uvelius wrote:Has anyone spotted narrow canyon runs? I would love to fly through narrow canyons with my eagle at sucicidal speed, firing rockets after an even more suicidal NPC or something.
The deepest I've found so far are on the closest moon to the farthest planet in Shinrarta Deshra, but I haven't looked very far or wide and I know there must be some deeper and narrower twisty runs around. I'm not sure if NPCs will be messing with us around planets, but I'm sure other players would take up the challenge.
Here I am parked in a canyon. I tried driving the buggy up the sides and it couldn't take a grade more than about 45 degrees.
And here I am flying out of the canyons.
I assumed the Anaconda/buggy pic was on the "dark" side, but even though FD will make an asteroid ring pitch black in the shadows of a planet, even with gamma minimized the "dark" side of the moon is still way too bright. Head lights really aren't required. I don't know why they did that, but I hope it's something they are going to change. I don't mind bumping the gamma a bit if I want to see a little better.
Also, you do get ship shadows, and it's cool watching them follow the terrain contours as you fly over the surface.
FD did drop the ball on a lot of very obvious bugs that should have been spotted. I can only assume that nobody is held responsible because it might hurt their feelings or something and FD is a proud progressive company.
Still, this is definitely the "game of the decade", especially since it's the only game I've played this decade.