My ship randomly heated up while exploring a planet

[HevKenzieHarris]

I was in my trusty Dolphin looking for some fungoida on a rocky ice planet, then literally out of nowhere the temperature started creeping up without me noticing until I got the critical heat level message and had to bail (which came very close to blowing my ship up) and I honestly don't know how this happened

My Dolphin is pretty much in very good condition apart from the paint, no existing major damage, the surface temperature of this planet I was exploring was 71k and there is no one else around (I play in Solo) so what could've caused this random temperature spike?

 

[Starsong]

I was in my trusty Dolphin looking for some fungoida on a rocky ice planet, then literally out of nowhere the temperature started creeping up without me noticing until I got the critical heat level message and had to bail (which came very close to blowing my ship up) and I honestly don't know how this happened

My Dolphin is pretty much in very good condition apart from the paint, no existing major damage, the surface temperature of this planet I was exploring was 71k and there is no one else around (I play in Solo) so what could've caused this random temperature spike?

Do you have any shield cell banks on your ship? That's the only thing I could think of.
EDIT: Actually, it could have been you accidentally hit Silent Running.

 

[Ashnak]

Silent running, flying at an angle or even upside down in moderate or higher gravity?

 

[mtfatboy3006]

Do you have any shield cell banks on your ship? That's the only thing I could think of.
EDIT: Actually, it could have been you accidentally hit Silent Running.

This. All you had to do was accidentally hit "delete" if you're using a keyboard with default settings. The game has seemed weirdly glitchy to me since the last update, though.

 

[Neilski]

got the critical heat level message and had to bail (which came very close to blowing my ship up)

What do you mean by "bail"? Am wondering what you did that stopped it from heating up. (Silent running was the first thing that occurred to me for the cause of your problem, but bailing out by boosting away from the surface would obviously make things worse.)
Also, thermal damage doesn't instantly blow up a ship - you have to try pretty hard to thermally destroy a ship - so when you say you came close to doing that, do you mean you nearly crashed due to panic?

 

[mtfatboy3006]

What do you mean by "bail"? Am wondering what you did that stopped it from heating up. (Silent running was the first thing that occurred to me for the cause of your problem, but bailing out by boosting away from the surface would obviously make things worse.)

Good point. I've never tried activating the frame shift drive from silent running. Is it even possible?

It could be a random bug. I've been having several. Mostly visual glitches, but I've had a few planetary approaches safety-drop out of orbital cruise when I was still above the drop elevation and the speed was fine. I've had multiple false codex notifications ("Universal Cartographics discovery 999 Some Category: Some Label," and "New Micro Resource discovered, Some Category: Some Label"), all since the last update.

 

[CMDR Lefty Jackson]

Nah, you blew a heater hose, I'm almost pretty sure!

 

[Ashnak]

I've never tried activating the frame shift drive from silent running. Is it even possible?

Sure is. With some ships it's easier than with others - and your ship is rather more forgiving towards overheating than the warning messages make you believe.

 

[Neilski]

ship is rather more forgiving towards overheating than the warning messages make you believe

Yeah, I would recommend to anyone unfamiliar with overheating to just conduct an experiment: buy a cheap ship (to minimise the stress of the experiment ), engage silent running, and do some stuff - including boosting - and marvel at how long it takes for the ship to pop...

 

[aRJay]

Have you got one of the original Dolphins from before they fixed the spontaneous combustion if you don’t fly straight and level near a planet problem?

That fix turned the Dolphin into the usually immune to heat problems we know and love today.

 

[HevKenzieHarris]

Good point. I've never tried activating the frame shift drive from silent running. Is it even possible?

It could be a random bug. I've been having several. Mostly visual glitches, but I've had a few planetary approaches safety-drop out of orbital cruise when I was still above the drop elevation and the speed was fine. I've had multiple false codex notifications ("Universal Cartographics discovery 999 Some Category: Some Label," and "New Micro Resource discovered, Some Category: Some Label"), all since the last update.

That seems to be the most likely explanation, I didn't have Silent Running enabled but I did a lot (about 16) codex notifications before this whole thing happened so it could just be a bug

After engaging FSD and leaving the planet I did go back to the surface and the temp was fine but the game then crashed about 2 minutes later

Have you got one of the original Dolphins from before they fixed the spontaneous combustion if you don’t fly straight and level near a planet problem?

That fix turned the Dolphin into the usually immune to heat problems we know and love today.

I started playing 2 months ago but my Dolphin is normally immune (almost) to high temps, I once had FSD engaged to go to another star system while refuelling as a test and it didn't go above 60% at all, I could've kept it there all day if I wanted to

This. All you had to do was accidentally hit "delete" if you're using a keyboard with default settings. The game has seemed weirdly glitchy to me since the last update, though.

I use an Xbox One controller so I don't think it could've been that, it seems to have just been a random glitch

 

[HevKenzieHarris]

What do you mean by "bail"? Am wondering what you did that stopped it from heating up. (Silent running was the first thing that occurred to me for the cause of your problem, but bailing out by boosting away from the surface would obviously make things worse.)
Also, thermal damage doesn't instantly blow up a ship - you have to try pretty hard to thermally destroy a ship - so when you say you came close to doing that, do you mean you nearly crashed due to panic?

What I meant is that I engaged FSD to "bail" from the planet while I was still heating up, but doing that took me to nearly about 185c which afaik (without going into the game to check) is very much the limit for not exploding

 

[aRJay]

What I meant is that I engaged FSD to "bail" from the planet while I was still heating up, but doing that took me to nearly about 185c which afaik (without going into the game to check) is very much the limit for not exploding

That heat will cause damage but actually not as much as you would think.

There are a lot of alarm claxons going off, flashing lights, smoke and COVAS throwing a tizzy, but the damage is fairly general and not accumulating that fast.

One of the ways to remove the effect of a corrosive substance is to get the heat of the ship up to around those sorts of levels to cook it off the hull. The corrosive being a much bigger issue as it keeps eating away.

So as a one off event it isn’t as bad as it sounds.

 

[Kzak]

I remember that some ships, if not properly engineered to run cold, could overheat if flying upside-down or sideways over planets. Dorsal thrusters seem to cause more heat generation than the standard ventral ones.

 

[HevKenzieHarris]

I remember that some ships, if not properly engineered to run cold, could overheat if flying upside-down or sideways over planets. Dorsal thrusters seem to cause more heat generation than the standard ventral ones.

My Dolphin has zero engineering (apart from the DSS) but has never heated up like this out of nowhere before, the game did crash when I left and re-entered so like I said in a previous reply it could've just been a bug of some sort

That heat will cause damage but actually not as much as you would think.

There are a lot of alarm claxons going off, flashing lights, smoke and COVAS throwing a tizzy, but the damage is fairly general and not accumulating that fast.

One of the ways to remove the effect of a corrosive substance is to get the heat of the ship up to around those sorts of levels to cook it off the hull. The corrosive being a much bigger issue as it keeps eating away.

So as a one off event it isn’t as bad as it sounds.

Oh I'm fully accustomed with the overheating thing, it's just that this particular event happened out of nowhere while exploring this planet when it definitely shouldn't have done

 

[Ashnak]

me to nearly about 185c which afaik (without going into the game to check) is very much the limit for not exploding

185% probably won't even qualify you for a thermal bonus in a Buckyball race, don't know if that would be enough to sterilise your ship after contacting Thargoid goo.

Like said above, heat directly is not the issue, it just leads to random module damage. You'd need to get the hull or the power plant down to 0% health to explode.

 

[mtfatboy3006]

The blinking, smoke, and alarms are cleverly designed to induce adrenaline and urgency. The game doesn't actually punish you much for overheating. I parked a sidewinder next to a star around Colonia to suicide back to the bubble once. I can't remember how long it took, but there are much faster ways to die.

 

[alexzk]

I was in my trusty Dolphin looking for some fungoida on a rocky ice planet, then literally out of nowhere the temperature started creeping up without me noticing until I got the critical heat level message and had to bail (which came very close to blowing my ship up) and I honestly don't know how this happened

My Dolphin is pretty much in very good condition apart from the paint, no existing major damage, the surface temperature of this planet I was exploring was 71k and there is no one else around (I play in Solo) so what could've caused this random temperature spike?

Usually I see such "random" spikes in NS system, when planet somehow passes through the jet (or better to say, on the 1 line with jet). Then my suite registers +/- 100 degrees outside with like 20s period. But I never saw that it could touch the ship.

 

[Neilski]

185% probably won't even qualify you for a thermal bonus in a Buckyball race, don't know if that would be enough to sterilise your ship after contacting Thargoid goo.

Yeah I think 160% is enough to get rid of the caustic goop, but for sure the ship will barely suffer any damage unless you wait for a looooong time.