Engineers How fast has everyone managed to go with these new engines?

AlterIgor

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Hello fellow commanders!

As a devout Eagle lover and speed freak, 2.1 beta and hopefully live (pending Meta Alloys) was an absolute blast!

I am curious as to what sort of speeds people managed to achieve in beta in exchange for copious quantities of marine life :)
As my submission I present to you, "858m/s backwards under one of the Felicity Farseer bridges" :cool:

[video=youtube_share;iI8bpMhB2Ss]https://youtu.be/iI8bpMhB2Ss[/video]

I'd like to see or hear what everyone else managed to squeeze out of their ships too :)
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
780m/s (edited, typo saying 870) with the Courier if I remember rightly from beta. I was on the livestream yesterday in it flying around like a fool :)
 
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Bokugo

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It seems weight has much more of an impact on speed now. When I switched out my Couriers engine, and only the engine, I only gained about 10 m/s on top speed and boost, but every ton I took off added another 10 m/s
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
Bokugo said:
It seems weight has much more of an impact on speed now. When I switched out my Couriers engine, and only the engine, I only gained about 10 m/s on top speed and boost, but every ton I took off added another 10 m/s
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Oh yes, that one I was flying on the livestream had every ounce scraped off. 2D powerplant with engineer buff. 1D distributor with engineer buff to allow boost. I think I even lowered the fuel tank size iirc. Either way the only optional extra was the 3D shields because well... I died 3 times in an hour doing canyon and RES flying...
 

AlterIgor

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During my many fish related re-rolls I noticed that boosting the multiplier had way bigger impact on top speed than raising the optimal mass. I never quite managed to get both boosted at the same time, the video was a 155% optimal multiplier or something.

I am willing to bet someone out there nailed the optimal mass AND multiplier values and goes like greased lightning :D
 

CMDR IPL Victim

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Not the fastest thing out there, but I had a fully combat loaded Viper Mk 3 at over 500 m/s with a cruise around 430 in Beta. Crazy fast and hard to maintain position on slower ship's rear. Way too easy to overshoot.

Sure was fun buzzing some surface ports, though!
 

Luniticisi

Luniticisi
Just a question, wasn't the 500ms Thing supposed to be due to the networking, and the reason that ships couldn't go any faster ?

I DO remember that being used as a reason for the speed limit.


EDIT - TINMAN !!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Ximrats

Ximrats
Luniticisi said:
Just a question, wasn't the 500ms Thing supposed to be due to the networking, and the reason that ships couldn't go any faster ?

I DO remember that being used as a reason for the speed limit.
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Pretty much. Recent improvements to the netcode are why we're now getting faster speeds, smoother SC transitions etc
 
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