Wait, what? I thought Heat Sink Launchers worked in Supercruise!!!

[GunnerBill]

I thought the good old HSL worked in SC since forever. Only just now it didn't and whilst topping my Vette up with a double dose of 7a SCB's I fried myself somewhat.

Nothing wrong with my binds, nothing wrong with the modules, checked the alternate key and checked they worked in normal space.

Very odd.

 

[Drelthar]

They should.

 

[Factabulous]

My bet: You had SC-Assist controlling the ship. If you are not in control you cannot fire heatsinks. Much as when you use a DC ...

Do tell!

 

[Bigmaec]

My bet: You had SC-Assist controlling the ship. If you are not in control you cannot fire heatsinks. Much as when you use a DC ...

Do tell!

Wait. What?? SCA I don't know, but heatsinks under DC don't work? Sure about that?

 

[yianniv]

Wait. What?? SCA I don't know, but heatsinks under DC don't work? Sure about that?

Yes, if you must avoid scanning due to illegal passengers and you hear the warning, you must disengage DC to use a heatsink.

 

[Bigmaec]

Yes, if you must avoid scanning due to illegal passengers and you hear the warning, you must disengage DC to use a heatsink.

Ok. I usually only engage the DC when I entered the slot, i.e. running under speed into the dock and then throttle zero when I'm in. Is faster

 

[GunnerBill]

My bet: You had SC-Assist controlling the ship. If you are not in control you cannot fire heatsinks. Much as when you use a DC ...

Do tell!

Bit odd that it allows me to use the SCB's then...

Anyway - I couldn't say for sure because I was panicking too much at ~300% heat to notice but that's probably it! They worked fine later on a different ship in SC but that doesn't really help the investigation.

 

[Factabulous]

Took me a couple of 'WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING!' incident to work out - something to bear in mind next time it happens

 

[AJ24]

Recently when doing passenger rescue missions my heatsink launchers kept switching off without telling me. Didn't notice until I went back into the burning space station! Happened a few times and had to keep turning them back on - and then suddenly it was fine again

 

[shevek]

Recently when doing passenger rescue missions my heatsink launchers kept switching off without telling me. Didn't notice until I went back into the burning space station! Happened a few times and had to keep turning them back on - and then suddenly it was fine again

Did you have module damage due to heat, the heat sinks don’t have much integrity and it does’t take that much to start malfunctioning.

 

[AJ24]

Did you have module damage due to heat, the heat sinks don’t have much integrity and it does’t take that much to start malfunctioning.

I did wonder that at the time but I don't think so. They were literally just turned off. It was weird. It happened several times in a row, but not had it before or since.

 

[CMDR Rabbit]

I did wonder that at the time but I don't think so. They were literally just turned off. It was weird. It happened several times in a row, but not had it before or since.

Power priority assignment and some other variable (like deploying hardpoints or something) not leaving enough power for your lowest priority group?

 

[GunnerBill]

It's definitely the Supercruise Assist that disabled the HSL.