U15 update notes are online!

[The Lawful]

Wonder why the official thread is hidden on page 2 or it's too early for me

Elite Dangerous Update 15 NOW LIVE - Release Notes

Greetings Commanders. It's Tuesday, May 9. What's 9 + Tuesday? That's right, Update 15, and it's arriving today. With the Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' servers now offline, let's take a quick moment to recap where we are in the schedule then ok, ok, the notes are yours... Time (BST) Action...

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Elite Dangerous Update 15 Release Notes - Elite Dangerous

Greetings Commanders. Update 15 is upon us and we're excited to share the full update notes for you here today. The Elite Dangerous 'Live' serve...

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O7,

 

[Martind Forlon]

I think Sally need loads of cofee and big thx! … and patchnotes looks really good considering amount of fixed and new stuff

 

[Vardaugas]

They didn't add different colours to the primary and secondary weapon reticules. What a garbage update. Complete waste of time. Seriously seriously./s

 

[yianniv]

I see a lot of potentially good interface improvements and I'm optimistic. Also, I hope the bug of having to enter secure storage twice to update quantities was fixed and not included. It's 10GB, it must be somewhere in there

 

[Banana's_Are_Good_For_You]

Sounds good.

 

[Darrack]

They didn't add different colours to the primary and secondary weapon reticules. What a garbage update. Complete waste of time. Seriously seriously./s

Doom already??

O7

 

[Cori]

Looking good. That SRV radar bug has annoyed me since the release of Odyssey, despite being of no real importance in any way. Strange how these things grab you.

No mention of the Cutter thruster problem (understandably tricky) or the Guatamaya chair controls (you'd have thought another trivial one), but I suppose we shouldn't carp about what's not in the update.

Wonder how long it will be before someone gets a good look at the inside of a Maelstrom for us?

I know I say this every time, but I wish they'd at least make the new client available for download while the game servers are down.

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

Doom already??

O7

Of course. I'm surprised it wasn't the very next post.

BTW, the CQC map bug, was that on the list ?

 

[Darrack]

Representations of multiple fleet carriers can now be stacked on system map.

This looks interesting, maybe less Doom for some folks.

O7

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

I thought they were reworking a major feature of ED...or did I get the wrong end of the stick?

 

[Cori]

I thought they were reworking a major feature of ED...or did I get the wrong end of the stick?

Not with this update. Last news was that it'll be towards the end of the year.

 

[Vinman]

Looks interesting, with some nice bug fixes. Though am I missing something? I see nothing about any performance updates.

 

[DjVortex]

I'm disappointed they didn't fix the invisible Thargoid ships bug by making it an official feature: Thargoids using invisibility cloaks.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

No fixes mentioned for black screens of death on vehicle exit, bugged CZs...

Still, the drone infested power-ons look promising.

 

[Leadfoot]

I know I say this every time, but I wish they'd at least make the new client available for download while the game servers are down.

I understand your desire to jump in quickly but if something goes wrong with the server update, hitting the starting bell too soon will cause ALL the racehorses to break out of the starting gate and, well, you know they don't want anyone pulling them to a halt right there.

 

[Cori]

I understand your desire to jump in quickly but if something goes wrong with the server update, hitting the starting bell too soon will cause ALL the racehorses to break out of the starting gate and, well, you know they don't want anyone pulling them to a halt right there.

Not quickly, just less slowly. For some reason the ED client takes up to an hour to download (why I don't know, nothing else does). It would be useful to download it during the downtime and then I might get some play time in today.

 

[Leadfoot]

Not quickly, just less slowly. For some reason the ED client takes up to an hour to download (why I don't know, nothing else does). It would be useful to download it during the downtime and then I might get some play time in today.

I get it, but if everyone is downloading it early, it'll be just as slow as everyone downloading it after the client is released.

It'll always be slow, no matter which way it goes, I guess. Also, remember the most important rule of all:

NEVER PLAY ON PATCH DAY​

Been true since the birth of MMO's, as I hear. I'll be cutting the lawn today.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

point is, you don't roll out the client as long as you don't know if you might need to roll back the server. Imagine rolling out the client early, tripping on a problem and having to roll back the clients, so people need to effectively download twice in one day. There would be loud moaning and gnashing of teeth about "unplayable", "ded game" and "incompetent devs".

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I get it, but if everyone is downloading it early, it'll be just as slow as everyone downloading it after the client is released.

It'll always be slow, no matter which way it goes, I guess. Also, remember the most important rule of all:

NEVER PLAY ON PATCH DAY​

Been true since the birth of MMO's, as I hear. I'll be cutting the lawn today.

also that. But I am still doing it anyway, of course. B ut I am aware that things can be iffy on patch day.

 

[Cori]

I get it, but if everyone is downloading it early, it'll be just as slow as everyone downloading it after the client is released.

It'll always be slow, no matter which way it goes, I guess. Also, remember the most important rule of all:

NEVER PLAY ON PATCH DAY​

Been true since the birth of MMO's, as I hear. I'll be cutting the lawn today.

Yes, I should know this by now.