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Gonna have to start eating my mic...

Goodness you're right, or rather, Thursdays episode was supposed to be a different one. I guess that's what I get for trying to record two videos in one day, I inevitably pick the wrong file to upload. I'll get that fixed in an hour or two.

I've got the right one uploaded, should be up in about 30 minutes

You are correct, originally from Australia 🇦🇺. Moved to the US about 23 years ago.

I did not know that, that's a great tip! Thank you!

I was recording early before anyone else in the house had woken up and forgot to adjust my mic output accordingly. It will be fixed for Friday.

Your entire videos are low volume I have to crank up the volume every time I watch. Gest job otherwise!

I'll have to see what I can do to increase the mic pickup then, as I've had quite a bit of feedback around my volume.

IG? What is IG?

@@Raptor_X Instagram or email

Yeah, and only because they have high speed and can hit larger ships from longer ranges than they hit back.

I'm flying an RSI Aurora, the ones I'm fighting would be the Misc Prospector.

I'll have to turn it up for this series then, either that ornjust turn the in game sounds down.

They weren't bugged last time I was taking one of the missions, at least not as far as being able to destroy the monitors go. There was a bug with getting a CS 2 each time you destroyed the monitor, but they can be pretty easily shot down. The Prospectors had a bug in 3.23.0 that made them almost invulnerable to damage from the front, so if you're referring to those, yes, they're very much bugged. They can be killed from the back, but not from the front.

I'll have a new one out today!

Thanks!

This one is a much simpler concept, and IMO, much more rewarding. NMS was always too big and empty for my liking.

It's been a long time since 3.18, I should hope I have improved since then. The game definitely has.

@@Raptor_X I hope you have to, this would be miserable lol.

I've gotten a new computer, and frame rate has drastically improved, so I'm looking forward to the next SoO and testing things out. Hopefully the upcoming Xenothreat missions will work smoothly and we will get a SoO soon.

Depends. I'm more than happy to have lights be some of the best in game, but they need their range kneecapped. Good example would be the Spitfire; exceptional interceptor, but it just couldn't go the distance

I mean, let's look at World War two fighter planes, for instance. In the event of the nazis sending over some of the ME 264s, what did the British send up to take them down? Was it stuff like the mosquito, a heavy fighter /bomber, or stuff like the hurricanes and spitfires?

Yeah, Mastermodes is still in the early phases, there's quite a bit of tuning still to be done, and perhaps some changes to the speeds and balances. Weapon velocities could also use a rebalance IMO, but we'll see what happens.

I actually pretty much agree with this. The light fighters should be mostly atmosphere interceptors and swarm tactic fighters. Something that goes up to meet a flight of medium and heavy bombers to keep them busy and knock them out of the sky before they can do damage. In space, they should suffer a bit vs the heavy fighters as the heavies no longer have to fight drag and air resistance to turn and accelerate, equalizing their maneuverability. You get guns on with a heavy fighter vs a light, and it should just about evaporate. However, I'm a bit miffed that anything with Cannons can now destroy light fighters in a few shots.

I'm not so much sad that the meta is gone; they were quite overpowered before. However, I don't think their role has really been properly explained, and without, there's going to be a lot of struggle to try and find what they are good for anymore.

What is the OST? I'm not understanding the terminology

@@Raptor_X OST means original sound track. He's asking for the music in the background.

Ah, that would be the Star Citizen music, which I believe they have made available to the public. I'm not sure what sort of licensing requirements they have when not used in conjunction with Star Citizen, or where it is located, but that is one of Star Citizens' music tracks.

There have actually been several that have had a top speed increase. And purchasing a ship will not make it any faster. The only advantage that purchasing a ship now gives you is an ability to make money faster, through either industrial ships (salvagers and miners) or through the ability to withstand more damage in combat with the heavier fighters.

@@Raptor_X I have tested 12 ships so far can you please give a example or name one ship that has had a top speed increase because i have yet to see one ship.

@@Raptor_X Even the fastest ship in the game the mercury star runner cant even reach it top speed anymore.

??? My Eclipse now flies over 1000 it used to top out at like 900

The Avenger Titan has gotten a speed increase. It can now top out at close to 2400 m/s. Apparently, the Eclipse has too. Many of the larger ships have been slowed down, but they have also gotten shield and hull HP buffs, which should help you survive long enough to either call for help, make it back to an armistice zone, or escape from atmosphere and QT out. But you won't be outrunning fighters in any of the large ships anymore, no. They are being moved more towards their Multicrew role, which means you'll need to bring friends and / or escorts to stay safe.

Provided they get close enough for you to hit, yes. They can still take out your turrets pretty handily. I'll have to take a look at the precision mode in the next few videos and see how they work.

@@Raptor_X good gunners are worth their weight in gold, still with 2-3 manned we did just fine. It's nice that we need to start working in teams.

Yep, I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more focus on multicrew and wings of fighters. Makes it a little harder for the people just getting their feet wet though. The difficulty curve going from VLRT to LRT to MRT is quite steep. Earning money with a starter ships is going to be rough.

@@Raptor_X Our org Shadow Brokers SBX is recruiting. We'll train, arm and empower. Gotta staff that Javelin eventually. We'll hopefully get the Idris to test on soon.

My org is most looking forward to the release of the Polaris, I think, although I'm more used to smaller ships, so it makes little difference to me. It will be good to see a capital class ship out soon though.

There are about 200,000 daily players.

The game is very alive and will only continue to grow

Have to disagree with you there. It may be still in development, but with over 5 million separate accounts and daily concurrent players of over 100K, the games is very far from dead

How? With 100 ppls Max on the servers lol, thats dead.

That's the server capacity right now. They are pushing towards tech that will allow them to have hundreds per server and tens of thousands per shard, but that's still a year and bit out.

Me either, but the light fighters still need to have a role, and right now, it's cannon fodder. Considering that light and medium fighters make up half the released ships, there are gonna be a lot of sore pilots.

@@Raptor_X cannon fodder is the role of a light fighter tho your not supposed to go in alone its a swarm class of ships.

@@liamseven1604 was about to say exactly this.

Why do you think Avenger 1 is pissing in his pants?

He's actually been okay with the changes, obviously not totally happy with the current state of Mastermodes, but he's been just fine with his position. They play enough and test enough that they're going to come out on top most of the time

Yeah, I was coming in a little hotter than I should have. It will buff out.

I'm hoping for tomorrow at this point. I played some more last night, and performance felt great, at least on the server I was on.

They released a hotpatch today that has improved things significantly. This is the ILW patch too, so they are crunched for time. It could still use another week or two of polish, but I think we'll see it before the end of the week.

This is usually due to server performance (low frames). I predict that 3.23 live will be unplayable, especially during the free fly event.

Perhaps, but I hope not. If it plays as well as EPTU has over the past couple of days, it will be a decent patch.

Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. I had a CPU cooler die on me recently too, so I understand the computer down thing. If you're looking to find an org to join, hit me up! Star Citizen is much more fun with friends.

Yeah, multicrew ships are going to be a lot more dangerous with the increased agility of some of the larger ships and the vastly decreased range that combat happens at now. Unless I sit at range and just hammer away from 2K out.

@@Raptor_X agree for that but i like this new change is not soo good before one fighter can easilly kill any big ship in seconds! i like now better at least can do for several minutes fight and big ships no die in 10 seconds.

I agree. Larger ships should require at least as many fighters to take down as the recommended crew count of the larger ship, perhaps a few more due to attrition. That just makes sure that the balance of the fight is more even, and that there is a reason to have the larger ships on the battlefield.

No need. You can simply go into your file explorer to where your EPTU folder is stored, right-click on it, and hit Rename. The put and Capital E in front, and bam, once you start the launcher, it will verify and download any files that you need. Same in reverse, just rename and take the E out to switch back to PTU. When it comes time to go to Live, you can do the same thing. Simply delete your old Live folder, making sure to get into your user folder first, and copy out your Profiles folder so that any custom keybinds are retained. Copy it to your desktop or something. Then, rename your PTU folder as LIVE and it will download any missing files when you start the launcher, and you are food to go. Skips many gigabytes of download and saves a lot of time.

You only have to pay for the first 5 waves, and even then, only $10. Once it goes to Open PTU, as it is now, it is open to all backers. You simply have to copy your account to the PTU on the RSI website and then download the PTU branch. PTU account copy has unfortunately been disabled at this point, so that option is no longer open.

Yes, plenty of sound. I'm thinking there is something wrong with your speaker or volume settings.

@@Raptor_X tbf its a bit quiet compared to other videos, had to crank up my speakers aswell

@ben_heartbound I've addressed that for the next video, today's is still a bit quiet in spots, but Wednesdays will be fixed.

I'm running an RTX 3060ti and an i7 12700K CPU, with 32 gb of ram at 3200 mhz.

They definitely feel like they do. All across the board, ship hitpoints have been increased across the board, so that has forced time to kill up as well. I'm not sure if there has been an increase in industrial ship hitpoints that is proportionally more or not.

I'm sorry to hear about the trouble getting in. I had issues a bit on some od the earlier patches, but I personally have not experienced any loading in issues since about wave 3. I do wish they would put a little more polish on the Invictus patches, especially since all the new players flooding the servers do tend to bog them down. However, I would also hate to have the "bait and switch" effect, if CIG went to extra effort to make the servers especially good for the Invictus patch, and then after all the new players have bought in, have them devolve to the current state of servers. All in all, I'm really kind of holding my breath till server meshing, which I think will really clarify whether this project can deliver on all they've said they want to do.

Glad it was helpful! I'm really excited for this patch. The amount of content coming to the game, QOL improvements, and overall polish has been really great. I'm just hoping they can do something about server tick rates so we can get responsive NPCs.

sound is good for me

The mic audio sounds just fine. Where was it quiet?

Thanks for the positive feedback, but I have to delete your comment. No language on the channel or comments. :)

Not generally, no. I'll have a look at this latest one, I think the problem was that my mic had moved away from my mouth and it has a short distance falloff to avoid background noise.

@@Raptor_X I’m saying this because compared to the other 10+ voice over videos I watched right before your’s, it was all perfect. But as soon as I clicked on your video, I could barely hear your voice. My point is compared to others that have properly set up their settings. You’re the one video that is way too quiet.

Just to see if I can. I know I can kill them in a Titan, I'm not sure how stuff will work with Mastermodes.

​@Raptor_X you can kill a reclaimer in a titan in MM?

@FraxsynGaming haven't tried yet in Mastermodes to be honest, but I know I could in Live, and I doubt the gun sizes have changed that significantly.

Here's hoping!

Not this patch, no. Once server meshing comes online, I think there's hope for 30FPS servers. Might have to wait until we get Dynamic Server Meshing, but the day will come. It felt so good too...

@@Raptor_X meshing V1 is on Live. Replication layer no

When did meshing go to Live? I've not seen any release notes about it.

@@Raptor_X Meshing was tested in a separate build to 3.23 build. Replication layer (the thing needed for meshing) is live in 3.23, but meshing itself? No, that was a separate test

High settings for most of the graphics based stuff, medium for stuff like terrain tesselation and object scattering distance. I have an i7-12700K processor, a rtx 3060ti GPU, 32 GB of ddr4 at 3600 mhz and an SSD drive.

@@Raptor_X Thanks for replying! Do you have DLSS on?

@Sharksader I believe I do, yes. I'll have to check when I'm on tonight.

@@Raptor_X thanks! :)

You're welcome. Thanks for reaching out!

Discovered that the next day. I believe it is connected to the low altitude crash bug and might have something to do with either server health or an invisible collision box. Either way, game breaking till it is fixed.

Yeah, it's definitely not ready for live yet. There are a few glaring issues that come to mind immediately that make it a no go for me.

Hello!

It is definitely flying with training wheels. I still think it can be fun, but it's not going to be anywhere near as challenging as the current Live flight model. Hopefully there is still some tuning that can be done to the model to make it a little more challenging at the top end, so that the envelope can still be pushed by the 5% of the player base who live and die in their cockpits.

It definitely looks cool, I'll have to see how it is when I get more experience in it. I've been hearing it doesn't show up well against white or light backgrounds.

your efforts were great. i was also thinking you needed an elevator in your estate lol.

Yeah, I would have loved to have gotten an industrial elevator, but they were rare by the time I could afford one. Thanks for the kind words!

I actually never set them up fully, but it is very similar to anything else that requires water. You'll need a mechanical pump attached to the inlet side line, a pipe opening in the water source, something to power the pump, and enough pipe to get to the laboratory. The lab will need to be in a tier 2 building.

You're welcome! It's a fun game, but I feel like I get into the same grooves all the time.

@@Raptor_X oh so it gets repetitive a lot?

@walasy it can if you do the same professions each time. I, for some reason, seem to. There are around 30 to do, and I usually end up doing the same five or six.

Will do!