Master Modes - Quick Start Guide 3.23 

Thank you oh so very much! Was driving me nuts 😂

@@LoudGuns happy to help

Middle mouse will cycles through the SCM/NAV sub modes. For example, in your prospector: SCM Guns, Missile, Scan and Mining. You have Quantum, Flight and Scan in NAV mode.

@@journeyingjen7554 There are sub modes?! Still learning, everyday.

You are a lifesaver. If there's one thing I hate about QT, it's not being able to have a waypoint FOV, where it just creates a circular FOV of points directly ahead of you, instead of all of them at once. This at least mitigates that, if I know which direction the point I'm looking for is.

if it s work it's a great news

It sucks cause my middle mouse is broken cause corsair mouse design lol i gotta rebind it to something convenient

No fluff? he didn't start the video proper until 2 minutes in!

Totally logical

Yeah when coming in for engagements in my Talon I'd come in real fast, then hit SCM and suddenly be good to go.

Lowering landing gear is even faster

Pretty sure it ignores the g-force effects, too. Wondering how they're gonna handle that, later.

This doesn't sound exploitable, at all 😅

I joined the ptu and didn't have an issue. I added the keybind to switch mode and that's it. Everything else was saved from the Live folder

Feels like extra steps for the most basic and main thing this game is about

In my opinion, this is the BIGGEST change needed for NAV mode. If they expect us to use it to escape, there's no reason countermeasures would be a system directly linked to guns. I really hope they look into Decoy/Noise and make it universal.

So MM is very much in an early iteration and one thing I would ideally like to see changed is longer times to switch from NAV to SCM and back again. You definitely need to be more on the ball, but ultimately as a miner (particularly when planetside) you actually have a better hope of escaping the swoopers than you did previously when they had their guns available at all speeds. I.E. mining ships previously had absolutely zero chance of outrunning any form of combat ship.

Cheers mate! Just posted a vid about some spicy cargo opportunities but the best thing to do is find a group to play with - it really reduces the grind and opens up a lot more possibilities. Feel free to hop into our discord (link in vid description).

Set it to both. Otherwise, if you hold it too long it won't switch

Middle mouse when in nav mode 👍

I think the cycle will be to approach in nav, shift to scm to slow down the approach, switch to mining to scan, switch back to nav to move on. shouldn't too much hassle, as switching to scm is like hitting the spacebrake!

It took me like an hour to figure out how to deploy the claw and salvage arms in my reclaimer, I thought it was a bug… then realized I was in nav mode all the time and had to switch to scm from pilot seat to deploy them 😭

I agree, I want fewer restrictions on my ships capabilities, not more...

I think the changes are less about the dynamics of 1v1 and will make more sense in n vs n fights. Your wing person is responsible for covering you out of those fights. It’s also meant to reduce the jousty type scenarios where people zoom past you and take pot shots then disappear and come back with full shields for the next pass until one of you dies.

@@LoudGuns A competent pilot back then could easily break jousting by pre nosing and closing the gap to the opponent. Now, in Master Modes you can't do that anymore. The distance of jousting has decreased a bit, but instead it occurs way more often

@@_Anaklysmos_ I think it matters more for getting big ships involved in the combat meta when previously it was just all about fighters.

@@LoudGuns i think they have taken the wrong approach in trying to make multicrew viable. First of all, things like armor, maelstrom and engineering, which will all give mutlicrew ships and big ships in general a huge boost, are still not implemented in the game. So it makes no sense to completely redesign combat when you know you will have to do it once again very soon in the future. Second, I think Multicrew ships and capital ships shouldn‘t be balanced around attacking and chasing fighters but rather as defending ships, especiallly when it comes to area denial. A hammerhead isn‘t able (not previously and not in Master Modes) and won‘t ever be able to chase a Gladius. But when a Hammerhead hovers over Jumptown, the Gladius should have no chance to get there without being absolutely decimated. That‘s what Multicrew ships should be balanced about. And it could have been easily achieved by giving turrets more range and more projectile speed. That‘s all it would have taken. Another example: Imagine a huge battle with Javelins, Idrises as well as many tiny fighters. The middle of the battlefield is full of capital ships and thus compeltely covered by turret gunners. If the Gladius engages a capital ship, it will get destroyed. However, it can decide to stay away from the main battlefield and instead fight other light fighter enemies. This is how Multicrew could easily be implemented into the game without destroying physics like Master Modes did.

I think everyone’s opinions are worth considering (my personal favourite, well reasoned and most balanced from the PvP community is Vergil), but it doesn’t mean we all have to agree. For my 2c’s I think as per Yogi’s post it’s important to realise this isn’t a final version, and also I think it provides more room for the game to grow into bigger fleet battles with larger ships having more impact.

Some people found a way to enjoy the old combat system even though it is not even close to what the devs have in mind or have had in mind and because most people dont enjoy it and wont try to get good it seems to be very elite. And those are the people being loudest about not liking the change

Tbh I meant more Arcady than the direction they could’ve gone in, but I don’t mean that badly (I actually like it).

I think a lot of it will make more sense when bigger ships come. My big concern right now is that nav mode is too slow, and switching is too quick but essentially these are just numbers in a database