As the title said, I've been trying to shove this guy into the airlock and jettison him to the planet but no go. The planet also seems to have an invincibility field that even prevents me from going near the base, even if I pointed my nose straight down and tried to ram the bloody thing. It took me 4 hours and still can't figure it out. I finally just abandoned the mission after I started getting heart pains over the aggravation, but seriously how does passenger delivery to planets even work? And if it doesn't, how do I figure to avoid them lest they trigger a heart attack? No, that was not a joke, I'm currently having chest pains right now. How do I tell which deliveries are to planets so that I can avoid them in the future? It's not worth a heart attack.
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Newcomer / Intro How do I deliver a passenger to a planet I can't land on?
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There's a module (don't remember the exact name in game) like planetary approach suite or something like that... check if you have it/and it's enabled:
Planetary Approach Suite
A series of thruster modifications, sensor calibrations and avionics that allow a ship to fly effectively while close to a planetary body. Required to land on planets without atmospheres. — In-Game Description The Planetary Approach Suite is a specialised module that complements Thrusters and...
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Yeah I have the Advanced version, think it comes pre-equipped for all ships.There's a module (don't remember the exact name in game) like planetary approach suite or something like that... check if you have it/and it's enabled:
Planetary Approach Suite
A series of thruster modifications, sensor calibrations and avionics that allow a ship to fly effectively while close to a planetary body. Required to land on planets without atmospheres. — In-Game Description The Planetary Approach Suite is a specialised module that complements Thrusters and...
Have you purchased Odyssey or just the Odyssey/Beyond base game? What I’m wondering is whether the game (wrongly) gave you a mission down to a thin atmospheric planet, which you can only land on with the Odyssey expansion? There's indication in the system map of this, a blue corona around the body, which, in conjunction with the thin blue arc that indicates "landable", highlights these landable thin atmospheric worlds. When I'm back at my desk I'll grab a screen shot and post it here to illustrate. It could be the lack of the planetary landing suite that Rebel Yell mentioned but it seem unlikely to me since that's fitted to all ships by default and you would have had to explicitly sell that to get yourself in the situation suggested.
He has the advanced planetary approach suite, which is the Odyssey version so in theory to have that he must have Odyssey, so that seems to rule out not having the right version, could be a bug, could be the wrong planet, maybe he was trying to land on planet but should have been going to one of the moons, we don't have that info though, wish people would post more info when asking for help. OP, what planet was it?
Yep, can you remember the planet/base you were meant to deliver to? I've made occasional mistakes where I've selected the wrong settlement - if there's an "Alpha Base" and an "Alpha Place" in the same system I've plotted to the wrong one
If you were trying to reach the wrong settlement, which happened to be on a full atmospheric planet (where ships can't land), it might explain your experience.
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Possible but I'm still using supercruise assist and navigating from the navpoints bar and those indicate quest locations with a marker. The quest was a redirect so maybe something went wrong? The quest was redirected half way so I was wondering if it spawned something in the wrong location or failed to spawn something. Hell, the "no planet enter" itself is odd already since as noted, Odyssey has planetfall.Yep, can you remember the planet/base you were meant to deliver to? I've made occasional mistakes where I've selected the wrong settlement - if there's an "Alpha Base" and an "Alpha Place" in the same system I've plotted to the wrong one
If you were trying to reach the wrong settlement, which happened to be on a full atmospheric planet (where ships can't land), it might explain your experience.
Edit: I just made planetfall on another base smoothly and successfully, so maybe it was just that particular annoying planet.
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Odyssey only allows landings on certain kinds of planet (based on atmosphere - see Alec Turner's post above for a diagram), you'll still bounce off the others.
Still odd though. Must admit I haven't done any passenger redirects for a long time, I don't look at any incoming messages after I take a passenger mission (they don't get upset with you for delivering to the initial destination if you never read their request to change it).
Thanks for all the replies, I finally figured it out, the atmosphere was too thin so once I dropped from suborbital, it went nearly straight to the "failed glide" lock. Bumped into another planet like that so now I just have to figure out how to close in to <100km before the game locks my ship's location.
Set throttle to 50% until you get used to the approach and angle you can use, a bit of experience and you will soon figure it out, but 50% will get you into glide for any planet, then just watch your angle according to the red glide meter.
Sometimes if you are too close and too straight when you go to 50% you can still crash out due to going too fast I find that swerving around and rolling after setting the throttle can help to avoid that.
If you do crash out just point back up away from the planet and when the FSD has cooled down go back into cruise at zero throttle then align to your destination.
You can get down to the surface by using boost and your normal drives but it seems to take ages and isn’t really worth doing unless you are directly above your destination, if you try it be wary of using the boost too close to the surface on higher gravity planets as your ship might not be able to stop above the planets surface.
Yeah, and stopping below the planets surface is often a negative outcome!
Yeah lithobraking sucks rocks.
No problems! I subscribe to the saying that any crash you can walk away from is a good one!