Which is 200 miles per hour quicker. The Mig 29 would literally go past the Mamba like the Mamba was sitting still.
FWIW, I spent 2.5 months out in the black, died, went right back at it for another 3 weeks, died, went right back at it for another 3 weeks and when I was on my way back, died again...4 months with nothing to show, I've found other things to do in the game, well I do pretty much everything...now that I have a carrier, I'm back to exploring...It was behaving oddly earlier, pressing F10 was taking high res screenshots as though things had gotten stuck with a toggle (alt) on... But other keybindings are as normal, just I swear Z is not what I had flight assist set to. I think that is the default, and I possibly touched it instinctively on the way down because the landing computer was stuck and I haven't used FA-off since running some CZs in January...
Which does make me feel that had the landing computer worked I wouldn't be in this state
Yeah, I have submitted a ticket explaining that I had an unexpected loss of control resulting in losing weeks of scan data and asking if they can maybe put me back where I was. For now, my rebuy is parked in Jameson and I'll just not touch anything.
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The worst part is I had just turned around to head back and hand it all in. Just 30 mins previously I'd hit the "deepest" star I could reach, with the next one being ~220ly away. Job done, mission complete, black sky seen. But for some reason, 32 jumps from home, I just wanted to go land on that really hot metal rich planet and see if it had any needle crystals
I'm very demoralised right. I know none of it "matters", it's all numbers on a screen, I was only going to turn the data in for faction rep in my weird quest to get an ally in most of the bubble systems. None of it's real; but it's just suddenly having weeks of investment towards those numbers get erased in such a way. Crashed my mood something rotten.
Tell you what though, it has reminded me again that exploration is the riskiest part of the game. It's not CZs or PvP, it's the ability to lose weeks-months of your time with a single event. It doesn't feel right to me that we can lose all that with no checkpoints. Why do we get first landing tags immediately but scanning and discoveries need handing in?
It is and exploration can be found within 1k to 2k LY out.
How did you know?
I like messing with you, your sense of humor is on par with mine...
When I left Colonia on this trip, I found an ELW approximately 275Ly out. It's an explorer's paradise.
. One would assume that the choice is there for those who fly exclusively FAOFF.
I just remembered something, they put out a tiny update a couple of days ago. I remember because I had left Steam and the Odessey launcher open and started playing and it wouldn't exit the FSD tunnel, so I went to the Steam app to check the game files for corruption and noticed the update queued.As far as I know, it's on press-and-hold mode so it should have been hard to have on by accident. At 10km altitude I even tried to zero the throttle, go to menu, lower mouse sensitivity and return; I got back just before it hit the deck, but I still had no control. How did it hit the deck with zero throttle set?
I recently changed mine from hold to toggle...it makes some things easier...like cutting a line across the mail slot and engaging auto-dock and zeroing the throttle at just the right moment...not having to hold that button is helpful.
I unbound the FAOFF key entirely, because I never use it. If I need it sometime, I'll rebind it
But perhaps the real problem here is the longstanding one of the game not warning you when it can't find an input device, or the device is interrupted, etc., and then silently changing you to one of the default binding schemes.
I've had this happen before. In my case, my normal bindings are nothing like any of the default schemes, so I noticed right away.
Z, AAFAIK is the default key for FA Off, at least on my client...Interesting... There was a point not long ago where I had a similar rollback. Disconnected, then was 2 systems further back and had to re-do my scans. I didn't notice any keybinds out of place, but now I wonder...
For me, it would literally be only trying to land on a 1+ G planet. You don't thrust down, you just tap FA off for a fraction of a second to lose a few metres.
Except it looks like it didn't tap, it toggled. Which I absolutely swear I have never intentionally set to happen because it is certain death. It wasn't even on that key last I knew
I was just stating for comparisonYeah, but I'd rebound it to a mouse button while I was noodling around in CZs ages ago... don't remember bringing it back to Z, and I'm sure it was never set to toggle
Gravity.As far as I know, it's on press-and-hold mode so it should have been hard to have on by accident. At 10km altitude I even tried to zero the throttle, go to menu, lower mouse sensitivity and return; I got back just before it hit the deck, but I still had no control. How did it hit the deck with zero throttle set?
If some controller, mouse?, was plugged into the wrong port the game wouldn’t fully recognise it so would load the generic bindings.I had disabled my docking computer because it had gotten completely stuck trying to land and was just hovering for over a minute without moving. Landed manually, hadn't turned it back on - but it's a docking computer, not a take off computer. As far as I know, I hadn't just disabled flight assist that way.
Maybe I should have done the old immediate exit and relog Horizons trick, idk.
Submitted a ticket, asked if they could reset me. I will happily jump back in if they can sort me out, but I'm not sure I've got the will to start with all that again after such a loss. If FDev support doesn't help with things like this, I never want to explore again, and that's 90% of my gameplay.
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Edit oh god... I checked the game settings. Flight Assist is on toggle and on Z... that's not the button I set! I have it on Mouse 4 as press and hold! Why are my bloody keybinds not how I set them? I must have clipped it by accident
There are some who fly FA off all the time, their complaint used to be that when the game starts it defaults to FA on, I don’t know if this is still the case for ships.
