Patch Notes September Update - Downtime and Patch Notes
Yes, it appears much of the above is there now... but, you broke engineers. Trying to level up a shield booster goes horribly wrong. The UI is doing all sorts of things it should not be... so wrong, I don't even know where to begin. And, I'm tired and going to bed, so you'll just have to fiddle with it and see what I mean.
So exactly why do we need a bind added to the "safe to disengage" prompt? Did someone actually complain or did someone think it was actually a good idea? Because it's not and I guarantee you it looks stupid. "Press JOY X"/"JOY X" is not at all helpful. How many people do you think actually have their DXInput numbers memorized? Not all of us need our damn hands held.
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W00t; thank you for the update and the hard work everybody has put in!
..but can we PLEASE make all of these console-GUI-features optional? Seriously, some of us bought into this game as a future spaceship simulator, not an arcade console shooter. The last year or two of UI changes has introduced a LOT of unnecessary and unwanted elements which are garishly out of place. Great for new or returning players, but very annoying and distracting for regular players.
..but can we PLEASE make all of these console-GUI-features optional? Seriously, some of us bought into this game as a future spaceship simulator, not an arcade console shooter. The last year or two of UI changes has introduced a LOT of unnecessary and unwanted elements which are garishly out of place. Great for new or returning players, but very annoying and distracting for regular players.
ARX Store front says is missing or cannot connect. Is there a fix time?
The graphics look funny to y’all? Lots of frame tearing and a fisheye look with what i can only describe as a horrible anti-aliasing issue. Engineers broke, fighters still cause rubber banding, crashing all the time... :/
FD why would you do this?
This is not acceptable.
You mean ... they need to hold-hands Deadly and Elite ranked Commanders now so that they figure out how to disengage their hyperdrive?
Now all those veteran players will certainly appear in-game again ... finally being able to leave supercruise and such ...
And yes, it looks excessively stupid, and awful. Exactly the "stupid toddler-gamer" approach direction I was happy Elite wasn't taking.
Now all those veteran players will certainly appear in-game again ... finally being able to leave supercruise and such ...
And yes, it looks excessively stupid, and awful. Exactly the "stupid toddler-gamer" approach direction I was happy Elite wasn't taking.
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NPCs do not move from system to system - PowerPlay ships are only found in systems relevant to PowerPlay. At best you can track an individual player, but logging their power allegiance isn't useful.
PowerPlay ships do not attack unpledged players. At best you can log the presence of players that are pledged to a power.
This never happens.
Also not going to happen. If you want to hunt PowerPlay ships that are undermining, go to any control system's navigation beacon.
This is the only thing mentioned that is borderline useful, and that is at a stretch as you'd need to be targeting a PowerPlay ship in a beacon or at a station as it's getting ready to activate its FSD.
PowerPlay ships operate in PowerPlay space. You will not find transport ships outside of a Power's own systems, and you'll find their combat ships in all PowerPlay systems based entirely on random chance as the host spawned them.
Edit: A host power's ships will span in all of their systems. Hostile combat ships ONLY spawn in control and expansion systems.
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In related patching news, Hello Games put out an update for No Man's Sky today yesterday, and it didn't seem to break anything.
Maybe poach some of their QA team?
Maybe poach some of their QA team?
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And I wonder how many of those crying I'll never play Elite Dangerous ever again! are playing it the next day, or even a few hours later.
Well, no, they don't... But since they can do that already from the very modes you refer to here, I can't see how there's any functional difference. Anybody who wants to participate in non-PVP faction stuff - sorry, I mean "undermine player factions" - can already do that. So this changes the situation from "people can do a thing" to "people can still do the thing".
Hell, I've played since beta and been "avoiding and BLOCKING PvP combat" all the way, since it's tedious AF and I've never seen the need for me to be someone else's content. So this hardly introduces anything new, does it?
I dunno about you, but I paid for early access to the game. I didn't pay for the privilege of being allowed to do their QA work for them.
Most bugs seem to be so obvious, that you don't need to work in QA to expose them. I bet management took a look at the state of the game and said: "Nah, we release it anyway. It will be fine!"
As much as I love this game, I really don't think there is a QA process within FD. If it does exist it's something they do not take seriously, something that is more of an after-thought than a genuine process.
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That's sort of my conclusion, or alternatively their QA team is so starved of funds and/or people that they're simply overwhelmed.