How do you use Frame Shift Drive to travel to the destination on Xbox One?

How do you use Frame Shift Drive to travel to the destination on Xbox One? - Red Car in Bus

This is specific to the preview version of Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One - on PC this appears to be J, but obviously that doesn't apply to the Xbox controller.

In one of the training missions you hyperspace to the next system and then use your Frame Shift Drive (FSD) to travel to a nearby station.

However, once you get there you don't seem to be able to get out of FSD, you just zoom around the destination. If you use the A+Up to exit you drop out wherever you are - many minutes or hours away at normal speeds.

When you are close to the station and travelling below C you seem to get a prompt at the bottom of the screen SAFE DISENGAGE READY, but there's no indication or help in game as to how you action that. There doesn't appear to be a binding in any of the controls or options indicating how you carry out a safe disengage (or even what a safe disengage is).

How do I action that prompt?



Best Answer

I can't specifically say for the Xbox version as I don't have access to it, but from your description it sounds like you are not trying to drop out at the correct time. If A + Up drops you out of Supercruise at any time, then this should be the same control to drop you out when the Safe Disengage message is displayed. On the PC it is the same control at either time (as it is the same action, the only difference being the location you drop out to).




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How do you use a Frame Shift Drive?

If you see an empty bar (two yellow lines) below the comms window that means text chat is open. Hit the "2" key again to close it and your controls will work again.

How do you exit frameshift?

When there's a full white dot directly in the middle of the compass, the star is right ahead of you. Now just hit J and wait for your Frameshift Drive to charge up. You'll automatically jump to the new system when the countdown finishes.

How do you jump to another system in elite dangerous?

As soon as you do, hit the A button and D pad up. It's the same as the engage super cruise engage button. You should then emerge close to your target.



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