Patchnotes for the current release - more to come!
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the playtest weekend.
In the past few weeks we’ve been working on many bugfixes and incorporating some of the great suggestions from our last playtest. There’s still more to do, but there’s some new things to look at.
Firstly, have a look at the patchnotes, which list all the changes that we’ve made.
Key things to highlight are that you now have the ability to change ship (which will change out your module fitting options, as well as the gfx display of the hangar), and we’ve also provided a mock-up of the missions selection tab so that you can get familiar with the approach.
We have given each player a starting wallet balance and a selection of items, as well as 3 ships to swap between. Please remember you cannot undock into space in this playtest; it’s in-station functionality only.
If this if your first AoA in-station playtest, please read these notes from the last one, which explain what we’d like you to do.
All feedback should be posted in this thread please; but we will be in chat throughout the weekend to answer any questions as they arise.
Hope you have fun, and many thanks for helping us!
Best wishes,
SC & the AoA team
It’s probably just something that I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get into the playtest. I can log in, but I can’t click into the game through my pilot name.
Hey Jejune,
When you log in, you don’t have the orange ‘Choose’ button?
Or it’s there, but clicking it doesn’t do anything?
Best,
SC
SC, I don’t have the “Choose” button. I’m using Chrome and have the new version.
Wow, ok. Any chance you could screenshot that page/dialogue window and share it here? Please feel free to blur out pilot names you may have reserved 
Many thanks in advance!
SC
You bet! Here you go:
Brilliantly useful, tyvm. And a Shift+Refresh / Shift+R doesn’t fix it?
Sadly, no.
I’m running the following: Version 87.0.4280.141 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Thanks v much Jejune. I’ll pass this to TC for further investigation, and he’ll let you know his findings/fix!
Hang in there, we’ll get this sorted!
Best,
SC
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No worries! Thanks for looking into it, SC.
Jejune - should be fixed now!
YES! Fixed! Thank you so much!
yvw, many apologies!
Should be fixed already PR; give it a refresh and come on in!
A few points of feedback from my experience:
- When selling in the sell window and you have inventory open, inventory doesn’t update after a sale.
- Need to add feedback as to what icons and buttons do. Tooltips would be nice.
- The “window” UI format seems good, but the UI just stacks up and gets confusing. Should only be able to have one UI open at a time and selecting items from inventory should give an option to go straight to buy/sell for that item.
- Inventory transfer buttons from cargo <–> hangar should be bigger/more prominent. Somehow I didn’t even notice them and couldn’t figure out how to move between storage types.
Otherwise, looking good so far.
It would also be nice to see feedback when trying to fit a ship and something can’t be added.
In the Trade, when buying “Autonite”, moving the slider changes the amount between 1 and 100, not between the min and max amount. Clicking on the MAX button select 51 units, not the maximum possible ones. It’s the same for “Trona” and might be for other items too.
Opera, Win10
The chat would not scroll all the way down to the bottom when joining the game or when a new message was sent.
I moved everything from my hanger to my cargo hold and closed the window, and all my equipment disappeared!
Requesting a technician to come and repair the hole in my cargo hold!
PEBKAC, see next post.
When equipping things with the Move Right arrow, the scroll bar of the module slots section would jump back up to the top. This was extremely annoying when trying to do engineering modules.
In the trade window, Pharmaceuticals ran out of the box, along with Entertainment Device
I love the new trade window a lot, by the way, it’s much clearer now. Would love a search bar though.
After maximizing a sell order of Acrobat II RCS, the Vol column didn’t go to 0.
Closing and reopening the trade window made it disappear from the list! Expected it to still be there, since there were still lots of buy orders open for it!
For reasons mentioned in the previous test I don’t really like the purchase UI, but I just noticed this and now it will never not bother me.
Why is that gap in the slider there?! Why!?! Why?!?!?!
There was some odd, unused space at the bottom of the research window.
The Mission window UI didn’t resize with the window size.
Additionally, I couldn’t interact with anything on the page. Wasn’t sure if it’s just turned off or not.
Overall loving the improvements! Can’t wait to see more functionality/bug fixes.