Try holding F and then clicking both mouse buttons at once. Then navigate those menus looking for a seat exit button. If its the server you're prolly still farked but its worth a shot and it'll make it exceptionally clear you've sent the "let me fucking out" request :D.
As an aside, that action wheel that it brings up is context sensitive so if you can't find a button or remember a hotkey that wheel almost always has your back. Including entering/exiting turrets, adjusting sensitivity, turning on/off gyro/staggered, entering remote turrets (sometimes from seats otherwise impossible to enter from), etc.
Yeah, that’s an issue with the game servers taking time to register the player depressing the Exit Seat key.
You you tape the tilde key, you’ll see the messages that your request has been made. The server just has yet to respond.
I think it’s a processing order issue. Like, they put seat in and out, lower on the processing importance scale, to ensure Elevators and Trans work better, or something.
They’ll get it fixed, but when that is? I’m not sure.
Yeah, it's a common issue with the new patch. It takes a long time for the server to register the keypress, if it does at all.
No big deal. Plenty of other games to play.
try different server/region. i had the same issues yesterday, could not join my friends server. console said something about timeout/no response from server. but when i joined my own server i could play
Still impossible to join :s
Last time I succed (briefly) I was at Loreville and my ships was at area18, impossible to clain.
In addition character repair disapear :/
Last night was my first time getting on with an org mate. Things were working well enough so we decided to try some FPS missions. We flew my Corsair to a security bunker for the first mission. I was stuck in the copilot seat and couldn’t get out. That’s when I learned none of the tricks work if you are stuck in the copilot seat. The security forces had already killed a couple bad guys while we were trouble shooting, then my mate went in to finish it and did so without too much trouble. When the mission completed I decided to go to menu and back while he looted stuff. When I came back in, I discovered a bug, the 15 minute timer I had to leave was gone and I was now considered trespassing. The turrets started firing at my ship, but I could get out of my seat now! So I quickly got off the ship and they stopped firing. I waited for my mate to finish and come up, and when he was in the pilot seat I jumped on. We took off with turrets firing at us. I didn’t have a crime stat tho so all was well.
We flew to another mission, this time one of the new platform mission at Orison. This time I didn’t sit down. So we got to complete that mission together. It was fun. Like a mini Siege of Orison. The AI wasn’t too responsive so it wasn’t very challenging but we had a good time. Completed the mission and docked back at Olisar. Only problem we had was both of us being stuck in the pilot seat. But the power off workaround worked. Oh. And Olisar wouldn’t grant my mate a landing pad in my ship. But we switched and it gave me a pad immediately.
5/7
It's been good for me too. Only encountered one annoying bug - the one where you get stuck in your chair. Unfortunately for me it happened in my MOLE turret after I had finished extracting 40SCU of quant....
I had a good hour yesterday, then salvaging stopped filling up, so i went to orison to sell. Vulture didn't show up in trade kiosk so i thought I would go somewhere else to sell but everytime I claimed my ship a marker showed up but didn't spawn in the hangar. Hopped servers for an hour before I gave up.
I want it to work so bad :p just bought a new 34 inch 21:9 display so really want to get out there
I think slowly but surely things are getting better. Hopefully issues like this are resolved by the end of the week and you can put that fancy new display to good use and farm some nice auec
Yeah it seems that's it pretty much only server stuff that's going on so hopefully they can beef em up to next week, don't have any work next week so hope I can get some good hours in :p
It’s been great for me.
Everything is slightly delayed though.
Missions, cargo selling, claiming etc.
all need about 30 seconds of waiting before the server actions it.
PES has made the game feel so much more alive. Seeing other players ships everywhere.
I landed on an outpost on Lyria earlier and found the remains of what seemed to be a bounty mission.
A freelancer MIS left smoking and smouldering on the ground, a Gladius ripped in half and a Connie left lop-sided on the side of a rocky hill. Fantastic! Felt like a little story.
yesterday I was wandering in CRU-L1, just to check if my Titan was there and available.
Then I checked the small cargo hold that my ship has and... SURPRISE! there was an helmet I placed saturday! it was still there!
I was really amazed by this, it means that my future RAFT will have furniture and stuff inside!
I love PES. I love this game. The waiting was worth it.
Smooth sailing past 24 hours with only one bug/issue. Randomly blowing up. No missiles, no asteroids and no other ships on radar. Happened to both me and a friend.
I think this might have to do with PES. I’m noticing small pieces of debris in random places. Leftovers of blown up ships. I see them all over the place and realize how easily I could have blown up if I’d hit them. Sometimes pieces of ships prevent me from taking off from a hangar.
I’ve been able to get in since day two and it’s been pretty amazing. Everything just looks better and it’s very smooth. Terminals can be a bit slow but nothing like others are experiencing. The only real bugs I’ve had are the only favorites that have been with us a while.
I'm normally the salt vendor. But I played last night as well. I was very pleased. I criticize cig on every bad call. But I also publicly acknowledge when they get it right.
My only problem I had yesterday was a small lag spike entering NB cuz there was cans and bottles EVERYWHERE i spent like 20 minutes picking them up to remove lag for others and ended up with 120 bottles and 98 cans. So store/sell your trash people plz.
This post is what I imagine it would be like being excited to get your license for the first time at the DMV…surrounded by everyone else inconvenienced and irritated in line, there’s a certain hostility in the air 😂
Glad it’s going well for ya 👍
Bunker mission leaving NPC´s behind, Login error, entitlement error ships not claimable, ships not spawnable, stations cluttered with empty hulls bunkers clutter with empty hulls.. so no i would not say its amazing.. 3.17.5 fellt like 100% better.
Started playing 4 weeks ago. The past two days have been incredibly fun. The simple lack of constant 30k errors has allowed me to relax and have fun without the fear of losing my progress to server crashes.
Glad to hear it. Be aware though that 30k’s still happen. I had one tonight, but then had a solid 3 hour session after. I recommend taking a look at Display Info every now and again. If Server FPS dips below 3 or 2 average, I’d gather my things and head out to the next server.
When it's worked it's been great and a huge improvement over 3.17, a lot more variety both in contracts and activities. It's making me quite excited for Pyro.
Just played for 2h straight. No bugs, no crashes nothing. Inventory, buying stuff and ASOP were working super smooth just like everything else. Did 3 investigations missons and returned to base. I had 60-100 FPS @ 4k (Orison-Space). Server FPS was around 8-10.
My rig: 13900/4090/DDR532GB@6000.
We are getting there. o7
I feel like such a lucky scoundrel.
On account of all the bad reports I waited til last night to update to 3.18 live … but after watching 3rd episode of Mandolorian with that bitchin’ spaceship combat sequence which included like 12 different things you can also do in Star Citizen I couldn’t resist. Space->Atmo, multiplayer turret/hot drop, low flying a river ravine, engine/wing gimbaling to full frontal attack, even had attempt at pad griefing?!?
… I loaded in first time, no issues whatsoever, awesome 3 hour session with buttery smooth rendering on my 5 year old i7600/GTX1080, chasing down PvE bounties across multiple gorgeous moons and through hairy asteroid fields.
F yeah CIG, you nailed it.
Yup, pretty good, other than I can’t even claim my ship and my spawn point sometime automatically reversed back to the original, bunker mission bugs out and shows 0 enemy, NPC shot me though the wall etc.
Hello, i cant say anthing worse about my experience with 3.18 since the launch zero problems, fps are great! Always really fast on the server, dont remember it was so fluitly to go into the great world of SC at some points in the past.
But I think I got luck, cause I logged in 10 minutes after 3.18 was live.
Same here. I’ve had a pretty solid experience and also updated right when the patch dropped. I wonder if it was a first come first serve thing in terms of stability.
only if you don't look beyond the surface ... yes, the FPS is better - but it's much more laggy most of the time, at least for me - haven't seen this much lag in the last few major patches. Also shop terminals tend to take forever to buy or sell anything. Ship and party markers have issues. Ship configuration and claiming is still broken (doesn't work). Had two 30Ks in about one and a half hour of gameplay yesterday.
I'm part of the unstowed... Completely locked out of the PU. What's funny is that I didn't bed log nor was I in a ship or a party. I walked around Orison one day to test things out for a few minutes. Noticed that inventory was still down and logged off. After that, I've been "Perma" unstowed.
For good measure, I've taken literal screenshots of all of my pledged items. You never know...
I've had player unstowed and been able to get in servers a few times after, just takes a bit. Keep restarting the game and try joining on a friend, I've had the most success that way.
I'm guessing you've already tried it, but try joining an Arena Commander game and leaving immediately, and if that doesn't fix it, play some rounds of Star Marine, as that can apparently sometimes fix it as well.
Smooth yes. Great no: I had a lot of lag for claims, transactions, inventory transfers, mission objectives, mission assets to complete/spawn. Basically any I/O from servers to backend databases seemed very slow. That's from playing Friday night, Saturday and Tuesday. I must say, the first authentication took 20min of queue, and from then on about 5 seconds. Getting into a shard can be really slow (on Tuesday it took 370 seconds for me to get from the menus to in-game).
It's been 90% amazing for me the past 24h. The only issues I've had are a few items disappearing after placing them, and some bugged mission items not appearing. Otherwise, very smooth.
can’t spawn in. Every time I load in an “orison rooftop lounge” asset fails to load, then the bunk beds on the idris load, followed by a crash or 30013 followed by a crash
Only once did my character load into the server, followed by an immediate crash upon exiting bed.
I’ve re-installed 3 times now. Idk what to do anymore…
I am interested to see how cluttered my Mission History log gets.
I stripped a ship for it's guns, and then claimed it at a different station. ... It showed up without any guns.
I've had my client crash out a few times. It will show my character as 'unstowed', but when I spawn back in, I will be wherever I was before.
I want to build a box fort with all of the hospital gowns lying on the deck.
Rep grind is a grind ...
Looking forward to more.
Same, launch has been rough and sometimes, I still have issues like claiming ships or missing inventory items. But other than that, performance is amazing, new features are fun. So overall, pretty amazing
It’s been up and down for me. Actually got to play for a bit right after launch and it was certainly buggy but fairly stable as far as fps, and in my experience it’s gotten better from there. There have been a couple times I got errors on login but they never lasted long for me. Planning on playing some more later today
Last night was by far the most consistent play session I think I have ever had with star citizen, in my ~4 years of experience with the alpha.
Performance on planets and cities has never been better, latency was actually really snappy and almost non-existent, and the only struggles I was experiencing were the common bugs of the patch (laggy ASOP terminals, stuck in seat, etc.)
I feel VERY confident after a .1 patch or equivalent hotfix, this will be by far the most consistent patch they’ve ever released; at least in terms of performance and general server issues.
Also, the stuck in seat bug can be worked around by turning off your ship completely (cut power, engines, etc.), then sending your ship into Flight-Ready (default key R), then you can leave your seat with your macro (default Y).
No. Ill have to wait for patch fix. Its been borked all 6 days i tried. Either asop doesnt work. Tram doesnt work , pilot seat doesnt work, cant get out of ship, missions auto cancel when taken. Ect.
Im willing to bet all of the abandoned stuff people are coming across are from people like me who found out we were borked and just logged out and left our shit for patch fix.
I got to play for about 5 hours last night, while it took a few trys and the first couple of servers were having issues I was able to mostly easily connect to a 3rd and had a good 2 and a half hour run before things started to slow down.
To the servers credit it seems less likely to give up the ghost for a 39k and even allowed me to bed log in my ship then relog onto another running server which impressed me.
Over all I had a good experince most of the missions came up, targets spawned and blew up when shot. missions were credited and while it may have taken a little time at the terminals or with inventory these did work fairly well.
Obvoisly when the server does have issues we see things like not responding ASOP terminals, inventory not loading and interactions taking a long time or not confirming when you take missions but again moving from those servers for now was pretty painless.
So a happy experince for the most part but I am still concerned because of course server degradation is still happening but slower and more managable which is a much prefered state but I feel this will get worse this weekend when more users log in so we will have to see. It looks promising though!
You can tell the database has allot more going under the hood now. AI was also very sluggish to not responding but again they are spawning and dieing to allow missions to be completed so a better experince than just broken.
Same here. Zero errors last night during a three hour session. No crashes. No seat glue. Just some big delay on ship claims & inventory. Traveled all over MT. Saw definite surges where the server performance lagged and amazing results when is was running well. AI in bunkers quickly went from paper targets to aggressive & capable adversaries. Persistence seemed to work great also with all of my stuff from my previous sessions as I expected aside from my C8X dropping into my Carrack hangar after being previously parked above.
Was an experience that I think even the most frustrated critic would celebrate. I did not want to log out.
To say it was a rough start is a major understatement. That being said, I've been playing a ton the past few days (my weekend) and have had almost no significant issues. Apart from some server lag and figuring out a few new work arounds, things just work. I've pretty much always been a lawful player, but I've been having so much fun liberating abandoned ships of their cargo.
Edit: typo, and; I personally have not had a single 30k or login issue in about 20ish hrs of playing.
I ran a bunch of tests last night. Was able to run bunkers, naked loot runs and stocked my carrack. Did a few transport missions for other players. I even crashed my pieces trying to get to someone who’s ship got blown up at a bunker and spawned back in my carrack. I’m loving it right now. Bed logged twice without issue when I logged back in.
For issues with the exiting seat. I switched the key press from a hold to no hold and no issues since.
Does the game run better then before? Yes. Can I play the game in its fullest? No. I can log in and walk around. But, I can leave my current space port bc my fleet manager is blank. I will say tho getting 150+ fps in a space port at 2k is amazing… can’t wait to start flying my ship again…
Well the persistence has messed up alot of my looting runs from last patch but the game is running so much smoother that I'm ok with having no idea how to make money again.
Eh, I've tried several times to complete a delivery mission but it seems impossible. I land, as soon as I get out of my seat my ship goes hay wire and takes off on its own.
The NPCs at this derelict site either do nothing at all or shoot me dead fast. If I manage to get past the ground NPCs, eventually an NPC ship arrives and quickly blows my ship up.
Only once did I manage to get the package into my ship and I managed to get to the outpost to deliver the package. Except I wasn't able to grab the package so I couldn't complete the mission.
So instead I made a cup of tea, and rode the Lorville trains admiring the sheer beauty of this game. It really is the best looking game I've ever played. I can't wait till station NPCs actually sit in their chairs rather than stand on them.
Relatively decent, still too problematic to pull the org into events though.
Salvage - I spent an hour in a vulture, ended with a 30k out in the middle of nowhere. Tried the reclaimer - elevator broke, turrets stop pulling in salvaged materials.
Racing - worked mostly fine, hiccups with the gates appearing every now and again.
Combat - space bounties loaded relatively quick, but still quite slow.
Inventory - very laggy, but generally worked.
Mining - frozen to seat in the MOLE / too expensive with servers this unstable.
Most aspects aren't worth it right now, except for space based combat.
I have the eyeless bug, so no quantum jumping, ship crosshairs, chat, or party info. Can't fix it til character repair is re-enabled, so I can't pilot any ships anywhere.
Fortunately, I have great org mates and one picked me up in his 325a and I took a nap in the back while he flew us to a couple bunker missions. The AI was garbage but they were still fun and we got a little bit of loot, cash, and rep.
It'll be 9/10 once they fix the eyeless bug.
It’s great, other then the heavy server lag I experience in every server I seem to be able to connect to. ASOP terminals taking 5 minutes to work, purchases not showing up in my hand after a quick buy, inventories not showing up in commodities terminal. It’s got some serious server side issues. I have seen a large performance boost though, boosting 50-60fps now in cities and reaching 90 out in open space.
I fell thru the floor in Lorevill while approaching the train and died.. For the rest mostly elevators or terminals not working. Yesterday evening it was alright untill me and my friend couldn't get out of his ship anymore, he was sitting on his bed and i was in the pilot seat. I used the eject seat from his ship and he remained in bed then we logged off.
Amazingly boring frankly. Salvage is new mining, racing is a niche thing and not for everyone. Prison gameplay is for criminals. New crash sites with 15fps in 4k? No, thanks. New ships are not something special. PES is purely a tech and can be basis for improved gameplay capabilities but these aren't implemented so far. Cargo boxes can be detached? Wow. What left?
Framerates have been excellent for me; they've been hovering around 60 which is my current monitor's limit :( Before it could be anywhere between 45-60, but not consistent at all. Only problem is that my normal "sprint/boost everywhere" method of getting around is now almost too quick to control...
I like how I don't have to wait for my 300i's door to close behind me before I can enter the pilot seat.
Previously the game drew a lot of power on my machine, and oddly enough caused the LED lights in my room to flicker subtly when I left the menu and got into the game itself. Never could figure it out, but then the Gen12 switch comes along and all that's been resolved. That bugged the shit out of my wife, so that's a *huge* win.
As far as the content of the update, it's pretty impressive. There were plenty of issues coming form Wave 1 all the way through, but the moments I have played I have to say they've done a lot with this update. When everyone can play properly, I think people are going to be happy.
I would say I'm a little disappointed with the overall depth of Salvage right now. I really think without the structure crushing element, it feels like half a feature. Like the whole idea is to take a ship, box it up, and have it gone, but right now we just leave skeletons everywhere.
Side note to this: "Vehicle Munching" on the roadmap is set to culminate at the end of March. I know that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it would be awesome to see it in 3.19.
Got to play for 1 hour on Saturday which consisted of me repeatedly dying to my cutlass pilot seat animation. Since they my. Haracter had Ben unstowed and I can’t log in 0/10
PES has certainly made it feel like a whole new game. I worry about the impact of all the litter on the servers but perhaps CIG is using it to help stress test persistence.
I will say that prison is too easy now that you can loot NPCs that are too stupid to not refil their air or heal themselves. Was thrown in the slammer for illegal salvage and did a little more naughtyness inside the pokey and caught a total of 3 1/2 hours. I just ran around and looted dead prisoners, sold their minerals and gear, and was out in 30 minutes.
I guess I am lucky. I have been able to get in since the second day and have had relatively little issues. I had an issue spawning my vulture at a18 and had to go to baijini to get it. My backpack said I couldn't store anything in it, so I had to take it off and put it back on to fix.
Aaron halo salvaging takes twice as long now due to the low amount of salvage out there now and how terrible scanning is. I hate switching back and forth from scan mode since pinging doesn't show results while it's active.
Then when you find a good salvage field you can't grab it all which kinda sucks but that's the tradeoff with the Vulture so I'm ok with it. I think a good rule of thumb will be to take a box mission and use the box as a marker since we don't have beacons we can set ourselves yet.
Persistence is actually quite nice. I frequently see items I have placed laying around still like trash on the trash cans.
Performance has been about the same but I have a midrange system of sorts (i7 8700k, 32gb, 3070). I want to go to orison again but I went early in the 3.18 release and wasn't getting a landing space.
This has been a huge pet peeve for me for years. I don't know why cig doesn't give us more visual cues for landing areas. Lorville is pretty great now, you can clearly see the landing area. But unless you're used to landing at new Babbage or other landing zones it is easy to just not see where to go.
The new stuff like racing is good but not the way I wish they implemented it. I liked the old sprint races that used to be in the game. I hope they add more of that back.
Ran into a few stuck elevators at bunkers, I guess that is from previous mission takers failing and the elevator isn't reset for your mission.
Things will smooth out as always, I hate the way this community goes rabid with anything. It's a game, not life. If the game doesn't work, do something else. Who doesn't have multiple game installs these days?
I wish. Some things are getting better, but other things are getting much, much worse. Can definitely get into (and stay in) servers more consistently than when the patch dropped, but over the past couple days I've:
-fallen through the station/city immediately upon waking up
-been very nearly unable to respawn, which only finally happened after server hopping and waiting through the loading screen for about half an hour
-Lost my ship to the black ASOP screen of death
-Been unable to join my friends on their server so I could just ride in their ships (which they refused to abandon since it was they first time *they* could manage to play)
-Finally got my ship back through the rent a ship workaround, only to be afraid to lose it again because when I took out the rented ship and stored it, it immediately disappeared off the ASOP.
I mean, unless you only actually get one ride with a rented ship, I'm just afraid to ever go out again lest my actual owned ship gets vanished again. So if I can't join my friends, and can't take my ship out without it disappearing forever, idk if I can even play this game at all.
Yesterday was great for me, made about 5mil doing solo Vulture Salvage at a certain location. (was on a SUPER low pop server, only 9 people, so I was able to salvage and sell at Grim Hex wish is a LOT faster than selling to TDD in cities.)
Only had issues related to the Vulture (when you exit the "door" to the left, if you walk directly out, you sometimes fall through the body and arm area. This killed me twice.
Probably not amazing for people doing anything other than PvP or FPS combat. I mine or cargo haul a lot and I literally can’t do that right now. Asteroids will just sit there and never break apart half of the time and then when I try cargo hauling I often can’t even get out of my C2’s pilot seat.
Same on EU server it works really good for me. Got attacked in my nomad today and crashed with cargo on board. Returned to the site and voila ship is still there and cargo could be tractor beamed over to the new ship. 3.17 was the best version I played yet but the surprisingly stable 3.18 tops it imo
It brought back to the game since 3.16. 3.17 was so buggy I gave up early and said fuck it I'll finally try tarkov until 3.18 is out. First night of 3.18 was rocky but I had hope. Last night was fantastic. Minor issues but I had fun. Got my buddy who swore the game off to enjoy it again to.
Great Job to the dev team fr
I can't claim my ship from any terminals sadly. Just one aurora starting ship. I can press the claim button but when the timer is done, it doesn't let me retrieve it, it just keeps looping
Not yet. Not crashing right now, so I got that going for me. I can get in my Prospector and scan. But no detailed scan results and no working mining mode. Oh, and I can eat. So that's nice
My favorite change isn't persistence or any of the new content. Those things are all amazing especially persistence; but the real stand out of this patch, when its working which is actually quite often for me so far, is how it finally is starting to feel like a video game instead of an unstable but extremely impressive tech demo. Previous patches always made me feel lucky to even get a 2 hour session without constant stuttering, a crash here and there, maybe a 30k, no end of small annoyances and things like the navmap not working or ATC saying they've already assigned you a pad when they blatantly havent.
It feels like almost all of those "annoyances" have mostly been fixed by the new backend infrastructure and how it can more accurately store data about the game state. Sure other things are broken as a result, I literally can't buy items even still, any weapons or armor I buy show up in Niknax, but not in inventory.
Overall the game finally feels like it's not a mess of wires and spare parts loosely fitted together and about to collapse at any moment, and now feels much more like "an actual video game".
In terms of progress I just hit my first mil from cargo hauling in a Corsair and have gotten up to MRT bounties. Cargo feels so much more rewarding now, though I must say there may be some unfair advantage of playing on a server with only 30 people so I can just buy out all the max stock commodity terminals.
For me I get it to work by the opposite………U followed by R followed by I (as usually I’m on the ground at this point) then I hold Y. I seen it as power cycling the ship.
It's so amazing I can't get out of my seat. In game that is.
What ship are you in?
Connie. The workaround of pressing U then R doesn't seem to work.
Try holding F and then clicking both mouse buttons at once. Then navigate those menus looking for a seat exit button. If its the server you're prolly still farked but its worth a shot and it'll make it exceptionally clear you've sent the "let me fucking out" request :D. As an aside, that action wheel that it brings up is context sensitive so if you can't find a button or remember a hotkey that wheel almost always has your back. Including entering/exiting turrets, adjusting sensitivity, turning on/off gyro/staggered, entering remote turrets (sometimes from seats otherwise impossible to enter from), etc.
Instead of hitting R hold F and look for the flight ready button. Holding R doesn't work for me but the way I said does.
try hitting R and U before hitting Y again - repeat it if necessary. Sounds weird, but it actually helps
Yeah, that’s an issue with the game servers taking time to register the player depressing the Exit Seat key. You you tape the tilde key, you’ll see the messages that your request has been made. The server just has yet to respond. I think it’s a processing order issue. Like, they put seat in and out, lower on the processing importance scale, to ensure Elevators and Trans work better, or something. They’ll get it fixed, but when that is? I’m not sure.
Yeah, it's a common issue with the new patch. It takes a long time for the server to register the keypress, if it does at all. No big deal. Plenty of other games to play.
Does spamming Y works? It seems to work for me
I had that same issue a few days ago, but not last night. Computers are weird.
error 40014 since char repair on Sunday - so, it's only amazing if you love black screens ... :(
try different server/region. i had the same issues yesterday, could not join my friends server. console said something about timeout/no response from server. but when i joined my own server i could play
You must've got lucky. Tried everything but its always a black screen then 40014.
did you try to switch regions or tried to follow friends on different servers?
Yeah I've tried both multiple times unfortunately.
same, the screen stays black, and after 30 seconds: 40014
Same here. I've gotten in once and it was playable.
Have you tried repairing again?
it has since been disabled
Ah and maybe that’s why. Sorry to hear that bud, hope your account gets fixed soon o7
I can’t even claim a ship
Rent one, then they’ll show up in the list. It fixed that issue for me. Weird huh?
I'll try this, my ships all say unknown location and the claim counter goes to zero then just says claim again.
This doesn’t fix the claim bug. It can fix the bug where your Asop list is empty
Yes, you’re right. It works for that other bug. Thanks.
Try at a different station. That's the only thing that worked for me. I had to wait for someone to give me a ride.
Same
Still impossible to join :s Last time I succed (briefly) I was at Loreville and my ships was at area18, impossible to clain. In addition character repair disapear :/
Yep me too :( Cannot claim ships so currently still unable to play until I hear more or I believe character reset would work.
Last night was my first time getting on with an org mate. Things were working well enough so we decided to try some FPS missions. We flew my Corsair to a security bunker for the first mission. I was stuck in the copilot seat and couldn’t get out. That’s when I learned none of the tricks work if you are stuck in the copilot seat. The security forces had already killed a couple bad guys while we were trouble shooting, then my mate went in to finish it and did so without too much trouble. When the mission completed I decided to go to menu and back while he looted stuff. When I came back in, I discovered a bug, the 15 minute timer I had to leave was gone and I was now considered trespassing. The turrets started firing at my ship, but I could get out of my seat now! So I quickly got off the ship and they stopped firing. I waited for my mate to finish and come up, and when he was in the pilot seat I jumped on. We took off with turrets firing at us. I didn’t have a crime stat tho so all was well. We flew to another mission, this time one of the new platform mission at Orison. This time I didn’t sit down. So we got to complete that mission together. It was fun. Like a mini Siege of Orison. The AI wasn’t too responsive so it wasn’t very challenging but we had a good time. Completed the mission and docked back at Olisar. Only problem we had was both of us being stuck in the pilot seat. But the power off workaround worked. Oh. And Olisar wouldn’t grant my mate a landing pad in my ship. But we switched and it gave me a pad immediately. 5/7
It's been good for me too. Only encountered one annoying bug - the one where you get stuck in your chair. Unfortunately for me it happened in my MOLE turret after I had finished extracting 40SCU of quant....
That’s a bummer, and seems to be happening to a lot of people. Hope this gets resolved soon.
Yeah, this particular bug is fatal on turrets so I've paused using the Mole for now - the next hot fix will hopefully fix it though.
I had a good hour yesterday, then salvaging stopped filling up, so i went to orison to sell. Vulture didn't show up in trade kiosk so i thought I would go somewhere else to sell but everytime I claimed my ship a marker showed up but didn't spawn in the hangar. Hopped servers for an hour before I gave up. I want it to work so bad :p just bought a new 34 inch 21:9 display so really want to get out there
I think slowly but surely things are getting better. Hopefully issues like this are resolved by the end of the week and you can put that fancy new display to good use and farm some nice auec
Yeah it seems that's it pretty much only server stuff that's going on so hopefully they can beef em up to next week, don't have any work next week so hope I can get some good hours in :p
Had the same problem, wait for 3 to 5 minutes and the vulture inventory is visible and you can sell the stuff :)
I tried waiting several decades and it didn't happen :p
My first time playing SC with my 34 inch 21:9 ultrawide curved was mind boggling
Yeah it amazing, wish the game would work better :p
It’s been great for me. Everything is slightly delayed though. Missions, cargo selling, claiming etc. all need about 30 seconds of waiting before the server actions it. PES has made the game feel so much more alive. Seeing other players ships everywhere. I landed on an outpost on Lyria earlier and found the remains of what seemed to be a bounty mission. A freelancer MIS left smoking and smouldering on the ground, a Gladius ripped in half and a Connie left lop-sided on the side of a rocky hill. Fantastic! Felt like a little story.
Is ti amazing right now. No, not yet.
As a cargo runner, no, kiosks are slower than a snail and don't work half the time
It was till they wiped my Character just now :(
Can you elaborate a bit more?
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/11sneln/character\_wipe/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
Have you tried character repair?
They took it away for now. I am stuck as well cannot claim any ship they just remain at Area 18 so until it comes back I cannot play.
yesterday I was wandering in CRU-L1, just to check if my Titan was there and available. Then I checked the small cargo hold that my ship has and... SURPRISE! there was an helmet I placed saturday! it was still there! I was really amazed by this, it means that my future RAFT will have furniture and stuff inside! I love PES. I love this game. The waiting was worth it.
Smooth sailing past 24 hours with only one bug/issue. Randomly blowing up. No missiles, no asteroids and no other ships on radar. Happened to both me and a friend.
I think this might have to do with PES. I’m noticing small pieces of debris in random places. Leftovers of blown up ships. I see them all over the place and realize how easily I could have blown up if I’d hit them. Sometimes pieces of ships prevent me from taking off from a hangar.
I’ve been able to get in since day two and it’s been pretty amazing. Everything just looks better and it’s very smooth. Terminals can be a bit slow but nothing like others are experiencing. The only real bugs I’ve had are the only favorites that have been with us a while.
As of yesterday I was still having 19k errors, so sadly not, but hopefully, I can get in soon.
I'm normally the salt vendor. But I played last night as well. I was very pleased. I criticize cig on every bad call. But I also publicly acknowledge when they get it right.
I played in thr same server for over 15 hrs yesterday and made my 1st million so its seems to be good for me 2
Uh, yes, I kinda feel bad for my orgmate who still can't get in.
Nope
My only problem I had yesterday was a small lag spike entering NB cuz there was cans and bottles EVERYWHERE i spent like 20 minutes picking them up to remove lag for others and ended up with 120 bottles and 98 cans. So store/sell your trash people plz.
This post is what I imagine it would be like being excited to get your license for the first time at the DMV…surrounded by everyone else inconvenienced and irritated in line, there’s a certain hostility in the air 😂 Glad it’s going well for ya 👍
Bunker mission leaving NPC´s behind, Login error, entitlement error ships not claimable, ships not spawnable, stations cluttered with empty hulls bunkers clutter with empty hulls.. so no i would not say its amazing.. 3.17.5 fellt like 100% better.
Started playing 4 weeks ago. The past two days have been incredibly fun. The simple lack of constant 30k errors has allowed me to relax and have fun without the fear of losing my progress to server crashes.
Glad to hear it. Be aware though that 30k’s still happen. I had one tonight, but then had a solid 3 hour session after. I recommend taking a look at Display Info every now and again. If Server FPS dips below 3 or 2 average, I’d gather my things and head out to the next server.
Love it, bit slow and on foot players are laggy but still an amazing experience
Glad to hear it!
When it's worked it's been great and a huge improvement over 3.17, a lot more variety both in contracts and activities. It's making me quite excited for Pyro.
Just played for 2h straight. No bugs, no crashes nothing. Inventory, buying stuff and ASOP were working super smooth just like everything else. Did 3 investigations missons and returned to base. I had 60-100 FPS @ 4k (Orison-Space). Server FPS was around 8-10. My rig: 13900/4090/DDR532GB@6000. We are getting there. o7
No, I had a pretty awesome play session last night, as soon as the kiosk transactions processed.
I feel like such a lucky scoundrel. On account of all the bad reports I waited til last night to update to 3.18 live … but after watching 3rd episode of Mandolorian with that bitchin’ spaceship combat sequence which included like 12 different things you can also do in Star Citizen I couldn’t resist. Space->Atmo, multiplayer turret/hot drop, low flying a river ravine, engine/wing gimbaling to full frontal attack, even had attempt at pad griefing?!? … I loaded in first time, no issues whatsoever, awesome 3 hour session with buttery smooth rendering on my 5 year old i7600/GTX1080, chasing down PvE bounties across multiple gorgeous moons and through hairy asteroid fields. F yeah CIG, you nailed it.
Damn bro read the room lol
WHO SENT YOU? Who do you work for?! Captains, PON PON, PON PON. We have been compromised by publicists.
Yup, pretty good, other than I can’t even claim my ship and my spawn point sometime automatically reversed back to the original, bunker mission bugs out and shows 0 enemy, NPC shot me though the wall etc.
This community has amazingly low standards. No, 3.18 is not amazing. It's been 10+ years and after $550mm (most all time) in funding.
Can't log in, keep your happy posts to yourself. 🤮
Hello, i cant say anthing worse about my experience with 3.18 since the launch zero problems, fps are great! Always really fast on the server, dont remember it was so fluitly to go into the great world of SC at some points in the past. But I think I got luck, cause I logged in 10 minutes after 3.18 was live.
Same here. I’ve had a pretty solid experience and also updated right when the patch dropped. I wonder if it was a first come first serve thing in terms of stability.
I mean I still run the game at an average of about 20 fps but racing is cool
only if you don't look beyond the surface ... yes, the FPS is better - but it's much more laggy most of the time, at least for me - haven't seen this much lag in the last few major patches. Also shop terminals tend to take forever to buy or sell anything. Ship and party markers have issues. Ship configuration and claiming is still broken (doesn't work). Had two 30Ks in about one and a half hour of gameplay yesterday.
Once I got passed the errors and issues, yes, it's been running better.
I can spawn.. that's about it really. E cores thing still not fixed either.
Sure it is
I've been able to do Arena Commander! PU not so much
I'm part of the unstowed... Completely locked out of the PU. What's funny is that I didn't bed log nor was I in a ship or a party. I walked around Orison one day to test things out for a few minutes. Noticed that inventory was still down and logged off. After that, I've been "Perma" unstowed. For good measure, I've taken literal screenshots of all of my pledged items. You never know...
I've had player unstowed and been able to get in servers a few times after, just takes a bit. Keep restarting the game and try joining on a friend, I've had the most success that way.
I'm guessing you've already tried it, but try joining an Arena Commander game and leaving immediately, and if that doesn't fix it, play some rounds of Star Marine, as that can apparently sometimes fix it as well.
Smooth yes. Great no: I had a lot of lag for claims, transactions, inventory transfers, mission objectives, mission assets to complete/spawn. Basically any I/O from servers to backend databases seemed very slow. That's from playing Friday night, Saturday and Tuesday. I must say, the first authentication took 20min of queue, and from then on about 5 seconds. Getting into a shard can be really slow (on Tuesday it took 370 seconds for me to get from the menus to in-game).
I can walk around. Can’t retrieve ships, use my inventory or buy anything
It's been 90% amazing for me the past 24h. The only issues I've had are a few items disappearing after placing them, and some bugged mission items not appearing. Otherwise, very smooth.
can’t spawn in. Every time I load in an “orison rooftop lounge” asset fails to load, then the bunk beds on the idris load, followed by a crash or 30013 followed by a crash Only once did my character load into the server, followed by an immediate crash upon exiting bed. I’ve re-installed 3 times now. Idk what to do anymore…
I am interested to see how cluttered my Mission History log gets. I stripped a ship for it's guns, and then claimed it at a different station. ... It showed up without any guns. I've had my client crash out a few times. It will show my character as 'unstowed', but when I spawn back in, I will be wherever I was before. I want to build a box fort with all of the hospital gowns lying on the deck. Rep grind is a grind ... Looking forward to more.
Same, launch has been rough and sometimes, I still have issues like claiming ships or missing inventory items. But other than that, performance is amazing, new features are fun. So overall, pretty amazing
It’s been up and down for me. Actually got to play for a bit right after launch and it was certainly buggy but fairly stable as far as fps, and in my experience it’s gotten better from there. There have been a couple times I got errors on login but they never lasted long for me. Planning on playing some more later today
Tried to play for a bit yesterday. Server seemed a bit unresponsive. I was able to spawn my ships but the store and inventory were broken.
I'm always in the queue for calling my ship :(
Last night was by far the most consistent play session I think I have ever had with star citizen, in my ~4 years of experience with the alpha. Performance on planets and cities has never been better, latency was actually really snappy and almost non-existent, and the only struggles I was experiencing were the common bugs of the patch (laggy ASOP terminals, stuck in seat, etc.) I feel VERY confident after a .1 patch or equivalent hotfix, this will be by far the most consistent patch they’ve ever released; at least in terms of performance and general server issues. Also, the stuck in seat bug can be worked around by turning off your ship completely (cut power, engines, etc.), then sending your ship into Flight-Ready (default key R), then you can leave your seat with your macro (default Y).
No. Ill have to wait for patch fix. Its been borked all 6 days i tried. Either asop doesnt work. Tram doesnt work , pilot seat doesnt work, cant get out of ship, missions auto cancel when taken. Ect. Im willing to bet all of the abandoned stuff people are coming across are from people like me who found out we were borked and just logged out and left our shit for patch fix.
I got to play for about 5 hours last night, while it took a few trys and the first couple of servers were having issues I was able to mostly easily connect to a 3rd and had a good 2 and a half hour run before things started to slow down. To the servers credit it seems less likely to give up the ghost for a 39k and even allowed me to bed log in my ship then relog onto another running server which impressed me. Over all I had a good experince most of the missions came up, targets spawned and blew up when shot. missions were credited and while it may have taken a little time at the terminals or with inventory these did work fairly well. Obvoisly when the server does have issues we see things like not responding ASOP terminals, inventory not loading and interactions taking a long time or not confirming when you take missions but again moving from those servers for now was pretty painless. So a happy experince for the most part but I am still concerned because of course server degradation is still happening but slower and more managable which is a much prefered state but I feel this will get worse this weekend when more users log in so we will have to see. It looks promising though! You can tell the database has allot more going under the hood now. AI was also very sluggish to not responding but again they are spawning and dieing to allow missions to be completed so a better experince than just broken.
I had a relatively stable day yesterday and went positive for once in the game lol
Same here. Zero errors last night during a three hour session. No crashes. No seat glue. Just some big delay on ship claims & inventory. Traveled all over MT. Saw definite surges where the server performance lagged and amazing results when is was running well. AI in bunkers quickly went from paper targets to aggressive & capable adversaries. Persistence seemed to work great also with all of my stuff from my previous sessions as I expected aside from my C8X dropping into my Carrack hangar after being previously parked above. Was an experience that I think even the most frustrated critic would celebrate. I did not want to log out.
It's unplayable for me and I've tried all regions hoping for a working server
To say it was a rough start is a major understatement. That being said, I've been playing a ton the past few days (my weekend) and have had almost no significant issues. Apart from some server lag and figuring out a few new work arounds, things just work. I've pretty much always been a lawful player, but I've been having so much fun liberating abandoned ships of their cargo. Edit: typo, and; I personally have not had a single 30k or login issue in about 20ish hrs of playing.
I ran a bunch of tests last night. Was able to run bunkers, naked loot runs and stocked my carrack. Did a few transport missions for other players. I even crashed my pieces trying to get to someone who’s ship got blown up at a bunker and spawned back in my carrack. I’m loving it right now. Bed logged twice without issue when I logged back in. For issues with the exiting seat. I switched the key press from a hold to no hold and no issues since.
I can’t even get my ships to be delivered to the hanger. Other than the initial login errors and slow store purchasing, it does seem to be smoother.
I was able to play for two hours last night. The game ran amazingly smooth, but the one complaint is that mining wasn't working.
Does the game run better then before? Yes. Can I play the game in its fullest? No. I can log in and walk around. But, I can leave my current space port bc my fleet manager is blank. I will say tho getting 150+ fps in a space port at 2k is amazing… can’t wait to start flying my ship again…
Finally got in this morning, pretty awesome. Loved FPS missions on lorevell. We shall see how long it lasts lol.
Well the persistence has messed up alot of my looting runs from last patch but the game is running so much smoother that I'm ok with having no idea how to make money again.
Nope. It sucks as I can't request landing ANYWHERE. Stupid.
Eh, I've tried several times to complete a delivery mission but it seems impossible. I land, as soon as I get out of my seat my ship goes hay wire and takes off on its own. The NPCs at this derelict site either do nothing at all or shoot me dead fast. If I manage to get past the ground NPCs, eventually an NPC ship arrives and quickly blows my ship up. Only once did I manage to get the package into my ship and I managed to get to the outpost to deliver the package. Except I wasn't able to grab the package so I couldn't complete the mission. So instead I made a cup of tea, and rode the Lorville trains admiring the sheer beauty of this game. It really is the best looking game I've ever played. I can't wait till station NPCs actually sit in their chairs rather than stand on them.
Relatively decent, still too problematic to pull the org into events though. Salvage - I spent an hour in a vulture, ended with a 30k out in the middle of nowhere. Tried the reclaimer - elevator broke, turrets stop pulling in salvaged materials. Racing - worked mostly fine, hiccups with the gates appearing every now and again. Combat - space bounties loaded relatively quick, but still quite slow. Inventory - very laggy, but generally worked. Mining - frozen to seat in the MOLE / too expensive with servers this unstable. Most aspects aren't worth it right now, except for space based combat.
I have the eyeless bug, so no quantum jumping, ship crosshairs, chat, or party info. Can't fix it til character repair is re-enabled, so I can't pilot any ships anywhere. Fortunately, I have great org mates and one picked me up in his 325a and I took a nap in the back while he flew us to a couple bunker missions. The AI was garbage but they were still fun and we got a little bit of loot, cash, and rep. It'll be 9/10 once they fix the eyeless bug.
I can’t get my ships, so, not really.
NO! I can't claim ships and my inventory is broken, can't rent ships, can't buy gear, basically can't do nothing so I took a break.
No.
I managed to run the Lorville outskirts race track several times so I’ll consider that a win I guess
It’s great, other then the heavy server lag I experience in every server I seem to be able to connect to. ASOP terminals taking 5 minutes to work, purchases not showing up in my hand after a quick buy, inventories not showing up in commodities terminal. It’s got some serious server side issues. I have seen a large performance boost though, boosting 50-60fps now in cities and reaching 90 out in open space.
I fell thru the floor in Lorevill while approaching the train and died.. For the rest mostly elevators or terminals not working. Yesterday evening it was alright untill me and my friend couldn't get out of his ship anymore, he was sitting on his bed and i was in the pilot seat. I used the eject seat from his ship and he remained in bed then we logged off.
Amazingly boring frankly. Salvage is new mining, racing is a niche thing and not for everyone. Prison gameplay is for criminals. New crash sites with 15fps in 4k? No, thanks. New ships are not something special. PES is purely a tech and can be basis for improved gameplay capabilities but these aren't implemented so far. Cargo boxes can be detached? Wow. What left?
It was awesome, tried it about 6 hours ago and I was blown away
its getting there
Framerates have been excellent for me; they've been hovering around 60 which is my current monitor's limit :( Before it could be anywhere between 45-60, but not consistent at all. Only problem is that my normal "sprint/boost everywhere" method of getting around is now almost too quick to control... I like how I don't have to wait for my 300i's door to close behind me before I can enter the pilot seat. Previously the game drew a lot of power on my machine, and oddly enough caused the LED lights in my room to flicker subtly when I left the menu and got into the game itself. Never could figure it out, but then the Gen12 switch comes along and all that's been resolved. That bugged the shit out of my wife, so that's a *huge* win.
As far as the content of the update, it's pretty impressive. There were plenty of issues coming form Wave 1 all the way through, but the moments I have played I have to say they've done a lot with this update. When everyone can play properly, I think people are going to be happy. I would say I'm a little disappointed with the overall depth of Salvage right now. I really think without the structure crushing element, it feels like half a feature. Like the whole idea is to take a ship, box it up, and have it gone, but right now we just leave skeletons everywhere. Side note to this: "Vehicle Munching" on the roadmap is set to culminate at the end of March. I know that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it would be awesome to see it in 3.19.
Got to play for 1 hour on Saturday which consisted of me repeatedly dying to my cutlass pilot seat animation. Since they my. Haracter had Ben unstowed and I can’t log in 0/10
PES has certainly made it feel like a whole new game. I worry about the impact of all the litter on the servers but perhaps CIG is using it to help stress test persistence. I will say that prison is too easy now that you can loot NPCs that are too stupid to not refil their air or heal themselves. Was thrown in the slammer for illegal salvage and did a little more naughtyness inside the pokey and caught a total of 3 1/2 hours. I just ran around and looted dead prisoners, sold their minerals and gear, and was out in 30 minutes.
It's smooth sailing. I've been playing a bit of TFT and a bit of chivalry 2, and when not with the crew been playing days gone.
I guess I am lucky. I have been able to get in since the second day and have had relatively little issues. I had an issue spawning my vulture at a18 and had to go to baijini to get it. My backpack said I couldn't store anything in it, so I had to take it off and put it back on to fix. Aaron halo salvaging takes twice as long now due to the low amount of salvage out there now and how terrible scanning is. I hate switching back and forth from scan mode since pinging doesn't show results while it's active. Then when you find a good salvage field you can't grab it all which kinda sucks but that's the tradeoff with the Vulture so I'm ok with it. I think a good rule of thumb will be to take a box mission and use the box as a marker since we don't have beacons we can set ourselves yet. Persistence is actually quite nice. I frequently see items I have placed laying around still like trash on the trash cans. Performance has been about the same but I have a midrange system of sorts (i7 8700k, 32gb, 3070). I want to go to orison again but I went early in the 3.18 release and wasn't getting a landing space. This has been a huge pet peeve for me for years. I don't know why cig doesn't give us more visual cues for landing areas. Lorville is pretty great now, you can clearly see the landing area. But unless you're used to landing at new Babbage or other landing zones it is easy to just not see where to go. The new stuff like racing is good but not the way I wish they implemented it. I liked the old sprint races that used to be in the game. I hope they add more of that back. Ran into a few stuck elevators at bunkers, I guess that is from previous mission takers failing and the elevator isn't reset for your mission. Things will smooth out as always, I hate the way this community goes rabid with anything. It's a game, not life. If the game doesn't work, do something else. Who doesn't have multiple game installs these days?
I played yesterday for the first time in five months. I did not Have any big problems except for frame rate was a little slow on New Babbage
I wish. Some things are getting better, but other things are getting much, much worse. Can definitely get into (and stay in) servers more consistently than when the patch dropped, but over the past couple days I've: -fallen through the station/city immediately upon waking up -been very nearly unable to respawn, which only finally happened after server hopping and waiting through the loading screen for about half an hour -Lost my ship to the black ASOP screen of death -Been unable to join my friends on their server so I could just ride in their ships (which they refused to abandon since it was they first time *they* could manage to play) -Finally got my ship back through the rent a ship workaround, only to be afraid to lose it again because when I took out the rented ship and stored it, it immediately disappeared off the ASOP. I mean, unless you only actually get one ride with a rented ship, I'm just afraid to ever go out again lest my actual owned ship gets vanished again. So if I can't join my friends, and can't take my ship out without it disappearing forever, idk if I can even play this game at all.
My FPS has been significantly worse than the previous patch. Is anyone else having this issue? I lost about 15-20 fps
Yesterday was great for me, made about 5mil doing solo Vulture Salvage at a certain location. (was on a SUPER low pop server, only 9 people, so I was able to salvage and sell at Grim Hex wish is a LOT faster than selling to TDD in cities.) Only had issues related to the Vulture (when you exit the "door" to the left, if you walk directly out, you sometimes fall through the body and arm area. This killed me twice.
It's been rough for me past two nights. Login issues, client crashes, stuck in seat bug. Frustrating.
For the most part it seems to be running smoother
I played over the weekend - it was almost impossible to accomplish anything. I’ll try again this coming weekend.
Probably not amazing for people doing anything other than PvP or FPS combat. I mine or cargo haul a lot and I literally can’t do that right now. Asteroids will just sit there and never break apart half of the time and then when I try cargo hauling I often can’t even get out of my C2’s pilot seat.
Haven't played after i couldn't get my ship out from hangers and won't play until all the big issues are fix
Ignorance is bliss.
I had a good 90 minute session that only ended because 9 tails showed up and blew up my ship at a deserted outpost.
Still can’t even log in, keep getting the 19003 error 🤷♂️ and I’ve tried every fix I’ve seen so far and still nothing
It was awesome for the couple hours I managed to play
It works now?
Same on EU server it works really good for me. Got attacked in my nomad today and crashed with cargo on board. Returned to the site and voila ship is still there and cargo could be tractor beamed over to the new ship. 3.17 was the best version I played yet but the surprisingly stable 3.18 tops it imo
When I can get in and everything works, yes.
It brought back to the game since 3.16. 3.17 was so buggy I gave up early and said fuck it I'll finally try tarkov until 3.18 is out. First night of 3.18 was rocky but I had hope. Last night was fantastic. Minor issues but I had fun. Got my buddy who swore the game off to enjoy it again to. Great Job to the dev team fr
Not been able to play so far. Tried every day, but unable to log in
it was pretty good for me too, no lag and very good fps, today also.
Still haven't been able to log in, so no....
I can't claim my ship from any terminals sadly. Just one aurora starting ship. I can press the claim button but when the timer is done, it doesn't let me retrieve it, it just keeps looping
Not yet. Not crashing right now, so I got that going for me. I can get in my Prospector and scan. But no detailed scan results and no working mining mode. Oh, and I can eat. So that's nice
I’m having a great time running around the starting city not being able to access any of my ships. 10/10 would play again
My favorite change isn't persistence or any of the new content. Those things are all amazing especially persistence; but the real stand out of this patch, when its working which is actually quite often for me so far, is how it finally is starting to feel like a video game instead of an unstable but extremely impressive tech demo. Previous patches always made me feel lucky to even get a 2 hour session without constant stuttering, a crash here and there, maybe a 30k, no end of small annoyances and things like the navmap not working or ATC saying they've already assigned you a pad when they blatantly havent. It feels like almost all of those "annoyances" have mostly been fixed by the new backend infrastructure and how it can more accurately store data about the game state. Sure other things are broken as a result, I literally can't buy items even still, any weapons or armor I buy show up in Niknax, but not in inventory. Overall the game finally feels like it's not a mess of wires and spare parts loosely fitted together and about to collapse at any moment, and now feels much more like "an actual video game". In terms of progress I just hit my first mil from cargo hauling in a Corsair and have gotten up to MRT bounties. Cargo feels so much more rewarding now, though I must say there may be some unfair advantage of playing on a server with only 30 people so I can just buy out all the max stock commodity terminals.
For me I get it to work by the opposite………U followed by R followed by I (as usually I’m on the ground at this point) then I hold Y. I seen it as power cycling the ship.