Yeah good point, exactly why it’s not a full game. I haven’t had a cash wipe since 3.8, they have enough persistence for that and haven’t had to resort to any full wipes due to exploits. Can’t be ruled out, but fingers crossed it doesn’t happen or kept to a minimum.
Character and in-game purchases have been wiped though, along with some new bugs like not all character features being saved since 3.9.
But it’s OK, as I have since vowed never to take my helmet off in public. It is The Way
Re VR thanks, I have followed another SC VR channel and Vorpx setup instructions, but there’s definitely something up with my Vorpx despite being a new install. I’ll look further but as above, performance isn’t going to be great anyway, especially on New Babbage / Microtech. Some optimisations will come, but there’s no doubt this requires a decent machine. Forget those 20th century storage devices…what were they called…hard disk drives? High performance solid state, or no dice with this one.
Which is fine, I had to get a good PC to use the Pimax anyway.
I get the principle but may not work as desired. As mentioned here, it’s volatile memory, just like RAM.
What happens to what you have stored after a crash? And there are going to be crashes I guess in an online game, critical changes are saved server side, but there may well be other quirks.
Old article:
Overall performance especially netcode was massively improved in 3.6 or 3.7. Rarely see network-related slowdown now. Some network issues can happen when an individual server is having trouble. Only the new surface zone needs optimisation, but it’s still OK on a good PC. I can always get close to 60FPS.
An SSD is a must though, otherwise the texture loading times are really noticeable, and they have always stated installing the game on one as near-essential.
Btw @MReis they integrated Spectrum and the game’s friend list. Just sent an invite, if you get back into it, let me know and we can join up some time!
Sure, I will do that asap - got a cold and was down to bed yesterday - slowly picking up stuff again - I guess saturday or sundy I will give SC a try again and add you asap!
The free fly week is May 22nd - June 1st. Seems to be a focus on the game’s military manufacturers, there might also be some limited access to rare ships / large capital-type ships that don’t fit in the exhibition hall
High performance solid state, or no dice with this one.
I guess in an online game, critical changes are saved server side, but there may well be other quirks.
and add you asap!