News Horizons Beta Delay to Monday 30th November

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Hi commanders.
It's been more than one year since I frist heard about Elite: Dangerous. It was someone in a web page that posted a video of an asteroid field. Some weeks later I saw another video of somebody entering a huge cubic station. I was amazed. "Goodness me!" I thought, as I had never seen anything so impressive, and when I reached home I bought everything that I could regarding this universe - Elite: Dangerous + Lifetime explansions. 80€! Just that for an entire galaxy to explore and a lot of wonderful space stations where to land and deal with goods and weapons! And aaaaall of that just for the price of 3 or 4 meals that would last for a few hours. I couldn't beleive!
I was getting all of that by Christmas (I bought it in september 2014). Since then I have had dozens of hours of wonderful playing and have travelled thousands of lightyears in the galaxy. At the moment I am getting delighted discovering new worlds and reading about them in the descriptions (and learning a lot of astrophisics). Visiting far and exotic planet rings full of different huge floating rocks and pieces of ice. Every night, when I arrive home, I love to get in my ship and imagine I am there, alone, relaxed, enjoying the wonders of the galaxy (by the way, I can't wait to have a HMD to really get away and be there!).
So, after all this, some questions come to my minds, along with the answers right away:

1. Do I think Elite: Dangerous is expensive or would be expensive for 40 or 50 a year if I had not got the lifetime expansions?
- Absolutely not. As I said, just for the price of a few meals, or some drinks in some places, ED is a present. Have you ever had a look at the "Credits" option in the game? There is a huge amount of professionals that work hard so that we can enjoy thousands of incredible details that, usually slip away unnoticed. Imagine the number of code lines that need to be written so that all those details and all the phisics are there for us.

2. Can I wait for Horizons Beta some days more than advertised?
- Absolutely yes. I will wait whatever it takes. One day? One month? ... WHATEVER IT TAKES! I am sure that we will have the best game ever. The team will and is doing it for us. In fact I don't think there is a better game than ED at the moment, and if this keeps as it is at the moment, I doubt there will ever be another one that compares to ED.

Thanks a lot Frontier Developments team.
 

rootsrat

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It's only a week, all OK! Good luck and thanks to the team for their hard work :)

(Just admit you're all up for another batch of pizza and ice cream next weekend! ;) )
 
Delaying until next week is a good plan. It takes the pressure off the developers a little (not that they'll stop working hard) and avoids silly mistakes creeping in while trying to push to release.

I'm not sure it takes any pressure off. As a developer myself, when I miss my deadline, I feel even more pressure!
 
Thanks David and the whole FD team - a sneak peek or two between now and then would be very welcomed ;)
 
Anyword on DX12, or a Anti Aliasing feature that works for the future?

I love the game Mr Braben, but the aliasing even at 2560x1440 is enough to slice my eyes off, plus I imagine this game would benefit from a DX12 boost, (can make it a selectable option for those who do not own DX12 capable cards)

ALSO this one is a bit of a nitpick but can someone sort out the options menu they make no sense,

why are some graphic options maximum selection, medium, others high and then others ultra.

ANYWAY not to sound like I'm being negative just hoping to make the shiny, more shinier :p

Looking forward to the BETA, (I really hope you add the ability to fly into Gas giants into the future, as a space nerd that would be amazing. Activate a Gas Collector and fly about it a cloudy haze of lightning and radiation pockets, scooping Helium 3 while trying to keep your ship intact.... *goes into a dreamy daze*
 
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BINGO!!! I have that day off... and my wife won't put me in the doghouse for not helping move into the new house leading up to it because I'm too busy playing Horizons.

RIGHT ON INDEED!!!
 

Javert

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some blocking issues. I

Hi David,

I would definitely be interested to know what the issues are that you have been facing - it's always interesting to get a behind the scenes glimpse at the kind of issues faced during these crunch times.
 
Any idea when the database instance snapshot will be taken ? i need to make some big changes that will not prove too useful in the beta. Would love to know if the beta snapshot has already been taken?
 
I can wait another week. No problem. *twitches* Just seven more days. *twitches* That's nothing in the *twitches* grand scheme of things, right? *twitches* Abso*twitches*lutely fine...
 
No Problem David.
I forward to the french community.
What's about the 1.5 beta ? It's not available on the launcher since the beta servers update.
 
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An understandable delay (I'm assuming this is client/server crashes, stability in general, and showstopper bugs).

To help with proper testing when EDH Beta does start it would be useful to get some form of changelog as soon as possible so people can plan on what they'll be testing.
 
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