Beta 2.03 incoming today.

As per title, late afternoon (Brits time) the latest.
Cheerio, mates!

excellent now to find a change log.

Good to hear, so far I've only had a frozen main menu

Yep, that makes two of us.

Change log has not been released yet, as content has not been decided.

We'll see!

same here ... but did managed to get into the tutorials .. but then ran into the nvidia 5 series texture problems

Change log for beta 2.03:

And my client is to new

Edit: Now I am a bit .....
About an hour before the shut down I had a crash while in a station, just after upgrading to a Viper. After starting again, when I launched from the station the guns activated and fired automatically, and the station killed me.
Insurance set me back to 3k. When the shut down came I was at ~6.5k.
Now I logged in 2.03 again and with the launched the guns went of again inside the station

Back to the Sidewinder

For whatever reason I am still in a Viper, even though I couldn't afford the insurance. Maybe that's the loan they were alking about?!?!

It's out. Even includes Mouse look while docked. Nice.

Just jumped in game and planetary graphics still porked. I just have this weird big black disc where the planet should be and I am running amd GPU, so its not the NVidia issue.

Ohh well.

Give it a rest for a while longer I guess.

I've still got stripy planets (and stars) but I can live with that for the time being. There seems to be some weird lighting/gamma thing going on as well, it's changing frequently meaning sometimes everything looks very washed-out and other times very dark. Odd.

On the positive side, network has been absolutely rock-solid for me this evening. There was a *theory* on the frontier forums that they were deliberately trying out different network settings which caused the connection problems. A bit cheeky maybe, but if they got the data they were after which will benefit us in the long run I don't mind having been slightly inconvenienced for a few hours.

The bulletin board missions are a huge improvement and a great way to explore the new systems. Hopefully the rewards will increase with reputation as has been suggested, much more preferable than grinding back and forth with cargo.

Bit disappointed to find the various asteroid fields that you can see in the system maps don't actually seem to be in the game yet. still, it's early days and I've not done too much exploring yet.

I also found that the game doesn't seem to be storing the results of my scans of various stellar bodies. I seem to be able to re-sell the same data over and over.

Edit that post and never mention this again. I have system data bugs to exploit...

I think the rewards generally improved already, but especially the combat missions can make you some good money now. E.g. in the last two hours I had a 10k and a 20k war zone mission (4 & 9 enemies), and a Bounty Hunter mission for 40k. The latter was an Eagle "disguised" as a Unidentified Signal Source (USS).
The combat minded pilot will love the USS and the Resource Extraction sites - there are often some higher value bandits around; I already had two Asps for 7k and 12k, and plenty of Cobras and Eagles for 2-6k.
Maybe not the same cr/h as with Cobra and bigger, but definately more action...

Well, i was going to raise a ticket, but I thought I'd go and do a bit more surveying first so I haven't had time, though. Exiting the game and going back showed all the objects I'd scanned being reset so....fill yer boots..;). I suspect it's either something to do with the servers or it's like that on purpose just now to encourage surveying. If it's the second, it works.

Exccellent,

just back from a birthday party and had to try the latest beta. Wasn`t able to get into the game for more than a few seconds before, just played one hour, rock-stable now. Had some hick-ups when leaving SC.

Pity that hauling goods seems to be not economic though. But then, seems the focus of the devs is on missions in this beta.

The final game will be a winner for sure.

Works for me!

lol

It. Works.

I had to go to bed early as I was beaten, but tonight it's Elite non stop until the wife kills me tomorrow morning for not coming to bed! YEAH!

2.04 due out "soon" http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45642

Beta 2.04 will be live by 17:00 BST

Thanks to your continued feedback, and all the tickets you've logged, the team have managed to schedule another update for later today.

Full details on 2.04 will be added as soon as they are available. Keep one eye on this thread.

Thanks again from all the team at Frontier Developments.

Change log for update 2.04:

- Fix softlocks when exiting supercruise near to some stations
- Fix crash in preflight checklist
- Prevent server crash when an overlay is being unloaded while it's still in the load queue
- Removed old way of enabling/disabling stars
- Fix missing galaxy map background
- Fix assert in galaxy map
- Prevent missions selecting stations that you cannot complete the mission at
- Only send the next mission progression if the mission is not completed and shutting down
- Fix unable to sell all exploration data
- Do not assign factions to bounties that don’t exist
- GUI and smoke effects have now been made more subtle and glows have been reduced a little on the schematics
- Added 'Disable GUI Effects' option to the GUI shader so no cloudyness, parallax or colour tinting is applied when this option is set
- Added damage stats to all weapons for outfitting GUI
- Fixed malformed resource for repair module
- Increase server send buffer from 32k to 500k
- Allow network configuration file to specify a range of ports for the game to choose from
- Allow the send buffer size on the socket to be adjusted
- Replace a new diagnostic assert in the network code with writing a line into the log file
- Guard against replay attacks for mission accept and mission update
- Fixes for tutorial typos
- Fix for the news feed not showing GalNet on the manually entered new bulletins
- Fix for regenerating already existing ring texture
- Update text for good and bad trade good entries on the news feed
- Added in new news entry for a system bulletin
- Give star models on the system map a wider range of sizes
- Increase the timeout between talkchannel and friends list requests
- Remove misleading reports from server logs