Alpha 3.18 Lasting Legacies

Alpha 3.18 Lasting Legacies

• Persistent Entity Streaming
  Technology: Universe-Wide Persistence
• Dawn of Salvage
  Gameplay: Hull Scraping
• Drake Vulture
  Vehicle: Specialist Salvage Ship
• Soft Death
  Gameplay: Vehicle Immobility
• RSI Scorpius Antares
  Vehicle: EMP-Equipped Heavy Fighter
• Cargo System Refactor
  Feature: Cargo Mechanic Rework
• Gen12 Graphics Renderer
  Technology: Next-Gen Update to the Graphics Engine
• Natural Wonders
  Locations: Sand Caves & Rivers
• Natural Wonders
  Locations: Sand Caves & Rivers
• Secrets of Daymar
  Location: 600i & Mercury Settlement
• Kareah Reactivation
  Location: Update to Security Post Kareah Space Station
• All New Missions
  Gameplay: New Missions in Orison and Klescher
• High Speed Thrills
  Locations: New Racetracks

Despite a long list of new features this patch became known as the streamer’s patch.  Persistent Entity Streaming rendered the patch unplayable except for some of the twitch streamers. It didn’t help twitch lore hearing those constant recommendations of do this, do that, and then do this and you’ll be able to login.

PES is the first of the last three major technology hurdles enabling hordes of citizens to play in one virtual verse with the technology called server meshing. It technical terms CIG’s DB conversion of their relation DB to an edge based DB resulted in what we call the Big O becoming the Big Uh Oh.

The problem would persist well into the 3.20 patch.

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