Planets are quite dark when landing at night, I'm fine with that. You need to cautions about landing with a ship that has weak thrusters and tends to drift when landing, especially when doing scan type missions such as planetary scan missions. But what would really be nice is a light indicator...
I'm not afraid of the dark...
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I just press the HOTAS button I have bound to lights, and can tell if they're on or off by the sound they make when they either turn off, or on.
funny, shouldn't you realsie your light bein on in the dark by, well seeing light? something must be wrong with light if you need an audio or indicator to know it's on. indicators are for when it's bright and youc nanot notice your light being on.
Yes, I rely on the sound too. The dark planets are a real problem when you have a big slow ship and haven't lowered your landing gear for the radar ... my T-10 is now down to 65% hull [noob]
We don't so much need an indicator .. we need longer range lights !
We don't so much need an indicator .. we need longer range lights !
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I thought you were on your way to scan the cash cow beacon round the back of Hutton..... :x
I thought Hutton was near Sag A ?
Nowhere near. Keep going, you're looking for a point attached to a beagle.
Last I checked, the light only reaches so far... Nice to be sure your lights are on before the ground rushes up and hits you...
You know you have an altimeter right?
I agree, longer range lights would be nice, but you can easily see exactly how close you are to the ground and the only thing that really messes with it are canyons.
That’s just being inconsiderate of oncoming traffic.
I seem to recall some techno-babble about how using lights to illuminate the landscape around you requires a heap of processing power.
Apparently, even adding another 500m to the range of the floodlights would double the amount of coal you have to shovel into your computer or something.
I like having to keep an eye on my pitch ladder while flying in the dark.
Ideally, it might be nice if FDev implemented some kind of edge-enhancing graphical doodad to emulate a whizzy, futuristic, radar overlay on the canopy HUD.
But, yeah. a light-switch that you could see on the HUD would be nice.
At least, that way, you'd be able to easily verify it was dark because there's nothing for your lights to illuminate, rather than because you haven't got them switched on.
Also, if darkness becomes a thing in ED, can we have the floodlights as a proper "system", which takes damage and fails so the lights flicker (or stop working completely) if you bash your ship against too many things? [big grin]
Unfortunately that means that I will spend an inordinate amount of time popping out the lights of my friend's ships with my SRV turret when we go surface prospecting.
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Theres even a bar to the right of that.
It indicates how fast upwards 9r downwards you are travelling.
The More ticks on the downside of the bar means you are losing altitude fast.
Well as a minor QoL improvement, I'd like to see a headlight indicator on the HUD, probably next to the landing gear indicator. Not because I forget to turn them on, but because I forget to turn them off.
Even way back in the 20th century, personal vehicles had lights-on indicators in their control panels (which, if I recall, were for some reason called dashboards). So it isn't as if this is some new tech.
Even way back in the 20th century, personal vehicles had lights-on indicators in their control panels (which, if I recall, were for some reason called dashboards). So it isn't as if this is some new tech.