Patch Notes Update 1.6 and The Engineers (2.1) update incoming
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This MAJOR update has been the main topic of discussion around here for weeks both on PC and the Xbox One.
As far as what happened tonight/this morning...
They usually do provide a 30 minute warning broadcast/text message in-game just prior to scheduled server downtime. For some reason, no message was sent out for this one. Definitely caught me off-guard and I was expecting it to happen at some point today.
I was actually online playing 2.0 Horizons on my PC when I got disconnected without warning. No pop-up COMMS message saying servers will be shutting down in XX:XX minutes like we usually get during the weekly maintenance. I was fully expecting some kind of warning. Instead, my ship is currently sitting in a Hazzardous Extraction Site where I was in the middle of a dogfight with a pirate!
Had planned to head back to my HQ and save in a safe place in anticipation of this BIG long awaited 2.0 to 2.1 Horizons update! Fully expecting to be given the "traditional" 30 minute warning broadcast, I submitted to the interdiction, instead of evading and continuing on to the station!
Hopefully my ship is in one piece after the 10+ hour downtime and the updated, much more aggresssive AI I keep hearing about!
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Huzza!
Thank you!
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They usually do provide some warning for downtime. Don't know what happened this time. ???
I was actually online playing 2.0 Horizons on my PC when I got disconnected without warning. No pop-up COMMS message saying servers will be shutting down in XX:XX minutes like we usually get during the weekly maintenance. I was fully expecting some kind of warning. Instead, my ship is currently sitting in a Hazzardous Extraction Site where I was in the middle of a dogfight with a pirate!
Had planned to head back to my HQ and save in a safe place in anticipation of this BIG long awaited 2.0 to 2.1 Horizons update! Fully expecting to be given the "traditional" 30 minute warning broadcast, I submitted to the interdiction, instead of evading and continuing on to the station!
Hopefully my ship is in one piece after the 10+ hour downtime and the updated, much more aggresssive AI I keep hearing about!
I will pray to the almighty space cats that your vessel will be ok. IDK about the aggressive AI, the interdiction on the xbox one is kind of bugged. You can't really fight it off because the vector can vanish, your screen goes all triple vision, no matter how much you are locked on to the vector your blue bar still goes down and the red bar goes up( the list goes on). I know that it is a "complicated" process, alas it is still really buggy. I hope 1.6/2.1 fixes it because all you can do is power down and take it right now.
I think Ed stumbled over tha cable pulling the plug out this morning --> "Okay guys, servers are down for maintenance NOW"
LOL! That is kind of what it felt like on the receiving end!
I was coming around for my kill shot and BOOM! (Connection LOST!) Back to Splash screen and log-in options all grayed out. I obviously knew why at that point, but as I said... Not at all what I was expecting pre-downtime for update.
Does the update include a Chuck Norris paint scheme for Elite rankers? After all, no-one messes with Chuck...
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You can certainly see the beta patch notes that have been posted with each beta update, this will give you a good indication of the changes. The finalised list will be coming later.
I appreciate that you may want to have the full finalised list immediately but remember that comments like this simply aren't beneficial to the process.
It's an exciting time let's try and keep a positive, supportive atmosphere and the energy/mood up! We have a huge update coming out and we have activity going through the day including AMA, super long livestream and the beta servers, we'll be communicating as often and clearly as we can.
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Alright, bring it on then...
PS.
My Update Cycle Dream
PS.
My Update Cycle Dream
Day before the Update
- precompiled Release-Build packaged and distributed into storage onto all running Servers
The Update Day
T+0
- Servers are brought down
T+5 Minutes
- Databases migrated and error-checked to new Version format and standard
- Sanity checks done and required modifications applied (i.e. move Player ship 10km out of a Hostile Station when docked in this condition, Jacques Station moved, any Stellar Forge changes applied/checked)
T+10 Minutes
- Update Packages decompressed and installed on Servers
- former Live Build compressed into Backup onto Server (fallback Option)
T+30 Minutes
- Servers fired up with V2.1 (Maintenance Mode)
- internal life-cycle starts and all running Databases checked for integrity/errors
T+40 Minutes
- all cross-checks and communication tests complete
- V2.1 switched from Maintenance to Live
T+45 Minutes
- new Version live
- Launcher updated
- Forum Thread updated
T+2 days
- Backups (fallback Option) unrolled silently from live Servers, Game continues normally w/ no downtimes and retrieved into central Storage
- precompiled Release-Build packaged and distributed into storage onto all running Servers
The Update Day
T+0
- Servers are brought down
T+5 Minutes
- Databases migrated and error-checked to new Version format and standard
- Sanity checks done and required modifications applied (i.e. move Player ship 10km out of a Hostile Station when docked in this condition, Jacques Station moved, any Stellar Forge changes applied/checked)
T+10 Minutes
- Update Packages decompressed and installed on Servers
- former Live Build compressed into Backup onto Server (fallback Option)
T+30 Minutes
- Servers fired up with V2.1 (Maintenance Mode)
- internal life-cycle starts and all running Databases checked for integrity/errors
T+40 Minutes
- all cross-checks and communication tests complete
- V2.1 switched from Maintenance to Live
T+45 Minutes
- new Version live
- Launcher updated
- Forum Thread updated
T+2 days
- Backups (fallback Option) unrolled silently from live Servers, Game continues normally w/ no downtimes and retrieved into central Storage
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Thanks! I hope I don't encounter any issues having saved my ship out in the middle of a ring system instead of the safety of a StarPort. Definitely not what I had planned for the end of my session tonight, thats for sure!
Regarding the XB1 AI... Yeah... I own the Xbox One version too. I started on that version of ED first back in June 2015 for the GPP Beta testing. Recently built a gaming PC dedicated to this great game and made the move over to Horizons 2.0 in early March.
Interdictions do have some issues, but much of what you are describing are normal damage effects. That distortion of your instrument panel/HUD is normal behavior and not a bug. That kind of stuff happens when your ship is taking damage to your internal modules either via enemy fire, or a hard drop out from SC into normal space. In combat it means that the enemy has targeted your internals and is trying to take out your power plant or other internal module. You just need to keep power to shields, and try to get the heck out of there if you can't hit them back hard enough to interrupt their targeting efforts.
FYI: The XB1 will only be getting the 1.6 background sim update today, followed by the Horizons 2.1 update on June 3rd. The beefed up AI will be included in the XB1 update today though, so be prepared for a little more of a fight from NPCs from here on out.
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And thats a proffessional approach to deploying application upgrade, enterprise way!
You can certainly see the beta patch notes that have been posted with each beta update, this will give you a good indication of the changes. The finalised list will be coming later.
I appreciate that you may want to have the full finalised list immediately but remember that comments like this simply aren't beneficial to the process.
It's an exciting time let's try and keep a positive, supportive atmosphere and the energy/mood up! We have a huge update coming out and we have activity going through the day including AMA, super long livestream and the beta servers, we'll be communicating as often and clearly as we can.
Zac is there any other fixes besides we have seen so far? There were some major issues...I hope you got around to fix them before release.
You can certainly see the beta patch notes that have been posted with each beta update, this will give you a good indication of the changes. The finalised list will be coming later.
I appreciate that you may want to have the full finalised list immediately but remember that comments like this simply aren't beneficial to the process.
It's an exciting time let's try and keep a positive, supportive atmosphere and the energy/mood up! We have a huge update coming out and we have activity going through the day including AMA, super long livestream and the beta servers, we'll be communicating as often and clearly as we can.
I can only agree to this.
