Elite Dangerous - Landing on a 45G (!) planet!

I flew 6kly from the bubble out to KOI 1701 in my Exploraconda - yep, D rated shields and thrusters - and attempted to land safely and drive an SRV on the recently discovered planet with 45G gravity.

[far_centrist]

That's very advanced planet. In my hometown it's still 5G

[gavinmitchell]

You know when the gravity is high enough for the mats to not scatter like that, you can just stop over them with your cargo scoop open and select them each in your contacts panel. They all go in right as you click their contact. It's why I go to high gravity planets for this kind of mat grinding.

[niklasdahlgren]

Considering the fact that we do not have anti-gravity tech in Elite im surprised the pilot do not go splat from the G forces simply by sitting on the ground.

[BlackStar]

45G would be way too much for the ship structure in real life, and commander would be squashed in his/her seat.
But yeah, nice 45G landing indeed o7

[vonDarkken]

I like how none of the materials scattered they all just there where you blasted them...kinda nice actually, unlike a low G planet where they go bouncing all over the place. :)

[ziljanvega]

Really hoping they eventually make planets like this as well as small black holes more realistic by crushing and spaghettifying you respectively.

[cheifthumbs]

90kg pilot now weighs 4074kg. How do you even stay conscious?

[flytiger]

I'm glad you put the exclamation park in parenthesis to make it obvious it wasn't a factorial lol

[admiralclptrp]

Love how firmly planted the srv is on the ground

[zat--fury]

10:12 when you’re computer can’t even complete the sentence high gravity warning before you hit the ground with an srv from an anoconda you know it’s high gravity… planet

[blackhawksH]

Nice landing.. I love the SRV deployment... "BONK!" lol

[NatsSt]

So nothing out of the ordinary in that landing at all then lol. Ridiculous physics. 45G should have been impossible to resist by ordinary thrusters.

[loafinabout]

Someone tell this poor soul he can go into his transaction tab and just pick all the minerals up at once by parking on the lot and selecting each one.

[BubbaYoshi]

Kudos for not lithobraking. The first time I tried landing on a 2G+ planet, I ended up coming in WAY too hot, didn't realize to completely turn my ship retrograde, and ended up BOUNCING my Anaconda, losing over half my hull integrity.

[RXman]

This reminds me of Stumbos IV on Futurama when the crew had to deliver pillows.

[Vize_David]

I don’t know if it was a different planet but on my way to Colonia, I made a stop at this planet. It was actually pretty challenging to land. I’m pretty sure I completely destroyed my shields when I made contact with the ground lmao but it was a pretty cool ED experience. I recommend anyone who is headed out to Colonia or that general direction should definitely try to land on this planet if you wanna risk destroying your ship 6KLY out from the bubble. Nothing really rewarding, but I guess you landing successfully is a reward enough lol

[Typherious]

Great text book high G landing!! I did it in my exploration cutter.

[cmdrandreyuenari]

Second method to land on a high G planet is to toggle FA off (so that FA is only off as long as you hold the button) for a short time to make the ship descend slowly. No forward motion and keep the nose at 0 degrees. I think that's a bit faster.

[kykiske]

I am not going to say anything about the ships and vehicles because it is sci-fi, and let's say that they are made of something special that supports that.
But the pilot... at the moment of even getting close to the atmosphere all his organs would have been liquefied.

[rjpx]

Nice clip, but I'm a bit underwhelmed that a 45G planet would have an open lunar sky. Should be able to hang onto a very thick atmosphere, outside of the most severe of circumstances.