Landing gear won't come out ?

[Sergeant Walnut]

This is my first space sim, so bear with me

I'm doing the second training mission and I'm at the part where I have to land my ship on docking pad 43 in the ezababa station or whatever.

I am in the docking bay, floating above the pad and I keep pressing L to deploy my landing gear, but nothing happens,

Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug ?

Is there more to the process of deploying my landing gear ?

[SeveredSkullz]

Deploying landing gear takes a bit of time... If you are not being patient and just spamming L, it will never fully extend and keep retracting each time you press it again.

[fnberger]

maybe you want to re-check if the landing gear is still bound to L in your options. who knows. and give it a little time, getting the gear ready could take a second. usually your nav voice will announce success.

[Sergeant Walnut]

yeah I was kinda spamming it. It worked now and I finally managed to land after probably pissing off every single dock employee by crashing into everything.

I'm having a bit of a hard time learning the game so far, but I want a huge space game with more depth than no man's sky so I'm gonna keep trying it

Thanks for the advice !

[wolfheart303]

Originally posted by apr006:

yeah I was kinda spamming it. It worked now and I finally managed to land after probably pissing off every single dock employee by crashing into everything.

I'm having a bit of a hard time learning the game so far, but I want a huge space game with more depth than no man's sky so I'm gonna keep trying it

Thanks for the advice !

The learning curve is pretty steep, but once you get the hang of it you're going to have a blast. I was absolute rubbish at docking when I first started, now I can zip in and be done in less than 30 sec.

[Wolf]

Originally posted by wolfheart303:

Originally posted by apr006:

yeah I was kinda spamming it. It worked now and I finally managed to land after probably pissing off every single dock employee by crashing into everything.

I'm having a bit of a hard time learning the game so far, but I want a huge space game with more depth than no man's sky so I'm gonna keep trying it

Thanks for the advice !

The learning curve is pretty steep, but once you get the hang of it you're going to have a blast. I was absolute rubbish at docking when I first started, now I can zip in and be done in less than 30 sec.

enduring the learning curve was half the fun for me. :) new discoveries for hundreds of hours :)

[wolfheart303]

Originally posted by wolf:

Originally posted by wolfheart303:

The learning curve is pretty steep, but once you get the hang of it you're going to have a blast. I was absolute rubbish at docking when I first started, now I can zip in and be done in less than 30 sec.

enduring the learning curve was half the fun for me. :) new discoveries for hundreds of hours :)

I love that this game isn't easy in the beginning. I get a real sense of accomplishment from learning new skills or tricks of the trade. Very fulfilling for someone sick to death of games holding her hand. ~lol~