docking ships

[AlanHawk]

Bathesda REALLY needs to work on this. I have never managed to dock my ship to a space station without running into the station at least once. the press R to dock message doesn't pop up when you get close, you have to be close AND in a tightly specific spot and oirentation. since my docking port is on the top rather that in the front this is very hard.

[Rangcom]

Do you have the hail prompt? As soon as you are 500m and have the station selected you should be able to see the dock prompt come up. If it isnt targeted though it wont come up.

[silent88]

Try exiting the game, restarting your PC, and relaunching Starfield if you don't get the E) and R) for selecting and docking. It worked for me this time.

[Munkey]

You have to target the station/ship by looking at it and tapping E first. Otherwise the dock/hail options won't show.
I wasted probably half an hour thinking it was bugged because I had had a piece of ship debris targeted instead of the ship I needed to hail.

[AlanHawk]

ok, that worked. Pressing E while the station is in view let's you hail them if they have that available and also gives you the prompt to dock if you are close enough, which is actually a lot further away than you'd think

[Baggy MacDouche]

I also think you have to hold R instead of just tapping it. There are some commands like that. I know you said you weren't seeing the key prompt in the HUD, so maybe you are having some real kind of game glitch issue, but when you need to hold a command you should see it sort of fill up like a meter from left to right. Same with TAB in some menus to exit all the way out.

[nakoda]

It's super easy:

Just select the ship/station you want to dock to with your HUD while in flight (A button on controller, E on PC I think is the default), same as targeting a combat ship. Once it's selected, you'll see it's HP bar, and as you get close you'll see the prompt.

That's all there is to it. You can dock from about 50m away from most ports. You just have to target it first.

FWIW: the tooltip tells you this when the tutorial comes up.

[Chungo Beepis]

yeah this was driving me insane. until i realised you had to activate the object, (by hitting e when it's in your sights) then hold R, docking couldn't be easier once you know that.

It's a classic Betheda "tooltip" problem, it shows for 3 seconds and then disappears for the rest of your life lol, in games that last hundreds of hours it's a terrible error in design but just never fixed. :)

[His Divine Shadow]

One person needs to be uncut, then it’s not a problem

[Æternum]

Originally posted by Deano:

I'm currently trying to dock with the space station orbiting the moon and i have given up! I just cannot get close enough or correctly positioned to even make a docking button appear. Beyond frustrating.

you have to be within 500 meters, and target the station with "e" then it will prompt you with the 'R" key to dock. orientation is irrelevant. target the station from far away and it will tell you your current distance so it doesnt feel so random.

[GIGGITYGIGGITYGOO]

Press e...... wait for it to pop up. Hailing always shows first. Then the prompt for docking does. It's so Easy....