Flying Ship On Planet

[Exsilium Games]

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

[Beezus Hrist]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

It is just a fast travel mechanic and storage space

[LazyLiz]

Because you'd hit the invisible walls

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by Beezus Hrist:

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

It is just a fast travel mechanic and storage space

And limited storage space at that with 460 or so to start (command module + mid module + rear module). All except the last ship in the store has more, most are around 200-300. Youll find if you do any mining at all this fills up really quick.

To solve this I move all my stuff from the ship to my personal room in The Lodge, which seems to have an unlimited storage.

[domenick91]

The 'scale' of the game doesn't really matter since there's boundaries on each planet, hence, fast-traveling to certain zones. It's weird though.

You cannot fly from surface to space through atmo and vice-versa. You can't (as far as I know) can't even dock manually with other ships or stations.

When you actually board your ship it's a lot like Mass Effect/Outer Worlds, there's a loading screen going from outside to inside or inside to outside.

Seems like if they postponed for just another year or so they could've added that quality of life mechanic into the game for a vast majority of players who were wanting it.

[Kilo_60]

Well this pretty much makes this a Hard Pass for me...

Such a Shame!

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by Kilo_60:

Well this pretty much makes this a Hard Pass for me...

Such a Shame!

Remember that this game will be modded and the things the devs were to lazy/cheap or otherwise restricted from doing, modders will do it better.

[xnamxoutlawx]

Ship is just a loading screen yay thanks Bethesda, ship is useless you guys just basically made fast traveling more of a pain this is so revolutionary wow.

[Deathbringerrr]

Originally posted by Can'tStopTheSalt:

Space in this game is basically a fast travel simulator.

Want to land? Cutscene / loading screen
Want to go to another system? Loading screen
Want to fly to another planet inside your current system? Loading screen

You can only free pilot your ship when you jump between systems / planets, and there's absolutely nothing there.

It's essentially just Fallout 4.5. Which isn't bad, don't get me wrong. I'm REALLY enjoying everything surface side. But the space side of this game is a joke.

Playing this is making me want to play Elite Dangerous again, even though that game is a grind fest. At least I can actually pilot my ship in a meaningful manner.

Cool go play it. Ill trade being able to fly around nonsensically with a ♥♥♥♥ ass story or nonexistent one, to having an entertaining story and awesome sets and things to do. That's a space sim this is not!~ Its an RPG in space. You can fly your ship to a planet, its realistic so its gonna take Real time. If you haven't noticed when you scan your planet and see how far it is. When your flying, the LS or the M go down. Its there. Don't be fooled. But again this isn't a Space Simulator. Its Skyrim in Space. Its Fallout in Space! Why cant anyone see that? Are you all a bunch of 12 year olds? Like that's how you're all acting, like you have no clue about how games work and how much time that would take to make? Just look at SC -13 years -600 mill and its not even completed. Now if you excuse me I'm going to get food and coming back home to play more SF! I'm happy, you're not. I win!

[Ala]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

no because planets are just JPEGs

[Angrybiker]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

Remember that this game will be modded and the things the devs were to lazy/cheap or otherwise restricted from doing, modders will do it better.

Modders will turn this into a legitimate GOTY contender.

[Rain]

Originally posted by pilouli:

Well yes Mr. Todd Howard a game on the theme of space without being able to simulate a landing with his ship, it's very disappointing. Why boast of countless planets if they are accessible with the click of a mouse An RPG without ambition that is not up to what it would be possible to do in 2023

Because the number of planets and the means to get there are the exact same thing.

[Big Chewy™]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

True. They cut so many corners on this game. It's a point and click, fast travel and loading screen simulator with some generic sci-fi pew-pew tacked on. That doesn't make it a bad game, just an overpriced, overhyped one.

Agreed ....

[CHASE6]

Originally posted by Zhorge:

Originally posted by SHADOWTHX:

correct... you sit and watch an animation. that hides another loading screen. and again you dont take off or fly your ship off of the planet you watch another animation and wait for the loading. in fact you dont even need to be on your ship to take off much of the time. you can just fasttravel lol.. that massive universe just got alot smaller.

lol. Have you ever played even a quasi-realistic travel space game? They're boring as hell.

But if you want to try flyng everywhere, try flying from space-station to another in Elite:Dangerous when you have to jump 50 systems. It's SO DULL I HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE GAME WHILE FLYING MY SHIP. For a game I have over 350 hours in, I've barely accomplished anything thanks to the long, boring, sleep-inducing travel mode.

You think you want it... I'm pretty sure you don't, at least not the reality of it. Fast travel takes the travel tedium out of a game that will take close 1000 hours to 100%, You want to ad 3000+ hours of travel time that ED would add?

It's not a space simulator. It's a CRPG in space.

Yes. Also, I don’t think people realize the vastness of space and the scale involved. Just because you see two planets next to each other doesn’t mean you can fly there in a minute or two. These things are billions of kilometres apart. The grav drive makes sense as it would take flying through empty space for hours, at sun-light speeds. That’s just within a star system. Stars are light years apart, a light year is 25 trillion km.

[Sin1328]

Originally posted by Angrybiker:

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

Remember that this game will be modded and the things the devs were to lazy/cheap or otherwise restricted from doing, modders will do it better.

Modders will turn this into a legitimate GOTY contender.

modders don't have that much free time to remake the entire game to fix it.
there are better options out there for that.

though I like your optimism.

this is missing way too much to be considered for game of the year.

[Doc Sigma]

Originally posted by Exsilium Games:

So to be clear... unless Im missing something, there is no way to fly your ship on the surface of a planet or moon... right?

Starcitizen, elite dangerous, or no mans sky, i.e, three games that actually have outer space gameplay elements and not there as just a backdrop to give you the illusion of outer space.