No ball, if it came out tomorrow then there would be a ball, but otherwise nothing surprising.
Cobra Mk V and more...
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Just occurred to me it would be much more fun if they announced this stuff in Galnet. Another missed opportunity.
Crystal ball ? More like loaded dice in the case of FDEV. Delays are more common than deliveries on the actually announced dates.
Me too! I just did a purge yesterday and facepalmed when I saw that it might increase tomorrow. Not that I'll ever use those old double-engineered FSDs, mind you, but selling them for nothing made even less sense than hoarding them.I can give you a cast iron guarantee we’re getting an increase to module storage tomorrow. How do I know?
Because I’m the guy that recently decided to sell off a load of rarely used modules because materials are cheap but storage is tight.
Some people are lucky, some are not. That’s how I know
Wow... I'd forgotten about that. That was so long ago.
The module expansion increase is supposed to go live. That's what all the streamers have indicated and I could swear I saw a post from Frontier on social media (don't remember which one) indicating this change was coming.
Aw. I was really looking forward to getting the Cobra MK V tomorrow. Kind of feels like Christmas was cancelled... meh. Ok, I'm over it. Thursday actually works better for my schedule anyway, plus no distractions from AX right now.
Does that mean its the Cobra MVI now?
Given how much the server monkeys were struggling on Sunday, I would suggest this is a good idea.
Imagine the riots if we just missed out on clearing the required systems around Sol due to server issues on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced this is the reason for the delay. They don't want to interfere with players possibly making the Titan vulnerable on the next server tick. Better to do the update on Thursday.
I seriously hope we get an increase in ship storage - the current limit of 40 is no longer enough (and this is a good thing!)
Or they realized they want to throw in a round 2 (because so far this has been rather ‘meh’ as a last stand of Titan #8, just twelve invasions with double the usual strength in slightly more important or known systems) and having it happen on Thursday along with the Cobra V update is more practical.
If it was all just sending the Titan to Sol for a brief standoff that barely qualifies as a battle and definitely does not live up to all of the setup which was done the last few months, I’ll just keep calling it a wet firecracker ending to an otherwise decent fireworks show. But that’s not really a subject for this thread.
Not really, I think this update is the last one for this year, Christmas and New Year will follow. The main thing is to leave time for bug fixes that this update will bring. Otherwise we may still have a broken game at Christmas.
Then again, the release of Cobra5 during Titan's vulnerability might distract people from destroying it.
Personally, I'm not doing AX wrestling right now, but trying to complete my PP2 assignments. When I get a chance to destroy Titan, I will have to break away from PP2 and get one more (last?) sticker on the hull.
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Just activating some more invasions and/or system captures with this update - and in a way they are not just all removed from existence within just a week - is very much possible and definitely not something that would otherwise interfere with the update, the rest of which will already be done by the time server maintenance is performed. Because you don't do the coding for an update on the day it is released.
Whatever this delay is for. Maybe they found a small bug which they could fix in the two days left, or it's just a convenient excuse for them to drop more Thargoid activity on our heads after seeing how popular this Sol "event" is, if they weren't already planning on it all along to have an uneventful, mostly, first phase (or both).
I wish the announce this kind of stuff on forums too... not everyone is on X/twitter
I second this. A sticky thread in the News section that we can mark as watched for any of these kinds of updates, even if they're just the shared X/Twitter link. Normally I'm present on the forums enough to see when friendly CMDRs share, but having a ping in my inbox from a watched thread would be more useful.
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No argument there, even if this is a recurring point made. I probably still have an old account laying around for that website somewhere... but don't use it. Mostly, I only see these when a discord bot fetches and displays it.
But for some reason they didn't finish the war with the Thargoids and released PP2.
I do not understand how you can play an open game at war with the Thargoids if you are already a member of any Power. Don't you show yourself as an enemy to others?
Was just going to post the same. On their very own forums, which features its own news and announcements section no less, it's buried in a 20+ page user thread, and no official peep whatsoever.
And continuing to use Twitter... You could argue that it had more reach in the past but since it turned into an oligarch run rightwing propaganda bubble it's a somewhat bold, if still too common unfortunately, PR strategy.
It's a weird situation, but I've been turning up in Open at AX battles. I think we're all just ignoring PP affiliations while engaged in a PvE activity. You still see all the others as green on the radar once you've accepted the "Join the Fight" option in comms.
Nope. When a Thargoid state hits a system, all Powerplay is immediately removed from it and it is not open for them to walk into it during the alert/invasion/control period (nevermind if it’s a Titan sitting in there) so you wouldn’t gain anything from a potentially Powerplay-related shooting of another player in such a system.
… realistically, it’s not a particular gameplay concern anyway, because people are unlikely to go to a Thargoid system to shoot anything besides Thargoids [if they’re not a specific type of individual]. And, evidently, Frontier are perfectly happy to have both mechanisms present and interacting with each other, else there wouldn’t still be a Titan right now.
This also isn’t very on-topic for a Cobra V thread.