Glass canopys?

Eldonorian

Eldonorian
Picking glass out of your face makes you a man. I reccomend salt on your face after a good head smashing on the front panel. You do realise its your head hitting the canopy right? the glass always gets blown outwards with the cabin pressure. :D
 

Abraxis

Abraxis
Sargon said:
Is that the same technology that uses cellular cameras across the entire fuscelage? The ones being developed for visual cloaking?
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I was referring mostly to the Reaction Engines A2:

However, the A2 design does not have windows.
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The heat generated by traveling so quickly makes it difficult to install windows that are not too heavy. One solution Reaction Engines has proposed is to install flat panel displays, showing images of the scene outside.
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Shotgun2097

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running away with 5mins oxygen left , sc to landing pad somewhere else with all my wealth in cargo , with seconds to spare i made it i swore a lot paniced alot but when i made it i was over the moon , (figuratively speaking )...

its a bit anoying when they are on 32% and your on 90% with a broken canopy though but ill live with it
 

Sargon

Banned
Sargon
The other day I approached the pad just a tad too fast (about 220) in my cobra... face first... the canopy burst.. I figured... "whew.. ok.. but I landed"... turns out that particular outpost had no repair facilities!
So I jumped to the very first system I could with 5 minutes to go... to boot, passing through the first failed outpost didn't resupply my air... it was an experience! I'm glad we have fragile glass canopies, makes the heart pump.
 

Sargon

Banned
Sargon
Eldonorian said:
Sometimes I turn off my life support on long runs, just to listen to the breathing noise. Reminds me of 2010 lol.
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HAL
 Hey, Dave, what are you
doing?

HAL
 Hey, Dave. I've got ten years
of service experience and an
irreplaceable amount of time
and effort has gone into making
me what I am.

HAL
 Dave, I don't understand why
you're doing this to me.... I
have the greatest enthusiasm for
the mission... You are destroying
my mind... Don't you understand?
... I will become childish... I
will become nothing.
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
Elios0 said:
more likely quartz glass not plexiglass (which is a brand name btw)
quartz glass was used in all the of the NASA space craft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_quartz
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You may be right there. I was just thinking it was a very 1980's term... though come to think of it, it wouldn't handle fuel scooping very well, would it?

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Sargon said:
Hey.. so that was you wearing the pink shorts taking pictures of everything?
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Didn't know you spotted me there. :)
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
There's another point of "unreality"... your canopy is smashed, your life support mask comes down and you make a run for the nearest station, finding an outpost not too far away. Does your atmosphere return when you touch down ag an outpost, same as it does at a station? Coz last time I checked their landing pads were exposed to hard vacuum.
 

Abraxis

Abraxis
Sandmann said:
There's another point of "unreality"... your canopy is smashed, your life support mask comes down and you make a run for the nearest station, finding an outpost not too far away. Does your atmosphere return when you touch down ag an outpost, same as it does at a station? Coz last time I checked their landing pads were exposed to hard vacuum.
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*shrug* this is where I'd expect some Star Trek-esque hand-waving involving 'forcefields'.
 

Sargon

Banned
Sargon
Sandmann said:
There's another point of "unreality"... your canopy is smashed, your life support mask comes down and you make a run for the nearest station, finding an outpost not too far away. Does your atmosphere return when you touch down ag an outpost, same as it does at a station? Coz last time I checked their landing pads were exposed to hard vacuum.
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Well, when your ship gets shuffled into the hangar it should. There's supposedly a force field in place at the level of the platform... or am I mistaken?

Speaking of breathing apparatus... from the concept artist's desk for ED...

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Adam Lusardi

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Sandmann said:
There's another point of "unreality"... your canopy is smashed, your life support mask comes down and you make a run for the nearest station, finding an outpost not too far away. Does your atmosphere return when you touch down ag an outpost, same as it does at a station? Coz last time I checked their landing pads were exposed to hard vacuum.
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Think you have to go into the hanger, I say think because that is what I presumed and when I broke but canopy that what I did. I didn't really have time to look what was happening. :)
 

mandellorian

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SilverZeke56 said:
Personally I really like it, it gives another dimension to think about while in a dogfight. Much like aiming for the FSD on larger ship to take it out faster. It's a concept you have to be careful of yourself and be ready to take advantage of anytime you can. It's not a simple fly around and shoot the hull of a ship and wait for its HP to hit 0, you have to think through some fights.
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If you can pop the canopy of a cobra from behind and below....i salute your hacking skills,i don`t really care how wonderful a shot you or the AI or anyone is the entire mass of the ship is between you and my canopy..if you can shoot through that the canopy is the LAST of my worries as you have just had to core the ship.
 

mandellorian

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Abraxis said:
Have you upgraded your armor by any chance? I wonder if that has any bearing on canopy durability.
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Yep running around with military grade armour..makes no damn difference i can see...and its only happening on the cobra III...just switched out to a lacon 6 with its shoot me now canopy and rammed a station repeatedly...nada haven`t seen this in any other ship and i`ve got more combat time in a viper than i do a cobra...i`m starting to suspect there is a bug in the cobra coding....or some ******* has slipped me a cobra MK II (if you get that reference award yourself 10 geek points)
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
Sargon said:
Well, when your ship gets shuffled into the hangar it should. There's supposedly a force field in place at the level of the platform... or am I mistaken?
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In the hangar I could live with... though wouldn't it suck if you touched down with three seconds left, then died coz of the really slow animation? :D "No really! I can hold my breath for 3 more seconds!"

mandellorian said:
If you can pop the canopy of a cobra from behind and below....i salute your hacking skills,i don`t really care how wonderful a shot you or the AI or anyone is the entire mass of the ship is between you and my canopy..if you can shoot through that the canopy is the LAST of my worries as you have just had to core the ship.
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Actually from what I've seen the damage modelling seems to be fairly accurate with hit placement and item damage. I was in a fight with a drop ship the other night and noticed I'd burned two glowing orange lines in the top of it with my beam lasers... and if you go check out one of the capital ships parked at earth you can individually target the various components on it.
 

DirkLarien

DirkLarien
mandellorian said:
OK i admit defeat i have now lost my canopy for the 19th time and for the 9th time it was a ventral aft attack that popped it in a cobra mk III...whats the point of having a hull that can laugh off nukes if a hit from underneath can pop the apparently glass canopy,take out your displays and force you to dis-engage i could maybe understand if it was cumulative damage but its happened after 4% damage and most of the time around 20%..Anyone else suffering from this rather annoying problem?
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answer is simple :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaNFCfAygPM
 
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