QuadratureSurfer

Yeah, I think he made it more of a priority once EAC was forced and VR users were unable to use their workaround.

I'm definitely glad to see some support for the VR community. I don't have a headset yet, but I'd like to get into it eventually.

It's not just PieFed, even on Lemmy there is no link.

This is likely an Mbin issue with federating the links out.

Thanks! I updated the post to try to make it clearer that this is experimental and it's probably better to wait for anything official.

I probably jumped the gun on this one because of how excited I am for this update.

Are you really getting scammed if you know what you're getting into?

It's fun to play in my opinion and I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of it. Also they keep improving it, it's not like they took my money and ran away with it.

Yeah, those 2950 paints are certainly tempting.

Yeah, something like this would be awesome. Even if it was just a small extra area between 2 sets of doors with fire/electricity/radiation enabled while the doors are closed.

For a text summary with some additional details, see the comment on the other post here: https://lemmy.world/post/39405022/20740795

Thank you for this. I haven't figured out what to do with my Surface yet, but this sounds promising.

It would be awesome if you could listen in to radio shows like this, or if they played at certain locations in the verse.

That star kitten crunchies commercial though...

Just a few things I haven't seen mentioned yet. They've been focusing on bug fixes this year, it's not bug free, but compared to years ago hauling is in a far better state.

• Server Meshing - I can't remember the last time I saw a 30k (server crash). They've been replaced by a "Server Error" message that appears for a brief moment. The game will appear to be in a "paused" state for everyone for about a minute, but then it will start working again. Even then, I haven't seen a server error in a while because we now have server meshing (to the point where you won't even tell that you're being passed from one server to another). You can actually stand on one edge of the border between servers, see players on the other side (even shoot them). Basically, every time you load into the game, you're entering a "shard" with up to 600 players where each main area around different planetary systems is run by at least one server.
• Crash Recovery - Even if your game crashes while you're in the middle of hauling. Just load the game back up within a few minutes and the game will put you right back on your ship with all of your cargo intact. Well, hopefully intact. Your character stays in-game, and if you were under attack or your ship had cruise control while you were heading in the direction of the ground, you might be dead in those cases.
• Cargo Missions (and reputation) you can now take on cargo hauling missions. No need to risk your own aUEC (unless you want to, as it's still an option).
• Skipping the grind - Fly out to any outpost and find a big abandoned ship (that's not Soft/Hard deathed). Shoot open the ramp, go to the pilot seat, unlock the ship and fly away with it. Just be sure to store it at your home hangar location at the end of the day and you can keep on using it from one game session to the next (note: I haven't tested this out in a while, but it should still work).
• Inventory is localized and only accessible at inventory kiosks, or at your freight elevator in your hangar. For cargo hauling you'll be using those freight elevators a lot.

There's a lot to like about engineering.

One of my favorite things so far, is that you can actually revive soft-deathed ships.

True. Luckily, using the engineering terminal, you're able to leave interior doors open permanently to make getting around a lot quicker.