Gameplay: Showstoppers and Critical Issues
 

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id like to bring to your attention the showstopper affecting many within the hour of launch.

Symptoms: cannot progress in first mission, stuck in "destroy damaged probes" area when mission log shows you have already warped to the "destroy active probes area". Restarting instance and "defeat me" dont work.

Replication: This happened to me and many others by the server going down whilst either in warp or at the "destroy active probes" area. upon reconnecting find yourself back at the "fix my guns ship" prior to warping to the "destroy damaged probes" area.

CANNOT PROGRESS

Bug Significance: Showstopper

Bug: Stuck in loading screen while loading Sol System from the colony. Upwards of 15 minutes of waiting did not resolve issue. Cannot submit bug report in game as I cannot load character in-game and don't see button on Character Selection screen.

Level of Gratitude When Bug is Fixed: God Like

Adding to this: for me sometimes a window pops up saying that there's nothing of interest in the system, with the question if I would like to go elsewhere. The option Dismiss is given, nothing else, and the popup disappears after a second or so, making leaving the system impossible.

See if there is a galaxy icon below your minimap that will allow you to leave the system.

Try opening the large map and selecting a system to set a course (probably only works in Sector space).

I read this solution in another thread and it worked for me. I left the map and was able to select another instance to load into. Not sure if this option was there before but it didn't give the list of possible instances. Porting to another instance placed me in the active probe area.

The next problem presented itself though, a showstopper: beaming down to Vega Colony locks up the load screen. I am about to restart the game and try again, but I am not going anywhere for the time being.

EDIT: got a Disconnected from Server message and had to control-alt-delete out of the game. It's now stuck on the retreiving character list screen so I guess I'm out for today ^^

Showstopper

In all cases I tried (on ship in sector space, Sol System, S.S. Azura Instance, ground of Vega Colony and ground at Earth Spacedock) I was unable to spend ANY of my captain's skill points. Bridge Officer points worked fine, but everytime I tried to spend my captain's, there was an error encountered and they were all reset to 0.

Character: Esiid@Gadebalran

Critical Issue

Using an ATI Radeon X4350 graphics card with both the latest and rolled back drivers I am getting extreme flicker on the graphics. various colors get thrown all over the screen, and almost everything is covered by weird blocks of different colors. The UI is fine, but the game world is completely unviewable. I have messed around with graphic options, changed me screen resolution, run the game in safe mode, compatibility mode, windowed, you name it, nothing fixes the issue. It is making the game completely unplayable in space.

Ditto...long wait on Sol load, never resolves. Going to re roll to see if I can progress or work around it.

EDIT: Bahh...rolled a second slot now starter map is full...DOH...ah well...

not really a showstopper but expensive hehe

when you rename your bridge officers at the shop in Sol startbase 1 to what ever you want

then you beam to ur bridge they get reset back to their basic names..
:mad:

Found out i dident rename them but saved the name for the costumes and tought that was name change...