Holy Moley

[Ashnak]

Warning to all Explorers: don't log out while you're in your SRV, cruising on a planet. Or otherwise, this might happen:

I started up the game, logged in and was in my SRV. As expected.

What I did not expect was that this SRV was hanging 15.5 km above the surface of the planet I logged out on. Nose down. And starting to fall. My only rescue probably was that this moon has a pitiful gravity of 0.04 g. I survived the impact with some uncoordinated boosting and 2% SRV hull left....

 

[Flash_Baggins]

Holy srv falling to its certain demise on the rocky face of a planet batman!

 

[Siobhan]

Warning to all Explorers: don't log out while you're in your SRV, cruising on a planet. Or otherwise, this might happen:

http://i.imgur.com/460M67v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/q7RUAgP.jpg

I started up the game, logged in and was in my SRV. As expected.

What I did not expect was that this SRV was hanging 15.5 km above the surface of the planet I logged out on. Nose down. And starting to fall. My only rescue probably was that this moon has a pitiful gravity of 0.04 g. I survived the impact with some uncoordinated boosting and 2% SRV hull left....

And yet you didn't think to record video.
I despair of some of you, I really do.

 

[Ashnak]

And yet you didn't think to record video.
I despair of some of you, I really do.

Ok, just in case this happens again: what is the shortcut to start a video recording on the PC?

 

[Arry]

Next time, put the hand break on?

 

[Siobhan]

Ok, just in case this happens again: what is the shortcut to start a video recording on the PC?

Depends what you use.
I use NVidia's Instant Replay (ctrl-z) which you can set to automatically keep the last n minutes. I have it set to 10.

 

[marx]

I'm fairly certain that Jebediah Kerman snuck into your SRV while your Commander was asleep. Looks like he tried to make it to orbit.

 

[Sugarat]

.. and the first thing you did was take a screenie. Props to you

 

[Satsuma]

It's very kerbal looking, though!

Nice lander design

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Warning to all Explorers: don't log out while you're in your SRV, cruising on a planet. Or otherwise, this might happen

Shouldn't that read: log out lots on planets so this might happen to you as well?

Looks a barrel of fun

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

Did you try recalling your ship?

Not tried it but if it happens to me I'll give it a shot just to see what happens! But, hey, you landed it against the odds so Rep

 

[Ashnak]

.. and the first thing you did was take a screenie. Props to you

I didn't even realize I was falling until I tried to stop the debug cam while taking that second picture. Looking at these pictures now, though, I can see that I already must have been falling on the first picture.

@Siobhan: had a look into my NVidia driver and found something called ShadowPlay. If I find some time on the weekend to set it up I'll give it a shot.

 

[Siobhan]

I didn't even realize I was falling until I tried to stop the debug cam while taking that second picture. Looking at these pictures now, though, I can see that I already must have been falling on the first picture.

@Siobhan: had a look into my NVidia driver and found something called ShadowPlay. If I find some time on the weekend to set it up I'll give it a shot.

That's the jobby! ShadowPlay. The instant replay is part of it.

 

[bitstorm]

My only rescue probably was that this moon has a pitiful gravity of 0.04 g. I survived the impact with some uncoordinated boosting and 2% SRV hull left....

Not that it will but for when/if this happens again, log into Elite Dangerous without Horizons, no buggies allowed there so it fails over by auto-sticking you in your ship.

 

[Sugarat]

@Siobhan: had a look into my NVidia driver and found something called ShadowPlay. If I find some time on the weekend to set it up I'll give it a shot.

No setting up required, just have to turn it on in GeForce Experience and note the hotkeys

 

[Witzo]

 

[Cmdr Frawd Digger]

Warning to all Explorers: don't log out while you're in your SRV, cruising on a planet. Or otherwise, this might happen:
http://i.imgur.com/460M67v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/q7RUAgP.jpg
I started up the game, logged in and was in my SRV. As expected.
What I did not expect was that this SRV was hanging 15.5 km above the surface of the planet I logged out on. Nose down. And starting to fall. My only rescue probably was that this moon has a pitiful gravity of 0.04 g. I survived the impact with some uncoordinated boosting and 2% SRV hull left....

Wow, I'm sure that was a shock! Something like a nightmare I imagine. And you had the nouse to go into debug cam and take a pic...excellent.

Frawd

 

[Elpapo]

You know how to deal with it??? Just before impact, exit into main menu... then log in again. Or like others's suggested, reload the game without horizons.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

What a way to go

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Mole is a good nickname for the buggy. And because it can fly, it might be holy.

Good thread title.