar. Please, keep up the amazing work!
This one was a lot of work!
I can consider myself an Elite veteran at this point with 5 accounts and all of them with Fleet Carriers and boat load of money but I'm still here watching Hawkes' video, why? because believe me, he freaking now his stuff, how do you think I did all my grinding on all of those accounts? yes, by following Hawkes' tips. Consider this video as a shortcut to mid-game, without this, you will be flying around aimlessly in space, unless that's what you're really going for, then it's fine. o7 commanders, see you in space.
Im a returning Vr commander and since i’ve never played odyssey This is perfect. Thank you commander ! (And for those that are interested they have optmized the game in the last year, and my average laptop can now run odyssey in VR which was far from possible previously)
Elite commander here Hawkes but wanted you to know I watched anyway and liked the video. Even I learned a few new tricks. Thank you for all that you do brother. I can’t be the only one with a Robigo python named Hawkes.
I was sitting at my comp bored. And thought I wonder if Elite Dangerous is still around from being a kick starter back in '14 I'm glad to see the game is still evolving. I'm coming back looks fun still.. Thanks for the video it helped me.
Used this guide to finally engineer my fsd and get guardian fsd. Huge help!
Mom get in here! I'm officially a Commander! Thanks for getting me this far Hawkes. God speed!
guys disable drive assist on srv. it'll feel much better to drive. man i started loving srv after disabling that shit. and rebind the forward and backwards to w and s just like any other normal vehicles
picked up my fleet carrier today.... long ass time coming..... now im broke again LOL o7 dude your vids are great
Returned to this game after two years, and fell in love all over again....
7 years for me. I managed to recover my old save, so I'm starting out in an Asp and enjoying getting back into the game.
It's really cool of you to not put in galvanising alloys so we get to make the same mistake as you, thanks!!!
Just in time for a couple of personal friends interested in playing. I showed them some of your recent stuff too! And some older stuff that helped me explain some of the hidden fun behind the top layer of Elite. Always excited to see an upload brother!!!!
Thank you I hope you all have fun together!
Hawkes how many planets did you go to to scan life forms ? Plz also ❤ ur content keep it up
this game looks fun. i want to enjoy it. so far i've yet to complete a mission. no guidance on what to do. gonna try to follow this guide, but it's honestly all just too much for me.
By faaaaar THE best ED tutorials.
I've been playing for 2 weeks, and while I got pretty good at dogfights and planet encouters, your ways made me more money in 4 hours than I did in my 80 previous hours.
Hats off to you, sir!
Great video as always CMDR. Re the guardian pylons, I learnt very early on that it's easier (for me) to drive around and raise all the pylons first. Then it's easier to find them when you zoom round doing a speed lap to charge each one after against the timer. I always start from the 2 at the alter and zoom round charging all the others. Just calling this out as most guides show each pylon being raised and charged at the same time, and could give new users the impression it HAS to be done this way. o7
I’ve been a console commander for years and I’m using this vid to prepare to finally make the leap to Odyssey, seeing Felicity Farseer in person was a jumpscare lmao
LOL I know right? It's like when you first see her you think youre meeting her grandmother instead of her! Kind of scary! haha
What was the time frame for you to go from sidewinder to fleet carrier? And thanks for this ive recently started playing on pc from scratch.
It took warteck and I 6 days but we also did the full material grind as well.
@@HawkesGamingso approximately 12 days solo????
@@Kallivakgames The majority of those 6 days was spent farming engineering materials. We did expansion trading for 2-1/2 days total.
Hhhhhhh if only they didn't stop support for the consoles. Miss this game.
So buy a mid tier pc....
@Kallivakgames working on it lol. I save money only for something to come up....... adulting sucks lol.
@@theodore7313 your not wrong. You will get there. If I could give a piece of advice. Don't chase high specs, a mid tier pc with say an i7 10700k and a 3060 or the amd equivalent will be very solid for the average gamer
@@Kallivakgames thats not mid tier, thats still a high tier pc
@@theodore7313 good luck bro. This game is amazing.
Hello Commander, once again, another excellent and brilliant video for Elite Dangerous. What we will do without YOU. We miss you so much. I hope more videos are coming soon my dear friend. You are an inspiration. No more words than THAT.
Been watching your vids since 2015, great to see you again commander. I hope you and your family are doing well. o7
Can u do a extensive video on what u need for engineering
This is alot of info, thanks. I got the game after watching this video. great job.
I recommend starting the game for the first time in Horizons, you get a ship and start in the start zone, then restart in Odyssey.
Good tip.
What are the chances you can do a more in depth video of expansion farming for the boom trading very interested in this. However have not been able to replicate this.
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Thanks for the guide, Commander. Also FYI, had a big brain moment and also forgot the Galvanized Alloys - but, there was a station 1 jump away that solved all my problems. o7
Used play elite on Ps4... Had over 1000 hours in twelve months... Had all the ships i wanted... Corvette, anaconda, python, vulture etc etc... All fitted out to grade five maxed out.. Completed trips to colonia and Sag A*... Not to mention reached triple elite... Absolutely loved the game then got fucked over by Frontier not giving a shit about console so over early Odyssey release played less and less till I couldn't justify putting any more time in... Anyhow long story short bought an x box series x twelve months ago (late to the party, 😂) had a moment of madness and bought elite again... Cant even transfer my progress wtf... Now sitting in my entry level sidewinder... I just cant do it all again... I need therapy 😂😂
And yet.... just buying a pc was never an option??? A low mid tier pc will run this game fine in 2024
@@Kallivakgames can a PC that can run X4 foundations run Elite Dangerous Odyssey???
@@JTX30000 I run odyssey on an i7 10700 and a rtx 2060. Hope this helps
@@JTX30000I was able to run odyssey on a nitro 5 with low graphics maybe even medium
@salvagegamer7743 thanks but I already went ahead and bought it lol. It runs fine on high graphics on my laptop lol. Meanwhile x4 foundations barely runs on low graphics. Anyway, I'm loving the game. It better not die anytime soon.
Why wouldn't you give us amounts to buy at the material trader at 19:14? This guide is very helpful but as a new player you are glaring over some very needed explanations.
At the turn in you can pause the video.
Really appreciate this and your Elite Dangerous videos. Definitely subbing
Great content as always, I followed you regularly few years back. I stopped playing when odyssey came out because my computer was not good enough for it. I thought you had moved also away from elite. Anyway. Couple of questions. 1) why do you select player faction. 2) why select economy as agriculture when in the end you are doing missions like bertrandite that I believe are triggered by the industrial economy and not agriculture. As you can see, I'm confused
I just flew to the HIP 98878 galaxy and I'm at the star. I did the 75% slow down key but I don't see how to find the pirates. It looks like you have an extraction site targeted and are in an asteroid belt, but I don't see that anywhere. What did I do wrong? Trying to find the pirates in the beginning of the video.
Trial and Error'd this one. Look for a planet HIP 98878 2 in the system map and target it. Start heading for it and mouse over the little brown circle contacts as you get close to the rings around it. Those will start showing up as extraction sites, also gives a quality rating. You want High or Hazard for best pirate results. Once you drop out, look for a lot of blinking lines flashing towards a single point, it's usually a target surrounded by the system authority. Oh, and don't ignore the "wait til under 20%" part, I got a little over-confident, and they shaved 22% of my hp off before I learned my lesson there. Once you get the hang of it, kill stealing from the system authority is pretty decent cash.
@@BrianComradovichRadovichGot all that. Found a hazardous and a high. Zero combat at either 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ just tons of ships flying around doing nothing ….. aaaaand this is why I quit playing this game the last time 🫡
@@BrianComradovichRadovich Thanks mate. I was in the same position. Ice Fields in the video but I'm sitting here looking at a star. Great video but would have been nice if he left that part in.
I can't seem to find the right faction. I've tried several times, but each faction only has a few missions for 40-50kk, and once I finish them, they don't appear anymore. How to find the right faction, can you please help me? I'm stuck there.
Just started playing ED for the first time and have no idea how I slept on this game! Playing with a dual joystick setup is so awesome. I imagine playing in VR would be next level.
Haha, I remember learning this game years ago and i like the way you put it. I would often forget things and be very "space butthurt" 😅
i REALLY dont understand the entire faction expansion part. Can you make a detailed video about how to do you "research"? all those buzzwords dont help a new player.
Not sure what you mean by buzzwords. When Im explaining exactly what I show on screen. I have an older video on making billions that also does expansion. It'll be the same information but maybe a bit more.
Always a great guide, Just reset my 2nd account and will be looking at following this guide - Will you be updating you material and engineering guide following the new update?
37:23 guys if your local rep isn’t going up after selling cartographics, you need to exit to main menu and go back in just like hawkes did. But he didn’t say anything abt that so i was confused for a few minutes
Im just about to get started on this guide after getting back into the game following a few years off. Given that theres new FSD’s and engineering has been changed, is there anything i should do differently from the guide? Thank you for all the help by the way!!! o7
I usually don’t make comments without finishing a video, so apologies if this was addressed later. It just really stood out to me in the first few minutes and I wasn’t seeing any addendum or correction forthcoming there.
Was this filmed a month or two ago? Why are you recommending a 2A FSD instead of the 2A SCO FSD which is outright much stronger than the 2A (SCO size 2’s actually get the strongest relative boost to jump range over standard) and includes the SCO feature which makes exobiology and DSS scanning *much* more engaging (and faster)?
For just about 300k total I got a new start friend into a 22-24 (can’t remember the exact number) light year per-jump sidewinder, which was enough for them to easily get the 100k-1mil exploration systems right by chandler’s rest. For some reason it seems some systems near there give exploration data on all planets simply for entering the system (which I don’t get anymore after getting some ranks, so not sure if it’s a bug or some new player help feature) which lets you get the funds for a DSS basically immediately, and an Artemis suit, from which you can DSS the several earthlike or terraformed earthlikes in nearby pilot’s federation systems for additional easy exploration data starting funds.
Definitely more than enough for the hauler let alone going straight up to a DBX or Asp (though without doing some extra work wouldn’t recommend it, think you don’t have enough to fully outfit the asp, probably enough for the DBX).
The Erravate system is pretty near to the horizon’s starter area and the odyssey one, sort of halfway between them, and has a 1.7m exploration payout from DSS the ELW and HMCs, and has a planet with fonticula (3.7m or something like that) and bacteria (we couldn’t easily find the bacteria though, so didnt spend time gathering it). With SCO the whole process basically just took as long as the DSS mini game takes, which is pretty quick with a tutorial going over the basics, per planet. Aside from the fonticula, which requires doing exobiology.
All of this data is from helping a friend learn game mechanics over this last weekend (2024-05-31 range).
I think you're right about the SCO and the filming being done a few months ago. It says supercut, so it seems like this is more of a cut of a "Get a Fleet Carrier ASAP" challenge run - which is also cool. But it's hardly a 2024 beginners guide if it doesn't at least mention SCO. I can't see any drawbacks to it so I was hoping he would address it.
@@EnderGraff1 SCO drives have two incredibly niche drawbacks, three of you count being a little more expensive than the non-SCO class A drive (and even that gets countered by the fact a class *D* SCO drive is usually as strong as a class *A* non-SCO drive, while being significantly cheaper).
1) You can’t undersize an SCO drive, some people have use cases where they extremely want to be as light as possible for real space top speed and so will equip the smallest FSD possible for their use to cut mass as much as possible. You can’t do that with an SCO drive.
2a) The SCO drives are not better than the class 6 and 7 (if a class 7 existed) pre-engineered FSD drives in jump range, ever so slightly. In exchange having the SCO feature though.
2b) Additionally, the SCO drives in jump range are not better than a pre-engineered FSD of *any* size, except the size 2 iirc (which doesn’t have a pre-engineered anyway), for the same amount of fuel. I.e. they’re not as fuel efficient. The only reason they slightly beat out the max jump range for sizes between 3 and 5 is because of being able to use more fuel at max range. So if you really cared about economical plotting, doing a series of as short as possible hops, and had a pre-engineered drive for your ship size, you could choose to use that over the SCO drive technically.
They’re all pretty niche though as you can see, and mostly only apply to the double engineered drive which only the class 5 would even be available to a new player, the others being from past CGs only.
I spent the weekend farming lifeforms, not being sure of how much i needed to earn 250M, and i ended up close to 1 billion credits... XD
Great video, very helpful. I do have a couple of questions though. When researching the player faction how can you tell that they are likely to have the missions for Bertrandite etc. and do they start to appear when Expansion is pending or do you have to wait until they are in Expansion?
1st step is to go 1000 ly away? wont that take hours with the starter ship you set up in the video?
Is any of this even relevant if you don't have Odyssey? I haven't played in years so I was looking for a refresher. All of this is completely alien to me, though.
Best guide yet. Thanks!
U are god tier elite tutor
Great guide! I do have a question about the FSD, why not SCO? It seems like its always nice to have the option and I don't see any drawbacks if you just don't use SCO if you're low on fuel.
time stamps would amplify your video. liked and subbed
Hey man thanks for the guide, it's been very helpful so far. Except the part where you have to select a player faction to ally with. Can you elaborate on how to choose them, I tried inara search with the same params, but when I arrive at the station they don't have those fat 50mil missions like you showed. 15 million is the max that I saw.
You said "Do the research to make it worth while", how do I do that?
Did you ever find a solution to this? Been trying to find one for a while now
Nope, tried several more factions that entered the expansion
I am brand new to this game.
How do I know the person is a pirate, when I scan it says wanted is that it??
And no one else is attacking so how do I wait for the health to go low
You just point your ship at the other ship, target lock on, and let it scan on it's own. With better scanners it goes faster.
If no one else is fighting the pirate, you're on your own! Ether try to fight and maybe other friendlies will show up, or just flee. In FSD flight, look for "Weapons Fire" signals. Those are usually good guys fighting a bad guy, so to speak. "Conflict" though is usually two factions fighting, so unless you don't mind getting a bad rep hit with one faction, (picking a side), avoid those signals.
Also, if you come out of FSD close to a busy planet/moon, especially one with resources for mining, there is often s little battle or two going on between a pirate and a 'good guy'.
Hey I'm a relatively new player too.
When you scan a ship, it will show [Wanted] in red text under their name if they are an NPC pirate.
Like @yourdonefor4454 said, after scanning them (singular) it will show "wanted". Then you should either fight, or run away.
If you're referring to CMDR Hawke's statement to wait for others to bring their >(singular) shields down, if no one else (NPC's) are fighting then you are on your own.
If the pirate is not attacking you, as soon as you attack, then they>(singular) will attack back.
In a generic sidewinder I would recommend retreating.
Remember this, a friendly will show up as green, a neutral as yellow, a hostile enemy as red.
I made the mistake early on thinking that ment health, so I was attacking the green. Oops! 😆
In the beginning you said to play in solo mode.
Then later you posted on screen that if you run out of gas, call the fuel rats.
But the rats can only help you if you play on the live server.
Perhaps you need to say that you switched to live server at some point?
If you did, i must have missed it. sorry!
Well if you play in solo and run out of gas you just contact the rats, log out to menu, log back into the game in open, then you just wait for the rats to show up.
Hi hawkes thanks for all your videos peace man cheers
Great video, thank you!
Love traveling 1000+ years at the speed of light just to scan some grass
hey Hawkes
just a quick question: is there a build for ground on foot? or is it just upgrading armor and weapon and pew pew?
A rehash of an already great tutorial, great work man. I used your other guides when i first started. Thanks for the info even I didnt know. keep it up :)
@hawkes - at 46 minutes you're with Farseer and have all the materials needed for engineering. I have none, where did you get all of that?
Why no Fuel Scoop on the Type 9 Heavy? Also did you engineer another 6A FSD for it? Cause the one you made for the Phantom is only 5A? I'm a noob.
I am kinda stuck at the start where i go and have to "wait" before i kill those pirates for bounty... the problem is that they aren't fighting... or if they are... there are 3-4-5 pirates vs. 1 ship....
Honestly, you could do what I did to get started. Just run a bunch of courier delivery missions instead.
Cool, now I think I have a plan for what to do after I get a few creds behind me, i suck at not having at a f landing😂
You know, trying to follow all of this is tough. One part of the video you give an actual list on screen with exact number. another part you just rattle it off quickly with no exact numbers, just this isn't enough so i'm going to get a few more. The material trader part of the game is confusing, being able to trade multiple types of materials for various amounts. I have no idea what's a good deal or a bad deal. I ended up having to go back to HIP 12099 because even though I maxed out what I got there it wasn't enough for the amount you listed on the screen. -- and i'm not even half way though the process.
How do I know when I've scanned enough lifeforms and it's time to go back to civilization? I'm like fifty jumps away from the nearest station and I'd rather not make that whole trip back only to find out I didn't make enough money
Use ed discovery it will give you a decent idea
*Me watching this from the inside of the roomy Corvette*: "Hmm, yes. I'm sure I could learn from this."
The KRAIT only for the turrets, I really like the ASP 25:52
great video thanks just what I needed to decide on buying the game
Youre most welcome! I hope you enjoy yourself!
Want to be friends? I like helping new players.
So I’ve done everything up to the step where you farm the wake emissions with the limpets in the aspe explorer right before you go to the engineer for the fsd. Due to space greed(and not paying attention) I sold all of my cartographic data so I’ll need to go out and do another big run of scans. But because I did a big run initially I have 250k so I was thinking I could buy an Anaconda since I can and it gets me the best jump range and I’ll have the upgraded fsd. And then with that I’ll grind out a road to riches trip or two in the anaconda with some exobiology. That or I could save my money do it all in the Asp explorer and have a boatload of money for later when I want to rank up in the federation for that corvette.
Any ideas on what I should do?
New player trying to follow along with you. Went to system HIP 98878 and I can't find any pirates engaged in battle, I've been going back and forth between locations in the system for a few hours and I'm just wasting my time. Sad times
I went through the same thing when I first did this a year ago. The trick I found was to fly around at medium to high speed and keep an eye on the radar display. Eventually a few triangles would pop up (most times it's miners or a few space cops), and fly towards that vicinity. Then scan every ship nearby which would lead to either me finding a pirate, or continuing my search elsewhere and repeat. Hopefully this helps 👍
Now i just need hawkes to do an up to date vid on fed rank.
Been working on mine far too ling and all the methods ive seen or found dont work that well haha
The one I showed a while back is sadly still one of the best options. You mostly have to wait for the system to go into boom though to really make it worth your while doing. If it's not in boom then it is really painfully slow like everything else.
@@HawkesGaming awwhhh man that really blows. I picked up the game again after like 4 years and transfered all my stuff over to PC. Hit elite in trade off your older best start through deep core mining.
Was hoping there's new strats for fed rank cause its terribly slow. But oh well, stay on the grind ig haha.
I've heard people mention the bubble so much but I've yet to hear anyone explain it or what areas are outside of it, could you please go into more detail?
Human occupied space with stations and a population of people. Not all system in the bubble will have planets or a space station but for the most part thats the rule. It is a circle area several light years out from Sol in a bubble shape. Everything outside of that besides a few exceptions way far away do not have any stations or people.
The problem with this is that you have to go further and further to find anything unexplored these days. I still prefer the mining methods after the initial High RES thing. Also I find it much more enjoyable than finding life.
Agreed. This is a great method, with the exception you just mentioned. I've been flying around for the last 8 hours and not one "First Footfall". Don't get me wrong, you can still make the 140 million that Hawkes made here, which is a lot. Now you just have to do the drive twice and that is a whole lot of jumping. At this point, what you may as well do is, do all this same stuff going out, changing your return destination, and then do it again coming back. That way, it's only one long trip. There's no cause to do this run more than you have to do.
I made 600mil in like 4 hours, was only 1k ly from the bubble maxium. I guess I got lucky or you got unlucky
@@captain_narthex9550 I don't think people understand you get 20 mil per planet right beside where you start. You don't need to go anywhere. It's a waste of time.
holy crap this game is a grind...
Well I mean I went from a sidewinder to a fleet carrier in 7 days as well as the full material grind. A week to beat a game even for me is not that much of a grind. If anything it should take longer to achieve this IMO but alas here we are.
I tried to get the Guardian Module Blueprint for 4 hours, and have no luck. Scanned the Ancient Data Terminal over and over again and got nothing but the codex entry message.
the SIDEWINDER IS A GOOD SHIP!!!! HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A BOX OF CLEANEX?!?!?! I have seen some CRAZY ass builds with that little thing... was kinda funny tho 🤣
this is a great guide but i wish you had more information on how to properly identify systems for the expansion trading.. i've been to 4 different player factions that all meet the criteria you gave (and also to mahlanja for posterity) and I couldnt see any of these extremely high payout missions in any station. do you need to be at least friendly to see ally missions? the biggest payout i saw was like a 6 mil expansion mission
You have to ally with them
@@ThunderD83 but why is it Hawkes is able to see the 50m boom mission, albeit grayed out, BEFORE he's allied in this video? (38:17)
Also I recently allied with some player factions through normal A-B-A trading who were in expansion and never saw these missions either.
@@DevelopedGames they are not a garenteed mission and only in starports with a agriculture economy
Awesome vid. I just split my Elite videos to a new channel, with a playlist for other CMDRs with helpful stuff - put yours right there!
It's embarrassing to need an out of game resource within the first 5 minutes of the video :( In Elite Dangerous you can't look at the galaxy map to filter ships or modules. In 2024 you can't look up module/ship availability via in game methods.
I wonder why? The data exists otherwise the out of game resources won't exist either so why can't FDEV provide that functionality in game?
Oh you didn’t hear they don’t care and have totally abandoned the game years ago ?
Wait a minute, I didn't know combat in a Sidewinder makes so much money. I've been trading 3h using my Type -6 and barely made 1 mil...
I never got into this game because of the grinding and losing real life just to get any where in this game so I’m good
It took me from start to finish 7 days to get to this point from a fresh save. You do realize that's not a lot of time to get that deep into Elite right?
@@HawkesGamingi got horizon for the cobra mk4😂 and played 750 hours since and i don't have anything good, only a couple of engineers, always solo and never saw a thargoid. grind broke me
so dont comment
you forgot to say join open and join squadron who are online. i prefer to be with squadron who like to hunt thargoids. when you are a new player all you have to do is show up and hit the bug and ran away, watch from as other players do it. when you get enough money to buy a good ship, thats when you play solo, and learn slowly. not good idea to fly around sidewinder even in solo lmao
Okay completely new... how on earth do I scan ships before I attack them? Whenever I head into scanning mode it says "wrong cockpit mode PRESS M"
But i did that to enter scanning mode????
Put cursor on them then look at them with cursor still on them it scans automatically. Stay in combat mode you wont need to change. It's just about targeting the ship and looking at it.
hi, I stugle with this. I spend time on 2 systems where is suposed be expansion. I spend lot of time to get alied from all factions. and I never have same results like you. when you have lot of or full of 50mil missions. what Im doing wrong. its really pain duing reputations and spend time for nothing
Is it safe to assume this guide works for ps5 too?
I sometimes feel like there is missing information, why is moon 3c at 7:30 the best choice?
He said the half-moons represent a landable surface. Then saying that,"In almost every single case life can be found on a planet or moon that has an atmosphere of some type. This is represented by the blue bubble that completely surrounds the landable surface.". With that information 3c is only one with the bubble and not just the half-moon.
What am I missing with these 50 mil expansion missions? Been flying around for two days looking at systems/factions in expansion and I've yet to see anything over about 18 mil.
Why when I get to the system and then try to travel to the site even with the frame shift or supercruise it says it’s gonna take 60 days?…..
With the latest Engineering update this is so much quicker
I have been playing this for years. This is a great video for new starters
I died 3 times and had to restart
does the quit to desktop for HGE still work because it so far has not for myself
If you modify your route settings to have only KGBFOAM stars you will always be able to scoop the star.
If you turn off the lights of your SRV in low light conditions actually helps spotting things because the rest of the image on your screen will not be dimmed.
What if I don't have any friends?
when i try to fight its always like 5-6 pirates trying to blow up one clean ship. if i attack one hes blowing me up in seconds. where am i supose to find these fights where bunch of clean commanders gang up on pirates
How do you get the 3rd person camera?
Strg + Alt + Space
Or: Ctrl + Alt + Space
🙂
Amazing video great work
I really need help with the "joining/finding a player faction". I don't get how hawk found all these missions within the same system.
You mean pledging allegiance?
It's somewhere in the right side menu in your ship. It says power something.
Is there any way to enlarge the Ui scale or text in vr? I’m visually impaired and am unable to read the text as it’s too small. Thanks.