Horizons How do you approach a planet surface?!?

SneakyBastd · Dec 18, 2015

I approach a planet with a planet base selected. As I approach the orbital HUD comes up, but I can never get closer than 187km before it drops me out of SC. No matter how fast/slow I approach, or from what angle, it always drops me at 187km. No fkn way am I flying that far manually. What the hell is going on?

I have confirmed I have a planetary suite, but I cannot find a vehicle bay to save my goddam life.

This is after I spent ages finding out I have to make a shortcut to EDLauncher and add that to steam to run the horizons version in the first place. Seriously FD,

made you think that was a good idea?!?

Thanks for your help.

Retrograde · Dec 18, 2015

Frontier put out some new instruction videos. They should help: https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments

Try looking for the vehicle bay in high tech or industrial economies.

CMDR i Tetsuo · Dec 18, 2015

Not sure what you're doing wrong but it must be something as I drop much closer than that. Without knowing where you're going wrong though it's hard to give any advice. Have you watched any of the official Horizon training videos? Edit: The ones in the comment above mine!

winghong · Dec 18, 2015

you will bounce back if you do it wrong.

a good decent rate is wise.

SneakyBastd · Dec 18, 2015

Oh

, I figured it out. I was running vanilla ED. I actually ran HORIZONS this time. Just running the horizons launcher and clicking on play 64 bit does NOT give you horizons rofl. The "Horizons" option was scolled off the list at the top, I couldnt see it and just ran 64 bit. That gave me vanilla E

.... christ what a mess and stuff up there. Sorry to waste your time!
But not getting the horizons launcher in steam, having to add it manually, and still not getting horizons when you run 64bit is crazy.

Exeider · Dec 18, 2015

Firstly, are you making sure your running Horizons 64-bit client, my buddy was in 32 bit and had a planetary suite, which was confusing. Secondly, are you absolutely sure you have the suite installed, because the first couple times I thought I had it and realized it was just the slot identifying itself as to what slot it was, not that I actually had it.

Thirdly, only certain planets can be landfalled, the ones int he system map that have a Blue curve around them.

Fourthly, approach at blue throttle until you get into orbital cruise, then point at the city your wanting to land up, angle down to about 30-45 degress and floor it, YES floor it, you will come out about 50 KM and glide will take you pretty much to about 8-10 km out, basically the same as a station.

JughedJones · Dec 18, 2015

Retrograde said:
Frontier put out some new instruction videos. They should help: https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments

Try looking for the vehicle bay in high tech or industrial economies.

It always strikes me as a little whacky that people would buy a game that very clearly has a 'sim' foundation, then freak out when they can't do the fundamentals without instruction.

It's even crazier that they start a thread freaking out instead of using that energy to find said instruction.

SneakyBastd · Dec 18, 2015

JughedJones said:
It always strikes me as a little whacky that people would buy a game that very clearly has a 'sim' foundation, then freak out when they can't do the fundamentals without instruction.

It's even crazier that they start a thread freaking out instead of using that energy to find said instruction.

And it freaks me out when people like you can't read the thread, but want to patronise anyway. Thanks for that. I had seen those videos earlier, they offered nothing new.

As I said, I had the horizons launcher open, and ran "ELITE DANGEROUS (64BIT)" assuming that was the right thing to do. I did not notice the options list was slightly longer, with "ELITE DANGEROUS: HORIZONS (64BIT)" hidden from view. And when IN THE GAME I had a planetary suite, I had the orbital HUD, I had a targeted planet base, so I just figured I was in the horizons game. OF COURSE I'm going to freak out thinking something is wrong.

Nevermind, all sorted now.

JughedJones · Dec 18, 2015

SneakyBastd said:
And it freaks me out when people like you can't read the thread, but want to patronise anyway. Thanks for that. I had seen those videos earlier, they offered nothing new.

As I said, I had the horizons launcher open, and ran "ELITE DANGEROUS (64BIT)" assuming that was the right thing to do. I did not notice the options list was slightly longer, with "ELITE DANGEROUS: HORIZONS (64BIT)" hidden from view. And when IN THE GAME I had a planetary suite, I had the orbital HUD, I had a targeted planet base, so I just figured I was in the horizons game. OF COURSE I'm going to freak out thinking something is wrong.

Nevermind, all sorted now.

I got bored after reading the thread title and your OP.

Sorry if I didn't stick around to see your exciting conclusion.

Next time, if you would like more reasonable replies, you should consider not being a spaz.

SelfAvenger · Dec 18, 2015

JughedJones said:
I got bored after reading the thread title and your OP.

Sorry if I didn't stick around to see your exciting conclusion.

Next time, if you would like more reasonable replies, you should consider not being a spaz.

OK,

That's not called for. CMDR Sneakybastd, apologies for Jones here. some of us can still be a civil bunch and I hope this doesn't deter you from posting in the future.

Enjoy Horizons!

- Todd

hunvagy · Dec 18, 2015

SelfAvenger said:
OK,

That's not called for. CMDR Sneakybastd, apologies for Jones here. some of us can still be a civil bunch and I hope this doesn't deter you from posting in the future.

Enjoy Horizons!

- Todd

The tone might have been uncalled for, but Jones is right in the fact that this is at least the 7th thread on this subject, with the exact same conclusion as the other ones. Namely that the user wasn't running Horizons. A simple forum search is not rocket science, at least in my opinion, and it reduces thread clutter.

SirBaron · Dec 18, 2015

You can claim a horizons steam key so you don't have to launch the launcher outside of steam.

Claim it in the frontierstore.

Nick Sticks · Dec 18, 2015

hunvagy said:
The tone might have been uncalled for, but Jones is right in the fact that this is at least the 7th thread on this subject, with the exact same conclusion as the other ones. Namely that the user wasn't running Horizons. A simple forum search is not rocket science, at least in my opinion, and it reduces thread clutter.

You're right of course, but if only that scrollable game selection box in the client launcher was a bit bigger and not so fiddly some of this wouldn't have happened.