Most memorable moment while Rifting in E: D

saviornt

saviornt
Posted this in response to another thread, but I would like to hear about everyone's:

Day before yesterday I jumped into a binary system. When I exited FSD at the station, the station was to the left, the ringed planet was to the right, and the 2nd sun was sort-of in the middle and illuminated the side of the planet and the station. To be honest, words cannot express that "awe factor" of that moment. I had to put on the brakes and not dock and just sit there for a few minutes taking it in. Breath-taking.
 

RobinsonUK

R
Bit banal compared to you veterans but dropping out of warp in front of a star, turning to face my destination and seeing the sunlight and shadow move across my cockpit.
 

CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
Mine was on the first day I received the rift somewhen in early August. It was when I first stood up from the chair, looked back at my headless Avatar and then started walking around.
 

Foxis

F
I was in a dogfight (my starter Sidey vs. Cobra) and quickly got my canopy shot out. The experience of that happening and the ensuing 5 minute scramble to escape and get back to the station before the oxygen ran out was absolutely amazing. The rift in combination with the excellent sound effects and the way they changed without the canopy really had me transported into a failing ship. I actually laughed out loud when I repaired the ship with 30 seconds or so to spare. Awesome.
 

Voyager_NL

Voyager_NL
At Fantasticon I had a go at one of the DK2's (still many thanks to the guys who made their rifts available like Dobbo and the others).
I was sitting in the Sidewinder and when I stood up (as was suggested by the people standing around me) I instinctively dodged to not bump my head into the window support beam ... that wasn't there. Then right after that I looked around and instinctively grabbed the back of the pilotchair I stood up from ... that wasn't there.
This stuff is soo way passed the uncanny valley that your brain really accepts it. You don't have to negotiate with your brain and tell it to like it.

I was sold for this stuff in a minute but will wait for the consumer edition. WILL buy a new PC with WIN10 next year just to make sure it runs smooth enough.
 

the_wretched

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I've had many wow moments in ED VR. One of my favourite moments would be cruising very closely across the rings of a gas giant very much similar to Saturn in supercruise, straigt towards the sun. It was an icy ring and the sunlight was reflected by the apparently millions of rocks. Just wow.
I also won't forget how I crashed my Cobra into a huge station yesterday. It was one of those really huge ones with the rotating garden rings. I aproached from behind and flew through the struts and rotating sections like a slalom skier. It was an awesome feeling and I got carried away. I wanted to fly along the inside curve of the gardens and watch them pass by overhead, but I was going to fast and crashed into the glass ceilings. I hope no inhabitants were hurt due to explosive decompression (what are their safety procedures anyway?). I was fully loaded with indite too, so that one was particularly expensive. I barely had enough left for insurance, now I'm almost broke and decided to head back to the starting systems for the last days of beta.
Lessons learned: if you go flying stunts empty your cargo first, LOL
 

777Driver

777Driver
CATPAIN KIRK said:
Mine was on the first day I received the rift somewhen in early August. It was when I first stood up from the chair, looked back at my headless Avatar and then started walking around.
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Well after having three day's of constant wow moment's I finally tried walking around too. I put the ship on Autodock, got out of the chair (which is the same shape/height as the Cobra's) Walked around to the back of the cockpit and looked around in Awe as the ship landed itself. This is going to be insane when we have free roam of the entire ship.
 

tresch

tresch
I was doing some bounty hunting at 68 Draconis in response to the gold rush in my Eagle. Came across an unusually potent Cobra pilot. We tangled quite a bit, and he managed to get a shot on my canopy while my shields were down.

Fortunately my life support system was mildly upgraded, giving me 7 minutes 30 seconds to find a dock. I dove through the asteroids, ducking and weaving, using them for cover as I boosted my way to the other side and make the jump to supercruise. The nearest station was 1,700 light seconds away. it's going to be fairly tight.

Of course, my canopy is shattered, and the HUD is projected on the canopy, so I have no idea what my "ETA to target" is to set my throttle properly for an quick approach. however, there's a farily large shard of canopy that's still hanging on, and, with positional tracking on the rift, i was able to duck down and to the side in my seat, and see the HUD just enough to dial my speed in to hit that 0:06 ETA

It's was like trying to drive your car when your windshield wipers ice up, and there's just a tiny spot where your defroster has managed to keep clear, so you're peering out out of that trying to get somewhere you can pull over to clear it off.

I managed to approach without overshooting and dock with about 90 seconds of air left. Phew!
 

AurelTristen

AurelTristen
I've been playing in the rift quite a bit recently, but my first 'oh my god' moment was actually just when leaving a small 'gas station.' The elevator lifted me up and I looked up at the milkyway splashing across the sky above me. After that, weaving about in ice rings really caught my attention (though I get parallax issues with distant roids, anyone else?).
 

Deadmeat

D
My mate has an Oculus Rift and we have known each other since we were little kids. The other night we met up outside a space station in our Cobras. We parked nose-to-nose, having circled each other to admire the ships. As we sat there chatting, actually in the cockpits of our own Cobras, in the Elite universe, he pointed out that this is what we had been waiting and dreaming of since we were 12, imagining just that.
 

Iccanui

I
For me it was trying to dock for the first time. I never fully used the all the controls in a flight sim like this i guess. I setup the up and down thrust and was trying to find the entrance to the station. I flew up close and then thrusted upwards while keeping the nose pointed at the station so i could scan visually for the entrance. Well that created such a feeling of scale and depth that it sucked me right in, i was there, just skimming past it all by yards. I remember yelling out loud and laughing going ... omg omg omg lol. Was probably the best gaming experience in my life. Honestly i know its not real, but it felt so real at the time it really makes you question what a experience really is.

Worth every dime right there.
 
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