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When will we be able to EVA between fast moving ships at the same speed and are flying in the same direction? Can we catch a run-away ship?

TL;DREVA between fast-moving ships isn't planned for the immediate future but isn't impossible; it would need a gameplay reason plus ways to attach to or match a ship's speed, with technical concerns.

Jens LindDeveloper

So the boring part first is obviously this is not something we got planned for the immediate future, but it's not something that's going to be impossible either. From my point of view, I think there's a lot of things that would need to be done to EVA to make this a fun feature. And it usually starts with a reason, like you would need a reason to catch the pilotless ship. Once we have a reason to pursue this feature, then we could jump on it. But there's things like, I think you should be able to attach to the surface of a ship so you could hold on to it somehow, whether that's like a physical attachment or you've got some kind of tractor beam you can grab onto it with, or if you can sort of get into the ship's influence in some way so that your relative speed in EVA is always moving with that. So I think otherwise, small adjustments that ship makes and the power a ship has compared to your little EVA process will always make it very, very difficult to catch up to anyone else. There's always technical concerns, would be things like how well will the animation-driven ragdoll hold up when you're traveling at such insane speed inside the world grid, because while you're inside the ship, there's no problem because your relative speed to the physics grid is essentially zero, right? Even though the grid is traveling full pelt. So that would be a technical concern. Another thing is currently the EVA thrusters are like safe. So they say, this is how fast you're allowed to go. This is the maximum rate of acceleration you're allowed to achieve. So the moment you leave the ship, they would start to decelerate you to the safe operating speeds. So these are considerations we would have to get on. But like I said, I don't feel this is something that would be impossible. I always remember the Gamescom floor demo when the guys jumped out of a ship and then had someone free fall and then tried to catch him with the ship again, which is really, really cool, which makes me think of this feature.

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Published on this date.19 Mar 2018
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