Is this image showing the expected change from Beta 5 to Beta 6? The orange color disappeared from this planet...
Patch Notes Update Horizons 2.0 beta change log #6
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Ozric
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I imagine that you can find you control bindings in you appdata/local/Frontier Development/Options/Bindings and copy them over. It appears that the release game is Custom.0.8.binds and the Horizons Beta is Custom.1.8.binds. If it doesn't do it automatically I reckon you can just rename the 1.8 to 0.8
*Disclaimer* I don't know if this will work, please back up all you controls safely and don't blame me if it goes wrong
the 0.8 is a bug, live has a rebind bug making it not possible to rebind new keys they are forgotten, this is fixed in horizon, so 'custom.binds' is the correct file to copy stuff into, though that said it should just load them from those settings.I imagine that you can find you control bindings in you appdata/local/Frontier Development/Options/Bindings and copy them over. It appears that the release game is Custom.0.8.binds and the Horizons Beta is Custom.1.8.binds. If it doesn't do it automatically I reckon you can just rename the 1.8 to 0.8
*Disclaimer* I don't know if this will work, please back up all you controls safely and don't blame me if it goes wrong
Well fortunately for most of us, FD has no problem; they are making the game most of us want to play, but thank you for informing us of some other folks thoughts.
There's a new option to set texture quality to low that I can see ..
and I should know, everything is low to off on my settings
It works though!
Oh, so that's it?
Was hoping for something more So if I have to figure out my driving controls all over again, blame Ozric. Got it.*Disclaimer* I don't know if this will work, please back up all you controls safely and don't blame me if it goes wrong
It'll be simple enough to back them up tonight. If there's any confusion about which file it is we can always change a setting in beta and verify which file got updated.
I was just thinking this is a pretty big change to the controls, so maybe FD had some advice on what is going to happen tomorrow. It might head off a few dozen rage posts if we had some instructions.
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You may be able to copy files from horizons beta to speed up download time when its out
...i download wings 1.5 64bit ...at the very start by accident thinking it was horizons it took me the whole day.. ..so what i did was copy it all over to the new install elite 64 then when i started up horizons i only had to down load 15mb ...and i was playing horizons up till now fine ....
NOTE i do NOT recommend doing so and if patch fails or crashes your machine or game for some reason i am unaware of later down the line could cause issues and you do not know why
...i download wings 1.5 64bit ...at the very start by accident thinking it was horizons it took me the whole day.. ..so what i did was copy it all over to the new install elite 64 then when i started up horizons i only had to down load 15mb ...and i was playing horizons up till now fine ....
NOTE i do NOT recommend doing so and if patch fails or crashes your machine or game for some reason i am unaware of later down the line could cause issues and you do not know why
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I don't think we will ever see them either. I don't think they want us having a "base of operations" on planet surfaces...which is pretty unfortunate. I was looking forward to moving all of my ships to the surface.
Wait, this wasn't my imagination? Twice I was taking off more or less vertically only to crash into something and take massive hull damage. I thought it was a ship and I was blind but nothing showed on radar and I received no fine for speeding.
Is this up as a report yet? It happened to me in Beta 5 but haven't tried Beta 6 yet
I phear the skillz of Head of Community Management
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Michael thanks for working textures on 1 GB VRAM cards!
Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks! :*
Could anyone explain to a slow person like myself what those "large ring ports" are that Michael mentioned?
I wish to know too but i think they are just a larger bases where you can save your ships.
The ones that look like a Blade Runner cityscape married a donut
Thanks, that's the wording I understand
Edit: do you have a name for an example at hand?
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almostpilot
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You are welcome. By the way, one guy made a good compilation...
If that is the case and I have not completely misunderstood the situation here, what exactly, is the problem? Are you seriously getting so abusive because you want the scanner to guide you in to the exact location of virtually every POI?
Ozric, I think you have completely misunderstood the situation. There are several reasons why people are upset, and the first reason is as follows:
Everytime you want to find a POI you have to fly up to over 2km and then back down to the POI (which disappears on the way down), what's the point of flying along the surface if you can't find them, there was nothing like flying through a tight canyon and having a POI pop up and go check it out, now that's impossible.
yeah I agree flying along the surface/through canyons etc was a lot of fun when looking for POI's. this sounds like its going to get annoying very quickly...
This. Flying in 2km+ is boring as hell... Speeding a few meters over the ground is exactly what makes flying around looking for POIs fun for me. Guess if it stays this way, many players will ignore planetary landing soon.
If anything I should be the other way around, you need to fly BELOW 2 KM to see POIs, low and fast, that's exciting.
The most enjoyable part of horizons is the ability to zip around all the features of the planet and see all the incredible detail. Flying above 2km just takes all that away, all you get to see is the basic outline of that detail, by the time we get down to the PoI and begin to see all that lovely detail again the PoI is most likely lost.
That's not all; here is the second reason:
The problem seems to be the scanner no longer scanning and in fact disappearing once you drop below 2km. So if you have a blue circle showing a point of interest in the distance and you drop below 2km you will no longer see the blue circle. So you no longer have any idea where the POI is and it becomes a needle in a haystack within the large blue circle if you can't see it from 2km up.
It seems illogical. Your radar shows the blue circle and then, just flying below a certain altitude, it is no longer able to show you that blue circle. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
I know it's a VIDEO GAME, but seriously... there comes a point where you've passed "gameplay mechanics" into "this is just fraking stupid".
Really? Rescue choppers just land in random areas, and then call in the ambulance to see if anyone in the vicinity is hoping for a rescue?
Please, tell me in real life when a rescue helicopter can't hover OVER A CRASH SITE and see PEOPLE STANDING THERE seeking assistance?
This whole thing is rather disappointing. I think the biggest problem is that I know that the only reason the scanner stops working at 2km is because FD wants to enforce SRV gameplay. That situation/knowledge is almost as bad (to me) as not being able to see the POIs from the air. It feels really artificial.
A third reason relates to the fact that the 'disappearing blue circle' is a huge missed opportunity...
If they want better utilize SRV, why not make POI visible from the ship, but some of the items in POI may be found just in SRV using scanner? For example, ship wreck will have few canisters of anything, but there can be more canisters spread around (cargo was dropping during the crash) and SRV's scanner may shine there. Similar with cryopods - visible wreck may have none, cryopod will be somewhere around (ejected before the crash). I believe FD designers may find more and better solution for it and not just ship wrecks, instead of placing "invisible walls" to the game.
And as for your suggestion that people just want their ship's scanner to guide them in to the exact location of the POI, well...
What are you talking about? Beta 4 gave you a huge blue circle. You still had to fly close to the ground and make circles around the area to find the object until it came into view. The SRV is easier to use then the ship scanner. What's the purpose of having a scanner that doesn't scan? Does the SRV stop scanning when you get within a close distance to the object and make you look for it visually from miles away? No it walks you right to it like it's holding your hand. You couldn't have it any easier then that! Nobody wants easy mode. In fact make it MUCH harder. Actually make using the scanner require some skill. How about making it more like a flight sim where you have to narrow and move your field of scan?
Where is the challenge in following a wave scanner ? You can literally do it with closed eyes
All of these quotes are from this thread, and there are plenty of others like them. I think they raise some valid points, and I wish Frontier would listen to them, even though we are now at the eleventh hour. Anyway, Starlanced says it better than most:
It's not a matter of easy, it's a matter of fun. Less POI's fixes the issue, there are too many that randomly pop up, how many crashed ships are there in this galaxy, hundreds on every moon? That's ridiculous! Give back the old POIs, reduce the amount to you still have to search but don't have to spend all your time at 2.1km above the surface. Might as well limit it to only vertical thrust under 2km, since we'll all be space elevators.
Nooooo......up until this release I was playing Horizons with no problems and although my spec was just on the minimum recommended for gfx card I was able to play at ULTRA settings and still get 25-30 fps on planet surface and flying at low altitude (admittedly with some texture pop in but I could live with that!) and now after BETA 6.....even on LOW setting I am down to 7fps on planet surfaces and even out in space am only getting 30 - 40.........what has happened!!? Treid restarting PC and game three times but no change..........:-(
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