Oh my Gxx! That's only ordinary patch works! It become clear that nothing will be exchanged with fleet carrier. FDev never let me down.
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ANNOUNCEMENT January Update - Beta Announcement
- Thread starter Stephen Benedetti
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Beta testing & excellent info on the bugs being fixed... all great improvements!
Yay to Open Letters \o/
I know anything beyond taking off and landing is heresy to some, but the tracker does not highlight large problems that are endemic in ED now.
September ruined ED for me, so I'm actually looking forward to seeing if this update fixes these problems- but I'm sad that FD allowed this to happen in the first place, this update is running to stand still.
This should be implemented for live updates too and not only for betas!
This would be great! I would love to help out with testing. Thanks!
Nearly jumped out of my chair upon reading this. This fix will make many people happy!
Great stuff. Can't wait to try the fixes.
Me too, and my FOV-pop Max Headroom stutter bug is not in the list to get fixed anytime soon, so I continue to play other games instead of ED. I may still try the beta just to see if FOV-pop has been fixed "accidentally".
Stuttering and hitching after updates
Am I the only one noticing stuttering and hitching after these updates? Before the September update, I could lock my FPS at 60 or even 72 (vsynced with my refresh rates), and the game was buttery smooth regardless of where I was or what I was doing. After the update I'm seeing stuttering and...
The proposed solution doesn't improve the delay. It just doesn't perform the scan.
Washing the dishes goes much, much faster if I don't wash the dishes; sweeping the floor goes much, much faster if I don't sweep the floor. But then my dishes haven't been washed and my floor hasn't been swept. So that's not a very effective solution to any problem that I have.
I hate the long surface scan times at least as much as anybody else - yesterday I scanned a system with 99 bodies in it (!). But I do want the surface scan data. So speeding things up by not giving me the data is a lot like leaving me with a sink full of dishes and a regrettable floor.
So we can ignore your "petition" then, yes?
This may have been mentioned higher in the thread, but it would be nice if FDev reopened the investigation into SLF lag.
FDev says they fixed it by removing the ability to spam commands. But a lot of players claim it still makes lag... even game breaking.
I use the SLF extensively and have been around many other players with SLFs. Usually I see no lag at all. And in the few times I’ve experienced lag I never saw any evidence definitively incriminating the SLF (as opposed to normal networking issues.)
It would be great to play without being accused of “cheating” in PVP
FDev says they fixed it by removing the ability to spam commands. But a lot of players claim it still makes lag... even game breaking.
I use the SLF extensively and have been around many other players with SLFs. Usually I see no lag at all. And in the few times I’ve experienced lag I never saw any evidence definitively incriminating the SLF (as opposed to normal networking issues.)
It would be great to play without being accused of “cheating” in PVP
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Yes the reasons for implementing it is due to the fact that it takes too long as it is now.... but putting more of the discovery on what is on a planets surface onto the detailed surface scanner just makes more sense imo.
the advanced system scanner or what ever it is called now gives us details about major planetary body features and DSS is for stuff on top.
Does this not seem a better fit to you? Further more, because using the DSS is itsself a more hands on process which takes a little bit longer, the generation of the surface features can be obfuscated.
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I'm with you on that.
My suggestion on this issue would be to simply
- untie the process from framerate and
- make it an own, separate (if feasible multithreaded) process that always runs at optimal possible speed
That way the delay would be minimized to a perfectly acceptable duration on most machines while still yielding the precise data - which I appreciate.
(nonwithstanding that any Planet with indicated Volcanism can still unexpectedly end up resolving as "None" on the Geologicals)
Stephen Benedetti
Community Manager
Hi @CMDR That Other Guy27,
As some of the commanders have stated, anything that happens in the beta, stays in the beta! So anything you do will not be applied to the live game.
Hello @rootsrat
Unfortunately, there will be no decal issued for this beta, but this is something we're could look at introducing in the future.
Hi @Henoch
We have an amazing audio department filled with talented audio specialists. They are really good at deciding what voice to use, so it is up to them! We've passed your suggestion on, though.
Hi @Crazy Joe
This is the only beta testing period that we will be doing for the January Update at the current time. If we feel we need more testing for this update, we will be sure to let you know as soon as possible.
This approximation will help to identify the likeliness of the geological/biological site, but for a full confirmation, you will have to get closer to the planetary body and scan it using planetary probes. We would love to hear your feedback on it to determine whether or not it is better than the current process.
Additional note:
We have been reviewing your feedback, and we wanted to let you know that if anyone feels that we are not prioritising their particular issues, please up-vote them on the Issue Tracker. This will bring up their priority on the Issue Tracker for future fixes. As we mentioned in the OP, we've worked internally with Customer Support, QA and Development teams, alongside the feedback you shared with us here and via the Issue Tracker, to identify which issues we'll be tackling in the January Update, which we've detailed below.
Remember, this is not the full list of issues we are addressing and will present these next week in the Patch Notes.
Edit: Updated clarification on geological/biological FSS comment.
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In my own experience there's little (if any) effect of framerate on the scan speed. I've disabled VSYNC and the scan times are still very long.
If the scan is not already a separate multithreaded process I would be very surprised.
Sorry.
I'm sure I'm in a minority on this, but in the kind of exploration I do I have very little interest in celestial bodies. I'm exclusively interested in the things you find on and around them. So, for me, a "there might be something here" scan is redundant: I already know! Having to map every body to really find out if there are surface locations would be slower and even more frustrating than the long FSS scans.