Game is worse and worse with each update

[Deleted member 103587]

Severity
MAJOR

Frequency
EVERY TIME

Time of occurrence
every time I log on/ Once a month

Date of occurrence
right now for one. and everytime before hand for the last year+

VR?
OCULUS

Location
at home IN THE COCKPIT I BUILT FOR THIS GAME

Ship/SRV?
all of it

Ship Type
EVFERYWHERE

Commander Name
wwwSCOOBYLEWcom (former broadcaster solely of your product E Horizons, not since about a year now).

Description
Since the Exploration part of the game is still screwed, and also since you keep breaking CQC with EACH AND EVERY UPDATE, Multi Crew is the only thing I like to do. Specifically flying fighters in and around small ships, big ships, maybe someday those stupid Thargoids you insisted on putting in there instead of fixi... I digress.

Why can I only find one multi crew session running at a time (if ever at all)? *Edit* The problem is intermittent. Some days I can go from one successful MC session to another, all day. Those are rare. Usually I log on, can't find a single MC session after hours of attempts, and log out psssed off. *End edit* I have a wonderful internet connection, and my PC is awesome because I (an electronics engineer) (a 5 year old can do this) built the damn thing. For the last year or so Elite: Dangerous went from being my MOST FAVORITE OF ALL TIME video games ( I'm an older gamer, so that's saying something) to being the one game I try once every month or so, just to get fed up with not finding good gameplay and yelling at you on your facebook page. I'm still waiting on a response from last months attempt at playing your game. That was a compliment to you, followed by a huge nope.

So, I can't find any crews worth joining for the last couple months. P.S. why are cobras and vultures even allowed to open a MC session? This was a rhetorical question. I know your answer, but no one joins a MC session thinking "Oh boy, I can be a gunner of a tiny ship, with controls that make everyone WANTED!". Also, I thought ya'll were British, proud of Ques. Why did I have to make a Voice Attack command to keep hitting select every time I try to find a MC session? Just one of the many poor design choices you've made. Seriously, there's so many things wrong with what you've done, I want good explanations, accompanied with fixes. I insist,but only because what you are doing is maddening.


Steps to Reproduce
Attempt to join any MC session. Or attempt to play CQC. Or attempt to see something pretty and unusual (at least once in a while) and make the time cost effective in exploration, or...why is the SRV front and REAR wheel steering? Instead on Drive assist toggle, how's about you put that button to better use. I heard the ALMIGHTY BRABEN himself Quality checks every update. We all know that's rubbish, JUST LOOK HOW BROKEN THE GAME IS!!!

Additional files?
Other games? why yes, I've started playing them. Thanx for asking.

 

[Evil Flanker]

Completely agree, I've quit playing and taken my wallet that was open and spending every week on skins and I've gone elsewhere spending my disposable cash.

The bugs are just so many it makes the game frustrating and reporting them doesn't help, just makes you feel you've wasted valuable time making videos etc.,
Now with PVP being all but dead (My reason for buying the game - and aslo the way they marketed with heavy combat scenes, is pure ) and virtually zero actual multiplayer content, I've decided it's just not fun to play and quit, Sorry FD your product is so flawed it's not fun and you add more flaws every update it's awful.

 

[ebbrell]

Hi I don't think PvP is dead. FD want PvP in the game, people are not using the correct area for PvP.

Power play is how people get to PvP, once pledged if you don't have to do any of the merit stuff, you end up with friend and hostile players on scanners.
There would be large areas which would b hostile to use, and your areas are hostile to them.

As parts of c and p changes power play will reduce the crimes logged and bounties held against you or ship.

If everyone was pledged this game would be a scary place, even getting to an engineer would be dangerous as you cross hostile power system. PvP will be all over the place.

People are just floating about not pledged, therefore PvP will be hard for them in the furture

 

[TrustNo1]

Hi Scoobylew,
After reading your post, I can see you have some sincere concerns with the advancement of the game, and changes which have happened with new versions as well as other players.

In order to investigate the items you've outlined here, could you record some highlights from your next session, which illustrates what you're seeing (or not seeing)? I've not seen any lack of Multi-crew options (or lack of people who will join) from the past few times I've played, and as far as some of the other things you've mentioned, I haven't seen anything which I would consider problematic.

 

[Malic]

Do be aware that because Elite uses a peer-to-peer type of networking, that your connection or others can effect your experience.

If you have windows defender or antivirus that uses a web scanner to watch all in going files that come to your computer, it will see anything peer to peer as hostile and will delay or prohibit that data from getting though. This will cause issues like dropping out because the program did not send the data to the game itself.

Because when you connect to other people, this may still happen, when you do not have control of their computer stopping data from getting to their game client and if they are the host will effect your game when the data returns delayed or not at all as well.

Several people have had luck by making sure to whitelist both the launcher and the game client itself in said programs that might have web scanners so they do not interfere.