Yaw Rate

[beelbeebub]

The search engine ignores terms of 3 letters or less. I think it's to reduce computational load and search results. As a consequence "yaw" returns zero results

 

[5AnaHalfHatsize]

The search engine ignores terms of 3 letters or less. I think it's to reduce computational load and search results. As a consequence "yaw" returns zero results

*That*, is not it's only issue

 

[z121231211]

You fully misapprehend the issue.

By making all axis' behave differently you open door to manoeuvring for advantage through use of "brains and skill".

Make all axis' behave the same then all you have is "turn ship now plz". It would make no difference what you did, thence "turreting" is all that is need.

Wouldn't the game play more like Descent with faster forward and back movement? A lot of people seemed to like Descent and say it took skill to play.

 

[Cmdr Moritz]

Look at the thrusters on your ship, at what angles are they mounted? Then think of cosine. -That is your answer

 

[Zplintz]

We have slower yaw because FD want it that way not because of the angle of thrusters.

 

[Ancipital]

I'm divided on the topic. I like the fact that the yaw is weak when it comes to battles. I can't stand turreting. That being said, when you're coming in for a landing on a pad and have to yaw your ship around so you're facing the wrong way, man, I could use a little more then!

Yes, everyone thinks that, until they get a tiny flash of inspiration.. just point the nose down, roll 180 degrees and nose back up. It becomes second nature after a couple of goes, and is very quick.

 

[xondk]

As far as I understand it, this flight model is a realistic one, because yawing too hard would be quite crippling on the pilot, being pushed back or pulled forth is not such a big problem, neither is pitching or rolling, but yawing just isn't healthy, unless completely locked in at the very least your head would be thrown side to side?

Where other flight games let you yaw as quickly as you want, well that's fairly unrealistic from my understanding, and since Elite has a realistic approach, pitch roll is the main method for flight.

 

[Herik]

As far as I understand it, this flight model is a realistic one, because yawing too hard would be quite crippling on the pilot, being pushed back or pulled forth is not such a big problem, neither is pitching or rolling, but yawing just isn't healthy, unless completely locked in at the very least your head would be thrown side to side?

Where other flight games let you yaw as quickly as you want, well that's fairly unrealistic from my understanding, and since Elite has a realistic approach, pitch roll is the main method for flight.

I'm sure somebody said this already; FD didn't want combat being just 'turrets in space', thus 'Yaw' was nerfed.

 

[Zplintz]

You are overthinking this. As Herik said, we have slower yaw because FD wanted a different flight model from one where pitch and yaw rates were the same. There are no other reasons.

 

[xondk]

I'm sure somebody said this already; FD didn't want combat being just 'turrets in space', thus 'Yaw' was nerfed.

Well I haven't seen anything like that from FD so yeah, don't know, but that said "turrets in space" is unrealistic, and maybe they wanted a more realistic flight model?