Update 14 and Beyond: Live and Legacy Modes

[Yd_hellfire]

The ability to transfer your CMDR to PC ended with the release of Update 14 and was announced 7 days in advance.
You'll need to wait for the service to be reopened which is slated for some time in Q1 2023 (January to March), and then the amount of data capable to be transferred will be limited compared to what was possible before.

Sorry to say it, but you are stuck on PS4 3.8 for now.

Thanks for the quick reply. Feeling sad, had over 500-600 hours grinding for space money, engineers, fleet carrier and reps. Hope ships, credits, engineers, reps and materials are atleast carried over because cant do all that grinding again. Until then back to star citizen

 

[aRJay]

Define "alive". Is anyone still playing it?

Well there is you, a couple of console players and me earlier this morning but that was just a short* visit to download the update change my avatar to avoid/cause confusion and check my carrier and funds made it.

*The time needed to eat two Jacobs Club orange biscuits in fact.

 

[Hellrider]

Its a funny situation. I discovered old Horizons isolation by chance. I could be flying in 3.8 for months till figured out that I am isolated and far far away from my clone in 4 version. "Prerfect" customer care, FDev. Many people are still flying in parallel reailty. What a surprise when they wake up!

It is only your fault. They did enough annoucements. Time to read patchnotes in game if you play and download something.

 

[Alero3]

Hello, is steam downloading the legacy or live version of the game?

 

[conan02]

Hello, is steam downloading the legacy or live version of the game?

For me downloaded both - small patch for 3.8 and full patch for Odyssey.

 

[Old Duck]

Well there is you [...]

Actually I tapped the mat when Frontier nuked all my customized graphics configuration files and shaders with this latest update. The installer literally deleted everything I had worked so hard to set up. So, I think I'll finish the job they started and just uninstall the whole thing.

Someday I'll try 4.0. Someday..

 

[Old Duck]

Hello, is steam downloading the legacy or live version of the game?

Seems like Steam now just downloads the launcher, and then you choose from the launcher which version you want and it installs directly from Frontier.

 

[conan02]

Seems like Steam now just downloads the launcher, and then you choose from the launcher which version you want and it installs directly from Frontier.

Because I had Odyssey uninstalled so download was few hundred MBs for Horizons 3.8 and after reinstall Odyssey downloaded about 50GB, some too big for just launcher.

 

[Darrack]

Actually I tapped the mat when Frontier nuked all my customized graphics configuration files and shaders with this latest update. The installer literally deleted everything I had worked so hard to set up. So, I think I'll finish the job they started and just uninstall the whole thing.

Someday I'll try 4.0. Someday..

Come on mate you know you want to come to the dark side

O7

 

[Rubbernuke]

Come on mate you know you want to come to the dark side

O7

But how can he if his shadow settings were deleted?

 

[Morbad]

Define "alive". Is anyone still playing it?

I was there for at least twenty minutes earlier testing shadow tables.

Actually I tapped the mat when Frontier nuked all my customized graphics configuration files and shaders with this latest update. The installer literally deleted everything I had worked so hard to set up.

Every update, or anything else that has the launcher verify the game files, is supposed to do that.

 

[MDHansen]

But how can he if his shadow settings were deleted?

we need a "slow clap" like button on these here forums

 

[Old Duck]

Every update, or anything else that has the launcher verify the game files, is supposed to do that.

I've gone through two years of updates since starting my little "mod" project, and this has never happened until now. But I think that's because Steam used to handle the updates, not the launcher. This was the first time the launcher updated the game for me, and it nuked it.

The funny / sad thing is that I had a premonition something like this would happen (and a plan to prepare for it), but stupid me got distracted forgot to back up those files. I have an earlier backup, the "public" version, but I had done some personal work since then that very likely is lost.

I'm not that salty about it, because I knew I'd have to eventually redo everything for 4.0, but it has killed my interest in continuing with 3.8. My interest in 3.8 was very much on the fence anyway, ever since the announcement of "Legacy" mode and the cessation of community goals. Frontier just helped me with a little shove off that fence. Here I was worried about having to install an extra 50 GB, but instead I'll be freeing up 25 GB (at least for now).

 

[Rubbernuke]

we need a "slow clap" like button on these here forums

You can always shadow ban me

runs

 

[angusmadmac1]

You can always shadow ban me

runs

Nah you are one of the funny ones

 

[Old Duck]

You can always shadow ban me

runs

I approve of these shady innuendos.

 

[Fnord Velkor]

Actually I tapped the mat when Frontier nuked all my customized graphics configuration files and shaders with this latest update. The installer literally deleted everything I had worked so hard to set up. So, I think I'll finish the job they started and just uninstall the whole thing.

Someday I'll try 4.0. Someday..

Strange - I just loaded Steam and let it update Elite - checked out Legacy and Live - nowt lost, my GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml is still the way it was and still seems to work.

EDIT: Mind you I don't have any fancy changes - just the "Mocha" matrix.

 

[Kort]

So far after a few initial hiccups everything seems to be working well.

 

[Old Duck]

Strange - I just loaded Steam and let it update Elite - checked out Legacy and Live - nowt lost, my GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml is still the way it was and still seems to work.

EDIT: Mind you I don't have any fancy changes - just the "Mocha" matrix.

It might have been bad timing on my part. It was weird because there was no Steam update for me at first, but the launcher had changed, and it itself offered an "upgrade" button for Horizons Legacy, which I clicked. This is what nuked all my settings.

Later in the day, Steam itself downloaded an update for Elite. It makes me wonder if I had held off and not clicked "update" from inside the launcher, would my settings and mods still be there? Based on your experience, probably so.

So yeah, I made multiple mistakes - I forgot to back up my entire Elite folder, and I "rushed" to update using the launcher rather wait for Steam, but I honestly thought this was what I was supposed to do. Whatever the case, the damage is done, as is my interest in 3.8.

 

[Alero3]

So my computer was just able to run Elite Dangerous before patch day, but now after installing live Horizons the game crashes at 0% when preparing planet generation system.
I don't really want to play Legacy Horizons, I want all the new things...