Update 18 | Update Notes
- Thread starter Paul_Crowther
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Hmm, when I downloaded the update, the launcher actually got stuck at 92% for hours. I finally clicked on "cancel", and to my surprise it just changed to "play". No error messages or anything. I tried launching the game and the version at the bottom left of the main menu did seem to indicate update 18. I shrugged it off. Maybe it was some kind of weird visual glitch in the launcher, where it stopped updating the text, or something, but in actuality the patch installed just fine?
However, I now tried the "validate files" button, and now it's apparently continuing from the 92%!
It may have been that the download/installation was incomplete but, for whatever reason, it still allowed me to play the game. I'll try letting it finish now and relaunch to see if the graphics are ok once again.
Edit: Now it seems to be stuck at 100%, doing nothing. The button still says "cancel installation". Has been like that for a good while now. I suppose I'll let it be for a good while more. I'll post an update if anything relevant changes.
Edit 2: Ok, apparently I just had to wait for long enough, and the installation did finally finish. And now the game is looking ok once again. So false alarm, I suppose.
However, I now tried the "validate files" button, and now it's apparently continuing from the 92%!
It may have been that the download/installation was incomplete but, for whatever reason, it still allowed me to play the game. I'll try letting it finish now and relaunch to see if the graphics are ok once again.
Edit: Now it seems to be stuck at 100%, doing nothing. The button still says "cancel installation". Has been like that for a good while now. I suppose I'll let it be for a good while more. I'll post an update if anything relevant changes.
Edit 2: Ok, apparently I just had to wait for long enough, and the installation did finally finish. And now the game is looking ok once again. So false alarm, I suppose.
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Glad its worked out and that just ended up as a heads up to the next person who sees it as to what to do.
Thanks, that did the trick.
This wasn't normal, it was happening all over the place all of a sudden. Everything is back to normal now, thankfully. Still, I hope they do upgrade ultra shadow quality in the next update. They're really low quality.
Think this happened in a recent update as well - something hasn't been whitelisted by the antivirus programs.
If an Elite Dangerous update, downloaded from Frontier is trying to make a change to a file in the Elite Dangerous folder, I'm going to guess this is not going to be harmful.
I'm not sure why their AV is locking a game file? 
You can replace the preset shadow cascades. Doesn't fix all issues, but it can make shadows look a lot better than the default ultra setting.
I'm not sure why their AV is locking a game file?
It's an executable with a checksum that isn't in their database yet. It probably locks all such files.
But the action that it is blocking is the game opening a cache file that it created itself (shiplocker.json). In the bin with that particular security "product", I say...
Can someone tell me, from a mechanics perspective, what this means?
"Caustic sinks will now drain existing caustic one at a time."
One what? One stack? One point of damage?
I'm in the process of unlocking the caustic sink launcher when the update dropped. so not sure I fully understand the mechanics of how they worked to begin with. I know caustic damage stacks, so does this mean if I have 4 stacks of caustic damage it will only absorb 25%?
Help appreciated.
"Caustic sinks will now drain existing caustic one at a time."
One what? One stack? One point of damage?
I'm in the process of unlocking the caustic sink launcher when the update dropped. so not sure I fully understand the mechanics of how they worked to begin with. I know caustic damage stacks, so does this mean if I have 4 stacks of caustic damage it will only absorb 25%?
Help appreciated.
rootsrat
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I believe this means that when you have multiple CSL's, only one will be filling up, gathering the caustic substance from your hull. The other one will remain empty. (Until the 1st one runs out of sinks? That's a guess.)
I have 3 CSL's running and they all seem to be filling up as before, ie 1,2 then 3, jettison and repeat, not sure i noticed a change
O7
That's what they already did, before the update. There doesn't seem to be any change with how they absorb caustic or how they eject/reload themselves so it's not clear what the notes are referring to.
Like most things with FDEV we don’t know what the intended mechanic is, we don’t know if it was bugged or working as intended, we don’t know if the change they intended to implement is working as intended, and we don’t know if it actually broke something.
Communication is not their strong point.
I guess it’s just another thing they don’t want to “spoil the surprise” for..
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I took it to mean that you can bind all caustic sink launchers to one fire button and rather than activating them all concurrently it will discharge each caustic sink consecutively like heatsinks do. I haven't tested that to see for sure, can anyone confirm?
Scouts are fun to battle with as well, not too tanky or OP, but can keep you on your toes if they start ganging up on you, they're nimble, look and sound good, and go pop quite satisfyingly as well. Highly recommended, especially cool to fight on slight atmospheric worlds.
Negative confirmation, it still fires all the sinks bound to the trigger whether they are full or not.
The anti-virus is seeing a program not-yet-in-their-database-due-to-minimal-age modifying a file in a protected area (user documents). It has no way of distinguishing normal behaviour from ransomware activity so soon after discovering this new executable. And it offers the user a way to exclude this program from scanning. I'd say it didn't do that bad.
"Saved games" under the user folder is not protected, that would be very problematic.
The ED executable creates that file, what sense does it make to block it from being able to access it at a later stage? It's not going to contain anything that the program didn't already have access to.
It's a dumb false positive triggered by the AV detecting the filename contains "locker", that is all.
As others have reported, it looks like the shadow flickering that existed in U12 and U13, that was fixed in U14, is back:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evNTSADV99Q