Can you only land on Moons in Odysessy and not Planets?

Thargon

Thargon
I've tried to land on planets on Odyssey a few times now and each time, it won't let me. It says "Too Close" and never enters orbital insertion mode. And basically drops you out of supercruise like an e-stop when you hit a sun or if you hit a place at too steep an angle.

Is this intended? Will planets never be implemented? Or is this going to be planned for a later release of Odyssey? If so, it's a bit restrictive?

Yes, my ship has planetary approach suite. Or am I missing something?

Damn I typoed the title. Odyssey.
 
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metatheurgist

metatheurgist
It's the same as Horizons. Some you can land on, some you can't. Like Horizons you can tell which ones by the blue arc in the system map. Or the little spaceship that looks like a space invader in Contacts.
 

hunvagy

hunvagy
Currently Airless worlds and worlds with tenous atomsphere are landable. They are all marked on your system map as landable.
 

Thargon

Thargon
Well. I didn't know this before. So much about Elite is like finding your way in the darkness with hands outstretched. You kind of have to learn as you go along. Hmmm so when will other types of planets be implemented? Water worlds maybe?
 

tomimt

tomimt
Thargon said:
Well. I didn't know this before. So much about Elite is like finding your way in the darkness with hands outstretched. You kind of have to learn as you go along. Hmmm so when will other types of planets be implemented? Water worlds maybe?
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I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. Not necessarily even as a part of Odyssey
 

Thargon

Thargon
tomimt said:
I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. Not necessarily even as a part of Odyssey
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Hmm, that's disappointing. So really, this stuff should have been done in alpha... We really only have a minimum viable product right now, if not all planet types are implemented and you can only land on some of them.
 

Valorin

Valorin
Thargon said:
I've tried to land on planets on Odyssey a few times now and each time, it won't let me. It says "Too Close" and never enters orbital insertion mode. And basically drops you out of supercruise like an e-stop when you hit a sun or if you hit a place at too steep an angle.

Is this intended? Will planets never be implemented? Or is this going to be planned for a later release of Odyssey? If so, it's a bit restrictive?

Yes, my ship has planetary approach suite. Or am I missing something?

Damn I typoed the title. Odyssey.
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We are able to land on planets and moons with no atmosphere or (since Odyssey) very thin atmosphere.
You can see which bodies you can land on in the system map. Landables have a blue circle thingie around them.
Atmospherics got a blue aura and if they also have the circle mentioned above, it's an atmospheric landable.

Landable atmospheric.
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Landable without atmosphere.
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Non-landable atmospheric.
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Thargon

Thargon
Valorin said:
We are able to land on planets and moons with no atmosphere or (since Odyssey) very thin atmosphere.
You can see which bodies you can land on in the system map. Landables have a blue circle thingie around them.
Atmospherics got a blue aura and if they also have the circle mentioned above, it's an atmospheric landable.

Landable atmospheric.
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Landable without atmosphere.
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Non-landable atmospheric.
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Great! Thanks for the clear post (and for taking time to write it!)
 

hunvagy

hunvagy
Thargon said:
In my mind, it's not feature complete now. Alpha = not feature complete. Beta = feature complete but has bugs needs testing.
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EDO was always about tenous planets. The complex planets were never in scope for this DLC. And that's coming from me, who has been bashing this release for the last two weeks non stop :D
 

CMDR Bausell

CMDR Bausell
Some of the worlds we encounter have atmospheres thicker than Venus. Some are hot enough to melt titanium. Some have such high gravity that, frankly, you probably wouldn’t make it from the pilot’s seat to the SRV bay in one piece (provided you didn’t just black out in your chair and succumb to a stroke after a while, “Expanse” style — I know at least one landable moon has 10x Earth gravity).

Some you can only disembark under very specific circumstances — I encountered a set of moons in a neutron star system that were so hot, I could only disembark on the night side, specifically when they were on the backside of the gas giant they orbited; the light and heat reflecting off of the gas giant made the night side surface prohibitively hot.
 

Thargon

Thargon
hunvagy said:
EDO was always about tenous planets. The complex planets were never in scope for this DLC. And that's coming from me, who has been bashing this release for the last two weeks non stop :D
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Damn... well... I'm at a loss. I was disappointed at first when I tried very first time to land on the Founders World in Shinrarta dezra. I tried again to land on another planet and was denied again. At least now I know not to waste my time if I know what I can and cannot land on.

Odyssey is (almost) freedom, but not quite. As there are restrictions in it. If I understand that, then it's a bit of a dichotomy as it breaks my immersion.
 

Thargon

Thargon
Maybe I shouldn't read too much into marketing hype then. Steam description "Disembark, Commander, and leave your mark on the galaxy in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Explore distant worlds on foot and expand the frontier of known space. Be the first to step out onto countless unique planets as you discover land untouched since time began."

hmmm with the big proviso of "but not everything".
 

tomimt

tomimt
Well, for something with a thicker atmosphere, they'd probably have to have some additional systems in place, such as weather conditions, a proper cloud system, a system for liquids and so on. I mean it would be a nice surprise if FD would decide to end this DLC with a band and introduce something like that as a part of the game, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
 
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