Patch Notes Update Update 2.1.03 Incoming
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Michael,
"- When determining the rank of NPC ships, use the player's combat rank" - you are not spawning any lower Rank NPC that may attack us right? Meaning they will still spawn as both CLEAN/WANTED but not engage us because they show some intelligence? I think it SHOULD be capped at 1 Rank above player combat rank who attack but all ranks are still spawned. I have hated to have only 3 Ranks consistently attack me (I'm Dangerous) and seen very little change in their styles of attack now. Only capping the top ranks it should
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Oh so if we now pledge we get 10% easier game - LOL omg!!! I'll need to pledge just because (meh!)
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Now then, you have fixed tons BUT...the single most important fix is...
DO NOT RELEASE UNTIL ALL FIXES DONE AND MAKE BETA TESTING WORTHWHILE
"- When determining the rank of NPC ships, use the player's combat rank" - you are not spawning any lower Rank NPC that may attack us right? Meaning they will still spawn as both CLEAN/WANTED but not engage us because they show some intelligence? I think it SHOULD be capped at 1 Rank above player combat rank who attack but all ranks are still spawned. I have hated to have only 3 Ranks consistently attack me (I'm Dangerous) and seen very little change in their styles of attack now. Only capping the top ranks it should
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Oh so if we now pledge we get 10% easier game - LOL omg!!! I'll need to pledge just because (meh!)
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Now then, you have fixed tons BUT...the single most important fix is...
DO NOT RELEASE UNTIL ALL FIXES DONE AND MAKE BETA TESTING WORTHWHILE
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Michael, developers...
This patch is great.
But!
I have a single point to make, which is - storage!
When you introduced Engineers, you also introduced cargo-as-a-reward. Often, this cargo-as-reward is something which an Engineer would want, for one of their modifications.
This means that as time goes on, a player now has to cart cargo around with them everywhere they go, which does two things;
1) Increases the likelihood that a pirate sees said cargo
2) Extra weight of ship and less cargo space for other normal gameplay cargo.
It seems to me that it would have been logical to implement cargo storage at stations, at the time Engineers was released. Either that, or in the absence of cargo storage, have made Engineers not require cargo items for modifications, instead only using collected materials, and have missions only give materials as rewards.
You could have designed Engineers such that some materials necessary for some modifications were only available from missions, if you didn't have the time to implement Storage.
The Engineers implementation as it stands is designed to create too much burden and hassle on the player due to the reasons stated above. My question is; what are your thoughts on this and are there any plans afoot to change this situation for the near future?
This patch is great.
But!
I have a single point to make, which is - storage!
When you introduced Engineers, you also introduced cargo-as-a-reward. Often, this cargo-as-reward is something which an Engineer would want, for one of their modifications.
This means that as time goes on, a player now has to cart cargo around with them everywhere they go, which does two things;
1) Increases the likelihood that a pirate sees said cargo
2) Extra weight of ship and less cargo space for other normal gameplay cargo.
It seems to me that it would have been logical to implement cargo storage at stations, at the time Engineers was released. Either that, or in the absence of cargo storage, have made Engineers not require cargo items for modifications, instead only using collected materials, and have missions only give materials as rewards.
You could have designed Engineers such that some materials necessary for some modifications were only available from missions, if you didn't have the time to implement Storage.
The Engineers implementation as it stands is designed to create too much burden and hassle on the player due to the reasons stated above. My question is; what are your thoughts on this and are there any plans afoot to change this situation for the near future?
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That's a good start. Can we please also have info if you have plans to reduce the tedium and make working for Engineers a little more fun? If yes, could we please have some pointers on what the plan could be?
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Awesome changes in there. One thing I missed was: Prevent mission updates with the request to deliver in zero minutes. It's awesome if you get a short timeline for delivery, but it's frustrating if you get an impossible one, which fails already when you receive the update.
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Sounds interesting, might be a good thing.
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Ah. Finally the buildings reach the floor. Much appreciated.
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Interesting. Comparing these patch notes to a lot of the fixed problems having been reported during Beta 2/3 gives some insight into your patch cycles.
It might be sarcastic, but I've seen this "milestones are kept, quality is delivered later" already in other places, so unlike for many others, this gives me at least some confidence back that some issues might get fixed.
They could do the slider thing like with poulation so we can still see system types. Maybe even give a jump calculation that goes through the highest security systems possible in the shortest distance possible.Fantastic!
Now can you please add System Security Level to the Galaxy Map, so we can all see it, without needing to do the merry dance...
- Select System
- Select System Map
- Wait 5-10 seconds for it to load
- BACK
- Select System
- Select System Map
- Wait 5-10 seconds for it to load
- BACK
- Select System
- Select System Map
- Wait 5-10 seconds for it to load
- BACK
- Select System
- Select System Map
- Wait 5-10 seconds for it to load
- BACK
Actually, nobody does this, because it's unusable that way.
So very few people are aware of Security Level topology as they travel about the galaxy.
It would be great if they could see it. Please!
Is any of this ^^ going to give me ULTRA quality/resolution on planets now?
After the original 2.1 update the surface detail and overall realism of planetary textures was removed and replaced by bland, lifeless LOW resolution textures despite having all rendering settings set to the ULTRA preset and/or MAXED to highest settings possible. In addition to the loss of surface detail and high resolution, my frame rates had degraded from the previous locked 60fps at 1080p 60hz, to an unstable fps with drops and stutters as low as single digits for millisecond periods. In ALL areas of the game! Including deep space with no significant assets or bodies to render!
Considering my gaming PC includes an overclocked 980ti, Intel i7 6700k @ 4.7Ghz, and the game installed on my Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD system drive, having ANY of the above graphics and performance issues on a machine as powerful as this indicates some significant issues with the game code somewhere! I have made no changes to my original 2.0 settings which delivered exceptional performance and graphics quality!
The items listed under RENDER don't seem to specifically address the specific complaints I included in several bug reports, but I will keep my fingers crossed that whatever was causing all the degraded performance since the 2.1 updates will finally be resolved with this new one.
When I can fire up GTA5 and other graphic intensive games on this same rig and get a locked 60fps in 4k with all graphic settings maxed, there is no excuse for any fps or graphics quality issues with Horizons at 1080p 60Hz! It certainly has nothing to do with my PC, that is blatantly obvious.
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Was this because of how dark Darwin's Legacy at Beagle Point was because it was dark!
WOW thats a big update, you guys really have been burning the midnight oil, nice job guys.. Will be very happy when the lag is sorted when entering station services, galaxy map and logging out. Since the last update ive only had around 8-10 buzz crashes so these updates are really changing the experience, keep up the good work guys.
Oh and please give us the Panther Clipper at some stage. Ive got all these credits with nothing left to spend them on.
Oh and please give us the Panther Clipper at some stage. Ive got all these credits with nothing left to spend them on.
When you go to create a blueprint, after the normal experimental effect chance, you'll get an option in the UI to change (or force) the effect.
It costs one level to choose an effect, and another level to force one. It's free to remove an effect.
Hopefully this makes sense?
Thats pretty harsh, man.
Otherwise, thanks for the much needed update.
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There's no closing a can of tears once open. Only hope now is that people drown in them.
Sorry, not sorry. More than a little frustrated by all the NPC complaining that's been going around.
I understand this game isn't built around me though, so we'll see how it plays out. Some of the NPC spawning changes do sound to be a bit of an improvement.
Sorry, not sorry. More than a little frustrated by all the NPC complaining that's been going around.
I understand this game isn't built around me though, so we'll see how it plays out. Some of the NPC spawning changes do sound to be a bit of an improvement.
Which is a guarantee that the smaller ship owners are less likely to play the Engineer RNG game. And means, only the larger ship owners will be able to. Sux to have an Asp and below.
you capacitors will be much smaller, so if you dont have many pips in engines, you will be able to boost a lot.
I think this is a very BAD change, in 2.1 even shielded ships which had put all pips to sys and wep were finally able to move around a bit...
I hate to be churlish, but does this include a fix for the 'disconnect from matchmaking servers' on approach to *any*planet that has affected a minority of us? Without this fix, the whole 'Engineers' part of the game is unplayable, as are planetary missions, and exploring loses a lot of its charm if I can't land and appreciate the view.
Was hoping this would be fixed in this update ?
Was hoping this would be fixed in this update ?
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