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wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

MikeJF posted:

I'm Windows, but I swear there's some weapon or effect the Undine and only the Undine fire that reduces my framerate to a slideshow.

Probably just too many transparent things in fluidic space?

# ? Apr 24, 2014 04:54

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 03:28

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

My framerate's also dropped semi-randomly, when doing missions I've done before. And my computer's crashed once, so it might just be a problem no matter where you go.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 04:55

Acer Pilot: Feb 17, 2007; put the 'the' in therapist

My beams disappear in cce now. Switched over to the dx9ex driver to be safe.

Also earthquake just hit my province. If I die, just remember that Dukat was right.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 04:56

Psycho Landlord: Oct 10, 2012; What are you gonna do, dance with me?

The issue is apaprently due to some changes in the effects code that went in with this season. Most people only notice it with Undine because everywhere you fight Undine involves a metric shitload of particle effects.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 04:58

Conskill: May 7, 2007; I got an 'F' in Geometry.

Acer Pilot posted:

Also earthquake just hit my province. If I die, just remember that Dukat was right.

We'll put it on your tombstone.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 04:58

Cyberball 2072: Feb 17, 2014; by Lowtax

Here lies Acer Pilot: peperony and chease

Dukat was right.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 06:13

Goat Pillager: Mar 1, 2013

http://imgur.com/a/x7ryi

Here's a round 2 gallery of getting outside of ESD and exploring it.

Unfortunately pubbies have also figured out how to get into the shuttlebay and so on, meaning we won't get as many comedy tells about denalt hax.

Edit: adding another 2 tiny galleries for the interested.

http://imgur.com/a/ZOrSI

http://imgur.com/a/gmPIP

In case pubs ruin this and Cryptic for once fixes something due to the frequency of people doing it, you can see the hidden ballship and Steamrunner in the back.

The second gallery we tried dropping onto the Vesta, which sadly like the Nova there is not a solid model so you simply drop through it.

Goat Pillager fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Apr 24, 2014

# ? Apr 24, 2014 07:00

Bagpuss: Mar 23, 2001; A little bit of solidarity goes a long way.

Goat Pillager posted:

http://imgur.com/a/x7ryi

Here's a round 2 gallery of getting outside of ESD and exploring it.

Unfortunately pubbies have also figured out how to get into the shuttlebay and so on, meaning we won't get as many comedy tells about denalt hax.

Edit: adding another tiny gallery for the interested.

http://imgur.com/a/ZOrSI

In case pubs ruin this and Cryptic for once fixes something due to the frequency of people doing it, you can see the hidden ballship and what looks to either be a Steamrunner or a giant shuttle model tucked in the back.

Another album of our victory parade outside the Admirals window http://imgur.com/a/4HQnR

# ? Apr 24, 2014 07:34

MREBoy: Mar 14, 2005; MREs - They're whats for breakfast, lunch AND dinner !

Check out the mini-map in the screenshot. That's how far the map geometry goes outside of the ESD interior. Also found out that the starships floating in the core dock area are all fakes (no solid geometry).

Managed to get above one, leaped for a warp nacelle and well...

Good thing I had an environmental suit on :haw:

# ? Apr 24, 2014 07:43

CheeseThief: Dec 28, 2012; Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Going to pitch in my own new ESD exploration pics:

http://imgur.com/a/PWQXv

Me and Goat Pillager were trying to make a nice looking post card kind of shot from the shuttlebay area, here are some of my abortive attempts:

http://imgur.com/NcEmkn6
http://imgur.com/NjDREED
http://imgur.com/duOk0IJ

So far it seems the pubbies have worked out how to get into the shuttlebay but no further than that, we've pushed further than that and now I'm kind of interested to see where we can apply what we've learned.

Neither of us are any good at captioning poo poo however so this is the final product:

And here's the original in case someone would care to make a better effort.

http://imgur.com/a/elK1K

CheeseThief fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Apr 24, 2014

# ? Apr 24, 2014 08:15

Korgan: Feb 14, 2012

Couple new things added to the leaks page on the wesley wiki. I ended up being voluntold to become a wiki admin, if anyone is still missing wiki access start posting usernames.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 09:09

Mondian: Apr 24, 2007

Archonex posted:

Edit: I also appear to have a large number of items in my inventory that are in stacks, have no icon, no description, and cannot be discarded, taking up slots. Which means a chunk of inventory space is being locked off by this bug. The gently caress did they do during this patch?

Did you ever install that old UI mod that changed the icons for Data Samples to something more easily distinguishable? Its old, but if you had I wouldn't doubt it would result in this sort of bug, what with all the changes that have been made.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 09:57

ugh its Troika: May 2, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

Provided you have the lockbox trait that gives mines +100% seek radius, they're quite good now.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 10:00

Archonex: May 2, 2012; MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Mondian posted:

Did you ever install that old UI mod that changed the icons for Data Samples to something more easily distinguishable? Its old, but if you had I wouldn't doubt it would result in this sort of bug, what with all the changes that have been made.

I've never installed any kind of mod. I have no idea what's going on. It's a fresh install to boot so that couldn't be the cause. Between it, the texture bugs on the ground, and the random slowdown i'm getting fighting some Undine, it's really starting to make me grind my teeth though.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 10:12

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Archonex posted:

I've never installed any kind of mod. I have no idea what's going on. It's a fresh install to boot so that couldn't be the cause. Between it, the texture bugs on the ground, and the random slowdown i'm getting fighting some Undine, it's really starting to make me grind my teeth though.

Check your computer isn't cooking off with the usual utilities. Apply the usual fixes.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 10:55

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Mondian posted:

Did you ever install that old UI mod

Are there any mods/customisation people have made for this game that might actually be worth installing, come to think of it?

The only thing that springs to mind for me is SweetFX or something like that.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 11:03

Mephiston: Mar 10, 2006

Oh god, I'm playing this again.

I'm back in on DeRathi@DeRathi

Season 8 and 9 look kinda fun, although i'm sad i missed out on the free obelisk carrier in december.

It's been so long since i last played that im still in the old goontrek channel, what.

Someone invite me to TNG

Mephiston fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Apr 24, 2014

# ? Apr 24, 2014 11:04

Korgan: Feb 14, 2012

So Sensor Analysis now puts giant circles around your target so you can spot them easier in a crowd. However that was obviously too subtle, so there's also a giant arrow above your ship pointing at them as well.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 11:09

Regrettable: Jan 5, 2010

MikeJF posted:

Are there any mods/customisation people have made for this game that might actually be worth installing, come to think of it?

The only thing that springs to mind for me is SweetFX or something like that.

There are some bots but that's all I know of. Is SweetFX an ENB?

Korgan posted:

So Sensor Analysis now puts giant circles around your target so you can spot them easier in a crowd. However that was obviously too subtle, so there's also a giant arrow above your ship pointing at them as well.

Can you turn that off? It looks ugly & distracting.

Regrettable fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Apr 24, 2014

# ? Apr 24, 2014 11:40

Bloodly: Nov 3, 2008; Not as strong as you'd expect.

Korgan posted:

So Sensor Analysis now puts giant circles around your target so you can spot them easier in a crowd. However that was obviously too subtle, so there's also a giant arrow above your ship pointing at them as well.

So it's Hunter's Mark.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 11:45

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Regrettable posted:

There are some bots but that's all I know of. Is SweetFX an ENB?

Not quite as involved and deep into the engine as ENB; it works as a post-processor after a game has rendered, doing fullscreen operations like colour curve adjustments, vignetting, antialiasing or other filters, including some alright HDR fakery. It's similar in concept but more generic in implementation.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 12:29

Mondian: Apr 24, 2007

MikeJF posted:

Are there any mods/customisation people have made for this game that might actually be worth installing, come to think of it?

The only thing that springs to mind for me is SweetFX or something like that.

Functional stuff breaks whenever they update the UI, so they're largely broken and forgotten. Cosmetic stuff that has been made has largely been adopted by Cryptic over time (color coded power bar icons, optional UI colors, etc) so that's mostly abandoned now too.

You could always go find out what Skybuck's peddling nowadays.... if you've got the Bitcoins to pay for it!

# ? Apr 24, 2014 13:09

Socialism: May 9, 2009

A couple questions -

I got promoted to Centurion which came with a free ship, and I assume I'll get/buy more later. Will I ever need my old ships or can I chuck them once I start running out of space? Once you're at the top tier is there any reason to fly the lower tier ships?

Should I put points in bridge officers at this point? It seems that the points are not refundable and I guess you lose it all when you replace a dude with a better dude.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 14:35

the Pixies fukken SUCKED: Jul 16, 2003; Figure 2 in a series of 3

Regrettable posted:

I use basically this but I take the points from threat control & put them in weapon performance. I must be a pretty cool dude cause I didn't even know it was a preferred layout & did it without a guide.

Mine is pretty close to this in that I avoided any skill that 'enhanced abilities in sector space' or that involved batteries. People use batteries? I don't think I've ever done that.

Has anyone else done the Peanut Labs surveys to earn Zen? It seems like a pretty shithouse way to get it, but if you're on a budget and have an excess of time and don't mind answering the same questions a billion times it's not bad I guess. If anyone else has any better suggestions I'd be willing to hear them!

# ? Apr 24, 2014 14:36

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

Socialism posted:

Will I ever need my old ships or can I chuck them once I start running out of space?

Honestly they're useless. They used to be handy to keep around for sentimental reasons but the arrival of fleet ships means you can actually just fly an endgame-relevant version if you really wanted to anyway. No reason to delete ships until you're actually out of room though, since you can use the extras as spots to toss spare space gear on.

quote:

Once you're at the top tier is there any reason to fly the lower tier ships?

To piss off pubbies in queues by warping in in a starter ship.

quote:

Should I put points in bridge officers at this point? It seems that the points are not refundable and I guess you lose it all when you replace a dude with a better dude.

Eh, expertise flows like water once you're at the level cap but it's a bit tight while leveling. I'd still recommend ranking them up so you have more skills available, but if it's not something you'll be using at endgame there's no rush to put points in it.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 14:58

the Pixies fukken SUCKED: Jul 16, 2003; Figure 2 in a series of 3

Also another good question would be what's the best (least effort) to farm EC? I'm doing Qwark the Farmer in the foundry but it runs out of loot halfway through the mission.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 15:09

Tuskin38: May 1, 2013; Have you seen these posts?
They're pretty popular on Reddit.

MREBoy posted:

Check out the mini-map in the screenshot. That's how far the map geometry goes outside of the ESD interior.

Yeah, the Interior Space dock is 3.8KM in diameter.

TacoFangs made it 1:1 scale based off the TOS movies. All the ships inside and outside are also 1:1.

Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Apr 24, 2014

# ? Apr 24, 2014 15:31

Lafarg: Jul 23, 2012

Are you guys still using mumble? Tried hopping on it the other night but it was not working, or it now requires a password?

# ? Apr 24, 2014 15:41

Da Mott Man: Aug 3, 2012

system protocol posted:

Are you guys still using mumble? Tried hopping on it the other night but it was not working, or it now requires a password?

Ask in game, its a private mumble and has always required a password.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 15:56

Darksaber: Oct 18, 2001; Are you even trying?

Melchior posted:

Also another good question would be what's the best (least effort) to farm EC? I'm doing Qwark the Farmer in the foundry but it runs out of loot halfway through the mission.

There's a daily cap on how much loot you can get from foundry missions. I can't remember which one I used to use, but if you start running out of loot then it's time to switch to another character or be done for the day.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 16:04

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

Solo-queueing Starbase 24 is an option for Feds who hit the loot cap.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 16:09

the Pixies fukken SUCKED: Jul 16, 2003; Figure 2 in a series of 3

Darksaber posted:

There's a daily cap on how much loot you can get from foundry missions. I can't remember which one I used to use, but if you start running out of loot then it's time to switch to another character or be done for the day.

I also saw 'tour the galaxy' as a potentially good source, but thats effort and a lot of clicking.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 16:09

DAVE!!!(c)(tm): Feb 22, 2003

Melchior posted:

Also another good question would be what's the best (least effort) to farm EC? I'm doing Qwark the Farmer in the foundry but it runs out of loot halfway through the mission.

Go run the Undine space battlezone. You can get a ridiculous amount of loot in a short time while building up undine marks.

That's assuming you have reached 50 already.

# ? Apr 24, 2014 16:41

TyrsHTML: May 13, 2004

Korgan posted:

Couple new things added to the leaks page on the wesley wiki. I ended up being voluntold to become a wiki admin, if anyone is still missing wiki access start posting usernames.

tyrsHTML on the wiki

# ? Apr 24, 2014 17:10