So I was doing one of my flyby fuel scooping by slinging around star at high speed and then I started to get heat damage at 100% heat. What? I looked at the patch notes, and it says nothing about starting to get heat damage when you reach 100% heat. Is this a bug or undocumented change?
Taking heat damage at 100%?
- Thread starter The Law
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There was plenty said on the forums before the patch. 65% is the new 100% so you don't want to go above 85% or you'll take damage.
I do remember reading something that said heat damage would happen to modules before the hull with the new update.
No its a in game change before I thing we had to hit around 135- 140ish before we took heat damage now it happens at a 100 and moduals start taking damage. If your hitting that mark before you finish filling up you should probley upgrade to a A rank fuel scoop, they are expensive but fill the tank up fast. I don't think I ever had the temp hit above 80 using the A Class scoop.
Not quite, you don't want to go above 100% heat or you will slowly but surely start to accumulate damage to your systems. you could fly around at 99% and dip into 100% briefly and not take damage if lucky.
As for undocumented, it was stated that they were re-aligning the heat values, but it wasn't perhaps very clear what that meant from reading the patch notes alone.
Seen this post by Nutter on this subject:
[WARNING] IMPORTANT 1.2 Information – Must Read! in Dangerous Discussion
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123476
But no information in patch notes.
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I had to double-check the patch notes, but you're right: this significant (and deliberate) change to how heat works seems to have been skipped over in them.
Yes, it was deliberate: the way it's measured, and the way damage is applied, is different now. Modules start taking damage at 100%, and hull damage kicks in when you reach the top segment. But you should also notice that your idle temperature is, in percentage terms, lower.
I know I read a description from FD of how this all works, but you're right, it's completely absent from the patch notes.
Yes, it was deliberate: the way it's measured, and the way damage is applied, is different now. Modules start taking damage at 100%, and hull damage kicks in when you reach the top segment. But you should also notice that your idle temperature is, in percentage terms, lower.
I know I read a description from FD of how this all works, but you're right, it's completely absent from the patch notes.
My Asp used to run around 31% and could scoop @ near max fuel rate with 98% heat.
Now it runs at 21% and scoops max fuel rate with 60% heat (same setup I'm 24k ly's out).
Keep doing changes FD, refuelling was never hard and is now easier. Well done. Nice. Great.
Now it runs at 21% and scoops max fuel rate with 60% heat (same setup I'm 24k ly's out).
Keep doing changes FD, refuelling was never hard and is now easier. Well done. Nice. Great.
When you go above 66% you start getting damage to modules and the price of wear and tear starts to accumulate. By 90%+ it is costing you loads of dosh and potential module troubles.
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The patch notes are just small headliners. It's a major change to the game mechanics and documented in the pinned accompanying thread:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123871
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=123871
Old 80 or new 80? *sigh*
It's quite clear (although just a small paragraph). Modules start to take damage at 100% (not 65 etc as stated above).
Works for me.
That's not my experience. Actually, it felt alot freer than it was in 1.1
I was out trading and was able to exit the station, boost, boost boost, jump without having to wait for my ship to cool down. It never reached 100% and never took any damage. - before, I'd have got warnings and maybe some damage if I'd done that.
Later on, I switched to my Asp, went out jumped scooped - letting the temp get up to the 90's and again, no damage taken. I went mining, and did some combat too with no damage from heat at all. The only damage that I took was from a brief period when my shields were taken out. That was about 300 credits worth, so wasn't really a big deal.
As for the heat 100% now means, don't go above this, which is more intuitive.
I was out trading and was able to exit the station, boost, boost boost, jump without having to wait for my ship to cool down. It never reached 100% and never took any damage. - before, I'd have got warnings and maybe some damage if I'd done that.
Later on, I switched to my Asp, went out jumped scooped - letting the temp get up to the 90's and again, no damage taken. I went mining, and did some combat too with no damage from heat at all. The only damage that I took was from a brief period when my shields were taken out. That was about 300 credits worth, so wasn't really a big deal.
As for the heat 100% now means, don't go above this, which is more intuitive.