Fingers crossed for 1.18

Rupert Hound · Post by **Rupert Hound** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:45

Lavandel wrote:Friday (black friday even) 17:40 CET.

Last patch was the 23rd.

Almost a week (tomorrow is a week) siince that.

Where is 1.18?

I guess the game is a success because they are drinking up the money they fooled out of all of us who believed them to be geniuses for creating all those awesome X games.

*sigh*

No patch for us today me thinks.

Lavandel · Post by **Lavandel** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:48

Public Beta testing of X Rebirth updates and patches

In order to test updates and patches for X Rebirth more thoroughly, we have decided to open up our Beta testing to anyone who wants to get involved. If you would like to help us test our forthcoming patches (and don't mind backing up your savegames in case things don't go according to plan!) then please head over to our new X Rebirth - Patch Public Beta forum, where you will find details on how to join the Beta program and report any problems you find.

In the short term, until the Christmas break, we plan to operate a roughly weekly patch cycle, with patches being made available for public Beta testing towards the end of the week, and the full release following early the next week if all goes well. As we move away from urgent bug-fixing and on to improving performance, fixing gameplay issues and adding new features, the length of this cycle will of course increase, with more time being allowed between the Beta and full release.

So in other words:
Wait another week before we see the next patch?!

OMFG!

// Lavandel just left the building.

RWolf · Post by **RWolf** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:52

Lavandel wrote:
Public Beta testing of X Rebirth updates and patches

In order to test updates and patches for X Rebirth more thoroughly, we have decided to open up our Beta testing to anyone who wants to get involved. If you would like to help us test our forthcoming patches (and don't mind backing up your savegames in case things don't go according to plan!) then please head over to our new X Rebirth - Patch Public Beta forum, where you will find details on how to join the Beta program and report any problems you find.

In the short term, until the Christmas break, we plan to operate a roughly weekly patch cycle, with patches being made available for public Beta testing towards the end of the week, and the full release following early the next week if all goes well. As we move away from urgent bug-fixing and on to improving performance, fixing gameplay issues and adding new features, the length of this cycle will of course increase, with more time being allowed between the Beta and full release.
So in other words:
Wait another week before we see the next patch?!

OMFG!

// Lavandel just left the building.

It means you can play the patched version immediately but it will be via beta status. Once the week is up and testing has been done with no game breaking problems, it will probably roll out to everyone on steam, and the next patch gets to get tested.

Hanover_fist · Post by **Hanover_fist** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:54

CBJ wrote:Please see our latest update.

Thank you.

Post by **CBJ** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:54

Almost right. If you read what I said carefully, the Beta version is available late this week (i.e. now) and will be made available to those who don't want to try the Beta early next week.

Lavandel · Post by **Lavandel** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 17:55

Of course it means that.

Welcome to open beta for a released game.

I'll check back between X-mas and new years eve.

Hopefully this game is playable by then after some open beta work,

nonnex · Post by **nonnex** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:03

Great! Thanks. This makes me less searching funny videos. which is fun too, but playing and testing out is more fun.

Stumbling · Post by **Stumbling** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:08

Thanks egosoft. This is an entirely sensible solution and will hopefully mean we will be working towards the game a lot of us know is waiting to be realised.
We are still going to have people complaining, but as long as you are working on this and I can still blow up ships in the meantime this is a win/win for me.

Can't wait to get home and patch it!

dmk · Post by **dmk** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:08

Am I misread something or no trade fix in 1.18 beta?

Post by **CBJ** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:14

dmk wrote:Am I misread something or no trade fix in 1.18 beta?

Don't panic! There was a copy and paste error in the list, because Bernd's preview of the patch at the top of this forum had extracted that important item into a separate paragraph. I've now restored the list and you'll see it's there!

Stumbling · Post by **Stumbling** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:15

I think the drones are the majority of the reasons for trade issues, but yes I get the impression this isn't complete fix for trading yet - may be wrong

Koritnaciino · Post by **Koritnaciino** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:17

First 10 mins F awesome. Shipyards, trading commands working. +5-7FPS from first look. Its absolutely great idea public as beta ... THX guys

pirke123 · Post by **pirke123** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:19

Can't wait to get home and test this!

I don't mind a beta program, I expected a beta release given the history of previous releases

TDQuasar · Post by **TDQuasar** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:20

Lavandel wrote:Welcome to open beta for a released game.

Pretty much. But this is the only sensible solution left at this point. It should have happened like 6 months ago. I think this is actually the best possible news.

Darkhan · Post by **Darkhan** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:28

Hmmm did they plug this as dev-net only ?
Forum is inaccessible.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 18:48

You probably need to clear your browser cache before you can see the new forum section.

spacecoyote99 · Post by **spacecoyote99** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 19:19

I have no DevNet rating and I could join no problem. Not sure what else it could be though.

Aside, from the profile form:

Access to development pages of X2 and ONLINE-UNIVERSE.NET

cute

devastat_ · Post by **devastat_** » Fri, 29. Nov 13, 20:24

Nice move Egosoft! I'm really glad you are allowing public beta testing. You guys saved my weekend!

egosoft.com

egosoft.com

Fingers crossed for 1.18