Notice April Update - Known Issues (24/04/2019)

[Will Flanagan]

Hello Commanders,

We have been monitoring the feedback you've been making here on the forums, across social media and on the Issue Tracker. We wanted to give you an update on some of the concerns and bugs that have been raised.

• Drag Munitions
  • Based on your feedback, we will revert the change that we made to Drag Munitions, changing them back to how they worked prior to the April Update. However, this is something we may look to revisit in the future.
• Frame Rate Issues
  • We believe the cause of this is down to the 'FX Quality' setting in the graphics options. We're currently investigating a fix for the issue, but would recommend lowering your graphics settings in the meantime.
• We are also investigating fixes for these known issues:
  • SRV damage multiplying when in multiplayer sessions
  • Module priorities resetting
  • Shield module turning on (after previously being deactivated)
  • ‘Restock All’ quick option not functioning
  • Buying/selling commodities is now faster – whilst using a mouse it will incrementally speed up, and when selling it will default to the maximum amount you have in your hold

We are not able to give you an exact date on when the patch with these fixes will be deployed, but aim to release it next week. As mentioned, investigations for these fixes are ongoing so times are subject to change.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Edit: Please find these fixes in the announced patch here.

 

[AgentK]

QA going well as usual

 

[ferus]

Thanks for the update. Perhaps next time a short beta wouldn't hurt

 

[Spanospy]

At least they're taking action.

I'm still bias against the free extra internals, but slow steps, right?

 

[Silyus]

Thanks for working on those updates.

Keep it up

 

[Firdous_E_Bareen]

Anyone else see this image every time they try to log out or exit the game? https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197963268049/screenshots/

 

[TheOriginalB]

Will,

Thank you for the response and update - acknowledging what's going on and setting expectations is quite helpful. Is there anything we, as a passionate community, can do to help ensure that future releases go more smoothly?

 

[Phisto Sobanii]

Thanks for the update, Will! Looks good.

 

[tafkabb]

All great news. Thanks Will

 

[Rooster Podunk]

Thanks. A few words about the health and well being of the driver goes a long way, FD.

 

[SpaceScania]

Thanks for the update. Perhaps next time a short beta wouldn't hurt

I have to agree with this. Frontier a week long beta would have caught many of these issues. Please consider it for the next of these updates?

EDIT: I also want to add that this little note means a lot and is very very much appreciated!

 

[Mavrecon]

Thank you for keeping us in the loop!

 

[Cocalarix]

Maybe when it comes to balancing changes, it would be wise to make a forum post first with what the devs want to change and what's their reasoning? Your community is a lot more experienced than your team will ever be, it's just how it works in gaming.

Instead of possibly creating problems, have a more prophylactic attitude towards your own game.

 

[Slange Lands]

I love you Will!

Thanks so much Fdev!!!

Whee!!!!

 

[Lightspeed]

Thanks for listening

 

[[VR] M4st0d0n]

Seems like the leet PVP crowd got its stagnant meta back to where it was by threatening to affect crowdcontrol on people they could already one hit kill.

Because balance.

 

[Justinian Octavius]

Thanks for the speedy post & investigations.

CMDR Justinian Octavius

 

[Space Mage]

• Drag Munitions
  • Based on your feedback, we will revert the change that we made to Drag Munitions, changing them back to how they worked prior to the April Update. However, this is something we may look to revisit in the future.

Why you gotta scare me like this Will?

 

[newbs2215]

So as normal, the Devs are more concerned with fixing minor bugs rather than trying to fix the major issues that prevent Cmdr's from even getting back into the game at all. I am writing about the Adjudication error issues that prevent you from playing any more than a couple of minutes game time.
Sorry about the rant, but I have been playing this game since its original release in 1984 and have seen this happen regularly.

 

[Xargo]

So the update has been live for one day and already interesting changes are being reverted because people made their minds even before the update was live and the community haven't had enough time to figure out counters and how the drag change would actually affect the scene in a bigger scale.

While you are at it, would you please revert the heat cannon change too or maybe just delete engineers so we could have some sort of balance and not just boring permaboost FDL shield tank fights.

Drag change seems great, give it a chance please. o7