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Newcomer / Intro Stuck in my SRV, will need to self-destruct. Should I recall my ship first?
- Thread starter Esteban
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log in to the base game and you can recover to orbit
Thanks! If I recover to orbit, I presume that means that I would not have had to recall my ship before self-destructing. But wait, there's more!
While I was thinking about what to to, the datapoint tower that I had activated was emitting its odd wailing sounds. I'm not sure if that's what resulted in the following...
It turns out that I had a 'friendly' helper show up after I tried logging out to the main menu and back into the game (which left me stuck exactly as I was).
I didn't think that I had much to lose, so I played this out, trying my boosters and Fwd, Rev motion to get free. Lo and behold, the 'visitor's' nice scanning beams shifted my SRV enough to unhook the wheel from the railing it was hooked on and my boosters propelled me off of the structure!
The yellow beams stopped, and I was still alive - wow!
The kind helper then... departed - wow!
It's nice to have such good - uh - neighbors! They have such a pretty flower-shaped ship. I wonder who they are...
Footnote:
Yes that was intended to be comical. I know who/what that was. I didn't expect to survive the encounter in my SRV and I certainly didn't expect the ship to leave before I had not survived.
That was certainly an unexpected exploration event. Just goes to show you that the game and perhaps exploration in particular may still dish out some surprises! Get out there, CMDRs!
Big Spoilers:
For those of you who might like to see if this happens to you:
While I was thinking about what to to, the datapoint tower that I had activated was emitting its odd wailing sounds. I'm not sure if that's what resulted in the following...
It turns out that I had a 'friendly' helper show up after I tried logging out to the main menu and back into the game (which left me stuck exactly as I was).
I didn't think that I had much to lose, so I played this out, trying my boosters and Fwd, Rev motion to get free. Lo and behold, the 'visitor's' nice scanning beams shifted my SRV enough to unhook the wheel from the railing it was hooked on and my boosters propelled me off of the structure!
The kind helper then... departed - wow!
It's nice to have such good - uh - neighbors! They have such a pretty flower-shaped ship. I wonder who they are...
Footnote:
Yes that was intended to be comical. I know who/what that was. I didn't expect to survive the encounter in my SRV and I certainly didn't expect the ship to leave before I had not survived.
That was certainly an unexpected exploration event. Just goes to show you that the game and perhaps exploration in particular may still dish out some surprises! Get out there, CMDRs!
Big Spoilers:
For those of you who might like to see if this happens to you:
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You don't need to self destruct. What @Tyres O'Flaherty was referring to is that if you quit to desktop then select Elite Dangerous in the launcher (not Horizons, Odyssey, Arena or Training) then select play you will load the base non-Horizons game which means you will start in orbit above your last location. (I think it actually asks you if you want to do this or exit.) So you find yourself back in your ship in space and your SRV is now sitting in its bay. (Magic!)
Understood. Credit to @Factabulous.
Cause there is no Base Game anymore
All Clients have Horizons as Base Game.
So this Workaround will not work anymore...
All Clients have Horizons as Base Game.
So this Workaround will not work anymore...
SRV Imho will remain on the planet
it was so with me.
No it doesn't.
Cause there is no Base Game anymore
All Clients have Horizons as Base Game.
So this Workaround will not work anymore...
Right there in your launcher, "Elite Dangerous":
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Vanilla ED game is still available for all players in game laumcher and is possible use for safe "recovery" of stucked SRV. Another possibility is for Odyssey in case you can disembark from SRV, then board ship and try use ship for bump SRV out of obstacle ... it worked for me few times. That latter can be especially helpfull in case you do not want "reset" settlement during ongoing mission.
I can confirm that. It still exists, and launching to this version puts you back on your ship, in orbit. I just did that. Picture above is still current. You should indeed find ED as a launch option (even if you don't have Odyssey).
Just as an aside as I've only just noticed this.
It wasn't me but I'll quite happily take all the credit!
Just to prove how to do it for newcomers and to confirm it still works for anyone else:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDA64_Jhhg
Note that you have to power-up your SRV hangar in the RHS UI Modules page after doing this. *
* That could be why some people think it doesn't work any more - you can't deploy unless hangar powered.
Note that you have to power-up your SRV hangar in the RHS UI Modules page after doing this. *
* That could be why some people think it doesn't work any more - you can't deploy unless hangar powered.
That's really a good tip because it's easy to miss. I got caught by that when I next landed on a planet and couldn't deploy. Tried another body nearby and then thought to check the Modules page, and voila! it was indeed OFF.
If Frontier drops support for the non-Horizons version of the game in the future (could happen) you will have to get a lot better at getting your SRV out of a predicament. No more getting everything back in orbit. 98 percent of the time I figured it out including this one...
Otherwise carry two SRVs just in case especially many light years outside the bubble. Work on your experience when that day comes and knowing if you fail what to do about it.
Otherwise carry two SRVs just in case especially many light years outside the bubble. Work on your experience when that day comes and knowing if you fail what to do about it.
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I used to get impossibility stuck all.the time and use the relog to orbit.
Then I did a planetary circumnavigation which taught me LOADS about the control of an Srv with all the available vectors. Never got stuck since.
They say git gud in a condescending manner , but it's fun to git better
Then I did a planetary circumnavigation which taught me LOADS about the control of an Srv with all the available vectors. Never got stuck since.
They say git gud in a condescending manner , but it's fun to git better