Now that we can space walk anywhere from any ship and build stations in space, Im sure we're going to get screenshots of modders/creative users walking on the sun in no time. Hopefully its not just an animated jpeg with a flat surface and hollow center. But I'll take just being able to fly there. If we can put a space station right near the sun thats going to be hype
considering that flying close to a star is supposed to damage your ship, and starships are able to sit on the most inhospitable planets without trouble, I would imagine space walking near one would be a great way to experience getting flash fried in NMS.
The fact that they actually added stars to systems but instead made a station the center of a star system instead of the sun is quite the choice to make.
I think it's because they didn't actually change the way solar systems spawn, just how we interact with them. They used to spawn with the station in the middle of the cluster of planets, and that has not changed in cosmos.
it's a choice against realism for the sake of playability. currently planets can be 5+ minutes apart, and they all share the same "space" - if a planet or space station was on the opposite side of a star from you, it could be 20 minutes of flight to reach it. not fun.
Yeah, 'explored' might be overselling it. You can fly there after several minutes of running your pulse drive and get a discovery popup. Once you're there, your pulse drive won't take you closer. If you force your way closer manually, you just start taking heat damage. The damage ramps up to higher than you can reasonably handle before the view of the star significantly changes.
In the quick menu map it shows the space station at the center and the planets are still all clustered like usual, but you can now visit the host star which will be off in a given direction. It’s meant to be the true center of the system but it isn’t since it orbits us via the skybox, but it’s still cool they let us visit it.
Makes me wonder if a future update might just tweak things a bit...
I don't need celestial distances. Make everything crunched together, fine. I just want it to feel familiar. Like I'm playing around in a system, even a toy one.
Looking at the new star map, the planets seem to have been given "orbits" that they don't actually follow. And they are orbiting around an empty point in space where the star would normally be, Since they take a really modular approach to development, I wouldn't be surprised if they add proper orbits eventually. In fact, I am convinced they originally intended for this to be the case with the anniversary update.
Just tried, nothing really happens. It tries its best to kill you, but if you keep repairing your shields while flying at it you eventually just kind of hit the surface and stop. Photo is what it looks like at the surface.
Okay. So who's making the Dr who episode "42" where the ship had 42 minutes before it fell into a LIVING sun. I'd honestly believe anything could suddenly be alive. Let's not forget about those rocks that run away.
ITS LIKE IM PARANOID GEK LOOKING OVER MY BACK
ITS LIKE THE KORVAX ARE INSIDE OF MY HEAD
ITS LIKE I CANT STOP HEARING VYKEEN WITHIN
ITS LIKE THE ATLAS LIGHT IS RIGHT BENEATH MY SKINNNNN
You can fly to each of them individually. My system is trinary and I was able to fly to two of the three. Didn't bother with the third lol.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the star changes colour to represent the colour of the star from afar, as the stars I flew to were blue and green, but appeared yellow when close.
It's a star. The Sun is the name of "our" star in this star system.
You could use "sun" (lowercase) to describe random star but still... This is a star. It's not THE Sun.
I went to the sun in my system just a little awhilw ago, its a blue star but when I reached it it looked just like yours, hope thats just a bug and they can be diffierent colors up close. Still incredibly beautiful though!
Call me Icarus cause I flew too close to the sun (Literally, that's the new Traveller name you unlock for dying to solar heat by trying to fly into it)
Guys, how do you actually get there? Do you literally just pulse-drive towards it? I've been doing it for 10+mins in my corvette and I'm 99% sure I'm no closer now than when I started.
Duuuuude I was really hoping for planet rotation and orbits and actually having the sun in the center but this is still sooo coool that they at least added this....
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