How did I die?

althaz

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So I just died in my still-shiny Vulture a few moments ago and am now back in a nearby station - but I have no idea how I died. Is there any way for me to see who killed me/what I ran in to? I'm assuming a very big gun or - more likely - an asteroid collision (though there was no asteroid on screen, if I hit one must have just clipped it - right after hitting boost), but I'd like to know for sure, in case it was a bug. A bug *was* my initial impression, I pressed boost (with my screen clear of obstacles, as far as I could see) and my ship instantly exploded (literally instantly my ship didn't move an inch before exploding).

So, tl;dr: Is there a kill-cam or something in this game? I couldn't find anything like it, but it would be useful/hilarious to watch how I died :).
 

Troa Barton

Troa Barton
If we had kill cams there would be a lot of vulture teabags :p
sounds like you hit an invisible asteroid. I'd submit a ticket.
 
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Bacon Sarnie

Bacon Sarnie
Yup, I got splattered all over an asteroid I couldnt see due to the sun going behind the planet, I could see some roids but not all.

Boost, boost, turn, boost SPLODE!
Didnt see it till the very last second, huge black rock!
 

Steve50

Steve50
I've also learnt the hard way to never boost whilst in an asteroid field..
Sometimes the things are almost invisible from certain angles.
 

ste

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You should be able to look at your history in the right panel. I had an unexplained death last week.
 

althaz

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Shadowplay is actually a good suggestion (or the built-in recording that Win10 does which is a good way to grab the last 30s or however long it is) - but I'm fairly sure that if I hit something it wasn't in my FOV.

@ste - I can't see where in the right-panel I can view my history - other than seeing that I've now made 5 insurance claims (first one was my 1st attempt at smuggling :))?

Mark Oliver Spengler said:
(1) Lights on in Asteroid Belts
(2) Increase Radar range in Asteroid belts
(3) 4 pips to Shields while boosting in Asteroid Belts

Fly save...
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I always do #1 (ever since the first time I hit one in my Cobra - although I didn't die then I also stopped going into RES in the dark - light-side only for me :)), how do you do #2? #3 - probably just need to pay more attention instead - if I'm boosting it's to get to a big ship before local PD kills 'em :). Lights didn't help as their were no asteroids in my FOV (I think) although they rarely help when I'm light-side they do from time to time.
 

ste

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althaz said:
Shadowplay is actually a good suggestion (or the built-in recording that Win10 does which is a good way to grab the last 30s or however long it is) - but I'm fairly sure that if I hit something it wasn't in my FOV.

@ste - I can't see where in the right-panel I can view my history - other than seeing that I've now made 5 insurance claims (first one was my 1st attempt at smuggling :))?
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I'm saying thats would they should do. You cant atm, but they should do that. Messages appear like chat on the opposite side of the chat, and you can look at it like the chat. Currently you cant, but if they did that them it would solve this.
 
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Steve72

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Crashed a vulture and python whilst leaving a res. Convinced clear path but no. Massive adteroid head on. I am very careful to make sure I can see a star in the middle of my view as some large asteroids are invisible until you are just about to hit it as at that point all the stars dissappear.
 

Ism

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Never had a problem boosting through an asteroid field, just turning blind. Clipped an asteroid once turning blind but only took down my shields ....fortunately.
 

Fanta

Fanta
You all talking about asteroid , I even managed to hit T7 with clipper without shields while trading, it was on exit from air lock , nothing in front of me, turbo , than noticed t7 in front of me but it was to late, boom. Simple , station was looking in to moon with sun behind, so between moon and station everything was in darkest possible shadow.
 

Loskene

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Yeah my asteroid problems mostly involved ships that drift or don't turn well. I was belting full throttle through a RES in a clipper when I had to pull up all of a sudden, only to see a massive asteroid loom into view from the top of my canopy, too late to do anything about it with the momentum. Good times, expensive, but good fun.
On a totally unrelated note I am up to space commander Loskene the 26th, son of space commander Loskene the 25th, who died in a freak accident involving a small part of an Orbis starport.
 
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