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New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:57 am
by Colin The Grey
Anyone got any idea what this is - not seen it before this morning.

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Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:17 pm
by Philip Coutts
Ohh that's interesting. Is this the first attempt to bring the mac users into the PC users galaxy? I think it must be.

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:22 pm
by Flip
Sounds more like bringing the Mac and PC users together in a temporary mixed galaxy.

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:32 pm
by de Carabas
There's a post on the main Forum for Mac users that their client is being updated to allow cross platform. Questions raised about when PC users will be seeing the cross platform test. The answer is "soon" :D

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost2165510

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:22 pm
by Cmdr Kharma
Playing in it now......

If you see a CMDR Ed Straker.......

Tis me.......

:D

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:30 pm
by Colin The Grey
of SHADO I presume :)

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:14 pm
by Cmdr Kharma
Correct sir.......

Normal beta procedure in process.......You start with a sidey and 100000 Crs......Ships cost 100 Cr's

Currently stripping type 9's and looking for an FDL.......Up to 20 mill so far...But can't find an FDL.....

Before I venture into open and welcome our mac friends....And possibly protect them against arsehole griefers.....

:)

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:25 pm
by de Carabas
Someone is having fun at Dalton Gateway in Open
(spoiler for big image)
► Show Spoiler


Completely destroys my sound and dropped frame rate to less than 10.


EDIT: Added a spoiler tag round the big image.

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:22 am
by highlightshadow
Guessing this means they're reasonably happy with the mac state and maybe doing 1.3 Beta as x-platform....
Seems early though....

Re: New entry in Elite Launcher - Cross Platform Beta

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:37 pm
by de Carabas
highlightshadow wrote:Guessing this means they're reasonably happy with the mac state and maybe doing 1.3 Beta as x-platform....
Seems early though....

Why early? As you say, if the MAC beta is pretty stable it would make sense to get everyone on the new code base asap as there are bound to be a bucket load of fixes as well as the new features. Key fix being the caching of shaders to help with stuttering.
I would say get everyone on the new BETA early and start finding those bugs in a hurry.