ANNOUNCEMENT January Update - Patch Notes
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Ok, so you have an 8 lane highway from your house to your ISP. Your ISP has a tollbooth where there is only a single gate for trucks, behind which there is a spaghetti junction of gleaming new warehouses, LA-style 1970s inner city highways and 19th century-vintage turnpikes, leading via single lane highways to the houses of other people you play with. All the signposts to the other people are rotated backwards and written in Portuguese, so the drivers going there have to stop to read them. The ISP has small print that only one ED or Discord vehicle per hour can come up the road from your house, and 7 of the lanes down to your house are reserved for Amazon delivery trucks from the gleaming warehouses.
That's traffic shaping, network address translation, internetworking and edge based content delivery networks for you in a nutshell. It's easier to sell as 'fiber gigabit connection' though.
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I think maybe you just did?
I'm sure networkers will be able to give you a better answer, but from what I understand people on poor lines should be the ones who benefit the most as you have less bandwidth to start with.
It should help (faster, smoother gameplay) with seeing other players, system generation, coming in and out of SC, opening trade menus, buying and selling...basically everything in the game that requires networking (everything).
So with regards to the BGS changes. Please can you (FDEV) povide details of how much testing was done with these. The Beat was too short to do any BGS testing (other than micky mouse testing) so I am interested in how much 'REAL' testing has been done before you roll out these significant changes.
I am always surprised by how little information you provide about BGS. Other games producer (for example Riot) provide significant details of the mechanics of the game, which allows us to test things properly - plus they run a nearly continuous Beta. You provide next to no information about the details which means I anticipate hundreds of bugs which you keep hidden wih statements as 'Works as expected'. When will you learn that releasing untested product is a guarenteed way to lose fans.
I am always surprised by how little information you provide about BGS. Other games producer (for example Riot) provide significant details of the mechanics of the game, which allows us to test things properly - plus they run a nearly continuous Beta. You provide next to no information about the details which means I anticipate hundreds of bugs which you keep hidden wih statements as 'Works as expected'. When will you learn that releasing untested product is a guarenteed way to lose fans.
Console servers are coming back online early just... Arx system is ofline and its all back up on console..
When can we expect the "This update sucks!" posts? Oh yeah, BEFORE the update is even available, of course!
Oooh time to play hunt the things they broke while fixing broken things! 
PC download available. 1.6GB.
... Are we there yet? ... funnily enough, that's the name of my Asp X ship
- it's a Iain M. Banks 'Culture' ship name and very aptdrums fingers
Update on Oculus is 2.65GB - why is it always bigger than Steam?
(Particularly when no VR updates/Fixes get mentioned?)
(Particularly when no VR updates/Fixes get mentioned?)
Well they do give us an idea about how it works and how they rebalanced it in 3.3 to allow multiple states per faction :
Also, thinking they don't test anything only cause there are still bugs in releases is just ignorance. Elite Dangerous is one of the most optimized and stable games out there, and I don't really get why it's bashed so hard while Bethesda or Ubisoft games get it easy with their way buggier and unstable games.
Sure, there are still some really annoying bugs in ED and some have been there for a while, but that doesn't mean they don't test anything. No piece of software releases bug-free. None, nada, zero. So you have to pick your fights if you don't have the resources to fix everything. Which the team does. That's all there is to it.