If you had an Afterburner that boosted your speed for longer then the current Boost, wouldn't the people shooting at you just use theirs to stay with you?
I am going to keep harping on this until you put it in the game
- Thread starter markus54
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Everything the OP wants is because they haven't learned the game or options menu yet.
You can supercruise around planets and stars that are in your way.
I really hope you don't drive how you fly. Lol
"This building is blocking my direct route! Ramming speed! Why isn't the building moving?! Fix my car, it can't move buildings!"
"Why not drive around it?"
"No, I must go through it!"
If you're on a planet, and your Hyperspace destination is on the other side, use supercruise at a steep exit angle (90° up) to get back in to high orbit (several 100km), then use the blue section of the pitch ladder in the HUD to accelerate around the planet until you can see your destination.
Then charge for Hyperspace.
Done.
Head look is available in the options menu.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
You can supercruise around planets and stars that are in your way.
I really hope you don't drive how you fly. Lol
"This building is blocking my direct route! Ramming speed! Why isn't the building moving?! Fix my car, it can't move buildings!"
"Why not drive around it?"
"No, I must go through it!"
If you're on a planet, and your Hyperspace destination is on the other side, use supercruise at a steep exit angle (90° up) to get back in to high orbit (several 100km), then use the blue section of the pitch ladder in the HUD to accelerate around the planet until you can see your destination.
Then charge for Hyperspace.
Done.
Head look is available in the options menu.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
.... and the mass lock on jump to SuperCruise is only affected by most ships up to 3km range (5km in the case of the largest), from experience.
Pretty much everything the OP wants is already in the game. The exception being a transparent ship that he can see through. Still there is the external camera option. The rest of the whine seems to be about "I want this faster" and "I want arcade style power-ups".
OK.
Get a HOTAS and map a few buttons. You can have quick boost, quick SC entry, even headlook on a Pov switch.
But look, there's more!
Get a Rift or a Vive and look round you by turning your head. Can't afford VR (which is a fair and understandable criticism)? You can get an ED tracker for about £10 - maps headlook to um... Your head.
But hey look! There's more!
Get arcade style power-packed by visiting your friendly neighbourhood engineer...
Use the camera suite to look behind you (even in combat) though tbh the radar is better so...
But hey wait... There's even more!
Come to the forums where our very own expert a-holes can mock and ridicule your inane suggestions while at the same time offering advice (from their comparatively limited experience of course) on how to do it better and without looking like a total noob!
And all this for the low low price of... Not being a troll!
OK.
Get a HOTAS and map a few buttons. You can have quick boost, quick SC entry, even headlook on a Pov switch.
But look, there's more!
Get a Rift or a Vive and look round you by turning your head. Can't afford VR (which is a fair and understandable criticism)? You can get an ED tracker for about £10 - maps headlook to um... Your head.
But hey look! There's more!
Get arcade style power-packed by visiting your friendly neighbourhood engineer...
Use the camera suite to look behind you (even in combat) though tbh the radar is better so...
But hey wait... There's even more!
Come to the forums where our very own expert a-holes can mock and ridicule your inane suggestions while at the same time offering advice (from their comparatively limited experience of course) on how to do it better and without looking like a total noob!
And all this for the low low price of... Not being a troll!
This.
I am retired and don't have money to blow on a VR setup you ego maniac!I love boost, but I only hit it when I need it or really want to.
Markus54:Wow! That's g nice. You are so great.
Proper planning prevents etc
I am talking about being in a surprise attack you moron!
And as for looking around via a hat? Never use it, ever. Complete waste of a hat switch. That is what VR is for
I do this when I can find something to supercruise to but when everything is blocked by the planet or sun you are very near it is not going to happen.
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Ed tracker costs £10.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
You do not need to set a target to enter SuperCruise.
You can enter supercruise WITHOUT a target. If where you are headed is obscured, just fly around like e everyone else.
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Is it really that easy? Is that all there is to? Wow, Why didn't I think of that, damn! Lining up with a target is not the easiest thing to do when you are shooting at you mission target and are surprise attacked from someplace. An afterburner with a 30 second burn rate at between 800 m/s and 1200 m/s would give you time to get away before getting blown up. Regroup. And figure out who is shooting at you.
Is this guy trolling us or what? Do you even know what supercruise is? I explained on the first page the difference between supercruise and hyperspace but you don't seem to be reading the responses.
Supercruise: Travel WITHIN a system, does NOT require a target lock
Hyperspace: Travel BETWEEN systems, DOES require a target lock AND a clear line of sight.
The 'afterburner' feature you are requesting to travel faster within a system is already included, it's called supercruise. It has a different key binding to the hyperspace jump so you can use it WITHOUT a target, check your control mapping.
Any more responses asking for an afterburner or saying you can't supercruise when vision is blocked and this is definitely just a troll thread.
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done!
Federal Navy ships seem to have more missiles and much larger weapons than I have. so by the time I find anyplace and supercruise out of there I am confirming the purchase of a replacement ship.
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Remarkable. The issues you seem to have never seem to bother me whatsoever at all.
They don't even seem actual issues to me.
You simply take off vertically and go into supercruise. This is a very fast procedure.
From there it is just a little while before you can jump to an obscured target.
Afterburner would be totally useless, because it is infinitely slower than the speeds you reach in supercruise.
Getting knocked out of SC while fuel scooping is pure pilot error. I can't even remember if that ever happened to me. I suppose it must have when I was still learning.
Perhaps it might happen again in the future some time, perhaps when I get distracted, but in general this should not happen at all.
This is something you will get over too when you become more experienced. It will only happen in very rare situations.
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NPC missiles rarely form a threat if you have power to shields an/or have point defense and/or chaff.
I have not once been destroyed by missiles, but I have been fired upon with them countless times by npc.
In many situations you will want to pre-select an 'escape system' before the battle, just in case things go south.
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Yes, I would really like that type of boost mechanic in ED.
Or perhaps a combination.
A short press is a boost like it is now.
Press and hold would be a boost like you describe.
Always hopeful. I don't want the game to be the way I want. Just some improvements. I am making suggestions if you see it as nagging then why did you bother replying?
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You won't. The have better things to do with their time than waste it engaging with people who can't be bothered to find out how the game works, and can't give clear explanations of what exactly it is they are proposing.