Notice Mission Board Softlock

ironside31 · Oct 4, 2019

There is another fix as well, go into the engineers panel and back out has been seen to release the soft lock

AlexMagnusson · Oct 4, 2019

CatfoodCZ said:
How about not doing workarounds and do PROPER FIX and PROPER TESTING. Surprisingly there are new bugs in the game.

It was such an "omg we need to stop this happening right the f now" scenario that a bandaid makes sense for now.

Factabulous · Oct 4, 2019

syloom said:
Shame the fix didn't include the passenger missions

Apart from that it did - didn't it? Or are you saying you're not seeing the fix they specified?

krautbernd · Oct 4, 2019

Zac Antonaci said:
Heya! Thanks for raising this. This is actually the work around in practice, these are the missions that will allow us to avoid the locking/freezing which players were experiencing, as mentioned in Stephen's post.

My bad, I didn't read the OP. Any idea when you'll be able to return the game to a playable state without using workarounds?

Factabulous · Oct 4, 2019

CatfoodCZ said:
How about not doing workarounds and do PROPER FIX and PROPER TESTING. Surprisingly there are new bugs in the game.

It's Friday evening - people have been grumping that missions wouldn't be available all weekend - so they had a choice between a bodge job to make missions available, or leave it broken. So I guess you're voting for 'no missions' this weekend - nice.

Oldviboy · Oct 4, 2019

Could we have ACME stickers in the future?

CMDR Carbo · Oct 4, 2019

Nice fix, lol. Did somebody quickly hack together a bandaid script in LUA?

krautbernd · Oct 4, 2019

Stephen Benedetti said:
Heya! Thanks for raising this. This is actually the work around in practice, these are the missions that will allow us to avoid the locking/freezing which players were experiencing, as mentioned in Stephen's post.

Would you mind adding a notice explaining this in-game and/or in the launcher? I think this might help to clear things up for players who don't frequent the forums.

Shadowdancer · Oct 4, 2019

When the workaround is literally pranking the players:-D

Old Duck · Oct 4, 2019

I blame the consoles for all these problems, because that's just what we PC gamers do

syloom · Oct 4, 2019

Factabulous said:
Apart from that it did - didn't it? Or are you saying you're not seeing the fix they specified?

i haven't played yet somebody said it wasn't fixed, is it working but with the same single dead mission like the others?

Tharrn · Oct 4, 2019

Thanks for not letting this persist for a week

Northpin · Oct 4, 2019

Factabulous said:
It's Friday evening - people have been grumping that missions wouldn't be available all weekend - so they had a choice between a bodge job to make missions available, or leave it broken. So I guess you're voting for 'no missions' this weekend - nice.

Yea, damned if you do, damned if you don't

@FDev - thanks guys, i don't really want to know how was the mood in your offices for the last 2 weeks, but i really hope you are holding up.

Factabulous · Oct 4, 2019

syloom said:
i haven't played yet somebody said it wasn't fixed, is it working but with the same single dead mission like the others?

Looks like it to me (first pic) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mission-board-softlock.525396/post-8060359

I haven't played either, so the gaffa tape may well fall off

syloom · Oct 4, 2019

Factabulous said:
Looks like it to me (first pic) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mission-board-softlock.525396/post-8060359

I haven't played either, so the gaffa tape may well fall off

Will be firing it up in about an hour so hope its functional, love the avatar by the way.

Taimaru · Oct 4, 2019

Thanks Frontier for implementing the workaround whilst you work on a more permanent fix.

I appreciate all the hard work you put into Elite Dangerous and I hope you get to enjoy the weekend.

Moltrin D'Iceni · Oct 4, 2019

Asking a Dev...

Was the nerf to the number of Sirius Atmospherics missions available at Robigo Mines (number appears to have halved, impossible to fill a python now) an intentional change, or something that will either resolve over time or be fixed with the longer term softlock fix?

Eliza · Oct 4, 2019

Moltrin D'Iceni said:
Asking a Dev...

Was the nerf to the number of Sirius Atmospherics missions available at Robigo Mines (number appears to have halved, impossible to fill a python now) an intentional change, or something that will either resolve over time or be fixed with the longer term softlock fix?

Notice - Mission Board Softlock

Greetings Commanders, Today we introduced a workaround to address the issues players have been experiencing with the Mission Boards. These changes will stop commanders experiencing the 'soft lock', bringing functionality back to the mission boards. As a side effect of this workaround, each...

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Is intended to prevent a softlock

Cmdr a1f4k7 · Oct 4, 2019

It's Friday get yourself to the pub works done for the weekend. Fix it Monday

Moltrin D'Iceni · Oct 4, 2019

I read this differently Eliza... I read their post as one mission will not be available... I see that mission (500 or so passengers, as otherwise referenced). However, I also see that there are significantly fewer missions available overall...