Neutron Star in VR

Harmoniser

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So I've come back to ED after a break, and thought I'd check out passengers missions. I thought it would give me some structure in terms of exploring, nice intresting sites rather than wandering around. Actually enjoying it. It also stops me grinding.

Jumped to a system and as I approached the star during the jump, I thought this one looks a bit odd, why is it so bright. I entered the system and in front of me was a neutron star, I had hadn't seen one yet. In VR it made me crap myself, it's so hard to describe to a non-Vr user how incredible and scary it looks, i panicked and had the impulse to get out of there as quick as possible. I've had a few other moments like this. Reminded how visceral ED is in VR.

People say VR doesn't have a killer app, I think ED is pretty close.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Harmoniser said:
People say VR doesn't have a killer app, I think ED is pretty close.
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VR is pretty great, isn't it? :D

Only this lunchtime I was discussing it with a friend and his mate who is still convinced that it's just like 3dtv. Both of us tried to explain it (he's got a good few hours on my DK2 rig), and just couldn't get it into terms they could understand.
 

dogbite

dogbite
It is nice to be able to see the flutes extending from the neutron stars in the recently added effect. I died some time back and could not understand what killed me. Once I could see these and experiment with their effect on my ship, it became quite clear some neutron stars can destroy you quite quickly. Even though, I thought I was far enough away, I passed through these unseen ejections and was ripped out of super cruise. Then, I quickly overheated and died before I could find an escape vector. What is now noticeable, is how close you actually are when dropping in to a system hosting a NS and that there is quite a variance in speed of closure to different NS depending on mass and spin. If you are not cautious, you can come into contact with this energy in less than a minute after arrival at minimum super cruise. In one case, I dropped in, set min throttle, scanned the system, started a scan on the NS and while that was going on checked the system map for about 30 second. Came out of the system map and was dam near in the energy wake. I had to react fast and if I had not been able to see the flutes, I could have chosen, in my panic, a bad vector and died again and lost millions as happened before.
Now when dropping in on a NS, I pay close attention to closure rate and if I am concerned, I will move away some before doing much else.

One of my favorite surprises was arriving at a blue star to find a neutron so close to it, it was almost in fuel scoop orbit and a black hole in close orbit. The NS was spinning like a bat outa hell. It was sublime and a little unnerving. Love this game. Definitely agree ED is a VR killer app.
 

dogbite

dogbite
A few thousand light years past Colonia, I filtered for just Neutrons and Black Holes. To my surprise, I was in a field of many thousands of them. I was able to plot a 999 ly course and jump to only these 2 types for days. By the time I returned to Colonia, I had over $50 million in data which was kind of nice for just looking around.
 

dutchy2000

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dogbite said:
A few thousand light years past Colonia, I filtered for just Neutrons and Black Holes. To my surprise, I was in a field of many thousands of them. I was able to plot a 999 ly course and jump to only these 2 types for days. By the time I returned to Colonia, I had over $50 million in data which was kind of nice for just looking around.
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Google ED and neutron fields. There are fields with millions of them, I did a trip to colonia through them, and I spend weeks scanning them, if you get into a large field and are in the center is like being in a snow globe there are so many of them. Its pretty awesome.
 

Mendaharin Tusca

Mendaharin Tusca
Asp Explorer said:
Only this lunchtime I was discussing it with a friend and his mate who is still convinced that it's just like 3dtv. Both of us tried to explain it (he's got a good few hours on my DK2 rig), and just couldn't get it into terms they could understand.
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Yeah, and that's the problem VR has to combat.. question is how. Because you can't really describe it, people have and will continue to have to wrong idea.
 
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