I used to have a coworker that had a 76 Chevy stepside with a lift kit and large tires and that same shade of orange. Thought it looked really good then and used that as inspiration. He never got into video games, but if he had I'm sure he'd get a kick out of seeing pretty much his truck in an off road game.

That's one of the reasons I don't like to run the roof rack on the CK1500. With big tires and the suspension lift it's already a bit tippy and the roof rack makes it even worse. Really bugs me that they don't have an option for extra fuel in the box and one of the reasons I'll often choose the Hummer instead of the CK1500. Some maps have a lot more roads set up for abrupt weight shift from side to side, like the Kola peninsula region. (it's like they learned a new trick and have to use it everywhere)

Glad to hear you're finding some stuff of interest here. As you can see, I don't try too hard to maximize the views on this channel. ;^) If you like space stuff and trucking stuff, Star Trucker might let you combine those 2 interests. (or Frontier Pilot Sim)

That's part of the stock game. I think when you unlock the tracking station to show patched conics you get access to maneuver nodes and that display is part of them. The idea is that the game calculates how long you'll have to burn your engine at your current TWR to get your course to match the course you set up with the maneuver node. That's the burn time. It's also telling you how long till you get to that node. At 6:32 when it reads -40 seconds, it means I'm 40 seconds from getting to the maneuver node. Since the burn is going to take 47 seconds, it wants to do half of the burn before the node and half after the node. 47/2=23.5 so it wants to start the burn 23.5 seconds before the node which would actually be in 15.5 seconds, but the game rounds to the nearest whole number. (start burn in:15s ) If you were to change your TWR either by decoupling something or setting a thrust limiter on your engine, The burn time and start burn displays would update to reflect the new values. If you want to make very precise course corrections, like to fine tune your approach distance to the mun, lowering the TWR by thrust limiting is a good option. This can let you turn a .5 second burn into a 20 second burn and you can watch your course prediction on the map screen to get exact distances. The - 50% + buttons let you manually set what percentage of the burn you want to take place before the node. For a really long burn like going interplanetary, you might want to do 70-80% of your burn before the node and the other 30-20% after so that you're not too late in completing your course adjustment for the transfer.

It's a bit surprising that new people are still discovering this game after all the time it's been out. Such a disappointment that they screwed up so bad on the sequel. (at least there's still tons of mods for the first one though)

@@the_omg3242 I'm actually on the PS5 version, so for me, it's kind of a newish game...I had made the mistake of going Sandbox mode and following other YT channels that covered the mid to late game, but I felt that I've missed so much of the enjoyment (and actual science of rocket flight) so came back to the game and thought I'd see if I could find some well presented early 'career' gameplay. Pleased I found your videos!

Yeah, keeping some cash on hand would probably be the financially wise thing to do. Not that I'd normally fit that description. lol. So far I've been counting on the upgrades saving me from repair costs although I do have spare batteries and UCC's in case I need them. I'm pretty impressed with the game and also got it on Gamepass. In some ways it reminds me of the Cyclops from Subnautica with being able to walk around inside it and fix systems. Wish it had TrackIR support though. I also sometimes like to just sit and watch other people play games I'm playing. It's interesting seeing how others react to stuff and sometimes you even notice stuff you were too busy to notice when you're playing yourself. Thanks for your interest.

That's a really nice tip about opening the crates to keep them in place. You'd think they'd have netting over the shelves in a space truck. Thanks for that suggestion. The main complaint I see about the game is the speed that the batteries get used. I ended up restarting in the custom mode and turned down power consumption. Enjoying the game a lot more now. I missed out on the free repairs and my warranty is over. Damn.

@@the_omg3242 I was thinking the same thing about netteing. I watch 1 person who tested the game and he said the reason they dont use netting is for balance. You know? you wont know how important it is to keep your gravity drive running LOL

I actually died inside the truck in one of my sessions trying to change the battery in the oxygen system. Turned it off at the panel first and by the time I got the new battery in and back to the panel it was too late. Next time I'll try doing it in the space suit.

That's interesting. It's been a while since I played but I might have to fire it up and see how well that works. Nice tip.

You're aware that higher altitudes give you less fuel burn? There's also headwinds and tailwinds in the game so every now and then, blip the AR on to check winds and see if they're helping or hurting you.

That's probably exactly it. When you sell something at a location it takes a while before they're willing to buy more. (probably to keep people like me from setting up easy trade routes) I think each location is fixed on what they want to buy and sell and the supply and demand is simulated with timers. (buy something and you need to wait a certain time to buy more, sell something and you need to wait a certain time to sell more of the same) I've never seen a location that wanted a particular thing, then later on wanted something else other than the scripted stuff like food to hardmine once.

Making easy stuff complicated is pretty much all we've got to pass for gameplay while we're waiting on CIG to add some ACTUAL gameplay. Besides, it's not really about making it faster, it's about making it smoother than there you nose dive towards the ground, come to a stop in midair, rotate your ship level, then strafe down to slam your ship into the ground. You ever see them do that in a movie? Probably not since it looks stupid but is the standard landing practice in Star Citizen for a lot of players. This is only intended to smooth all of those into a single move that looks a little more professional and cinematic.

Given the pace of development I don't think they'll be making major changes to the flight model in the near future. (or even middle future. Distant future maybe if the games survives another 5 to 10 years) As for simulating atmospheric flight, I don't really see them doing that in a major way since that adds stalls and reduced control at low speed and other sim like behavior while everything else in the game seems to be dumbing down to console levels. They might make wings and control surface have effect, but most lift will always come from bottom thrusters since the entire game is built around VTOL and there's not a runway to be found anywhere.

@@the_omg3242 they almost mentioned that VTOL will be mandatory in the next update, as well as what I mentioned for the thrusters, so that the smaller aircraft would be more similar to a jet-plane. Therefore, flying close to the surface will be more interesting and seem more realistic, rather than drifting above the surface

@@the_omg3242 So when you take off, the transition from VTOL will be by moving away from the surface, moving forward and raising the front a little bit, just like the real AV-8B Harrier II can do.

Would it though? 100% stick deflection is still 100% control input so you should be able to strafe just as fast. This just gives you more precision for small control movements. That might not be an issue if you're using a full size stick for strafing, but I'm using a tiny controller size stick with my middle finger on my throttle so small strafe motions to thread between obstacles or lightly touch down when landing can be tricky. That's the main use for curves; small sticks or flying with a game controller.

Glad it was helpful. I started playing with curves because of the little analog stick on my throttle that I use for strafing up/down, left/right. Wasn't very good for fine control till I'd spent some time playing with the control curves, but works much better after some tweaking.

I picked up Stormworks on a Steam sale at one point, but haven't actually tried it yet. (too many games, not enough time) Snowrunner goes on sale all the time so maybe wait on one of those if you decide you want it. The same dev has a new game called Expeditions, but many Snowrunner players don't really like it since it plays like a subset of Snowrunner.

Saw a video where someone added a flat spin so they came in backwards and the rear hatch was facing the bunker door they were landing at.

If you were spending $1000 a month for a subscription they'd probably give you your own server and come to your house to tuck you into bed every night.

It's only random till you know what it does. It's also handy for low level flight using the strafe keys. If the indicator is on top of a hill, you'll clear the hill. If you watch some of the YT videos of people flying low and fast you'll see how it's indicating their flight path.

I've got that one on my main character and it is one of my favorites. It's surprising how close you can land to bases without them going hostile. But if I'm doing coop with more than one other person I really like the missle version of the Overseer. Can carry up to 6 and very agile if you need to dodge incoming missles.

I did that on a Nox once. Never really went too far with my Ursa though. Most ground terrain tends to be a bit rough for wheels and they're slower than I've got the patience for. Which often results in me dying on grav bikes when I hit a rock going much faster than the Ursa can manage.

The only thrusters that are active are the ones on the bottom of the ship that are normally used for hover. When you're on your glide path, (for lack of a better term) they're maintaining your rate of descent automaticly. In decoupled mode in gravity with your landing gear down the thrusters work to hold your current direction, but you're actually already throttled down even if your speed limiter is above zero. Your rear engines aren't firing except to maintain your forward speed against any wind or air resistance. When you use your spacebrake, the ships various thrusters work to slow you in every direction, (forward and down) so if you time the spacebrake so that you hit the ground slowly you'll stick to the ground since you'll no longer have any velocity for the decoupled mode to maintain. You do want to get into the habit of setting your speed limiter to zero after you land so that when you go back to coupled mode before takeoff you can smoothly accelerate, but that's more prep for your next flight than necessary to end your current flight.