Lost control of my ship / ship drifting

Lennyvs96

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Hello my fellow commanders,

Just a few minutes ago i was doing a passenger mission and returned to the station to drop him off, everything went smoothly until i tried to land.

Before i came in range of the station i activated silent running because the passenger was illigal but after passing through the airlock i lost control of my ship, it started drifting to the right and kept losing altitude.

I desperately tried to gain back altitude and steer to the left but it kept dropping down which resulted in the destruction of my ship.

Does anyone know how this could have happend?
I play on the ps4 and was flying a Dolphin, could it be that silent running disables flying assist?
 

Lennyvs96

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I think that i know what caused it, i routed all power to the engines and because of that my system didn't have any power, could that be it?
 

Deleted member 38366

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Hmmm...

No idea if that's related. Since this case is on approach to a Planetary Base, I'd normally think not.

Yesterday I took off in my Python from a planetary POI (Salvage Mission POI) and aimed at my Hyperjump destination.
At about 2-3km Altitude (or more) and already some 5+ km away from the POI I suddenly experienced what felt like a mid-air collision with an invisible Skimmer.

Shields went down instantly, together with total loss of Flight Controls. I also got credited 1000Cr for supposedly taking down a Wanted Skimmer.

With many Salvage Missions onboard and a Python tumbling to its certain demise for no apparent reason, I opted for swift "Bug-Logging" (Quit to Menu, which oddly didn't have any 15sec timer).

Just very weird...

But if Planetary POIs now somehow have "invisible Skimmers floating at high Altitude and at random distance around it" for some oddball reason, I could imagine this is how it would work out for an unlucky CMDR.
 
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Bartizan

Bartizan
Lennyvs96 said:
I think that i know what caused it, i routed all power to the engines and because of that my system didn't have any power, could that be it?
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I don't see how all pips to eng would cause what you described unless you are talking about flying a Cutter and giving it a little too much gas set her on a drift you couldnt arrest.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Lennyvs96 said:
I think that i know what caused it, i routed all power to the engines and because of that my system didn't have any power, could that be it?
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Diverting pips to engines wont cause a loss of power. Your situation does sound like a power issue though, thing is it should have been very clear what happened. A loss of thrusters gives you a large warning on your HUD.

Silent running is not related to assist off in any way. Silent running also shuts down shields (if you have them installed) That would actually give you extra power to spare for other modules.

A video would have cleared this up quickly, do you not have shadowplay? I'd file a report with Saud Kruger (FDEV) last time I heard of anything that weird was the exploding Anaconda Bug when on final approach to a station.
 
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Lennyvs96

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Yeah its really weird indeed, it never happend to me before so thats why it confused me so much, maybe it's just a bug or something like that
 

Lennyvs96

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No i didn't record it sadly but i'm sure that all modules were working correctly, otherwise i would have seen a warning like you said
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
Well you are just going to have to do the trip again, doing the same actions to see if you blow your ship up once more, for science.
 

ElectricZ

ElectricZ
Couple quick questions:

Were you in a wing?
Were you nav-locked to a wingmate that had already docked?

If the answers to the above are "yes" it's a bug that's been around since 2.1 that can result in weird graphic glitches and your ship drifting all over the place in stations. Not everybody seems to experience it, Frontier's QA has never been able to replicate it in house, but if it happens to you it can be a quick trip to the rebuy screen. Your best bet is to exit to the menu and come back in so you don't crash or get shot down for loitering.

For anybody who's interested in video, it looks kind of like this: (Skip to 15:30)

[video=youtube_share;V_yDUAqLb38]https://youtu.be/V_yDUAqLb38?t=932[/video]
 
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Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
Also have a look at your journal file to see if that recorded anything that would give a clue.
The journal text files are located here:
C:\Users\<user name>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
 
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777Driver

777Driver
ElectricZ said:
Couple quick questions:

Were you in a wing?
Were you nav-locked to a wingmate that had already docked?

If the answers to the above are "yes" it's a bug that's been around since 2.1 that can result in weird graphic glitches and your ship drifting all over the place in stations. Not everybody seems to experience it, Frontier's QA has never been able to replicate it in house, but if it happens to you it can be a quick trip to the rebuy screen. Your best bet is to exit to the menu and come back in so you don't crash or get shot down for loitering.

Oh, and stop using nav lock when dropping in on stations.
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As far as I am aware that is just a network bug. For the actual player everything is normal, for anyone observing they will see the player floating around the station or glitching all over the place. Normally the servers have to be playing up or someone in the wing is using a dial up modem from the early 90's
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
There was/is an odd bug that can cause the station to behave as if Rotational Correction is off and smear the internal textures like a chalk drawing.
 

Lennyvs96

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Nick Sticks said:
Also have a look at your journal file to see if that recorded anything that would give a clue.
The journal text files are located here:
C:\Users\<user name>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
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Umm i wish i could do that but i play on PS4 so it's not possible to check the system files
 

ElectricZ

ElectricZ
777Driver said:
As far as I am aware that is just a network bug. For the actual player everything is normal, for anyone observing they will see the player floating around the station or glitching all over the place. Normally the servers have to be playing up or someone in the wing is using a dial up modem from the early 90's
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Yeah, no... It might be triggered by something network related, which would explain why it doesn't happen to everybody, but it most definitely makes the player's ship almost uncontrollable and impossible to dock, and will most definitely destroy your ship as you are dragged around the interior of the station.

It ain't just the other players observing a glitch. For the actual player, it does in fact destroy your ship unless you manage to dock or quit out of the game.

Again, for a video reference, skip to 15:30.

[video=youtube_share;V_yDUAqLb38]https://youtu.be/V_yDUAqLb38?t=932[/video]

Don't know if this is what OP is describing, but it's a real problem. As a bonus, it affects PC, XBox and PS4 versions.

And it's been present for well over a year.
 
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