Throughout your stay in Star fieldyou'll be jumping between planets a lot during missions, whether you need to do it for said mission, looking for a place to build a base, or just exploring and getting XP for it.
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Previously, you could only fast travel from place to place, which saves a lot of time, but leaves out all the real interstellar travel. Now, with the introduction of Cruise mode, you can sail the stars in your chosen ship without missing a beat, meeting people on their own journeys and even helping them on occasion.
What is Cruise Mode?
As part of the Free Lanes update, a a new mode of transport is available to you in space, known as Cruise Modeand you can enter this mode using L1 if you're on PS, LB on Xbox, or T if you're on PCwhen orbiting any planet.
During Cruise mode you can move at a slower speed and have Free Lane Encountersas well as view all interesting places nearby on the planet and interact with them at your leisure.
Once you are unlocked complete the prologue, One Small Stepwhich gives you access to the Frontier as your first ship and allows you to freely fly to other planets and locations.
In Cruise mode you can control your speed and direction normallyas well as use Boost Mode and fly to the destination manually.
If you you don't want to fly alone but you still want to take a more scenic route, you can use the Autopilot optionwhich activates when looking towards the target and by selecting R1 on PS, RB on Xbox or Spacebar on PC.
Autopilot prevents you from overshooting the target and also gives you the opportunity to do so walk around your shiptalk to your followers, or do some crafting during the trip.
What are free lane encounters?
According to get close to nearby shipsyou can call a talk to people and trade goodswhich gives you an opportunity sell items and buy various resources on the go, get traditions and advice through interviews, or encounter various activities that reward exp and itemssuch as needing to save the ship in distress due to the training instructor having a medical emergency.
Trading ships in Cruise mode is a great way to get a lot of different resources if you don't feel like farming them or don't have a base set up for a specific item.since most ships carry at least one or two items in decent quantities.
You can too engage in piracy using Cruise mode if you choose a more criminal lifestyle for your character as you can decide to attack the ship after the call it.
This it can fail and cause a big fight if you are not ready but as committing piracy will alert nearby shipsespecially from factions like the Freestar Alliance.
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