Patch Notes Update Ships beta 1.5.3 incoming

Capt.Blackbird · Nov 17, 2015

What's with CQC, its again possible to find a game..?..?
Please say me
please say me
please say me
please say me
please...

thanks for the update!

Heater · Nov 17, 2015

Thanks FD..... making progress!

Ben Ryder · Nov 17, 2015

Is the heat sink tweak in this change?

Sheepz · Nov 17, 2015

Ben Ryder said:
Is the heat sink tweak in this change?

You mean:

- Increased the amount of heat a heat sink can drain and doubling the time over which it drains it

AndrewMil · Nov 17, 2015

Hey -the panels are smaller? They should be like 1.4.
Please reconsider it - unfortunately on some monitors they are hard to read.

yyy · Nov 17, 2015

VARIOUS TEXT FIXES

Let's hope this includes the hard-to-read "Mission Target" text.

Petrvs · Nov 17, 2015

Aidan Patrick said:
Fantastic fixes! I'd really like to see the Viper Mk IV get a class larger power distributor with no other changes made at all. It's a beautiful ship and I absolutely love it, but laser builds are far too hungry. It'll be a beast with flight assist off with a better power distributor, giving it a really nice role as a slippery fighter. It'd definitely be worthy of being a mainstay long term bounty hunter ship, which is something the lower price point could really use.

The Viper mk4 definitely needs some love

Stressfest · Nov 17, 2015

Splendid

Petrvs · Nov 17, 2015

Brujah said:
It's still a small ship. I really don't think those changes are what it's intended for. Do you suggest it should just be better than the Cobra in every way? :/

It should be a better fighter than a cobra, yes.

A cobra is multiporpus and has greater cargo capacity.

A viper is a fighter and should shine at that. With that tiny distributor is a joke!

And the speed, prerogative of the viper, is now too slow considering the same firepower is available. You can't zoom in and out like before and when you are sitting attacking for longer you don't have any benefit because your weapons are weak and your distributor dies too soon

Gully Foyle · Nov 17, 2015

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening.
Upgrade your Client..................................now.

Redan said:
I know it's still a bit early,

but could you please make it so the controls of the SRV don't override those of the ship, allowing the same keybind to be used for both?

For example,

I use F1 for the nav/target panel on the left. Currently, I can only bind either the SRV or the Ship to that keybind.

A bit early? Well yeah. This is a thing already?
You can't use another keybind?
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Kyokushin said:
Good move, but please, upgrade also abit FDL jump range, ~3 ly will be enough. Now a higher mass A6 powerplant caused less jump range and speed.

Seriously? 3?
Perhaps use a D plant.
Talk about splitting hairs.

Iori · Nov 17, 2015

...and the Cutter is still useless for combat

Kyokushin · Nov 17, 2015

Hm. I am still thinking a SCB should be limited to one module, without stacking, but higher class such 7 and 8 should be very strong, maybe more shots.

Gannopen · Nov 17, 2015

Thanks for the info.
Is there any word on the graphics issue for VR headsets that is causing me nausea? (Thread https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=199830)

Gully Foyle · Nov 17, 2015

It would be cool (and cruel to un-beta-ed) if we could test the beta right up until Horizons release.

Capt.Blackbird said:
What's with CQC, its again possible to find a game..?..?
Please say me
please say me
please say me
please say me
please...

The Zoloft is not strong in this one.

AndrewMil · Nov 17, 2015

Actually the panels are OK now:]

Zieman · Nov 17, 2015

Gully_Foyle said:
Seriously? 3?
Perhaps use a D plant.
Talk about splitting hairs.

D plant bad. Heat.

Kerrash · Nov 17, 2015

Zac Antonaci said:
...
- Made Cutter's cargo bay move down when deployed to allow for easier cargo pickup...

This certainly works better but I think the model will need a tweak as the back faces have been removed from the cargo bay doors.

Incoming bug report...

Red Kite · Nov 17, 2015

Redan said:
I know it's still a bit early,

but could you please make it so the controls of the SRV don't override those of the ship, allowing the same keybind to be used for both?

For example,

I use F1 for the nav/target panel on the left. Currently, I can only bind either the SRV or the Ship to that keybind.

I believe that in one of the live streams Sandro said that the SRV control bindings will be entirely separate from those of the ship.

AndrewMil said:
Hey -the panels are smaller? They should be like 1.4.
Please reconsider it - unfortunately on some monitors they are hard to read.

With some eyesight they are hard to read! Please put them back as they were. Why the change?

Gully Foyle · Nov 17, 2015

Zieman said:
D plant bad. Heat.

Ahh Danke.

Temple604 · Nov 17, 2015

Finally shield regeneration time and hull reinforcement buffs!