[Timelines]What was noise?

[sayga]

Hello there,

https://youtu.be/WOUTTa27q7Y

So...yeah...what was noise?
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong there; i feel like im in total inertia in the noise sensor range.
This mission driving me crazy...Does anyone have any pointers to help me get the 5 stars there please?

Thanks in advance.

[Alan Phipps]

It may be that the comment is just background to highlight you are near a noise sensor and to raise the tension - and maybe even 'distract' you into making a mistake (like the 'What was that?' line in a horror movie just before somebody in the sneaking party knocks something over and attracts unwanted attention). Did you definitely lose some mission credit when the comments were made?

Since you can't use thrust in the sensor range, then you are indeed in total inertia until you leave it. Preparation for achieving both entry and exit in one straight drift is probably the key. Not sure if turning the suit counts as using thrusters there - maybe you need to be suitably orientated to take out the bomb as you pass it from before the drift. Not sure though.

[sayga]

Yeah it was actually detecting me and i think i know why. Even if i stopped boosting before the noise sensor; i didn't have my speed set to 0; and the sensor still detected me.
Which raised a new problem, with the wind and the suits itself decreasing my speed, there was no way to pass this zone.
By chance there's a kind of "blind spot" in the wind letting you keep some speed that allowed me to pass undetected. Not sure it was intended but got my 5 stars.

[PersonyPerson]

Yeah it was actually detecting me and i think i know why. Even if i stopped boosting before the noise sensor; i didn't have my speed set to 0; and the sensor still detected me.
Which raised a new problem, with the wind and the suits itself decreasing my speed, there was no way to pass this zone.
By chance there's a kind of "blind spot" in the wind letting you keep some speed that allowed me to pass undetected. Not sure it was intended but got my 5 stars.

Timelines released in version 7.00. The 7.50 changes to flight mechanics also impacted the spacesuit, which made it so you literally couldn't have enough thrust to get through the noise sensor without being detected, kinda breaking the scenario. Was impossible to 5 star. So that "Blind spot" you found isn't an accident, it was the fix they implemented shortly after that. Seems to not trigger the sensor when you're closer to the core of the fan, especially so on the left side of the fan.

[x2veteranoldschool]

Timelines are a hardcore competitive challenge, especially the mission spacesuit biathlon , that challenged me a lot.
If only there were option to skip those minor missions, that would be less frustrating, but some say how do you learn ?
X4 Universe not just a game its real space sim