Patch Notes September Update - Patch 1

it's a trade off between game play and simulation. In a RL universe, people would not get paid for mapping a known system yet they seem to here for game play purposes.
Considering how often I see survey crews out and about in real life, not to mention how often new robotic orbital probes get launched to the Moon and Mars, there is IMO value in a fresh look at existing systems. Not as much as the initial discovery, but I don’t consider that aspect of exploration to be particularly unrealistic.
 
Thing is, all that time spent on 'new player experience' and then this almighty balls up - Those new players playing a half broke game and missing vfx and headachingly bad screen tearing (on xbox anyways) must be confused.. It would make me take the game back to the shop. Its hardly a great intro to the game.

Those strong willed people who avoid the game for a month after an update have the right idea haha.
 
Considering how often I see survey crews out and about in real life, not to mention how often new robotic orbital probes get launched to the Moon and Mars, there is IMO value in a fresh look at existing systems. Not as much as the initial discovery, but I don’t consider that aspect of exploration to be particularly unrealistic.
They're very valid points, and I'll give way to that. One thought though, these new probes we send to the Moon, mars and other places within our local system are generally equipped with different sensors - which would correllate in game to FSS and DSS, so that's valid too.
 
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The bug tracker would look masively bigger if they didn't fix any bugs. As to a game continuously producing bugs and not fixing all of them, welcome to online MMO style computer games. Most MMO's have long standing bugs and have bugs introduced at every update.


If you say so. But the same applies to most MMO style games then.

Why people are surprised is beyond me.

I'm not surprised, not anymore.
So what you're saying is, because it happens in most mmo games I should find it totaly acceptable that Fdev delivers so many bugs with each update and only fix a couple of them resulting in a huge backlog of bugs?
If you're fine with that then good for you but I'm not.

People have been complaining about the multitude of long standing and newer bugs for a very long time but nothing's being done about it.
But hey they did come up with a new way to spend your money, and they'll make sure that works like a charm.
 
What Thargoid bobblehead?
Wonder if he means the 1 ARX special offer (or gift)?
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Oh that one, i have that :) I've seen people with proper green thargoid bobbleheads, someone posted a pic earlier, looked really cool
 
bought a second licence yesterday during steam's sale.
game downloaded in 3hrs, that s what my dsl can until 1GB optic comes in november
launched the game
started the tutorial, skipped it after 20 minutes, it s a nice tutorial, but i dont need it
saw the pilot federation systems for the first time
made missions in a sidewinder and 1000cr, never did that, i had the beta mercenary pack thing when the game was out
made transport missions with no weapons and no fuel scoop
landed with illegal cargo in a high security station, crashed in the bottom, survived with underclassed shield
made a few planetary mappings
bought a viper
bought a mk III
made a few transport missions
sold explo data, equipped a refinery and took 16 drones
mined alexandrite and made 7M
my kids were happy, i never bothered them to "watch" mining. sure in a fully engineered T10 it s kinda different.
almost died hitting an asteroid btw

had ton of fun and good moments, been a long time it didnt happen

i ll wait for a couple days, even a week or two, before i engineer at Deciat.

the game DOES work, it provides good moments and fun. if something is broken, there s a lot of other things that DO work.
Yup, I played solid through Friday, Saturday and Sunday on PS4. Yes, I had the PS4 load bug. Yes, I had the engineering locks. Still managed to engineer my shields to G5, run some missions, do some combat, and fill my cargo with VO's for a tidy profit. Game breaking bugs? Nah, more like minor annoyances.
 
I've bin playing non stop after the update, and not until now (with my return to the forums). I didn't noticed anything that got broken. And only because an in-game message appeared that the serves went off-line.

But I guess you are playing a different game then I do.

Ow wait, I did notice some minor screen tearing now.. yeah, game breaking stuff.

Thanks for sharing your opinion regarding the screen tearing issue.
Hopefully FD Devs will notice this as an issue none the less, as some players (including myself) are quite unhappy with the current state of screen tearing on Xbox One / Xbox One X.

Of course I see, this is not an game braking issue for you – nice for you – but unfortunately this will not convince me to change neither my opinion nor my perception.
Which is:
Actually, the screen tearing is so massive, that it kills the gameplay for me. It really makes me sad to admit, that this is a real deal breaker for my beloved game.

Nevertheless, I would really appreciate if you, as a forum moderator, will not downplay any customer concerns, as I thought that a major purpose of this forum is to share customer feedback with FD.

Kind regards, and fly save commander o7
 
Greetings Commanders,

The Elite Dangerous servers will be offline for all platforms today at 13:00 (UTC) for approximately 30 minutes to apply a minor update containing a number of fixes.

Thank you for your patience.


Please find the full patch notes below:

Crashes/Stability
  • Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to load the game on PlayStation 4
Network
  • Fixed issue with players not being able to connect through a VPN
Engineering
  • Fixed soft lock when engineering an item
Communication
  • Fixed an Xbox One issue that allowed other users to communicate with a player that they are not friends with, when that player has the 'p=others can communicate with voice, text, or invites' privilege is set to 'Friends'
Thanks Cmdr Wilbur! :D
 
Oh that one, i have that :) I've seen people with proper green thargoid bobbleheads, someone posted a pic earlier, looked really cool
You have to kill an interceptor, bag its heart and gather 10 meta alloys to unlock THAT bobblehead cmdr, no kidding!
 
Thanks for sharing your opinion regarding the screen tearing issue.
Hopefully FD Devs will notice this as an issue none the less, as some players (including myself) are quite unhappy with the current state of screen tearing on Xbox One / Xbox One X.

Of course I see, this is not an game braking issue for you – nice for you – but unfortunately this will not convince me to change neither my opinion nor my perception.
Which is:
Actually, the screen tearing is so massive, that it kills the gameplay for me. It really makes me sad to admit, that this is a real deal breaker for my beloved game.

Nevertheless, I would really appreciate if you, as a forum moderator, will not downplay any customer concerns, as I thought that a major purpose of this forum is to share customer feedback with FD.

Kind regards, and fly save commander o7
Things will get fixed, eventually. I'm sure they are are aware.
Guys, please ... be serious: there is NO reason to "thank" FDev for solving a (big) problem that they themselves have caused.

The "thank you" is comic. A series of insults would probably be more appropriate.
Its called being polite I believe. Sugar is a better reinforcement than salt, Cmdr.
No one wants to come across on the forum as an impatient, self-entitled donkey, correct?

You love the game therefore ... yeah.
 
I'm not surprised, not anymore.
So what you're saying is, because it happens in most mmo games I should find it totaly acceptable that Fdev delivers so many bugs with each update and only fix a couple of them resulting in a huge backlog of bugs?
If you're fine with that then good for you but I'm not.
Acceptable yes. But I am not fine with it. Of course I don't want bugs in the game. But I am not going to give Fdev a really hard time over it. I will point out the bugs and carry on. Constant moaning about it won't achieve anything.

People have been complaining about the multitude of long standing and newer bugs for a very long time but nothing's being done about it.
But hey they did come up with a new way to spend your money, and they'll make sure that works like a charm.
Bugs are fixed with every update, new bugs are introduced. It's the way it goes.
 
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