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.
Those sound fun.
Yeah the game engine definitely holds back from showing the player what it can really do. I’ve seen glitched first-person ship takeoffs and they were beautiful. I don’t really think it would be that hard to let us have a cockpit view taking off from the planet surface all the way into space. Just make some mist or something obscure the transition/loading of space.
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
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