Elite Dangerous Update 14 Release Schedule
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Well, if you want to do something rather than just hope, then you should try convincing Apple to add Vulkan support to MacOS. It's pretty certain they aren't going to add back OpenGL nor update it beyond the 2014 levels, which Frontier would need to update their ancient MacOS client (so that's a lost cause), but Vulkan might not be ruled out entirely. And hey, if you somehow did manage to convince them, and then managed to convince Frontier to add Vulkan support too, then that would benefit the entire ED community.
So, if you do decide to act and give these a try, then I wish you the best of luck!
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Back when Thargoid combat was new, the new countermeasures, toys etc were added over time, not all of them at once. For example, when I killed my first Interceptor, I only had AX missiles to do it with. I suspect this roll-out will be the case here as well, not that we'll get a message saying "Taranis is here, here's a bunch of new equipment to survive and combat the new Thargoid threat, good luck Commander!"
I am half expecting a message saying ‘Taranis is there, we here on Raxxla in Andromeda wish you the best of luck’
MoltenVk already exists to use Vulkan on macOS by implementing it on top of Metal - but it’s unfortunately limited by Metal lacking features, meaning many common Vulkan extensions and features are not available. And given that Metal is modelled after Apple’s GPUs it’s not exactly likely that a native implementation will add all that missing functionality.
It’s also not likely for Frontier to add a Vulkan renderer to ED when they aren’t targeting anything other than Windows, and they already have a D3D11 renderer that’s causing them enough trouble as it is, without them rewriting everything to target a much more complex and lower level API…
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Pullulanta is liberally translated as "Fat crap" and Pululanta is "Pigeon's crap" in my native language, so I'm happy to see something funny to find in long travels
Pffft, I'm still hoping they reconsider the Raspberry Pi client! I mean, the Pi is David Braben's baby as much as Elite, so why is ED not on the Pi?
Maybe we are back to square one with this:
- AX Missile Racks have had their damage increased.
I don't do AX combat, but if half of the bubble's systems keep melting down the Guardian SRPs in my Adder after this update, I'll be slightly miffed. The Adder is cardboard without them.
It was mentioned on Frameshift Live they were rebalancing the non-Guardian AX weapons to be a bit more effective with the intention that players wanting to try out AX wouldn't have to spend hours gathering all the guardian stuff first.
Proof that everlasting peace was never really an option.
are we there, yet?
Not for at least an hour - and that's assuming the original timetable doesn't slip.
thanks Cori, my trigger finger itches!
