3.3.5 is coming...

[albert]

In space I'm still good, Lorville it's far lower.

[albert]

Quite a good stability improvement, actually very responsive throughout my hour trying the game tonight. Shame nobody else came on, I'm a sure a few of you said you'd be right in there at 3.3.5!

[SithAfrikaan]

3.3.6 went live this morning, hopefully we see more and more of these sorts of regular updates!

[Jamoe]

I intended to jump in, but the Primary School my wife works at had Ofsted yesterday and it disrupted all the things.

[Obsydian]

Yeah, I was on for about 20 minutes last night, just trying it out and seeing what fps I was getting - over 60 in Port Olisar (on Ultra High).  Unfortunately, it's been so long since I played, I've forgotten how to get my ship off the pad!  I've got a Valkyrie, and it took me about 5 minutes to find how to get in it...

I'll need to schedule some time to get back in game and start learning the controls again!

[Obsydian]

Played for about an hour and a half tonight, and spent a huge amount of time trying to figure out the controls as it was all new to me!  I was also fighting against my HOTAS which doesn't seem to be set up correctly: with my throttle at zero, the ship was always doing 21m/s!  And I couldn't find a way to stop my mouse from moving my ship about!

After spending about 5 minutes in QT to Hurston, I then had to figure out how to land the ship...pointed at Loreville but my QT drive kept telling me I was too close (about 17000km away!).  I eventually landed in darkness and got out of my ship to try and figure out how to find Loreville as I'd landed in the middle of nowhere.  I got no replies in chat, so eventually started up my ship again and opened the route planner.  Locate Loreville (I'd landed on the wrong side of the planet!) and set a course for it.  Took off and tried to get back into space with my fuel alarm going off (still no idea whether I was doing it right), and when I exited the atmosphere I throttled back and engaged the QD, and sat back as it took me around the planet and emerged over Loreville (this time in sunlight!).  I (eventually) landed outside of Loreville in one of the rubbish dumps:
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Not too much damage considering the battle I had to land her!

Saw a sign to Gate 04, so started running in that direction:
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6.5km (and about 40 minutes) later, it was pitch dark, but I finally came across the sign for gate 04:
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About 5 minutes more of running and I finally got there!
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Took the train to central:
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Went to the workers area to rey and rent a hab, but couldn't get any response from the cleark, so I had a wander around.  Unfortunately I clipped through the wall and fell through the floor and watched helplessly as my character flailed as it fell to its doom...and woke up back on Port Olisar:
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FPS was quite varied, with a max of about 70 and a min of around 20 (I have a 980ti).

Feel quite exhausted after all that, but I do like the slow paced, massive scale of it all.  I still need to iron out the kinks with my controls though, and learn how to fly again

[albert]

Wrong side is somewhere I've approached many times. You end up flying along the surface until the destination marker appears in front. I find checking the star map and if the destination is past a planet then make sure to hit a target beyond the planet as well.

I asked the question how do I hit mission markers that won't select in the star map, and the answer was to find one near the desired target and try and jump out of quantum as near as possible. 600Km out isn't a fun or efficient run in.

[OldBloke]

Might be a few of us attempting a group meet-up tonight. Checkout the SC channel in Discord.

[SithAfrikaan]

And for anyone who missed the photo in Discord here we all are!
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[BrotherTobious]

So how was it? no hype allowed

[SithAfrikaan]

For you BT, horrible, get a refund, never ask me how I liked it. :roflmao:

[OldBloke]

So how was it? no hype allowed

I'm in no rush to try this version again.

We struggled to get everyone in the same party and to then be able to see each other's character. Once we were all together on the same ship it went OK. We sought landing permission at our destination planet but before Albert could dock ... the bay doors closed! On a subsequent request they opened again but Albert was a bit too keen to get in before they possibly closed on us again. Mayhem ensued.

It's buggy/glitchy but is very pretty and the promise of an exceptional multiplayer environment is most obviously present.

[Penfold]

So how was it? no hype allowed

I think it was quicker to organise a school photo with 2,000 students tbh.

It's pretty ordinary if you ask me but I do see the potential.

[Penfold]

I'm also not sure I bought the right ship unless I'm mistaken........ What options do I have?

I bought a Freelancer in the game package as attached. Do I try to sell it via star hangar or melt it down.

There's a lot for sale on Star Hangar and so many variants, how do you tell them apart?

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[BrotherTobious]

you can upgrade it to other types of ship.  But you need to figure out what kind of ship you need.   Also, some ships have been completely reworked changing what they are being used for.