Found: The Chieftain's SRV Tractor Beam

[Crank Larson]

Though all ships probably have one:

I've noticed on a few occasions that my ship will be recalled, but not land. This often happens in mountains. I've always thought this would be cool if you could actually board the ship when it does this. It turns out that you can!

All we need now is the option to deploy while hovering.

 

[Alec Turner]

Nice video. This has long been a thing and works with all sorts of ships afaik ... but not always, seems to depend how far off the ground the ship is hovering. I've had situations in mountains where the recalled ship has ended up hovering quite some way off the ground and, despite being able to pretty much boost the SRV off the ground and up into the SRV bay, the Board Ship light has never come on. But yeah, near to the ground it's kinda handy. And yes, I too wish we could also drop the SRV from a hovering ship - would save so much time faffing around trying to find a flat landing area and would also be great for base jumping / heIi-skiing off the top of mountains.

 

[Crank Larson]

and would also be great for base jumping / heIi-skiing off the top of mountains.

This needs to be a thing!

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Yeah, our Ships can do that since... V2.1 or V2.2 (forgot).

Just takes very rough Terrain so that the recalled Ship finds no landing spot within ~1.5km, then it'll hover for a "hot pickup".

Sure would love to have that as a specific recall Option
(and the ship marking the required spot on the Ground with a Laser marker, can get extremely difficult i.e. to find the correct spot and board a hovering Anaconda in rough terrain)

 

[Crank Larson]

Just takes very rough Terrain so that the recalled Ship finds no landing spot within ~1.5km

It doesn't seem to look very hard. I had to land so that I could deploy again, and I didn't have to go far to find somewhere (there was a shallow crater almost next to where the ship was hovering, and I was able to land there). Though it did take me a few minutes to realise that the landing gear wasn't down!

One thing I like about E: D is that even after playing it for years, you can still find new things (that aren't actually new at all ).

 

["Red" the Pirate]

Had that happen with my T-10 once, before its horrendous planetary landing difficulties were fixed. It was a bit close this time, though...

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[Crank Larson]

That picture really demonstrates just how massive the T-10 is.