Patch Notes Update 2.1.04 update incoming
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I am also finding interdictions are 10x worse when playing solo - that is where the issues lie and why people are not complaining so much ..
I see your post has already garnered a good number of replies from armchair programmers, pretending that they have the slightest clue what they are talking about!
I'm not a programmer, but I have a good deal of professional experience in Project Management, so the following opinion is based on that experience managing a team of engineers/programmers.
Your point is well taken due to the simple fact that the DC was unrelated to ANY of the changes they had listed in the .03 update. The most annoying aspect of this broken DC thing was the fact that it made it into the release in the first place! Basic core features of a game should ALWAYS be internally tested for proper function after any major changes to a code base.
The fact that they missed this points back to my original point that the DC was unrelated to anything they were doing, and thus I must assume that they didn't expect it would get broken by whatever they were doing.
This would seem to indicate some issues with the way FD is currently managing the game's code base. And more specifically... legacy code. The DC kind of falls into that category at this point in time. Apologists can spin all the yarn they want about this and that, but the fact remains that this SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. A simple test of the DC by someone at FD before the .03 patch was released would have caught this issue before it made it out into our game.
The Shifted Galaxy theory doesn't hold up due to the fact that the DC continued to dock normally at both Outposts and Planetary Bases within the Bubble. Had such a shift happened, it should have effected ALL docking activities using the DC and not just the larger Starports.
I'm glad to see it fixed though, but was hoping that the "Fire At Will" Turret bug which was also missed in internal testing remains unpatched in .04. That means we have to wait at least 10 days before any hope of seeing a fix, based on FD's current point update schedule.
Some want to give them a pass on all this. Thats fine. I expected more from their teams, and have been forced to lower the bar on what I will consider them capable of in future.
My advice to the project managers at FD would be to STEP UP YOUR GAME FOLKS!
You make a great executive who has no clue how his company runs at all, but still yells at people that they're not doing a good enough job.
10/10 wouldn't work for you again.
Still there at Solo Orbiter in Altair. I haven't been out yet today, but it looks normal to me here.
not seeing a problem in open...
Check your AUDIO settings. Still working for me.
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And you are basing this on what now?
You have NO IDEA what my experience is. Do you always go around insulting other users you don't know?
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Fix the unlimited ammo for cmdr. Then again please don't fix it.
Shhh, don't tell 'em about that!
Many of us use it for final touchdown. Manual + DC is actually faster than full manual. Much faster at bases and outposts in my experience.
Ok cool thanks for that
No problem.
Just make sure that you keep your throttle advanced above zero until you want the DC to take over. Otherwise it will try to wrestle control away from you before you might be ready.
Just fly the approach as normal, and once inside a large Starport, throttle to zero and let the DC finish the landing. Same with outposts and bases, although I usually give control to the DC at bases when I am directly over the base at approach altitude.
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No problem.
Just make sure that you keep your throttle advanced above zero until you want the DC to take over. Otherwise it will try to wrestle control away from you before you might be ready.
Just fly the approach as normal, and once inside a large Starport, throttle to zero and let the DC finish the landing. Same with outposts and bases, although I usually give control to the DC at bases when I am directly over the base at approach altitude.
Great again thanks for tip
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Gosh I hate it when I have to immediately change the thing I'm bi***ing about because my original bit***ing was totally unjustified so I have to go to the work of trying to change it something else....it's so hard to be blindly angry these days....
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Gosh I hate it when I have to immediately change the thing I'm bi***ing about because my original bit***ing was totally unjustified so I have to go to the work of trying to change it something else....it's so hard to be blindly angry these days....
There are may reasons but the reasons I use the DC are that after about the 1000th dock I was completely bored of docking. I don't like it much especially that last bit down on to the pad. So my procedure is to manually fly the ship to about 30m above the pad and then engage the DC.
I will use the DC outside the port if I have messages to read or another route to plot or something to check.
It is also useful when the cats decide to get in between me and the monitor while I'm approaching a port, I can just engage the DC and pet the animals while the DC is docking. This also applies for phones call, deliveries and my wife asking for help with something, all of which happen frequently, it seems. I blame Murphy.
Also, there are times after several hours of playing when I'm tired and starting to make mistakes that I use the DC as soon as I get docking permission.
Finally, every so often I'm being lazy and let the DC dock while I watch.
Other commanders also use the DC and the outside camera.
So a number of reasons.
I would think, looking back on the past month or so of developments that there's either been a re-organization internally at FD and they're teaching new people or that they should be a having a re-organization following this debacle.
I even think jaques appearing in the galaxy map was mistake, judging from their disjointed earlier plot compared to the current story.
