Interloper crashed into giants deep?

[Solar]

So i was just on a normal playthrough on giant's deep, and i was hanging out on an island after recently getting tornado-ed, and suddenly, a huge thing of rock appears falling down from the sky at me, and i check my map- Yep, its the Interloper. Falling down to giant's deep. It actually touches the water on the very tip of it for like, a second before starting to rise upwards again. After a few moments it finally dissapears out of the sky, but now it just is flying all willy nilly all over the solar system and before the sun exploded it almost completely crash landed and annihalated timber hearth. Bug?

[Fear Ghoul]

That is weird. I've only ever seen that sort of thing when I flew far away from the solar system, since apparently your position in the game is the center of the universe or something in the coding so that somehow makes everything go crazy the farther out you get.

From what I understand, everything is just a physics simulator, so for whatever reason, the orbit of the Interloper must have gotten messed up somehow. I really wonder just how that happened.

[Bobywan]

The interloper can't crash into anything but you or your ship.
Probably as said above, you flew far away from the system and came back which can mess with the game physics.

[Solar]

OK, you're right. I flew a bit far away to go get the acheivement for hearing all the traveller's instruments at once on my signalscope and then came back to explore giant's deep.

[Fear Ghoul]

That's awesome. I'll have to try that out sometime.

[Sammun Mak]

That sounds super interesting. Can you share more about it, like what exactly happens when you fly far out? How far do you need to fly?

[Fear Ghoul]

I remember seeing the Interloper crash into the Twins, then lose momentum and fall into the sun when I did this once just to test out what happens after reading about how things get all crazy if you fly out of the solar system.

[Fear Ghoul]

Well I sure wasn't expecting this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716357405

[Solar]

WHAT IN THE- ok tell me how you did that.

[Solar]

Originally posted by Sammun Mak:

That sounds super interesting. Can you share more about it, like what exactly happens when you fly far out? How far do you need to fly?

Also i had to fly out a really far ways, about 100k meters from the sun, for small effects to start happening. It was the first thing i did at the start of the loop, and by the time i got back to Giant's deep and the Interloper crashed on it, it was on its last orbit. So i dont remember how far exactly i went out but i know i stayed there for so long that by the time i was back, most time had already passed.

[Fear Ghoul]

I flew out to 50km, stayed there for a while watching the map, then went back to look around and see if I could land on a planet while things were messing up, but nothing happened, so I decided to fly out again, and I noticed the sun following me on the map. I took the screenshot, then exited the map for a couple seconds, opened it again, took another screenshot, which was that one, with it still coming for me, then exited, seeing if the sun would be hurtling toward me, but nothing happened, then I opened the map again and it was in the center again. Look at the screenshot again and you'll see that the location of the sun is still in the center of the system, while the model is flying off. I really have no idea what was going on there. I think I'll experiment with this again some time.

[Solar]

Personally, i didnt even expect the planets to have physics. I just thought they were on a set track that stays like that for the whole game, with each having some gravitational pull only on the player and movable objects so that the museum's gravity ball exhibit is possible, and for some realism. I did not expect the devs to actually go put planetary phyiscs. Does this mean you could crash Timber Hearth into the sun, keep the Interloper from falling into the sun, and maybe even seperate Ash and Ember twin from each other?

[Fear Ghoul]

I also thought they were on set tracks until someone here mentioned how it's all a physics simulator and how if you fly away from the solar system it gets all messed up. It's so cool how they actually programmed that in.

I made another attempt to mess up the solar system and fly back in time to experience some of it, this time going about 200km out for quite a while, but nothing interesting happened. I guess I'll have to fly out even farther next time.

[Solar]

It's like RNG with how far you need to fly out, how long, and if itll even mess it up