The best way to energy up your grav drive and grav bounce in Starfield

For essentially the most half, touring between star methods in Starfield is automated and also you’ll do it by way of the menu(s) utilizing your grav drive to grav bounce between methods. Generally, although, there’s one additional step.

Our Starfield grav drive information explains the right way to energy up your grav drive for a grav bounce, plus an evidence of what that pesky “grav drive pending” warning means, and a rundown of the grav drive’s limitations.

The best way to grav bounce

Your first go to to a brand new star system means selecting the star from the menu, leaping to the star system, selecting a planet (or moon) to go to, after which touchdown on that planet at a touchdown goal. When you’ve completed all that, you’ll be able to quick journey to that touchdown goal once more with quite a bit much less work.

The best way to energy up your grav drive

Performing a grav bounce, although, requires you to have energy out there on your grav drive. Whereas piloting your ship, you’ll see your energy distribution within the decrease left of your HUD. That is the way you’ll stability out energy to your weapons, shields, and engines throughout fight (by utilizing the D-pad). It’s additionally the place you’ll assign energy to the grav drive.

What ‘grav bounce pending’ means

In case your grav drive is totally powered down and there’s no additional energy from the reactor out there, you’ll get a warning in your display that claims “grav bounce pending.” This simply signifies that you’ve picked out a vacation spot within the Starmap menu, however the grav drive doesn’t have energy. As quickly as you unlock energy and assign at the least one slot of juice to the grav drive, the countdown will begin and also you’ll bounce away.

The velocity of that countdown just isn’t measured in seconds, thoughts you. It’s truly a measure of how a lot energy you might have assigned. In case you solely have one notch allotted to the grav drive, it’ll tick down slowly. In case you max it out, it’ll rely down shortly — useful data when you’re making an attempt to grav bounce out of a firefight.

How far are you able to grav bounce?

There are just a few limitations on how far your ship can grav bounce. Principally, you’ll see this as warning on the Starmap saying you’ll be able to’t take the journey your plotting.

It’s by no means actually clear, although, the right way to resolve the difficulty(s). The constraints are all interconnected, and contain three issues: the route, the grav drive bounce vary, and your gasoline.

Route

In case you hover over a distant star within the Starmap, you’ll discover that the route it plots for you isn’t a straight line — it bounces between stars in shorter (grav) jumps that finally find yourself at your goal. However you’ll be able to’t make any journey that jumps by way of a star system you haven’t visited earlier than and, when you attempt, you’ll see an “Unexplored route” warning.

That is represented visually by sure legs of your journey turning pink (elements you’re in a position to bounce are in white). Hint that pink a part of the road again to the place it stops being white, and that’s the primary system you haven’t visited but.

Grav drive bounce vary

The subsequent, barely extra intuitive limitation comes out of your ship’s grav drive. How far your ship can bounce — its bounce vary — is the utmost distance between two stars (legs on that lengthy route) your ship can deal with. In case you attempt to make a bounce that exceeds your bounce vary, you’ll see a “Out of vary” warning on the Starmap.

Your ship’s grav drive you might have determines the utmost that its vary may be, however the mass of your ship will scale back it. As a way to improve your bounce vary, you’ll must improve to a greater grav drive with the Ship Builder.

Gasoline

The final limitation is gasoline — and it’s a lot much less clear how this works. The route you’re taking to get between methods is made up of smaller jumps by way of methods you’ve visited earlier than (see above). The utmost distance coated by every of these legs is set by your grav drive’s bounce vary (above). The variety of legs that make up any given journey is proscribed by your gasoline.

Every leg eats up among the gasoline, so your most gasoline limits the variety of jumps any given journey can contain. In case you attempt to plot a route that makes use of extra gasoline than your ship can carry, you’ll get a “Out of gasoline vary” warning.

You’ll must improve your gasoline tank(s) within the Ship Builder to take these actually lengthy journeys.