TL;DW:
- New SCL with Benoit about long term persistence coming in the near future.
- Work on fixing freight elevators started months ago, still in progress.
- So far they found root causes of 44 individual issues with FEs, 20 of them being of blocker or critical priority.
- Resource Drive event was not intended as a “clever way to stress test the elevators to reveal the bugs”, they simply underestimated the amount of issues that will crop up with increased use.
- Content for Onyx Facilities will be spread over multiple patches (they’re not finished).
- Resource Drive will be extended for another month.
- There will be no official videos on Onyx Facilities to “let you investigate and discover things by yourself”.
- New thing coming with patch 4.3:
- Dynamic snow.
- Multiple variants of light stealth armour.
- Zenith sniper rifle.
- Hangar spawning.
- New ships added to in-game stores. Also a promise they’ll be added quicker in the future.
- Tuning adjustments for light fighters (speeds, accelerations, HP, components etc).
- New ship: L-21 Wolf.
- Onyx Facilities (partial release, multiple locations).
To be fair, some issues tend to be less prevalent on PTU due to lower server load. Not trying to be negative and I hope I’m just being overly cautious but I learned my lesson when it comes to stuff like that. Still, thanks for the info and I hope things do in fact end up more robust with this patch.
This visual effect sounds familiar actually - I think I saw it once before but I obviously can’t say for sure whether it’s the same thing. In my case it looked like red lasers if I remember correctly.