Coming online any minute...
Quote(http://elitenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Art1-nov20-14-main.jpg)
The Beta 3.9 update has so far confirmed to be bringing 2 new ships in to the game, the Faulcon DeLacy Python (above) which is a heavy transport ship and the Saud Kruger Orca (below) which is a specialised passenger liner.
(http://elitenews24.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Orca.jpg)
Elite Rankings â€" Reaching the rank of Elite, can now be achieved through trading, exploration and combat, rather than combat alone.
Faction Rankings â€" It is now possible to gain ranks with both the Federation and Empire by working on their behalf.
Bartering â€" It is now possible to barter with other players in deep space, by transferring non-stolen goods to them. Albert's most requested feature!
Mission System â€" More variety in what missions you are able to do. A significant overhaul of Unidentified Signal Sources, giving increased variety and adding more mission related context.
Ship outfitting â€" Ship outfitting has had a major overhaul.
Galaxy Map â€" Galaxy map has also been improved with a major overhaul.
Voice Comms â€" Open-mic voice communications between up to 6 players in a group has been added.
In addition the Elite: Dangerous Beta 3.9 update will bring the countless fixes, tweaks, improvements and optimizations that are now customary with each major update.
Yes indeedy :yahoo:
Channge log here
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61341&p=1043807#post1043807
Woo. Coming together nicely now. Anyone know what free ship they want?
I just finished going through the release notes/ change log, it's a long list. Group gets mentioned 8 times but vaguely, no mention of alliances.
Not exactly sure how our group will work now but if you need to rejoin just request membership again. I'll see if I can change the group name, Albert feels a little Cult-like! :norty:
- Groups UI fixes
- AI - stop group members from jumping away when their leadship dies if they are in a minor faction that is at war
- Check group member has a faction before checking the faction state, it can be validly null
Not sure about choosing free ships still downloading but will be online this evening.
Ok couldn't resist a quick jump to Styx.
So far I'm definately getting higher FPS, with the highest graphics settings in the game at 2560x1440. Over 40fps in Hyperjump when sometimes it would bounce down to 16fps.
Anyone else noticing a better performance or is it my optimism kicking in here?
You have no FSD mapped when you start, there are 3 options now and only Hyperjump is mapped to your old key for FSD, fix it to general FSD again in the control menu.
I had one fight and got 1000CR, scanned both systems I was in and landed with nearly 5000CR already. So exploring/ trading should earn a Cobra in an hour or two I'd say.
Game is unplayable for me now as it's not respecting my sticks dead zone.
Constantly moving down at a rapid rate, practically impossible to dock :(
I'm hoping to get online to try this at the weekend, or maybe after some FSX tonight. Nice long list of changes though, just hoping I don't also have the same problem as you Twisted! I'm using a Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick, what are you using Twisted?
This will whet your appetite TL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Zv3_YLcdk
Reachable Nebulas, ok 1300Ly away but you can get a ship with 40Ly Jumps. Nice challenge.
And there seems to be a bit more airtraffic visible:
http://i.imgur.com/jykKCRf.jpg
Maybe we can find the whole group in one place now.
Quote from: albert;391300Reachable Nebulas, ok 1300Ly away but you can get a ship with 40Ly Jumps. Nice challenge.
I'll set off now and see you there tomorrow night! :P
Seriously we should! We actually have to conundrum of selecting a home station soon. This'll be where everyone has one ship so they can hop into it when there is a clan meet up happening. FD just need to allow us to have more than one character first as right now one has to travel back to where the ship is docked and really if you're 1300Ly away that's not practical.
A bit of sarcasm http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2my9m3/game_breaking_bugs_already/
That screenshot tells me that we need in system voice comms in the game.
That would be very very nice .... :)
Quote from: TeaLeaf;391299I'm hoping to get online to try this at the weekend, or maybe after some FSX tonight. Nice long list of changes though, just hoping I don't also have the same problem as you Twisted! I'm using a Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick, what are you using Twisted?
T-FlightX.
Might not be the game though.
After I posted the comment I quickly fired up AC and noticed a very slight downwards creep on my stick, so it *may* just need re-calibrating and ED *may* have decreased deadzone detection a little.
I'll play some more later tonight.
3.9.1 just got pushed out so update in advance, it was a decent size update.
So far, minimal lag, I play on a laptop with a 675M nVidia card and it's really smooth after 3.9 came out.
The commodities market navigation is a bit clunky with the joystick buttons now though.
This is rather pleasant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAVHcbk_fWM&feature=share
Being released as I type.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=62454