Usually this means we’ve provided enough data to give them a decent amount of work.

Edit: The update that will only last a few hours will likely be some sort of stress test… Good luck!

Hopefully we see some major improvements to handle the server loads with the updates later this week.

https://www.stalker2.com/preorder

The physical copy comes with some goodies, or else you can pre-order through GoG, Steam, Epic Games, MS Store, or Xbox.

The servers are definitely on fire. I would give it another week or two and either they will fix it up to better handle the traffic, or else try to hop on once there are less people trying to check it out.

Submitted questions can be found here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/looking-for-questions-star-citizen-live-brave-new-

Which version of Voyager are you on?

I’m on 2.18.5 with my Pixel 7 and everything is running fine for me.

Nice! If you’ve been able to avoid all the videos you’re definitely in for a treat.

Oh, ok. I didn’t realize he had been banned at one point on Spectrum. Doesn’t look like it now since he was posting on there earlier today: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/search?member=Camural (Link is currently messed up, you’ll need to remove then re-add his name to see)

I do like most of his videos, he definitely points out a lot of valid concerns, although there are definitely a few that I disagree with him on.

For a second I thought you were talking about Camural. I’ll have to look into some of Caracal’s videos. As long as he’s done some decent research and has valid criticism it’s probably worth watching.

Wow, way to take the whole thing out of context with those initial clips.

The first part of the video focuses on CIG talking about how the core tech for server meshing worked. Then it transitions to the recent video posted today where they were discussing RMQ and all of the issues that they ran into once they tried to scale up the servers to handle hundreds of players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPaSkcK3mM&t=500s

These are 2 very different things and this video is either purposefully misrepresenting what was being said, or else they are doing a terrible job at understanding what is being talked about.

Either way I would not rely on “Jack Reacher” being a reliable source of information on any video game if this is the kind of content he puts out.

Every time you think you fixed it… You go deeper down the rabbit hole of what’s causing issues to bubble up.

Still, it’s great to see that they’re making a lot of progress on this front.

Direct link to the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InEY6skrfl8

Yeah. The mission can be shared, and it goes a lot faster with a buddy.

There are 2 options for the missions, one for hauling cargo, and the other for defending a cargo hauler being attacked.

I haven’t tried the cargo hauling mission yet, but I’d assume it’s similar to the xenothreat cargo hauling where it would involve a little ship-to-ship combat and some FPS once you board the wrecked ship.

For the defend the cargo hauler mission, it’s soloable with a light fighter, it just takes a little longer to destroy some of the larger ships that might spawn in. They must have lowered the accuracy of the NPCs for this mission so that they weren’t hitting the NPC that you’re trying to defend. I was flying around in a Corsair and the NPCs were barely landing any shots on me. There are probably 10-20 enemy ships, the vast majority are light fighters (mostly M50s, Buccaneers, Hornets, Gladius, and maybe a Scythe or a Talon or two). There will also be a few medium sized ships like some Prowlers or the Freelancer Max, and maybe one larger ship like the MSR. Even if I took a while to destroy the ships, they never seemed to be able to destroy the NPC Cargo Hauler that I was supposed to defend.

The servers were running fine for me on the 3 or so that I tried out yesterday. I only encountered 1 server error (which will fail the mission once the server recovers).

Ah, ok I read into the spectrum thread a bit more.

It looks like we will be able to get additional rewards as the event moves from Phase to Phase:

Are there any other rewards for completing the event?
► Yes! We have many permanent rewards for this planned. However, to get every reward, you have to play all of it and finish it BEFORE 4.0 goes Live.

But it sounds like we have to finish everything for the ship weapons… Or else maybe it’s just to complete phase 1?

Confront the ruthless pirates terrorizing the Stanton system, defend its people, and (if you complete the whole event before 4.0 goes live) exclusive permanent in-game ship weapons will be yours!

They didn’t specofy a date for 4.0, but I wouldn’t expect it to release this year with the current state of the EPTU.

I could see it opening up to the PTU for the wider player audience, but if they rush it out by Christmas I would expect it to still be a broken mess.

Stability wise, 4.0 has gotten a lot better, but it feels like there are so many issues (such as missions not working properly)… Maybe I’ll change my mind after they roll out the new 4.0 patch today, but I hope they take the time to fix up a lot of the bugs we’ve been reporting.

I too have fallen asleep at the keyboard before…

Ackshully… It should be: “AaaS”.

Additional shots and cutaway can also be found here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x3d8GY

Highlights from /r/starcitizen Discord News channel

➣ Q - Is the Valakkar the biggest creature?

• A - No, there are bigger creatures.

➣ Q - Will there be reputation/org armor that give unique specializations stats?

• A - Not quite, The majority of armor loadouts will be unlocked by player guilds/orgs but the org/guild will have to find blueprints to unique armors out in the PU. There will be no additional stats or bonuses because it was made buy a guild/org.

➣ Q - Will we use insurance or a blueprint to gain back subscriber armor?

• A - yes when crafting comes into star citizen you will receive a blueprint for your subscriber armor. This is not a replacement for the item kiosk/recovery

➣ Q - Has the team considered specialized clothing for jungles and swamps?

• A - Yes.

➣ Q - Will we be able to save armor loadout with gear?

• A - Yes, we want armor lockers to be used to quickly swap loadouts.

➣ Q - Will there be backpacks that are able to be used with regular clothing?

• A - Yes, we want to make dedicated backpacks that are used with clothing.

➣ Q - Why was the Boreal Stalker canceled?

• A - Its not canceled, we really want to do it.

➣ Q - Will we be able to wear clothing over armor?

• A - Yes, some armors will allow layers.

➣ Q - Will there be any new creatures released soon?

• A - There is one creature (Tor-luk) that is coming before the Valakkar and one coming after

➣ Q - Will it be possible to mix armors/clothing to min max stats?

• A - Absolutely.

➣ Q - What needs to be finished for the Valakkar to be released?

• A - The demo is completely playable but we want the worm to have bespoke collision. We also need to make sure it works well on the server and add some more animations.

This is starting to tick me off. Now you’ve got me all wound up!

Cooking from scratch is excellent… But there’s also an extreme for how far you consider “cooking from scratch” to actually be “from scratch”… For Example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C76cACZB0oq/

Do you milk the cows yourself? Churn the butter? Etc.