Patch Notes Update Ships beta 1.5.3 incoming

[Gully Foyle]

The save used in the beta is a copy of your live save from a few weeks ago.

Nothing you do in the Beta is carried over to your live game. I was over 10000 Ly out in my beta save and simply dived into the star to destroy my ship and so get back to the bubble.

550% heat is rather impressive

Smokin'!

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Exactly. I am wondering when 1.5 will go live. I wish it is sooner than Horizons. I want to start Trading in the cutter and battling in the corv!

You have the ranks for both of them?
Good Work!

 

[GeordieMarv]

Which makes it even more silly Paint that can't be repaired ? What's the point of that ?...

The point of it is to allow people to get weathered paintjobs. Some people want a nice shiny ship, others want it to look worn and weathered and old.
Rather have the choice than not I guess.

 

[SuperNova15]

The point of it is to allow people to get weathered paintjobs. Some people want a nice shiny ship, others want it to look worn and weathered and old.
Rather have the choice than not I guess.

Please don't encourage bugs. Speaking from the ocd crowd, I must say that's one bug a want removed asap.

 

[GeordieMarv]

Please don't encourage bugs. Speaking from the ocd crowd, I must say that's one bug a want removed asap.

We all do. I think I misunderstood the context of F1 racers comment.
I thought he was querying why we had the ability to repair paint. Now I see he was querying why we can't repair it. (ie make the button ghost out/clear)
As other have mentioned, it should fit in with all the other UI options that ghost out once done/repaired.

 

[GeordieMarv]

Actually, do we know if the 1.5 beta will release before they start the Horizons beta? Or will it just roll over into Horizons and then all get released in one go?
I do have access to all the beta's, I just haven't downloaded it as I am working on my rank for the Cutter, that and I also want to be surprised by the new shiny stuff in it.
Apologies if this has been asked and answered in this thread already.

 

[Javert]

Actually, do we know if the 1.5 beta will release before they start the Horizons beta? Or will it just roll over into Horizons and then all get released in one go?
I do have access to all the beta's, I just haven't downloaded it as I am working on my rank for the Cutter, that and I also want to be surprised by the new shiny stuff in it.
Apologies if this has been asked and answered in this thread already.

It's been indicated previously by FD that everything will be rolled out on the same day - 1.5 and Horizons combined.

 

[GeordieMarv]

It's been indicated previously by FD that everything will be rolled out on the same day - 1.5 and Horizons combined.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[LARY STARKEEPER]

It's been indicated previously by FD that everything will be rolled out on the same day - 1.5 and Horizons combined.

Not good at all IMO. They will have to deal with a lot of stuff. Everything that came with 1.5 and everything that came with 2.0 will probably need a lot of adjustment.

Anyway, I didn't followed the news, where did they said that ?

 

[Javert]

Not good at all IMO. They will have to deal with a lot of stuff. Everything that came with 1.5 and everything that came with 2.0 will probably need a lot of adjustment.

Anyway, I didn't followed the news, where did they said that ?

It was announced in the newsletter quite a while back - I'm sorry I can't remember exactly which one but it was a good month or two ago. They said that 1.5 and Horizons would be a combined release.

This is the reason why they have rolled out 1.5 beta before Horizons - to force us to test the 1.5 stuff as if they roll out the beta all in one go, nobody will test the 1.5 only stuff much.

I don't know exactly why they are doing the main release all on the same day, but I would guess:
- Only one proper release go live to support instead of two (with Xbox release checks by MS etc).
- Lots of behind the scenes code does not have to be separate. If you look in the current beta 1.5, you can find a lot of Horizons stuff already in place but not active yet (e.g. people have seen new items of commodities that say they can only be sold for profit on the surface, slots in the outfitting for the planet landing module and so on.
- System needs to be tested for those who have not bought Horizons.

 

[EAGLE 5]

It was announced in the newsletter quite a while back - I'm sorry I can't remember exactly which one but it was a good month or two ago. They said that 1.5 and Horizons would be a combined release.

This is the reason why they have rolled out 1.5 beta before Horizons - to force us to test the 1.5 stuff as if they roll out the beta all in one go, nobody will test the 1.5 only stuff much.

I don't know exactly why they are doing the main release all on the same day, but I would guess:
- Only one proper release go live to support instead of two (with Xbox release checks by MS etc).
- Lots of behind the scenes code does not have to be separate. If you look in the current beta 1.5, you can find a lot of Horizons stuff already in place but not active yet (e.g. people have seen new items of commodities that say they can only be sold for profit on the surface, slots in the outfitting for the planet landing module and so on.
- System needs to be tested for those who have not bought Horizons.

It's also a nice political release as well... give the non Horizons players something to go "yay" about rather then moping how their "update" already lost its flavor in light of all the "WOOT" comments from the Horizons players...

I'm sure there are also technical reasons but I can't help but feel that has a bit to do with it.

 

[Zinaxis]

Which makes it even more silly Paint that can't be repaired ? What's the point of that ?

No, I think it gets repaired, but once your ship is all washed and polished, the 10CR button is still highlighted as if it's hungry for more but if you feed it nothing happens, so really it doesn't need to constantly be highlighted until you do scratch your paint again.

have a look at the ship in outfitting and you will see there are always bits of damage on the ship's paintwork. It makes sense that it cant be fully repaired due to the paint hence it is still highlighted but doesn't charge when clicked.

 

[AdriánGuth]

The FDL Buff is welcome, However for those asking to increase the jump range, remember it's a short range fighter, and a very good one at that.

Not it dont.

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[stevesideas]

I hope they sort out the issues with HMD. I haven't been able to test/play since the 1.5 update. Funnily enough I'd like to participate in these betas considering I paid for the lifetime pass !

 

[Cmdr R T Ralph]

Let me know what your heat got up to

OK, im in beta and about to crash out.
Lets see how hot i can get......

Star is a class M (Red Dwarf). Size is 0.4297 solar masses, temp is 3,267.00K.

Crashing now.......
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WOW, and i actually exploded this time, nice.

I saw 532% but screenshot has 531



right, lets see what new ships are out there.

 

[Cmdr R T Ralph]

for those who dont follow my posts, im exploring close to the core and i have beta access, but didnt know if beta was the same as normal access. Ian Phillips explained about the beta saves and so i crashed into a star to get back to the bubble quickly in beta.
I couldnt beat his temp while flying to destruction, but got closer than i thought.

Anyway, im back to exploring.

 

[CMDR_UKmouse]

I hope they sort out the issues with HMD. I haven't been able to test/play since the 1.5 update. Funnily enough I'd like to participate in these betas considering I paid for the lifetime pass !

Perfectly said. I really do hope this issue is addressed before Horizons Beta.
Please FD, I have the lifetime pass and not really getting my money worth.

 

[Ian Phillips]

Crashing now.......
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WOW, and i actually exploded this time, nice.

I saw 532% but screenshot has 531

I think I'll have to concede the 'record', as I didn't take a a screenshot as proof!

 

[Rexoplex]

Couldn't agree more

...and the Cutter is still useless for combat

I hate to say it, but you're right. I saw that it only had a size 7 coupler and was all "good job FD, that balances it by lowering the firepower to account for the crazy shields", then I noticed that it takes 18 SECONDS to do a 360 with full pips. If you come across a half-decent pilot in a viper, vulture, hell- now even an FDL... yeah they're gonna be behind you the whole fight without even needing to boost lol. I think it needs less internals(700 cargo on a military vessel is absurd, maybe replace the second c8 with a c7 slot at least) and a pitch rate increase to at least allow it a 12-13 second 360 with four pips to ENG. I would hate to see the most expensive ship in the game be inevitably doomed to have to run from any nimble, player-flown fighter ships it tries to fight.

 

[Ziljan]

I hate to say it, but you're right. I saw that it only had a size 7 coupler and was all "good job FD, that balances it by lowering the firepower to account for the crazy shields", then I noticed that it takes 18 SECONDS to do a 360 with full pips. If you come across a half-decent pilot in a viper, vulture, hell- now even an FDL... yeah they're gonna be behind you the whole fight without even needing to boost lol. I think it needs less internals(700 cargo on a military vessel is absurd, maybe replace the second c8 with a c7 slot at least) and a pitch rate increase to at least allow it a 12-13 second 360 with four pips to ENG. I would hate to see the most expensive ship in the game be inevitably doomed to have to run from any nimble, player-flown fighter ships it tries to fight.

Turrets? Goliath shields and armor? Run from a Viper?? I don't think so. Maybe a VERY skilled FDL pilot could give you a run for your money but if even if you had to run, they couldn't even chase you because of your superior jump range, lol.

 

[mitebcool]

I hope they sort out the issues with HMD. I haven't been able to test/play since the 1.5 update. Funnily enough I'd like to participate in these betas considering I paid for the lifetime pass !

Does the new update not support HMD even I with older versions of the runtime?
I'm running 6.0.1 with Nvidia's 355 drivers and everything is nice and smooth. Hope this update doesn't spoil that!