This annoyed me. You can boost pack all the way from your New Atlantis penthouse balcony to the New Atlantis star port. Off a skyscraper, travel for miles. It’s fantastic - everyone should do it. Really gives a sense of the scale and capability of the world and game. It does that better than any actual quest or cutscene… bit of a missed opportunity if you ask me.

    • MoonManKipper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Exactly - missions that take advantages of it. Imagine, bounty target isn’t an idiot so has set up AA to stop you landing 300m from their front door, or defensive pickets that make it really hard to get there. Solution - jump from 1000m as your shop flies by - no retreat, complete the mission or die trying.

      Or infiltrate a base at the bottom of a canyon - walk down the long path or hurl yourself off the top and land on the roof, trading shots as you go.

      The game could do that - just didn’t

        • BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          There’s actually a mission where you experience takeoff in first person with someone else driving the ship. It was super cool and made me wish there was an option to do this with grav driving as well

        • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          This happened to me when I jumped into a pirate ship and they took off, watching the world shrink away through the window was so cool but to get back I had to fast travel haha

      • docclox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Solution - jump from 1000m as your shop flies by - no retreat, complete the mission or die trying.

        Sounds like it could be modded in. Have a “drop assault hab” to enable it. Hab has a couple of pods built in. Get in one, pick your landing target, and then activate and you get moved to the landing marker, plus 1000m. Make sure you’re wearing all necessary survival gear (including pack) before you push the button.

        • MoonManKipper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That would be cool - especially if you could jump without a pack… you’d only make that mistake once and it would definitely increase the immersion!

          • docclox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            "… Oh, they scooped him off the tarmac like a limp of strawberry jam,

            AND HE AIN’T GOING TO JUMP NO MORE!"

    • aesopjah@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I feel like new Atlantis is hard to get a grasp on is that 1) it makes you fast travel immediately on arrival for the story and therefore lose the sense of place and your mental map, and 2) they never give you an overview or overlook with landmarks so that you can see where things are in relation to each other.

      The first impression is getting on the train and then jetpacking through a bunch of bushes to the lodge.