I hadn’t played since before the April patch, due to the large quantity of bugs and issues it brought with it initially. I installed the patch 2 yesterday though, as it seemed like it was stable enough to try and play.
Not that it probably makes any difference any more, but I found the following initial problems after first start up:
1: The Discovery Scanner had been unbound from all my fire groups
2: All my power priorities were set to “1”
3: All my deadzone settings in the controls had been zeroed, which was not cool.. nearly caused me to fly into the wall of the station on trying to exit.
I’ve reset these things now, and everything is going ok and hasn’t reset itself again, so hopefully that is a one off set of issues. But it’s annoying to think that patches will produce these effects.
It would be great if you could “not apply” a patch if you were happy with the game as it was, and just stick with it, but therein lies the can of worms marked “offline mode” I guess
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Oh, and where has the Elite theme music gone? It was really stirring, and nice to listen to whilst pondering what to do. Now it is just the current ship in a yard somewhere (even if I am actually floating in space or on a planet surface) and some sinister ambient stuff