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Topic: oh. holy shit.

squeegee started this discussion 8 years ago #68,674

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squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #834,682

just some random spot

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 35 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[^] [v] #834,683

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 7 minutes later, 9 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #834,685

that's all i'll get to explore until saturday evening. but so far i've gotten to see a bunch of new shit in just the 20 minutes i played. it's gotten a very major addition here. my favorite part was flying through the atmosphere, it reacted almost like it had lift and drag yanking it around, definitely not the same as flying in space, but probably needs some work. i kinda crashed once and had to blow the canopy and eject.

submitted a g-sync related bug. gotta turn that off for now, and run under 144hz or you get CTD.

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 18 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,095

@previous (E)
if you think i only have a hundred million you're misinformed.

back to daymar, this time in a gladius. going to see how it handles flying in the atmosphere and check out one of the mining outposts. Daymar is a moon but it does have a very thin atmosphere at very low pressure. at this point we are an unknown altitude above the target body. unfortunately they aren't planning on modeling orbital mechanics, ala kerbal space program, which is probably for the best. to enter the atmosphere you must accelerate towards the planet. in practice it works just fine, it just uses a bunch of fuel. if you enter too steely then it's much harder to control and it's not impossible to crash.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 57 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,096

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 30 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,098

Anonymous D replied with this 8 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,101

squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 19 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,102

this basically proves one thing, all speeds are relative to probably a fixed background. the cruise speed of the ship is 1200mps, but enters the atmosphere at a speed almost 10 times that. so you'll have speeds displayed to you differently when relative to the ground of a planet/moon or relative to the orbital zone around a planet. so that means even if you speed in orbit is displayed as 0, you'll still be carrying velocity in the form of fake orbital momentum. you'll probably also gain another huge lump of fake orbital momentum when you change your position relative to a planet or its host star. so you may have a top speed of 1200mps, but it'll really be more like 1200mps, 11,200 mps, and 101,200mps with a +- 1200mps as being up to pilot discretion.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,103

ram pressure plasma causing atmospheric heating

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,105

cruising along at 6700m at 650 or so mps. there's a bit of turbulence, and you can't do much turning because the afterburners are being used to help maintain speed and turning reduces forward momentum. this is all being flown in comstab mode (fake airplane mode with heavy flight computer assist) to see how it differs in atmosphere. you get buffeted around a bit, it feels a bit like flying at close to stall speed. probably because the ship doesn't "fly" so much as it uses thrusters to hover. ships are a lot more like quadcopter drones than airplanes. it's an odd way to fly, but you get used to it. here i'm trying to close a lot of distance to the mining outpost.

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,106

at lower altitudes your top speeds reduce dramatically, and trying to fly faster than safe speeds makes control very difficult. very turbulent. reducing speed makes things go much better, so i imagine dogfights in atmosphere are going to be very different from space fights. still not airplane dogfights, it'll be spaceship dogfights, but flying quickly will make it hard for people to pursue, so still there may be room for airplane tactics in this game somewhere.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,107

the mining outpost looks like a site survey or something, no mining equipment. appears abandoned or at least unoccupied.

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8 years ago, 52 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,108

there are a handful of small buildings surrounding the landing pads

squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8 years ago, 20 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,109

Anonymous B replied with this 8 years ago, 15 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,110

squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,111

the buildings appear used, but mostly empty. not sure what goes on here. in this building there were 3 small rooms with what appeared to be science stations of some kind.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,112

another player shows up just as i was ducking into the science station

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,113

he ran to another building and i waited for him just outside

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,115

i wasn't planning on killing him. at first i just wanted to make sure he didn't fuck with my shit. but dude made a b-line for my ship and i forgot to lock it up. so i fired a couple of warning shots, i didn't hit him, just shot the ground at his feet. i backed up and waved him off of my ship, and that fucker pulled his rifle and at me. so i shot him a couple of times and we both get behind cover. he ended up coming out, probably thought his rifle would beat my pistol, but probably didn't have a good enough connection to beat mine. after shooting him in the head a few times he finally died and i gained a crime stat level. next thing i know i'm being shot at by a 3rd player from their ship, idk when they got there but they tried to light me up with cannon fire. i had already made it to my ship and was powering on the engines.

he tried to pursue for a few km, but i lost him, probably due to turbulence and high speed maneuvers. after he broke pursuit, i headed for orbit too look for a new spot to explore.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,116

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8 years ago, 23 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,117

squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8 years ago, 50 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,118

it's decided to head to the dark side of the moon to see what it's like landing at night

squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8 years ago, 38 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,119

it takes a few minutes at full cruise to get into position

brie !iFDoautiSM replied with this 8 years ago, 27 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,121

squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 12 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,122

beginning decent

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,123

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,124

okay, so the instrument cluster is all kinds of glitchy and fucky, so there's no artificial horizon or anything to assist flying blind. i can just barely make out a horizon though

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,126

it is dark as balls... we're at 5000m though, so we should be... fine. can still just barely make out a horizon. can see no ground features at all. not at all.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,127

900m is a little better, you can start to see the features in the night sky contrast with the black ground.

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,128

there's a twilight effect in the direction of the setting sun. 200m

(Edited 38 seconds later.)

squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8 years ago, 29 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,129

10m

squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,131

touchdown. luckily in the middle of a boulder field and didn't hit a single boulder.

oh, and touchdown was at -190 m, so there's some work to be done on how it reports that info.

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,133

squeegee (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,134

@previous (F)
it could involve you. but it doesn't.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,135

with a crime rating i need to chill out and wait for the cooling off period or however they're doing it. this seems like a pretty good place to lay low.

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #835,137

after while i'll check out the actual landing zones, like the city Levski instead of a mission objective location thing.

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