Patch Notes Update Beta 3.9 Change log

[Ravenov]

Nope. Not needed.

But still appreciated in certain circumstances.

 

[FredTA]

Nope. Not needed.

I've actually been hoping for this, sometimes I would have a star locked and decide I wanted go into supercruise instead, only to find myself in the hyper space tunnel and suddenly a few light years away.

You can keep the context dependant binding as it is now.

 

[aDuz]

Empire trader ??????????????????

 

[kilvenny]

Love the comms chatter and Azeban Orbital looks sensational. Got to go to bed - work tomorrow. My sincere thanks to the team at FD for another late night and another definite step upwards.

 

[Spookyy]

Massive changelog indeedy. Just waiting for the grouping stuff now.

 

[Cmdr Irenicus]

I don't think it's ignored, 6 player comms sounds in right direction.

I suspect wings might come on Saturday. It is rather shiny feature to show off at Premiere first

Wings? Please explain

 

[Meths]

Asking question again... seems that it was ignored.

It wasnt ignored Micheal posted about it a couple of pages ago, it should be better but alot more work to do.

 

[Stodgy]

Cant wait to fly to mars an look for lifeforms

In Elite lore Mars was the first planet to be terraformed so you can expect lots of lifeforms. But it is also the home of some of the larger corporations and where the CEOs live, so you may not find any intelligent life.

 

[kanthoney]

Wings? Please explain

Bunch of people flying through supercruise as a unified group.

 

[Lazlo Woodbine]

0.02Mb/s here... the race is on Lazlo!

I feel like I'm in an Anaconda with thrusters downgraded to the basic Sidewinder ones.

 

[Jotwea]

This is a really huge list of topics added and chnged... How many programmers, artists etc. work at FD???? Must be nearly 300? - impressive!

 

[Sams]

I feel like I'm in an Anaconda with thrusters downgraded to the basic Sidewinder ones.

It's so slow I feel like my ship is out of fuel and I'm simply floating in space

 

[Gibbonici]

I'm not imagining things am I? Non of the planets, moons or stars currently rotate in-game, right? They should all rotate at different speeds, depending on size and whatnot. Pulsars can spin many times a second, so there should be some visible rotation of other stuff right? It would make things look more real and look dramatically more spectacular.

Stars definitely rotate. There was a video of one spinning at close to pulsar rotation somewhere, might have been in one of Titus Balls' videos.

 

[Jigsaw]

can you try to land at azeban orbital, I get permission but it doesn't land

That happened to me sometime at outposts in Beta 3.05. I would get a landing permisson, the landing pad would light up but it would never trigger the touchdown scanner and I couldn't land. You need to cancel the request and send a new one when that happens.

 

[Mucka]

After a very slow start now rocking along at 4.5 meg, must be a lot of commanders already downloaded.

 

[OxKing]

- Added baked greebles for the Bernal Sphere station for optimisation

Bernal Sphere Station? New one? Or just a other name for the ocellus starport?

- Point defence guns now shoot down drones

Yay! Drones!

- The small Fighters no longer have 100000 tonne fuel tanks, meaning they should no longer destroy anacondas and other big ships on impact!

\o/

- Added a little bit the the horse head to make the shape a bit more recognisable

Finally, Horses in game! Saberrider anyone?! ;p

 

[RelicStarbrook]

Breaking News: 47,000 people just called in sick for work tomorrow.....

*cough* *cough* *cough*

 

[Caylo]

Awesome update! Patching now.

'Police and bounty hunters never interdict "clean" players'
This seems a little extreme. I'm sure there would still be random spot-checks (like at customs) even for seemingly innocent parties. Reducing the number would be nice, but I don't think they should be removed entirely.

Yeah, agreed. It should depend just on a player's standing with that faction, else smuggling loses a lot of its "risk vs reward" feel if you only have to fear the cops when docking. It also means that smugglers would do well to kiss up to various factions in order to avoid the chance of being stopscanned.
Oh well, let's see how it feels and works out in the game first.

 

[Duckfather]

Still downloading. maybe 45mins to go.
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I seriously need to change my name to Commander Thrust so I can get in quicker. I live near Bradford and drive through on my way to work, so it must get me at least a percentage increase in my download speed

 

[rupok]

why can't i disengage to chango dock wth?