What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Black Rose]

I just now had a down and out with my wing mate.

I am having trouble with my Horizons DLC that I bought on Steam

Here is the discussion on steam from my OP and down so I don't have to repeat it

http://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/405691147591645074/

He has to have a go at me constantly and makes me feel like a total loser all the time or is it wanker? Is a wanker and a loser the same thing? I don't know. But when I am in need of help someone that badgers me about how I talk or how I list out a problem or how I answer a question really sends me over the edge. Is Bollocks, Bollox, Ball axes? is that the same as "F*** Y**"? I don't know.

Right now I am beyond wound up over the BS I went through with Xcom 2 and now Horizons and the last thing I need is someone telling me how messed up I am

You know, I don't know you that well, but you don't seem at all "messed up" from your postings on here. In fact, I think many of us quite enjoy them.

As for the Horizons problem, I think I ordered it from FDev's site, and it gave me a key, which I put into Steam, even though I originally bought Elite through Steam. This sounds like the reverse of what you did though, correct me if I'm wrong. I will say that if I follow in-game links to the store for paint jobs and bobbleheads now, they will be unusable in my game. If I go directly to FDev's website, everything works great.

Again, I think you may have the reverse situation, but my experiences illustrate that there seems to be a store-disconnect between Steam and FDev. I think it may actually be something of a login credentials issue. I think Steam tries to tie everything to your Steam ID, and FDev tries to tie everything to your email address.

Having said that, I think I had the option to download horizons either from the FDev site (though I remember navigating to that part being a bit labyrinthine) or Steam itself. Maybe try uninstalling and coming at it from the other direction, to see if it will end up talking to the right set of servers for authentication? If you install from FDev's site, and that works, you can put Horizons into Steam even without a steam code. You can launch just about any program that exists from it, and get the overlay capabilities, even if it may not integrate with achievements and all that. (Elite has no steam achievements anyway.)

I hope that helps, as I think we'd all love to see you post something victorious for once.

Thank you for your kind words, you made me smile

As to Horizons I am not exactly sure what downloads or not. I run ED with no issues. When I bought the pass I assumed it was a download so I logged out of ED and went to my Steam page for ED expecting to see it listed there and was gonna click it to download. But there was no listing. I am thinking WTH? Then I saw a line stating Horizons Season Pass DLC ..... installed 2/5/16. So I think it was always in the download and the pass was just unlocked. Either that or it auto updated and I didn't even notice it as I have my Steam set up to allow background downloading while I play.

I checked the FD site and is shows that I bought the season pass dlc, it also shows that I redeemed the key linking it to FD from Steam. The issue is as you say "the steam servers are not talking to the FD servers" Personally; if I bought the DLC and they know I own the base game as I redeemed that key, doesn't follow that the DLC, being an integrated part of the main game, is also a legitament item?

With me, and maybe I am simple minded, but things either work as intended or not. I am willing to work out a solution but when all I get is silence from Steam and FD I get pretty agitated. It was the same way wil Xcom 2. It didn't work and there was no support from Steam or from 2K/Firaxis. So the best way to get rid of the trash is to toss in the can and drag it to the curb.

[JohnLuke]

I had a GREAT run in the Haz-RES today. Best spawn I've seen in a while.

Nearly 2 hours of almost non-stop larger ships.... i.e. clippers, pythons, damn Fed ships, and some condas. I got enough elite level kills to get me 3% closer to Elite. Only 60% to go! Uggggg.

This is what my contacts screen looked like most of the time.....



If you're in the neighborhood of Beta-1 Tucanae, it may be worth your time to stop by.

[Xebeth]

After a quick mission for the Order, I've dusted off the trade Conda for a bit of money making. Let's see how long I can keep this up before the urge to blow something up gets too strong.

[Schmobius]

Thank you for your kind words, you made me smile

As to Horizons I am not exactly sure what downloads or not. I run ED with no issues. When I bought the pass I assumed it was a download so I logged out of ED and went to my Steam page for ED expecting to see it listed there and was gonna click it to download. But there was no listing. I am thinking WTH? Then I saw a line stating Horizons Season Pass DLC ..... installed 2/5/16. So I think it was always in the download and the pass was just unlocked. Either that or it auto updated and I didn't even notice it as I have my Steam set up to allow background downloading while I play.

I checked the FD site and is shows that I bought the season pass dlc, it also shows that I redeemed the key linking it to FD from Steam. The issue is as you say "the steam servers are not talking to the FD servers" Personally; if I bought the DLC and they know I own the base game as I redeemed that key, doesn't follow that the DLC, being an integrated part of the main game, is also a legitament item?

With me, and maybe I am simple minded, but things either work as intended or not. I am willing to work out a solution but when all I get is silence from Steam and FD I get pretty agitated. It was the same way wil Xcom 2. It didn't work and there was no support from Steam or from 2K/Firaxis. So the best way to get rid of the trash is to toss in the can and drag it to the curb.

Good, then I've accomplished something other than surviving a hangover and dropping off the dry cleaning today.

As to Horizons, it could be a function of how I bought it, but it exists in a state more like a separate full game that happens to share the settings and savegame folder with ED than behaving like DLC. If you use the regular ED launcher, and it doesn't turn blue and say Horizons on it, you don't have it installed. (I think it was a 2 or 3 gig download, at least.) There won't be any launching ED and checking if things show up in there like a planetary landing package. It shows as two separate games in Steam for me as well.

I'm honestly not clear on where you're at, so that box may already be checked off for you. You may want to try logging out from the launcher and logging back in so you have a chance to try whatever you have with Steam, and then whatever you have with FDev (or vice-versa) for logging in.

Since Xcom holds zero attraction to me as a game, I'd be all for chucking it in the bin, but I do hope you can figure out the mess with Horizons so you continue to get new features from the game. You have some time to get it figured out before anything beyond planetary landings and buggy racing become available, so if nothing I've said works, you may want to check the *shudder* official Frontier forums, and if you can't find anything useful there, post a topic. You'll probably get more help than in the Steam community. (Nothing against them, the official forums just have more active people directly invested in the topic.)

[blazingmaniac]

I had a GREAT run in the Haz-RES today. Best spawn I've seen in a while.

Nearly 2 hours of almost non-stop larger ships.... i.e. clippers, pythons, damn Fed ships, and some condas. I got enough elite level kills to get me 3% closer to Elite. Only 60% to go! Uggggg.

This is what my contacts screen looked like most of the time.....



If you're in the neighborhood of Beta-1 Tucanae, it may be worth your time to stop by.

Must have been a good night in Haz RES sites across the galaxy JL, I have destroyed more wanted Conda's tonight than I have in weeks at least 15 over the course of a few sessions today. Similar spawns to you, Fed Gun/drop ships, clippers, FDL's etc. Made over 25 million today and am now just 5% from Elite Combat... so close!!!

[TorTorden]

True, that's about only downside for conda. It can still land on surface bases?

every planetbased facility with docking I have seen has had large pads so yes.

[Black Rose]

Thank you for your kind words, you made me smile

As to Horizons I am not exactly sure what downloads or not. I run ED with no issues. When I bought the pass I assumed it was a download so I logged out of ED and went to my Steam page for ED expecting to see it listed there and was gonna click it to download. But there was no listing. I am thinking WTH? Then I saw a line stating Horizons Season Pass DLC ..... installed 2/5/16. So I think it was always in the download and the pass was just unlocked. Either that or it auto updated and I didn't even notice it as I have my Steam set up to allow background downloading while I play.

I checked the FD site and is shows that I bought the season pass dlc, it also shows that I redeemed the key linking it to FD from Steam. The issue is as you say "the steam servers are not talking to the FD servers" Personally; if I bought the DLC and they know I own the base game as I redeemed that key, doesn't follow that the DLC, being an integrated part of the main game, is also a legitament item?

With me, and maybe I am simple minded, but things either work as intended or not. I am willing to work out a solution but when all I get is silence from Steam and FD I get pretty agitated. It was the same way wil Xcom 2. It didn't work and there was no support from Steam or from 2K/Firaxis. So the best way to get rid of the trash is to toss in the can and drag it to the curb.

Good, then I've accomplished something other than surviving a hangover and dropping off the dry cleaning today.

As to Horizons, it could be a function of how I bought it, but it exists in a state more like a separate full game that happens to share the settings and savegame folder with ED than behaving like DLC. If you use the regular ED launcher, and it doesn't turn blue and say Horizons on it, you don't have it installed. (I think it was a 2 or 3 gig download, at least.) There won't be any launching ED and checking if things show up in there like a planetary landing package. It shows as two separate games in Steam for me as well.

I'm honestly not clear on where you're at, so that box may already be checked off for you. You may want to try logging out from the launcher and logging back in so you have a chance to try whatever you have with Steam, and then whatever you have with FDev (or vice-versa) for logging in.

Since Xcom holds zero attraction to me as a game, I'd be all for chucking it in the bin, but I do hope you can figure out the mess with Horizons so you continue to get new features from the game. You have some time to get it figured out before anything beyond planetary landings and buggy racing become available, so if nothing I've said works, you may want to check the *shudder* official Frontier forums, and if you can't find anything useful there, post a topic. You'll probably get more help than in the Steam community. (Nothing against them, the official forums just have more active people directly invested in the topic.)

No, nothing turns blue all I get when I click on the "play horizons" is a window that says I have to redeem the code. If I don't get a reply by Monday ( as FD says 3 days for tickets ) I'll put in for a refund.

[Black Rose]

Well that is the end of that.

I ran the horizons.exe file from the folder in my steam library and it loaded and then I got a screen that said "connection error, please use the launcher"

So I logged out of the regular launcher to try to get the Horizons launcher to work. I clicked play on Horizons and instead of asking me to redeem the code the launcher opened and asked me to log into my acct which I did and it then said I had to redeem the code.

So I then tried to log back into the regular Elite launcher and I am stuck in a verification loop. It asked for my email and password, then send me a verification code in my email that I paste in and then is asks me for my email and password and on and on and on.

So now I can't play at all

[Schmobius]

To FDev, I can only say,



Here's hoping they get back to you quickly tomorrow about this mess. If not, I'd try uninstalling/reinstalling.

[Falcon_D]

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