Horizons Cannot enter planetary glide... WP Frontier...

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

So I recently had the time and opportunity to download the Horizons update and all of its patches, and was really excited to finally make landfall. Went to an outfitting station to make sure I had a planetary approach suite - Check. (Not interested in driving around just yet, and also it's an FDL so I'm a bit tight on internals... Anyway, located the nearest atmosphere-less body (an icy moon), flew over to it, orbital cruise enabled, so far so good. Taking it nice and easy, very slow and shallow, and then BAM - "Too close" Supercruise drop...

I then attempted this a few more times to no avail, even trying to fly in normal flight mode down to the surface - but I hit the "planetary exclusion zone" or something like that...

Could anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong? Rather frustrated right now...

Robert Maynard · Jan 10, 2016

Does the planet in question have an atmosphere?

Soulkiller · Jan 10, 2016

You can only land on planets which have a blue circle around them in the system map. Those planets are implemented to be landable planets. For the rest of them you will drop out just like you said out of supercruise ("Too close... blabla").

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

Robert Maynard said:
Does the planet in question have an atmosphere?

Most certainly not. It has the blue horizons graphic around it, and in the information tab it says it has no atmosphere. The body in question is Onyaksas 2 A

Robert Maynard · Jan 10, 2016

Please report it as a bug.

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

Ok. Although, I have been looking on the internet, and it seems that in order for Horizons to work, you must download a new launcher from the official Elite: Dangerous website, and you cannot simply get the update through steam. Is this correct? Don't want to file a bug report if I'm just being a derp...

Robert Maynard · Jan 10, 2016

There is a new launcher - best update that if you haven't already.

bitstorm · Jan 10, 2016

Oorslavich said:
Ok. Although, I have been looking on the internet, and it seems that in order for Horizons to work, you must download a new launcher from the official Elite: Dangerous website, and you cannot simply get the update through steam. Is this correct? Don't want to file a bug report if I'm just being a derp...

WEll Steam should give you the new launcher but...

The launcher will appear blue when logged in, rather than orange.

It will have 3 options

Elite Dangerous: Horizons (64-bit)
Elite Dangerous (32-bit)
Elite Dangerous (64-bit)

Obv you'd pick the Horizons one.

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

bitstorm said:
WEll Steam should give you the new launcher but...

The launcher will appear blue when logged in, rather than orange.

It will have 3 options

Elite Dangerous: Horizons (64-bit)
Elite Dangerous (32-bit)
Elite Dangerous (64-bit)

Obv you'd pick the Horizons one.

Well DAMN. Looks like I need to download this new launcher then... Where would I go to obtain it if I want it to function through steam?

bitstorm · Jan 10, 2016

Oorslavich said:
Well DAMN. Looks like I need to download this new launcher then... Where would I go to obtain it if I want it to function through steam?

WEll I'm not sure, I mean mine's ok.

EDIT: actually, it's probably this....

If you look in Steam there are two versions of Elite, "Elite Dangerous" and "Elite Dangerous: Horizons".

Frontier have had to do Horizons as a new game for some reason.

So check your Steam for this game : http://store.steampowered.com/app/419270/

It is called "Elite Dangerous: Horizons" in the Steam client list.

If you don;t have access to this game and just see the old "Elite: Dangerous" only....

Go to : https://www.frontierstore.net/

Go to your account page , then go to "partner keys" then get a key for Horizons which you should redeem on Steam.

Install and play etc...

You can uninstall the old Elite Dangerous for some disc space.

The launcher should be blue once you login and you'll see a new "Horizons" logo when you start the game, it will be very obvious you have the right version loaded.

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

bitstorm said:
WEll I'm not sure, I mean mine's ok.

Hrm... When you purchased Horizons, did you do so through steam or through the official website? because I purchased Horizons through the website as there was no option to preorder on steam... I fear that I have made an error in this regard...

bitstorm · Jan 10, 2016

edited my post above ^^^^^

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

bitstorm said:
edited my post above ^^^^^

Ahh I see. Thank you good sir... Now I only have to REINSTALL THE WHOLE GAME... Hehehe... Whelp, I'm off to leech some poor sod's wifi...
My one question would be whether I need to take measures to preserve my CMDR save files or if they are store in the cloud...

Robert Maynard · Jan 10, 2016

Oorslavich said:
Ahh I see. Thank you good sir... Now I only have to REINSTALL THE WHOLE GAME... Hehehe... Whelp, I'm off to leech some poor sod's wifi...
My one question would be whether I need to take measures to preserve my CMDR save files or if they are store in the cloud...

Commander data is server stored linked to your account.

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

Robert Maynard said:
Commander data is server stored linked to your account.

Ok thanks!

bitstorm · Jan 10, 2016

Oorslavich said:
Ahh I see. Thank you good sir... Now I only have to REINSTALL THE WHOLE GAME... Hehehe... Whelp, I'm off to leech some poor sod's wifi...
My one question would be whether I need to take measures to preserve my CMDR save files or if they are store in the cloud...

WEll in theory once you have added the key, you can probably rename the old : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous

to whatever the new one is called (I don't know sry).

I think much of the files are the same.

Maybe kick off the install, then cancel it, then copy the old files into the new folder and get Steam to verify the files which should sort it all?

I think Steam just does the launcher but not sure...

So maybe after Steam has installed you need to verify again with ED launcher, use the options menu.

Should save a bit of downloading maybe.

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

Ok, so the download for Horizons through steam is underway. Thank ye all for the help. A moderator can lock the thread now if they so wish...

Robert Maynard · Jan 10, 2016

If you can find the Horizons installation (non-Steam) you should simply be able to copy the files into the Steam game folder.

Globusdiablo · Jan 10, 2016

Oorslavich said:
Ok, so the download for Horizons through steam is underway. Thank ye all for the help. A moderator can lock the thread now if they so wish...

Let's see you safely in-game before closing anything down, eh?

Oorslavich · Jan 10, 2016

Robert Maynard said:
If you can find the Horizons installation (non-Steam) you should simply be able to copy the files into the Steam game folder.

Except that I don't have the Horizons files, only the regular E: D ones, as I thought the 8GB update for the base game was all of the horizons content, and that because the launcher was linked to my Frontier account, it would automatically detect my Horizons purchase... Alas as I have been now enlightened, I know this not to be the case...