Posts by SWAT_OP-R8R

can you provide the savegame?

Nothing happens without a reason.

Anticheat did an autoban because a file signature did not fit.

There are ongoing investigations which this happens from time to time.

your account was unbanned

I am currently investigating a few irregularities that might lead to server bans.

There is no definitiv conclusion but based on initial test I would advice players which switch between SP and MP to restart the launcher before you chance the game mode. Same might be neccessary when switching between openSP and normal SP (dunno yet).

Just close the launcher and open it again before going from one mode to another.

I'll share more info when available.

cheesy

That you maybe have played when nobody is online (there are times with more activity) is imaginable. But that there is nobody on the discord is highly doubtful. There are always well over 100 ppl online.

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Hey Operator, me again with a bunch of new suggestions

1. Two things: Introduce more Diversity in niche Ship stats (Speed, Strafe power, Power output) and make 80-90% of VHFs... better

Right now, most VHFs feel too similar in stats, which creates a small ‘meta’ where only a few ships are viable. I think this is a major issue, so I want to emphasize it.

- Bring other 6x class 10 ships closer in performance to the Redemption (strafe power, give them a champion shield on purchase but make them more expensive obviously).

- Make more ships agile — the Saracen is a great example of well-rounded stats, but 80–90% of ships are unagile, have worse stats, or both, making them straight up worse.

- The Azan VHF (described as a scout ship) has only 5200 armor — half (or less) compared to other VHFs — and is unagile. It deserves far better agility (maybe even better than the Cayman), or alternatively, give it Dragonfly-level cruise speed. The way it is right now.. it is simply just bad

- A few ships share Cayman/Quasar/Vulcain-like stats (armor, cargo, bots/bats) but are just straight up worse because they heavily lack the agility.

These are just few of the ideas

Im sure that im not the only one who is bored of flying the same couple of ships each time.

And yeah, I think the ideas "Make ships more diverse in stats" and "Make bad ships not so bad especially in terms of agility" might be clashing, but I hope and think you get what I mean.

2. Alien Station Docking

Since players can already get an alien affiliation, why not go further?

- Make it possible for a human to dock on alien stations, there is a lot of them.

(I realise the difficulty in this, how would Trent breathe? What would the aliens sell?)

3. Flyable Alien Ships

This might sound wild...

I know this was once considered impossible because alien ships are organic and designed for aliens — but there are workarounds:

- Researchers seize an alien vessel and retrofit it for human use. (Heard that this is the story for Dom'Kavash Annihilators)

- A captured alien ship is hollowed out, with human tech built inside — leaving the only an organic shell (maybe with visible mechanical parts showing through the organic shell).

- With Dom’Kavash help, humans get access to alien ships modified for human use.

- Dom’Kavash themselves provide adapted (Dom'Kavash) ships, this could give the Dom'Kavash Inner Core systems a much bigger purpose.

- The Ancients were on a similar technological level to humans — so why not allow humans to fly ancient drones? or newly designed Ancient ships

On a side note i just wanted to mention that some existing ships (like Yggdrasil and Ragnarok) already look very alien-like.

Balancing would be key, it would be crazy to be able to fly a VHF with 40-80k armor. But the concept could add huge variety and excitement.

4. Give Purpose to Underused Systems

Systems like Kandiris, Lost Paradise, and Procyon currently feel like dead ends.

Suggestions:

- Add unique ships, weapons, or rewards (for example, a powerful ship on Planet Lost Paradise).

- Use the alien gate in Procyon as a one-way shortcut back to non-French systems — so players don’t have to fly back through the four long systems manually.

5. Tour-Exclusive Rewards

Introduce special equipment that can only be obtained through the Tour.

Ideas:

- Mk3 class 10 guns (only slightly better than the Mk2 ones).

- Other unique items that make the Tour feel like a rewarding, must-do event.

6. New Class 10 Missiles

The only current class 10 missile pretty much only damages shields.

- Add a new or multiple Class 10 missile(s) that deal hull damage as well, to make missile combat more interesting.

Balancing would be important here as well

7. Fun Easter Egg Ships

- Add a banana-shaped ship and a robot-themed ship to the Lower Unknown planets (maybe with quirky stats).

Purely for fun — light-hearted easter eggs that players could love to discover.

8. Direct item destruction in inventory

- Instead of having to jettison cargo, it should be possible to directly destroy items from your inventory.

- This would be a huge quality-of-life improvement, making inventory management faster and less frustrating.

I grew up with Crossfire and i love it! Its great, but i feel like it can be so much greater!!

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I think it would b best to create a new thread (or threads) to disucss potential changes and suggestions in detail.

e.g. which ship gets which change, etc.

I can review that stuff and include it in future updates.

Today I once more did a small update to the shader options, fixing a minor issue.

Also a fix for a texture error on one of the DK stations was released.

Last but not least there are some changes on the armored transport. In theory the docking issues are resolved (in my tests docking worked). Furthermore the turret layout has been change. The armored transport can now utilize class 6 turrets and lower on all hardpoints and also has access to class 7 and 8 turrets on selected hardpoints.

Ill consider these suggestions but not all of them are easy to implement.

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perhaps because of this, sometimes crashes the game - not all files are uploaded. It is not clear what the problem is, the rest has been updated. Previously, 3-4 files were not uploaded. including motionfocus.fx and dacom.ini

this is just a temp error log of outcommented stuff

nothing of that is needed on the client

actually these errors should atm not even appear anymore

the overlay freeze issue on the V1 shader option should btw. be fixed

A few words about stuttering (since I can not reproduce it).

Do not consider the shader options by default good or bad based on your initial experience when launching the game. These options have 8 presets (you can press F11 to switch between them and Home button to config them). Each preset has different shaders active with different shader options. Shaders have different impact on look and also on performance. You are free to edit the presets and play around with them. Maybe the stuttering is just result of a very specific active preset or a specific shader.

Also worth to try is to test if the window mode resolves your issues (launcher option).

Brightness might depend on the selected preset.

The reshade shader stuff got updated (again pretty big update).

I did not experience compilation errors but on the DX10 V1 shader option the overlay seems to get stuck for some reason. I am investigating and will provide a solution asap.

Small potential workaround: there is an option to only load active shaders in the reshade menu. This at least solved the issue for me.

Later this week I will do an update to the Reshade shaders and also to the presets.

If you have edited any of the 8 presets and want to keep your edits you will need to make a backup or save your settings in a new preset file.

small patch to fix Yantai station docking behaviour got released today

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yeah i know

But since my cat warms its paws and belly during winter time on my PC I have to clean it more often by default.

looks good

I just simply toned it down very low arbg values and use the RGB just simply for status indicators (incoming messages, CPU/GPU load via light speed changes, temperature display, etc.)

My PC is not even sitting on my desk but under it. (still visible but not disturbing). Generally i am not a big fan of RGB (pun intended). Even my choice of keyboard is careful. RGB yes but only to shine through the keys. I hate this bleedthrough RGB light under the keys.

can you open a ticket about it?

Trains and all vanilla ships were not part of the update. Nothing has changed for these ships.