I'll be playing later tonight. I wonder if the Asia Pacific to US server issue has been fixed, and implemented along side the patch.
https://community.elitedangerous.com/theengineersbetadate
Full Patch Notes. It is a beefy one.
Looking forward to the new weapons.
This might the note on addressing the Asia Pacific issue.
"More changes to address space bound players being match made with those on the surface"
The AI is somehow even worse now. Fair enough they made it tougher, but now all the enemies just fly around you and when you do manage to get them in front of you they ram you. I died twice to single enemies in the span of 5 minutes. I'm not having fun with the combat any more.
I've read in the thread a lot of people are having issues with it. The old timers are going you "wimps and maybe this isn't the game for you." I guess I'm having the wrong kind of fun.
It's not challenging, it's just frustrating. I remember when I first started playing and combat was an intense experience, but this doesn't recreate that it just makes me angry with the game and takes me right out of it. Flying in a circle endlessly isn't fun, getting rammed every time your shield comes back up because there's something broken with the AI which has been like that since 1.4 is not fun and having them spam shield cells (apparently without the catastrophic heat damage they added in the last update) every time you almost get their shield down is not fun.
Sure you can break off and boost away to get some distance but they're just going to fly straight at you so you're just going to take a ton of damage and not really gain anything as they'll probably just spam shield cells and chaff anyway. The AI was already broken with ships crashing in to everything constantly or just spinning in place for no reason but this is much worse.
Not to mention that they added powerplay ships to the extraction sites, so now you can get ganked mid fight by a bunch of federal agents or whoever and if you fight back (and you're not in you power's zone) you become wanted and all the security ship murder you. I had to leave my power because it was not worth it. Speaking of the security ships, they're now way over powered and pretty much wipe out any pirate ship as soon as it shows up.
I know I'm just ranting now but I really like this game and this update has made the game frustrating and stressful to play to the point where I may give up on it.
I just read through the mega thread on the Elite forums, page 160 currently. More information there. I'm just not that great at combat and never will be. The get good bs is pissing me off. Since not everyone is specced that way and has millions to waste on deaths. NPCs should not have all the top tier mods in the game already. I feel bad for those without Horizons getting stomped.
Curious what @DeusQain will think about this when he returns from tiawan.
Speaking of I did want to do further testing, but the devs are asking to wait while they run other alternatives.