Patch notes discussion June 2023

[Kirito]

vor 13 Minuten schrieb skypickle:

I think they removed the F15E icon 

Yep, the F15E Icon is gone

[evilnate]

The anxiety of not being able to play DCS MP speaks volumes about how great the game is. I play regularly with my friends. Imagine a bowling alley having power outages

[Heli Shed]

shockingly bad prep ED, shockingly bad!

 

Thanks for keeping us abreast anyway but a great reminder that you own the modules and that we essentially rent them.  That's right peeps - no ED, no modules.

Edited June 8, 2023 by [WF]-Templar

[hreich]

All my modules gone....

[Silver_]

14 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

I explained in an earlier post but will again. 

The saved auth works for versions you have logged into previously, as the update has hit and the version number has changed the saved auth isnt working. This with server load issues combined is creating this problem. the team are working on it. 

thank you

Thanks understood. I hope that for future versions it will be solved and this will be more flexible. This way you will avoid these problems.

Edited June 8, 2023 by Silver_

[hreich]

6 minutes ago, Kirito said:

Yep, the F15E Icon is gone

All my ffin icons are gone...

[Mateo]

So we might assume DCS is actually addiction issue ?

Anyway horror scenario...

[Grodin]

3 minutes ago, evilnate said:

The anxiety of not being able to play DCS MP speaks volumes about how great the game is. I play regularly with my friends. Imagine a bowling alley having power outages

Not just the MP - Not being able to use a product AT ALL, a product people have paid a lot of money for. It's not working even in single player because.. well, i don't know, because of reasons.

 

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to block people from using the products they paid for in single player no matter how many servers are down, single player should never require any servers to be up.

[Badger1-1]

1 minute ago, hreich said:

All my ffin icons are gone...

its not gone, theres no connection to the main server so the game doesnt know which modules you have..

 

But by now it should have been resolved

[BIGNEWY]

9 minutes ago, Kirito said:

Yep, the F15E Icon is gone

the F-15E AI was removed in a small fix patch

[Grodin]

Just now, Badger1-1 said:

its not gone, theres no connection to the main server so the game doesnt know which modules you have..

 

But by now it should have been resolved

 

Well the game knows what modules you've had earlier and what you have installed - it would be fair to assume you still have them and let you play them if the servers are down.

[MAXsenna]

Guys, what happens if you close DCS, disable the network card/unplug it, and then start DCS?
I'm not at home, so I can't check this myself.

Cheers!

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[BIGNEWY]

4 minutes ago, Grodin said:

 

Well the game knows what modules you've had earlier and what you have installed - it would be fair to assume you still have them and let you play them if the servers are down.

usually it would, however the auth needs a login on the version you are using, as the login server is having issues with the updated version the auth is not able to happen. This has created the the problem. The team will look for a solution. 

thanks

[dresoccer4]

3 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Guys, what happens if you close DCS, disable the network card/unplug it, and then start DCS?
I'm not at home, so I can't check this myself.

Cheers!

Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
 

there's a popup that says in order to play offline you need to have saved password and successful login, which seems contradictory

Edited June 8, 2023 by dresoccer4

[MAXsenna]

there's a popup that says in order to play offline you need to have saved password and successful logon

Ah, I see. Bummer.
Might work if one haven't upgraded/logged in then?

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[shagrat]

vor 4 Minuten schrieb Grodin:

 

Well the game knows what modules you've had earlier and what you have installed - it would be fair to assume you still have them and let you play them if the servers are down.

License check requires a connection to the authorization servers. This scenario was, what everyone feared, when the shift to the online license check was announced.

I am baffled, that it seems all servers are still running in the same domain, bottlenecking all services, not just the website or store.

I sincerely hope, this is an incentive to consider some overdue changes to the infrastructure.

[AKULA_OPTIMUS]

A reminder that we don´t own anything, we are just renting stuff. No internet, no game.

Anyway, sure it will be sorted out soon.

 

 

[dresoccer4]

1 minute ago, AKULA_OPTIMUS said:

A reminder that we don´t own anything, we are just renting stuff. No internet, no game.

i mean, that's not true most of the time. you can definitely play this offline usually. what's happening is a special circumstance 

Edited June 8, 2023 by dresoccer4

[Beirut]

3 minutes ago, shagrat said:

 

I sincerely hope, this is an incentive to consider some overdue changes to the infrastructure.

 

 

It's certainly an incentive to stay on Steam. 

[Wing]

I’m guessing the auth. server is going to remain down at this point until the Sun comes back up on EDs side of the world? We had a flight night planned for tonight and everything - so kind of a bummer this is effecting all clients, and not just those that OB updated

Guess it happens, but for things to be down literally all day… (this issue was discovered 7+hrs ago) is disappointing.

[LordOrion]

So, looks like we are all "grounded" today... Thank god i resisted the urge to buy the new map, otherwise I'd be really pissed now

Hope ED will fix this mess in time for the week-end.

Edited June 8, 2023 by LordOrion

[Ramstein]

what angers me,, ok anger.. not good, but when I try to log into stuff I own or a website  I have account, which I had to go through a zillion security checks to begin with (Veterans know about this and their benefits server login), they force two step authorization, or even to check my home cameras.. they can shove 2 step..

[virgo47]

32 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

I explained in an earlier post but will again. 

The saved auth works for versions you have logged into previously, as the update has hit and the version number has changed the saved auth isnt working. This with server load issues combined is creating this problem. the team are working on it. 

thank you

I disagree - I started the game first with the very same version(MT does not auto-update) and it forgot my authorization as well, not more than 24 hours since the last time I'd played. I actually started the update after I encountered the problem.

So it doesn't quite work the way you suggested, at least not on my end.

Luckily, I planned to play Su-25T today anyway (for real, no sarcasm).

But it didn't make me feel better in general, as just a few days ago I was trialling the wrong version of Normandy (actually, on the shop it still says my trial "Ends in 175 days" for Normandy 1944, at the same time my trial for Normandy 2.0, which I'd never really seen, is over), so I'm not sure how consistent some things are between various customers. Not a big deal after all, but with so many modules and such complexity, it sometimes seems like QA is a bit behind.

[BIGNEWY]

please ensure you have updated to the latest version of open beta as there was a small fix. 

thank you

[GomesPT]

12 minutes ago, Beirut said:

 

It's certainly an incentive to stay on Steam. 

Usually these situations generate distrust and discomfort among the community. We all know that there is always the chance of problems, but these situations lead us to question whether the modules we bought are really ours, or if we are just renting them? Wouldn't it be safer to start shopping on Steam?
Because even with server problems, we should always be able to play offline.
Or else change the game to a monthly subscription, with access to everything and that way these suspicions no longer exist.
This is just my opinion and I don't want to influence anyone, but I understand certain suspicions that sometimes exist.