Horizons Hi Guys. I bought the game a day ago and now i have an issue.
- Thread starter Booflee
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hey, what's the situation?
- did you land and your thrusters are turned off? you need to reengage the thrusters with your vertical/directional thrusters.
- did you deploy the srv, and your ship took off? you can call it back in the same panel where you deployed your srv.
- did you deploy the srv, and can't dock it again?
- other?
- did you land and your thrusters are turned off? you need to reengage the thrusters with your vertical/directional thrusters.
- did you deploy the srv, and your ship took off? you can call it back in the same panel where you deployed your srv.
- did you deploy the srv, and can't dock it again?
- other?
If stuck on a planet try running Elite dangerous without horizons and you should just start in orbit around the planet.
Main Menu
Clear Save
read the manual,
watch the training videos,
do the training missions
Start game.
(Welcome... )
Are you using the basic Elite Dangerous, or Elite: Dangerous - Horizons ?
If you are in the first, you cannot approach a planet closer than a fixed distance.
If you are in Horizons, you can land on a planet, but you really need to watch training videos first, or you will crash !
In fact, if you don't do the training videos first in either game, you will end up getting destroyed very quickly
If you are in the first, you cannot approach a planet closer than a fixed distance.
If you are in Horizons, you can land on a planet, but you really need to watch training videos first, or you will crash !
In fact, if you don't do the training videos first in either game, you will end up getting destroyed very quickly
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As you are new to Eliteangerous, you need to complete the basic tutorial. That will teach you everything you need to get started. After that, don't worry about trying to get money. Just focus on trying to apply the tutorial to the full game. Once you are comfortable and have a basic mastery over the simple things, try to learn things that might be just out of reach. Do some missions, find a Resource Extraction Site and make some kills, try trading without using the missions, be a pirate. Don't worry if you are still in a Sidewinder two weeks from now. If you crash a few times, laugh it off. I recently died because I caused my own death by trying a bombing run too close to the ground after slamming into the surface of a planet. Lesson: don't slam into the ground and try a low-level bombing run shortly afterword. Mines explode when they get too close to a target!
When it comes to climbing into a new ship. Save up your credits. There are few things worse than buying that ship you've been drooling over only to realize you can't get to another star system because the new ship just can't quite reach or having not having enough money to cover the re-buy should you be destroyed.
If you have Horizons, you'll be able to get close to a planet (provided your graphics card can handle it). My father had to get a new graphics card because his old one was unable to handle the generation of the surface map. If you have a 2 Gigabyte graphics card (plus E: D Horizons) then you're fine. Just keep it slow as you get close, drop to 200Mm/s or slower, and allow your ship to slow further to 2.5 Km/s. And stay out of the red when the side bars show up. You'll drop if your ship's approach angle touches it.
angerous, you need to complete the basic tutorial. That will teach you everything you need to get started. After that, don't worry about trying to get money. Just focus on trying to apply the tutorial to the full game. Once you are comfortable and have a basic mastery over the simple things, try to learn things that might be just out of reach. Do some missions, find a Resource Extraction Site and make some kills, try trading without using the missions, be a pirate. Don't worry if you are still in a Sidewinder two weeks from now. If you crash a few times, laugh it off. I recently died because I caused my own death by trying a bombing run too close to the ground after slamming into the surface of a planet. Lesson: don't slam into the ground and try a low-level bombing run shortly afterword. Mines explode when they get too close to a target!When it comes to climbing into a new ship. Save up your credits. There are few things worse than buying that ship you've been drooling over only to realize you can't get to another star system because the new ship just can't quite reach or having not having enough money to cover the re-buy should you be destroyed.
If you have Horizons, you'll be able to get close to a planet (provided your graphics card can handle it). My father had to get a new graphics card because his old one was unable to handle the generation of the surface map. If you have a 2 Gigabyte graphics card (plus E: D Horizons) then you're fine. Just keep it slow as you get close, drop to 200Mm/s or slower, and allow your ship to slow further to 2.5 Km/s. And stay out of the red when the side bars show up. You'll drop if your ship's approach angle touches it.