News Horizons Beta Delay to Monday 30th November

[Sir.Tj]

The transition from supercruise to orbital cruise is seamless - you just see the altimeter and flight ladder appear. When you drop from orbital cruise to normal flight there is a short transition, as with dropping from supercruise.

I really can't wait to experience that for myself.

20 years have just flown by.

 

[withnail]

No worries.

There is the live game to play with in the meantime!!

 

[CMDR-Bullsey]

i realy dont think these sneek peeks are a good idea
judging by the negative responses the last one received

 

[Jigsaw]

The Scarab auto-retracts its turret to get underneath. You could hear it when I returned to the Vulture in the video on Sunday.

Ah... like the APC in Aliens. Speaking of APCs... there is a design idea for future SRVs.

 

[Sucky]

(can make it a selectable option for those who do not own DX12 capable cards)

Sadly my current graphics card doesn't support DX12, will there be an option like he mentioned for those not with capable cards David? Just wondering, if not then I got to get a new graphics card by Christmas thanks in advance.

 

[FU5E]

Thx 4 the Update David. Looking forward to the 30th then o7

 

[David Braben]

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?

It has already been taken, prior to 1.5.

1.5 Beta and 2.0 Beta will be playing in the same worlds - though we want to encourage 2.0 people to restart (don't worry - it won't affect your main game save), as we have a new on-the-surface start position.

(Oops - I think I just made an announcement...! )

 

[Jynessa Loraeyn]

Well spotted! That was an issue, but it has already been addressed. The Scarab auto-retracts its turret to get underneath. You could hear it when I returned to the Vulture in the video on Sunday.

Oh cool, I was wondering what that sound was when you approached the ship - it happened on the Cutter too. Nice

For anyone who is thinking of landing, I started looking for nearby landing sites, and oh god, I spent two hours in the Galaxy Map just looking around. I'm bearing in mind that the planets will look a little different, but found some interesting ones nearby. Most excited by one that is 1.5 times the mass of Earth, and another that is only 200km across (I'm guessing that is going to be potato-shaped once the beta is out).

Also player groups (no doubt they're already doing it) ought to be checking their home systems, like Orfeboy did. I did some checking around and the Old Worlds have some nice possibilities. The Code on Orrere have a string of landables around their second and third planets.

Even the starting system, LHS 3447, is a bit of a goldmine, and check out the surrounding worlds.

Then there's the old-timers' favorites, the beta systems - iBootis, Aulin, Dahan...

Fair warning, I didn't realise how long I spent doing this. And my very first 'first discovery' is landable. An icy moon in the inhabited bubble. I'm going to be landing on 'my' planet

 

[Sir.Tj]

It has already been taken, prior to 1.5.

1.5 Beta and 2.0 Beta will be playing in the same worlds - though we want to encourage 2.0 people to restart (don't worry - it won't affect your main game save), as we have a new on-the-surface start position.

(Oops - I think I just made an announcement...! )

Lol you're in trouble now..

 

[knowles2]

There are a number of issues (correctly guessed/spotted by some here), including some glitches when travelling down to the surface on some planet types. This morning I have seen the key part of a fix to this, but it still needs to be committed and tested. There have also been some blocking issues with gameplay, now mostly fixed, on some of the surface bases. For example there is a bug we have just found where generators and defences are not properly hooked up to the relevant part of the base, and security doors are not working correctly – issues which can make completing a mission impossible. There are also some polish issues like the streaming stall many people spotted (visible in my last ‘peek’ – where some textures and geometry appear very low res, as the high res versions hadn’t streamed in) which would not have stopped the beta going live, but should now be fixed anyway.

Thanks for the explanation. It always great to see behind the curtains.

 

[Fost]

When you drop from orbital cruise to normal flight there is a short transition, as with dropping from supercruise.

I think that's the part that still seems a bit placeholder still to many of us - especially when entering ring systems where the rings disappear for a second then re-appear and the HUD disappears for a second too.

We've probably gotten used to it over the past year but at some point it could do with its hard edges smoothing off.


Anyway sorry - bigger fish to fry right now am sure

 

[re7rix]

I can wait. Although could we have another live stream to tide us over please

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

Sadly my current graphics card doesn't support DX12, will there be an option like he mentioned for those not with capable cards David? Just wondering, if not then I got to get a new graphics card by Christmas thanks in advance.

Just to be clear in case you've misunderstood: you need a card that supports DX11 to run Horizons, i.e. you don't need to go and buy a DX12 card.

 

[AveMe]

oh no... Well, it's still better than releasing bugged and not working update.

 

[Calv45]

I'm not crying ,i've got something in my eye

 

[Kzak]

No problem with a delay of some days. We've waited this long, a few days more won't hurt.

 

[CMDR Daren Puuhr]

Following up on my previous post, the team are still working very hard indeed. We are not ready to go live with the beta today as we have already indicated was likely. We are very sorry about this, but it is not yet ready for a proper beta test because of some blocking issues. I will keep everyone posted over the next few days, and will check in on this thread from time to time for the next hour today, and will post more details here on those issues for those that are interested. We are confident in the Monday 30th date as we already have the key components to fix the issues we are seeing.


Once again, we are very sorry, and we thank you all for your support.

RIGHT ON CMDR!

David

Any details on what the blocking issues are for the curious one of us? Keep up the good work at any rate, hopefuly my PC will be able to run Horizons as smoothly as it is E

 

[HiroNakamura]

Geeeeeeez guys! This game have the best community and dev team. It real doesn't matter if we have to wait for the béta, 'cuz all of us know, that we will get an amazing dlc/game!

 

[johnnyacks]

Sadly my current graphics card doesn't support DX12, will there be an option like he mentioned for those not with capable cards David? Just wondering, if not then I got to get a new graphics card by Christmas thanks in advance.

If your anywhere near Portsmouth I can help you out CMDR. How does a free R9 270 sound?

 

[Bortas]

Once again, we are very sorry, and we thank you all for your support.

No problem, thank you, too for the great work.

I already mentioned it in one of the other Horizons threads... would it be possible to extend the 1.5 beta to the buyers of the Horizons beta, to give them at least something for the weekend?