Morning all, first time post but I've been lurking on here for some time, getting some great advice. A quick bit about myself; I've been playing the game on Xbox since 2015, have a kitted out FDL for fun and a type 7 for everything else. Used to do a bit of exploration in the past but nothing major, 5Kly excursions. Love the game and the community seems one of the best I've come across game wise. Thought I'd post on here now as I've had a great deal of time and effort wasted thanks to a bug and it's seriously put me off the game, so sorry if this is a bit of a rant, especially for a first post.
Took on an exploration mission for 25 mil, fitted my type 7 out for long distance travel (i know its not the first ship in exploring but it's all i had!) and off i set. 1002 jumps/15Kly or so from the original station.
Set aside time after work, time inbetween social stuff, an hour here or there and after 2 weeks of chipping away at the trip I'd finally got within 1 jump of the target. And then it all went wrong.
The FSD jump dropped me out into the cone of a neutron star. I'd made a few neutron boost jumps so knew what to do regarding approaching the cone, charging and getting out, however this had dropped me straight into it, very close to the star aswel. Next thing i know, it's overheated and dropped me out of hyperspace and into normal flight, however my ship is spinning wildly, gaining heat and modules are malfunctioning left right and centre. The dash was lit up like a christmas tree, the thrust slider was still displaying supercruise scale despite being in normal flight, the heat was rising higher and higher and the escape vector icon wasn't displayed on screen at all. Then my canopy blows open. I hit the Xbox off button, composed myself and restarted the game, thinking it may be a glitch. The game loaded in the same situation, only my canopy had blown and i had 5 mins of oxygen (absolutely useless this far from home). I then spent the next hour trying everything to get out of the cone, restart after restart, reading everything i could online and trying every trick, however with the canopy blown open, all was lost.
It then dawned on me there was nothing i could do. Devastated, I hit self destruct and after a long minute i blew my ship, the 25 million mission reward and god knows how many millions in data into pieces, along with my motivation for this game. Absolutely gut wrenching after so much time and effort, to lose it all 1 JUMP from the target system because of a lousey bug.
Anyone else ever lost so much you've considered hanging up the controller?
Thanks for reading.
Took on an exploration mission for 25 mil, fitted my type 7 out for long distance travel (i know its not the first ship in exploring but it's all i had!) and off i set. 1002 jumps/15Kly or so from the original station.
Set aside time after work, time inbetween social stuff, an hour here or there and after 2 weeks of chipping away at the trip I'd finally got within 1 jump of the target. And then it all went wrong.
The FSD jump dropped me out into the cone of a neutron star. I'd made a few neutron boost jumps so knew what to do regarding approaching the cone, charging and getting out, however this had dropped me straight into it, very close to the star aswel. Next thing i know, it's overheated and dropped me out of hyperspace and into normal flight, however my ship is spinning wildly, gaining heat and modules are malfunctioning left right and centre. The dash was lit up like a christmas tree, the thrust slider was still displaying supercruise scale despite being in normal flight, the heat was rising higher and higher and the escape vector icon wasn't displayed on screen at all. Then my canopy blows open. I hit the Xbox off button, composed myself and restarted the game, thinking it may be a glitch. The game loaded in the same situation, only my canopy had blown and i had 5 mins of oxygen (absolutely useless this far from home). I then spent the next hour trying everything to get out of the cone, restart after restart, reading everything i could online and trying every trick, however with the canopy blown open, all was lost.
It then dawned on me there was nothing i could do. Devastated, I hit self destruct and after a long minute i blew my ship, the 25 million mission reward and god knows how many millions in data into pieces, along with my motivation for this game. Absolutely gut wrenching after so much time and effort, to lose it all 1 JUMP from the target system because of a lousey bug.
Anyone else ever lost so much you've considered hanging up the controller?
Thanks for reading.
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