Landing too difficult? The tutorial to end all docking discussions!

Henri

Henri
There have been many calls to make Elite Dangerous more accesible, less daunting and more forgiving. Many of us do find that the learning curve is too steep and death awaits them EVERYWHERE!!!! The advanced better than human A.I. steals their kills EVERY.TIME.THERE.IS.A.KILL.IT.IS.SO.BAD.THE.GAME.H AD.TO.BE.MADE.SIMPLER!.!

The same is true for landing, which has already been mind numbingly simplified, easyerfied, dumbdownyfied, made more accesible, made more starter friendly, cadsualyfied. In order to help everyone, I have made a tutorial mission which is GUARANTEED to turn ANYONE into an ACE pilot when it comes to landings. I demonstrate advanced docking manouvres such as speed entree, full stop and how to deal with grind, wrong pad, bounce, upsidedown landing, what to do when shields fail and landing with gear up.
After watching this video you will no longer feel docking is dangerous at all, I guarantee it!

Concerned Commander said:
Let's take a very likely example:
A new player, so far totally unfamiliar with ED type game mechanics and spaceship controls, but with good sense and abilities for them, gets familiar with all the ship controls pretty fast, and gains a certain level of competence at manual landing.
Since auto-pilot costs 4 times our starting credits, he will have to do at least a couple of trade routes to earn and acquire it.
During all that time, he will have to do manual landings all the time.
If he by any chance makes a mistake by landing and dies, he will have to restart the game from the very scratches.
Let's say he needs to perform 10 successful manual landings IN A ROW in order to get the auto-pilot.
No matter how familiar he became with the controls and the landing process itself, how high or likely you think is the possibility of such row of 10, without a single mistake. =resulting in failure)
Only a short moment of lack of concentration or attention, a dumb misclick or key-mistype, an unplanned, unfortunate direction or flight command switch, few seconds late or delayed reflexes......or just simply shot down by some other, hostile human or AI pilot......and there goes all his previous achievement!
You think starting to play a game under such risky conditions, and with such hazard odds is easy?
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That's RIGHT MY FRIEND!!! The tutorial to end all docking woes has arrived! 		[video=youtube;KgLv3l7pEYc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLv3l7pEYc&feature=youtu.be[/video]
NOTE:You might want to turn your sound WAAAAY UP!!!!!
are you watching Karresh? THIS IS HOW LANDING IS DONE!!!!


Disclaimer: Be aware that this video shows advanced landing techniques and you might not get them exactly right the first time you try them, it might actually take you two attempts but then you too will be docking like a skippy ball!
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AND BEST OF ALL 0% WEAR AND TEAR!!!! PRISTINE PAINT JOB AND ALL MODULES INTACT! ELITE DANGEROUS MADE EASY!​
 
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Adrian Steel

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Superb!

This is the post of the week. Thanks so much for this tutorial! It was taking me hours to figure out until I watched this! Why isn't this in the launcher menu training link?
 

cossack

C
kind of related.
I never understand why people complain about ducking.

I am always full trust brake in the last second before touch down.

Landing is really easy. match the rotation of the station. Use lateral trust for get inline in the gate....

Full trust all the time.

OP I vote your thread to be the thread of the years.

this video make me laught.
 
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Egan Powell

Egan Powell
My trick is run in, point nose down and aim for blast-gate at back of pad.. landing gear I usually drop one pad away ( or right inside the hole if landing first row). LG drop your speed by 1/2 at least. I drive over the blast gate as if I'm trying to scrape my gear on it and slow and flare the nose ever so slowly and slow my engines from 2 to 1 (bars) and I've gotten really good at not scraping and the landing dock usually grabs me as I cut the eng. At no time can I ever see the "red" dot or the homing dot... I fly it in there.. When I first started I was using my thrusters and a vert descent, but I kept having issues. ( I do always use vert thruster upon launch though) EDIT:... bwahaaa... just watched the vid.. now I see what I'm missing running with no shields! Stupid me! ha ha..
 
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streki

streki
[video=youtube;F5zq8m6LSbI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zq8m6LSbI[/video]

You've gotta improvise to make it more of a challenge
 
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Enride

Enride
After seeing this, i will never accept anyone claiming it to be difficult!

Hell, im wondering why I do it so methodical myself, if i can pinball around the entire station without dying then why even care to take it slow?

Great post, lets hope people stop whining about it now.
 

Pure_evil

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streki said:
[video=youtube;F5zq8m6LSbI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zq8m6LSbI[/video]

You've gotta improvise to make it more of a challenge
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Hehe, nice one!

Docking itself isn't that hard at all, if anything it's very easy. It just takes some practice. The slow and easy approach is long gone for me (been playing since premium beta), pretty much arrive at the atmosphere lock at full speed, drop landing gear so it deploys in the lock, if lock is clear use the middle so I can just turn once I'm inside and go down while reducing speed to get to the pad. If anything is in lock maneuver around, if it's a T9, panic but still find a way to go round it, only hit one ship since release, yesterday :p
Clipped an npc which then got stuck in the lock and got blown to pieces, sorry mate :D
 

Starbuckz

Starbuckz
Why exactly are threads like this even necessary? It's just docking damnit. What could be even more basic Oo We have countless threads, manuals, videos for DOCKING. This always makes me wonder.

Thanks for the clip tho, sure made me giggle ��
 
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Henri

Henri
because there are many threads asking for the game to be made easier.
i think the video clearly shows the game has been made easier to the
point of my Little Pony in fluffy cotton wool landing pad land.
It has been made so much more accessible from what was described
in the DDF that ever amoebas can play it without ever crashing.
 

SuperJogi

SuperJogi
I always found landing to be incredibly easy and wondered why so many people have problems with it. Well that was until I tried it with mouse and keybord...
A joystick with good throttle control really has its advantages.:D
 

Chris M Fortune

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Release player here, didn't do the tutorial but I did play Elite in the 80's.

Not had a single crash (had a couple of hard landings though)
Had ONE refusal, and that was my fault for requesting from too far out

And my favourite one:

Entered the letterbox with a Laycon 9 to my left and a Cobra to my right in a Sidey with no shields :)
 

Axelmathew

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SuperJogi said:
I always found landing to be incredibly easy and wondered why so many people have problems with it. Well that was until I tried it with mouse and keybord...
A joystick with good throttle control really has its advantages.:D
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It's really too easy with mouse and keyboard also...
playing with K/M is just as easy if you change few keybindings HOTAS makes it just more awesome.
 

Jila

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Okay,I bought the game yesterday afternoon and I was one of these ppl that screamed in frustration about landing while playing with mouse and keyboard, last night i was about to throw my mouse through the window.
Connected an old joystick, which didn't help, the 'rudder' in default position was turning my ship continously, also calibrating in windows did not help at all.
I tried again with mouse and keyboard, GRAAAAAAH
Went on a hardware site and ordered the Logitech Extreme 3D pro @ €49,-
It arrived 1 hour ago.
My first trial to land went bogus cause not all buttons are configured yet.
I adjusted the trust control and the vertical and descent buttons.
And tried again.. Landing SUCCESS !
Beginners luck, do it again.
Landing SUCCESS ! x10 in a row.

Yes, with the right hardware landing is not hard, still need to keep my head to it as ofcourse I am still a beginner.
Soon the right flightpath adjustments will become an automatic reaction, for now I have to think about what I am doing though.

Alright, Universe, you got one more rookie pilot :)
 
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