Discovery 4.86 - Update 1 Released

[Sir_Now]

Well, a very good year to all of you first.

I really admire and respect you efforts to make this game even greater then it already was!

The storyline is very unrealistic, which i will post about in general discusions
and the Bugs are flying around your ears, but........

It's yust awesome!!!


You are the greatest team of the best game ever!

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Yohoo

[Cannon]

But I'm still missing an official post about the actual 4.86 mod. With a complete feature list. I feel like I have to hunt the forum for information like that.

Please see the "Readme.txt" file in the Discovery Freelancer installation directory. I'll copy this into a news post at some point too.

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Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"

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[rick19011]

Server still crashing as bad as before.

[Narcotic]

Great job. Thanks for the effort, dear Dev team.

And now - get some rest. You'd earned it.:)

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[flashover600]

Excellent work Cannon and Dev Team! Thank you!!!

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I drive truck for a living....then I come home and do the same thing in a giant, computer generated ship...lol

[BigBucks]

The first update for Discovery Freelancer 4.86 : Exiles has been released today. The update will be downloaded and installed automatically when you start Freelancer.

The last 48 hours has been very hard but the development team are making progress in resolving the issues. A major server stability issue related to mission spawning and path finding has been found and fixed. One jumphole between Honshu and Okinawa has been removed and 3 jumpholes from Burgundy have been removed and all path finding data regenerated to fix this issue.

The issue above was the cause of the 85%-95% of the crashes the server has experienced. At its worst the server crashed at least 150 times in 24 hours. The server will still crash but hopefully much less frequently.

This update includes other minor changes including:
- Model and hardpoint fixes for 5 ships.
- Market updates to fix bugs
- ID updates to correct cargo allowance mistakes and fix typos.
- Fixes for shipdealers in Zeta, Skye and Nimes.
- Fixes for Poole bases appearing as "unknown stations"
- Fixes for NPC loadout errors.

There are other serious issues that are not fixed in this update. The developers are working to resolve these as quickly as possible.

The release status for the mod remains beta trial and it will be this way for 2-3 weeks. The previous announcement did not make the release status clear. The person responsible for this oversight has been given a stern talking to. When questioned he is reported to have muttered something about new year eve parties, beer and hang overs.

For the first time since the upgrade to 4.86, the server ran for 2 hours and 30 minutes without crashing. There have been a number of server side patches to achieve this and this update should significantly improve the stability. However, please note that the server will still crash.

Please note that the development team are reading your bug reports. Most are finding there way into the issue tracking system.

The team's priorities are:
- Server stability
- Client stability
- Lost ships and login issues
- IDs and tech-compatibilty
- Everything else.

If the automatic update does not work, the update can be downloaded manually from here. Unzip the contents of this directory inside your Freelancer installation.

That's all for now.

Have fun!

Can you ask the developers to make a FLMM version of 4.86. I want to play single-player with mods on using FLMM and now I can't because of the new installer. Please cannon?

[Warhalk]

My dread still cannot land anywhere without being kicked. Will this be fixed soon?
Is this all dreads/BSs? Or only Liberty Dreads that cannot land anywhere.

[Dagorlad]

Seems like a great update,
and seems to work for alot of folks, just not me...

unlucky for me the update didn't start automaticly,
so I installed the update manualy ...

and now nothing works anymore...

when I start I get the reunion screen... then a crash...
unloaded 4.85 ... restart ... get freelancer 1.0 screen then crash...

when I start FL-server it shown 48.60 but crashes after 30seconds...

any idea's please pm me...
(another question, if I reinstall everything, are my characters gone?)

++++some time later++++

reinstalled FL from scratch
then the 4.85 mod, then the 486 update... crash, crash crash...
please can someone pm me to tell me what I'm doing wrong...

[Sergio Pacelli]

Can you ask the developers to make a FLMM version of 4.86. I want to play single-player with mods on using FLMM and now I can't because of the new installer. Please cannon?

have you tried resetting the directory in flmm and installing them? hmm, i need this as well with realistic lighting.

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The problem with troubleshooting is that real trouble shoots back.

[Capt. Clicker]

Seems like a great update,
and seems to work for alot of folks, just not me...

unlucky for me the update didn't start automaticly,
so I installed the update manualy ...

and now nothing works anymore...

when I start I get the reunion screen... then a crash...
unloaded 4.85 ... restart ... get freelancer 1.0 screen then crash...

when I start FL-server it shown 48.60 but crashes after 30seconds...

any idea's please pm me...
(another question, if I reinstall everything, are my characters gone?)

++++some time later++++

reinstalled FL from scratch
then the 4.85 mod, then the 486 update... crash, crash crash...
please can someone pm me to tell me what I'm doing wrong...

Do not install 4.85.
reinstall FL from scratch...then 4.86 only...and into a different directory than the orignal FL one.
Hope this helps
Click.