I'm annoyed. Things that used to work well in 1.2 / 1.3 are now either maddeningly broken or so one-sided as to be frankly ridiculous. It isn't only bugs, this is by design.
Just picked up a Fed Dropship rigged out with 96 cargo. I accepted a mission to carry 17 tons of narcotics and wait for a contact to get in touch. Fine, I take off after accepting another couple of recovery missions (Ancient Artifacts and Personal Items) to keep me busy while I wait for this guy. I find a bunch of stuff in WSS and salvage zones. Every time I go back into supercruise I scan for my contact and see nothing for over an hour.
I'm interdicted five times by WANTED Eagles and Vipers spewing "I want it all". Great, you have 4T & 8T cargo and I have 56T. You want it all, do you?
I can't beat the interdictions anymore so I submit and either fight or run. Yes, I'm a crap pilot, but Isinona posted a video a few days ago and even he couldn't avoid one. Interdictions used to work fine. Few complained they were problematic, yet Frontier changed them for the worse. I defended Frontier at the time, but the mechanic has degraded since then. Earlier today, I submitted to an interdiction with zero throttle and no stick inputs and won! I stayed in supercruise and whoever interdicted fell into real space with me doing nothing. I've lost interdictions where my blue bar was full as well.
To carry on with my evening activities, I racked up 100K in bounties on WANTED pirates waiting for the guy who never showed up and was doing fine. Then I get interdicted by a security Viper. He catches me by surprise, the Escape Vector disappears quickly so I lower throttle to submit. It says on the screen "zero throttle, submitted." Then I crash into real space with a long cooldown "FSD failure, interdicted". Detecting a scan, I drop into silent running and boost away. Viper was a kilometer away, scan went through and I get fined for carrying illegal goods. Video below.
From now on, if I do accept a smuggling mission, I'm not even going to leave the pad. I'm going to abandon the mission immediately, sell the goods in the Black Market and go do my own thing instead. It's the only sane option left open to me until things are corrected.
I'm all for multi-crew, avatars, and the rest of the Horizons hit list. However, I think all of that should be placed on hold until these annoying bugs, inconsistent game mechanics and frankly dumb missions are fixed. Even if the bugs are fixed, the bad game design choices need to be sorted out. PC / NPC chaff/silent running should be consistent. It isn't, as the video shows, and that's a HUGE problem. Missions have also been nobbled. I'm not asking for 8 million credit smuggle missions, but something over 100K from an allied power to help pay for running a Clipper with 2.6 million rebuy might help. I'm allied with the Federation and the local Fed sub-faction. I only saw one mission today over 100K and that was the narcotics job that went wrong. I used to make 200-500K for a power sponsored pirate killing or fetch mission. I'd spend days getting into their good books for decent payouts. Those days are gone. I can make more by going with the lesser factions. Someone with 2% control can pay me more the the ruling faction. Yeah, that makes sense.
I'm off to play Fallout 4. It's buggy as well, but at least its consistent and I can live with that. I bought Elite when it was Dangerous, but the game I'm playing today is Elite: Illogical.
I used to champion this game and recommend it to friends. I can no longer do that in it's present state. This is correctable, easily so.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I love this game. If I didn't care, I'd just leave without saying a word.
Vid here: https://youtu.be/027hAfCOJYc
Just picked up a Fed Dropship rigged out with 96 cargo. I accepted a mission to carry 17 tons of narcotics and wait for a contact to get in touch. Fine, I take off after accepting another couple of recovery missions (Ancient Artifacts and Personal Items) to keep me busy while I wait for this guy. I find a bunch of stuff in WSS and salvage zones. Every time I go back into supercruise I scan for my contact and see nothing for over an hour.
I'm interdicted five times by WANTED Eagles and Vipers spewing "I want it all". Great, you have 4T & 8T cargo and I have 56T. You want it all, do you?
I can't beat the interdictions anymore so I submit and either fight or run. Yes, I'm a crap pilot, but Isinona posted a video a few days ago and even he couldn't avoid one. Interdictions used to work fine. Few complained they were problematic, yet Frontier changed them for the worse. I defended Frontier at the time, but the mechanic has degraded since then. Earlier today, I submitted to an interdiction with zero throttle and no stick inputs and won! I stayed in supercruise and whoever interdicted fell into real space with me doing nothing. I've lost interdictions where my blue bar was full as well.
To carry on with my evening activities, I racked up 100K in bounties on WANTED pirates waiting for the guy who never showed up and was doing fine. Then I get interdicted by a security Viper. He catches me by surprise, the Escape Vector disappears quickly so I lower throttle to submit. It says on the screen "zero throttle, submitted." Then I crash into real space with a long cooldown "FSD failure, interdicted". Detecting a scan, I drop into silent running and boost away. Viper was a kilometer away, scan went through and I get fined for carrying illegal goods. Video below.
From now on, if I do accept a smuggling mission, I'm not even going to leave the pad. I'm going to abandon the mission immediately, sell the goods in the Black Market and go do my own thing instead. It's the only sane option left open to me until things are corrected.
I'm all for multi-crew, avatars, and the rest of the Horizons hit list. However, I think all of that should be placed on hold until these annoying bugs, inconsistent game mechanics and frankly dumb missions are fixed. Even if the bugs are fixed, the bad game design choices need to be sorted out. PC / NPC chaff/silent running should be consistent. It isn't, as the video shows, and that's a HUGE problem. Missions have also been nobbled. I'm not asking for 8 million credit smuggle missions, but something over 100K from an allied power to help pay for running a Clipper with 2.6 million rebuy might help. I'm allied with the Federation and the local Fed sub-faction. I only saw one mission today over 100K and that was the narcotics job that went wrong. I used to make 200-500K for a power sponsored pirate killing or fetch mission. I'd spend days getting into their good books for decent payouts. Those days are gone. I can make more by going with the lesser factions. Someone with 2% control can pay me more the the ruling faction. Yeah, that makes sense.
I'm off to play Fallout 4. It's buggy as well, but at least its consistent and I can live with that. I bought Elite when it was Dangerous, but the game I'm playing today is Elite: Illogical.
I used to champion this game and recommend it to friends. I can no longer do that in it's present state. This is correctable, easily so.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I love this game. If I didn't care, I'd just leave without saying a word.
Vid here: https://youtu.be/027hAfCOJYc