Discussion: in case one day we'll see Atmospheric Landing, would you prefer to...

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
1. Explore the atmospheric planet flying with the space ship as we do know:
You like the current gameplay and you don't want extra stuff to handle.So here no change to actual game play on airless world.
Use your ship to fly through the atmosphere, land and deploy the SRV or walk around.

2. Explore with a dedicated shuttle ship that works as a launched fighter:
Our ship has some limitation for whatever reason (I don't want to talk about realism and current ships limitation, we already had enough of those threads).
So we can land on the planet surface and also fly around with our ships but with low performances. To fly through the atmospheric planet we can use a shuttle, transported in a ship hangar, similar to a launched fighter that is more agile and can move faster to explore the atmospheric planets. The shuttle can't transport an SRV, but unlike the launched fighter it can land so the player can explore further on feet, oops planetary legs.

What's your choice? Please reply only referring to gameplay and not in terms of realism analyzing current ships aerodynamics.
 

thistle

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Wait, so option 2 means that the only way to land on atmospheric planets would be if you have a ship that can carry a shuttle?
 

M00ka

M00ka
thistle said:
Wait, so option 2 means that the only way to land on atmospheric planets would be if you have a ship that can carry a shuttle?
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Shush, don't bring logic into one of these threads. I don't think the OP has realised that by proposing Option 2 he has excluded over half the fleet and probably more than half the player base from ever landing on an atmospheric planet.
 

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I'd prefer to have both Options. After all, we can do that on airless Planets already, so I see no reason not to have multiple/both Options.

  • fly the Ship down and buzz the Surface (under Atmo restrictions as applicable)
  • deploy an SLF and do the same (Ship dismissal would be perfect, no more 30km limit)
  • land the Ship and deploy SRV
  • land the Ship and explore or investigate on foot, while Ship provides Air Cover from a distance
  • land the SLF/Shuttle and explore or investigate on foot, while the SLF provides Air Cover from a distance
  • airdrop a Combat Vehicle and join epic battles and Conflict Zones on the Ground
  • eject from your heavily damaged Vehicle and stand ground/seek cover while your Ship performs a hot evac procedure on you to prevent capture

Anything is possible. If anything becomes doable, I'd say we're talking good gameplay :)
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
I’d need to check what Colour jumper I’m wearing. Anything but Red and I’m good to go with either option.

Though option one is my choice because I'm happy to be the one Mooka watches wrestling a T9 through a Geomagnetic storm. Although, on second thoughts if I take a Cutter at least I’ll know the wipers will work.

Switching out between SRVs and shuttles may begin to grate after a while, and that’s before we get on to module storage.
 

M00ka

M00ka
Rock Hunter said:
I’d need to check what Colour jumper I’m wearing. Anything but Red and I’m good to go with either option.

Though option one is my choice because I'm happy to be the one Mooka watches wrestling a T9 through a Geomagnetic storm. Although, on second thoughts if I take a Cutter at least I’ll know the wipers will work.

Switching out between SRVs and shuttles may begin to grate after a while, and that’s before we get on to module storage.
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You took the wipers option on the Cutter, oh la-de-dar oh rich one. I could only afford a single wiper on my Python and alas it is the one for the right hand windscreen .... :(
 

M00ka

M00ka
Linnunrata said:
Option 1.

The game should also include a portable barbeque grill and sausages so I could use my Anaconda as an interstellar RV and go camping to the galactic core.
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Nope, sorry that is a big NO on the sausages. We don't want Vegans protesting FD HQ saying the game promotes the slaughter of innocent animals for human consumption do we!

;)
 

RevCaoticFox

RevCaoticFox
SenseiMatty said:
1. Explore the atmospheric planet flying with the space ship as we do know:
You like the current gameplay and you don't want extra stuff to handle.So here no change to actual game play on airless world.
Use your ship to fly through the atmosphere, land and deploy the SRV or walk around.

2. Explore with a dedicated shuttle ship that works as a launched fighter:
Our ship has some limitation for whatever reason (I don't want to talk about realism and current ships limitation, we already had enough of those threads).
So we can land on the planet surface and also fly around with our ships but with low performances. To fly through the atmospheric planet we can use a shuttle, transported in a ship hangar, similar to a launched fighter that is more agile and can move faster to explore the atmospheric planets. The shuttle can't transport an SRV, but unlike the launched fighter it can land so the player can explore further on feet, oops planetary legs.

What's your choice? Please reply only referring to gameplay and not in terms of realism analyzing current ships aerodynamics.
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#2 : Just so long as Luxury Liners could land in Water Worlds...
 
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