How do you drop into low wakes?

Quineloe · Feb 7, 2015

It takes forever to approach them, because your ship slows down too much, then it accelerates again and overshoots. Is that how it's supposed to work?

pippo · Feb 7, 2015

with difficulties.

EDIT: sorry for smart comment, but hopefully this will get looked at.

beelbeebub · Feb 7, 2015

Currently there is a bug, some wakes don't create a "mass zone" that slows you up when you get close. They should act just like a USS.
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Dropping into wakes created by "Wingmates" is slated to be much easier, and in the next upgrade in a month or so

Quineloe · Feb 13, 2015

I've tried it again since I saw it working fairly well for others on streams since 1.1, and now I am getting the error message "cloud not scanned".

Do I need a wake scanner now to drop out of SC into low wakes?

Quineloe · Feb 17, 2015

someone please explain why this needs to be scanned?

Yabba Addict · Feb 17, 2015

That's definitely...wrong

GeneralIdea1964 · Feb 17, 2015

Quineloe said:
It takes forever to approach them, because your ship slows down too much, then it accelerates again and overshoots. Is that how it's supposed to work?

Yes it's a bit sketchy. haven't tried it lately, but basically if you get speed and distance down to the right levels then exit SC it should drop you into the low energy wake location.
And yes it doesn't mass lock you in any way, so you have to do an instrument landing and be quick with the drop button. .... Good luck

kapitankev · Feb 17, 2015

yes that's def wrong....not seen that before.

They are tricky to get into.....slow and steady is better than overshooting multiple times.