Pulse Wave Analyser fix: Verdict

Angus · Dec 17, 2020

Nice one, Frontier dudes. After a moderate session, it seems Mining is back!

A couple of small observations:

If you try to scan rapidly while flying through the field, rolling the ship etc, seems to kill the indictaions on some asteroids while not others. That can be a little annoying and lead to missed opportunities.

I haven't yet spotted any of the the really bright (ice cream on your tongue) asteroids that pretty much gurantee a core. Might just be me.

That's just minor stuff, though. Thanks again Frontier for putting this right.

Jmanis · Dec 17, 2020

Imagine the posts like this if they fixed smuggling, megaships and tissue sampling too

Urbanski101 · Dec 17, 2020

Yes, credit where it's due, FD seemed to have successfully fixed the PWA.

Now they just have the mile long list of bugs on the issue tracker to deal with

jacozilla · Dec 17, 2020

Urbanski101 said:
Yes, credit where it's due, FD seemed to have successfully fixed the PWA.

Now they just have the mile long list of bugs on the issue tracker to deal with

to be fair, it is a partial fix, not full fix.

previously, any horizontal or vertical roll, yaw, pitch, etc would not affect the PWA - it was truly omnidirectional.

atm, for some players at least - including me - the PWA seems to lose lock or just blip out when the above happens.

so 2 steps forward in the sense lot better than bugged state before, but 1 step backward at same time because still not as fully functional as once was.

Urbanski101 · Dec 17, 2020

jacozilla said:
to be fair, it is a partial fix, not full fix.

previously, any horizontal or vertical roll, yaw, pitch, etc would not affect the PWA - it was truly omnidirectional.

atm, for some players at least - including me - the PWA seems to lose lock or just blip out when the above happens.

so 2 steps forward in the sense lot better than bugged state before, but 1 step backward at same time because still not as fully functional as once was.

Yes, I noticed that yesterday when I played but I'm sure I had that before the PWA was fully broken...maybe just my memory failing me.

Baliwasan · Dec 17, 2020

Ahmmm, was it broken....????

gorankar · Dec 17, 2020

Baliwasan said:
Ahmmm, was it broken....????

Yes. Yes it was.

This is at least a partial fix. Better than I actually expected. Still wonder what they did that broke it in the first place, and why.

Afterglow · Dec 17, 2020

Seemed to work no different than what it did a year ago when I last went core mining. I was able to spot cores from about 8-10km away no problem - any farther than that is tricky with night vision on.

dekot · Dec 17, 2020

I recently came back to the game and so I missed the last few months when the PWA was broken. If you guys want to know how it compares to how it was before when it first came out, it's worse now. Although I am on xbox, so that might be the problem. The asteroids used to light up really pretty and all that but now it's all pixelated and ugly. Other than that, found VO cores within 5 minutes of dropping into a random icy belt multiple times yesterday.