SRVs and Guardian Sites

Now I remember why I stopped playing Elite Dangerous all those years ago...

SRV controls: abysmal
Navigating Guardian Sites: abysmal

There's a reason other games include such things as legible ground maps and waypoints to mark discoveries: it's to compensate for the fact that the game monitor can only give 60 degrees of view (or whatever it is), and that there is no sense of motion/orientation while you are sitting in your chair.

Good job on the "realism" you were aiming for, FDev.

#DoYouPlayYourGame

~Folly
 
Now I remember why I stopped playing Elite Dangerous all those years ago...

SRV controls: abysmal
Navigating Guardian Sites: abysmal

There's a reason other games include such things as legible ground maps and waypoints to mark discoveries: it's to compensate for the fact that the game monitor can only give 60 degrees of view (or whatever it is), and that there is no sense of motion/orientation while you are sitting in your chair.

Good job on the "realism" you were aiming for, FDev.

#DoYouPlayYourGame

~Folly
Clearly a learn to drive issue.

Nowt to see here, move along.

O7
 
Yeah, the key is to know the SRV is a crawler, not a RoadRally race car!
I think a few people would voice their dissent to that:


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Now I remember why I stopped playing Elite Dangerous all those years ago...

SRV controls: abysmal
From personal experience and anecdotal evidence from the forums taking enough time to set up the controls to what works for you and some practice does wonders.
Also as has been said turn Drive Assist OFF and the behaviour becomes much more intuitive.
Navigating Guardian Sites: abysmal

There's a reason other games include such things as legible ground maps and waypoints to mark discoveries: it's to compensate for the fact that the game monitor can only give 60 degrees of view (or whatever it is), and that there is no sense of motion/orientation while you are sitting in your chair.
The FOV can be adjusted, though that can involve editing a text file.
The fact that there are no in game maps and waypoints for these sites is a plus point as there is little or no sense of achievement in following such in comparison to that gained by working it out. Obviously your mileage varied.
Good job on the "realism" you were aiming for, FDev.

#DoYouPlayYourGame

~Folly
I know but I responded to the bait anyway.
 
The SRV sucks you can ignore the Git Gud crowd. We have addins like SRV survey to help out because if the game won't provide players eventually solve the problems themselves.
 
The SRV sucks you can ignore the Git Gud crowd. We have addins like SRV survey to help out because if the game won't provide players eventually solve the problems themselves.

SRV can't help you with your driving skills.

Like any real vehicle, it takes a bit of learning how to drive the Scarab well. Not as hard as learning to drive a real vehicle, but harder than something like Need for Speed.

On a 1G planet, on a flat tarmac surface, the Scarab would handle quite well. Problem is, people think they can drive a SRV on a low G world with almost no traction like they would a car on a road.

Once you get your mentality sorted, that you're driving on either ice or dust covered rock, generally under low G conditions, on a very rough surface, you'll understand why you can easily lose control if you don't take all that into consideration.

Watch some videos of people who have learned how to drive the Scarab and you can see how they keep control, how they throttle down or jump when it comes to tricky areas.

People are literally saying git gud because you literally need to git gud to move at high speed in the Scarab. Until you git gud, you need to take it slow. Once you git gud, it becomes fun to drive.

Could FD make it handle better? Sure! They could make it stick to surfaces, make it more arcade like, reduce the skill ceiling, etc. Should they? Well, that's a matter of opinion. Last time they changed how it handled it divided the community, largely down the lines of those who had mastered the SRV as it was and those who hadn't.
 
People are literally saying git gud because you literally need to git gud to move at high speed in the Scarab
The SRV is simply unfit for purpose. It's crap by design. I can drive the flaming turd but that doesn't mean it isn't a flaming turd. Just because we can learn to deal with it's quirks doesn't mean we should accept it. When they made it so most of the things we land on are low G they can also build a proper SRV than handles them.
 
No need to Git Gud imo. The SRV drives fine without it. As long as drive assist is off, it's horrible.
I disagree with the last bit.

When Drive Assist is on going to zero throttle locks the drive system and brakes on and almost inevitably you skid, open the throttle and it will try to instantly travel at the set speed with no acceleration time. That is horrible.

When drive assist is off going to zero throttle lets you coast to a stop while opening the throttle lets you build speed steadily. A much more pleasant driving experience.
 
Slow down. This is a common problem. People think a speed of 30 is slow.
Not to mention that it's 30 m/s not m/h or km/h...

Which means that when the SRV is showing 30 you're actually driving at 108 km/h over ice and rocks. I'm not a SRV racer, but can get what I want done with no bigger problems. In fact personally I think it's really well designed and it's well worth spending some time learning how to drive it.
 
My main issue with the SRV is that it seems turn one way better than the other. This has persisted across multiple controllers and sometimes swaps sides, it will turn left much tighter than right, the next time it me be the opposite. Very frustrating to scoop something.

The other issue I with it is there's not much reason to drive it. I remember when Horizons dropped I drive across the plants surface for a couple of hundred km, finding all kinds of loot. I loved doing that. Since then the game changed and you don't find stuff like you used to.
 
How is it I really enjoy all the things the OP is complaining about? My only advice I can give is use the free camera when you've lost your bearings.
Gotta member also that most of the places your driving on have hardly any gravity, so there's no friction for those wheels to dig into. Idk it takes finesse on the controls and throttle and not button mashing.
 
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