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[Roger Wilco Jr]

It looks like I'm not the only one trying to check on the progress of the Horizons beta release.

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[AndyB]

This'll give you something to read while you wait for release:

Horizons 2.0 Beta Change Log
NEW CONTENT/FEATURES (Horizons)
- Ships can land on planet surfaces!
Orbital cruise mode added
Sub-orbital flight mode added
Added glide path planetary approach flight model
Added the Planetary Landing module slot
Scanner landing radar added
Adjusted ships that can carry SRVs to have sufficient clearance when landed
Added the ability to dismiss and recall your ship
FA Off for planetary flight model
Added Planetary Approach Suites to all starter load outs
Added Planetary Approach Suite to all ships
Added current gravity strength indicator
Added role switch GUI panel
Can deploy SRV when landed
Can deploy SRV at planetary ports
- SRV Surface Operations
SRV surface driving added
SRV vertical boost added
SRV turret added
SRV surface interactions added
Wave scanner added
Playable Scarab SRV added
Terrain scanner added
Added SRV specific control options
Add pilot animations for SRV
- Planet Rendering
Updated mid-distance planet rendering
Added surface rendering for airless worlds
Added quality settings for surface rendering
Improved planet lighting
Added detail objects for surface
- NPC surface skimmers added
Goliath
Sentry
Guardian
Stinger 2
- Added surface ports
Players can dock at planetary ports
NPC ships use planetary ports
Added planetary ports as mission targets/givers
Added planet surface market specific commodities
- Added surface settlements
Art assets added
Opposition strength variants added
Added air defense turrets
Added ground attack turrets
Surface base components added
Surface base interaction points added
Settlement data link rewards added
Trespass zones added
- Added surface points of interest
Scanner indication added
Wave scanner signals added
Materials POIs added
Encounter POIs added
Natural POIs added
Structure POIs added
- Materials & Synthesis
Added generation of materials
Added synthesis
AFM module resupply
FSD Boost
Ship projectile resupply
SRV hull repair
SRV refuel
SRV ammo refill
Synthesis quality bonuses
- Missions
Add planetary Missions
Make some missions only spawn at planetary ports
Add rare planetary missions
Add off-base planetary missions
- GUI
Nav panel indicate planets that can be landed on
Hook planet map into the 'hyperlinking' we support with galaxy/system map
Provide direct access to the planet map from the cockpit
Added planetary schematic map
System map: Adding planetary resource level in info panel
Indicate if a nav target is on the other side of the planet
Render trespass zone boundaries over the terrain schematics
Show settlement and ports locations on planetary map
- General
NEW: 64 bit client!
Added Horizons specific starter package
Planetary permits added
Added Black Friday paint jobs
NEW FEATURES/CONTENT (1.5)
Added Vive support
Did we mention that we have the 64 bit client now available?!
STABILITY FIXES
CQC: Prevent "Waiting for Players" with a full lobby
Don't try and update the navigation panel when in CQC
GENERAL TWEAKS & FIXES
- Fixed some ASP dirtmap issues
- Fixed a geometry issue on the Anaconda
- Changed the position of camera decal 1 & 3 on the Diamondback
- Fixed Sidewinder landing gear collision issue
- New shadow profile to improve the quality of shadows in asteroid field locations, the main difference being a reduced amount of adaptability to prevent excessive shadow blurring when distant asteroids are in view.
- Fixed repetitive audio glitch after CQC Team Deathmatch
- Closed hole in mesh for the Federal Assault Ship
- If a button is currently using a default binding then show that in the binding’s option screen rather than just appearing blank.
- Added a new size 1 slot to the Sidewinder and Eagle and edited the horizons load out for the sidewinder so that it has two cargo in that slot
- The cockpit canopy can now be repaired by the AFM
- Fixed Russian Stats page texts shows as missing characters throughout
- Fix offset mouse pointer on Station menu, shipyard and insurance screen
- Imperial cutters Mouse Widget is inclined towards one corner fixed
- If a head tracking library fails to load, even though we have a path to it, then make sure it goes into the error state rather than attempting to load the dll every frame
- Fix for distant asteroid billboards partially showing through the asteroid models
- Orca's bobblehead placement adjustments (wobbly bobbles).
- System Map VR: - Added the concept of a Base Scale that scales all GUI, planet miniatures and dolly ranges to make everything pleasantly bigger and further away (as we deal with locked FOVs in VR opposed to orthographic)
- System Map: Add a different global scale to the label manager for VR to make the text larger
- Ensures that the player's pilot gender is represented correctly in the cockpit
- Made the schematics bigger for the construction phases of the Occellus Stations
- Fixed NPCs not becoming Wanted (if appropriate) or turning red when attacking player in a large ship
- Wakes created by ships that the local player knows the names of now display the name of that ship. This should help the mission NPCs that ask you to follow their wake
- Fixed the animation issue with the doors of the vulture
- Fix for 10cr repair bug
- Shields regenerate at a much faster rate while docked
- Fixed Cutter's decal cameras
- Ship dashboard GUI still present when viewing Bobbleheads in Outfitting
- Track CQC gametype when entering matchmaking to prevent entering lobbys of another gametype
- Fixed clipping bobbleheads in the Eagle
- Nav markers now have an 'obscured' visual state when the location is behind a planet/star
- Add a Terrain Material Quality setting to the graphics options menu
- Fixed animation clipping on the nacelle hard point doors
- Fixed sometimes incorrectly showing the generic "failed to join" message rather than the "session is full" message when trying to join a full CQC game
- Made it so that the cockpit module isn't visible in the module panel while playing CQC
- Added specialized VR mesh for the outfitting screen
- Make player ship invulnerable when player's in a buggy (Temporary for Beta 1)
- Missiles are now more effective against shields
- Updated translations
- Fed fighter drive lighting fixed
- Added three stage slider background to FSD boost slider in the galaxy map
- Make sure that heat sinks are affected by gravity when launched
- Increased the hopper ammo amount for the fragmentation cannons from 30 to 90
- Prevent excessive spamming of telemetry from edServer to webServer after a player has followed a jump wake
- Starter package Sidewinders (and bought) now come with low powered gimballed pulse lasers
- Add missing mission assassin chatter
- Imperial Cutter's Mouse Widget is inclined towards one corner
- Resized the Standard bullet impact FX game wide to fix the standard bullet impact from being too large when hitting shields
- You can raise your landing gear while landed via the function panel fixed
- Turn off proximity warnings in super cruise, they feel odd near planets, and aren't that helpful anyway
- Refuel all vehicles in the target ship's launch bay when docking at a market
- For the Beta 2 public test, Beagle 2 Landing in Asellus Primus star system also has all modules and ships available in stock
- Fix occasional transaction server errors for users with very large numbers of friends
- Slightly retuned background sim to give greater daily influence changes for a given amount of player activity
- Various sever performance and reliability improvements
- Add missing hitmen types
- Try to improve the feedback for contact mission types
- Decrease mission respawn time and number of missions at boards
- Increase timed assassination targets spawn rate
- Generally fix target spawning errors
- Added new mission icons
- Add fines to early abandonment where applicable
- Some reputation/influence/state value fixes
Xbox One Changes
- Fix some issues when adding preflight checks to the Xbox controls
- If ship is destroyed while controller is disconnected, handle when the controller is disconnected in CQC as well as normal play
- Make sure the session is full error is displayed if that is the reason for not joining a session
- Don't show disconnection messages if we're in the controller disconnect flow
- Enabled the FOV graphics setting on Xbox to help people compensate against TVs cropping the screen edges off
- Improve network problems diagnostics messaging
- Don't give up on waiting for a voice comms name if the other player is in the unnamedVoiceCommsUsers list and so the name retrieval is still underway
Server Side Changes
- Fix occasional transaction server errors for users with very large numbers of friends
- Slightly retuned background sim to give greater daily influence changes for a given amount of player activity
- Many performance and reliability improvements

[smartroad]

All they need to do is post up a projected time for release and that would solve the issue. Even if the time is fluid. At the moment people are hammering the F5 key in hopes that something might happen

[Andrew Gaspurr]

What the hell is happening? Got the same High Load message and forum is like bubble gum. The Launcher, too, is failing to load anything. Did I miss 1.5 release or something?

[Roger Wilco Jr]

This'll give you something to read while you wait for release:

Well, while I have nothing better to do at work ...



- Wave scanner added
What's a wave scanner? Does it look for a good place to go surfing?


- SRV hull repair
So I guess you can damage the things. I wonder if you can disable them.


- SRV refuel
Does this mean the Fuel Rats can refuel us?


- The cockpit canopy can now be repaired by the AFM
It might be worth carrying one in a Vulture, but it probably can't fix blow outs.


- Fix for 10cr repair bug
Now we're talking!



I still don't see anyting about increasing the useful distance for landing lights. I don't know what is space blocks them from lighting up asteroids 5-10 times as faraway as they currently do. I'd rather turn on my lights in a dark RES, but now I have to cheat and increase my gamma.

[TorTorden]

What the hell is happening? Got the same High Load message and forum is like bubble gum. The Launcher, too, is failing to load anything. Did I miss 1.5 release or something?

From what I read it won't be in the same launcher, you must download a new launcher from "my downloadable products" in the www.frontierstore.net

No bother really cause its not there either.

[TorTorden]

I still don't see anyting about increasing the useful distance for landing lights. I don't know what is space blocks them from lighting up asteroids 5-10 times as faraway as they currently do. I'd rather turn on my lights in a dark RES, but now I have to cheat and increase my gamma.

I think our vessels should just get this mounted on our cockpits..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVqRy0sWWY

[Roger Wilco Jr]

I still don't see anyting about increasing the useful distance for landing lights. I don't know what is space blocks them from lighting up asteroids 5-10 times as faraway as they currently do. I'd rather turn on my lights in a dark RES, but now I have to cheat and increase my gamma.

I think our vessels should just get this mounted on our cockpits..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVqRy0sWWY

Yeah! That would light up some asteroids.
And it would make Bigfoot crap his pants - if he wore pants.

[Xebeth]

Well completely broken now

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[CMDR Abil Midena]

It's up. Downloading now! Yes, for real.