News Beyond - Chapter Four - Out now!
Will somebody please think of the lepers! They paid for this!
It's out...wonderful...oh wait, we can't play the game it all now. Excellent update. The universe has ended...thank you for playing. Glad there is no problem getting to the Frontier store though.
These new server farms are working well
Looking forward to playing the upgrade! Thanks for all the hard work at Frontier. So we have some technical issues on day 1? Not the first time and it won't be the last. Anyone with any knowledge of a big roll out like this knows there are risks when you couple a big deployment with what's bound to be a spike in interest pushing a higher than normal load on the servers. I more than half expected something like this. It'll get sorted. Patience people! Honestly the tantrums from some of the commanders on here gives me some genuine concerns for their mental health. Read a book. Play another computer game if you really must sit in front of a screen. Eilte will still be here when you come back... It's not like they've taken away your internet or anything is it? I think there'd be some real mental breakdowns if some of you lot had to endure 24 hours of that.
Frontier started the update at 9:00 AM GMT. Per their server status website they estimated 9 hours. They went live in 8 hours. The problem is players cannot log into the game and the ones that do don't last long. Add another 24 hours and just in case fly a ship OK with the rebuy until all the new bugs are resolved. Yes, there will be bugs. Been there and done that before with many ED updates.
My suggestion is that Frontier needs dedicated Devs to see the problems when an update goes live before it goes live. I get the feeling they don't have this group of Devs and everyone else runs around doing double duty trying to put out the fires. I could be wrong but not being able to log into the game even in Solo mode makes me wonder.
My suggestion is that Frontier needs dedicated Devs to see the problems when an update goes live before it goes live. I get the feeling they don't have this group of Devs and everyone else runs around doing double duty trying to put out the fires. I could be wrong but not being able to log into the game even in Solo mode makes me wonder.
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So, I took a break from ED for a few months after getting to Sag A. Last week I started the looooong journey back and really have not been paying any attention to the update. So, am I screwed? What is going to happen to all of the discovery data I have? What about how my ship is equipped?
You can't advertise that it's out right now, because it's just not working. It's so hard to believe that after all these years, all these releases that it doesn't just work right out of the box at this point.
I can't wait to get in and actually start playing, please get it working guys!
I can't wait to get in and actually start playing, please get it working guys!
As I understand it existing discovery data is not affected by the upgrade. When the servers get back up and running you'll be where you were before and can still cash in your discoveries once you return to civilisation. I certainly hope so as I have quite a lot pending myself. There was a short period before the upgrade when missions had to be completed and new ones should not be started but that doesn't include discoveries. Ship equipment is going to be affected because we'll all get the new discovery scanner with a new mechanic that doesn't require that every body be visited in order to register it as "discovered". I've not tried this myself yet but most people seem to like it. At the same time if you DO visit a body you'll be able to map it looking for geological sites with new probes that will be on your ship automatically. The mapping will give a new kind of exploration credit. I've not played this in Beta but I've seen it described as a kind of cosmic pool game. Sounds like fun.
THANKS!! I saw something in another thread about a livestream that was done. I guess I will need to go dig that up later and watch it.
Help I am trapped in farseer base. I did manage to log in, I can fly around the planet and probably gather materials but I cant leave the planet. When I try to enter supercruise it counts down and then nothing. Just stuck at zero followed by the connection error thing. Oh well I know it will sort itself out soon enough. I could do some material gathering but the server wont let me back in. I had plans dammit. LOL
Unfortunately this idea depends entirely on where in the world you live and a lot of players of ED don't live and work in the same timezone as ED.
Your ship will have an extra free slot and your credit balance will have risen by the cost of all the discovery scanners you own, your surface scanner will be transformed, your data is probably fine unless you crash somewhere on your way back.
