A guide to good base jumping locations
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Meditatively epicness!
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Simply mesmerising. Love the way the shields go down and can recharge before the next impact
I do love the way it finds it's natural balance for the spins. So even if after an impact it is rolling perfectly flat, it quickly changes into a stable slight end over end spin. (there's probably proper words for these things, but you get what I mean
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I would have thought it'd bump into the wall all the time but it really flies a lot instead of crashing. And this is quite low gravity, no? These bumpy rebounds are insane.
0.12g iirc ... I was going to say it's a beautiful coincidence that the angle the ship falls at (once the first bounce gives it a bit of outwards momentum) perfectly matches the slope of the crater wall (subsequently only hitting outcrops), but then I'm reminded that (if the planet tech science is good) the slope of the crater wall itself is perhaps a product of local gravity and so perhaps these things inevitably fall into sync' like this?
Hard to say, that'd be quite the elaborate geological model. I wouldn't expect such for game purposes, it might be shooting cannon at sparrows. Possible, though. I'd expect some fractal algos though. Funnily you find fractal patterns in snowflake formations, leaf contours and the like. Ever understood what Euler's number is good for? Me neither, but it also keeps cropping up in nature all the time.
After Alec's videos, I was inspired to film the jump too.
Nice jump! Love that there's only really two bounces to come to a complete stop!After Alec's videos, I was inspired to film the jump too.
Makes me think we could stage some kind of competition where you have to leap off and come to a stop as near as possible to a target spot (no back tracking/reversing allowed).
I would have loved to see that.Tried driving a Scorpion as fast as possible down into the second biggest crater. Became airborne - unintentionally - at some point, reaching speeds of 240, before ball of flames time ensued, to the accompaniment of much verbal abuse from EDCoPilot
Currently trying a new idea at the crater ... letting an Anaconda tumble down the slope! I want to see if the Anaconda's unique damage model means that we get to see it become more and more crumpled and broken after each successive impact with the wall!
For some reason I'm reminded of this ...
Source: https://youtu.be/QAHfqS5OEhU
For some reason I'm reminded of this ...
Done that - just thought I'd get mouth and money in the same place. It was harder than I thought, mainly because we forgot to turn off flight assist before starting the roll. Considering it was a mostly off-the-shelf basic Annie, it survived remarkably well and is now in service as a fast transport.
But Sgurr and I did jump off a couple of times, mostly successfully - just one lost SRV when I hadn't realised I was actually flyving upside down.
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You mean from one to the other?
I'd think so. It's taller than it looks in the image. Put a ship in the middle (or a few) and jump them.
The Bosom of Venus?
Anaconda tumble not as exciting as I'd hoped but here it is anyway.