hey it's Ricardo and Welcome back to elite dangerous so as part of the reboot
and restart series I go back and revisit certain parts the game that may be new
and new for new commanders and today I wanna talk about super cruise assist
it's just been introduced now the April 20 1908 and I thought I'd have a look at
it because at the first glance it wasn't quite as intuitive as what I thought it
was yea I'd read all about it but didn't really sort of give me much
of a clue so anyway here we are we're in the left hand panel screen we're looking
at Jameson memorial we're gonna move over to the second icon that says super
cruise assist we're gonna press that fair enough it says align your ship with
the destination so we're gonna move up and align it and it says move your
throttle in into the blue zone now I've changed my hood right a few commanders
who have changed your hood you'll have the same questions that I add what's the
blue zone and what it is is effectively the red part if away you can see my red
bar on my throttle go to fast it'll say and move it into the blue zone and then
it will say when you're in that sweet spot supercruise active or super cruise
assist is going to be active and that's going to be good stuff and then what you
effectively do is sit back and wait and the ship or the module super cruise
assist well in fact do all the work for you now you have to have the super
cruise assist module fitted if you don't it's not gonna work pretty much like the
advanced docking computer you can expect it to water launch if you haven't got a
docking computer attached I'm trying these things out because it's
all new and shiny now a few commanders who know what you're doing then this
video is obviously not for you however in the blurb it says super cruise assist
the super cruise assist module allows the ship's computer to regulate the
approach towards a set location the current system and to disengage the
drive at the appropriate time this module can also be used to enter orbit
around a planetary body planetside targets are excluded instead they will
engage the perigee orbit function of the computer and commanders will need to
manually guide the ship to the ground destination brilliant absolutely
fantastic no mention of this and the all new pilots handbook though has to be
said perhaps in the mission there or I didn't see it anyway even if it was
there anyway not to worry so as you can see we're on our way to Jameson now
Jameson memorial in the founder system and we're heading on in it no dramas the
ship is regulating its power its really good for YouTube I think content
creators as well because it gives you what all this stuff is going on used to
use that external camera and get on with things um and even if you're not a
content creator and you want have a look at the beauty of the game of elite
dangerous then it gives you that little bit of opportunity so here it is you
know where we're headed in everything is good so far and we're about to drop out
now as you can see we're near I'm not doing anything I just changed the
cockpit view and there it is it dropped out speed has gone right the way down to
the bottom and there I am I am at James Memorial and all I did was basically set
it to the Blue Zone or the midpoint of my throttle and away I went so it's a
little bit different when dealing with planetary targets as it mentions it's
going to put us into orbit so we're gonna go link Jamison base of Laurie
Jamison the engineer so what we're going to do we're going to hit generated Ezra
a - right you could select that or you could select Jamison base hits
supercruise Assist again then what we're gonna do is we're gonna throw all that
to engage frame shift but first off I generally tend to point myself in the
right direction that's what we're gonna do and then that's it we're gonna
throttle up but if a boost that will get us cracking
well enter super cruise mode as you would normally do now what I'm gonna do
now is I'm going to go to the left-hand panel select Jameson base enter super
cruise assist mode move the throttle up and that's it super cruise assist is
active and then you're either a brave person and you go away make a cup of tea
hope no one pours you out the super cruise interdict you and then shoots you
and steals all your toys or you sit here with one eye on it and when I doing
something else either way you know it doesn't derive from the fact there's
still an awful lot of time to be spent
so here we are an approach now super criticises still active we're coming
down to it 53 seconds you know in the forties now you can see it's moderating
the throttle on the lower right hand side everything's great I just generally
punted it in the right direction and a way it's going now with seven seconds
and we should start to see the decrease the throttle
here we go throttle stand decreased speed is slowing down now as we're
approaching the planet so even though we got the base in view she'll be saying or
we look we're looking directly at that base it's gonna put us in orbit now what
it won't do is if the base or the land item that you're looking at or the land
location are looking at is on the other side of the planet it's just going to
drop you straight in and then it's up to you to fly around and guide it in to
wherever you need to go whether that be on the other side of the planet or wall
obviously if it's looking you're looking directly at it then you're gonna be
lined up and you're gonna be pretty much good to go aren't you really so it's
just putting itself into orbit and once you're in orbit it's kind of up to you
then what you do whether you disengage moves like you just hands off the stick
and let it do its thing and then sort your positioning out you know when you
actually get there so super cruise assist don't forget to have a super
cruise assist module fitted to your ship if you want to use this
I can see benefits for this I really can Ren you know you've got other things to
do at the same time and you fancy a little bit of elite dangerous grinding
however for the seasoned commanders I don't know if people are going to use it
I'm gonna test it out see how it goes anyway I've been Ricardo this has been a
video on super cruise assist thanks very much for watching and I'll see you soon