Patch Notes September Update - Downtime and Patch Notes

RooksBailey · Sep 17, 2019

What about the "$####minorFaction:style:name=keyword;" Surface Hunt for a Politician mission description bug? However, I am glad to see Frontier revisit (yet again) the massacre mission bugs.

babelfisch · Sep 17, 2019

Nova Viper Dwagon said:
If I am in open play doing powerplay and BGS, I can just block everyone from that faction and effectively play solo but in open.
Its abuse-able weather you think so or not, a block should be the social side NOT a way to avoid death in an online game.

and if they are useing a exploit that what the report function does.

Since there is no difference in playing the BGS in open or solo you fail to make a point.

Hole in Head · Sep 17, 2019

babelfisch said:
Since there is no difference in playing the BGS in open or solo you fail to make a point.

(emphasis mine)

And that's the source of the problem in the first place...

jojon · Sep 17, 2019

Speaking of holes in the geometry; It would be kind of nice if somebody were to set some time aside to stitch up the seams between the pilot's wrists and gloves. Nothing that affects the game in any way, but a bit of a persistent eyesore. :7

Captain Willard · Sep 17, 2019

Very nice update. Thanks FD.

aRJay · Sep 17, 2019

TheSisko said:
Wrath of the Thargoids - Rated PG.

At last something for those of us who don't like Open or Solo.

aRJay · Sep 17, 2019

XloubellXX said:
How many ARX did I earn for reading this?

Arx is in game only, the currency of the forum is Salts, hopefully the store will be available soon(tm)

aRJay · Sep 18, 2019

Quester91 said:
That's awesome and all, but where's the universal limpet controller fdevs?

Remember they have to come up with at least 8 different limpets to use with that before they can roll it out.

Vayporz · Sep 18, 2019

marx said:
Is that a sort-of-fix for the geological signals taking far too long to resolve? (This issue, currently the second most voted.) Log them in the journal, so that third-party tools can alert the player once the scan is finished in the background?

I don't think they fixed it. I think it now can be logged into a journal to be read by third party applications?

A good bit of the top 25 voted fixes are still being ignored...or at least not communicated as being under development, in this patch or others to come. But with this fixes it will free up more low hanging maintenance mode fruit for December.

aRJay · Sep 18, 2019

Darty said:
Why? Because you can't 5C in solo anymore?

Maybe because open isn't available on consoles without a subscription to the console company.

rootsrat · Sep 18, 2019

To be honest I expected A LOT more bug fixes.

Dissapoitning, I won't lie

Six6VI · Sep 18, 2019

Camisade said:
Hmmm... SLFs may revert to not making you pariah in Open or PG; but they left out the bit about being able to re-hire your old SLF pilot using ARX if your ship is destroyed... I'm sure that was just a small oversight....

They really need to provide a way to buy an escape pod for and rescue your pilots, but not with ARX.

Would be really nice if there was some kind of sub-mission system added to the search and rescue.

IndigoWyrd · Sep 18, 2019

rootsrat said:
To be honest I expected A LOT more bug fixes.

Dissapoitning, I won't lie

Just wait until you see the number of bugs introduced to be fixed in the October Hot Patch. That should make up for your disappointment.

Leadfoot · Sep 18, 2019

Will Flanagan said:
Greetings Commanders,
The Elite Dangerous servers will be offline for all platforms on 18 September at 8:00 AM (UTC) for approximately 9 hours as we apply the September Update. There is a chance that this could run over, so we really appreciate your patience.

I may have missed it, but any idea of how big the update file will be? Just curious. I may have to find something else to do tomorrow.

Urbanski101 · Sep 18, 2019

rootsrat said:
To be honest I expected A LOT more bug fixes.

Dissapoitning, I won't lie

This ^^

Space Mage · Sep 18, 2019

So lets just keep beating player piracy's corpse am I right guys? Its not like its not already hard enough as it is to find people willing to haul cargo/mine in open. Now when you encounter the one player pirate left in open you can just block them! Totally makes sense...

Alwayslate · Sep 18, 2019

aRJay said:
Maybe because open isn't available on consoles without a subscription to the console company.

And you think Elite would be the only game that has more features in its mmo mode than solo mode if it roll it out?

Ulon Yuanshi · Sep 18, 2019

Still waiting for a fix of the Alioth system description. I has been months now.

JeanGrey · Sep 18, 2019

So, still no fix for the brightnes spike we get in the screen just after leaving the galaxy map?
Very disappointing considering this issue is immersion breaking, has been in the game since the first patch deployed this year, and has been reported to QA by several players, including myself.
I wonder if I should waste my time and open another ticket...

Screen just after leaving galaxy map:

https://imgur.com/M2ngEaN

Source: https://i.imgur.com/M2ngEaN.png

Then back to normal after 4 seconds:

https://imgur.com/hMGaYD8

Source: https://i.imgur.com/hMGaYD8.png

JetsonRING · Sep 18, 2019

"Preview mode that reduces the amount of on-screen UI, giving a clearer view of the chosen item"

Please, please do this for the rest of Outfitting, too. Regarding mine launchers, long ships were being hit and damaged by their own exploding mines? Doesn't anyone dumb enough to fit mine launchers to the front of their ship deserve to die of stupidity? What navy builds mine-layers that drop mines under their own ship? Keel-hauling your own mines . . . bad!