Horizons Beta Quick Start Guide (FD)

[Roger Wilco Jr]

I just found this over on the official forums. I'd picked up some of this info over the last few evenings, but there is a lot of useful info in here that I had missed. It's a little out of date, for example, you now have bindings for SRV driving for pitch, roll, and yaw (steering). Overall it's a very useful guide and I suggest reading it before playing Horizons to get the most out of the game.

There are also a couple vids that I haven't watched yet that should be useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhGyDAKkUQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTpUj4c-M8

[Walter]

Brilliant.

One thing I don't understand but which probably has a reasonable explanation: When you land the pilot has to make careful adjustments to the attitude to ensure a good landing, but when you call your ship back from dismissal it can land itself. Presumably it finds a better spot than the pilot did, but what happens if it can't find one?

[Roger Wilco Jr]

Brilliant.

One thing I don't understand but which probably has a reasonable explanation: When you land the pilot has to make careful adjustments to the attitude to ensure a good landing, but when you call your ship back from dismissal it can land itself. Presumably it finds a better spot than the pilot did, but what happens if it can't find one?

It will find a spot - it maybe on the other side of the planet, but it will find a spot.

Not that bad, but I've done it 3 of 4 times, and the first time the ship landed very far away. Another commander coming from the outpost actually beat me to it.

[Walter]

It will find a spot - it maybe on the other side of the planet, but it will find a spot..

Yeah, really helpful - I saw Smartroad's canyon jump: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3829&p=43532&sid=e1fd6b2fe420545808e465009e90daed#p43532