Plus another 2-3 hours to create the cache, during which time there will be errors and everything will crash ...
Elite Dangerous | Server Maintenance 5 December 2024
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You're optimistic. Most of the gamebreaking bugs have been here for over a year at this point, but Frontier would evidently rather push cosmetics, pre-built ships and more completely broken features (PP 2.0 was and still is a buggy mess - try giving us PP missions that are actually possible to complete instead of asking us to hack holograms in systems without stations with holograms) and ignore the playerbase when every single update they post they got roasted by the masses for leaving parts of their game completely unusable and broken while fixing the odd decal and asking us about ship and module transfer times as if anyone cares when you consider the bigger issues that need fixing. Quick list of the bigger ones that actually need attention:
- Flickering shadows (Update 18 onwards)
- Broken ship/SRV shadows while on foot (Existed prior to update 18 which ironically claimed to resolve the issue but instead fixed nothing and gave us flickering shadows aswell)
- Broken fleet carrier bartenders ("It's been 84 years...")
- Broken fleet carrier odyssey materials storage and transfer (bartender service upkeep reimbursement when?)
- Broken / duplicated / mirrored forward firing engine plumes on all new ships (most noticeable on Type 8 and Mandalay under boost conditions, lmao how was this missed in testing as it was the first thing I noticed xD)
- Broken Odyssey engineering (can't apply certain mods to suits or weapons)
- Reversed thrust vectoring on Mandalay (really guys? At least google how thrust vectoring works before adding it to your game xD)
- Powerplay missions generate based on your location at the PP cycle/tick, leading to players being given missions in systems which make them impossible to complete (i.e asking players to hack holograms in a system with no holograms)
- Massive CPU related stuttering and chugging at regular intervals since Update 19. (Drivers updated, no system changes my end, same graphics settings as before, no other games affected on my system so its definitely an Elite issue).
- Galaxy map filter issues
- Long witchspace times due to increased server load since Update 19 that Frontier refuse to talk about or resolve.
If we are lucky, the next update will include a new cosmetic and maybe a fix for a broken decal if they are feeling generous. If not then we'll get a cobra where the reverse thrusters fire when you go forward and vice versa, and a new plethora of bugs that they will ignore for all eternity and will make the upcoming "colonisation" update look like a mass extinction event in comparison.
Stopped believing Frontier gave a damn about Elite a long time ago and all they've done since is repeatedley prove me right.
P.S. Those reversed engine plumes are gonna be REALLY noticeable on the first new small ship they release xD. You'll be lucky if you can still see your ship through the forward facing engine plumes unless they actually bother fixing it lmao.
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By the way yes, the destruction of Earth was not required in the future, when it becomes possible to land on planets, recreate real cities.
Frontier: "How about another broken decal instead?"
Honestly you should just expect them to ignore us asking for bug fixes at this point. "How dare they, the customer, ask for a functioning product. The nerve!" xD
No sorry, we need Frontier to see them, not be in a place where they can be conveniently ignored for the rest of the game's existence. The bug situation is dire and their lack of communcation or focus on fixing them is starting to feel like they are deliberately mocking their veteran players in favour of shoving microtransactions down the neck of every new player - who will by the way ineviatable end up complaining about the same game breaking / immersion shattering bugs we are.
Btw Steam Charts look quite promising recently IMHO 
Time to bring back more hamsters, cash flow should be ok now after the introducing the early access ships?
O7,
Time to bring back more hamsters, cash flow should be ok now after the introducing the early access ships?
O7,
Here will do, thanks anyway
Well, that's the thing, isn't it. Despite all these "gamebreaking" bugs, many of which have been there for months, there are more people active at the moment than there have been for a very long time. That server load isn't coming from the people who can't play the game right now because it's unplayable due to the bugs, or quit in disgust at the sight of the Mandalay's reversed thrust vectoring, or whatever.
Frontier could have spent the last twelve months working on bugfixes rather than on Powerplay, engineering, SCO, Thargoids, new ships with graphics issues, etc.
And sure, there would have been a more polished game at the end of that, but still one which relatively few people were playing.
It's not just Frontier which values new features and content (which work at least some of the time) over fixing bugs - so, when it comes down to voting with their feet, does the player base.
'Long Witchspace jumps' aren't a bug - they're a feature. Previously when the servers were highly loaded it would just time out the jump and drop you out of the game with an error. Now it seems they added retries so that most often the jump succeeds, but juts take a bit longer. Which to me is far better.
To fix the technical debt they need to be ahead of the curve there and have the game in a point where everyone will quit if there's no new features for a few months.
Of course all the technical debt makes adding new features without breaking more stuff much harder.
If waiting in witchspace for 3 minutes every jump is your thing, good for you buddy. Doesn't mean everyone else has to like it.
Including 2 of mine, which are fully fuelled but left just over 10ly from Sol...
If you would prefer to be dropped out of the game every time instead then make that case to fdev. Can't see you being the most popular for it though - certainly won't get my vote.
I was experiencing weird bugs late yesterday evening while doing bounty hunting missions - killed mission targets stopped showing a blue bounty notification; no bounty credits were given; and the first symptom was that kills only updated one mission instead of both active missions (from different organisations). Is this related to the server maintenance or just some weird side-effect of another problem?
That is actually still a bug. If an API or service is called and not responding before the request times out, it's a bug. For example because the code can't handle some data or load.
I think the long jump times could be related to Powerplay, I get them a lot more often when travelling to populated systems than to unpopulated systems. I'd guess/speculate there is a service calculating the BGS/PP state for a system and it only calculates when the system is first visited since the last server maintenance or server tick and with the added PP2 complexity, it is sometimes too slow to respond before the timeout.