Does this happen to anyone else: You hop in to your ship, hold 'E' to liftoff, and your ship blasts all the way up to the orbit in like two seconds? This seems to happen at random, but often enough to frustrate the hell out of me. Like, thanks for lost exo-upgrade or emerill nugget!

Yes has happened to me many times in the last week has not happened since the patches but am on a high level sentinel planet and am going for the extreme planet levels so not getting in and out of my ship that often. I am still getting the massive slowdown after playing an hour or two and have to save then log out then go back in, patches have not fixed that.

I have two theories on this.

1. It depends how long you keep holding the lift-off key just after take off.
2. This may happen if you press another key with it.

I actually zoomed forward for a few seconds in one take off and I`m sure it was because I pressed another key as well.

It happens alot more with a joypad than using the keyboard too, but I`m more familiar with the keyboard than control pad which I find annoying.

This is where a manual would be useful.

Happens to me too. I think it's just a bug.

I was also thinking about something along these things you pointed out. I actually tried to experiment but didn't notice anything coherent. I think it happens only at times when it can possibly piss you off most. I agree with justporter. Probably a bug.

It's a quirk of the "do not fly closer than 1km to the ground" autopilot. The one that prevents you from flying through a stone-arc, or looking at something directly underneath your ship's viewport. It's probably been tested only on the flatter systems (yellow stars). But when you land inside craters, or near a rock-spike, and things like that, it goes haywire when you take off. Since you're "in flight" too close to the ground, and will be pushed upwards.

It's reproducible by landing under a stone-arc (initiate landing right before the upwards push) and taking off, for example.

It wasn't present in the demo-builds even on ps4 2 months ago.

But apparently I'm a konspirazy-theorist if I say it was put in at the last minute to help Sony testers from crashing into the ground. And was then deemed successful when that "critical issue" was fixed. So I'm not going to say that.

Yea, it`s likely a bug. I agree with you guys now.

I zoomed once, by a key combo once, I'd very much like to know which key does it, because now I can't replicate it. it's be great to have a zoom feature as well as a padlock view.

Yeah, happens to me, was wondering too if someone else had this happen.

It`s definitely a key-combo thing for the most part when using the control pad. When using the kjeyboard it never happens.

I tested by hitting the take off on the trigger while only just touching the left analogue stick and I shot up into space. Touching any other key might cause this too. It feels like it`s too senstive. You have to keep all fingers away from all the other joypad buttons when you press to take off.

Happens to me on the keyboard, I don't use controller.

Interesting. Maybe you hit another key with the Take off key on the keyboard?

It definitely could be that, but since we cannot seem to find that magic combo I still believe it is most likely a bug.

Oh you poor clueless souls...

If you put Thamium in your engines you gonna get launched to orbit. Plutonium/carbon is normal start.

It happens in the PS4 version as well. I've noticed it is more likely to occur if I tilt the ship forward while trying to take off.