Patch Notes Update Update incoming - 2.0.07 patch notes

[Walter2]

Sorry, but a "couple of hours" is not an answer at all, about what time can we play the game again? Next time just announce clearly when you are going to shut the servers down and for how long.

You only have to read the posts and do the arithmetic. The notice that it would take a couple more hours than expected was posted at 1.00 UK time: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239596&page=8&p=3706094&viewfull=1#post3706094.

 

[xondk]

- First Discovery tags from Xbox Commanders now display on PC/Mac
- Wanted Xbox commanders can now appear in top 5 bounty local news reports

So have to ask, does this mean cross platform play is coming to Elite? would be great, however really need a local voice channel...

 

[Thebadmf]

- Added new VR specific graphics presets (VR Low and VR High)
- Added VR experience demo as a scenario in the tutorials menu

Good News, everyone! Any details on the VR scenario?

 

[anikaiful]

In hoping there's some more fixes under the hood (primarily the scan&ram nuisance).

 

[the zeff]

how big the updates usually

 

[TheoZ]

Punctuality plz...it's something FD misses....

 

[FU5E]

VR Upgrade? Nice one! Any Info for us DK2 Users? Will we be able to play with 1.3?

 

[Adam Jay]

Hey guys,

We have a patch coming in this morning. It means there will be scheduled server downtime from 10am and will last between 1-2 hours.

Well thanks for letting us know this far ahead. Update on update also wouldn't hurt now when it's taking more than 2 hours.

BTW my client says 2.0.07, not 2.0.7 - not that I care that much, but search engines tend to do.

 

[cooly_hat]

You only have to read the posts and do the arithmetic. The notice that it would take a couple more hours than expected was posted at 1.00 UK time: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239596&page=8&p=3706094&viewfull=1#post3706094.

... yes, and you only have to read through #114 posts, before you find this "... couple of hours..." hint.

 

[Heater]

Read the op perhaps?

And I got yelled at for telling them to Read

 

[Nerwan]

Nope. Galaxy server time continues regardless of their up or down status. To be fair they gave an hour's notice in game, and repeated the message every 5 minutes or so. I know, because I was racing the clock trying to get my last smuggling deliveries done.

An hour's notice doesn't really help when you take the day off work, accept a load of missions in the morning, take the kids out for a trip and then come back to do the missions in the afternoon...

 

[Infinati]

I'm a little confused, people are asking if runtime 0.8 will work now, but it already did when using "STEAM VR", now my question is, will STEAM VR still work? Because that is how I played with runtime 0.8 and afaik STEAM VR doesn't use any SDK (Not sure), I'll ask again, is Steam VR broken??? (DK2 user)

 

[Walter2]

Erm...

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Badly implemented code anticipating quantum computing: it's both too old and too new simultaneously, but you'll need to upgrade your machine.

 

[DarthBlingBling]

An hour's notice doesn't really help when you take the day off work, accept a load of missions in the morning, take the kids out for a trip and then come back to do the missions in the afternoon...

You took the day off work to play a video game?

 

[TheoZ]

Erm...

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Yeah it has been mentioned several times but it seems it is too complicated to be fixed? Actually, I can imagine FDevs running all over the place with the patch 2.1 so they don't have time to fix this minor thingy.

 

[777Driver]

I'm a little confused, people are asking if runtime 0.8 will work now, but it already did when using "STEAM VR", now my question is, will STEAM VR still work? Because that is how I played with runtime 0.8 and afaik STEAM VR doesn't use any SDK (Not sure), I'll ask again, is Steam VR broken??? (DK2 user)

Everyone in VR knows 0.8 already works, the problem is that SDK can cause performance issues in ED, that's why myself and others have stuck with 0.5/0.6

I'll fully admit I haven't touched Steam VR and don't fully understand it - From my understanding it is steam VR that is causes issues with ED, am hoping this update means we won't need it.

 

[Nerwan]

You took the day off work to play a video game?

Oi judgey, I didn't (which part of taking the kids out for a trip didn't you read?) but so what if I did? But anyway look at the context, the day off work is coincidental. My point is that with only an hour's notice you may well accept missions before you get any notice that the server is going down and you may well be offline by the time the notice arrives.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Sorry for what is almost certainly a stupid question, but: I'm running the Mac version and have the client currently launched. The 'Server Status' says 'UPGRADING' still (although the 'Bulletin' confusingly says it's been updated to 2.0.07). My question is: will the status automatically change once the upgrade is complete, or do I have to quit and relaunch the client to get the latest status? I assume it'll automatically update but felt it worth asking just in case..!

 

[tarks382]

Yeah it has been mentioned several times but it seems it is too complicated to be fixed? Actually, I can imagine FDevs running all over the place with the patch 2.1 so they don't have time to fix this minor thingy.

More the humour of it really. Not that bothered. As long as I don't have the dreaded validation error when installing the update.

 

[Kizbot]

I'm a little confused, people are asking if runtime 0.8 will work now, but it already did when using "STEAM VR", now my question is, will STEAM VR still work? Because that is how I played with runtime 0.8 and afaik STEAM VR doesn't use any SDK (Not sure), I'll ask again, is Steam VR broken??? (DK2 user)

Im not sure that SteamVR was actually required to run 0.8.. I mean I have it installed but I have never had steamVR running in the background when playing ED using 0.8.