Elite Dangerous: srv launched over 3km into orbit

[@Cogitovision]

Putting the Dangerous back into Elite Dangerous.

[@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.

[@cmdrgreybeardseawolf]

Using an icy water geyser on a low G planet I got my SRV up to 14.8 Km

[@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

[@Vespyr_]

Flow state.

[@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

[@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 😂

[@alexwesley6829]

@@DTSAACF hey, you seen it yourself lol... It's all about boosting at the right time on the way back down to slow your descent.

[@utkn]

My game literally crashes when I hit the ground too hard in my srv LOL

[@alexwesley6829]

@@utkn DAAANNNGG, sorry to hear that freind....other than graphical settings being too high, I'm not sure how this would happen....

[@utkn]

@@alexwesley6829 There's some issue with AMD cards/drivers and E:D. It disconnects me with an error code that would suggest network error, but that's not it. Editing a config file "fixed" it, but now some planets have odd colors haha.

[@kahldris1228]

When you recalled your ship I was like oh man it would be so cool if you landed back on the ship!

[@echooftheplanes]

I was hoping he would do it, but it was still cool nonetheless

[@alexwesley6829]

@@kahldris1228 that was what I wanted to try lol

[@psyke7242]

I got 3.27km of vacuum driving over a vent. Also took me over 5km from where I launched, and the terrain was terrible! I was a bit worried about the landing, but managed to survive to make repairs. Was a 0.14G planet.

[@alexwesley6829]

Nice one!!! Especially as from what I hear from people, it's quite hard to get the landing right....I seen to have a knack for It it seems... though, it did take a small while to realise what point to slam the thrusters on..... I've found that all you need to do is hit your thrusters so that they run out JUST before you hit the ground, that way you show down as much as you can without gaining any more speed after you run out. But good on you for getting that height and distance mate! I've been trying to figure out if it's possible to make it all the way into space enough to break the gravitational lock on any of the planets....even if it means being carried on top of a ship...and if you can, whether you can then use the thrusters as propulsion lol

[@mb1234567890a]

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

[@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

[@alexwesley6829]

@@darthhunter69 that's where I got the idea from lol, but I didn't have anyone to do it with at the time so I tried it myself lol

[@Parable_One]

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

[@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

[@tbombadil]

How many ARX to get my ship hull made out of whatever this SRV is made of?

[@alexwesley6829]

@@tbombadil you'd think it was made out of adamantium or something lol 😂

[@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.

[@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

[@coctimusprime1872]

I got a trick stunt off the Thargoid Spire site over on the channel as well with the SRV they can be fun as hell

[@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

[@wizardprang]

All I could think was "WHEEEEEE!"

[@margotrosendorn6371]

Trying to be a helldiver, are we? :P

[@alexwesley6829]

@@margotrosendorn6371 *Helldivers theme song plays in background.....

[@DvdV1337]

I dont think going up is the problem.

[@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!

[@jasonstone1046]

Disembark…

[@Orii-RaePoole]

This is what occurs when people get bored when playing elite. 😄Also, sounds like the srv has a chest infection or something the way it wheezes when it boost jumps lol.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

With .3G how?

[@alexwesley6829]

It seems once you get to a certain height, and doing so at a good enough velocity, then the thrusters are just enough to keep you going higher. As for surviving the trip back down...that's tricker lol...but I've found as long as you've got all power to thrusters, then as long as you hit the thrusters at the precise moment so that you run out of juice just before you hit the ground, then it allows you to slow down enough and then land without regaining any velocity....granted It took me a good few tries before I managed it, and not one planet will be the same either as they all have different atmospheric pressure...also, once a planet is above a certain atmospheric pressure, then the thrusters are basically void and dont make a difference

[@mikewaterfield3599]

@@alexwesley6829 Hmm, I’ve gotten in orbit on foot never with an SRV.

[@TDogsYard]

But it wasn’t launched more than a kl, you just using a thruster 😂

[@alexwesley6829]

@@TDogsYard it was launched wasn't it???? It went over 3km into orbit didn't it????? The fact I used thrusters to make the remaining height is a moot Point....

[@DghostNL]

you should try geisers , trows you in to space.

[@alexwesley6829]

I've tried geysers before lol ...they don't get you as high as this 😂

[@aniketchafekar4117]

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

[@Thq-ff8wz]

Wdym by how are you getting 60fps?

[@alexwesley6829]

What you mean how am I getting 60fps? As for the HUD, it only works on PC, but I use EDHM, which allows you to customise the different colours of the HUD to make a design that you like ..you can colour code everything if you want to make it easier to look at things ...I just liked the blue myself..it suits the game better than orange

[@hamburglurgl]

What fun!

[@shaynekinney2263]

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