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Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship (self.starfield)
submitted 1 year ago by whiskers to c/starfield@lemmy.zip
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In reality, there is (almost) no force to reduce speed in space.

It was quite unituitive to me in the beginning that when I boost the spaceship, it works lke a car on earth rather than a spaceship. I'd have liked the spaceship to continue to gain speed when either the boost was applied or you continue to throttle the engine. They could have kept a fuel limit to keep the speed in check.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you have liked this to be more based in reality or prefer the familiar car based speed/acceleration that's in the game?

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[-] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

Elite Dangerous does. I forget what they're called, but there's a toggle keybind that lets you turn the stabilizers or whatever off so that if you throttle up and then cut the throttle you'll continue moving infinitely in that direction until you turn the stabilizers back on or thrust in a different direction.

It lets you do wildly badass shit like boosting past someone, cutting throttle and stabilizers, spinning around, and blasting them as you fly backwards and they're still trying to turn around.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I guess that's turning off the inertial dampeners, I heard Starfield lets you do that but I haven't tried it. But yeah the flight model of ED is far better.

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think you can in Starfield, or at least I didn't see options for it. Elite Dangerous ruined me on space flight, I always look in game bindings now for disabling the dampeners and also a button that immediately cuts all throttle, didn't find either in Starfield's bindings

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read about it, apparently it's RB on controller or LAlt on keyboard. Haven't tried it.

No cut throttle button though, hopefully a mod will do that if Bethesda doesn't.

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

That'll be a game changer, I have to try it out soon

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I tried it, doesn't seem to be a toggle. Gonna be tough to fly that way. I like the shooting in Starfield but don't like the flying as much.

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