Freighter color change :)

[OfLord]

Yesterday I was farming this badboy and finaly got it in S class: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849132755

Today (maybe after the patch) it turned into a Pou :)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849457803

Anybody got same issue?

[Colossal Sprout]

Mine changed after the update too. Very similar type and before/after colours funnily enough, except mine had a white (or maybe grey depending on lighting) stripe before changing.

[OfLord]

Ah, that sucks... I wouldn't mind much if I could just recolour it exactly asi it was, but colours are just not right -_-, what a joke and lost time

[Aurumworks]

They changed how paint customization is applied. You can now use at least primary and secondary color. Not sure if the third color does anything, I can't see any change on my small freighter. But what was black before can now be painted.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

Before the major changes the Freighter colors were much more vibrant. I'm guessing they didn't bring that back.

[▰Himura_Kenshin▰]

I have a situation just like in a one-on-one screenshot. I hope it will be fixed

[Happy Monkey]

There's been a long-standing bug where many freighter parts were always black, no matter what you picked in the customization. Sounds like they may have fixed this?

Unfortunately, for those who wanted, and thought they had, a black freighter, it may cost n5000 to slap on a new coat of paint.

[Colossal Sprout]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

There's been a long-standing bug where many freighter parts were always black, no matter what you picked in the customization. Sounds like they may have fixed this?

Unfortunately, for those who wanted, and thought they had, a black freighter, it may cost n5000 to slap on a new coat of paint.

Sounds like this is the reason, thanks. I've never recoloured the one I mentioned and sounds like the same for OP before the update changed it.

[BioMage]

This is fast becoming one of the most infuriating issues in this game.

I had a freighter which had a colour change on the hangar part of the freighter which is not affected by the customisation (because it is tied to the RNG seed),. resulting in a very obvious mismatch with my chosen colour scheme now.

What is the pointy of supposedly having to hunt down the perfect ship/freighter only to get screwed over every time the game updates?

Should Hello Games is even registering any of this: Just enable full customisation of all parts and colours and stop wasting our time please.

[StormFX]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

There's been a long-standing bug where many freighter parts were always black, no matter what you picked in the customization. Sounds like they may have fixed this?

Unfortunately, for those who wanted, and thought they had, a black freighter, it may cost n5000 to slap on a new coat of paint.

Turns out this is this case. I hadn't had a chance to notice it due to testing other things. But this is a good change, as freighters can now properly be recolored without having to skip the majority of freighters because of them not being able to be customized. But as you said, it leaves those that wanted a "black" freighter stuck with dark gray.

Originally posted by BioMage:

I had a freighter which had a colour change on the hangar part of the freighter which is not affected by the customisation (because it is tied to the RNG seed),. resulting in a very obvious mismatch with my chosen colour scheme now.

This is actually a bug that didn't get fixed in the latest push to live. I posted about it multiple times in the Experimental Branch thread, but apparently they wanted to get the major stuff pushed to live first.

Originally posted by BioMage:

What is the pointy of supposedly having to hunt down the perfect ship/freighter only to get screwed over every time the game updates?

Those who are experiencing color changes are mostly those with "black" freighters who now have proper color application and are seeing the intended colors. That said, if the colors are different from how they originally were (not black), try verifying your files just to be sure there's not some bad files left over after the patch (seems to be fairly common).