Frontier's HUGE Hill to Climb

John Xenir

John Xenir
Capricos said:
Frontier is going to have to do something absolutely spectacular to bounce back from the total and complete failure of 3.0.3.
Just read through the forums. Nearly every complaint and bug complaint is legitimate. They are too numerous to count. I've been playing since launch and this really got me this time. The random crashes, refusal to fix things, taking 5 steps backwards when trying to take one step forward... Frontier has screwed the pooch harshly on 3.0.3.
I honestly have no clue what they can do to bounce back from the pure technical failure of this update. Frontier lost what little credibility it had left.
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I work in IT where we often deploy new versions of in-house-developed software for our clients.
I sympathize with Frontier on this one, as in comparison with tools we're deploying, Elite is far more complicated at its core, which I can certainly say without even looking at the source code.

Unfortunately, with a behemoth of this size, it can happen. You can't physically iron out absolutely everything - it's impossible no matter how many developers/quality testers/beta testers given company has. User unpredictability and creativity is one thing to account for, and when that clashes with something as sophisticated as Elite's mechanics, sometimes it goes horribly wrong.

I don't think Frontier has to do anything to bounce back from 3.0.3 deployment. People need to start understanding that software this complicated can - and sometimes most definitely will - behave in unpredictable ways. Plus what you seem to be quite miffed about, is not actually that critical. The game may be missing a few of its pieces, but fundamentally they're not game-braking to the point where servers need to be shut down completely, and thorough investigation concluded. We can still play the game, can we?

I want to take this opportunity to thank Frontier for hard work community may totally be unaware of.
 

GG7

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3.03 works for me for the most part. I found a few minor bugs that I reported, and aside from still waiting for that increase in HGE spawn rates mentioned in the 3.02 patch notes, I am not running into any game breaking issues.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Hellakitty said:
I really think this line should return to the patch notes for 3.0.4.
Farmed salt from the community for usage later.
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CMDR CPT Boris said:
Well, as opposed to other players that are always ranting and whining about EVERYTHING.
You can have two approach for things :

- the cup is half empty
- the cup is half full
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To an engineer, the cup is twice as big as it needs to be.
And it's probably full of salt. Why no pepper?

Personally, I'm having fun driving out to the Crab Nebula. Yup, I'm enjoying myself.

Once I return, I'll probably do some missions for the Empire. I hear they need more salt from the Spice Mines of Kessel and I know I can usually do those in less than 12 parsecs.
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
ShimEnki said:
What you have described can be simplified by the phrase "The map isn't the territory"

The devs begin to share the map of new changes to come on live stream and text that is worded in such a way to blend with player feedback giving rise to optimism and hype within the player base.

The past few if not all updates have been kinda what I imagine the map shared by leaders of DDay to the 1st wave soldiers were told.
Ok, guys, we will catch them by brutal surprise and wipe the beaches with them with our superior power like they weren't even there...etc

Then comes the experience of the territory.

The chaos and aftermath has been probably about the same, yeah?

The only question is, does FD have similar resources as the allies did to survive these --aftermaths?
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Maybe I am just too simple a man: ED 1.0 was a fun game. ED 3.0 is a much better game. I dont really compare it with D-Day or anything...
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Capricos said:
Frontier is going to have to do something absolutely spectacular to bounce back from the total and complete failure of 3.0.3.
Just read through the forums. Nearly every complaint and bug complaint is legitimate. They are too numerous to count. I've been playing since launch and this really got me this time. The random crashes, refusal to fix things, taking 5 steps backwards when trying to take one step forward... Frontier has screwed the pooch harshly on 3.0.3.
I honestly have no clue what they can do to bounce back from the pure technical failure of this update. Frontier lost what little credibility it had left.
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MassGenocide

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I love this game and play it all the time I only have two minor complaints.

The first is the crashing. I guess this is thing other people have been experiencing too. I never had a crash until this patch. Now I have em a lot. Especially on the galaxy map for some reason. Game still runs great otherwise.

The second is I've been doing fine just playing the game without reading patch notes but I needed to know that I needed to go to a low security system to pay off a Bounty. Since the threshold is so low for getting a Bounty is so low (like accidentally shooting a clean ship in a RES or a wanted ship before you've fully scanned it) then the method for clearing the Bounty should be low too.

Or if it's that hard then they need to raise the threshold to get a Bounty and wanted status and maybe utilize fines a little bit more.
 

mojonaut

mojonaut
Never thought I'd say this but....I'm enjoying 3.0.3 and my first time out at RES sites bounty hunting, collecting mats with limpets also for the first time (I usually scoop them).

It's chillout time for me, almost an ASMR experience watching their comings and goings, listening to their happy little chirpings as they return with the goodies.

Totally stress free at the moment.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
It is a looooong list of bugs and unintended side effects. The game is not ruined, Frontier has neither gained nor lost credibility (but cnp ain't helping) and 3.0 overall points to a brighter future. I give you 4/10 for accuracy, and 9/10 for saltiness.
 

ExoForce

ExoForce
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Hevak

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Are all you people experiencing crashing making good detailed reports to FDev? Like not bug reports, but actually dealing with support? I've had no crashes other than the server outage since 3.0 or any following update. My gal map works fine.

Crashes can be the most annoying bugs due to the myriad combinations of system builds, system settings, other software running. It can even be down to one specific driver. If the whole forum, and do mean the WHOLE forum isn't reporting crashes, then it's an isolated problem and only the people experiencing it can solve it. But only through the proper channels.

I've had Zero crashes, zero problems with planetary landings, except one that turned it a slideshow, Davs hope works for me no problem. Yet some are having problems. I mean come on people, why do so many in this, and all forums, just completely throw reason out the window?

It's maddening
 
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Cervantes01

Cervantes01
Capricos said:
Frontier is going to have to do something absolutely spectacular to bounce back from the total and complete failure of 3.0.3.
Just read through the forums. Nearly every complaint and bug complaint is legitimate. They are too numerous to count. I've been playing since launch and this really got me this time. The random crashes, refusal to fix things, taking 5 steps backwards when trying to take one step forward... Frontier has screwed the pooch harshly on 3.0.3.
I honestly have no clue what they can do to bounce back from the pure technical failure of this update. Frontier lost what little credibility it had left.
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No season 3 is actually shaping up to be pretty good and already better than the car crash that was season 2.
 
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