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Do you know anything about long distance probing gameplay being drone based? CIG devs talk about them but I have no idea how they're going to be implemented

4:12 the secret location is revealed 😆 by the game itself :p

i though my pc have a problem for having black screen many times lol now i know the new patch SC 4.0 is broken

Troll video?

Every time we have issues like this I can't help but hear in my head: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." And then I immediately log back in.

"Two size 5 Attritions for my guardian".... ahahahaha... I"m doing the EXACT same thing. Been doing cargo hauling and bunker missions to build up money to upgrade the Guardian. Hauling around Microtech is smooth as butter, only encountered one bugged hauling mission out of completing a dozen or so. I switched to bunker missions to restock armour/weapons/ammo. Everything is a lot more expensive and looting requires a different approach. CSV is a real blessing with a 4 SCU box to loot stuff, but the NPCs are absolutely deadly now, so it has made it a bit tough. Plus with the inventory hiccups, it has made it an even more difficult process for sure.

I didn't get a black screen yesterday, however I got a white screen.

100% agree

It has happened to me once but after that my gameplay is smooth

Ouch - telling them what they don't want to hear. Way to keep it real. A very good vid and great reminder. I agree, too many players wrongfully view SC as a finished product and want to BEAT SC when SC can't be beat, because there's nothing to beat. It's all about the experience.

There IS SOMETHING you can do. You cannot alleviate the black screen itself, but you CAN click the hidden "okay" button in order to stow your ship and character and exit the dead shard cleanly so that you a) do not get stuck on the dead server and have to wait 15 mins to time out before being able to join another server and b) your ship will not be "unknown" and need to be claimed when you do get to a fresh server. The hidden okay button to log out cleanly can be more easily found if you press tilde ~ Just below the bottom edge of the console will give you the approx vertical area to click. Then you just need to spam click slightly to the right of center of the black screen. Imagine a typical CIG error msg dialog box. You're trying to hit its "okay" button. Doing so will safely stow your character. Do NOT ALT-F4 or task kill as that may leave you in limbo for at least 15 mins unable to join other servers. Dawn, you wasted 15 mins of everyone's time and failed to give the only useful info on this issue while crapping on other YT creators in the process. Yuck.

HUR-L2

I switched graphics to VULCAN.. haven't had a black screen since😊

@Dawn - Is it called a Char Reset or sumthin else these days? The 'repair' is not a reset?

I got the black screen. And now I just get a insta crash and error code when getting back on

The black screen of death is a error. If you click around there is an "ok" you can click to go back to the menu. Just need to remember where the error code ok button is. I have only had it happen once so far. There is also alt+F4, or type quit in command (if you know how to get there blind)

I won't spoil the twist but great video-very useful advice. I've been very fortunate to have mostly awesome performance since 4.0 dropped. I was originally sort of scoffing at 4.0 as anticlimactic but the number of people in the 'verse now has reinvigorated my interest in the game. We've waited a long time for this and tbh I give CIG (to use the chairman's language from a past letter) a "full-throated" o7 lol.

It's done it to me when I sit idle instead of giving me the afk message

On 4.0, the BSOD can lead to infinite loading screen login bug Best fix is to repair by character reset through website/settings Nothing funner than Black screen while loading cargo scu from a salvage run..it is what it is.. Love 4.0, bug soup, but smooth Watching Squid Game season 2 in between salvaging making aUEC

If you get the black screen move your mouse cursor in circles near the center right and slightly down of the screen until it changes because it highlighted the okay button that can't be seen, then simply click and it will put you back at the proper load in screen because your game crashed.

There's nothing the individual can do. This is a fundamental server meshing issue. As the server ages the complexity scales exponentially and the proxy server fails to sync with the client and the server begins to accumulate desynchronised states. This happens because, as the server ages, persistent objects, player interactions, and state updates compound over time, creating an overwhelming computational load. The proxy server struggles to reconcile these changes, leading to delays or inaccuracies in the data sent to the client, or in the worst cases, the black screen.

So you dont have a fix, just told me to do something else, nice!

I love the new wild lines they put in for drinking. So immersive.

I finally made it thru the gate - that took a few days to figure out - at first, I thought the community was out to get me off of server for blowing me up at the gate - thank goodness for TH-cam - it's the game manual to learn about how to operate the game! HAA! - ever notice tho - every time they add something they take something - games are still limited with the amount of space still right?? I just remember back when - we had to type in stacks of books of code to fly in a hot balloon game - but if you had enough memory on the apple pc - im sure alot has changed since pc became the console HAA!

Every time I see your Carnival logo I feel like I need to hurl a bunch of insults at my enemies to recharge my battery.

Thanks for the tips. Can confirm these do help from patch to patch in getting rid of client side issues, such as graphical weirdness.

If I save my keybinds from 3.24.3, can I load that up to the 4.0 branch?

You can get essentially a fresh install without redownloading the whole thing. Delete everything in the branch folder except for the "Data.p4k" file. Then reverify files.

1:15 Who even cares at this point... The balance will be EXACTLY what's needed to hawk the next scams for the next 13 years... I'm so over this....

FYI the QI is also less maneuverable according to Erkul

god this community never ceases to amaze me 5:50.. youre paying 250+ for a ship and think paying $10 more for a make-believe module is reasonable lol

I have not checked myself but a streamer stated that the QI loses some speed and 8% maneuverability over the base model and apparently that is a massive amount in PvP, needless to say the QI draws massive power when active and weakens the shields quite a bit either way this is a pass for me I will grab the Mark 2 Super Hornet when it drops as my solo fighter.

Got it....I think its very cool. I like the firepower, practicality and quarters. I got the QI version. I also now am very conscious of ships that will be a good fit for a solo player, with the oncoming engineering gameplay. I'm intrigued to find out if there will be a way to fit an scu crate in there, it seemed like there might be some space for that. . Thanks for the content, I really enjoy your vids :)

The QI is really tempting and that grey paint scheme is Intercepter terrific. I almost pulled the trigger on it but then remembered I’m kinda dense when it comes to flying combat ships. I’d be an easy mark when armor comes in.

I don’t know. I keep thinking there should be a middle ground between having to play with randos or prepare to be content. A box delivery shouldn’t be KOS for giggles followed by another random gank during the corpse run. Everything you say is true about more things opening up when playing with people, but I can’t help but feeling like this current level of non-consequence killing will eventually be toxic enough to drive CIG to do something ugly about PvP. I love the mix. I love the tension. Not everyone else does and it seems to me (imo) that developers who start looking at money issues eventually start trying to widen their player base and contextual pvp is usually what gets limited for better or worse.

Thanks for going through the upgrades, reminds me that fighters are too dang expensive for this wrench monkey! ;)

Let the expedition prep begin!!!!

"That was mean. That was unfair" No, it wasn't.

I wanted to say your videos have been a welcome companion in 2024(especially when you used my drone suggestion, ha ha) - I'm certainly looking forward to more in 2025😎

sweet jebus pryo is a blood bath yall the part timers are crying there eyes out over forced pvp

it's a little tough (atm) to facilitate "don't go there". starter missions generally send players to Rustville, RAB x, etc. Building Cargo rep with RnR? There's only a handful of routes they'll send a player. Besides all that, it's not pirates that are the problem. 3 out of the 4 trips to a planet, I've been jumped, not by pirates, just people f'in around. In one trip, I got missile spammed by a phoenix. Ran out of flares, RIP. Corpse run in a buc, landed, and jumpy by a Fury. lol It's Pyro my man!

18:30 This is desperately needed. Plus more breadcrumbs.

Piracy is griefing. Pirates always have the advantage and the game has no balance for honest players. Without the game having counters to pirates, those players are griefing.

not expecting from 4.0: any fix to update any of the forgotten ships or originally promised gameplay (which would go far to repair a lot of the growing erosion of player goodwill; but hey, worms and fluffier clouds are apparently a bigger thing to expend resources on). then again bigger systems are a good thing. shame we can't effectively qt anymore (note: 315p and a lot of other forgotten ships recently had their qt nerfed heavily). seems to be a long, ignored, and forgotten list that the shills and fanbois just don't bring up...

How dare you mention my mom!

Expectations are low honestly. But if we get stable servers, the entire game gets much better. Consistent hangars, elevators, and access to the inventory would be a massive QoL update😂 As a mostly solo player, I know I’m going to need to stealth my C1 out before heading into pyro and play smart. I’m looking forward to it. And hopefully my org runs some pirate interference to join in on.

WTF are you even talking about 12 people to a server, its ALWAYS been 50 or 100

I think you will be safe till mega orgs take over. Like a orgs filled with asmondgold simps like he did in new world

Dont make Videos If you dont know the Infos. there was a 50 Player Cap. Not 12. Station was delamar. And Pyro dont have more Locations. It has much less 😂 i can Go on but i Stop here

In eptu every settlement I go to for missions there is a polaris camping and killing players. So good luck doing missions.