Does this mean that previously if you deployed two caustic sinks at once, the same amount of caustic substance would go to both (in other words essentially "duplicating" the caustic substance being gotten rid of), so in other words the second sink was being just wasted, but now only one is filled at a time, so the other one isn't wasted?
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Reading other people's replies, I was wrong, so I don't think that's it after all.
In my case, it took yesterday entire night, for my game to update. It took like 1 hour to start sync files after pressing "update" and then it took like 7 or 8 hours, to complete. It took long enough.
Once updated to U18, and left planetary starport I was docked at, grabed my missile cutter and quite soon I did found some shieldless T-9 in open (flew by very unlucky cmdr - as in PVP, this bug occured by most of time), and I used medium seekers only against it until it died to see if any would stop fire after while. In U17, medium seekers would stop firing after few shots or when first lock-on was lost, and not firing anymore either when it lock-on again on target... while in that case, at U18, it did work as it should, much to my suprise, as it was not stated in patch notes about it being fixed or even worked on.
Poor T-9 got boom, and each of my medium seekers (medium hardpoints on cutter wings/nacells) did indeed fire without problems, with multiple lock-ons during at it. Right after, I went to nav beacon to fully empty my remaining missiles, and was able to fire on each my selected targets without problems.
Would be nice if anyone can confirm it on thier own ends, to check if thier missile bulids are working and if not, leaving details such as what ship, wich hardpoint and what kind of launcher it is.
Only other annoying bug I noticed right away, was very loud carrier menu music, if not docked in carrier.
Hmm... almost as if update 18 was actually mush of older versions with some tweaks, few things got broken (again), wich where fixed before.
I mean, it feels like as if certain things that where "reversed" to previous state, wich possibly explain why its 30gb and little of new content and why some fixed issues are problem again.
From my limited testing, seems like its being fixed. Not seeing any reports about medium nanite launchers not workin either.
Once updated to U18, and left planetary starport I was docked at, grabed my missile cutter and quite soon I did found some shieldless T-9 in open (flew by very unlucky cmdr - as in PVP, this bug occured by most of time), and I used medium seekers only against it until it died to see if any would stop fire after while. In U17, medium seekers would stop firing after few shots or when first lock-on was lost, and not firing anymore either when it lock-on again on target... while in that case, at U18, it did work as it should, much to my suprise, as it was not stated in patch notes about it being fixed or even worked on.
Poor T-9 got boom, and each of my medium seekers (medium hardpoints on cutter wings/nacells) did indeed fire without problems, with multiple lock-ons during at it. Right after, I went to nav beacon to fully empty my remaining missiles, and was able to fire on each my selected targets without problems.
Would be nice if anyone can confirm it on thier own ends, to check if thier missile bulids are working and if not, leaving details such as what ship, wich hardpoint and what kind of launcher it is.
Indeed. I did noticed that as well, as before updating to U18, I was docked in planetary starport, and there was no flickering before. Of course, that was first thing I noticed in U18.
Only other annoying bug I noticed right away, was very loud carrier menu music, if not docked in carrier.
Hmm... almost as if update 18 was actually mush of older versions with some tweaks, few things got broken (again), wich where fixed before.
I mean, it feels like as if certain things that where "reversed" to previous state, wich possibly explain why its 30gb and little of new content and why some fixed issues are problem again.
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The real facepalm goes to all the ppl asking them to fix the codebase for trivia when you already know what will happen 
Turkeys voting for xmas indeed
Turkeys voting for xmas indeed 
As discussed on Lave last night, I was baffled by this "fix" because caustic sinks always behaved like that for me, with only one filling up at a time (on ships where I had more than one fitted). Oh well, perhaps that was not everyone's experience.
... it's so sad ...
can confirm, they always behaved that way for me; I was equally confused by the "fix". As confused as with the "VR carrier management screen" fix - I never had that issue either, but apparently for some, it still appears somewhere in 3D space.
I think they've actually broken them - they used to work like you say - and I'm pretty sure only the ones with caustic would 'fire' when asked - now even the ones that haven't been used will deplete (I have them all on one trigger). And also they don't always remove corrosion from the hull when fired - pretty sure they used to, but now you seem to need to empty the sink again if the hull is corroding (at least some of the time). Ah well, that's fdev
I understand it this way:
If you get multiple caustic damage effects, lets say like 3 and only have 1 CSL, then the First caustic damage effect will be neutralized, while the second and the third Effekt are still giving caustic damage. After the First effect has been neutralized, then the second caustic damage effect will be neutralized by the CSL, while the third is still giving caustic damage. One at a time.
But if you have Multiple CSLs, then multiple cautic damage effects will be neutralized.
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While there's no way a solo Cmdr can get the exposed core down to zero percent, I was in solo today and I was able to nanite torpedo 4 or 5 thermal vents in one pass (giving myself a decent amount of time on the exposed core) and get it down to about 95% (using a single aegis multi canon) which gave a combat bond payout and (presumably) contributed something towards the progress bar. I actually found it a fairly satisfying solo game loop and spent a very enjoyable hour or so doing that. I probably won't do an awful lot more but for what it's worth I didn't feel the need to find a large wing in order to enjoy it.
I am 100% sure, at least for me, the behavior is the same pre- and post-U18. I have all caustics on one trigger, firing the trigger ejects all of them, used or not, and they fill one after the other. Absolutely no change for me.I think they've actually broken them - they used to work like you say - and I'm pretty sure only the ones with caustic would 'fire' when asked - now even the ones that haven't been used will deplete (I have them all on one trigger). And also they don't always remove corrosion from the hull when fired - pretty sure they used to, but now you seem to need to empty the sink again if the hull is corroding (at least some of the time). Ah well, that's fdev
Update 19 includes a PowerPlay overhaul, coinciding with President-elect Winters taking office. I should think much of that will have less to do with Thargoids.
I think the fix specifically referred to caustic missiles. I understood it to mean that regular caustic damage would fill up sinks individually, while missile damage was filling them all up simultaneously.
No idea if that's actually the case, though.
Agreed. No observable difference to the behaviour of how they absorb caustic or how they are operated (even with regards to how they auto-cycle if your ship gets caustic while being dismissed).
In other news, this item from the update 17 release notes:
seems to actually have made it into the game with this update. Better late than never!
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P.S. just been watching Karhaa soloing and getting the core down close to 75% ... it's actually a really fun challenge seeing how many vents you can hit before they close and then how low you can get the core before it retracts.
Could the live summary video be subtitled into other languages such as Portuguese and Spanish?
I did this in Open last night but this morning switched back to Solo, too many muppets messing around and setting off more flak than London saw in the 40s
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