Summarizing 3.03:
– You can clean off power bounties. Thanks. It was annoying to see the wanted flag all the time, even when clean in a system. (thumbs up)
– Skimmer missions work as intended. (thumbs up)
– Large hardpoint turrets work better now. (thumbs up)
But then...
– Criminals or pirate style players can never change their outfitting anywhere. Unless spending quite some money to clean their hot ships. So crime careers are broken.
– Assassination mission target location are not revealed by scanning. So Assassination missions are broken.
– Massacre Mission targets are not counting as mission targets. So massacre missions are broken.
– Faction Ranking missions do not spawn. So Ranking is broken.
– Passanger missions that take long traveltimes to the station still have no overdone payout multiplier. Passenger bulk numbers are nearly doubled by same payout. So Taxi-service is not worth the time anymore.
– Some Guardian Site Obelisks still refuse to be encrypted even if the right artifacts are in the cargobay. So Guardians Mission is half-broken.
So basically all my favorite things to do are out of order. Is it just me, or did they really mess up the entire game with this 3.03 patch?
Anyway, I hope they smash the bugs very soon. The intended changes in 3.03 are very appreciated by me. But who let the bugs out? who. who-who.
I am actually quite surprised at just how rushed and defect ridden this last patch was.
I... I just don't want to log in to play, because the missions I was doing for fun with mates are all broken...
I was staring at the ship build I have been designing up, and thinking "Why bother? what if they aren't considering all these issues as defects.. what if they actually have changed the core gameplay intentionally... "