Horizons Help with planetary landing, I cannot get it to work

piugattuk

piugattuk
So, it like it was before the update, it says I'm in planetary hit zone, it won't land even though it has the module (Cobra mk 4, I understand that not everyone has access yet, I thought I did but need to know if I should make a ticket, here's what I ordered months ago

http://imgur.com/zAySql6

So I would have access, but nothing, do I need to contact customers service.
 

no namn

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only certain planets (like ice, rock, metallic) that have no atmosphere can be landed on for the moment. on system map landable planet have blue half-circle around them
u also need make sure u have the 64-bit horizon running, and not the normal 32/64-bit
 
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Sysmon

Sysmon
Firstly, make sure you are running 2.0 Horizons. Your launcher should be in a cool blue scheme.

After launching Horizons, go to your System map. Planets you can land in have bluish halos round them, as well as additional markers if there are settlement there to visit.

When approaching a, well, approachable planet you will see a dark blue ring round it (in Supercruise) as well as the lowest yellow. Your hud should seamlessley change to an artificial horizon indicator and tell you when you have entered Orbital Cruise mode. For circumnavigating the planet, keep the ships nose in the blue (+/- 5 degrees I think). If you drop lower, you will eventually enter Glide which you can use to move the last bit closer to the surface. After that, you are basically there! Just don't faceplant, it's easier than one might think.

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Splat

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If you need the 2.0 version to land then why add the surface flight feature in 1.5 as well as the blueish decoration on planetes in the system explorer ? I spent about 2 hours last night trying to land on a rocky planet that was visibly suited in the system explorer and I was never able to get the Glide mode to kick in regardless of the fact that I flew at the near 0 (blue) marker in the approach visual, not too fast, not too slow.. just kept being forced out of approach speed. Guys, this is suposed to be a game, not a recruting tool for the next pilots at Nasa. Make it playable, working and add something todo other then just "landing" on some rock. Serioulsly, play FREELANCER for a few hours and then come back to Elite and see how "not fun" it is :(
 

TomP

TomP
Splat said:
If you need the 2.0 version to land then why add the surface flight feature in 1.5 as well as the blueish decoration on planetes in the system explorer ? I spent about 2 hours last night trying to land on a rocky planet that was visibly suited in the system explorer and I was never able to get the Glide mode to kick in regardless of the fact that I flew at the near 0 (blue) marker in the approach visual, not too fast, not too slow.. just kept being forced out of approach speed. Guys, this is suposed to be a game, not a recruting tool for the next pilots at Nasa. Make it playable, working and add something todo other then just "landing" on some rock. Serioulsly, play FREELANCER for a few hours and then come back to Elite and see how "not fun" it is :(
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Good Lord. People who bought Horizons can land on planets, people who didn't can't. The clue is in the name.
 
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no namn

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Splat said:
If you need the 2.0 version to land then why add the surface flight feature in 1.5 as well as the blueish decoration on planetes in the system explorer ? I spent about 2 hours last night trying to land on a rocky planet that was visibly suited in the system explorer and I was never able to get the Glide mode to kick in regardless of the fact that I flew at the near 0 (blue) marker in the approach visual, not too fast, not too slow.. just kept being forced out of approach speed. Guys, this is suposed to be a game, not a recruting tool for the next pilots at Nasa. Make it playable, working and add something todo other then just "landing" on some rock. Serioulsly, play FREELANCER for a few hours and then come back to Elite and see how "not fun" it is :(
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you are right! its a game not a recruiting tool. and that is why its cost a little money to play it, games usually cost some money. im sure NASA's recruting tool would be free however.
but if u dont wanna be able to see the new planets and fly in orbits of those.. why dont u write fd and ask them to remove that feature for all 1.5 users who dont own 2.0?
but if u do have 2.0, and wanna land on planets, why insist on playing 1.5?
 

komakala

K
Are you running this through steam? Currently you can't launch Horizons purchased on frontier's store through steam. You need to manually launch the edlaunch.exe in order to get access to horizons.
To manually run edlaunch.exe follow these steps in steam:
1) Open your library and right click on Elite: Dangerous
2) Select Properties
3) Select Local Files tab
4) Click Browse Local Files
5) Double click EDLaunch.exe

This time the launcher should pop up with a blue color scheme instead of the orange. Horizons 64-bit should be at the top of the list of elite dangerous versions.
 

no namn

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piugattuk said:
No go I guess, I think I might be stuck running 1.5 from what I understand,

http://imgur.com/DmCi1F1

In the circle it reads issues detected, server

I am looking for the link to download 2.0 but no dice.
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i have the same message here, but it worked for me just 5 minutes ago. just logged out for today thou
to the right of the PLAY-button it should say "elite dangerous: horizons (64-bit)" thats the one u wanna pick!
if u have 1.5 as well like i do, it should also say just "elite dangerous (32-bit)" and "elite dangerous (64-bit)", ignore them for now

edit: i just noticed u seem to have the old orange launcher? u need a blue one i think, also you should have a email from fd with a activation code.. thats atleast what i had (for my lifetime pass, which includes horizon. im not using steam btw)

if that dont help then idk?!? tried contact support?
 
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