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News Horizons Beta Delay to Monday 30th November
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Actually you download from your account page on the frontier store... Screen shot from support page...
I have a burning question that I either missed the answer to OR did not get answered.
David had said that it was a good idea to start a new from new ground positions and I have seen many people even get excited to start anew. I have either misunderstood this or don't get it. I have worked too hard and put over a month of hours of solid solid trading (and i mean over 800 hours of playtime) to get my credits and ships. If I have to start anew I will probably quit this game. CAN ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME IF I CAN TRANSFER MY CREDITS AND SHIPS ONCE HORIZONS COMES OUT? can anyone also explain to me why is anyone excited to start anew? Simply not my cup of tea. Thanks for advance for any replies.
David had said that it was a good idea to start a new from new ground positions and I have seen many people even get excited to start anew. I have either misunderstood this or don't get it. I have worked too hard and put over a month of hours of solid solid trading (and i mean over 800 hours of playtime) to get my credits and ships. If I have to start anew I will probably quit this game. CAN ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME IF I CAN TRANSFER MY CREDITS AND SHIPS ONCE HORIZONS COMES OUT? can anyone also explain to me why is anyone excited to start anew? Simply not my cup of tea. Thanks for advance for any replies.
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Basically, nobody will lose any progress, they simply want people (optionally, you don't have to!) to test the new start position in Beta. Once the build goes live anyone that choose to start new will be back with all their credits as before beta.
It would absolutely crazy for them to wipe anybodies progress, they would probably lose half or more of their customer base. It's not going to happen.
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Yes: You do not need to do anything. You just continue to play Season 2 with your same credits, ships and location.
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Yes but this particular new launcher is a separate download labelled as "Horizons Beta" according to the FAQ
Ah. Fair enough.
DB said that he was hoping that IN THE BETA testers would reset their saves, as there is some "New user content" that needs to be tested.
Everything that happens in beta (starting from a clone of your account several weeks ago) STAYS IN BETA. When Horizons goes live on the main servers, your account isn't going to change. Ships, rank, rep, credits will all be there, just as they were the day before. (ObPedant: Not counting minor changes, like the fact that your ships will likely suddenly have a slot appear for the Planetary Landing Suite.)
The main question I have, is that if I reset my save in Beta, do I start over with a Sidewinder and 1000 credits? Because nope. Sidewinder, 10,000,000 credits, and 10% cost on ships and modules? Lemme push da button!
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Or maybe you can just start with the SRV and work your way up to a Sidewinder?
1. The delay is fine. It`s just a beta
2. The delay for the full release is also better than lounching a bare bones unfinished product like you did last year because after that there is no coming back with certain things... I`m sure you will lounch it on christmass no matter what though...
3. I really appreciate the honesty and general improvement in communication
4. The saddest and the most important thing is the lack of seamless planetary landings (its such a huuuge step backwards) but i suspected as much as i don`t expect Fe2 quality from this game anymore... super cruise loading screen is the single worst thing about this game. I`m sorry but it`s pathetically bad and breaks my immersion every time... I think its even worse than a loading screen,a cutscene, or even than the dumb X3 space highways... its just awful. When it happens to load longer than usuall i often just rage quit and go back to playing the far superior prequels... the effect itself is like from some bargain bin 3$ game, the lame shaking, the cheap tunnel effect, disappearing hud, disappearing planets... just D tier stuff... so much for allways online not affecting my enjoyment
Other than point 4 all is good. I can even live with the rather low end graphics on the surface, as it is not needed for the upcoming gameplay (I expect improvements when we will be able to do EVA and get to atmo planets).
2. The delay for the full release is also better than lounching a bare bones unfinished product like you did last year because after that there is no coming back with certain things... I`m sure you will lounch it on christmass no matter what though...
3. I really appreciate the honesty and general improvement in communication
4. The saddest and the most important thing is the lack of seamless planetary landings (its such a huuuge step backwards) but i suspected as much as i don`t expect Fe2 quality from this game anymore... super cruise loading screen is the single worst thing about this game. I`m sorry but it`s pathetically bad and breaks my immersion every time... I think its even worse than a loading screen,a cutscene, or even than the dumb X3 space highways... its just awful. When it happens to load longer than usuall i often just rage quit and go back to playing the far superior prequels... the effect itself is like from some bargain bin 3$ game, the lame shaking, the cheap tunnel effect, disappearing hud, disappearing planets... just D tier stuff... so much for allways online not affecting my enjoyment
Other than point 4 all is good. I can even live with the rather low end graphics on the surface, as it is not needed for the upcoming gameplay (I expect improvements when we will be able to do EVA and get to atmo planets).
yep, when 2.0 goes live, your Beta progress gets scrubbed and you go back to where you were in 1.4. Beta is on a different server/database thingy, so, as the saying goes, what happens in beta, stays in beta...
btw I just want to say thanks to FD for adding more paint packs too. I was literally saying in a thread this week how much i would really like to buy a military pack for the DBE and now I have one 
That's just an updated launcher which will download Horizons.
Your point being?
I know that many people were justifiably skeptical of this claim posted by a brand new user with no other content, but it appears to be officially confirmed: https://www.frontierstore.net/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-dangerous-horizons-pre-order.html/
I mentioned this is another thread but thought it's also very relevant here! Thanks for the new sneak peak of Europa David. Keep up the great work . Looking forward to beta testing
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. Looking forward to beta testing[video=youtube;D8lD37ey74c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lD37ey74c[/video]
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Just two weeks ago we released the project we had been working on for the last three years so I feel for the devs crunching away weekend after weekend. You guys are doing an awesome job and you have all my sympathy for putting in all this hard work. And kudos to the management as well for listening to their devs! I know companies that would have pushed it out prematurley no problem and blame it all on the devs afterwards.
It is actually a good sign that you guys have the standing to withold a release that is simply not quite finished yet, a few days are not going to hurt anyone
Double thumbs up, you have truely earned yourselves a couple of free weekends once this baby is out the door!
It is actually a good sign that you guys have the standing to withold a release that is simply not quite finished yet, a few days are not going to hurt anyone
Double thumbs up, you have truely earned yourselves a couple of free weekends once this baby is out the door!
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