Everything seems broken since v. 1.3?

I'm not normally one to whine - I love the game and spend a lot of time playing it, but there seem to be so many bugs since v.1.3. There have been a couple of patches since which makes it even more surprising that the bugs have not been ironed out, along with some really bad new mechanics. For example:

1. NPC wings are bugged - if one NPC is wanted and you kill them, his 'clean' wingmates can attack you and remain 'clean'. I've reported this in the bug forum.
2. RES sites seem completely broken and this has been acknowledged by the Devs.
3. Assassination missions seem broken - I took an assassination mission and found my target in supercruise (a Novice anaconda) but it was quite literally impossible to get behind him to interdict. Had to abandon the mission.
4. 90% of NPCs seem to be Harmless, Mostly Harmless or Novice.
5. Crazy 20t limit on the amount of cargo that can be dumped. I was mining and accidentally jettisoned all 90t of my cargo - gold, palladium, you name it. Thanks to this mechanic only 20t survived and the rest was destroyed instantly, including all my limpets which meant returning to the dock.
6. Speeding mechanic which means that every time a cop flies into you while scanning you you get a fine.
7. Shield recharge mechanic that means shields take forever to recharge, even when docked.

I'm sure I could go on and on. I can't speak for Power Play because I've not really tried it, but the game feels broken right now. Things have really taken a step back and so many of the improvements introduced in 'Wings' seem to have been reversed or are bugged.

I really hope these things get sorted soon!

I got the same experience with 1, 2, 4 and 7.
Used to play 2+ hours every day (since January).
After the release of 1.3 I stopped playing for a week, was just reading the forums and waithing.
Now I just do some missions, waiting for things to get better.

I miss taking down dangerous Anacondas in dark RES!!!
 
When 1.3 first hit and I saw these bugs / issues I was pretty relaxed - I thought 'oh well, there will be a fairly urgent patch to correct these problems', but here we are and no change yet :-(
 
I got the same experience with 1, 2, 4 and 7.
Used to play 2+ hours every day (since January).
After the release of 1.3 I stopped playing for a week, was just reading the forums and waithing.
Now I just do some missions, waiting for things to get better.

I miss taking down dangerous Anacondas in dark RES!!!
Weirdly I play a lot more since 1.3, I find it a more of a challenge, more risk of player interdiction, higher skill AI, I don't miss seal clubbing anacondas 6 v 1 with my police support in RES, I find it far more enjoyable dropping into SSS and having to fight them solo. There are a lot of issues with 1.3 but removing RES easy mode is not one of them. Just hope if they do return spawn level to how they were they introduce some challenge to it.
 
3. Assassination missions seem broken - I took an assassination mission and found my target in supercruise (a Novice anaconda) but it was quite literally impossible to get behind him to interdict. Had to abandon the mission.

Not Broken. They work fine, however ( esp if your target was a Pirate ) sometiomes NPCS will try to get behind you to pull you out. If both try itr you tend to dance around each other. Tip: fly away in a straight line NPC will tether you.

7. Shield recharge mechanic that means shields take forever to recharge, even when docked.

Not a bug. The auto recharge when in FS was a bug ...
 
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Weirdly I play a lot more since 1.3, I find it a more of a challenge, more risk of player interdiction, higher skill AI, I don't miss seal clubbing anacondas 6 v 1 with my police support in RES, I find it far more enjoyable dropping into SSS and having to fight them solo. There are a lot of issues with 1.3 but removing RES easy mode is not one of them. Just hope if they do return spawn level to how they were they introduce some challenge to it.

I want challenges. Version 1.3 has given me a combination of BSOD on Windows 10 and "mostly harmless" in RES.

But now the RES is fixed (I hope):
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=157537&page=10&p=2407603&viewfull=1#post2407603
 
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