There was an Update 17.02 last night.
But no mention of it anywhere on the forums.
What gives???
But no mention of it anywhere on the forums.
What gives???
Update 17.02?
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Nevermind, there was a minor update that they said will not bother to give Update Notes for:
forums.frontier.co.uk
Live and Legacy Server Maintenance | 23rd January
Greetings Commanders! We will be performing some maintenance for Elite Dangerous 4.0/Live and Elite Dangerous Legacy servers on Tuesday 23rd January at 09:00 UTC. This will also include a minor client update for Live/4.0 servers which includes some security and stability improvements. We...
Well, then, looks like they will need another update to fix those ... Maybe we'll have an Update Note for that one.
Nevermind, there was a minor update that they said will not bother to give Update Notes for:
Live and Legacy Server Maintenance | 23rd January
Greetings Commanders! We will be performing some maintenance for Elite Dangerous 4.0/Live and Elite Dangerous Legacy servers on Tuesday 23rd January at 09:00 UTC. This will also include a minor client update for Live/4.0 servers which includes some security and stability improvements. We...
That thread was posted on Friday before the actual update on Tuesday to warn people there would be an update, so at least 4 days notice.
It's normal for security updates not to have patch notes. It's no longer normal for patches to apply to Legacy too but I guess it depends on the security hole that's being fixed I guess 
but there was no client patch to apply to legacy.
It's also normal for any game change to introduce new bugs or for old bugs to return. I've not noticed any except that the server connections have been pretty flakey, seemingly slower than normal & connections timing out. This could be the weather (there's some pretty bad storms in the UK & Ireland atm) but I'm assuming whatever extra security checks are just slowing everything down a bit.
Hopefully any further optimisations to the servers can be done server-side with no down time, and it's unlikely they will be announced at all, you'll just see the performance improve.
It would be good if the thread in the news section was unlocked for feedback & comments to keep all the discussion about it in one place though.
but there was no client patch to apply to legacy.It's also normal for any game change to introduce new bugs or for old bugs to return. I've not noticed any except that the server connections have been pretty flakey, seemingly slower than normal & connections timing out. This could be the weather (there's some pretty bad storms in the UK & Ireland atm) but I'm assuming whatever extra security checks are just slowing everything down a bit.
Hopefully any further optimisations to the servers can be done server-side with no down time, and it's unlikely they will be announced at all, you'll just see the performance improve.
It would be good if the thread in the news section was unlocked for feedback & comments to keep all the discussion about it in one place though.
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Considerably sooner than soon(tm) would typically suggest on top of that.
I only looked for subjects with "Update 17.x". This must be one of those examples where we humans are blind to
everything else except for the things we expect to see. (I had my Update-only shades on.)
I only looked for subjects with "Update 17.x". This must be one of those examples where we humans are blind to
everything else except for the things we expect to see. (I had my Update-only shades on.)
Been known to do that myself at times so it's no big deal, they usually do try to warn us ahead of time for any downtime not the usual Thursday maintenance but sometimes we just read past it.
Saw the maintenance update was coming thanks to the only new thread in the news forum, which yesterday was indicating that legacy was being troublesome.
By 14:00 or so game time I was downloading and installing, shortly after that finished I was running the game with no noticed issues.
There was a CTD at one point but I was on a planet scanning a bio and as I get a crash when doing that once every week or so thought nothing of it, as usual the game restarted straight away just like all the other times.
By 14:00 or so game time I was downloading and installing, shortly after that finished I was running the game with no noticed issues.
There was a CTD at one point but I was on a planet scanning a bio and as I get a crash when doing that once every week or so thought nothing of it, as usual the game restarted straight away just like all the other times.
How do you get to 1702? My client version is still 4.0.0.1701
It wasn't strictly a 17.02 update - the version number is still 17.01, but the build number is updated.
In some workflows that would mean no direct code changes, but maybe some updated dependency libraries - but I don't know if that's what's happened here.
Hopefully we'll get update 18 reasonably soon and not have to worry about exactly what version this is...
In some workflows that would mean no direct code changes, but maybe some updated dependency libraries - but I don't know if that's what's happened here.
Hopefully we'll get update 18 reasonably soon and not have to worry about exactly what version this is...