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Jan 21, 2006 incarnate link
Please post feedback from the new client here. We're still focusing on bugs and things for the moment. Not a lot of design discussion (that will come.. a little later).

Jan 21, 2006 ctishman link
Woo! First bug report of Beta 2!

Bug 1: Sometimes the new client decides that it doesn't want to send to general chat from the main tab. I can chat to the station, or send/receive private messages from anywhere. While the bug is active, I get the following error when trying to send a message to general chat, upon pressing the return key:

vo/if_chatlog.lua:120:bad argument #1 to `sub' (sring expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
lua/iup/iuplua.lua:188: in function <lua/iup/iuplua.lua:187>
[C]: in function `sub'
vo/if_chatlog.lua: in function <vo/if_chatlog.lua:105>

=============
Bug 2:
Upon exiting Beta 2, I find that it was dissatisfied with the layout of the icons on my desktop, and has rearranged them to its own satisfaction. This bug did not occur in beta 1.
Jan 21, 2006 Morner link
Got one in the first 10sec with the new client

Getting a Trade mission with a timer will prevent some HUD elements from updating.

Elements that don't update
Velocity
Battery
Timer
Distance Bar

[edit]From the error log as I exited the station
*** Stack trace:
1 [C]:-1 in StoreAttribute (field)
2 vo/if_hud.lua:945 in UpdateMissionTimers (method)
3 vo/if_hud.lua:246 in (null) ()
4 [C]:-1 in pcall (global)
5 vo/vo_event.lua:50 in (null) ()
6 vo/vo_event.lua:68 in ProcessEvent (global)
7 vo/vo_gameevent.lua:376 in func (local)
8 vo/vo_gameevent.lua:735 in GameEvent (global)
Jan 21, 2006 ctishman link
Bug 1: The Valkyrie doesn't have lead indicators for its weapons.

Bug 2: Also, text in chats starts scrolled all the way up to the top of the log, and a few presses of the pagedown key are required to bang it into shape.
Jan 21, 2006 tumblemonster link
Bug: Hung on 'Purchasing...' screen when trying to purchase a preset ship that wasn't available in the station. Cancel brought me back to login screen.

Bug: Maybe not a bug, but irritating. I was messing around with buying goods. I bought 10,000 aquean ore in one shot, kinda neat. But then I went to another station and as is my habit just clicked the purchase button for the cargo I need, and now I have 10,000 lux goods crates! The Quantity box should zero out after you make a purchase. When it's empty, it defaults to your ships cargo capacity.

Errors:
[Sat Jan 21 01:41:52 2006] 28b4f0Error! trying to remove object(1:2068)
[Sat Jan 21 01:49:26 2006] 28b4f0Error! trying to remove object(7:555)

Design oddity: Why do I buy ships on one tab, but then have to go to another tab to purchase equipment? And then back to the first tab if I want to reoutfit it?
Jan 21, 2006 misiorysio link
1. I got the exact same error as Morner did. After docking with the starting station and thus completing the mission, I got another Lua error window ingame, but there was no separate "Lua ERROR" window outside the game, as it was with the error Morner described. From errors.log:

vo/vo_ge_station.lua:248: bad argument #1 to `ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function `ipairs'
vo/vo_ge_station.lua:248: in function `StationInvRemove'
vo/vo_gameevent.lua:147: in function `func'
vo/vo_gameevent.lua:735: in function `GameEvent'

2. The message you get when hitting an ion storm is sometimes in white with "***" in front, and sometimes in light blue:

[01/21/06 10:17:29] ffffff*** You've been caught in an ion storm. To proceed to your destination, you'll need to fly to the storm exit point, marked on your HUD.

[01/21/06 10:24:51] 00ffffYou've been caught in an ion storm. To proceed to your destination, you'll need to fly to the storm exit point, marked on your HUD.

*EDIT*

3. The cursor stays visible during launching and warp-in animations.

*EDIT2*

4. An IBG Centurion weighs 3000 kg, a Neutron Blaster weighs 600 kg, but with two of them equipped my HUD shows the weight of 4199 kg...
Jan 21, 2006 yodaofborg link
Have you changed how some of the ships/guns perform in this client? the hog seems to handle a bit slower (maybe its just me) its not due to low frame rate either, also the NT2 seems to have a higher drain.

The Number prepresenting speed gets chopped short at 200ms (ie at 199ms it looks fine, at 200ms, a little bit of the number 2 is missing).
Jan 21, 2006 Woodstock link
three bugs found in first five minutes of use:

1. 3D target box in front of target not around target.

2. not outside camera cant look at my ship or change camera views.

3.I died clicked on buy back last ship stuck in purchasing screen (black holed)

more later looks like i got to abort game and restart

***** Woodstock Commander UIT Vessel YellowBird
Jan 21, 2006 Woodstock link
bug report continued

4. went to jump from Odia B16 to Odia B2 as soon as i pressed enter Crash to desktop. when i got back in i was still in B16 pressed enter to jump jumped to b16, HUH, i was just here when i pressed enter to jump again it did jump to B2. I'll see if repeatable.

Woodstock Commander UIT Vessel Yellowbird
Jan 21, 2006 Black Omega link
BUGS
Killing a vessle in an ion storm caused the following:

error removing object 26:1760
error removing object 26:1750
error removing object 26:xxxx and so on

till exiting the storm
Jan 21, 2006 RelayeR link
Crashed on opening client... errors.log:

build 8G32
MacOS version 1044
This is a Power Macintosh with a G4-7455 processor.
Hardware: (18 11:PPC 7450) PowerMac6,1 @ 999 MHz, 768 MB
[Sat Jan 21 08:16:12 2006] Found driver: "Mac sound driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x00640bb0
[Sat Jan 21 08:16:12 2006] Instantiate address: 0x5be18c
[Sat Jan 21 08:16:12 2006] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 31.0. Load @0x00640d20
[Sat Jan 21 08:16:12 2006] Instantiate address: 0x101173c
sound driver initialized.
No joysticks found.
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r26 0x061f5000 102715392
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r28 0x0184b140 25473344
r29 0x00000010 16
r30 0x00000800 2048
r31 0x0079cba8 7981992

MacOS version 1044
caught SIGSEGV(11); generating stack trace
brk> 0079cf88 sp=bfffaaa0
lnk- 00000060 (fp @bfffab50)
- 0079d50c (fp @bfffabb0)
- 007a50b4 (fp @bfffad70)
- 007a48cc (fp @bfffae50)
- 007a8780 (fp @bfffaf10)
- 0419aef8 (fp @bfffaf80)
- 040b7c88 (fp @bfffb030)
- 92e0a05c (fp @bfffb0b0)
- 01018e1c (fp @bfffb150)
- 010190e0 (fp @bfffb1d0)
- 000c41d8 (fp @bfffb250)
- 000c406c (fp @bfffb330)
- 001159b8 (fp @bfffb3a0)
- 00058214 (fp @bfffb4e0)
- 00059968 (fp @bfffb6e0)
- 000575f0 (fp @bfffb760)
- 00075ce8 (fp @bfffb7d0)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffb890)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffb930)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffb990)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffbdc0)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffbe30)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffbe90)
- 0015ab44 (fp @bfffbef0)
- 0021e944 (fp @bfffbf60)
- 000f5c08 (fp @bfffbfc0)
- 000f5c8c (fp @bfffc020)
- 0015d5c4 (fp @bfffc080)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffc140)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffc1e0)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffc240)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffc670)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffc6e0)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffc740)
- 00162a54 (fp @bfffc790)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffc850)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffc8f0)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffc950)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffcd80)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffcdf0)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffce50)
- 0006c0dc (fp @bfffceb0)
- 0006c1d4 (fp @bfffcf00)
- 000152bc (fp @bfffcf70)
- 0001ce9c (fp @bffff260)
- 000230d8 (fp @bffff2b0)
- 9318cff4 (fp @bffff3b0)
- 9318c74c (fp @bffff410)
- 9318c5c8 (fp @bffff470)
- 93193928 (fp @bffff4f0)
- 9318d244 (fp @bffff5e0)
- 9318c74c (fp @bffff640)
- 931934ec (fp @bffff6a0)
- 931d4564 (fp @bffff700)
- 931d44f0 (fp @bffff750)
- 931d2aa4 (fp @bffff7b0)
- 0002302c (fp @bffffc20)
- 00002b6c (fp @bffffc80)
- 00002a14 (fp @bffffcc0)
Jan 21, 2006 Person link
OMG IT RUNS ON 10.2.8!!!!!

THANK YOU INC. YOU'RE MY HERO!!!!!

-CALDER

[EDIT] sorry about the caps lock, :D
Jan 21, 2006 mgl_mouser link
Launching Beta2 and using an alt that was left in space (ratter than docked), you get "Error! trying to remove object(2:363)". This was in EO K-11.

When entering a station, by the time you have control of the display any new general chat system message gets displayed bellow the current scroll point (aka, you have to scroll down to get back to the bottom and follow the discussion). Chat display is red as if you had manually paged up.
Jan 21, 2006 roguelazer link
1) Normal maps seem MUCH more subdued on Linux (with shaders on) in this version. Specular maps are the same, but I can barely tell that there's normal maps enabled on the hog and the vulture.

2) http://roguelazer.no-ip.com/~roguelazer/new_screenies/odd_health_display.jpg

That's the HUD on a Warthog TD. Can anybody guess what the bug here is?

3) Ice on OpenGL still doesn't have the beautiful bumpmapping that ice on DirectX does. If you can do normal maps through shaders for ships, why not for ice?

4) Plus lots of non-bug things with the UI that are purely asthetic and can wait.
Jan 21, 2006 Midknight Son link
"Entering Universe" crash.

Also, crashes if Video Quality is to either Medium or Low.

Error Log below:

build 8C46
MacOS version 1042
This is a Power Macintosh with a processor that I am unaware of: 0x00000113
Hardware: (18 11:PPC 7450) PowerMac10,1 @ 1416 MHz, 512 MB
[Sat Jan 21 08:03:09 2006] Found driver: "Mac sound driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x0063eec0
[Sat Jan 21 08:03:09 2006] Instantiate address: 0x5be18c
[Sat Jan 21 08:03:09 2006] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 31.0. Load @0x0063f030
[Sat Jan 21 08:03:09 2006] Instantiate address: 0x101173c
sound driver initialized.
No joysticks found.
Flight-Assist mode enabled.
Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Sat Jan 21 08:04:17 2006] 28b4f0Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Sat Jan 21 08:04:18 2006] ffffffWelcome to Vendetta Online.
[Sat Jan 21 08:04:25 2006] 28b4f0Channel 100 is active.
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r21 0x00000000 0
r22 0x01845e58 25452120
r23 0x00000001 1
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r25 0x00000000 0
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r27 0x00000000 0
r28 0x00000006 6
r29 0x00000003 3
r30 0x00000002 2
r31 0x03de32a8 64893608

MacOS version 1042
caught SIGBUS(10); generating stack trace
brk> 03de381c sp=bfffcbd0
lnk- 0403640c (fp @bfffcd10)
- 03de88d8 (fp @bfffcd80)
- 03ccf74c (fp @bfffcde0)
- 010105e4 (fp @bfffce30)
- 0001ca9c (fp @bfffcef0)
- 0001cbac (fp @bfffcf50)
- 0001cec8 (fp @bffff240)
- 000230d8 (fp @bffff290)
- 931288d4 (fp @bffff390)
- 9312802c (fp @bffff3f0)
- 93127ea8 (fp @bffff450)
- 9312f1ec (fp @bffff4d0)
- 93128b24 (fp @bffff5c0)
- 9312802c (fp @bffff620)
- 9312edb0 (fp @bffff680)
- 9316fce0 (fp @bffff6e0)
- 9316fc6c (fp @bffff730)
- 9316e220 (fp @bffff790)
- 0002302c (fp @bffffc00)
- 00002b6c (fp @bffffc60)
- 00002a14 (fp @bffffca0)
Jan 21, 2006 genka link
buyback still broken when the station doesn't have your shit(edit: well, whaddayaknow, it managed to survive this time. Maybe I should die more often to check it out, eh?), stations still show up in the background of the menus no matter how hard I turn them off, and now anyone with a shell and a pamphlet on python can learn more about me than I know about myself!

Great update guys, I'm proud of you!

Edit: also, if you log off to get rid of the damn "purchasing" screen, the "purchasing" screen itself doesn't bother going away. It just stays there, waiting for gaudeu, and impeding your view as you try to fly around. Win.

Edit 2ish: the money display in space refuses to change, and fire buttons are occasionally unresponsive, but that might be lag or something. Also, apparently I can edit shit even though I'm muted. Unless this fails to work, of course.

Edit 3: guild tags don't show up, and ship types of targeted individuals take a few seconds to pop up
Jan 21, 2006 toshiro link
Bug: Crash upon trying to sell the ship I had currently selected as my ship (was empty).

Minor annoyance: Speeding through space disables chat, which is quite a bit disruptive.
Jan 21, 2006 mdaniel link
Bug: Error on declining a duel. I get a lua error screen that I cant get rid of. Had to forcequit.
Observation: /fps command does not work.
Jan 21, 2006 thing link
Alas won't run at all on my Mac (dual 2ghz G5, 3gb Ram, Nvidia Geforce 5200 64mb video, OS 10.4.4).

Error log follows (if you want any other logs feel free to email me):

build 8G32
MacOS version 1044
This is a Power Macintosh with a 970(G5) processor.
Hardware: (18 100:PPC 970) PowerMac7,3 @ 2000 MHz (x2), 3072 MB
[Sat Jan 21 22:22:22 2006] Found driver: "Mac sound driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x00666940
[Sat Jan 21 22:22:22 2006] Instantiate address: 0x10af18c
[Sat Jan 21 22:22:22 2006] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 31.0. Load @0x00666ad0
[Sat Jan 21 22:22:22 2006] Instantiate address: 0x10d073c
sound driver initialized.
generic collection
generic collection
generic collection
unhandled page: 65280
unhandled page: 65280
unhandled page: 65280
unhandled page: 65280
unhandled page: 65280
Found joystick 'Logitech Extreme 3D' (1:4).
Manufacturer: 'Logitech'
Serial number: ''
Transport: 'USB'
VendorID:ProductID:Version: 1133:49685:516
LocID: '723648512'
Found element 'Button #1' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:1:2)
cookie = 4
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #2' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:2:2)
cookie = 5
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #3' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:3:2)
cookie = 6
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #4' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:4:2)
cookie = 7
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #5' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:5:2)
cookie = 8
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #6' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:6:2)
cookie = 9
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #7' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:7:2)
cookie = 10
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #8' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:8:2)
cookie = 11
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #9' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:9:2)
cookie = 12
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #10' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:10:2)
cookie = 13
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #11' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:11:2)
cookie = 14
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'Button #12' (usagePage:usage:type) (9:12:2)
cookie = 15
min/max = 0/1
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1
size = 1
Found element 'X-Axis' (usagePage:usage:type) (1:48:1)
cookie = 16
min/max = 0/1023
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1023
size = 10
Found element 'Y-Axis' (usagePage:usage:type) (1:49:1)
cookie = 17
min/max = 0/1023
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/1023
size = 10
Found element 'Hatswitch' (usagePage:usage:type) (1:57:1)
cookie = 18
min/max = 0/7
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/315
size = 4
Found element 'Z-Rotation' (usagePage:usage:type) (1:53:1)
cookie = 19
min/max = 0/255
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/255
size = 8
Found element 'Slider' (usagePage:usage:type) (1:54:1)
cookie = 20
min/max = 0/255
scaledmin/scaledmax = 0/255
size = 8
Input driver initialized.
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MacOS version 1044
caught SIGSEGV(11); generating stack trace
brk> 05576398 sp=bfffaac0
lnk- 00000060 (fp @bfffab70)
- 0557691c (fp @bfffabd0)
- 0557fe90 (fp @bfffad90)
- 0557f690 (fp @bfffae70)
- 05583c68 (fp @bfffaf30)
- 0551cef8 (fp @bfffafa0)
- 05439c88 (fp @bfffb050)
- 92e0a05c (fp @bfffb0d0)
- 010d7e1c (fp @bfffb170)
- 010d80e0 (fp @bfffb1f0)
- 000c41d8 (fp @bfffb270)
- 000c406c (fp @bfffb350)
- 001159b8 (fp @bfffb3c0)
- 00058214 (fp @bfffb500)
- 00059968 (fp @bfffb700)
- 000575f0 (fp @bfffb780)
- 00075ce8 (fp @bfffb7f0)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffb8b0)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffb950)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffb9b0)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffbde0)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffbe50)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffbeb0)
- 0015ab44 (fp @bfffbf10)
- 0021e944 (fp @bfffbf80)
- 000f5c08 (fp @bfffbfe0)
- 000f5c8c (fp @bfffc040)
- 0015d5c4 (fp @bfffc0a0)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffc160)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffc200)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffc260)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffc690)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffc700)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffc760)
- 00162a54 (fp @bfffc7b0)
- 00134dd8 (fp @bfffc870)
- 0013b030 (fp @bfffc910)
- 001354b0 (fp @bfffc970)
- 00134624 (fp @bfffcda0)
- 001357bc (fp @bfffce10)
- 000754c0 (fp @bfffce70)
- 0006c0dc (fp @bfffced0)
- 0006c1d4 (fp @bfffcf20)
- 000152bc (fp @bfffcf90)
- 0001ce9c (fp @bffff280)
- 000230d8 (fp @bffff2d0)
- 9318cff4 (fp @bffff3d0)
- 9318c74c (fp @bffff430)
- 9318c5c8 (fp @bffff490)
- 93193928 (fp @bffff510)
- 9318d244 (fp @bffff600)
- 9318c74c (fp @bffff660)
- 931934ec (fp @bffff6c0)
- 931d4564 (fp @bffff720)
- 931d44f0 (fp @bffff770)
- 931d2aa4 (fp @bffff7d0)
- 0002302c (fp @bffffc40)
- 00002b6c (fp @bffffca0)
- 00002a14 (fp @bffffce0)
Jan 21, 2006 MSKanaka link
Pet peeves:

1) The option to turn off the station in the background refuses to work. My framerate more than doubles with this option off in the old client.
2) Using certain commands (/group join, /mentor accept for example) cause a large Lua Error in the console, and within anywhere from instantaneously to a minute or so afterwards, cause *all* commands from the keyboard to cease operating as if the wgaf.cfg file had been nuked (ie, all the commands unbound) while the game was being played.
3) As mentioned previously, the guild tags don't show on the targeting info.
4) Oddly enough, the new client runs faster on my 800MHz G4 iMac with 10.2.8 than on my 1.2GHz G4 iBook with 10.4.4. The iMac is inferior in every way to the iBook, and yet it runs faster and smoother.
5) All bar chat is white. Uuuuugly. Put the colors back!

Things I like:
1) When you get the charinfo for another player you can see their standings with the three main factions. The way the faction standing is represented is far better than the old client's. Awesome.
2) The graphics on the Warthog and the Vulture *rock*.
3) Black ships. Booyah. A black vulture is what I've always wanted :D
4) The Ship Equipment window. A graphical representation of what goes where is very cool.
5) Time and date on news items. In the interest of roleplay, change the year value such that it fits with the "correct" year -- 4434.