[VIDEO] 1.2 NEW features - Ship Locator and Jump Counter

Nutter · Mar 10, 2015

Right then - New Feature in 1.2 that nobody is talking about...

New Ship Locator - Via the Maps

[video=youtube_share;F0rkGnqiaUo]http://youtu.be/F0rkGnqiaUo[/video]

New Jump Counter on the Nav Panel

[video=youtube_share;M5e5CgJ8D5U]http://youtu.be/M5e5CgJ8D5U[/video]

Thoughts on these two new beauties?

Nutter

piercehead · Mar 10, 2015

Excellent. While neither of these are "needed" any QoL improvements like these we get are...gravy.

Hitsuke · Mar 10, 2015

Is the voice put on for the "Yarrrrgh" effect or do you have laryngitis? Just asking, because a lot of people have got bad sore throats at the moment

PS thanks for the vids, nice to see what's coming up later.

Jockey79 · Mar 10, 2015

Cheers for the vids Nutter - I didn't know about the jump counter and I've been playing the Beta !

Goes to show how people can over look small details

Glad it is in though, that will become my most used screen I think

Nutter · Mar 10, 2015

Hitsuke said:
Is the voice put on for the "Yarrrrgh" effect or do you have laryngitis? Just asking, because a lot of people have got bad sore throats at the moment

PS thanks for the vids, nice to see what's coming up later.

Brandy and Onion Head have a strange effect

Cyda · Mar 10, 2015

That jump counter is useful, cheers for pointing it out!

ninja · Mar 10, 2015

thx 4 the info

starsphinx · Mar 10, 2015

The ship locator is a definite bonus - I have a viper somewhere I just have no idea where. It would be nice to find it again.

Cruise · Mar 10, 2015

Nice one, great work commander

Whiterose · Mar 10, 2015

Nice. Particularly like the jump counter. Useful on the way back from the nether lands.

Armour · Mar 10, 2015

OP is Burnley FC manager Sean Dyche and I claim my £5.

lazygun · Mar 10, 2015

Nice one Nutter.

I propose that we use your voice for the ship computer (with full on Yars, avast and mateys).

FD... sort this out pronto.

LG

Cpt_Zap · Mar 10, 2015

Nutter said:
Brandy and Onion Head have a strange effect

Oh I see, just thought you were Cornish

Didn't I see something about an Orary in the patch notes (or was that a future update?), haven't seen anything on it so far, anybody got any info ?

knowles2 · Mar 10, 2015

Even Frontier must have forgotten about it, I can't remember it being mention in any of the patch notes.

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Cpt_Zap said:
Oh I see, just thought you were Cornish

Didn't I see something about an Orary in the patch notes (or was that a future update?), haven't seen anything on it so far, anybody got any info ?

Michael brooks mentioned that the Orary was on the list of things they planned to implement.

Ship locator always been there, just a new logo and improvements to get it to display constantly the old one didn't seem show up at some of the galaxy zoom in levels.

Love the pirate voice overs.

Nutter · Mar 10, 2015

lazygun said:
Nice one Nutter.

I propose that we use your voice for the ship computer (with full on Yars, avast and mateys).

FD... sort this out pronto.

LG

Something like - "Gahrrr! It be hotter than a supernova in here, you're frying the modules like a kipper on a neutron star! Sort it out ya space dog, before we're eating the vacuum! Arrrrrh!"

Frank · Mar 10, 2015

starsphinx said:
The ship locator is a definite bonus - I have a viper somewhere I just have no idea where. It would be nice to find it again.

The ship locator is great. It's attention to detail that makes all the difference.

There is a way to find your Viper.. Go to any shipyard and move to the stored ship window. You should see where your ship is from that. Sorry I can't be sure about the wording or even whether this is true. I can't play the game at the moment.

Entilzar · Mar 10, 2015

Hitsuke said:
Is the voice put on for the "Yarrrrgh" effect or do you have laryngitis? Just asking, because a lot of people have got bad sore throats at the moment

PS thanks for the vids, nice to see what's coming up later.

Sounds like Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball

Excellent work Mr N as ever

Enty

Mephane · Mar 10, 2015

starsphinx said:
The ship locator is a definite bonus - I have a viper somewhere I just have no idea where. It would be nice to find it again.

You can already find it by going to any shipyard, then open the last tab "ship locations", it lists all your ships and the systems where they are parked. The new locator on the galaxy map is just a bonus.

Auditore · Mar 10, 2015

At first I was like 'why is he doing Bale's batman voice?' lol!
These are simple but quite welcome additions to the game. Keep 'em coming FD!

Nutter · Mar 10, 2015

Mephane said:
You can already find it by going to any shipyard, then open the last tab "ship locations", it lists all your ships and the systems where they are parked. The new locator on the galaxy map is just a bonus.

Kinda - but when shipyards are not around, where do you jump to?