Elite Dangerous News

Greetings Commanders,

This patch brings a number of bug fixes and info on some known issues. The patch is expected to go live at 10:00 UTC on Wednesday, 15 July with minimal downtime. Please note that these patch notes may be edited before the update is due to go live as changes are added, removed or adjusted.

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

Fleet Carriers

• A bug preventing transactions in a Fleet Carrier's market when the transaction amount was greater than the Fleet Carrier's remaining unreserved credits was fixed.
  
• An issue which occurred when setting the price of a commodity on a Fleet Carrier to greater than 1 million credits was fixed.
  
• Salvage commodities normally limited to search & rescue contacts, like Black Boxes or Personal Effects should now work correctly at Fleet Carriers in the open and black markets.
  
• An issue which lead to some Fleet Carriers having a service only partially installed was fixed. Affected carriers have now had any of these services properly installed, but with some small side effects (see Known Issues for details).

Mining

• An issue which allowed launching a fighter to restore sub-surface deposits on asteroids was fixed.
  
• A bug with material distribution in overlapping hotspots was fixed and hotspost themselves we rebalanced. Now, the effect that each hotspot has on the base rarity of a commodity has been doubled. To counter this, hotspots of the same type which overlap will be less effective. The aim of thsese changes is to reduce the massive impact of overlapping hotspots while still ensuring they provide a higher yield than non-overlapping hotspots.

Avatars

• A bug which affected the way hair options were selected for dark skinned characters was fixed.
  Early Game Experience
  
• An incorrect destination given in the first mission was fixed.

Arx

• An issue which prevented featured items in the store from being selected was fixed.

Trading

• Fixed a problem with the Low Temperature Diamond commodity not decreasing its demand level as players sell commodity units to a market that demands it when the faction controlling that market has any state active in that starsystem.

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

Fleets Carriers

• As above, an issue with partially installed services has been fixed. Previously, these services were not accounted for in the Fleet Carrier capacity, meaning this fix may result in some Fleet Carriers going beyond maximum capacity. Affected players may notice in addition to being overfilled, their Fleet Carriers now have a crew member named Fred Bloggs. While he is a hard working crew member, Fleet Carrier owners who do not which to keep Fred Bloggs may replace him as you would any crew member when the Fleet Carrier is in an Administration system.
  
• The capacity of overfilled Fleet Carriers will display as full (25,000/25,000). The used capacity can be reduced by removing cargo from the cargo bay, uninstalling services or cancelling/reducing purchase orders. This can be done to ensure your Fleet Carrier is not overfilled. Until this is done, purchase orders set in the market management interface may not work correctly. Commanders selling commodities to a Fleet Carrier which is over capacity will receive a "Transaction Cancelled: Commodity no longer required" message.

Stability Issues

• Players may find they are having issues with being disconnected from the game when loading into systems with many Fleet Carriers present. We are aware of this issue and are working towards a solution in a future update.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the stability issues and as above, we are working to resolve them as quickly as possible. Thank you for your feedback and understanding!

o7

Greetings Commanders,

We're happy to announce that the next patch is expected on Wenesday 15 July. It will contain various bug fixes and the patch notes will be added to this post on Monday.

o7

Greetings Commanders,


Today's patch brings a number of changes, primarily focusing on stability and Fleet Carrier fixes. These are due to go live at 10:00 UTC with 15 minutes of downtime expected.


Fleet Carriers

• Setting a price for a commodity in the market management screen is now much faster.
  
• Players can now use "-" when entering ship IDs.
  
• Fixed an issue that placed Fleet Carriers in the barycentre when jumping to a binary system, even if space was present around the primary star.
  
• Fixed an issue which could cause Fleet Carrier landing pads to be displaced.
  
• Removed superpower faction logos from Fleet Carriers.
  
• Fixed a bug which prevented SRVs from being restocked at Fleet Carriers.
  
• Fixed the timing so that when transferring a ship to a carrier the "Incoming Message" audio now plays at the same time as the message arrives rather than immediately upon requesting the transfer.
  
• Fixed a problem with stolen mission cargo getting stuck after being sold to a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed an issue positioning Fleet Carriers near stellar bodies with highly eccentric orbits.
  
• Fixed some issues with bookmarking Fleet Carriers.
  
• Fixed an issue with Limpets sometimes not being restockable at a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed an issue with Fleet Carrier shipyards incorrectly interacting with Powerplay control system effects.
  
• Fixed an issue causing ship inventory numbers to be displayed incorrectly after selling items to a Fleet Carrier.

Background Simulation

• Adjusted the way Retreat and Expansion conflicts are resolved.

Mining

• Surface and sub-surface deposits on asteroids will no longer immediately respawn when re-entering the instance or switching to a ship launched fighter.

Galaxy Map

• Fixed an issue which stopped Squadron Bookmarks appearing.

Installations

• Fixed an issue with combat bonds not being correctly awarded for scenario objectives when over four players contributed.

Commodities

• Galactic average prices were updated.

Stability Changes

• Fixed an Orange Sidewinder connection issue when dropping into an instance with a Starport and Carrier Vendor.
  
• Fixed a crash when entering the Commodity Market on a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed a crash when entering Holo-Me customisation at a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed a crash when purchasing a Fleet Carrier and immediately viewing it in the galaxy map.

ARX

• Fixed a bug which meant that selected Fleet Carrier paint jobs would be removed when entering an instance.

Thanks for all of your feedback. Let us know how you find the changes and if any further issues arise!



o7

Hi everyone,

The downtime will begin at 09:50 UTC, and we expect maintenance to conclude by 10:30 UTC.

In the meantime, here are the patch notes for what we're changing:


Commodity Market

• Reduced repeat speed on market selection arrows on Compare Market screen.

Mining

• Reduced the largest possible yield when subsurface mining for Low Temperature Diamonds by around 25%.
  
• Decreased the effectiveness of the peripheries of Low Temperature Diamond hotspots.
  
  • Overlapping hotspots for Low Temperature Diamonds, when coupled with the new Subsurface Mining changes, were more effective than the centre of the hotspot itself. This change increases the drop-off of the hotspot's ring, reducing the likelihood that a double-overlapped hotspot is more lucrative than either of the hotspot's centrepoints. A well-placed triple hotspot will still be very effective at increasing the likelihood of finding Low Temperature Diamonds. This change does not affect any other hotspots or minerals.

Crashes/Stability

• Fixed a disconnect triggered by selling exploration data at a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed an occasional crash when entering a system with a Fleet Carrier.
  
• Fixed an issue with some bookmarks being missing.

Fleet Carriers

• Fixed an issue which could cause a Fleet Carrier purchase transaction to fail.
  
• Skybox will now correctly update after a Fleet Carrier jump without having to re-enter the instance.
  
• Fixed a bug which allowed players to install additional Carrier services even if they didn't have capacity.
  
• Fixed an issue with duplicate Fleet Carrier call-signs - this will cause all Fleet Carrier call signs to be regenerated as of 3.7.01.
  
• Fixed some issues with stats not correctly updating.
  
• Fixed an issues with carrier jump sequence not always proceeding correctly.

Arx & Customisation

• Fixed an issues which caused some Fleet Carrier nameplates to be obscured.
  
• Fixed the colour of landing pad 7 holo-marker on Fleet Carriers.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching Fleet Carrier Layout.

Audio

• Fixed missing ATC voices at starports.
  
• Fixed issue with outfitting ambiance audio layering up on top of itself when going between outfitting and livery.
  
• Fixed an issue with Engineer Remote Workshop ambiance persisting into the main game, and can layer up on itself too.

Text

• Fixed missing titles for the audio logs associated with the Golconda.

Missions

• Fixed an issue where a collect/source mission would request commodities on sale at the same location.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused mission critical updates to not appear in the inbox.

Journal

• Added a speculative fix for an issue that could cause the game to add excessive NavRoute entries to the journal when looking at the Galaxy Map.

Powerplay

• Fixed the missing cooldown time which would allow players to repeatedly obtain their allocation of powerplay materials.

Background Simulation and Galaxy

• Reinstated missing locations.
  
• Ongoing balancing of Faction influence normalisation.

We'll add an update here once the servers are live again,


Stay safe and o7 Commanders.

Greetings Commanders,



Thank you for sharing your feedback since the launch of Fleet Carriers! As a result, we will be having scheduled maintenance tomorrow at 09:30 (UTC) expected to last approximately an hour.


This patch will address various bugs and issues that you have reported to us, with the patch notes to come tomorrow.



o7 Commanders