General Empyrion Thread
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Ha! This is Eleon we're talking about here. Just yesterday I noticed that - on multiple ships - the left side doesn't work. Weapons don't deploy, textures don't light up, thrusters don't do anything, landing feet that are supposed to go up and down just stay up... of course, relogging fixed it. Now the right side of ships doesn't work instead.
Well, single sided ship usability seems to have cleared up - which is good, because whenever things weren't working, it was because they were no longer registering as existing. You could point a multitool at them and it wouldn't register that there was anything in front of it. Now though... definitely got that HVs and SVs won't dock bug. Leaving the area and coming back didn't help, either. I went to a different system and came back two hours later and the HV hadn't miraculously docked itself, and the SV I was in wouldn't dock when I got back.
Edit: Oh, but I get 5 more FPS on average so... yay?
Edit: Oh, but I get 5 more FPS on average so... yay?
I would imagine so - they were all prefabs.
GasBandit
Staff member
Turns out they had to revert back to the previous Unity build.
https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-8-7-back-to-unity-2017.45729/
https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-8-7-back-to-unity-2017.45729/
T
The Watcher in the Wings
Funny thing about words on a screen, the only meaning they have is that which you assign them.
T
The Watcher in the Wings
If you're that threatened by opinions that differ from your own then ok?
I didn't realize you cared so much
I didn't realize you cared so much
GasBandit
Staff member
You're just more trouble than you're worth. Circumventing bans is always grounds for escalation. Haven't you figured out this community does not want you, yet?If you're that threatened by opinions that differ from your own then ok?
I didn't realize you cared so much
Found the correct control panel, guest posting is now disabled.
I do wish those couple had been more willing to defer (discretion/valor and all that), because the rest actually made for good conversation.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
I wish I could say something like "if they want to boot those two we can talk about the others coming back," but I think at this point, a clean break is probably the best thing, particularly since it could really be argued I've made an unjust decision in banning 8 players for the crimes of 2. I somehow don't think any halforumites are going to take me to task over this, however.
Well, it looks like the reversion back to 2017 has fixed at least one thing - I no longer have trouble docking SVs and HVs to anything - but broken about a half-dozen others. The game is loading two copies of the playfield - one for me and one for Aislynn. Sometimes we get stuck on her version of the ground and have to wait for my version of the ground to become the dominant one, and then fall several dozen feet (or get launched into the air and fall from 300m). Structural Integrity of PoIs is rotten again, I've had some wreckage PoIs where only one piece was touching the ground, and the rest exploded when I got close. And my favorite - alien insects are once again spawning inside my base. At least this time it's only the little passive ones, back on Gas' server pre 8.5 wipe I had a base on a lava planet that had those damn butt-bugs spawning inside it.
Edit: Oh, and bases are back to/still definitely draining all of their fuel and ignoring their solar batteries when no one is logged into the playfield - even though the base didn't process anything last night once both of us logged out, it still used up all of our fuel and the food rotted.
Edit: Oh, and bases are back to/still definitely draining all of their fuel and ignoring their solar batteries when no one is logged into the playfield - even though the base didn't process anything last night once both of us logged out, it still used up all of our fuel and the food rotted.
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GasBandit
Staff member
The Weenie Cheese Sandwich was disabled in 1v1 combat for the first time ever, tonight.
Get a load of the stupid look on my dumb face when it happened:
I had the guy dead to rights and the battle hadn't even been going for 9 minutes yet. He was chewed to pieces and down to his last turret. But it was a missile turret. And he got a lagshot that went through ALL SEVEN LAYERS of my gapped armor and kicked off a chain reaction that decored and crippled the cheese. 2 hour RTT time.
This fuckin' game.
Full fight video here:
Get a load of the stupid look on my dumb face when it happened:
I had the guy dead to rights and the battle hadn't even been going for 9 minutes yet. He was chewed to pieces and down to his last turret. But it was a missile turret. And he got a lagshot that went through ALL SEVEN LAYERS of my gapped armor and kicked off a chain reaction that decored and crippled the cheese. 2 hour RTT time.
This fuckin' game.
Full fight video here:
GasBandit
Staff member
The devs posted this teaser for Alpha 9.
The obvious pickup is that they're apparently making it so you can earn regard with NPC factions. Or maybe just the Zirax. Or maybe they're adding more factions (currently all the hostile aliens, despite having different names like Ghost Riders, Zirax, etc, all go off the same faction).
But also, what's that thing on the tooblar in slot 1?
The obvious pickup is that they're apparently making it so you can earn regard with NPC factions. Or maybe just the Zirax. Or maybe they're adding more factions (currently all the hostile aliens, despite having different names like Ghost Riders, Zirax, etc, all go off the same faction).
But also, what's that thing on the tooblar in slot 1?
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“You must be logged in to do that.”The devs posted this teaser for Alpha 9.
Empyrion’s forum does not allow hotlinking.
—Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Ah. Rehosted. It showed up for me, but then, I'm logged in to the empyriononline.com forum.
Hmm. The inventory bar has a little bust/silhouette badge at the far right, too. So we can tell the difference between when the bar is being used for personal inventory v. ship weapons, maybe? Also, whatever that unknown object is, it's something that can be placed on all BA/CV/SV/HV structures going by the color badges.
--Patrick
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Hold on to your butts - pretty much all your ship designs are gonna be worthless in Alpha 9, especially any miners/haulers/cargo transports - cargo volume and mass is all but confirmed to be implemented in A9.
RIP nimble miner, and the CVs that carry you to the surface.
RIP nimble miner, and the CVs that carry you to the surface.
They already killed the Nimble Miner with the increased power requirement.
I can't see them mucking with the actual mining TOO much, just due to gameplay. If they make a stack of ore weigh the same as the entire miner or something, you're basically going to be trading an equal weight of promethium for whatever ore you're after.
I'm not terribly looking forward to redesigning my Audax Miner, that's for sure. At least I wasn't wrong when I decided to center the harvest box.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Nah, there was plenty of places to tack on one more generator (and even a few more thrusters) and still have it fit within the same silhouette. I remember when they made this change in Space Engineers, though. I know what it's going to do.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah I did. The rest of my post was meant to address that.
Anyway, Alpha 9 has now gone to the experimental branch:
https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-9-0.46687/
Anyway, Alpha 9 has now gone to the experimental branch:
https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-experimental-9-0.46687/
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, when alpha 9 hits stable, yes, I'm going to have to regenerate an entirely new map from scratch. They're changing all the rules about creature spawning, changing up some POIs, etc... no way around it.