Elite Dangerous: srv launched over 3km into orbit

srv launched over 3km into orbit

[@saifulazrinfoto9993]

The Elite series is akin to a literary work, albeit somewhat dull and occasionally lulled into apathy, yet it holds the potential to be both deadly and thrilling at the same time.

[@alexwesley6829]

Elite dangerous is a really good game once you start learning about it...my First time on it, I gave u thinking it were shit...I left it about a year then came back and actually researched it...I started getting into it, now it's one of my fav games of all....I have a fleet carrier now, olus a specialized ship for pretty much everything, aswell as having travelled a decent bit of the galaxy...thing is, it doesn't exactly hold you hand...you gotta learn yourself

[@CanadianSmoke]

@@alexwesley6829 I'm still on the learning curve and at this point in time, it appears to be rather steep... but I'll get there one day.

[@mb1234567890a]

Fdev shouldn't have never called that SRV Scarab... I'll rather Nokia 3310. 🤣🤣

[@ryantowell]

Watching this has made me realise the Conda is a great ship for this kind of thing. I always used to use a T9 or a T10 because they were tall enough that I could get it to boost into the SRV xD

[@alexwesley6829]

Lol, 100% the conda is a great ship to do this with lol...it's even got a nice lil indent that you can sit the SRV Into, then lock the parking brake so that it keeps you on the ship as long as possible without rolling off lol....I've seen people do it with aspX's but you can't get as high with those lol. Don't get me wrong, it took some trial and error to find the right ship to do this with, but once I found it, I realised you could do great things lol..... Alot of people can't believe how I managed to not blow up upon landing lol, which most people do when doing this.....but it's all about hitting the thrusters at EXACTLY the perfect time so that you touch down JUST after they switch off, that way you reduce your momentum as much as possible, but don't regain any of it after.... again, this took a couple of tries to find the sweet spot too lol, but as you can see. I managed it! 🙏

[@alexwesley6829]

Man, I just rewatched this video fully for the first time in a while, I didn't realise how spot on I was with firing the thrusters to not blow up lol..I mean, I knew I was on point, but I didn't realise how on point....I fired them at JUST the right time to slow down so much, and not regain any more momentum

[@caltheuntitled8021]

I once saw someone jump from one planet to another in an SRV without even using a ship. Sadly, I can’t find the video anymore.

[@alexwesley6829]

I was wondering if that was possible you know.... because I know that there are some planets with a ridiculous speed orbit

[@caltheuntitled8021]

@@alexwesley6829 I can’t find the video anymore, but I do remember how he did it. He was on a planet that had a very low gravity, a relatively smooth surface, and co-orbited a very nearby planet of the same size. He started by going at max speed and jumping off a ramp. Once he was in the air, he angled forward and used the SRV thrusters to not only push him up, but also forward. After a few attempts, he managed to get it to the point where he never landed, effectively putting himself into orbit of the planet. Once he had a stable orbit, he used his thrusters in the same way a real life rocket would to accelerate towards the other planet. Once he got above a certain point, the SRV locked up and shut down. The next half an hour or so of the stream was him talking to chat and playing music, including Space Oddity. When he got to the other planet, he ended up phasing through it, but upon a relog, he was safely on its surface and was able to recall his ship and take off. I think this was done in horizons, and you might need to use legacy to do it these days.

[@MarkusRamikin]

Nice. Though how the hell the SRV survived this I'll never know. Even in low gravity, that's 3km of accelerating.

[@alexwesley6829]

It's all about using the thrusters at the right times to slow your descent...most people don't seem to have it down, but I've been learning lol...this wasn't my first rodeo hahahah, though only the 4th to land without blowing up hahahaha

[@jocl7159]

As nobody mentioned it here yet; once an SRV crosses the 20km altitude mark it will no longer slow down and keep going at whatever speed it had at said point. I've managed to reach about 480km of altitude that way on one occasion and met up with a friend in orbit, eventually even disembarking and enjoying a spacewalk of the other kind.

[@DTSAACF]

my srv exploded from a 2 foot fall and you're telling me you survived a 3km fall with next to no damage?

[@ILikeTrains324]

Gravity huh 😂

[@darthhunter69]

Try this but with a friend slowly raising the ship while maintaining it level with the ground and see how high you can go

[@perilousrange]

...And this wasn't even a particularly low gravity world. BTW, the lowest gravity spire site is 0.04G. Just sayin.

[@alexwesley6829]

Blimey!!!! That's bloody low!!!

[@alexwesley6829]

I think the fact I managed to land it without destroying myself was pretty good aswell lol...most people I see so this blow up when they hit the ground 😂😂 it's not that hard to slow yourself down enough to not though

[@XenoZbornak]

Space madness?

[@CMDR_John_Crichton]

Always space madness.

[@rudiruttger]

Is there any other kind?

[@XenoZbornak]

@@rudiruttger General madness, mad genius, drunken madness, evil madness. There's a few others.

[@alexwesley6829]

The best kind of madness lol

[@Parable_One]

Think the highest ive ever gotten was 6km with a gas geyser

[@rafaelgrb19]

that was awesome!

[@alexwesley6829]

Why thank you! 🙏

[@Mika-ph6ku]

Gotta find a way to get the srv into orbit then call a fuel rat to your position

[@alexwesley6829]

Im still in the process of trial and error....as that is my intention, though, technically, for this planet, I was in orbit...I'd left the atmosphere

[@LycanLucian]

@@alexwesley6829 that's not what an orbit is. An orbit is an object that circles around another. When that circle repeats every time it becomes a stable orbit. You just distanced yourself enough from the planet that you surpassed the atmosphere in a straight line. That's also why you fell that fast too. You could technically orbit within the atmosphere, tho you'd need constant power to push against said atmosphere slowing you down and somehow fight the heat of going fast enough to keep an orbit while still in atmos.

[@alexwesley6829]

@@LycanLucian no shit Sherlock??? How long did it take for you to figure that one out???? Considering I'm playing a niche space simulator, has it not occurred to you that I might already know that???? And that me saying "blasting the SRV into orbit" is another way of saying that I've blasted it out of the atmosphere???? Crikey people, we got a NASA trained astronomer here!!!! 😂😂😂😂 Go be a kill joy elsewhere man...I think youll find everyone onnthis comment list knows what am actual orbit is....as I'm sure they also knew in what context I was using it....yet you were the only one to be a dick about it.....

[@Volkaer]

@@alexwesley6829 You might get away with it if you have a wingmate lift your SRV on the hull of their ship?

[@alexwesley6829]

@@Volkaer to be fair, I know how to get in the hull, the problem, is staying on there lol

[@Ducky_yandere]

try doing this with a planet that has a really close ring system

[@alexwesley6829]

That would be quite amusing actually....I'm trying to find out if there's any planets like in no man's sky, where they intersect and you can jump from one to the other.... except, jumping with a SRV Instead of on foot

[@Ducky_yandere]

@@alexwesley6829 sounds like a worthwhile endeavour!

[@aniketchafekar4117]

Bro how are you gettin 60 fps? Also what hud colours are you using.

[@Thq-ff8wz]

Wdym by how are you getting 60fps?

[@shaynekinney2263]

thought it said srb, am disappoint because of failure to read, who do i blame?