Flight of Nova: All training missions

[@eikopoppy29]

So, based on the analytics of this video, the mission people are interested in watching the most is BY FAR Belly Scanner, followed by Hot Reentry. I already have a video about reentering, but maybe I should make one just about those scanner missions...

[@aritgirlfoamflinging4816]

I got the reentry pretty good. I can't figure out Rendezvous qwp

[@eikopoppy29]

@@aritgirlfoamflinging4816 Congratulations on re-entry! For the rendezvous missions, I have put out a guide for them if you'd like to watch that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/parSkJaXeZibecU I'd encourage you to give it a few tries if you haven't already and see if you can get it on your own, since I think that's more fun. Good luck!

[@jaybird210]

i do highly recommend watching Poppy's rendezvous guide it's very good i was struggling until i watch his guide along with some of his other redezvous (the one in the calum, in this video is a very good example, i think), but now, i feel i can rendezvous like a pro ;)

[@Adjudicator1]

Amazed at the alternate way to end the hot re-entry training mission: Landing at the nearest land base. Technically not the planet surface, but one place where you can actually refuel and service the craft for further use, and at a higher altitude easier to lift off from.

[@Commeenpassant]

Should be really great to explain how to map/configure a Hotas for this game. Great video!

[@eikopoppy29]

The official Flight of Nova channel has a short/simple calibration guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHS3f6xnhNtjj7c

[@Commeenpassant]

@@eikopoppy29 thank you!

[@tommyzDad]

Playing the atmospheric landing missions, I was wishing for the landing cues the _Nostromo_ had: *Alien - LV-426 Approach:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYDCepSobql8es0 *Alien - LV-426 Landing:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqvGm5hvnKmnndk

[@Joao-ur7ey]

I completed all of them by my own, but the last one "catching dacosta" is being a pain in the ass. It takes so long and suddenly the station starts to move faster than you and if you accelerate it will messed up your apoapsis and altitude. So the tricky is too accelerate and decelerate to catch it the fast as possible?

[@eikopoppy29]

There are two main ways to do it. The way I did in this video (accelerating really fast and mostly ignoring the orbital mechanics), or the probably intended way which is: Circularize your orbit below the station, maybe at 140km. Lower is possible too but then you'll have to keep boosting your PE because of atmospheric drag. Because lower orbits are faster, you'll eventually get to within 80km of the station just automatically. Either way, as soon as you're within 80km you'll get the Local vector. From that point on, ignore orbital mechanics and just make the Local vector point on top of the station. Once you're close enough, point towards the Anti-Local vector and burn towards it until RV is 0.

[@Joao-ur7ey]

@@eikopoppy29 I made it the way you did. Just hit the engines, accelerated the fast as possible, overshot the station, got back and eventually got close enough. lol The other method of being in a lower orbit simply takes too long and I was out of patience. Maybe the game could benefit of a feature to speed up time like KSP, since even the lowest orbits can take like 90 minutes to circle an earth-like planet.

[@eikopoppy29]

@@Joao-ur7ey Yeah agreed, it is very slow and only a little bit easier. That idea about timewarp in flight comes up a lot and the developer has said he doesn't want to do it. He wants to fix the timewarp on stations so that it can go much faster, but he thinks it's better if it's not an option while flying. I think he doesn't want to be too much like KSP where the focus is more on missions planning and less on flying. But anyway, there will be two other planets at some point, and I think there will be warp gates or something so you don't have to wait weeks to get between them.

[@Joao-ur7ey]

@@eikopoppy29 Yeah, for real. Seeing things on this perspective makes sense. I guess that time warp could potentially speed up the gameplay loop so much that it could become numb and feel repetitive too fast, specially when the main point is the flight itself. It's a difficult design decision, because without it the interception of stations can also become very time consuming and tedious as well if you want to do it in the "proper way". Hopefully he will figure out the best way possible for the game. Seeing the intro animation on the demo I was guessing the interplanetary travel would feature those cryogen pods where you could skip the time of the travel until you're close enough of the planets, lol. Could also be a interesting and different idea.

[@lkrice222]

Awesome videos!!! I have a silly question how do you zoom in to look at the displays in cockpit view?

[@eikopoppy29]

Thanks! :) At the moment you can't unless you have a TrackIR. I'm sure keybinds for better cockpit camera movement are coming. It's definitely needed especially for the cargo hauler which has some pretty tiny displays.

[@lkrice222]

Thanks for the info