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'''Planetary Landings''' is the act of landing on a planet with a ship. It was added with the [[Elite Dangerous: Horizons]] expansion on December 15, 2015. | |||
Players are able to land on four types of airless planets - rocky, metal, ice and rocky/metal - which make up 61% of the planet types in Elite Dangerous' Milky Way. These planets vary in size and composition, therefore having different gravity forces affecting the flight and landing dynamics. | |||
[ | The landings are graphically seamless with a small pause for instance loading, and the planets can be explored in low-level flight or by using a Surface Reconnaissance Vehicle.<ref name=":1">[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous/description Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments - Kickstarter]</ref> Once on the surface, players can discover constructed, as well as natural, [[points of interest]], which can be military bases, research establishments, hideouts, [[starport|starports]], mining complexes, crashed [[ships]] and debris to investigate. <span style="color:#D3D3D3">The nature of the encounter varies depending on where the player is: the planet type and composition, and the local topography affected by geology.</span><ref name=":5">[http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=47bd8c04aa Elite Dangerous Newsletter #97]</ref> | ||
Landing on atmospheric planets with cities and lifeforms will be added in a future update. | |||
[ | == Related == | ||
* [[Elite Dangerous: Horizons]] | |||
* [[Planetary Vehicle Hangar]] | |||
* [[SRV|Surface Recon Vehicles]] | |||
* [[Scarab]] | |||
* [[Points of interest|Points of Interest]] | |||
== References == | |||
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Revision as of 05:33, 25 May 2017
Planetary Landings is the act of landing on a planet with a ship. It was added with the Elite Dangerous: Horizons expansion on December 15, 2015.
Players are able to land on four types of airless planets - rocky, metal, ice and rocky/metal - which make up 61% of the planet types in Elite Dangerous' Milky Way. These planets vary in size and composition, therefore having different gravity forces affecting the flight and landing dynamics.
The landings are graphically seamless with a small pause for instance loading, and the planets can be explored in low-level flight or by using a Surface Reconnaissance Vehicle.[1] Once on the surface, players can discover constructed, as well as natural, points of interest, which can be military bases, research establishments, hideouts, starports, mining complexes, crashed ships and debris to investigate. The nature of the encounter varies depending on where the player is: the planet type and composition, and the local topography affected by geology.[2]
Landing on atmospheric planets with cities and lifeforms will be added in a future update.