v1.6 & v2.1 The Engineers Beta now live!

We will keep this thread updated with relevant information, links and discussion threads. General submissions about the beta will get removed and pointed towards this megathread. Discussions about certain features will most likely stay up due to the ease of discussing them in individual posts.

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General

• Release dates: PC/Mac on 26th May, Xbox on 3rd June
• 2.1/1.6 Discussion thread - Changelog on forums
• 2.1/1.6 b2 Discussion thread - Changelog on forums
• 2.1/1.6 b3 Discussion thread - Changelog on forums
• 2.1/1.6 b4 Discussion thread - Changelog on forums
  
• 2.1/1.6 b5 Discussion thread - Changelog on forums
  
• Support Beta FAQ - When to contact FDev Support
• Known Issues Discussion Thread - Known Issues on forums
• Bug reporting
• Beta, Mayhem and the Apocalypse - Information about v2.1 specific beta phases
• How beta saves work - Specifics about live and beta server differences
  
• You need a Beta package or a Lifetime pass to access the beta, not just Horizons.
  
• Beta Access is available for purchase again as an upgrade from the Frontier Store.

The Engineers & Missions

• Crowdsourced Engineer Database & Calculator - found by /u/EfilOne
• Known engineers - /u/danthehooman
• Invitation from Engineers: 1, 2 - /u/archeolog108
• Missions are now grouped with the minor factions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - /u/archeolog108
• New mission accept/reject screen - /u/archeolog108
• Mission detail in left UI panel: 1, 2 - /u/archeolog108
• Mission completion panel - /u/archeolog108
• Mission requiring to scan Nav Bacon - /u/archeolog108

Engineer's bases

• Blaster's base: 1, 2 - /u/archeolog108
• Elvira Martuuk's base arrival - /u/MrSilk13642

Engineer's recipes

• Crowdsourced engineer recipes
• The Dweller - /u/mephanic
• Todd 'The Blaster' McQuinn - /u/mephanic

Outfitting

• New Utility Mount models - /u/tfaddy
• 4A Beam Laser - [video] - /u/Ant-Solo
• 3C Beam Laser - /u/Ant-Solo
• Class 4 Pulse and Beam Laser model - /u/Ant-Solo
• Class 3 Multicannon - [video] - /u/Ant-Solo
• Dual Huge Pulse Laser Test - /u/Ant-Solo
  
• Large Multi-Cannon Test - u/Ant-Solo
  

New commodities & materials

• Commodity screen incl. Low Temperature Diamond for 57k Cr - /u/archeolog108
• Engineer specific materials go into your materials allocation: 1, 2 - /u/danthehooman
• New materials can be discovered by scanning ships - /u/archeolog108
• Fast wake scans tactic - /u/Super_Commuter

Improvements

• Community goals can be signed up on from different systems - /u/tfaddy
• Fog in Ice Rings supposedly increased - /u/SlashDanced
• Ice Rings in Ultra res: 1, 2 - /u/muppetpuppet_mp
• Station Interior fog in Ultra res - /u/muppetpuppet_mp
• Imperial Seats added: 1, 2 - /u/CMDR-GoTo & /u/NeoTr0n
• New DiamondBack Explorer default paintjob - /u/tfaddy
• New Ship Kits livery type - /u/MrSilk13642
• Can now see inside Unknown Signal Sources: 1, 2 - /u/archeolog108
• SRV tire tracks/skid marks - /u/MuleOnIratA
• Controls settings menu collapsing - /u/macnz2000
  
• Overwriting keybinds now requires confirmation - /u/h3david
  
• Editable bookmarks - /u/Raf_von_Thorn
  
• Continued visual improvements (in beta 2.1b3) - /u/CMDRHarath
  

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I have recently decided to move from trading to bounty hunting now that money is beginning to become less of a problem for me. As a result I spend a large amount of time navigating asteroid fields at speed. When it's in a ring system around a planet blocking the sun or around a brown dwarf it gets very, very dark.

I am puzzled on why this highly advanced interstellar spaceship does not have a night vision-esque feature Like we already have today. Maybe it could be a low level internal compartment?

So, this happened yesterday. I went out to get my hair cut at a local chain store that I go to on a biweekly basis.

I don't usually request a specific stylist, so I log into the system and take my seat until I'm called by a girl that I've never seen before. I find out this is actually her 2nd day here. I pop a squat in the barber chair and we start to exchange pleasantries. She's quite cute and we are actually hitting it off very well (I know, it's her job to be pleasant). We talk about common interests an Christmas shopping comes up and she mentions how she needed to this job to afford gifts for her family.

So she finishes my cut and we go back for her to wash my hair. This is by far my favorite part of the whole experience. Getting your hair washed by a cute girl is probably the closest I ever come to feeling like those guys in the movies who have beautiful women feed them grapes. (Idk, the analogy fits in my mind). This girl goes all out. Perfect water temperature, massages my scalp AND my neck! I'm sitting here feeling absolutely amazing!

She finishes up, puts some product in my hair and I'm feeling really good about how I look and feel. This girl definitely earned her tip. We walk over to the register and I swipe my card and await the prompt on the screen to add the tip. My total comes to $16.20. $5.00 tip is more than fair, especially since she went all out with the head massage. I punch in my tip amount and immediately hit the confirm button. As I wait for my recept, I watch the girls eyes get huge and she looks at me in excitiment. She run from behind the counter and hugs me! I'm flabbergasted! She starts getting teary eyes and stumbles over herself to say "thank you" over and over. I'm thinkin, man, it's just 5 bucks, but I won't say no to a hug from a cute random girl.

She hands me my recept and I start to make my way to the door when I realize what had happened. When I punched in the 5.00, I accidentally hit the 0 an extra time... I tipped her $50.00 instead of $5.00. Shit. At this point I need to make a decision. Do I wreck this girls day by admitting I made a mistake, or do I just eat the $66.00 hair cut? I turn around and take another look at her. She's still so excited, looking close to tears. She's probably thinking she's so lucky that this guy just came in, sat in her chair, and just helped her make her Christmas a little bit better out of the kindness of his heart. I look at my recept again and sigh to myself. "Merry Christmas!" I turn and leave, leaving a little bit of Christmas spirit and a nice chunk of my bank account.

TL;DR accedently tipped my hair dresser $50.00 instead of $5.00. Didn't want to ruin her Christmas Spirit, let her keep it.

Edit: I'm male, stylist was female.

Edit2: Holy crap my inbox...

So to clear up a few things.

I've always gotten my hair washed after the cut. This helps wash away the hair clippings so you're not itching all day. I do my hair stylists a favor by washing my hair before each cut.

No I didn't shit on her chair.

I go to a Hair Cuttery. I like it there. People are nice and a cut is $20. $16.20 with military discount. I find it insane that people drop 50-100 every time they get a hair cut, but that's just me :)

As said above, I'm in the military, so I get my hair cut every two weeks.

Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement to attempt to go on a date with this hair dresser... if I can muster up the courage, I might, but I don't know if I want to rock the boat at a place I enjoy getting my hair cut. Also, I'm less than 8 months from moving, not sure if nows the time to start a relationship.

I'm really glad some people can get a nice story from this, and if I changed a few lives because of it, that's all the gratuity I need. I just want the world I live in to be a bit better.

The $50 would have gone to buying Fallout, but I'll be just fine picking it up after the new year.

Merry Christmas ya'll

One more Edit I promise.

Thank you all who are offering to purchase Fallout for me, I really do appreciate the offer, but there are plenty of other people who would really benefit from your generosity more so than me. You guys are awesome!

I was being stupid flying too fast in super cruise and wanted to get a better view of a planet I was slingshoting around, and dove in head first instead. Canopy is cracked and compromised. Should I turn around now? Am I even going to make it back home? Or is a crack kinda like having your hull and modules hovering at around 88-93%? I'm in the ASP...

Edit: Screw it, I'm turning around and heading home... Maybe now that I'll have a few more million to toss around I'll go back to giving combat a try and maybe making the trip to Sag A in a Conda

(To the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic)

I've seen the burning fires of a hundred pirate ships

I've made a modest fortune from a thousand trading trips

But I'm tired of all those minerals and slaves and microchips

My ship is flying on!

My heart was all a-pounding as I lifted off from Sol

In a ship with all the sensors and with no weapons at all

Left human space behind to answer Sagittarius' call

My ship keeps flying on!

I have flown next to a neutron star and been thrown out of cruise

The heat has fucked my systems up and I've lost a couple screws

I guess before I set off I should not have hit the booze

But still my ship flies on!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

My ship keeps flying on!

A couple days have passed now and I'm quite close to the core

I've seen some neutron stars, black holes, earthlikes and plenty more

I wonder what it is that Sagittarius has in store

My ship keeps marching on!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

Off we go to Sagittarius!

My ship keeps flying on!

Finally! I've made it to the center of the - wait!

Interdiction detected? Are you fucking kidding mate?

My ship's been blown to pieces by HanSolo108

And all my data's gone!

Blown to bits at Sagittarius!

Blown to bits at Sagittarius!

Blown to bits at Sagittarius!

And all my data's gone!

I'm about 25,000Ly out in a 39.4Ly Anaconda, it'll take me about 4 days to get back, is it worth it? or should I just keep farming neutrons?