2.3 when?

LKx · Mar 30, 2017

Kaltern said:
I suspect 2.4 will coincide with the PS4 release - or nearasdamit.

Nope, the ps4 release will be with 2.3, in Q2, probably a few weeks after the 2.3 release.

Besensec · Mar 30, 2017

Brett C said:
Some interesting guesses on a date here...

A Paint Kit for the ones who guessed right? [noob]

HailVectron · Mar 30, 2017

Given that I'll be off-grid for 2.5 weeks in 6 days time, I'd estimate it'll drop in exactly 6.1 days...

davedf · Mar 30, 2017

My guess is one month[ish] before the PlayStation release. This would mean they get an initial marketing boost to the PlayStation release from games sites reviewing the update on PC/Xbox.

It would not be too far ahead, or the PlayStation release would be "old news".
It would not be too close, so they have time to fix any serious bugs that show up in live.

Playstation is slated for "Q2", which I take to mean April to June

Craith · Mar 30, 2017

at around 4 pm, give or take 30 minutes

the above statement will be true at a certain day at at least one location on Sol 3

iFred · Mar 30, 2017

Yeah, today. Beta 5 looks stable. Let´s go.

andrak · Mar 30, 2017

davedf said:
My guess is one month[ish] before the PlayStation release. This would mean they get an initial marketing boost to the PlayStation release from games sites reviewing the update on PC/Xbox.

It would not be too far ahead, or the PlayStation release would be "old news".
It would not be too close, so they have time to fix any serious bugs that show up in live.

Playstation is slated for "Q2", which I take to mean April to June

Or it gives a month for scathing reviews on Frontier adding more bolt on gimmicks that have hardly any uptake by the players, since they are less than 25% of what was originally promised and focus only on combat. Still no development to the core game since release.

playfuldreamer · Mar 30, 2017

IndigoWyrd said:
I'm really not worried about it - it gets here when it gets here.

Multi-crew isn't all that interesting to me - might make for a fun distraction from time to time, but that's about it.

The Dolphin is really the one thing I'm most looking forward to in 2.3.
Followed by the new camera tools.

All the nerfs I can live without. A few of the QoL improvements will be nice. Other than that, it's pretty much just filler to me.

This. I'm in the same boat, er yacht.

Whitehair · Mar 30, 2017

andrak said:
Or it gives a month for scathing reviews on Frontier adding more bolt on gimmicks that have hardly any uptake by the players, since they are less than 25% of what was originally promised and focus only on combat. Still no development to the core game since release.

You planning on writing them?

babelfisch · Mar 30, 2017

So far every beta has been ~30 days long, regardless if it was finished or not. I guess live will be released next week.

Craith · Mar 30, 2017

There won't be any big changes in beta anymore, so anybody who hopes for a longer beta to have some features they miss included ... consolidate your info, and try to get it included in the next major update. It's what I am doing, there are quite a few things that could (and IMO should) be improved with multicrew, but I don't think these will get into 2.3 (even if some are only minor changes).

imski · Mar 30, 2017

We'll get the date in this weeks news letter.

PS4 will be righ there's a major show or gaming event so they can demo it to people.

Deefrize · Mar 30, 2017

iFred said:
Yeah, today. Beta 5 looks stable. Let´s go.

Absolutely not.. i get kicked around 3-4 times , deploying fighter? take disconect , docking fighter to repair? take disconect , trying to get fighter from NPC helm? take disconect.. and thats in beta 5

Patrick_68000 · Mar 30, 2017

Spacecat said:
2.3 when?

... TM

SentineI · Mar 30, 2017

LKx said:
2.4 won't happen before fall at the earliest, probably not before the end of the year, so plenty of time for that.

If that was so (and you could be right), then the Horizons "season" will have lasted 2 years. I'm just glad I'm not the one responsible for juggling FDev's finances & explaning things to their investors...

babelfisch · Mar 30, 2017

Deefrize said:
Absolutely not.. i get kicked around 3-4 times , deploying fighter? take disconect , docking fighter to repair? take disconect , trying to get fighter from NPC helm? take disconect.. and thats in beta 5

Broken features never stopped Frontier from releasing an update, why should it be different this time?

[VR] Mad Mike · Mar 30, 2017

babelfisch said:
Broken features never stopped Frontier from releasing an update, why should it be different this time?

or perhaps FD could launch 2.3A with multicrew disabled if it is that which is causing most of the networking disconnects. there is a fair amount in 2.3 even without MC imo.

Osbo89 · Mar 30, 2017

Yeh same for me here off grid (just moved house no broadband) so back to playing Flightsim solo and no doubt it will drop two weeks just as my broadband gets connected missing beta testing roll on two weeks.

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE · Mar 30, 2017

My predictions:
2.3 release - Tues 11 April (based on comment by Howard, we'll have one more update)
PS4 release - 13 June (first day of E3, though I don't believe FD have confirmed they are going)

Here's a little something I put together:

dynamicbob · Mar 30, 2017

well dominic said that bug fixes for chained fixes (minor ones may make it, major ones wont be in first iteration of live 2.3) tomorrow or next week