Elite dangerous horizons launch date

Sneakytiger · December 09, 2015, 05:41:01 PM

Launch date announced as 15th of Dec,prepare landing gear commanders.

ArithonUK · December 09, 2015, 09:03:38 PM

Also the launch date for 1.5 "Ships" on PC, Mac and XBOX One.

albert · December 10, 2015, 09:56:04 AM

Wow, that's a quick Beta! They must have made hundreds of fixes in a week. I did read through some of the patch notes and the list was endless.

I have to say, the buggy thing is rather nice. I'm just bricking myself about taking my Anaconda down to a planet surface a bit on the fast side!

albert · December 10, 2015, 10:21:01 AM

Also backup your controls if you played the Beta, save risking having to remap everything!

popeye666ca · December 10, 2015, 11:38:10 AM

Hmm. So when is ships 1.5 out?

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albert · December 10, 2015, 11:47:42 AM

I believe the same date as 2, so they skipped releasing 1.5 entirely and merged it with Horizons but if you don't own Horizons you still get the extra ships from 1.5:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=209765&page=3&p=3227337#post3227337

albert · December 16, 2015, 08:32:32 AM

So they went the whole 9 yards, live stream, servers offline, prizes etc.

Then in the evening the Horizons and Ships 1.5 updates were all live. I think by 9pm the server status was a green OK, with a few niggles early evening.

I opted to uninstall the game entirely to get rid of the GBs of Beta folders. Then the download wasn't too fast so I never got on last night.

Any feedback so far on the game?

RogueTaylor · December 16, 2015, 08:43:25 AM

i have just downloaded the update now so will give the game ago soon and see whats its like

should be amazing

ArithonUK · December 16, 2015, 09:23:35 AM

Last night had download speed issues as the servers were melting and there were more players online that I have seen in a considerable time.

The game was amazing. Great framerates, improved audio and a bewildering array of new mission types.

I'm still working on my Imperial Rank, but for the couple of hours I played last night, I liked what I saw and I didn't get the chance to land on a planet!

main · December 16, 2015, 09:40:41 AM

Quote from: ArithonUK;407303bewildering array of new mission types.

Could you elaborate pls?

Also slightly OT, does anyone know when the horizons cheaper price promotion for owners of elite ends?

Sn00ks · December 16, 2015, 12:24:57 PM

Stand down , nothing to see. All sorted now.

albert · December 16, 2015, 02:25:59 PM

I'm not sure but I'd imagine they will allow the cheaper price for a while, certainly it won't be discounted too early as a general discount.

Lameduck · December 17, 2015, 10:54:44 PM

Updated the 32 bit a few days ago and all was well, bugs sorted. So decided I'd buy Horizons after all.
Upgraded to 64 bit on ED. Then d/l and installed Horizons. Now nothing works.
Frustrated and I have a gut feeling that all my ED data will disappear and I'll have to start
from scratch. Bah Humbug! :angry:

ArithonUK · December 18, 2015, 01:36:03 PM

You shouldn't lose anything. All your data is stored server-side. So unless you run the game and clear save, your ships and money are quite safe.

If you installation is foo-bar, click on the launcher support link and select "validate game files" from the menu. That may well sort things out.

Sn00ks · December 18, 2015, 03:41:56 PM

Or you may want to do what I did which is uninstall and then install Horizons 64-bit straight. There is an uninstall option I found in the options on the loader screen.