I visited a geyser for the first time today.

Deleted member 110222 · Feb 14, 2018

Tourist asked to visit. I immediately drove my SRV into the plume. Next thing I knew, I was several kilometres in the air.

I will be doing it again.

CMDR MadRaptor · Feb 14, 2018

You can catch some pretty good air. Watch out for Lava Spouts, get too close and you'll start to cook.

smiths121 · Feb 15, 2018

Have a look around, some of the natural tourist locations have rocks you can mine. They tend to have some of the rarer materials that the planet offers.

Well after you have had fun taking off with the SRV. I find the taking off is fun, the landing .... not so much.

Simon

IndigoWyrd · Feb 15, 2018

Geyser Jumping is a blast - pun intended.

Especially fun are the really high-powered ones (you will know them when you find them) on exceptionally low-gravity planets. I've boosted high enough to be passed by my ship as it self-dismissed and managed to land without breaking my SRV. Then I did it again, and again, and again. Then I had to stop and repair my SRV.

CMDR Rob Roy Hobbs · Feb 15, 2018

They do have some great fun things there! My first one overheated my SRV, glad that that didn't happen to you.

Witcher 7 · Feb 15, 2018

Yea, I also visited geysers for fun and see how high my SRV can jump except they are quite difficult to find where there's no tourist beacon.

Will they become easier to spot with higher textures in 3.0?

Riverside · Feb 15, 2018

Witcher7 said:
Will they become easier to spot with higher textures in 3.0?

Not in Q1 but maybe in Q4.

The Q1 planet update really is just the colours. They should give you a better idea of what is on the planet, but not where.

shadow133 · Feb 15, 2018

When vulcanism and geisers was first announced I was expecting a huge volcano with lava all around canyons and a Yellowstone grade feature. I passed by several planets that supposedly had these things and not seeing from orbit just figured there was a bug and it wasn’t showing. Until I went down to the surface and found out they are nothing but little fumes. Very disappointing to say the least (I used to have high expectations). The srv launch is still fun though &#55357;&#56832;

Witcher 7 · Feb 15, 2018

Riverside said:
Not in Q1 but maybe in Q4.

The Q1 planet update really is just the colours. They should give you a better idea of what is on the planet, but not where.

More waiting again

shadow133 said:
When vulcanism and geisers was first announced I was expecting a huge volcano with lava all around canyons and a Yellowstone grade feature. I passed by several planets that supposedly had these things and not seeing from orbit just figured there was a bug and it wasn’t showing. Until I went down to the surface and found out they are nothing but little fumes. Very disappointing to say the least (I used to have high expectations). The srv launch is still fun though &#55357;&#56832;

Lol, same here.

Susanna · Feb 15, 2018

It can be great fun!

Skip to 9:00 to see the highest jump 13.4km.

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

I visited a geyser for the first time today.

Deleted member 110222