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Why can we not decouple at cruise speed without losing speed anymore?

TL;DRLosing speed when decoupling from cruise is a bug that will hopefully be fixed, and the longer-term aim is to stop cruise from kicking players out at all, with no roadmap commitment.

David ColsonGameplay Programmer, Foundry 42 UK

So that's a bug, plain and simple. It's not the intention. In fact, the whole kicking you out of cruise is really not ideal and we're going to move toward a variation of cruise where that's not the case. So I know there are situations not only where you get kicked out of cruise because you're in decoupled, but you get kicked out of cruise because you're, say, using a dual stick setup and you slightly move your left stick or whatever and then you get kicked out, which is really frustrating. So the end goal is that you actually don't get kicked out at all and you can cruise and move around slowly, because you're going really fast. But that was the intention. And right now, decoupled kicking you out of cruise is absolutely a bug. That's definitely not what we want. So we'll just try and fix it, and you will hopefully be able to do that, and in future you will not get kicked out of cruise at all, which I think will feel a lot nicer.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Do we have that on a roadmap yet?

David ColsonGameplay Programmer, Foundry 42 UK

I don't actually know. I don't think small bugs like that would be on the roadmap. But it's on our to-do list anyways, on my to-do list.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

When you said the dual stick thing, that was like, yes! I've heard that for a while.

David ColsonGameplay Programmer, Foundry 42 UK

That experience is a bit frustrating at the moment, because I think the way that cruise was designed as it is now is that you need to be traveling forward to get into cruise speeds. But that means if you're using a dual stick setup and you slightly move your stick to the left, you're not strictly traveling forward, so it kicks you out. It's just annoying. So we'll get that fixed.

Calling All Devs›Aspects of Flight and Landing·
Published on this date.6 Aug 2018
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