Patch Notes Update Elite Dangerous 2.1 Beta 4 Patch Notes

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Did the traffic controller voice get fixed for medium pads at Engineer bases?

Whenever I get assigned pad 04, all they say is "Cleared to land on pad zero" and that's it.

Lots of good fixes and updates in this patch. My Asp cockpit won't need sunglasses anymore.

 

[rage4198]

when can we expect the beta to go into live?

 

[Cocalarix]

Do you people sleep? Jesus...

 

[wstephenson]

1. I have a hunch they achieved some serious under-the-hood improvements that made these ship speeds possible. Maybe they did some optimizations for completely other reasons and then realized this would allow such high ship speeds, and born was speed modding and Enhanced Thrusters.
2. Projectile velocities exceed 1000m/s. I think for multi-cannons it is 1600, and I don't think this has changed. The difference between ships and projectiles is that bullets travel in a straight line, once you know what type of bullet was fired where and when, you can precisely predict their location at any point in time without further data, so there was never that kind of speed cap for bullets; their speed was always a matter of game balance only.

I'm wondering what those improvements might be - sending location update packets more often, for example

 

[wilkie79]

Will be upgrading as soon as I get to my computer.

 

[audiodistortion]

much appreciated, thanks!

 

[Joe Akeem]

"Fixed the freefall shepherd tone sound" <--- *nods sagely*

On a serious note: stunning job, lads and ladies! o7

 

[bliss]

My thanks to all the hard working devs at Frontier. The pace of changes is stellar.

 

[Cmdr Cheese Wedge]

Do you people sleep? Jesus...

Frontier never sleep, they're fueled by pizza and Lavian brandy.

 

[Marra Morgan]

• Recipes should now be referred to as blueprints

Of all the things, this bothered me most!
Thanks!

 

[Steve50]

"Increased rarity values for ice mining commodities so that ice mining"

...so that ice mining, what?

 

[wstephenson]

"Increased rarity values for ice mining commodities so that ice mining"

...so that ice mining, what?

Frontier are obviously playing Blankety Blank with us.

 

[demardiu]

lol is that a reference to the "end fell off the boat" skit? if so, nice work haha

 

[Infidel Deity]

Nice!
Thank you!

 

[Soopyyy]

Seems to be up now, although the download is quite slow.

 

[Mephane]

[*]Increased rarity values for ice mining commodities so that ice mining

Oh hai, in ur patch notes, I accidentally your

 

[gofast1993]

NPCs

• Adjusted the shield-down flee behaviour to be less frustrating

Hurray!

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Greatly appreciated, thank you

 

[Ozric]

Switch Contacts and Universal Cartographics so that webserver can enable/disable them on a per-station basis

Anything to do with Jaques by any chance?

Galaxy map remembers previous route calculation setting (low fuel / fastest) properly again.

Very nice

To help players find crafting resources, UI's displaying Engineer recipes now have a 'tooltip' for each ingredient

Wow you did get that in quickly, thanks. Can we test it though if all recipes require fish still?

I'll stop quoting, just wow that is a lot of changes and so many of the things that Sandro spoke about the other day have already been fixed. Amazing work guys and girls. Thanks so much.

 

[GW42]

"Increased rarity values for ice mining commodities so that ice mining"

...so that ice mining, what?

Whenever I see the end of a sentence hanging like that, I always think of:

...and to them only shall be given-- to them only... shall... be... given...

Is Brett trying to get mistaken for the Messiah?

On topic, fantastic work FD. If only QOL changes and fixes like these could drop in every couple of days all the time!

(yes, I know that's not how the development cycle works, but it is great while it's happening)