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[Apocalypsewaffle]

Tell me lads, if I use a Warlock upgrade on my old LTI Avenger package, does it only change the ship and not touch all the other extras?

Because I want to be the one who shuts everyones shit down. I love shutting shit down.

[elix]

[QUOTE=MendozaMan;49157185]Tell me lads, if I use a Warlock upgrade on my old LTI Avenger package, does it only change the ship and not touch all the other extras?

Because I want to be the one who shuts everyones shit down. I love shutting shit down.[/QUOTE]

Yes; only the ship changes, the rest of the package is identical.

If you have a jukebox, try Using it - you instead sort of Force Pull it over to you and it tumbles over and can freak out your physics and throw you up into the air a bit.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/yo5sIlD.jpg[/t]

I have yet to actually see any space ships in the baby PU - crashes before that happens. Farthest I've gotten was summoning an Avenger Titan to the landing pads. Turns out the client crashes when I do that. :v:

...make that when I request an Aurora LX or an Avenger Titan. Or a Mustang Omega. Possibly [I]any[/I] ship.

[Apocalypsewaffle]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49157408]Yes; only the ship changes, the rest of the package is identical.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/xi246Ze.png[/img]

We now welcome the addition of an EMP monkey to the FP fleet. It will be his job to fly up the tailpipe of any ship dumb enough to not turn off it's systems in time, and in doing so, will be a giant fucking target for everyone else :v:

[elix]

[URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15074-Weekly-Development-Update"]Weekly status report is up.[/URL] Turns out they didn't roll PTU out to 5,000 more people. They rolled it out to 15,000. That's confidence in your stress testing.

[video=youtube;pQxKACfANOE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQxKACfANOE[/video]

When you spawn into your hangar on the current PTU build, the camera's really janky until you move around; locked vertically and horizontal movements swivel and 'thunk' around really awkwardly. Recorded this video to back up [URL="https://ptu.cloudimperiumgames.com/community/issue-council/sc-alpha-20-ptu-bug-reports/SC-303-1st_person_camera_doesn_t_look_up_right_after_loading?"]someone else's report on the Issue Council[/URL].

Since they gave me PTU access least I can do is actually document bugs. [URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community/issue-council/star-citizen-alpha/SC-2153-_PTU_2_0_0_299_255__Avenger_Cargo_area_visible_Out side_of_The_ship"]Like the bug where the Avenger Titan has an off-centered version of the cargo sled appearing under it[/URL] when you are within a certain viewing distance of it, not too close and not too far. (LODs are borked, I'm guessing.)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8BY8XSZ.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/KFILumt.jpg[/t]

That Avenger report's improperly using the non-PTU, 1.3 bug tracker in the IC instead of the 2.0 PTU IC on the ptu.cloudimperiumgames.com clone of rsi.com, but it's a valid report. Seeing if there's a clone of the report in the 2.0 IC.

[Capgun]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49157581][URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15074-Weekly-Development-Update"]Weekly status report is up.[/URL] Turns out they didn't roll PTU out to 5,000 more people. They rolled it out to [B]15,000[/B]. That's confidence in your stress testing.
.[/QUOTE]
:l

[img]http://i.imgur.com/yrflMtJ.png[/img]

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[Mr. Khorn]

I was able to get in my connie and fly it around for a minute. I started to check the ship menus out, and the new system is very nice.

But that was like 1 out of 15 attempts to connect.

[ithon]

[QUOTE=krail9;49156856]it's kind of a more generous version of him, they're not meant to be 1:1 recreations[/QUOTE]

Then that's a waste, if that's true then it's likely either that the engine can't properly achieve what other modern engines can, or the modelers aren't as great as others out there at the moment, maybe both. (I think I'm being redundant just waking up to a reply I was tired in writing)

The hi res model for battlefront looks a lot better and more like him.

[Why485]

I was never able to connect to Port Olisar after ~5 tries.

It's kind of amusing that CIG went to the lengths to finally create a main menu so you don't have to load the hangar to do everything, but then in order to load the persistent universe stuff you need to load the entire hangar so you can walk over to an elevator 20 feet away to load the persistent universe map.

I did mess around for a few minutes in Arena Commander in the base Hornet. There is now a lot of momentum in the ship movement, and when you strafe, it takes some time for the thing to start strafing. Afterburner accelerates your ship much, much faster than I was expecting it to. I was hoping it would be a gradual acceleration like real life planes but it's a near instant boost to double your speed.

I don't have any other ships to test with, but I like where this is going. I only tried it with the mouse because I couldn't be bothered rebinding my joystick again.

Weapon effects are [B]way[/B] better now. There's a little flare on all the bullets which makes them a lot more visible now. It's something that I've thought was really lacking in previous versions. Ships now explode sometimes, and it looks awesome. Missiles finally leave trails you can actually see, and I get horribly computer stopping stuttering every few seconds making it kind of unplayable that's neither here nor there.

[elix]

[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PkTSLJ_j0[/hd]

[video=youtube;dbx7pUZtgdQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbx7pUZtgdQ[/video]

After a few hours of crashes and a bit of exploration inside the station itself (between bad hitches). I actually got my Mustang to spawn without hanging the client, managed to make it out to the right landing pad, get in, and fly off for about 45 seconds before the game crashed.

And then for 20 minutes afterwards, I just got "login failed" before even hitting the hangar.

There's a reason why it's still on PTU and not live to all. Even if all of fpcorp had invites, it's not stable enough to 'play' for long quite yet, and on my R9 270X (2GB of video RAM), random loading of streaming assets means my game hitches hard for 2-3 seconds every... between 15 and 30 seconds, depending on what I'm doing.

But man does it look great, even on low (which the PTU client defaulted to). When peoples' bodies loaded in properly.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZKtDj8a.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/d034L1Q.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/ZgzucvR.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/JmNbx3r.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/iIb909G.jpg[/t]

[video=youtube;kQCjqS6WoCs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQCjqS6WoCs[/video]
Video of the Avenger Warlock's EMP going off as of 2.0 PTU. Seems like doing this in anything but a huge furball fight would be the equivalent of turning on a giant neon sign that reads "#1 most wanted". The EMP hits every ship in a certain proximity that is greater than the visible EMP blast sphere.

[Mr. Khorn]

I managed to quantum jump my connie to some station and fight for a bit. But then it timed out.

[Apocalypsewaffle]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49158241]

[video=youtube;kQCjqS6WoCs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQCjqS6WoCs[/video]
Video of the Avenger Warlock's EMP going off as of 2.0 PTU. Seems like doing this in anything but a huge furball fight would be the equivalent of turning on a giant neon sign that reads "#1 most wanted". The EMP hits every ship in a certain proximity that is greater than the visible EMP blast sphere.[/QUOTE]

Sweet. So the plan is, go in, shoot at guys pretending to be a regular penguin, and when the fight is well underway, activate the EMP and tell everyone on FP comms to shut down their ships. After that all enemy ships will be open for a rapening.

[Korro Bravin]

I'm on the FP teamspeak if anyone wants to faff about on the PTU (crashes and all)

[Mattk50]

That discord link in the PTU email was expired, kinda sad since i've already been using it for infinity and wanted to join. If anyone got in before it expired and doesnt mind sending an updated invite send me a PM.

[dai]

I think discord just wipes unused servers to save on space. New one ahoy

[url]https://discord.gg/0elHVcbeLfguHGO7[/url]

I'm muted for a while but hey it's a place to be if you need it

[Korro Bravin]

[QUOTE=dai;49159086]I think discord just wipes unused servers to save on space. New one ahoy

[url]https://discord.gg/0elHVcbeLfguHGO7[/url]

I'm muted for a while but hey it's a place to be if you need it[/QUOTE]

A couple of us are on the FP TS [sp]ts3.prfn.se[/sp] trying to get into the same instance.

[Techbot]

[vid]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/11/21/20-27_179.webm[/vid]

[vid]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/11/21/20-29_180.webm[/vid]

my friend had some, interesting issues v:v:v

[S31-Syntax]

I am so conflicted.

I have the super hornet, but I see that its been nerfed so hard that many feel it just ain't worth it.

But then there's the sabre... and its [I]sooo pretty...[/I]

Gladius is sexy too...

[I]but my super hornet...[/I]

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;49159354]I am so conflicted.

I have the super hornet, but I see that its been nerfed so hard that many feel it just ain't worth it.

But then there's the sabre... and its [I]sooo pretty...[/I]

Gladius is sexy too...

[I]but my super hornet...[/I][/QUOTE]

I'm holding out hope they'll fix the Super Hornet soon enough so it's not shit.

The Constellation handles better than the Super Hornet right now. The fucking Constellation.

I think that, above all else, is a sign that it needs a serious maneuverability buff.

[WhiteFox08]

[vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20521740/ShareX/2015/11/2015-11-21_03-04-08.mp4[/vid]

PTU experience is real, waited for like an hour and still no email and only right after I go to sleep I get it. CIG confirmed for Khan.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/lIbW4hW.png[/img]

[darkgodmaste]

The PTU experience is excitement when it works and disappointment when it crashes.
It's really beautiful and nice hope it will become more stable after the ptu.

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;49160266][t]http://puu.sh/ltTW2/883f483983.png[/t]

[t]http://puu.sh/ltTYb/25600b897b.png[/t]

lol[/QUOTE]

:v: :v: :v:

[elix]

[QUOTE=Techbot;49159216][vid]http://3kv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2015/11/21/20-27_179.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]

Send that shit in [URL="https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/247991/we-want-your-arena-commander-and-social-module-highlights"]to use on AtV[/URL]. :v:

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;49160266][t]http://puu.sh/ltTW2/883f483983.png[/t]

[t]http://puu.sh/ltTYb/25600b897b.png[/t]

lol[/QUOTE]

Right, because he's been talking specifically about the 64-bit conversion since June. Nothing about it being a scam, nothing about Sandi being totally unqualified, nothing about them going bankrupt [I]any day now[/I] (with the goalposts moving faster than DS's twitter stream), nothing about alleged connections to the Swedish Mafia(!), nothing about studios closing down (when they definitely have not). It's aaaaaaaall about the 64-bit engine overhaul that DS says is the problem. When he didn't even understand CIG's 64-bit conversion until people corrected him because they were laughing at him. He then played the just kidding I was only pretending to be retarded card.

It's fun watching even SA turn on him. Also, Why485, remember how you told the thread about the ED Shill? The entire SA thread went SC Shill where they loved it and then burnt themselves out on their own hype and turned to hating it. It's nearly unreadable at this point, the shitposting and bile is so thick, it's almost not worth tuning in to watch !Smart get roasted. And the amount of Sandi hate is creepy.

[QUOTE=DS]Only idiots keep trying to put this through revisionist history.[/QUOTE]
Just like how DS called CR and David Braben both dinosaurs when they came out with their kickstarters, and predicted ED would fail just as much as SC. Now he says he loves ED and trying to tell him he predicted its doom two years ago gets you blocked on twitter. :v:

[elix]

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;49160498][I]even[/I] SA? do you know anything about sa culture? :v:[/QUOTE]

They've been stringing him along for several months, but only recently have enough Goons noticed the trend of walls of shitposting and blogshitting and goalpost-moving and nothing else to the point that the majority of the thread's actively hostile against him.

A loooot of shitposters in there were unironically supporting DS's crusade because they want SC to fail and can spot a useful idiot.

[dai]

[vid]http://fat.gfycat.com/PaltryQuickEeve.webm[/vid]

also I've been completely out of the loop on how you get missions, but I saw a post saying something about getting a comm link on mobiglas. Maybe I should turn that on more often, especially in that abandoned station

[elix]

F9 opens the actual mobiGlas AR interface (as it exists right now) and you can pick up the mission to activate the comm relays in it. I haven't figured out how to go BACK in the menus to get back to the main mobiGlas menu, tho. :v:

[Snowywolf]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49160928]F9 opens the actual mobiGlas AR interface (as it exists right now) and you can pick up the mission to activate the comm relays in it. I haven't figured out how to go BACK in the menus to get back to the main mobiGlas menu, tho. :v:[/QUOTE]

Backspace!

[Mai]

is the tali unspawnable, or is it just because i have a base?

[Bradyns]

How do you check your eligibility for 2.0? Almost re-downloaded the full thing in 1.3.

[Archangel125]

Does Derek Smart actually work on his game much any more? Or does he spend all his time desperately trying to get people to validate his crusade against Star Citizen and filling in as the latest living joke on the net?

[elix]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;49161430]How do you check your eligibility for 2.0? Almost re-downloaded the full thing in 1.3.[/QUOTE]

If you got an email inviting you to the PTU, or your PTU tab in the "My Account" section is lit up,
[QUOTE=capgun;49158068][img]http://i.imgur.com/yrflMtJ.png[/img][/QUOTE]

Then you're in the PTU and you can click "PTU" in the launcher after either copying your account to the PTU via the website or by clicking the gear in the launcher and copying it from there. When you do that, it'll probably take a bit to copy over, then you'll get an email with the temporary password generated for your PTU account on the PTU sandbox copy of the RSI site (ptu.cloudimperiumgames.com). As soon as the copy's done, you can click the PTU tab in the launcher and it'll start downloading the PTU.

[editline]21st November 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=archangel125;49161475]Does Derek Smart actually work on his game much any more? Or does he spend all his time desperately trying to get people to validate his crusade against Star Citizen and filling in as the latest living joke on the net?[/QUOTE]

He spends most of his day on SA, Twitter, and random forums trolling SC fans for liking things he wants to burn down and jerking himself off. I think he's fairly fully transitioned into Ideas Guy at this point, because he can't be spending more than two hours a day in a development environment between his giant repetitive blogposts and his SA/Twitter shitposting. He also claims not to read the /r/DerekSmart subreddit and so transparently does, as he's made nearly direct responses to anti-DS shitposting that's gone on there.

Strangely, he does not come here. Probably because he'd be red member'd faster than a Rust kiddie.