I put it down back in patch 3.24 I had heard that they were focusing more on fixing bugs and it shows, kind of.

Elevators aren’t scary anymore! The biggest reason I stopped playing before was the disappointment my friends had when trying it out for the first time. The bugs ruined any fun we tried to have and hours of gains would disappear in an instant from a bug or a simple mistake, so finding out that my gear didn’t die with me this time was huge relief. Now I can wear my backer rewards!

I tried doing a cargo run with my 300i but I couldn’t load the crates because they kept getting stuck. It was as if the ramp was 5 millimeters too small. Trying to unstick them got me stuck inside the ship. I was able to glitch out of the ship but ended up stuck inside of a crate. After 20 minutes of banging on the crate I gave up on anyone hearing my cries for help and logged out. An hour and a half wasted.

Next day, new idea. I’ll rent a Hull A and run cargo. Should be easier to load crates, and boy howdy it was. Picked up cargo, dropped it off, and tried to take off for more. That’s when I was visited by the ghost of glitches past.

For some reason boost keeps getting stuck on when I power up. I don’t know if it’s a me problem because last year, after mashing buttons it would ‘sometimes’ turn off but I’m running out of play time and just log off.

Back in the cockpit, try to take off, but boost is still stuck. I try one at a time and think I figured it out with a single tap of L-shift. Boost turns off. Request take off and go to launch but the ship feels like it’s glued to the pad. Thrusters are pulling but ship won’t lift. Does it have something to do with boost? Try turning gravity assist off and on again, power off and on, go back to lobby and retrieve ship, get back in cockpit and gear is still glued to the deck. Log off.

Later that day I have a free hour to play so let’s try again. Back in the cockpit of the rental. Everything is working! Lets move some cargo. Get the cargo on, drop it off, take off again, no bugs, but the cargo fins get stuck half way when I try to close them? No big deal, trucker life is good and I’ve just made more money than I’ve ever had in one run. Log off for a quick meeting and come back an hour later. Retrieve the rental and see that the fins are closed. Fly up for more cargo. I land, accept contracts and go to open the cargo fins. The cockpit cargo button isn’t working. Doesn’t even show up as selectable. I didn’t know if I’m doing it right, this is my first few flights in a Hull A and I’m not familiar with the controls. Try every button, every combination of turning it off and on again, stowing and retrieving, nothing. Log off.

Back in the cockpit, retract and extend button is working! It wasn’t me, just a bug. Load up, drop off. Get paid. Cargo containers are getting chucked around like a FedEx driver making a touchdown. Money is rolling in baby! Try to take off.

Now the boost is stuck again but a few taps around the keyboard and L-Shift seems to be the sticking button. I check to see if gear is glued but I’m able to lift up so let’s request take off. The doors open and I try to turn the ship away from the freight elevator toward the opening but nothing happens. Strafe is working but pitch and yaw are not. I’m able to strafe out sideways and up into the clouds while I fight the controls for any type of movement. Nothing. Power off and on again, check bindings, unbind and rebind. Keyboard isn’t working, flight stick isn’t working, I’m a flying paraplegic forced to only look in one direction. Begin mashing of the keyboard controls but as soon as I mash yaw AND the flight stick at the same time I get yaw back! No pitch though. So I try pitching on the keyboard and with the flight stick at the same time and it worked!..Why!!? Now I can steer with the flight stick or the keyboard and retract and extend the fins. I tell myself it’s because it’s a rental and has probably been mishandled by countless citizens. A brand new Hull A wouldn’t have these problems and I’m almost halfway to being able to afford one of my own.

Fly off to pick up more cargo and transport it for cash. I’m over half a million richer and it only took two days or hours of frustration. My friends would have strangled me in the cockpit and spaced my corpse for wasting their time.

one day…one day ✨

Other bugs along the way: -Medbay would let me check in, screen was frozen “proceed to room 0”

-Inventory sometimes wouldn’t show

-couldn’t retrieve 300i, had to log off and back on again

-walked out to landing pad on microtech, and 300i was glitched into the floor, stowing forced me to make a claim.

-300i cargo ramp wouldn’t open and the texture of the exterior of the ramp when stored is always missing.

I get glued to landing pads pretty often so if anyone knows what I’m doing wrong please let me know.

Also, is there an exterior button on the Hull A to extend and retract cargo fins? I read somewhere that Alt-k works in the cockpit but it wouldn’t work for me.

All in all I’m actually looking forward to flying again next week. Being able to do actually accomplish something was really exciting. I hope they other missions work…workish

I’ve recently came back to the game after a short break caused by the state of the 4.0 release and I can safely say my time has been way better compared to that.

I haven’t done much for now - mostly cargo and a few bunker missions. Both worked pretty well for the most part (except for a few hostile NPCs being stuck in spawn closets every single time). No medical since this part of the game seems pretty dead right now. Oh well, maybe I’ll get lucky again some day.
I dropped into Pyro for a looksie as well. Unfortunately my PC had a bit of a rough time with locations there - not to unplayable levels but bad enough I didn’t stay there long (I’m not sure there’s much there for me anyway). It did look pretty at least.

I was lucky enough to avoid most of the bugs (compared to what I’ve seen in chat at least) so I’m free from the salt that made me drop the game last time. Don’t know if I’ll stick for long considering my main gameplay loop isn’t really a thing anymore but we’ll see, I might find something new to do in the meantime.

The few issues with the game that did come up include:

• Changing components through mobiGlas doesn’t stick, no matter what. This is a problem since I’m still using my trusty Aurora most of the time and they are too outdated to have physical component access. I’m still salty CIG leaves starter ships in a shitty state despite them serving as the introduction for many new players.
• They should really cut down on Jump Point travel visuals (or give us settings to do it on our side). The experience itself is cool but boy was it rough to fly through the thing without being able to see anything for most of the trip.
  Add the lowered performance due to playing on an outdated system and the whole thing ended up more exciting then expected - too bad it was for the wrong reasons.
• I can only play at specific times of day so all of my sessions overlapped with periods when US players join EU servers. The moment this happens the whole atmosphere of the game shifts significantly - chat is filled with fighting, name calling and politics. Number of reported griefing (real and just unwanted PvP) skyrockets. Just being on the server feels more hostile and exhausting.
  I’m not saying CIG should implement region lock but I really hope they’ll start doing their job reigning in the player base before it’s too late. There IS a point where things can go too far and scare away “normal” players for good.

All in all, it was a good experience in terms of technical performance. I’m still a bit unhappy with some of the gameplay/design decisions (both already implemented and announced) but not to a point of dropping out for good. Not yet anyway.
I’ll just try to find my own fun for now and hope for the best. That’s all I can do after all.

So, I typically avoid grinding in this game. I mostly just play in ways that are fun at the moment, mess around with friends, try out new things, and contribute to bug reports hoping the most annoying things get fixed.

In 4.0 I played through the contested zones a lot. We found a number of map issues (usually climbing around vents) where you could jump out of the map and into space. There was an annoying vent that led to a dead end with a drop too deep to jump out of. One of my buddies had to incapacitate me and drag me out.

Besides that I did the event missions for the rewards.

I’ve never been much of an industry player, but the 4.0 events got me started on seriously mining/salvaging for the first time. It was fun for some solo gameplay, or if I didn’t have too much time and needed to be able to hop off at a moment’s notice.

I haven’t been playing a whole lot in 4.1, but I have had the most fun using a stealth build on a vulture and ninja salvaging the areas around the Orbital Laser Platforms.

Something I’d like to take on would be trying to figure out which ships have removable components (manually), compare it with the unpurchaseable component list, and figure out which ships/NPCs you would want to soft-death.

So far NPC Vanguard ships have been my go-to for Size 2 military components.