2.6 Going Live Tonight!

[Carlos Spicyweiner]

2.6 in the PTU was so broken, I was actually quite worried, but last night after going live, almost 2 solid hours of almost glitch free gameplay! The only real problem has been getting a crime stat apparently just for thinking dirty thoughts. I don't care. If fantasizing about flying a Freelancer in the nude is wrong, I don't want to be right.

 

[BenjiMac]

I don't care. If fantasizing about flying a Freelancer in the nude is wrong, I don't want to be right.

You do you, man. Let the boys breathe.

 

[BenjiMac]

Old project? I've worked I projects for 5+ years before anyone outside the company even knows.

Do you have some examples I'd know? Im genuinely curious how this would work and your input could change my view here. My company dont produce games but other solutions and outside a monster, already successful studio Id have thought pressure from shareholders/investors simply wouldnt allow for such extensive work on R&D. We're planning a new fulfillment platform and have a fraction of this time to deliver the first iteration of the live end result.

Obviously, games arent as straightforward in most respects and Im not counting here studios that produce a proprietry engine from the ground up to then build a game with but I'd have expected very few studios to have the financial muscle to throw into a project and be at this stage entering year five. Id honestly expect a fairly full featured alpha if not a feature complete beta within half a decade in the majority of cases.

While games have taken longer in some cases, Im sceptical those games were so bare bones at the equivalent stage in development but Im not a game developer.

 

[AstroSam]

Did you recognize? 2.6.1 will solve some network issues. To be read here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report

NETWORK – BIND CULLING (ORIGINAL ESTIMATE 23RD NOVEMBER, PUSHED TO 2.6.1)

• Due to other network stability bugfixing and support, we were not able to make enough satisfactory progress to include this with 2.6.0.

NETWORK – MESSAGE ORDERING

• Delayed due to other Network bugfixing.
• The work was originally checked in to 2.6.0 and was part of the builds on the early Evocati pushes. However we quickly discovered that it was causing some nasty client crashes, so it was deemed better to remove this code for now and continue developing it for a future patch.

NETWORK – SERIALIZED VARIABLE (ORIGINAL ESTIMATE 8TH DECEMBER, PUSHED TO 2.6.1)

• Serialized Variables was reliant in part on the Message Ordering work that ended up being removed, so was too risky to try and include without it

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Wait there's a fast patcher mode??? The normal patcher is already pretty damn fast! Hooray for Amazon!!!

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Good grief, 17 minutes? I'm getting 1.7mb a second, still have half of it to go and three hours to wait... and its already been running 3 hours.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Aww damn it all. Just came back to the computer at 1.30am to check download progress (Can't sleep, it is Christmas morning) and it is sat at zero kbps with 2.5 gb to go. Paused and played again, its bck to 1.6mbps. Add another half an hour to the clock... This happened last time too but it took 12 hours to download that one.

 

[Lythan]

Aww damn it all. Just came back to the computer at 1.30am to check download progress (Can't sleep, it is Christmas morning) and it is sat at zero kbps with 2.5 gb to go. Paused and played again, its bck to 1.6mbps. Add another half an hour to the clock... This happened last time too but it took 12 hours to download that one.

I have the same problem, but I need to pause it every 10 minutes :confused: also the fast patcher just gives me a bunch of errors when it tries to download :frowning2:

 

[DeepDrum]

Walking away from the patcher never works for me. I have to watch it and hit pause/resume a few times.
The only way I got past the last 2k was to use the tunnelling software recommended by CIG.
I only turn it on when there is no response other ways since the free version only gives you a 500 MB limit.

https://www.tunnelbear.com/

There are other ways around it:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/138546/direct-download-from-rsi-link

This one is interesting:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/364207/update-perpetually-frozen
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/138546/direct-download-from-rsi-link

 

[Soven Taliesyn]

All I see are these little white squiggled lines that seem to form what appears to be letters that are strung together to form words and then on to sentences and paragraphs.

Only thing that matters right now is....

 

[Fade691]

For the first time ever this update kept hanging for me at 6.3g to go. Usually these 25-30g dwnlds complete no problem for me in 30 minutes or so. I was getting frustrated until I saw Sams post. Using the fast patch method Sam linked fixed it for me. So the hang must not of been on my networks end because it hit 140Mbps down with the fast patch.

 

[AstroSam]

Aww damn it all. Just came back to the computer at 1.30am to check download progress (Can't sleep, it is Christmas morning) and it is sat at zero kbps with 2.5 gb to go. Paused and played again, its bck to 1.6mbps. Add another half an hour to the clock... This happened last time too but it took 12 hours to download that one.

You tried the fast patcher? -> https://testsquadron.com/threads/2-6-going-live-tonight.9691/#post-160522
Works flawless for me.

 

[tyrois]

Do you have some examples I'd know? Im genuinely curious how this would work and your input could change my view here. My company dont produce games but other solutions and outside a monster, already successful studio Id have thought pressure from shareholders/investors simply wouldnt allow for such extensive work on R&D. We're planning a new fulfillment platform and have a fraction of this time to deliver the first iteration of the live end result.

Obviously, games arent as straightforward in most respects and Im not counting here studios that produce a proprietry engine from the ground up to then build a game with but I'd have expected very few studios to have the financial muscle to throw into a project and be at this stage entering year five. Id honestly expect a fairly full featured alpha if not a feature complete beta within half a decade in the majority of cases.

While games have taken longer in some cases, Im sceptical those games were so bare bones at the equivalent stage in development but Im not a game developer.

Your failing to take into account how much has changed during the development of SC. In a conventional development project we (the public) would most likely have only seen SC as a demo in the past year or so at one of the gaming cons. where companies advertise and promote the upcoming game releases. With the success of the funding campaign they have greatly changed and expanded the original game concept. They have built an entire company which didn't exists at the start of the campaign around this concept. CIG has had a freedom that just wouldn't be possible in any conventional gaming corp. They possible would in all likelihood have a published to beta by now if the development process was more conventional, but it surly wouldn't compare to what awaits us now. As a company they have been very open with this process and with that people tend to draw their own conclusions as to where development should be. We (backers) are full of our own opinions, but were only spectators of the development process and our view is limited at best.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

You tried the fast patcher? -> https://testsquadron.com/threads/2-6-going-live-tonight.9691/#post-160522
Works flawless for me.

Not tried it yet, may have to for 3.0 :)