Jumping through stars...

[MattG]

- It is no longer possible to travel through or end up inside another star if you hypespace into a multi-star system. If an intervening star is detected your hyperspace will be redirected onto that star. This process repeats if the new path is also obstructed. Note that you can still end up dangerously close to other stars and get more than a little cooked

"Install 2.2" they said. "No longer possible to travel through stars" they said.

Tell that to my slightly singed passengers...
[video=youtube_share;5Z-VUdrumDI]https://youtu.be/5Z-VUdrumDI[/video]


(Thankfully I had heat sinks as the Beluga is terrible with heat (or it is the way I fly it...), and even without them it wouldn't have been too bad - still caused me to have a mini-heart attack though!)

 

[Shadowdancer]

There appear to be two mechanisms fighting, which would explain that and the smallish issue with neutron stars and white dwarves.

With 2.2, as a new trick of the game, you enter the system on a straight line to where you came from instead of a seemingly random direction (so when you go through a rather straight route, your next system will always be behind the star); that could have broken the "safety measures" that try to keep you out of stars.

 

[marx]

What, being singed by a star is an integral part of the deep space explorer experience, and that's what your passengers paid for. Working as intended.

On a more serious note, I think that the new system still has some trouble when stars are close together. Some 1000 ly-s from Polo Harbour, I jumped into a system of a pulsar and a class K star orbiting very closely together, and as I jumped in, I clipped the K star and flew through the jet cone as well, only to end up just outside the cone on the other side and cooking from the star. Granted, I wasn't in immediate danger, but that one made me quit NS boosting.

"Exploration is boring" they said.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

I had a quite similar experience in the "2.2 era" when I jumped back the Colonia "Wagons ho!" Trail. I entered a close encounter binary system and upon hyperspace exit was placed close to the binary star, rather than the primary star. But the primary was again orbited by a close tertiary that dropped me from supercruise like a sautéed vegetable. So yes, there seem to be some rare exceptions to FD's well meaning attempt to make space a safer space and not upset explorers with flashboiled beer.