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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by alt3rn1ty » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 19:03

dtpsprt wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 18:50
alt3rn1ty wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 18:37
So Egosoft have made improvements over the disparity between IS and OOS, I guess we just need to find out by trial and error again as to how.
Well... if they could (or even had time to) write big "explanatory" posts, without giving out too much so that it will come as a great surprise, they would be devs in a Publishing House, not a Sofrware one. Personally I'm glad (most of the time) for a simple "yes" or "no" or "we'll see about that".
As far as their "notes" on "improvements" in Betas, new versions and DLC's are correct (what said to be fixed/altered is fixed/altered and what is fixed/altered is mentioned) that's all we need to know. It is one of the reasons I always start a new, fresh, vanilla game in any Beta and some smaller ones in every Hotfix to test and find out by myself...
Once the new version is out one can decide to bring in his old paythrough or not right? Afterall a Beta is (supposed to be) a final test before the official release as far as I remember...
Oh yes I agree, I wasn't complaining, looking forward to the finding out myself what works well or not.
Also going to be updating a few of my bug reports with fix confirmations .. once I get my eyes off the forum, too keen to see if I missed anything to drag myself away :).

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by zakaluka » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 21:46

dtpsprt wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 18:50
Personally I'm glad (most of the time) for a simple "yes" or "no" or "we'll see about that".
Personally not a fan of the community speculating on mechanics for years until someone finally spends the time to read & understand the AI scripts. Which are quite difficult for even experienced modders to understand sometimes, I might add.
(cough... crew levels)

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by dtpsprt » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 22:36

zakaluka wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 21:46
Personally not a fan of the community speculating on mechanics for years until someone finally spends the time to read & understand the AI scripts. Which are quite difficult for even experienced modders to understand sometimes, I might add.
(cough... crew levels)
Indeed... I'm personally of the opinion to RTMF than RTFM... then apply simple logic to what you read...

P.S. I'm also personally of the opinion that simple logic is an extremely valuable commodity in permanent scarcity i.e. the KISS principle that is hardly applied anywhere...

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by chew-ie » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 22:44

Yeah, pong is all we really needed.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by grapedog » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 22:44

dtpsprt wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 15:10
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Wed, 18. Nov 20, 12:06
I think that was already the case... i just liked not having to do an extra crew xfer. I would cap the ship, then swap marinea to service crew, xfer repair drones over, and then escort it back to a shipyard. Just before it docked, i would transfer my marines back to their launch ship, and have the cap'd ship pull in, get repairs, and hire a new crew. Now ill have to ferry around a service crew too?

I'd be much happier if they just capped marines(of say 1 boarding star or better) at 1 or 2 stars for engineering. That way you can still use em for basic maintenance crews, without having to ferry around multiple groups of people. That's gonna make the capping process much more annoying i feel.
Any way you look at it, it's about the same number of clicks... the only "difference" is that it would be a nice idea (for those that love and embrace caping) to have a "special" crew ship to transfer from so they won't be searching...
And that is the annoying part, is ill have to have a couple ships full of service crew doing nothing but waiting around near my capping ships, or hsve additional ships thats only purpose is to provide additional repair drones via xfer to the newly capped ship.

It just adds having more stuff required to do the same thing.... but i am not sure i see the benefit to player enjoyment. In my mind changes towards more realism should be balanced by whether or not it makes a process more or less enjoyable.

Unless there is another reason to make the change that I am not aware of. And how does this affect single crewman? If i have a service crew member on board, and i want to make him a marine, or vice versa, is that not allowed any more?

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by dtpsprt » Wed, 18. Nov 20, 22:55

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Wed, 18. Nov 20, 22:44
Unless there is another reason to make the change that I am not aware of. And how does this affect single crewman? If i have a service crew member on board, and i want to make him a marine, or vice versa, is that not allowed any more?
You can always "personally" call to assign him to another (or the same) ship in another post. Of course doing so for 20-30 people is the "icing of the cake" for masochism....

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by Solomon Short » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 06:13

CBJ wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 11:51
No, Solomon Short asked about weapon mode, not weapon mods. :)

These are the settings for turret behaviour.
Ah, thank you.

That is a very useful change!

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by SparvieroGed » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 07:04

any feedbacks about performance?
I'm a bit worried.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by chew-ie » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 08:03

SparvieroGed wrote:
Thu, 19. Nov 20, 07:04
any feedbacks about performance?
I'm a bit worried.
For me it's mostly the same. The volumetric shadows are optional and the devs invited all to share their experience in terms of performance to further optimize them. Although it should be clear that the volumetric shadows do need certain hardware - like a middle class pc isn't expected to have enough ressources left for raytracing. So expecting them to have zero impact is kind of wrong.

Other then that quite a few optimizations were made - so chances are that performance gets better. (e.g. they are constantly looking into those crazy mega complexes people build; there were some changes to AI / NPC behaviours which I am aware of which were the source of situational performance issues)

You could use the public beta and check if your rig has any troubles. Reporting any findings could also net the possibility for improvement.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by Stoats not Goats » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 08:06

SparvieroGed wrote:
Thu, 19. Nov 20, 07:04
any feedbacks about performance?
I'm a bit worried.
Like what chew-ie said it feels pretty much the same performance-wise even in GE where the fog and asteroids are incredibly dense. Graphically, I reckon its a great improvement with the volumetric fog but no noticeable performance cost.
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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by SparvieroGed » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 12:39

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Thu, 19. Nov 20, 08:03


For me it's mostly the same. The volumetric shadows are optional and the devs invited all to share their experience in terms of performance to further optimize them. Although it should be clear that the volumetric shadows do need certain hardware - like a middle class pc isn't expected to have enough ressources left for raytracing. So expecting them to have zero impact is kind of wrong.

Other then that quite a few optimizations were made - so chances are that performance gets better. (e.g. they are constantly looking into those crazy mega complexes people build; there were some changes to AI / NPC behaviours which I am aware of which were the source of situational performance issues)

You could use the public beta and check if your rig has any troubles. Reporting any findings could also net the possibility for improvement.
Thanks, I will try it.
I'm on a laptop and my biggest problem are temperatures.
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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by Warnoise » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 13:55

Still no "bomber" subordinates roles for anti capital/station?

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by mr.WHO » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 16:22

Warnoise wrote:
Thu, 19. Nov 20, 13:55
Still no "bomber" subordinates roles for anti capital/station?
+1 for this - I was bitchin about it ever since 3.0 beta.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by mr.WHO » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 16:28

One thing I wonder from watching trailers - there are two color patterns for Terrans:
White & red
White & blue
(unconfirmed, possible) mettalic silver? hard to tell on that assymetric fighter

If this isn't simply a different paint mod or default paint color pattern then I guss this might indicate Earth (blue) and Mars/colonies (red) factions.

Maybe it's like Earth faction want to rebuild Earth defences (new Torus or something better), build fleet and kick Argon ass.
While Mars faction is more interested in colony development and terraforming, kinda isolationist faction?

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by avilonrayne » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 23:09

CBJ wrote:
Wed, 18. Nov 20, 00:38
It is a pretty standard requirement for games involving a shared online experience to need an unmodified client.
This is incorrect. Many online games, including big ones such as World of Warcraft, allow client modifications. Most of these MMO mods are limited in scope, like UI changes and such, but if an MMO can allow mods, why can't X4? There are also a ton of games with predominant online features that allow unlimited modding. Minecraft is a great example here. The host of any of these games simply shares the mods with the clients that join, and the mods are only in effect for the client while they are connected to that host.

The whole Venture system, since its release, has made no sense at all for why mods are restricted. If someone sends a modified ship, simply replace it with a ship of matching size and role when it gets sent out to other players. There could even be a preset "default ship" for each size and role that all modified clients send out.

So, can you please explain why these "planned online features" warrant isolating your modding community from part of the game? Mods make X4 quite a bit better, largely by fixing broken AI and adding new features at a much faster pace than Egosoft can. There are plenty of mods that don't alter gameplay, too. A popular one on Steam Workshop right now changes one of the playable character models, for example.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to play the game, probably un-modded for a while to see how all the new changes work. I happen to like the unmodified game for the most part. It's just the AI that messes up too much that gets on my nerves. I really hope y'all have fixed the docking behavior for in-sector ships. I just wish it didn't feel like Egosoft was being outright hostile to the modders that, quite frankly, keep the X games alive. I wouldn't still be playing X:Rebirth and X3:AP without mods.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by CBJ » Thu, 19. Nov 20, 23:53

No, sorry, it is not incorrect. Games like Minecraft are a completely different scenario. There you have a server that is shared between a group of people, where everyone using it agrees to use, and benefit from, a particular mod or set of mods. That is, of course, fine in that situation, but for games where everyone participates in the same shared experience, and where changes made on one person's client can potentially have a detrimental effect on someone else's experience, the requirement for an unmodified client is absolutely the norm.

Just to be clear, this is not just about people sending modified ships. I am not going to go into details, for various reasons, not least of which is that we're not ready to share our future plans for the venture feature yet, but suffice it to say that the requirement for an unmodified client is not going to be going away because it is an essential element in maintaining a level playing field for everyone who chooses to participate.

Throwing around emotive terms such as "isolating" and "hostile" isn't going to change anything. We put a lot of thought, time and effort into supporting the modding community, and we will continue to do so. We will also continue to look into whether there are cases where we can allow purely cosmetic mods that don't mark the client as modified, as we already did with music changes for example, but it's not always as easy as people think to differentiate between cosmetic mods and those which can affect gameplay in a way that could potentially impact on the way ventures are prepared for and initiated.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by hargn » Fri, 20. Nov 20, 00:05

Wahou!!!
Is that an infinite log ?
But it really should show us the sell details to know how the station make profits.

https://i.imgur.com/EQLXNKZ.png?1

And another feedback on the coordinate attacks : the ships assigned to supply move to an advanced rally point. They better should hold back in order to not become targets as they are not fits to support a fight.
Rather, the leader stay back doing nothing, whereas it should go to fight with its wingmans.
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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by avilonrayne » Fri, 20. Nov 20, 00:55

CBJ wrote:
Thu, 19. Nov 20, 23:53
No, sorry, it is not incorrect. Games like Minecraft are a completely different scenario. There you have a server that is shared between a group of people, where everyone using it agrees to use, and benefit from, a particular mod or set of mods. That is, of course, fine in that situation, but for games where everyone participates in the same shared experience, and where changes made on one person's client can potentially have a detrimental effect on someone else's experience, the requirement for an unmodified client is absolutely the norm.

Just to be clear, this is not just about people sending modified ships. I am not going to go into details, for various reasons, not least of which is that we're not ready to share our future plans for the venture feature yet, but suffice it to say that the requirement for an unmodified client is not going to be going away because it is an essential element in maintaining a level playing field for everyone who chooses to participate.

Throwing around emotive terms such as "isolating" and "hostile" isn't going to change anything. We put a lot of thought, time and effort into supporting the modding community, and we will continue to do so. We will also continue to look into whether there are cases where we can allow purely cosmetic mods that don't mark the client as modified, as we already did with music changes for example, but it's not always as easy as people think to differentiate between cosmetic mods and those which can affect gameplay in a way that could potentially impact on the way ventures are prepared for and initiated.
Those details you're unwilling to share are probably the only thing that won't make me feel bad about the entire Venture system. Right now it just looks like there's no good reason for the restriction. I hope that changes soon. I only use these emotive terms because it's what I actually feel. There isn't another word to describe it. I certainly know that this is not Egosoft's intent, which is why I haven't said that Egosoft is actually being hostile. It just feels like it, and I'm frustrated with not knowing why. I've been frustrated with it since the day Ventures were released. It really felt like a slap in the face back then, and this new news feels the same. The best way to fix that is more communication about upcoming features and the reasons for changes.

The biggest reason I feel the way I do is because there are in-game items locked behind these features. There is no other way to get paint jobs legitimately. Would it be possible to add "offline" ventures at all? No interaction with these mysterious planned features, and your ship doesn't actually show up in anyone's game, but you can still get the rewards and have them linked to your account? That would fix everything, and it really doesn't seem like it would take much extra work to add that. Have modded games to use the offline mode, and give unmodded games the option to use it. Then everyone can get the rewards and nobody is left out. Something to consider, at least.

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by dtpsprt » Fri, 20. Nov 20, 06:49

avilonrayne wrote:
Fri, 20. Nov 20, 00:55
Those details you're unwilling to share are probably the only thing that won't make me feel bad about the entire Venture system. Right now it just looks like there's no good reason for the restriction. I hope that changes soon. I only use these emotive terms because it's what I actually feel. There isn't another word to describe it. I certainly know that this is not Egosoft's intent, which is why I haven't said that Egosoft is actually being hostile. It just feels like it, and I'm frustrated with not knowing why. I've been frustrated with it since the day Ventures were released. It really felt like a slap in the face back then, and this new news feels the same. The best way to fix that is more communication about upcoming features and the reasons for changes.

The biggest reason I feel the way I do is because there are in-game items locked behind these features. There is no other way to get paint jobs legitimately. Would it be possible to add "offline" ventures at all? No interaction with these mysterious planned features, and your ship doesn't actually show up in anyone's game, but you can still get the rewards and have them linked to your account? That would fix everything, and it really doesn't seem like it would take much extra work to add that. Have modded games to use the offline mode, and give unmodded games the option to use it. Then everyone can get the rewards and nobody is left out. Something to consider, at least.
+1 for that although, truth me told, there are mods that give the player access to the "locked" items (way most important than paintjobs are the pink modification parts), the problem with them (like the ones that emulate the jump drive) is that they end up being "too much" (IMHO)... but this is a discussion between the modders and the mod users...

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Re: 4.00 Public Beta now available

Post by Rei Ayanami » Fri, 20. Nov 20, 11:08

avilonrayne wrote:
Fri, 20. Nov 20, 00:55
The biggest reason I feel the way I do is because there are in-game items locked behind these features. There is no other way to get paint jobs legitimately. Would it be possible to add "offline" ventures at all?
I think there is a mod for offline ventures.
viewtopic.php?t=411604
However, i haven't use it, so I can't promise you that it works with the current or future versions.

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