FSD Countdown

Skürt Avil · Feb 12, 2015

This has happened to me twice now.
when selecting Hyperspace jump, the drive charges up and then the countdown starts but instead of counting down from 4, it counts down from one. That's not really a countdown in my book.
Anyone else experienced this? Is it just a glitch or do you think I should ticket it?

Minoo Minou · Feb 12, 2015

It happens sometimes when you go from space>supercruise>hyperdrive.

Seems fine to me, it changes sometimes.

Sams · Feb 12, 2015

I've noticed it too.

Only times I've seen it though is:

1. When my SC destination is blocked and I have to SC in the system to go around the obstacle
2. I'm jumping from the station to a conflict zone in the same system.

streki · Feb 12, 2015

can the "5 4 3 2 1 Engage" be switched off ?

I've switched off a few things that she says, but I didn't see the countdown in the list.

Luminoth · Feb 12, 2015

Seriously if it's a bug, it should be fixed, but in the ever so long long list of things taking time in just about everything you can do in elite, I don't mind scraping off some seconds here and there occasionally.

Elriuhilu · Feb 12, 2015

It seems to happen when your ship is getting forcefully slowed down by a planet or whatever in supercruise and the hyperjump finishes charging at the same time.

Skürt Avil · Feb 12, 2015

It's not a massive problem, true. But it does significantly reduce your time to cut your throttle.

CMDR Generic EventHandler · Feb 12, 2015

Depends on your speed. if you are moving close to the jump speed that it speeds you up to when jumping from still then it is nearly immediate. if you're at max speed it just goes CRUNCH and you engage.

skydivertricky · Feb 12, 2015

It happens when you go space -> SC -> HS , every time, and has done this for as long as I remember.

Emanon · Feb 12, 2015

Yeah its only started happening occasionally for me since 1.1 and I reported it. But at least it's not game breaking.

Loskene · Feb 12, 2015

The countdown starting at 2 is nothing new to me, it happened pretty randomly but I liked when it did, screw waiting for the whole countdown. You guys know you can throttle down at literally any point after the countdown starts, including the hyperspace tunnel, right?
There's no rush, the software is designed to keep note of throttle changes regardless of what it displays on screen, because of people with physical throttles. This still works with keyboards, so you can jump to hyperspace and then press X at any time before you arrive.

Oh and this applies to supercruise too. When I'm doing the 30km/s USS crawl I charge my frameshift while throttle's at zero and boost when it's done. You don't actually need to throttle up to engage, just be moving above 75% of your flank speed. Then I'm cruising at minimum speed without having to cut throttle after engaging.

IPredictARiot · Feb 12, 2015

streki said:
can the "5 4 3 2 1 Engage" be switched off ?

I've switched off a few things that she says, but I didn't see the countdown in the list.

As of the 1.1 update this can now be switched off in the audio settings. Separate choices for the countdown and the "Engage" if I recall correctly