Throttle control for the SRV

Lord Kril

Lord Kril
You spend countless hours on a electrical device pretending you fly space ships, but you think you don't play with toys...
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I get why you think that.

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Still have yours?
 

Ameeleean2

Ameeleean2
CMDR X said:
I own both. The SRV is hot garbage with wheel and pedals. Tried every sensitivity and dead-zone possible. Plus there's no force feedback so, <insert fart sound>. Stick with your HOTAS if you got one.
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SRV is nightmare to drive on uneven terrain. I wish we had deluxe version of SRV that would be able to behave like hoovercraft and keep ~1m distance to the ground. Fuel usage could be linked to gravity strength so in some cases (like on high G worlds) using old SRV would be still viable choice.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Lord Kril said:
Gonna check that out after server maintenance.

Point is, when scouting planets containing 3 or 5 biological types. it's faster with the SRV, than using the ship for each type. And I setup the camera suite high above the SRV to see more area ahead. But then I can't see the speed percentage and as you're already know, the terrain is so wobbly, it's like:
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I haven’t used the SRV for exobiology in well over a year, switching to a Hauler seemed quicker and more fun but I only drive SRVs not flyve them.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
DjVortex said:
It's certainly much more fun. As for being faster... I don't know. Maybe a bit, but not by a whole lot. Depends a lot on the terrain and how scarce the plant in question is (and where it's located). On a flat plain that's full of the plants you are scanning it's probably slightly faster.

The biggest draw for me to use the SRV for exobiology, however, is not how fast I can scan the plants, but the joy of driving it. Using the ship is much more cumbersome.
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I used to think that looking for exobio in the SRV was absolutely faster than constantly getting back in the ship and taking off but when I did the Canonn exobio speed challenge a few years back realised (from watching others) that there actually wasn’t much in it and it's more what you prefer. While I obviously love the SRV myself I'm also a big fan of drifting over landscape in my ship with FA Off and the wind whistling past the window these days.
 

Nowski

Nowski
Lord Kril said:
I have no joystick and prefer to use diectional keys, up and down.
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As a fellow keyboard-using SRV pilot (but numpad, please!), now you've arrived at Assist-off may I suggest a couple of other items I found to be improvements? Apologies if you're already aware.

In the UI somewhere, there's a setting to keep the horizon horizontal or such. I find this is better on rough terrain

Another rough terrain item: use the vertical thrust to stay in the air as much as possible. While you're in the air, the terrain can't jerk you about. Once in the air, dipping the "nose" and applying more thrust can increase velocity as your "vertical" thrust becomes forwards thrust.

If you want better control over the acceleration, the engine pips can help also, slower on less pips, faster on more.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Lord Kril said:
Perhaps, more car vehicle like throttle control, when you press forward, it moves with increasing speed and when let go, it decelerates. Same for backwards.
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Mouse and Keyboard.

With Drive Assist ON what you describe used to work, but not when Odessey was released. Now Drive Assist ON is awful.

With Drive Assist OFF it works okay.... but if you used the scroll button for throttle on your mouse it doesn't work with FA-Off. You must bind keys for throttle. And they will behave as throttle on/off switches. So you must tap them on-off-on-off-on-off to maintain a constant speed. Annoying at first but eventually you get used to it.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Ameeleean2 said:
SRV is nightmare to drive on uneven terrain. I wish we had deluxe version of SRV that would be able to behave like hoovercraft and keep ~1m distance to the ground. Fuel usage could be linked to gravity strength so in some cases (like on high G worlds) using old SRV would be still viable choice.
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An Eagle with retractable canopy would be perfect! A convertible model.
  • Allow cmdrs to jump in and out.
  • No need for cockpit atmosphere when wearing space suit.
  • No need to land. Just jump out. Ship hovers in place.
  • When pilot is seated the suit is plugged in and recharges power and O2.
 

alexzk

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Lord Kril said:
Perhaps, more car vehicle like throttle control, when you press forward, it moves with increasing speed and when let go, it decelerates. Same for backwards.
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Sounds like "drive assist" on/off. When it is ON, car is stopping when you release the key. If it is OFF, car keeps going when you release the key.
 
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