Patch Notes Update Beta 2.2 - Update 4

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Zac, and what in a case of stacking by a focus fire from four ships? If thermal effect is doubled it will not buff a focus fire through the heat effect weapons?

Stacking is limited on receiver's end, so 4 ships trying to heat damage to one will essentially waste their power.

 

[who?]

...oh... Zac went there this morning.

"One does not simply go to Hutton Orbital in a morning..."

 

[Martind Forlon]

Awesome looking changes/updates list! Thx!

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

I just got an email from my support ticket for this problem. They indicate that a potential fix is included in this Beta 4, and asked me to notify them of the result. So they probably don't want to officially announce that the issue is fixed until beta testers like us have, er, tested this new build.


Mikey is referring to a CTD problem affecting many people with older AMD cards.

Nice to hear this might be fixed. Lot of people complained.

 

[Ian Phillips]

What's bonus for fuub that changelog doesn't mention any nerf to payouts to passenger missions.

That's new level to him.

Ahha. Missed that little gem

 

[JYD75]

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Player Journal

- Suppress heat warning event if docked
- Tweaks to the “Location” event
- Added a mechanism to import star system names into visited stars cache
- Include Powerplay info in the FSDJump and Location events
- Include PowerplayOrigin in CargoDumped event if relevant

Could we possibly get a bit more info on this and how it should work/what it is for? Sounds like something that could be interesting to test

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Ahha. Missed that little gem

Most likely there are nerfs for long range passenger missions who promised billions for transporting VIP passengers to Sag A* Doesn't validate his complains in one iota.

 

[Martin Schou]

Ahha. Missed that little gem

Technically it mentions fixing an insane bug, where the original payout is added to the mission every time you jump. So, if you get a mission to get to Sag A* for 25 million (I've seen that in beta 3), and you do that in 1,000 jumps, you'd get 25 billion instead. Clearly fixing this is far, far, far too evil and cruel, because obviously you should be able to become a multi-billionaire overnight (the buckyball record is less than 8 hours these days).

 

[GW42]

Environment

- Added fade to organic seed decals to fix cut off on extreme slopes
- Added some more variety to mysterious places

- Fixed a mysterious thing finding it's way into a cargo canister when being ejected

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet. I'm guessing organic seed might refer to barnacles, but do we know anything about these mysterious objects and places yet?

anyone seen something that I've missed on the forums?

 

[CornishCracker]

Zac, any idea when the fixes for those of us who are getting insane stuttering when dropping from super cruise and hyper space are coming?

 

[millstonebarn]

Upgraded and back in. Let the testing commence!

 

[Martin Schou]

Could we possibly get a bit more info on this and how it should work/what it is for? Sounds like something that could be interesting to test

You can find it described here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/291643-The-Visited-Stars-cache

And I can confirm that it works.

 

[eraktor]

Technically it mentions fixing an insane bug, where the original payout is added to the mission every time you jump. So, if you get a mission to get to Sag A* for 25 million (I've seen that in beta 3), and you do that in 1,000 jumps, you'd get 25 billion instead. Clearly fixing this is far, far, far too evil and cruel, because obviously you should be able to become a multi-billionaire overnight (the buckyball record is less than 8 hours these days).

Sounds more like a bug fix than a 'nerf' that word gets thrown around too much with the wrong definition

 

[V'larr]

Interesting.

I...might have just recently joined LYR in powerplay for the sole purpose of gaining access to packhound missiles to slap onto my Imperial Cutter (and replace the 4 normal seekers I have now).

By the time the 4 weeks are up 2.2 may already be out. [hehe] So I guess I won't get to see the difference myself, there.

And I also now learned what a "fumarole" is, thanks to these patch notes & google-search.

 

[S.H.A.D.O]

Possible dumb question but: what the smeg is a 'wrinkle'?

 

[[VR] Deggial]

Can somebody please shed some light on this?

- Removed VR Missions on platforms that don't support VR

What are "VR missions"? Is it "VR" as in "Virtual Reality"?
And if yes, what sort of missions are these? I am getting quite squirrelly right now...

 

[capt_sparks]

Thanks for the update! Can we still have the fish thing for testing engineer stuffs with Beluga?

 

[Heavenly-Hammer]

Good list, but can we get some thoughts from your team on NPC rail accuracy as it pertains to fighters? If they're going to be 1-shot without any counterplay, why should we equip them?

And obligatory pls fix Vive VR implementation.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Technically it mentions fixing an insane bug, where the original payout is added to the mission every time you jump. So, if you get a mission to get to Sag A* for 25 million (I've seen that in beta 3), and you do that in 1,000 jumps, you'd get 25 billion instead. Clearly fixing this is far, far, far too evil and cruel, because obviously you should be able to become a multi-billionaire overnight (the buckyball record is less than 8 hours these days).

Dang, missed that! Thanks for pointing it out!

 

[CMDR BOSLEY]

This is a fantastic changelog.

The only fly in the ointment for me is:



Awwwww! I was really enjoying the iFighter's nippiness - it was awesome. Oh well. :/

Otherwise, good job FDEV

Same here Gutamaya ships are always the fastest so hopefully it still is.