SRV: Extremely long landing gear for small ships? Just... weird.

lysan

lysan
Soon(TM) said:
The thing that bothers me most is all the copy and paste going on in the game at the minute.

Space port interiors are copy and paste of the space stations, I can't believe they didn't do something new here. Its bad enough that the surface structures are so plain and inactive, the interiors needed to be new, it needed to feel like you were somewhere different. All the menus are the same, everything is the same once your docked!

No surface ground activity other than a few drones, no movement other than AI ships landing and taking off.

It all feels so bland.

It had such epic possibilities but it feels half baked just like ED did at launch.

FD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP RUSHING THINGS!

There's already way too much copy and paste with space stations and outposts..... Now we have copy and paste star ports too!
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Outposts are actually very variated. The start ports (stations) do have some variation, however they are all build on the same frame, so here we could use more variation.
I agree that the ground settlements, by what we have seen so far, seams very clinical. They should use some method to give it a more used appearance.

They really need to get that wear and tear model up and running.
 

YinYin

YinYin
Soon(TM) said:
You seen the belly of a T9, its like a 5 foot clearance from the floor!
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While I don't own a T9 yet, I'm having a lot of trouble getting close enough to the hatch of big ships while on the pad to properly judge the height. Perspective might fool you.
 

Mephane

Mephane
Good news everyone: the FDL doesn't have chicken legs. The SRV fits underneath it anyway, I just drove full speed below my FDL even, no issue, and it has no chicken leg syndrome, if the legs were raised at all, the change is very, very subtle.

Edit: The Adder has elongated legs, but nowhere near as much or as horribley done as for the Vulture or iEagle:

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I am okay with this. :)
 
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YinYin

YinYin
From all I've seen all these legs also raise and lower the ship to drop/pick up the SRV.

So they do have an animation to raise/lower the ship when the owner is in range with an SRV.
(when landing the Viper for example it basically sits right on the surface with the belly and then pushes itself up with the gear)
 

Poy

Poy
Mephane said:
Good news everyone: the FDL doesn't have chicken legs. The SRV fits underneath it anyway, I just drove full speed below my FDL even, no issue, and it has no chicken leg syndrome, if the legs were raised at all, the change is very, very subtle.

Edit: The Adder has elongated legs, but nowhere near as much or as horribley done as for the Vulture or iEagle:

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151130/el5uv9ka.jpg

I am okay with this. :)
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hey ! Isn't there upposed to be a ramp under the belly ?
 

Varrag

Varrag
Florizel said:
This might be far-sighted decision. We don't know, on what planets those ships can land in the future. On the swampy planets or planets with large quicksand areas etc.
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Hardly a far-sighted decision I'm afraid. To me, awkward spider legs look more like a quick and dirty workaround because no one has been thinking how to fit a buggy under small ships thus far. If this wasn't the case, I guess that landing gear would have been made like this year ago, not now.

Also - I don't think that we should be trying to land our ships in swamp, onto quicksand or other soft ground with this landing gear: sinking is almost guaranteed. There is no way that these pointy legs with small "feet" at the end would be able to support the ship's weight against such terrain types.
 

Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
Not sure was it mentioned but ships with long gear get lower to the ground when you pop in SRV in it. I watched Viper MKIV from the side while another commander did that and it looked cool.
 

Mephane

Mephane
Poy said:
hey ! Isn't there upposed to be a ramp under the belly ?
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Yes, I noticed that, too, it would probably hang in the air with the raised landing gear, so remains closed for now. For comparison (don't have a picture), the FDL keeps its ramp down, because the height of the landing gear already was sufficient for an SRV to fit underneath.
 
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