What Makes you Jump In ED?

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

And I don't mean Hyperspace. Lol

What actually startles you, in Elite Dangerous?

For me, I don't startle easily. Even most horror movies with their jump scares don't make me flinch.

Yet some odd times in ED, I'll get caught off guard.

Usually for me, it's those unannounced interdictions you get sometimes. The ones that don't send comms.
They'll often wake me up. Lol

Sometimes unexpectedly hitting an exclusion zone, when I'm overly confident that I'll not hit it, or hitting an orbital cruise zone slightly too fast, can also make me jump, a bit.

But actually that's all for me, but I was curious if anything else made anyone else jump?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Aashenfox]

Close binaries, black holes and neutron stars inject a little adrenaline every time (don't know why, they're no more dangerous than other stars really, it's probably just the visual impact and the 'danger will Robinson' effect), apart from that, I get a buzz from smuggling, but that's not quite the same thing.

 

[Tursonaki]

Usually only in VR and mostly when I'm in a dogfight with a few ships and one decides to surf my cockpit glass :/

 

[CMDR Greg Wayne]

For me it has got to be those times when I high wake and arrive at a giant star of any kind. That usually startles me. Or better yet. When I arrive at what I call "toaster systems". Where you pretty much arrive way too close to a set of binary stars (with only some LS apart). Those things almost make me jump through the roof.

 

[Vardaugas]

Those unexpected white dwarves that pop up in front of you while traveling through the bubble. They always wake me up.

 

[Mr T]

When you jump into a system and literally pass through a star. I think that might have been fixed now but don't know for sure.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I'm a white man

 

[FoxTwo]

Mine's this:

[video=youtube;9BqesX8e0uE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BqesX8e0uE[/video]

 

[Tursonaki]

When you jump into a system and literally pass through a star. I think that might have been fixed now but don't know for sure.

It hasn't yet, I've had it happen once or twice whilst out exploring the wilds.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

You have a mighty serious nervous disorder if you can find ANYTHING in ED that manages to make you jump [haha]

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

The automatic reflex of hitting boost when I see "Scan detected". Leads to lots of fun when landing in a busy station.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

My FSD.

And I don't mean Hyperspace. Lol

Oh.

What actually startles you, in Elite Dangerous?

Nothing.
Everything is so predictable that when I play, I play to relax.

 

[fitzsteve]

When I'm taking off in my Cutter and a little Sidewinder Zips by

That puny buzz noise it makes lol

 

[TartanDragon]

When you jump into a system and literally pass through a star.

That did the first few times. Can't think of anything that does now.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I also forgot to add the "server transaction error" that can pop up randomly.

If it happens while jumping, I'm fine, but any other time and it can often startle me. Lol

 

[space voyager]

A CMDR interdicting me. That is pretty much all.

 

[777Driver]

You have a mighty serious nervous disorder if you can find ANYTHING in ED that manages to make you jump [haha]

I guess you haven't flown in VR

@Op - Used to be dropping out at the wrong end of an orbital station, flying through a binary star, dodging a ship whilst in glide. Probably the worst thing that has happened is dropping within a few meters of a Majestic class interdictor whilst in VR, I had to pour myself a strong drink after that one.

Most of those bugs have been squashed now, sadly 2.4 has ended flying through binary stars.

 

[CMDR CPT. Boris]

when my shields goes down and my hull start melting

 

[S3B4ST13N]

@Op - Used to be dropping out at the wrong end of an orbital station

That was fun. Especially when you ended up a few inches from one of those massive rotating pylons passing RIGHT in front of you.

 

[Y nt Zoidberg7]

Just had one of these moments not twenty minutes ago-

Jumped into a white dwarf system, which I was expecting. My next destination was behind me, so I casually flip 180. Except I rolled a bit when I did, as soon as I charged my FSD I start flailing about in the dwarfs cone and my balloon knot puckered quite a bit. Luckily I was at the very end of the cone and it spit me out