FSD vs Supercruise?

[kfsone]

There are now separate control options for "Enable Frame Shift Drive" and "Enable FSD To Supercruise". Aside the fact that they are actually toggles, they both appear to do the same thing; put you into super cruise or drop you out of it. Is there some subtle nuance of one vs the other?

 

[Nikita]

There are now separate control options for "Enable Frame Shift Drive" and "Enable FSD To Supercruise". Aside the fact that they are actually toggles, they both appear to do the same thing; put you into super cruise or drop you out of it. Is there some subtle nuance of one vs the other?

I think one will let you jump to hyperspace, i.e jump between star systems, while the other allows you to use supercruise within one star system. It used to be on the same button, but has now been reverted to its original implementation of two separate keys in response to community feedback. At least this is what I gather from the forums.

 

[Armante]

I suppose this way you can jump into supercruise in a system to swing arouond a planet if it is obscuring your jump target. Previously you would have to go to left panel, unlock the target, go into SC, then lock your destination again.

 

[Mike Evans]

I think one will let you jump to hyperspace, i.e jump between star systems, while the other allows you to use supercruise within one star system. It used to be on the same button, but has now been reverted to its original implementation of two separate keys in response to community feedback. At least this is what I gather from the forums.

Not quite a revert as the combi-button still exists but you now have the choice to bind the dedicated versions as well if desired.

 

[kfsone]

Thanks Mike, that's a neat little trio then

 

[Borgkube]

There are now separate control options for "Enable Frame Shift Drive" and "Enable FSD To Supercruise". Aside the fact that they are actually toggles, they both appear to do the same thing; put you into super cruise or drop you out of it. Is there some subtle nuance of one vs the other?

Enable Frame Shift Drive is context mode. A single key for both Supercruise and a Hyperspace Jump. If you have nothing or a local object targeted you will engage supercruise. If however you have another star system targeted, you will make a Hyper Jump to that star system. Back several updates ago, there were seperate keys for SC and HJ. Frontier decided to make it one key for both. Some people wanted to go back to the old option so they have provided both in 3.9. If you decide to do the 2 key method you need to bind a different key to 2nd and 3rd option. If you like the single key method then bind a key to Enable Frame Shift Drive and leave the second and third options blank. Of course you could bind a different key to each of the 3 options and fly both ways. I hope that makes sense.