Elite: Dangerous - Gamma-Hotfix 2.02 behebt Absturz-Probleme (Update)

Elite: Dangerous hat ein neues Gamma-Update erhalten und macht einen Sprung auf die Version 2.0. Unter anderem gibt es zwei neue Raumschiffe. Außerdem wurde der Launch-Trailer veröffentlicht.

Update (12. Dezember 2014): Mittlerweile hat das Entwicklerteam einen Hotfix für die von vielen Spielern monierten Absturzprobleme der Gamma-Version 2.0 von Elite: Dangerous veröffentlicht. Das Update auf die Version 2.02 sollte eine Lösung für die Spielabstürze etablieren. Ursache waren offenbar die Film-Dateien, die zum Spielstart abgespielt werden.

Kurz zuvor wurde übrigens die Gamma-Version 2.01 veröffentlicht, die ebenfalls einige Fehlerbehebungen mit sich brachte. Nachfolgend die kompletten Patchnotes dazu:

TWEAKS & FIXES

Fix one cause for server disconnects when exploring
Fix asserts when quitting the game and the ship isn't shut down
Fix the issue with users unable to use the control bindings if they dont have the en-GB layout preloaded
Make sure that location data is available before activating crime component
Fix for hardware cursor in borderless windowed mode
Use combined major+minor reputation for mission requirements
Add extra checks to make sure a set of police scenarios don't appear in dead systems
Fix abandon branch of collect missions
Balancing pass on USS frequency, now should be generally a bit more prominent. Tweaked up the chance of them appearing in relation to your distance from the capitals and upped it in relation to the population of a system
Use the correct Harvard/temperature table for bright giants and super giants when finding the nearest Yerkes classification of generated stars
Improved supercruise lens flare to work with both the normal game and occulus rift
Optimisations for retrieving data from SpectralClasses by temperature values
Fix an issue with classifying authored ammonia worlds
Made the initial position saftey check handle spawning at close binaries by first updating its universal address before checking to see if the position is inside the body
Fixed incorrect Python manufacturer name from Zorgon to Faulcon deLacy
Increased the duration of warning/positive messages
Don't try and connect to server if we're in the middle of quitting
Glowy Orrery model is now less glowy and slightly smaller
Steps to improve core in galaxy map
Make the dolly distance for narrowing the range of stars to show based on the focus range of the galaxy map
Remove the update tick from the galaxy map core. The disappearing systems was more distracting and helpful
Change the narrowing of the search range whilst moving in the core to be dependent on dolly position, so doesn't affect the zoomed in view
Change the focus of the star generation to be at the galaxy map camera when not zoomed in, instead of halfway between the camera and the cursor
If the client returns to the main menu, stop trying to serve them missions related information
Fix collision mesh on Anaconda
Soundbank updates
Don't repeat server player info check (fixes telemetry spam)
Hovering mouse over paintjobs causes paintjobs to be reapplied when looking at decals fixed
Increased completion time for Federal Collect missions
Voice Comms - Forever hanging ringtone on client fixed
Galaxy map search needs to find authored planets and starports as well as systems
Balanced wear values down by a large amount across all sources
Gamepad stops responding after confirming two friend requests in-game fixed
ED-27599 Rework of training scenarios, Docking tutorial split in two, training scenarios reordered
Ensure the number of items in the cartography sell page is correct
Automatically add "Conflict" tags to ships in warzones, which includes ships spawned from capital ships
Instantly refresh the reputation screen's data when you do something in a mission
Increase route planner spiderweb distance
Fix for a malformed text string in slave missions

And a short server-side change-log:

Universal Cartographics once again add exploration data into Commanders' navigation computers
The rarist types of commodities are now prized by Commodities Markets across the galaxy, once again offering a premium price to Commanders willing to travel that extra light year.
Reliability improvments to trade route generation, market and faction background simulation and exploration data trading

Ursprüngliche Meldung: Das Entwicklerstudio Frontier Development zieht die Entwicklungsgeschwindigkeit der Weltraum-Simulation Elite: Dangerous kurz vor deren Veröffentlichung offenbar noch einmal deutlich an und überspringt die Gamma-Versionen 1.6 bis 1.9: Ab sofort ist die Early-Access-Version des Spiels, an deren Ende es übrigens keinen Account-Wipe mehr geben wird, in der Version 2.0 verfügbar.

Die neue Spielversion steht seit dem 10. Dezember 2014 zum Herunterladen bereit und bringt unter anderem die beiden neuen nutzbaren Raumschiffe Lakon Type 7 und Adder mit sich.

Ebenfalls neu sind das von der Community häufig nachgefragte Routen-Planungs-Feature und Sklaven-Missionen.

Die äußerst umfangreichen Patchnotes zur Gamma 2.0 von Ellite: Dangerous finden sich im offiziellen Spielforum unter frontier.co.uk. Nachfolgend einer kleiner Auszug mit den neuen Features und Fehlerbehebungen:

NEW FEATURES/CONTENT

Add Lakon Type 7 playable ship
Add Adder playable ship
Route planning added
Alliance stations now have their own colour swatch
Scenarios in system updated on state change
Slavery missions and commodities added

STABILITY FIXES

Fixed possible unhandled NULL interfaces if you happen to shut down a ship on the same frame as it fires a drone
Fix network initialisation bug
If the player ship is shutting down, don’t bother doing anything in response to its load out being changed
Fix potential crash highlighted by static analysis in shield emitter modules
Protect the game from shutting down while the exploration database is ‘dying’
Fix memory leak on shutdown caused by the stellarforge manager not cleaning up a generation job if one was still active at the time of shutdown
Fix for assert seen when an AI was trying to send a chat line to a dying ship
Fix GPU crash on lens flares
Catch a few more cases where the game can fail to start-up: OS window can’t be created; D3D device can’t be created
Don’t assert when forced to abandon EnterLocation – can happen legitimately
Fix crash on GeForce card when starting in bootcamp
Fix memory leak when texture generation fails
Fix AI cruise duty assert
Prevent asserts trying to access systems that don’t exist
Also allows daughter stars to be queried in constellations, stopping an assert at start-up
Make asteroids release decals before releasing their physics object
Fix for occasional startup crashes caused by the Oculus message activities trying to open the dialog box movie when it is not yet loaded
Fix assert that happens in the larger ring cells
Moved Beagle 2 landing inside its parent moon’s hillsphere to stop an assert
Fix the transfer of live ring objects to prevent softlocks
Fixed Station Services UI locks up if you hammer A button while exiting Galaxy Map while docked

Darüber hinaus hat das Entwicklerteam den Launch-Trailer für das am 16. Dezember 2014 erscheinende Spiel veröffentlicht und weitere Informationen zum bevorstehenden Launch preisgegeben. So werden die Credits aller Spieler von zuvor 100 auf nun 1.000 verzehnfacht. Zeitgleich wurde außerdem ein neuer Launcher veröffentlicht und Spieler mit Alpha- oder Beta-Zugang sowie alle Vorbesteller erhalten sofortigen Zugang zu den Einzelspieler Kampf-Missionen.

Alle Crowd-Funding-Unterstützer mit mit Alpha/Beta-Zugang bekommen darüber hinaus die regulär 40 Euro teure Elite: Dangerous Mercenary-Edition, in der folgende Dinge enthalten sind: