Test Server Feedback

Noticing a lot of bugs on Duality. However, the changes are AWESOME. The people whining about the order of shield armor structure on the GUI needs a chillpill. After the first shot you know how it works instantly, and it looks insanely cool. The new sounds for the turrets are also super sweet.

Eve just keeps getting better and better with each expansion.

Old notification bar is just where you want to position the ships you are attacking.

Hud flash icon is to small. Damage hit damage received scroll below the icon would be better.

In range icon gets lost when you target someone needs to me moved to outside the health bars after targeted or be brighter.

Will the green icon around my drones change to red if it is getting shot please.

TIDI is active in most systems 26%

Ore hold persits even when in a ship that does not have an ore hold.

Back again for my second test this morning;

Still nothing is rendering in space, no ships, gates, nothing.

Also TiDi is running in all my local systems, most are at 56% but some are running at 26%, odd as I am the only one in the system.

I took on a L4 mission to test the new AI and can confirm it seems to be working, I lost 3 drones before I was able to recall them (with TiDi running things take time to update and they were dead before the recall notice was activated). Shame I can’t replace them as my local market is empty.

Running the mission was ‘not fun’;
1, I was unable to see any ships attacking me

2, The new targeting reticules seem too big and obscured the screen too much (without ships to compare them against this might be an unfair judgement).

3, As I am red/green colour blind the faded colour (I assume red), of the target reticule is very hard for me to see, it might be useful to have a colour blind mode with a change of colour for people like myself. After all we don’t always need red as a warning colour as long as we (as in myself) know this is the warning.
My son who was watching the test also pointed out there was a colour change from I think yellow or green to red but again this was not apparent to me (could someone confirm this please).

4. The targeted ship icon that displays when you target a ship, (I stack mine vertically), also seem a bit big, this could be a false impression compared to the old style square target but it does seem bigger.

5, From the above statement, the target icon has three segments that I assume show shields, armour and structure. But they seem to be arranged anticlockwise, I would have thought clockwise would have resulted in a more ‘logical’ train of thought and a more speedy ‘glance to check’ display.

6, I was flying a Drake with missiles loaded and had some really odd results when firing, missiles would explode nowhere near the targeted ship and sometimes exploded around my own ship but cause damage to the targeted ship.

7, Incoming missiles only appeared at random and other type of incoming ordinance was like the ships invisible, so I could not see what they were or where coming from.

8, Clicking the missile fire button resulted in no audio feedback (i.e. no click sound) also no visual feedback of a colour change to show the button was pressed.

9, because of the TiDi reloading my missiles seemed very odd, first there was no corresponding flashing of the icons to confirm the re-load, then the TiDi took so long to action it I started clicking each icon separately (panic mode) and then the icons started to flash and change to the launcher when they actually re-loaded.
Which did the re-load, your guess is as good as mine.

So I know this is a test build, shame we have very little to actually test.

Guys, sorry you've all been posting and not getting any feedback, but we had a company day out yesterday and I imagine most devs are a little fragile today. Keep it coming and thanks for your efforts so far. We're working towards getting TiDi disabled on Duality so that this doesn't continue affecting your testing.


EDIT: For those saying they don't see a difference in AI, it won't be any different if you're the only one on grid and you're not using drones. We encourage people to team up and run some missions or plexes together, in different sizes of ship, and see what happens!

Nice to see you censored out my post.
Winder why?

Not a single post of yours in this thread has an edited flag on it. What are you talking about?

so what you are saying is your comments are moot untill you dl the client and start trying it out?

cool.

Please don't... We don't want a blow by blow account, we want general feedback or specific instances where things went wrong.

You wanted feedback, and people have called into question my integrity, so feedback you will get...lot's of it. I have much of the weekend free, so unless you plan on censoring me, I am giving precise feedback on as many missions as I can. And since when is precise data bad for a developer? Oh yeah, when the data runs counter to what you want.
BTW, the first 2 mission were liveable for drone operators, but WILL kill small drones very quickly.