Horizons Moments before SRV pancaked to obliteration

[Vincent Starson]

So there I was, on some moon in some system slightly outside the bubble. Just driving around for fun, and I just had to jump this multi-km tall mountain. I was able to grab a screenshot on my way down.

Here I am going 141m/s, (~315 mph) about 1km above the surface. I made it to about 210 m/s before I cratered.
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Anyone else reach higher speeds in their SRV?

 

[HardstyleFlavor]

Wow that's awesome. I've been wondering what happens when you die while in the SRV? Do you just respawn in your ship? If the after-death scenario isn't too bad I would love to do some suicide jumps in my buggy...

 

[xondk]

Wish I had a picture from Beta, crater + high gravity world = srv splat.

 

[Khelder]

So there I was, on some moon in some system slightly outside the bubble. Just driving around for fun, and I just had to jump this multi-km tall mountain. I was able to grab a screenshot on my way down.

Here I am going 141m/s, (~315 mph) about 1km above the surface. I made it to about 210 m/s before I cratered.

Anyone else reach higher speeds in their SRV?

It can be great fun if you actually try to survive the trip down. That looked like a decent hill.

I didn't get quite your speed before 'spody, but I was actually trying to stop.

[video=youtube_share;wkoBxUU2c6c]https://youtu.be/wkoBxUU2c6c[/video]

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Wow that's awesome. I've been wondering what happens when you die while in the SRV? Do you just respawn in your ship? If the after-death scenario isn't too bad I would love to do some suicide jumps in my buggy...

If you die, you get the option to just rejoin your ship in orbit. I was loading up my Asp with 5 SRVs yesterday and having loads of fun.

 

[Saltyseadog]

So there I was, on some moon in some system slightly outside the bubble. Just driving around for fun, and I just had to jump this multi-km tall mountain. I was able to grab a screenshot on my way down.

Here I am going 141m/s, (~315 mph) about 1km above the surface. I made it to about 210 m/s before I cratered.
View attachment 88616

Anyone else reach higher speeds in their SRV?

Not meaning to derail your thread but how do you get rid of that targeting ring in the buggy?. I thought it would be attached to my deploy hardpoints bind but it wasn't.

 

[Malek]

Not meaning to derail your thread but how do you get rid of that targeting ring in the buggy?. I thought it would be attached to my deploy hardpoints bind but it wasn't.

Pretty sure you can not. Because your turret is always deployed, you can fire pretty much straight ahead while in the driving view, handy for rock disintegration!

Nice capture OP

 

[Khelder]

Not meaning to derail your thread but how do you get rid of that targeting ring in the buggy?. I thought it would be attached to my deploy hardpoints bind but it wasn't.

Ctrl-Alt-G toggles the HUD display. There was a bug in beta where some of the SRV elements remained. Not sure if this has been fixed yet. Or did you just want the targetting gone but everything else to remain?

 

[Bannon_Orcus]

Beautiful

So there I was, on some moon in some system slightly outside the bubble. Just driving around for fun, and I just had to jump this multi-km tall mountain. I was able to grab a screenshot on my way down.

Here I am going 141m/s, (~315 mph) about 1km above the surface. I made it to about 210 m/s before I cratered.
View attachment 88616

Anyone else reach higher speeds in their SRV?

Epic, 1km, I will see it I can beat that......

 

[Khelder]

Ok. It may not be completely legit (depending on how you look at it), but I couldn't resist.

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

Where was that? - really tempted to pay it a visit with my vulture and fly down to the bottom - epic vid, pity you where facing the other way though when you hit the cliff edge.

 

[Khelder]

Where was that? - really tempted to pay it a visit with my vulture and fly down to the bottom - epic vid, pity you where facing the other way though when you hit the cliff edge.

It's a spot on Anurinjung 2 A. I discovered a bit of a glitch resulting in a massive raised plateau. Further details (pics/location) are in the link below my sig. I was doing downhill runs down the side of the crater that the plateau sits in. There's some good spots around there that get gradually steeper as can be seen in the video.

And, yes, it was a shame I was backwards. I thought I was doing pretty well up to that last bit. I was trying to use the thrusters to slow down. On looking at the video again after I realised that my angle was all wrong and I had ended up thrusting further away from the hill - pretty much sealing my fate.

The still shot was taken a few moments ago. I went back there and drove off the plateau itself. The sides are sheer vertical. Approx 9.65jm high at that point. I've got a video of that too, but not a real lot to see in the dark.