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Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#81 - 2014-10-03 15:31:03 UTC
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45723

Beta 2.04 will be live by 17:00 BST

Thanks to your continued feedback, and all the tickets you've logged, the team have managed to schedule another update for later today.

Full details on 2.04 will be added as soon as they are available. Keep one eye on this thread.

Thanks again from all the team at Frontier Developments.

Change log for update 2.04:

- Fix softlocks when exiting supercruise near to some stations
- Fix crash in preflight checklist
- Prevent server crash when an overlay is being unloaded while it's still in the load queue
- Removed old way of enabling/disabling stars
- Fix missing galaxy map background
- Fix assert in galaxy map
- Prevent missions selecting stations that you cannot complete the mission at
- Only send the next mission progression if the mission is not completed and shutting down
- Fix unable to sell all exploration data
- Do not assign factions to bounties that don’t exist
- GUI and smoke effects have now been made more subtle and glows have been reduced a little on the schematics
- Added 'Disable GUI Effects' option to the GUI shader so no cloudyness, parallax or colour tinting is applied when this option is set
- Added damage stats to all weapons for outfitting GUI
- Fixed malformed resource for repair module
- Increase server send buffer from 32k to 500k
- Allow network configuration file to specify a range of ports for the game to choose from
- Allow the send buffer size on the socket to be adjusted
- Replace a new diagnostic assert in the network code with writing a line into the log file
- Guard against replay attacks for mission accept and mission update
- Fixes for tutorial typos
- Fix for the news feed not showing GalNet on the manually entered new bulletins
- Fix for regenerating already existing ring texture
- Update text for good and bad trade good entries on the news feed
- Added in new news entry for a system bulletin
- Give star models on the system map a wider range of sizes
- Increase the timeout between talkchannel and friends list requests
- Remove misleading reports from server logs
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#82 - 2014-10-03 19:07:48 UTC
Newsletter 43 is out. Yep, beta3 in Oct28.
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=396ec1dd05

Also, a nice video I found of an ice ring in the Hepa system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iqu5yUOB-0
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#83 - 2014-10-03 19:28:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Commissar Kate
Bertrand Butler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iqu5yUOB-0



Oh ****... thats really awesome.


I love the realistic approach to celestial bodies. Does stuff actually orbit planets and stars too?

-k8

My Fanclub
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#84 - 2014-10-03 19:44:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Bertrand Butler
Commissar Kate wrote:
Bertrand Butler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iqu5yUOB-0



Oh ****... thats really awesome.


I love the realistic approach to celestial bodies. Does stuff actually orbit planets and stars too?


Yep. Stations orbit planets, planets orbit stars. They do it in real time though (and in 1:1 scale) so sometimes the effect is very subtle.

The real fun is with multiple star systems and exploration...
https://imgur.com/a/1LWfx
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#85 - 2014-10-04 01:52:20 UTC
I take back everything I said about the Beta not being worth it due to it's release this quater 4, Beta 2.04 is a dream!
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#86 - 2014-10-05 09:15:25 UTC
And some nice screenshots...

https://imgur.com/a/R7O8R#0
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#87 - 2014-10-05 18:31:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Bertrand Butler
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#88 - 2014-10-07 14:28:08 UTC
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#89 - 2014-10-08 15:48:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Commissar Kate
Bertrand Butler wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCKMLANWoMg


Damn, the more I see this stuff the more I want to sperg out on it.

Me and my damn weakness for space games and sims. Lol

-k8

My Fanclub
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#90 - 2014-10-08 17:41:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Bertrand Butler
Here is the latest pic of the week , showcasing a screenshot from a previous trunk build with the player scooping fuel from a stars' chromosphere. Check out the condensation inside the cockpit window btw. O_o

http://imgur.com/D08vYuK.jpg

( http://imgur.com/a/HkBWO ) have made an album with all of them for anyone interested)


Also, Sandro posted a new poll regarding changes to the beta2 flight model. Be sure to vote (if you care, that is).

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47988

btw..it seems that people are scrambling a lot to test a number of things in the beta, and some other stuff really goes unnoticed, especially in the sound department. For example, hear this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRabW-ZAx30

http://vimeo.com/108347321

I know, no sound in space, etc. Don't care.

lastly, some more pictures.

http://i.imgur.com/oRESqTl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XYnOdIy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AAEYjnn.png

http://i.imgur.com/G74RG4X.png

http://i.imgur.com/lbgBEtP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/py3OGOY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EA1mglC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vx1nC8z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SerZR1U.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jzeTUvt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mx9oklG.jpg
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#91 - 2014-10-09 17:59:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Bertrand Butler
Tarpedo
Incursionista
#92 - 2014-10-10 00:30:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarpedo
2.05 patch enabled online mode for me (there were a lot of crashes after hyperjump before 2.05) and it turned out I'm not interesting in it as much as I've expected: due to lack of depth in this gameplay (do 2 kinds of stuff - hauling and fighting - to buy better ships to do 2 kinds of stuff faster) I already did everything I could during 10 days passed since 2.0 beta release.

And it seems I'm not alone - there is thread on Reddit about lack of long-term goals and interest to the game. Unless Frontier will add some RPG elements and building gameplay (planetary bases for example) game will be nearly empty in few weeks after release. Gameplay which was fine 30 years ago on empty computer games market is turned out to be pretty trivial, banal today (even in procedural environment) when there are many MMO(RPG) alternatives available.

Perhaps CCP should consider ditching Valkyrie right now: if Elite cannot hold most players for more than two weeks - then what future is awaiting even less deep Valkyrie?
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#93 - 2014-10-10 01:15:25 UTC
Tarpedo wrote:
2.05 patch enabled online mode for me (there were a lot of crashes after hyperjump before 2.05) and it turned out I'm not interesting in it as much as I've expected: due to lack of depth in this gameplay (do 2 kinds of stuff - hauling and fighting - to buy better ships to do 2 kinds of stuff faster) I already did everything I could during 10 days passed since 2.0 beta release.

And it seems I'm not alone - there is thread on Reddit about lack of long-term goals and interest to the game. Unless Frontier will add some RPG elements and building gameplay (planetary bases for example) game will be nearly empty in few weeks after release. Gameplay which was fine 30 years ago on empty computer games market is turned out to be pretty trivial, banal today (even in procedural environment) when there are many MMO(RPG) alternatives available.

Perhaps CCP should consider ditching Valkyrie right now: if Elite cannot hold most players for more than two weeks - then what future is awaiting even less deep Valkyrie?



From what I have seen, Eve Valkyrie is a different type of game. Its a fast paced spaceship FPS. Something to get you a quick space themed gaming fix.

-k8

My Fanclub
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#94 - 2014-10-10 16:47:56 UTC
Tarpedo wrote:
2.05 patch enabled online mode for me (there were a lot of crashes after hyperjump before 2.05) and it turned out I'm not interesting in it as much as I've expected: due to lack of depth in this gameplay (do 2 kinds of stuff - hauling and fighting - to buy better ships to do 2 kinds of stuff faster) I already did everything I could during 10 days passed since 2.0 beta release.

And it seems I'm not alone - there is thread on Reddit about lack of long-term goals and interest to the game. Unless Frontier will add some RPG elements and building gameplay (planetary bases for example) game will be nearly empty in few weeks after release. Gameplay which was fine 30 years ago on empty computer games market is turned out to be pretty trivial, banal today (even in procedural environment) when there are many MMO(RPG) alternatives available.

Perhaps CCP should consider ditching Valkyrie right now: if Elite cannot hold most players for more than two weeks - then what future is awaiting even less deep Valkyrie?


I guess you didn't realise you bought a space sim and not a rpg mmo. Shocked

On release there will be the whole know Galaxy to explore mathematicaly mapped out to the best of modern science.
Some 400billion systems to explore on a 1:1 scale of our very own Milky Way, and as the developers said it would be dispointing if there wasn't alien life out there.

Also bollocks you did everything in 10days, absolute bollocks. And p.p.s. It's the frikin beta.
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#95 - 2014-10-10 17:44:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Bertrand Butler
Newsletter 44 is out. Mostly describing multiple ship ownership coming in beta3.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=763bb19c70

http://imgur.com/d7Co6sT.jpg
http://imgur.com/M4v1Iwy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Lai3sqE.jpg

http://imgur.com/XH9XPZ0.jpg
http://imgur.com/5ZU8z7R.jpg
http://imgur.com/evv506K.jpg

A nice video showing the Andjeri System.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_BxjL4YTYg

And some cool shots of the anaconda, showing damage states and interior compartments...

Aft corridors
http://i.imgur.com/JwAnv2x.png
http://i.imgur.com/gP1VKLp.png

http://i.imgur.com/cgexowv.png
http://i.imgur.com/o7Z5mwV.png

Metal skin peeling off near the bridge
http://i.imgur.com/q5k7t44.png

Bonus bridge shots
http://i.imgur.com/kCEMtnZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/Yp9rsan.png

Tarpedo wrote:
2.05 patch enabled online mode for me (there were a lot of crashes after hyperjump before 2.05) and it turned out I'm not interesting in it as much as I've expected: due to lack of depth in this gameplay (do 2 kinds of stuff - hauling and fighting - to buy better ships to do 2 kinds of stuff faster) I already did everything I could during 10 days passed since 2.0 beta release.

And it seems I'm not alone - there is thread on Reddit about lack of long-term goals and interest to the game. Unless Frontier will add some RPG elements and building gameplay (planetary bases for example) game will be nearly empty in few weeks after release. Gameplay which was fine 30 years ago on empty computer games market is turned out to be pretty trivial, banal today (even in procedural environment) when there are many MMO(RPG) alternatives available.

Perhaps CCP should consider ditching Valkyrie right now: if Elite cannot hold most players for more than two weeks - then what future is awaiting even less deep Valkyrie?

Anyone playing the Elite games these last 30 years understands that Elite4 is not EvE online, nor is it trying to be. The game is fundamentally built on a different premise, with the player being just a small part of the food chain instead of the immortal that can change the course of history. The Elite games are built around the concept of being a pilot that can do whatever the **** he wants as a pilot in a vast, dystopian and pretty "convincing" take of our Milky Way a thousand+ years in the future. Whether they succeed to provide that experience or not remains to be seen (what we have seen is good although there are a lot more to implement and FIX for the game to be launch worthy), but people that think of playing Elite like EvE are certainly going to be disappointed.

Having played all Elite games (and some fan based games around them like Pioneer and Oolite), I certainly don't view it as competition to my EvE playstyle, but simply to my overall time allotted to gaming. Elite is Elite, nothing more, nothing less. If FDEV manage to make a game out of this, you will grab your HOTAS, rift and headphones (****, the sound design is brilliant), strap a Buttkicker to your...butt and jump like a rainbow trout every time the wife comes to shake you so that you start paying attention to her again, stop making injured seal sounds, or go to work. Because, YOU'RE IN SPACE MUTHAFUCKA!!

On the other hand, SC is built to accommodate a lot more mechanics and game concepts that EvE strives on (from multi-thousand player corporations to territorial warfare).If CIG succeeds, I see myself engaging more in emergent gameplay in the SC universe, simply because it adds a lot of things that I am interested in (like multi-crewed ships, FP gameplay and the (same as EvE) ability to extract meta-gaming tears from people paying thousands of dollars for space pixels.

And EvE? EvE remains the go-to place for elegant space motherfuckery, a shiny, glistening mountain stream of ****, malevolence, tears and nerd fueled rage. Everyone wants a sip, and everyone wants to stop drinking. EvE online is an acquired taste, but if you taste it then nothing else can copy or substitute it. The Durian of space games has our souls embedded in its rotting flesh, and I will certainly continue to come back for more spoonfuls.

No buts or ifs.
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
#96 - 2014-10-17 08:18:32 UTC
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#97 - 2014-10-18 00:03:43 UTC
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