Elite Dangerous gameplay. On entry to a system my ship doesn't stop before hitting the star itself. A black hole seems to be close to the young blue star messing up the entry and scaring my pants off.
Especially if you're not even working on exploration or anything like doing cargo runs. Like one I'm on right now is taking me through Charick Drift (near Sol, just over 20LY away from it, maybe 30, not sure at the moment), I refuse to go there until I know how far apart those two stars are (white dwarf and I'm not sure about the other). Kinda wish there'd be a site for these systems with 2+ stars to tell you how much distance is between the main star that you come out at and the rest of them.
I still find myself in some cold sweat when I keep visiting the same system with the same white dwarf. Especially so, if a system is binary and you head right towards the second star instead of away from both of them.
ZeGamingCuber The color depends on the temperature that, for main sequence (MS) stars, depends on the mass. The Sun was never blue. There are stars that are red for their whole lives. You may be conflating the age with the expected lifetime. The expected lifetime does correlate with the surface color in MS stars in the way you pointed: blue stars are short-lived, white-yellow stars have an intermediate lifespan and red stars have the longest lifespan of all. Outside of the MS, the white dwarves can live as much as the Universe and due to the surface temperature are white. Admittedly, WD should cool down with time, changing the surface color. This object here is a 33 solar mass star compressed into 0.5 solar radius orbiting a BH without accretion disk. I'd say that the flavor text was simply not programmed for this kind of situation.
Dwayne Bertrand thats not even what scary its something else lmao idk what. The game is terrifying. Im on my way from bubble to the colonia region rn i have to use so many neutrons its horrifying.
If you had actually hit the star you would not have survived. Your emergency systems threw you out of SC before that happened. Nevertheless a frightening experience.
A.Plosky It's pretty easy to see that the ship is "skidding" off the star's edge. Now the game obviously doesn't let you hit the star in SC, but it was the closest you get to it.
neXib that would be terrifyingly beautiful if it did let you hit the surface of the star. Wait you can't "hit" plasma because plasma isn't solid, it's what gas becomes when super-heated
@@neXib Tecnicly you can´t hit/tutch anything. If you really could, so would it become a part of you. Remember the guy from the movie Fantastic Four, who put his hand om metal and his hand sank in to it? Yea, that would happen if you could really tutch an object. What you feel when tutching somthing is the electromagnetic forcefield the atoms the object is constructed by emits.
Scumbag Nav Computer be like: "Chill bro, it's just a prank" I once had a similar experience with a close binary system, my entry vector was right into the smaller star. It felt like i was hit right into the face by a goddamn sun. When this happened I literally jumped off my chair. I played a few games before which were made to be scary, but this thing scared the shit out of me. Still watching the vid, I had to laugh a bit when the ship said "Fuel scooping"
happened to me once when i went into a binary system about 1000-2000 light years from the central blackhole on my first trip to the central region of the galaxy, i also did that thing where you slow your speed to zero, turn away from the star, and then just sit there for a few minutes thinking about what just happened
Ghostly Apparatus what if there were binary neutron stars. In real life they would probably be unstable and migrate slowly toward each other and maybe tear themselves apart, but since this game completely negates any sort of physics between objects of similar mass going extremely close together it seems possible but very unlikely.
Oh yeah I ended up sandwiched between both stars being fried to death with my heat going through the roof when I tried to escape. I got out, 12% Hull damage though.
I've had an incident like that earlier on in my career with two very closely placed M class stars. Now I'm terrified of jumping into binary systems, I always double check their orbital period to see how close they are. If it's under 500 earth days, I look for alternate routes.
I almost lost my ship when I entered a binary system. I immediately started to take massive heat damage and barely got away. I was about 70,000 light years away from any settlement and had to be extremely careful for the rest of my excursion until I made it back for repairs.
That star was spinning pretty quickly too, the Black holes must've eaten what was surely a huge blue star. Glad nothing major happened in this instance.
My experience with something similiar Anaconda engineered for passenger, scanning, mild combat and cargo. Just dropped off some serious VIPs from Sol a LONG distance, made some serious bank. Now heading home, easy trip, gonna take a different route because a bounty in one system, and there are some un-scanned systems on the way. Plug in an audiobook and kind of mindlessly jump... Oh! What's this? Blue star with a blackhole pretty close on the galaxy map, I have never seen a black hole before. Two uneventful jumps, getting lined up for a jump. And there we go. I glance over to check my fuel and notice I was running really low, and was thinking about upgrading my fuel tank or getting a better fuel scope- *BAM!* I drop out, spinning fast, I don't even see the star (I almost always dropped out facing away from my intended direction) Blue corona, on my leftside. I scramble to rest control of my ship, realizing that I got my control in free camera mode, Alarms are going off, I don't have heatsinks(I sure as hell do now!). my ship spins enough to show me Bright blue white all over the cockpit window... I am kind of stunned and my ships heat finally dying down. I had no idea what happen.thought I must of came too close to a planet on my way in (had jumps where is emergency stops me over a planet). Gathering my wits about me, I plot a course to the blackhole, align my escape vector which is straight away from the star and scope up some fuel along the way. Holy cow, learned a couple of lessons that way
i once dropped out in a binary system, where the B star was between the dropout point, and the A star. I went straight through the B star at about 300c many poo
I know this is six years later, but I also has something similar happen to me years ago, but when I dropped in, I had a star to my left, right, and behind me.
Almost as terrifying as not paying attention to the destination star type and dropping out in front of a black hole. I was mindlessly jumping towards the neutron fields a couple weeks ago and I assumed my route would be normal main sequence stars, but the route plotter had selected a black hole as one of the jumps. After I dropped from hyperspace, for a split second I was like, "How odd. I guess the star hasn't loaded in yet" and then I see the yellow object exclusion zone line go from a few pixels wide to the size of my screen in less than a second and BAM, "WARNING, TAKING HEAT DAMAGE". Nearly shat my goddamn pants.
The record for fastest refueling in the galaxy was set fairly solidly by Commander neXib. Unfortunately this record was followed quite suddenly by his untimely demise due to a collision with a star.
I've been hoping they would really boost the attractions of exploration for a long time, but most of the focus seems to be on pew pew issues atm. All in good time I suppose.
For now my only routine breaker was attempt to pull me out from supercruise when i was doing cargo transfer to another solar system. I'm really bad at combat, so i'm trying to avoid it if possible
Over the years that has happened to me dozens of times and every frigging time I almost shat myself. I guess we all (and I bet especially explorers) have a love/hate relationship with those jumps. Scary as heck but soooo satisfying when you get away from them and realise you just survived one of the most dangerous things that can happen in E.D
i know nothing, but i would suppose the text is talking about the Class 0 Star specifically. you know, it was another class of star before that, one which lasts much longer, and now, for the last few million years it is what would be classified as said "class 0 star". before it was class 1 for 200 mio years or something like that. probably. maybe.
Yeah, the star has lived multiple lives through various star types. Imagine it like Doctor Who and regeneration. Different faces all the time, but alway the same being. White Dwarfs signify that the star is at the end of it's life.
i had this once too.. jumped to a system, brainfunction like 1% because i was exploring for many hours straight, then while arriving, the jump animation literally clipped me through a red giant star and placed me right between this one and two other white dwarves. i nearly shat myself and my ship heat went from 40 to 120% within seconds. if i didn't have heat sinks installed i would have been grilled extracrispy with a ton of burned credit-juice as topping.
It's hard to explain what happens when a visual simulation does something like this, it's quite a freakout. I was admin of a VR research centre in the early 2000s, there was a 28' screen driven by an SGI Onyx2, 170 degree field of view, capable of stereo 3D, the theatre had seating for about 20 people. Google for, "SGI Reality Center", and click on the images link, a typical picture being: cubicleninjas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Shell_Rijswijk1_L.jpg One of the demos we showed visitors was a sort of floating island city, a bit like the environment in Unigine Heaven. An audience could watch the viewpoint moving around the virtual world most of the time just fine, but the one thing that always gave them the willies (and me too) was suddenly going *underneath* the entire model (the underside was like a giant, raw, broken rock face, a sort of upside down mountain scape), just such a visual thump in the head, a bit like if you've been gawping at Google Earth for a long time and suddenly go splat into the sea. Something about the way the brain gets immersed in the simulation, merely knowing that what you're seeing isn't real is not enough to prevent the raw perceptual shock. I had to warn the staff to be careful about doing this during a presentation, because some visitors really could not handle it. We had more than one puke incident... one staff member went a bit OTT on the movements around the virtual world, more than half a dozen visitors had to leave the room. I recall a cinematic incident which created a similar sensation. Anyone here recall seeing Star Trek VI (The Undiscovered Country) at the cinema when it came out? I found the opening scene with the large space station gave me a remarkable sense of spatial movement, I was quite surprised. Not something that works so well on a small screen though, even modern large TVs, it needed the full viewing angle of a cinema screen (I was in the 3rd row). Ian. PS. Playing Quake2 in a 5-sided CAVE is awesome. 8)
I think that's why jumping in VR is so scary. With VR you have depth so when you sort of get sucked in on a star, and that star is a white dwarf or is instead a black hole it's like falling because you expect to see an object in front of you but instead it's way distant.
I remember the first time I jumped to a neutron star. V749 Herculis. I had no idea they were in E:D. I had just gotten my ASP Explorer and was doing some delivery runs for some quick cash to cover insurance (you could say I was a bit vulnerable). It was midnight, and I was drunk in my room with the lights off and my headphones blasting. I popped out of FSD and landed directly next to the center of mass. Not knowing what I was looking at, I flew closer (something you should NEVER do in E:D if you aren't prepared). Needless to say I was immediately yanked out of SC as my ship's heat shot up, and was sent tumbling through one of its tails while my ship screamed at me about its overheating, my FSD failing, my shields going offline, my hull being breached, multiple systems losing power, all the alarms going off, all while encapsulated in a giant blue jet stream of a neutron star. Then when I thought it was all over, and I tried to escape, I was given one more giant rush of terror as my ship heated back up to 136% while its FSD charged up and I aligned with the escape vector. That is the single most terrifying yet enjoyable moment I've experienced in all of my years playing video games. Good times.
Yikes, that's some scary stuff!! The worst one I had was when I came out between two stars - I ended up getting motorboated. I'm very grateful I was carrying heatsinks!! :D
once when dropping into a binary i flew THROUGH the secondary star while jumping in and stopped just outside of the exclusion zone on the other side; still gave me some heat damage and a raised heart rate though.
Reminds me of a system I jumped into with two suns literally next to each other, my heat went up to 80% before I even started to fuel scoop. Thank goodness for heatsinks.
i like how this can still happen but now days we know that the FSD locks on to the highest gravity star or the area of most garvity and with 3 black holes i imagine the gravity center of that system is a bit off the norm.
My most scariest experience was when I got hyperdicted near Maia system. I freaked out as I didn’t knew wtf was going on. Also, because there are black holes near stars, Frontier should add the feature where you can see an accretion disk form, the star being pulled in, and the forming of the jets on the black hole’s poles.
I mean to me it looks like you came in at precisely the correct angle to 'hit' that star instead of the one your ship was aiming for. Considering relative sizes over the distances traveled, that's like using a particle collider to smash two protons together. A truly rare occurrence.
Late to the party. That said, you are a level of comfortable with being this close to a star that I have to give you props for. I certainly wouldn't be. I remember my first jump in the game (especially before SC chips) about made my crap my pants, and the few times I've been close enough for emergency dropout I was panicked until I was back in SC and about 1 LY away.
phew , you got lucky there, reminds me of jumping between 2 stars that were so close you could scoop from both and over heat , it was a close one to get out between the pair, spit roast is an understatment for how hot it got.....
lol, I always have my throttle at zero when I jump, but freak situations like this can still screw you. And now we have Thargoids to contend with as well...good luck out there guys.
I’ve had it happen where I passed through the edge of a star while entering and my fuel scoop activated for a moment, but aside from nearly impossible to avoid heat damage it didn’t give me any problems.
For some reason I've had drops pretty far away from the whole system when there were multiple stars, generally including a very cold star and a rather big one. I always come seeing the bigger one first, but from a distance. Anyone has had that before? It's happened to me particularly around Sol and Procyon.
Oh my lord, when exiting the drive and the star appearing in front, made me physically discomfort. I mean, literally, biting my fingers and twitching my toes. I love science-fiction, astrophysics etc. but the infinitive void just scares the crap out of me. All of you should really try out Freespace 2, flying in a nebula and allmost hitting an enemy capital ship is just so damn scary.
It does not, if a secondary star blocks your entry you will now jump to that instead. But that mechanic didn't exist when this was recorded. You always jumped to the main assigned star, and the mechanics of that were a bit random and a bit physics simulation.
The other day I jumped into a system that had a red dwarf orbiting REALLY close to the central star. I swear that for a moment I transitioned into the system THROUGH the red dwarf and I was on the very edge of its exclusion zone. It got hot really fast, but I managed to escape with minimal damage. Scared the crap out of me seeing a whole damn star flying at my face.
That's a neutron star since it was under 1 solar radius and spun rapidly. For the black hole to be that close it must have been a sibling star that had enough mass to collapse to its schwarzschild limit. So that's a extremely rare sight you found.
Hehe i jumped off my chair too. Something i also get scaired about are the white dwarfs. When u jump in to a system with that one, always makes me pee just a little.
Haha yeah, white dwarves are eery, they are so far away that you feel like you jump intot the abyss. They are slightly changed now though + you can see what star you are jumping too, so unless you miss it you can prepare :)
I have never had that happen before, however I have had it where I've jumped to a trinary star system and as I dropped out, I could see two stars whiz right past me before stopping next to the third. That didn't really scare me too much, but I was jumping to the controls and popping a heatsink before I knew what was happening lol
I've had a couple dropouts like this. "We're making the approach... at lightspeed?" It's like the game is just going "just checking you're on your toes mate". 50 odd hop journey, and then all of a sudden that. Every time I see a weird color or shape of the target star when I engage FSD towards it, I slightly clench and prepare to receive a very warm hello or a spinning ball of death on the other end. I've jumped into neutron jets, into a star's companion, etc.
Never been in that type of situation ... yet lol, been close to a star that looks like its going super nova, looked ly's off of a normal drop out but it was frigging bright...
Yea that would scare the shit out of me if that happened when I first played. Because, I didn't even know that when you jump, you go to the star. Which scared me lol
Try being interdicted by a very mad ultramsive black in the sidewinder where the gravity is so strong it took me 20 minutes to reach a fast enough speed to enter sc and escape with only 2% hull remaining when I got to a system with a station
Something like this happened to me 22 kly from Sol, except I guess I landed IN the star by a glitch. It didn't throw me out of SC but heat climbed up from 55% to 120% in about 4 seconds. If the Asp didn't have such an awesome heat efficiency, I would be dead.
I'm still confused on how this happened. The only time something like this has happened to me is when I was on a trade route and I dropped out of FSD beside two stars and I was like "wtf" when I dropped I zoomed right past the star on my right and landed in the middle of them. Pretty spooky
Probably a bug due to the black hole being inside the star and all. I haven't gone back to check. Nowadays if something blocks you, you exit on that instead of the main star. So most of these scary situations are fixed nowadays.
I just jumped through a star today. For half a second I though I was going to die and lose my week's exploration data, but luckily I just passed through and ended up in the other side middle of a binary. Didn't even heat up past 90%
Yes most of these issues should be fixed nowadays. If a star blocks your entry you should jump into that star instead of the primary one in the system.
I haven’t really felt fear until I pushed the limit and got dangerously close to a star. With a mix of the gravity and overheating the stars gravity well was winning. All power to thrusters and some panicky prayers I managed to escape burning up to death. Good stuff elite dangerous
"Travelling trough hyperspace isnt like Dust and crops boy without presice calculations you migth fly right through Star" -Han Solo
That moment when those wise word suddenly have weight to them
omg, i was thinking the exact same :D
JamiDoesStuff dusting crops*
JamiDoesStuff *might*
*isn't*
“Fuel scooping”
GONNA NEED TO SCOOP THE SHIT FROM MY PANTS AFTER THAT.
🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
Lmfaaaaooooooooo
Two years later, you made me commit tiny lol
« Shit scooping »
Poop scooping deployed.
Also, what were the last words this pilot heard?
"Fuel Scooping"
Famous last words...
HC C glorious
Full pooping
@@PHDarren the pilot was definitely full pooping when this happened 😂
Hahahahaha 🤣🤣
"I guess you could call that a *Puts on glasses* Jump Scare..."
Thats A Strawman M8
🎸
Thats A Strawman M8 -🕷- I mean 👍
*frameshift drives into sun*
You win 50 million credits.
Holy Shit :D
I had something similar happen with a close binary, once. Honestly, this game terrifies me in a way I've never really experienced in a video game.
+SV67943 crazy right? :)
Especially if you're not even working on exploration or anything like doing cargo runs. Like one I'm on right now is taking me through Charick Drift (near Sol, just over 20LY away from it, maybe 30, not sure at the moment), I refuse to go there until I know how far apart those two stars are (white dwarf and I'm not sure about the other). Kinda wish there'd be a site for these systems with 2+ stars to tell you how much distance is between the main star that you come out at and the rest of them.
I still find myself in some cold sweat when I keep visiting the same system with the same white dwarf. Especially so, if a system is binary and you head right towards the second star instead of away from both of them.
Haha that's space for you. Love it.
Potato220 yeah jumpimg into a sytem with a neutron star with the stream coming out of it is scary
"Fuel Scooping"
"Scooping star surface"
SuperSonicSparky lmao
that's what SHE thinks
Gonna need to scoop my pants after that
Fuel DIVING
"They are very short lived stars with lifetimes of 1-10 million years."
"Age: 424 Million years."
:')
Didnt start its life as a blue star but became one
SharpWalkers also they are the highest mass main-sequence stars radius: >1 Solar radius. Wait what?
Third High no O class stars usually start as O class and then become super or hypergiants and then go supernova.
Third High because blue stars are young, red stars are old, yellow or white stars are middle aged.
ZeGamingCuber
The color depends on the temperature that, for main sequence (MS) stars, depends on the mass. The Sun was never blue. There are stars that are red for their whole lives. You may be conflating the age with the expected lifetime. The expected lifetime does correlate with the surface color in MS stars in the way you pointed: blue stars are short-lived, white-yellow stars have an intermediate lifespan and red stars have the longest lifespan of all. Outside of the MS, the white dwarves can live as much as the Universe and due to the surface temperature are white. Admittedly, WD should cool down with time, changing the surface color.
This object here is a 33 solar mass star compressed into 0.5 solar radius orbiting a BH without accretion disk. I'd say that the flavor text was simply not programmed for this kind of situation.
This game is awesome but it terrifies me
Negativenine i
yeah, but you can't die from falling into a star or black hole. there's an exclusion zone that protects you. so there is no reason to worry.
that's why my commander name is poopipants
I just had a mini heart attack watching this. I just discovered this game on youtube yesterday. The sound effect is what makes it so scary.
Dwayne Bertrand thats not even what scary its something else lmao idk what. The game is terrifying. Im on my way from bubble to the colonia region rn i have to use so many neutrons its horrifying.
If you had actually hit the star you would not have survived.
Your emergency systems threw you out of SC before that happened.
Nevertheless a frightening experience.
A.Plosky It's pretty easy to see that the ship is "skidding" off the star's edge. Now the game obviously doesn't let you hit the star in SC, but it was the closest you get to it.
neXib that would be terrifyingly beautiful if it did let you hit the surface of the star. Wait you can't "hit" plasma because plasma isn't solid, it's what gas becomes when super-heated
I glitched into a star once, I uploaded the vid if u wanna check
@@zegamingcuber857 by that logic you can't hit water either. Good luck washing your hands
@@neXib Tecnicly you can´t hit/tutch anything. If you really could, so would it become a part of you. Remember the guy from the movie Fantastic Four, who put his hand om metal and his hand sank in to it? Yea, that would happen if you could really tutch an object. What you feel when tutching somthing is the electromagnetic forcefield the atoms the object is constructed by emits.
I love how the computer's main priority when that happened was "Fuel scooping"
Gotta take advantage of what you can
😂😂🤣🤣
To be fair, that's what is keeping her alive.
Scumbag Nav Computer be like: "Chill bro, it's just a prank"
I once had a similar experience with a close binary system, my entry vector was right into the smaller star. It felt like i was hit right into the face by a goddamn sun. When this happened I literally jumped off my chair. I played a few games before which were made to be scary, but this thing scared the shit out of me.
Still watching the vid, I had to laugh a bit when the ship said "Fuel scooping"
nachtgecher let me guess. It was the chewie system right?
Games that are not meant to be scary, but are, are often scarier than the ones that are meant to be scary.
happened to me once when i went into a binary system about 1000-2000 light years from the central blackhole on my first trip to the central region of the galaxy, i also did that thing where you slow your speed to zero, turn away from the star, and then just sit there for a few minutes thinking about what just happened
@@chrisi7127 yeah bro
Fuel scooping seems to be more effective from inside the star....
Apparently after the latest update if your entry into a system is blocked by another star you'll enter by that star instead.
Yeah but when it isn't you'll still zoom by the other star in a pantaloons soiling manner. Had it and made me jump off my seat the first time.
Heheh true. In VR it's horrific. But just in general jumping to white dwarves or black holes is horrible in VR.
Jumped into a K star system, my entry was blocked by a white dwarf so I jumped to that instead. Pants soiled
Yeah I've had the drop send me inside a neutron stars tail... needless to say I had a crazy wake up call at about 4am randomly jumping.
Ghostly Apparatus what if there were binary neutron stars. In real life they would probably be unstable and migrate slowly toward each other and maybe tear themselves apart, but since this game completely negates any sort of physics between objects of similar mass going extremely close together it seems possible but very unlikely.
I had this full screen on my tv. I peed a little.
😂😂
I actually came to a "Trinary?" system and flew through a whole star. I have over 17,000 jumps and 100,000Ly+ travelled and this only happened once.
Oh yeah I ended up sandwiched between both stars being fried to death with my heat going through the roof when I tried to escape. I got out, 12% Hull damage though.
I've had an incident like that earlier on in my career with two very closely placed M class stars.
Now I'm terrified of jumping into binary systems, I always double check their orbital period to see how close they are.
If it's under 500 earth days, I look for alternate routes.
I'm too lazy for that, I just live in fear instead :)
JustSomeGuy what if it's 499.999.... Earth days. Oh wait I forgot, if 9.999.... = 10 499.999.... = 500
I almost lost my ship when I entered a binary system. I immediately started to take massive heat damage and barely got away. I was about 70,000 light years away from any settlement and had to be extremely careful for the rest of my excursion until I made it back for repairs.
i love how he sits there like "i almost warped into a star..."
That star was spinning pretty quickly too, the Black holes must've eaten what was surely a huge blue star.
Glad nothing major happened in this instance.
good job the ship has an auto stop, or you'd be BBQ meat
Wilky's World na, at that point you just glitch into the star and have your heat levels spike even more
Ah yes well done to the point of being plasma vapor.
@@ShippoAlex nice, plasma soup from unlucky explorer! New thing in xenos menu :D
FTL to dead stop in about 3 seconds, fucking hardcore
that's some next lvl seat belt
That'd definitely be a Brown Alert.
or Pale Yellow Alert.
My experience with something similiar
Anaconda engineered for passenger, scanning, mild combat and cargo. Just dropped off some serious VIPs from Sol a LONG distance, made some serious bank. Now heading home, easy trip, gonna take a different route because a bounty in one system, and there are some un-scanned systems on the way. Plug in an audiobook and kind of mindlessly jump... Oh! What's this? Blue star with a blackhole pretty close on the galaxy map, I have never seen a black hole before. Two uneventful jumps, getting lined up for a jump. And there we go. I glance over to check my fuel and notice I was running really low, and was thinking about upgrading my fuel tank or getting a better fuel scope- *BAM!* I drop out, spinning fast, I don't even see the star (I almost always dropped out facing away from my intended direction) Blue corona, on my leftside. I scramble to rest control of my ship, realizing that I got my control in free camera mode, Alarms are going off, I don't have heatsinks(I sure as hell do now!). my ship spins enough to show me Bright blue white all over the cockpit window... I am kind of stunned and my ships heat finally dying down. I had no idea what happen.thought I must of came too close to a planet on my way in (had jumps where is emergency stops me over a planet). Gathering my wits about me, I plot a course to the blackhole, align my escape vector which is straight away from the star and scope up some fuel along the way. Holy cow, learned a couple of lessons that way
i once dropped out in a binary system, where the B star was between the dropout point, and the A star. I went straight through the B star at about 300c
many poo
Insert Jeremy Clarkson “many poos have shot out of my anus”
first time I ever jumped in my little sidewinder I absolutely shat myself
And I thought dropping into a system with 3 stars literally right next to each other was scary.
I know this is six years later, but I also has something similar happen to me years ago, but when I dropped in, I had a star to my left, right, and behind me.
That's terrifying. That is exactly what you DON'T wanna have happen while you're FTL. Unexpected object in your path.
Almost as terrifying as not paying attention to the destination star type and dropping out in front of a black hole. I was mindlessly jumping towards the neutron fields a couple weeks ago and I assumed my route would be normal main sequence stars, but the route plotter had selected a black hole as one of the jumps. After I dropped from hyperspace, for a split second I was like, "How odd. I guess the star hasn't loaded in yet" and then I see the yellow object exclusion zone line go from a few pixels wide to the size of my screen in less than a second and BAM, "WARNING, TAKING HEAT DAMAGE".
Nearly shat my goddamn pants.
Syntherios I nearly shit my goddamn pants even when I know I’m jumping to black holes
The record for fastest refueling in the galaxy was set fairly solidly by Commander neXib. Unfortunately this record was followed quite suddenly by his untimely demise due to a collision with a star.
This! is what should be more in the game! Random, interesting stuff that breaks routine. Thanks for sharing this video
I've been hoping they would really boost the attractions of exploration for a long time, but most of the focus seems to be on pew pew issues atm. All in good time I suppose.
mapesdhs planets are sexy now
For now my only routine breaker was attempt to pull me out from supercruise when i was doing cargo transfer to another solar system. I'm really bad at combat, so i'm trying to avoid it if possible
please not, i would hate to lose 30 mil cause of shit like that ..
I'd be up to my neck in excretion if this happened to me.
Hello this is your doctor, do you have a minute?
*Jumps*
*Is presented with Star at end of jump*
*Homer Screams.*
Over the years that has happened to me dozens of times and every frigging time I almost shat myself. I guess we all (and I bet especially explorers) have a love/hate relationship with those jumps. Scary as heck but soooo satisfying when you get away from them and realise you just survived one of the most dangerous things that can happen in E.D
Congratulations, you managed to actually make me verbalize "oh shit!" on the jump.
wait it says (in description of star) "short lifetime of 1-10 million years" then proceeds by telling its age of 424 million years say wut
i know nothing, but i would suppose the text is talking about the Class 0 Star specifically. you know, it was another class of star before that, one which lasts much longer, and now, for the last few million years it is what would be classified as said "class 0 star". before it was class 1 for 200 mio years or something like that. probably. maybe.
Yeah, the star has lived multiple lives through various star types. Imagine it like Doctor Who and regeneration. Different faces all the time, but alway the same being. White Dwarfs signify that the star is at the end of it's life.
It's lasted that long because of all the pilots its black-hole friend helped it to eat, apparently.
You just lived through one of my worst fears.. Jumping into a system and hitting the star.. great job though, and thank you for telling this story..
Hello, my name is star. Would you like a hug?
*activation huging drive*
\(о_о)/
They don’t call it the “Friendship drive” for nothing
i had this once too.. jumped to a system, brainfunction like 1% because i was exploring for many hours straight, then while arriving, the jump animation literally clipped me through a red giant star and placed me right between this one and two other white dwarves. i nearly shat myself and my ship heat went from 40 to 120% within seconds. if i didn't have heat sinks installed i would have been grilled extracrispy with a ton of burned credit-juice as topping.
It's hard to explain what happens when a visual simulation does something like this, it's quite a freakout. I was admin of a VR research centre in the early 2000s, there was a 28' screen driven by an SGI Onyx2, 170 degree field of view, capable of stereo 3D, the theatre had seating for about 20 people. Google for, "SGI Reality Center", and click on the images link, a typical picture being:
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One of the demos we showed visitors was a sort of floating island city, a bit like the environment in Unigine Heaven. An audience could watch the viewpoint moving around the virtual world most of the time just fine, but the one thing that always gave them the willies (and me too) was suddenly going *underneath* the entire model (the underside was like a giant, raw, broken rock face, a sort of upside down mountain scape), just such a visual thump in the head, a bit like if you've been gawping at Google Earth for a long time and suddenly go splat into the sea. Something about the way the brain gets immersed in the simulation, merely knowing that what you're seeing isn't real is not enough to prevent the raw perceptual shock.
I had to warn the staff to be careful about doing this during a presentation, because some visitors really could not handle it. We had more than one puke incident... one staff member went a bit OTT on the movements around the virtual world, more than half a dozen visitors had to leave the room.
I recall a cinematic incident which created a similar sensation. Anyone here recall seeing Star Trek VI (The Undiscovered Country) at the cinema when it came out? I found the opening scene with the large space station gave me a remarkable sense of spatial movement, I was quite surprised. Not something that works so well on a small screen though, even modern large TVs, it needed the full viewing angle of a cinema screen (I was in the 3rd row).
Ian.
PS. Playing Quake2 in a 5-sided CAVE is awesome. 8)
I think that's why jumping in VR is so scary. With VR you have depth so when you sort of get sucked in on a star, and that star is a white dwarf or is instead a black hole it's like falling because you expect to see an object in front of you but instead it's way distant.
Perhaps made worse by our awareness of what the sense of scale is supposed to be. :D
I remember the first time I jumped to a neutron star. V749 Herculis. I had no idea they were in E:D. I had just gotten my ASP Explorer and was doing some delivery runs for some quick cash to cover insurance (you could say I was a bit vulnerable). It was midnight, and I was drunk in my room with the lights off and my headphones blasting. I popped out of FSD and landed directly next to the center of mass. Not knowing what I was looking at, I flew closer (something you should NEVER do in E:D if you aren't prepared). Needless to say I was immediately yanked out of SC as my ship's heat shot up, and was sent tumbling through one of its tails while my ship screamed at me about its overheating, my FSD failing, my shields going offline, my hull being breached, multiple systems losing power, all the alarms going off, all while encapsulated in a giant blue jet stream of a neutron star. Then when I thought it was all over, and I tried to escape, I was given one more giant rush of terror as my ship heated back up to 136% while its FSD charged up and I aligned with the escape vector. That is the single most terrifying yet enjoyable moment I've experienced in all of my years playing video games. Good times.
Man, I saw the title of the video, read the description AND saw the thumbnail before playing...
I still got scared.
Yikes, that's some scary stuff!!
The worst one I had was when I came out between two stars - I ended up getting motorboated.
I'm very grateful I was carrying heatsinks!! :D
Games like this awaken a fear in me that I hate to love.
Imagine that in vr tho
I saw "3 black holes" and instantly got unreasonably anxious
once when dropping into a binary i flew THROUGH the secondary star while jumping in and stopped just outside of the exclusion zone on the other side; still gave me some heat damage and a raised heart rate though.
I always try to avoid jumping to O-type Stars precisely for this reason.
Reminds me of a system I jumped into with two suns literally next to each other, my heat went up to 80% before I even started to fuel scoop. Thank goodness for heatsinks.
Be thankful for whoever designed the emergency stop system.
i like how this can still happen but now days we know that the FSD locks on to the highest gravity star or the area of most garvity and with 3 black holes i imagine the gravity center of that system is a bit off the norm.
My most scariest experience was when I got hyperdicted near Maia system. I freaked out as I didn’t knew wtf was going on.
Also, because there are black holes near stars, Frontier should add the feature where you can see an accretion disk form, the star being pulled in, and the forming of the jets on the black hole’s poles.
God shoving the light down my throat when I tell him I’m not ready to die.
For some reason watching this I was reminded of that scene in Ace Ventura where he says "I'm looking for Ray Finkle, and a clean pair of shorts."
I mean to me it looks like you came in at precisely the correct angle to 'hit' that star instead of the one your ship was aiming for. Considering relative sizes over the distances traveled, that's like using a particle collider to smash two protons together. A truly rare occurrence.
Very intense "Maybe if I don't look at it, it won't harm me." vibes
Late to the party. That said, you are a level of comfortable with being this close to a star that I have to give you props for. I certainly wouldn't be. I remember my first jump in the game (especially before SC chips) about made my crap my pants, and the few times I've been close enough for emergency dropout I was panicked until I was back in SC and about 1 LY away.
phew , you got lucky there, reminds me of jumping between 2 stars that were so close you could scoop from both and over heat , it was a close one to get out between the pair, spit roast is an understatment for how hot it got.....
Lifetimes of 1 - 10 million years
Age: "424 million years"
thanks Elite Dangerous, very cool
These are the fun drops to have. Makes sure you're always on your toes.
lol, I always have my throttle at zero when I jump, but freak situations like this can still screw you. And now we have Thargoids to contend with as well...good luck out there guys.
This was throttle at zero btw, always do that when exploring. But it was a strange bug obviously :)
lol yep and that's why jumping is always a scary experience. Thanks God for that emergency stop eh? :P
I had to learn this lesson very hard with the first white dwarf I encountered. Always zero the throttle in witchspace...
I should play some Elite: Dangerous. I haven't played in a while
Baldy Grey but you have to throttle up to be able to jump.
I’ve had it happen where I passed through the edge of a star while entering and my fuel scoop activated for a moment, but aside from nearly impossible to avoid heat damage it didn’t give me any problems.
The speed at which it's rotating makes me uneasy.
For some reason I've had drops pretty far away from the whole system when there were multiple stars, generally including a very cold star and a rather big one. I always come seeing the bigger one first, but from a distance.
Anyone has had that before?
It's happened to me particularly around Sol and Procyon.
"Discovered 1 New Astronomical Object(s)"
Understatement of the millennium.
Oh my lord, when exiting the drive and the star appearing in front, made me physically discomfort. I mean, literally, biting my fingers and twitching my toes. I love science-fiction, astrophysics etc. but the infinitive void just scares the crap out of me.
All of you should really try out Freespace 2, flying in a nebula and allmost hitting an enemy capital ship is just so damn scary.
Basically the FSD always directs you towards the most massive object in a system, which in this case is probably the black hole.
It does not, if a secondary star blocks your entry you will now jump to that instead. But that mechanic didn't exist when this was recorded. You always jumped to the main assigned star, and the mechanics of that were a bit random and a bit physics simulation.
At least the star wasn't so hot that it immediately fried you after dropping out of SC.
Too bad the game doesn’t render accretion discs, or black holes next to stars like this would be a gorgeous (and terrifying) sight to behold.
This video had me on edge. That would scare the shit out of me if that happened in my game!
I hate large celestial objects like this. I get such vertigo that I could curl up and cry.
The other day I jumped into a system that had a red dwarf orbiting REALLY close to the central star. I swear that for a moment I transitioned into the system THROUGH the red dwarf and I was on the very edge of its exclusion zone. It got hot really fast, but I managed to escape with minimal damage. Scared the crap out of me seeing a whole damn star flying at my face.
That's a neutron star since it was under 1 solar radius and spun rapidly. For the black hole to be that close it must have been a sibling star that had enough mass to collapse to its schwarzschild limit. So that's a extremely rare sight you found.
Hehe i jumped off my chair too. Something i also get scaired about are the white dwarfs. When u jump in to a system with that one, always makes me pee just a little.
Haha yeah, white dwarves are eery, they are so far away that you feel like you jump intot the abyss. They are slightly changed now though + you can see what star you are jumping too, so unless you miss it you can prepare :)
The neutron stars scare me more now ;~;
Syracuse if you go into the beam of a neutron star you can boost your jump range 🙂
This... This is a new definition of getting flashed, omg
Faqq!!! My heart almost stoped when he stoped so near to the star. OMG!!!
I’ve done that in vr. I never screamed so loud. All I think of now is Jeremy clarkson shouting “SOME POOS COME OUT”
I got interdicted once and the interdiction sent me right into a nearby planet. Nearly shit my pants
I've jumped through stars before in tight binary systems but I've never been launched into the exclusion zone of one
what I think is going to happen each time the star jumps right into my face
I have never had that happen before, however I have had it where I've jumped to a trinary star system and as I dropped out, I could see two stars whiz right past me before stopping next to the third. That didn't really scare me too much, but I was jumping to the controls and popping a heatsink before I knew what was happening lol
I love the cobra mk but man when searching for the escape vector sometimes is a pain bc u can't see crap ! Lol
Strange thing about this is that you can just chill literally on a surface of the star without being overheated
Man the rotation of that sun
can someone tell me what the stuff moving on the ship window on the right side is? is that the solar flare or surface of the star?
Nice video. Cool! Happy gaming bro.
I've had a couple dropouts like this.
"We're making the approach... at lightspeed?"
It's like the game is just going "just checking you're on your toes mate".
50 odd hop journey, and then all of a sudden that.
Every time I see a weird color or shape of the target star when I engage FSD towards it, I slightly clench and prepare to receive a very warm hello or a spinning ball of death on the other end. I've jumped into neutron jets, into a star's companion, etc.
Never been in that type of situation ... yet lol, been close to a star that looks like its going super nova, looked ly's off of a normal drop out but it was frigging bright...
Yea that would scare the shit out of me if that happened when I first played. Because, I didn't even know that when you jump, you go to the star. Which scared me lol
Try being interdicted by a very mad ultramsive black in the sidewinder where the gravity is so strong it took me 20 minutes to reach a fast enough speed to enter sc and escape with only 2% hull remaining when I got to a system with a station
I love the careful look to the right hahahhaha like nope nope its not there... It's there..
Something like this happened to me 22 kly from Sol, except I guess I landed IN the star by a glitch. It didn't throw me out of SC but heat climbed up from 55% to 120% in about 4 seconds. If the Asp didn't have such an awesome heat efficiency, I would be dead.
I was watching on my phone and it still scared the shit out of me.
*watches you open the system map. looks at the radius. 0.4*
"ah. i see your problem."
I can only imagine what this moment would really feel like in VR...
Make sure you have a defibrillator, and you're wearing your brown pants! o7
I get these recommendations because I play no man's sky and that game needs something like this
I'm still confused on how this happened. The only time something like this has happened to me is when I was on a trade route and I dropped out of FSD beside two stars and I was like "wtf" when I dropped I zoomed right past the star on my right and landed in the middle of them. Pretty spooky
Probably a bug due to the black hole being inside the star and all. I haven't gone back to check. Nowadays if something blocks you, you exit on that instead of the main star. So most of these scary situations are fixed nowadays.
thats some extreme fuel scooping mrs AI
FUELSCOOPING
Well at least I got that going for me
I have to be honest here. when I play Elite in VR every jump scars me. like genuine anxiety, but in a fun way I guess.
Same, it's like when you nod off and feel like you are falling.
That's why I am still thinking about, wether getting a VR kit for this game is a good idea or not.....
Star jump-scare
ZeGamingCuber lmao
I just jumped through a star today. For half a second I though I was going to die and lose my week's exploration data, but luckily I just passed through and ended up in the other side middle of a binary. Didn't even heat up past 90%
Yes most of these issues should be fixed nowadays. If a star blocks your entry you should jump into that star instead of the primary one in the system.
Holy sbit this hits my phobia right in the spot.
I haven’t really felt fear until I pushed the limit and got dangerously close to a star. With a mix of the gravity and overheating the stars gravity well was winning. All power to thrusters and some panicky prayers I managed to escape burning up to death. Good stuff elite dangerous