Will you be able to use the gravitation of planets/ large objects to catapult you, or will it otherwise impact the flight model?asked by Irathi
TL;DRGravity slingshot trajectories like NASA's probably won't be modeled, but gravity will vary with distance from a planet and affect flight, including atmospheric flight, as landing pads already influence the flight model.
Probably not going to model gravity in planets to the level we can do the slingshot stuff that NASA does, when it's trying to figure trajectories or trying to figure how to get back to Earth from the Moon and all that sort of stuff.We are going to model gravity to a certain extent where there's a planet you're landing on a planet; well the effect of gravity as you get close to the planet is greater right? So in the upper atmosphere, the distance out from Earth, nine point eight meters per second it's less than that. So we will do that level of it and gravity will have some effect on flight, on atmospheric flight and all that kind of stuff as well.You can actually even now if you fly in the game and go onto some of the landing pads, the landing pads themselves have artificial gravity in a certain volume around them and in that case the actual flight model compensates for it, so the thrusters and everything produce additional thrust to negate the gravity so it does actually affect the flight model and we were anticipating all these when we get down and do stuff closer to planets and there's atmosphere and all the rest of the stuff then there'll be even more of that.