Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

Greetings Commanders.

Update 16 arrives later today! Once again with you every step of the way with the devs sending along their 'o7s' at you too.

With that then, the Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' servers are now offline so let's 'do the usual' and take a quick moment to recap where we are in the schedule, followed by the headline + web link release notes.

Time (BST)	Action
06:00	Downtime warning ahead of server downtime for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' Commanders - in game broadcast.
08:00	Servers for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' will go down. Elite Dangerous 'Legacy' servers will remain online.
16:00 (approx)	Servers for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' will return, along with deployment download of Update 16.

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"devilious, post: 10190634, member: 292721"

fleet carrier 1hr 13 mins per jumps[ATTACH type="full" alt="update 16.png"]362858[/ATTACH]

As Ned says, [USER=292721]@devilious[/USER] :

"Ned Flandalorian, post: 10190622, member: 270359"

That's how FC jumps work; the more people schedule them, the longer the times get. If you cancel and retry you end up at the back of the queue.

"sallymorganmoore, post: 10190628, member: 188830"

Can confirm (thanks, Ned!).
It'll for sure be the case more prominently right now with so many players all entering the game at once to try out the Update.

"CMDR X, post: 10190649, member: 193847"

Just want to add that my shadows is set to Ultra and it loads fine Sally.

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That's great news as long as it works for you as is :)
Just for those who do have the crash, it looks to be the ultra shadows that cause problems for them specifically.

"Rat Catcher, post: 10190602, member: 188233"

checked and working beautifully, thanks Sally & [USER=45844]@Malic[/USER]
All good!

Oh sweet, sweet relief.
Of course, we'll continue to look into the root cause but for now, glad to get you all in game on VR again o7

"Ned Flandalorian, post: 10190622, member: 270359"

That's how FC jumps work; the more people schedule them, the longer the times get. If you cancel and retry you end up at the back of the queue.

Can confirm (thanks, Ned!).
It'll for sure be the case more prominently right now with so many players all entering the game at once to try out the Update.

"Tango-Zero-One, post: 10190562, member: 110934"

I was able to join, after I got 2-3 ivory cobra errors.

These should be calming down now for sure.
Again, thanks for the patience.

"Sticksthedrummer, post: 10190548, member: 302311"

VR crashes almost immediately.

[USER=45844]@Malic[/USER] had the very same issue and shared that directional shadow being set to ultra was the cause in that instance.
The team are aware o7

"Green_Grass, post: 10190545, member: 177653"

Now it's back!

Flipping Ivory Cobras.
PESTS!!

Greetings Commanders.

The team are currently aware of a crash experienced when attempting to launch Elite Dangerous in VR, following Update 16.

Please can we ask that if you experience this crash:
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[*]Complete and submit any information if you experience this crash via the crash reporter.
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SUGGESTED FIX
For one Commander, the directional shadow setting being set to Ultra was the reason causing the crash.
Please do check this setting first and retry after changing it from Ultra, before taking further action with your reports.

The team are continuing to investigate.

Thank you as always!

o7!

"JezSeaDog, post: 10190517, member: 302308"

My Cobra has turned ivory

Acknowledged earlier for sure o7 On the case with the snake bat.

"camsoft2000, post: 10190512, member: 302310"

Missing boards not loading and just timing out

Hey camsoft! Acknowledged earlier in the thread, along with the Ivory Cobras. Keeping a close watch o7

COMMANDERS

I'll be opening the thread again in a moment.
The Ivory Cobras will hopefully be now subsiding but of course, let's keep things in check o7

"Dark Okram, post: 10190570, member: 295601"

After update 16 launch the VR version and crashes, before update 16 all ok...
Flat it works... "just" crushes if in VR...
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Hello! I've made multiple responses to this throughout the thread to try and help.

"sallymorganmoore, post: 10190558, member: 188830"

Can you check your directional shadow setting please?

Having them set to 'Ultra' seemed to be the cause for at least one Commander so far but the team are continuing to monitor reports.

"Malic, post: 10190519, member: 45844"

Steam VR is crashing on every load in for me, standalone and Steam installs so far. launches fine with no VR enabled, but then it does not see headset when you enter the game. is not showing any crash errors on windows event viewer

Malic you're tagging us everywhere I see you, I see you.

COMMANDERS.

Locking the thread momentarily to have a little breathing room amidst the 'Ivory Cobra' reports as the servers scale and team closely monitor.
Apologies for the turbulence. Lots of people trying to play all at once.

o7

"Jaden Capek, post: 10190549, member: 285830"

What kind of error is an Ivory Cobra error?

Server in relation to missions. It's one of the main ones to get impacted by heavy load on first opening the gates.

"DrinkyBird, post: 10190527, member: 272997"

More pink cobras please.

I beg

"sallymorganmoore, post: 10190553, member: 188830"

[USER=45844]@Malic[/USER] had the very same issue and shared that directional shadow being set to ultra was the cause in that instance.
The team are aware o7

[USER=188233]@Rat Catcher[/USER] can you check your directional shadow setting please?

UPDATE AVAILABLE, COMMANDERS!
Unlocking airlock shortly...

Greetings Commanders - Happy Update 16 day to you all.

Whilst we wait on a minor delay to the update, how about a full look at that fancy new gear set IN STORE NOW!?

So no idea where some of you found this out from BUT, along with the release of Update 16 today we're thrilled to share the release of the brand new Nomad Gear Set in the Elite Dangerous online store today.
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The new Nomad Gear Set comes in 3 Colourations (the Liaison colour scheme), sold together for 16520 ARX
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