Patch Notes Update Beta - 1.6 and The Engineers (2.1) incoming
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Can I just say thanks for renaming CEECKIA ZQ-L C24-0. How cute 
It must be a feature from making the System Map load faster. They made hyper jumps slower.
Patch Notes? More like Patch Chapters! [haha]
Read it all, lots of great fixes for some long standing issues.
1.6 reads like a success story for the most part though I personally disagree with the heat-sink decrease. I would have wanted a +1 not -1. Let's hope you guys are open to feedback before final.
I'm reserving judgement on 2.1 until final release, but initial impression is [weird]
One question - Will 1.6 players face NPC's with 2.1 modified weapons (ie. Engineer mods)?
[haha] Read it all, lots of great fixes for some long standing issues.
1.6 reads like a success story for the most part though I personally disagree with the heat-sink decrease. I would have wanted a +1 not -1. Let's hope you guys are open to feedback before final.
I'm reserving judgement on 2.1 until final release, but initial impression is [weird]
One question - Will 1.6 players face NPC's with 2.1 modified weapons (ie. Engineer mods)?
Comment below is not to detract from how awesome I think this release is. It is the best yet as it focuses most exclusively on the core parts of the original released game.
"- Added enhanced performance size 2 and 3 drive modules"
And thus why I have said since long that module ratings should start at zero and go up instead of starting at G and going to A where they max out. Or they need additional attributes. The baseline for foot-soldiers to Space Stations could be set, so hand-held weapons would be class 0 and go up from there. So now we already have A+ modules, or however they are designated (I'm still downloading, so can't check them out yet).
Would still love to see manufacturer specific modules with varying stats for equivalent equipment and some ship-specific modules (not just by size / class). This would add more color to the game. Do I put Holley Carburetors on the engine or keep the OEM ones?
The last bit for me is tech levels. Would like to see varying tech levels in the game. Everything is very homogenous now, every ship the same generic capabilities at a single technology iteration in time. Alien cultures could have lower or higher tech levels. Ships in Elite could be 50 years old and on previous gen hardware. I know it will be a lot of work, but will add more flavor.
Several ways to approach this module aspect of the game. But I think Engineers are a bit of an artifice to enable the module differentiation rather than going with the above route. They could still be in game but much more rare and difficult to reach. Oh well, design choices will never please everyone.
"- Added enhanced performance size 2 and 3 drive modules"
And thus why I have said since long that module ratings should start at zero and go up instead of starting at G and going to A where they max out. Or they need additional attributes. The baseline for foot-soldiers to Space Stations could be set, so hand-held weapons would be class 0 and go up from there. So now we already have A+ modules, or however they are designated (I'm still downloading, so can't check them out yet).
Would still love to see manufacturer specific modules with varying stats for equivalent equipment and some ship-specific modules (not just by size / class). This would add more color to the game. Do I put Holley Carburetors on the engine or keep the OEM ones?
The last bit for me is tech levels. Would like to see varying tech levels in the game. Everything is very homogenous now, every ship the same generic capabilities at a single technology iteration in time. Alien cultures could have lower or higher tech levels. Ships in Elite could be 50 years old and on previous gen hardware. I know it will be a lot of work, but will add more flavor.
Several ways to approach this module aspect of the game. But I think Engineers are a bit of an artifice to enable the module differentiation rather than going with the above route. They could still be in game but much more rare and difficult to reach. Oh well, design choices will never please everyone.
This brings me so much joy .... May seem like a small thing but it really isn't.
Can't wait to try it out ...
same here ...
LTE + Beta and no 64bit beta versions at all are working.. the 32bit does... :/
Folks, please! Spoiler tags are a wonderful thing!Oh my god, rings and resource extraction sites look so much better now!
As for rings, I'm more a fan of the very original look, where there was less fog and less obvious LOD variation at highest setting. It seemed the detail was high and the draw distance nigh-on infinite.
Are you on Ultra/maxed graphics settings or some other level?
*but the look is improved, I definitely agree.
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> Fixes to AI scanning players with silent running enabled
Does this mean that using silent running for smuggling goods into stations might finally be a thing again, for the first time since the core game beta? If so, I'll do a happy dance.
Does this mean that using silent running for smuggling goods into stations might finally be a thing again, for the first time since the core game beta? If so, I'll do a happy dance.
Planetary Hangar power fixed; you cannot deploy SRV without it having power.
Wheeltracks:
Wheeltracks:
Being able to turn up the volume on the Wake Scanner so the music doesn't drown it out - yay. New Wave Scanner audio signals for different contact types - yay.
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Shouldn't create any new issues though - you only need to power it up when deploying a SRV (and when picking one up, whenever Multicrew comes).
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Shouldn't create any new issues though - you only need to power it up when deploying a SRV (and when picking one up, whenever Multicrew comes).
I'm gonna miss that bug...
Already crashed 3 times. I sent the logs.
I understood from the live streams that the selection of missions available will depend more on faction type and status. So this can be used to motivate travel between major and minor factions.
I so want huge railguns as emplaced military base defences. They have a plausible reason to be able to do 300MJ to a target. Then we can have wartime base combat drop scenarios to take out these defences as part of upgraded Military careers in a later season.